'Uglies' Review - Netflix's YA Adaptation Is Hideous Inside and Out

Back in 2012, when this writer was 15, every few months my friends and I would run to the theater for the cinematic event of the most recent adaptation of a bestselling YA novel. Whether it was a love triangle amidst dystopian warfare in The Hunger Games or another title in the terminally ill teenagers fall in love" subgenre, there really was no time like that era when John Green wielded as much power as Kevin Feige does today. These releases were once box-office gold, but lost steam and ultimately had no place in the MCU and streaming climate of cinema and television today and the final movie in the Divergent series is the carcass of evidence. To compare, 2014s The Fault in Our Stars earned over $300 million at the global box office, whereas 2019s Five Feet Apart took in less than a third of that.