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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones 2013
This movie was so bad that it made me angry. There is obviously enough there to make a decent if not good movie out of the pieces, but it's like someone actively worked to make the result shit instead. It starts out promising some Buffy meets Harry Potter kind of deal which was really promising, but the plot was incoherent, the characters either bland or nonexistent, there was no internal logic to the world, and no one's motivation really made sense to me. I feel like this was a missed opportunity to make a YA-franchise that didn't suck ass, but someone went "nah, too much work."
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Insurgent 2015
Absolutely terrible. Where this movie ends is where the first one should've ended. Even if you buy the world and feel invested in the characters, this movie serves no purpose and is just a retread of what the first one already did. But good on Kate Winslet and Octavia Spencer that they got their slice of the YA-pie before the genre ends.