Sunday Soup: Divergent
With the upcoming release of the The Divergent Series: Insurgent coming on Friday (And yes, I do my have my reserved tickets for opening night...), we thought it was the perfect time to do a little Sunday Soup blog post throwing back to Divergent.
Hopefully, you don't find this disappointing, but we're going to focus solely on the movie because TBH, Jen never read the book, and though my daughters both adored the book, I may be the only person on the planet who controversially hated it and DNFed it (If you ask, I'll write a review explaining WHY.). The ONLY reason I even watched the movie is because of the aforementioned daughters, figuring I could suffer through it because HELLO THEO JAMES and found myself surprised that the movie was more than tolerable. I actually loved it.
So, without further ado, here's my one or ten top moments that made me walk out of the theater not regretting seeing Divergent...
1. "Stiff" to Badass in 60 seconds.
Jump off a perfectly safe train and get yourself into god-knows-what with these cray-cray Dauntless nutters? Ah... Nope. Not me. Kudos to Tris for this move. Had it been me, I would have been dead or factionless, end of story. (I did read far enough into the book to know they left out some very interesting and rather gruesome shit that went down in this scene that would have made it even better.)
2. Eric gives me someone to hate. (Other than basically everyone in Erudite.)
Every time he opened his mouth, I heard the sub-text, "Punch me in the face." It was wonderful. He was an absolute douchebag worth despising.
(Bonus points to anyone who understood my cross-fandom reference...)
3. Eric glared at Four, and his douchery grew to epic proportions.
YAY! More reason to despise him and cheer for him to get punched in the face, or even die. Yep. Kill him. Slowly. I would have been so fine with that. And I want to see Tris do it.
4. More Tris badassery.
I love this. New to throwing knifes? No problem. Watch and learn. This is how it's done, bitches.
5. Four gets his flirt on, and damn, it's sharp.
Because in Dauntless, nothing says, "I think you're hot," like throwing knives at a girl.
6. Tris taps that, and it's a shattering experience.
I'm not talking about Four. I'm talking about the glass and her first showing the serious abilities of her divergent mind, her unique way of thinking. From a visual effects standpoint, I loved how this was done.
7. Tris goes badass at Erudite.
My only disappointment is that she didn't do more damage before she was stopped. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing how much she had changed from mousy Beatrice to don't-fuck-with-me Tris.
8. Tobias "Sass-in-a-Box" Eaton
No explanation needed. It's all in the gif.
9. The full-Four-ink kiss.
HAWT DAHYUM.
10. When Tris was so much like my daughter Tiana that I actually got choked up.
My daughter tests as "creative divergent" for the gifted program in school, so the whole concept of the story really got to me at times, but this particular part stood out because it's very much her attitude. I'm telling you, RIGHT IN THE FEELS, PEOPLE!!!
Bonus: Tobias "Four" Eaton Arm Porn.
Yeah, so this wasn't a singular moment, but since IMO, he wore that damn jacket far too often, I was deeply appreciative of any moment he was without it. FOUR IS BURDENED WITH GLORIOUS BICEPS.
(Yes. Another cross-fandom reference.)
What do you think of my fave moments? What were some of yours? Are you ready for Insurgent?
Look out for tomorrow's Divergent MCM. Take a wild guess who we'll be featuring... And watch next week for the Sunday Soup: Insurgent!
