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silverskye13 · 2 years ago

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I'm reading The Ruins right now and realizing I watched approximately 10 minutes of the movie based on this book. This serves to make the current plot both really, unbearably slow and kind of stupid--

#spazzcat barks #spazzcat reads #its a horror book about killer plants because im doing research for the horror fic about killer sculk i wanna write #this is in theory a good idea except i now know what the monster [plants] is -- since i recognize the movie #im a bit intruiged tbh because i watched enough of the movie to know what The Horrors TM are but not how the mcs make it out #or how many of them die #now im stuck waiting on the characters to Figure Shit Out while becoming increasingly aware of the author's blatant attempts #to make their inevitable deaths tragic #Stacy is nicknamed Space-y because shes haha so random and dumb and Too Pure For This Scenerio #Amy is a horrible pessimist if we listened to her we wouldnt be in this mess -- but by Tragedy Rules b/c shes a pessimist we dont listen #xyz guy characters who want to be doctors or teachers who had their whole lives ahead of them etc etc #i will say noticeable improvement from movie to book:#in the movie this takes place in somewhere vaguely tropical [amazon] with wild angry natives trapping the MCs #it was incredibly random and incredibly racist #in the book the Mayans in a Described Location (not random) have a known language barrier #and it is Stacy (Space-y) panicking coupled with the language barrier that puts the MCs in contact with the Evil Monster Plants #and the Mayans knowing these kids are doomed now force them to stay in monster plants to keep them from spreading from a Contained Location #it makes logical sense and isnt steeped in terrible racism #so good for the book i guess

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