Survive The Scorch With These Eight New Posters For MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS

Those are some cool posters, but the first movie was so ridiculous.

A solar flare caused a zombie plague somehow(??), destroyed the surface of the earth, and in order to learn how to survive the zombie-solar-flare apocalypse/plague, a bunch of boys (and one girl for some reason) have their minds wiped, are put in a friggin' super dangerous complicated maze unsupervised and made to fight giant deadly robo-spiders?

@Humperdink The solar flares didn't cause the "zombie plague." It burned the world, leaving the Scorch as a scar. The governments merged and engineered a virus that would target a rare gene in 30% of the remaining population so that the world will be more manageable. But that virus mutated and infected 70% of the population instead, turning them into rage filled beings...

This movie it's AMAZING!! one of the best action movies of the year, I'm pleasantly surprised 9/10

@KevinSJ

This wasn't properly explained in the movie but how was the maze, dangerous isolation, and fighting giant spiders supposed to solve anything related to a virus/plague?

If these boys hold the key to solving something related to this disaster shouldn't medical testing be more appropriate and less dangerous or...silly?

The virus was created as a means to reduce the population due to lack of resources from what I've researched. They shot it into groups of people via darts according to those familiar with the book. Weird but okay.

So not only did they have to deal with the solar flare, they also created a virus (called "the flare" as if things weren't already convoluted and confusing) that eventually turned people into (for all intents and purposes) zombies.

So the kids were placed in a maze and made to fight robo-spiders in order to be able to survive 'The Flare' (virus) and the world after the devastation of the flare (solar)?

Also...why send in one girl? For tension or was there an actual reason?

The movie had a good build up and premise but the ending and the explanation was so weird and unreasonable it killed all it previously built.

It just raised so many questions and the ones it answered seemed so over-the-top you just lose all interest.

I understand the concept of suspension of disbelief but you have to at least keep things reasonable.

It seems like the writer created a 'Lord of the Flies' concept involving mazes, spiders, memory wipes, and 'suddenly a girl" before he had an actual plot to explain why.