Like in the Maze Runner movies, the Earth is devastated by a catastrophic cosmic event - there it’s solar flares, here obviously a comet - that wipes out much of humanity. I never did a list of movies to watch after The Scorch Trials, but in addition to Coma I would have included this favorite post-apocalyptic movie.
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Now The Death Cure begins with big train set piece, and so I have to continue the line and acknowledge this movie helmed by Crichton and adapted from his novel of the same name. The second part, The Scorch Trials, in turn has a plot that partly calls to mind the 1978 film Coma, which was scripted and directed by “Jurassic Park” author Michael Crichton. But this much later movie, which isn’t a remake despite the title, has a more interesting relevance even if its big heist is conducted in a manner lacking in similarities to the one in the Maze Runner sequel.ĭirector Wes Ball often cited Jurassic Parkas a favorite movie when interviewed for the first installment of his trilogy, and its influence is slightly apparent in the movie. Certainly the best place to start with this sort of influence is the 1903 film The Great Train Robbery.
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The rescue mission that kicks off The Death Cure is pretty familiar stuff, with a train ambush that recalls a ton of robbery and hijacking sequences, particularly in Westerns. I’ve tried to be less obvious with my recommendations of what to see next (or instead), so neither that nor any Resident Evil or Divergent films are listed below. The concluding chapter isn’t as inventive with its mashup as the original, however, and so its lineage seems more generic - fellow post-apocalyptic series finales like The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -Part 2are most heavily evoked, even if by supposed coincidence.
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The third installment of the Maze Runnerfranchise has finally arrived, and like the first movie, The Death Cureis a hodgepodge influenced by a variety of earlier films.