Jurassic World opens today
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I watched it with fam, felt like a decent Jurassic Park movie. Like along the lines of the original but not as good. Better than some of the sequels.
TBH I'm just tired of these sequels, the last two were sooo bad I swore I wouldn't watch another one again. So I watched the trailers, generic, boring, then listened to some "reviews" from my friends I trust who have seen it, and came to the same conclusion as I do with most movies in the past couple of years, that it's not even worth the bandwidth to pirate, let alone my actual time or money.
This one has Scarlet Johansson. I’d watch it just for that. She’s the spitting image of an old girlfriend.
It was okay, but honestly, the whole "family" part of the cast could have been left out. I think they were only there for the teenage/under 25 crowd and to because other Jurassic Park movies had a family aspect. It wasn't needed here.
That said, the movie was fairly predictable. Halfway through I was getting the idea for a filk/parody song. Spoiler tag since it MIGHT contain spoilers.
NOTE, This is really bad and I could probably spend about 2-3 days polishing it, but honestly, it's not worth it...I just like making bad parody song lyrics)
That said, the movie was fairly predictable. Halfway through I was getting the idea for a filk/parody song. Spoiler tag since it MIGHT contain spoilers.
NOTE, This is really bad and I could probably spend about 2-3 days polishing it, but honestly, it's not worth it...I just like making bad parody song lyrics)
Dinosaur Isle (Sung to the tune of Gillgan's Isle opening)
Lyrics ©copyright Thalstan Trailwalker
Just sit right down and see a tale
A tale of corporate greed
It started on a New York street
Where avarice tends to meet
- Where the avarice tends to meet
And here we get a hackneyed plot
'Cuz a sailing ship was tossed
By dinos hunting in the deep blue sea
So the merc can save their butts
- So the merc can save their butts
The ship it crashed in to the shore
of a sealed off dino isle
with
Victims, one and two
The captain sir, and the merc
The family
The scientist and corporate goon
Here on dinosaur isle
Lyrics ©copyright Thalstan Trailwalker
Just sit right down and see a tale
A tale of corporate greed
It started on a New York street
Where avarice tends to meet
- Where the avarice tends to meet
And here we get a hackneyed plot
'Cuz a sailing ship was tossed
By dinos hunting in the deep blue sea
So the merc can save their butts
- So the merc can save their butts
The ship it crashed in to the shore
of a sealed off dino isle
with
Victims, one and two
The captain sir, and the merc
The family
The scientist and corporate goon
Here on dinosaur isle
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I really liked the original JPs 1 and 2 (and read the original novel at its release in the book stores!) and also liked the first two sequels with Chris Pratt. I'm going to watch the latest JP in cinema on Saturday evening and am really looking forward to it! I mean: Dinos and beer and popcorn, together with the wife - could anything be better? (P.S.: do not....just...don't!)
Unfortunately, that was a total miss. Jurassic World: Rebirth was just a dino-sized disappointment. I didn’t expect much from the story to begin with, but the character writing was so downright awful, it caused major plot holes that honestly hurt to watch. I didn’t care about a single character — not even Scarlett Johansson, and I’m usually a kind of fanboy (boy, I like her).
There was so much wasted screen time that didn’t move the plot forward at all — they could’ve easily cut 30 minutes without losing anything of value. There was nothing mysterious, nothing thrilling, and no real reunion with classic dinos, even though they awkwardly shoehorned in some callbacks to the original movies.
The whole thing reminded me of Alien: Resurrection — which, funnily enough, also had kind of "rebirth" in its plot (in German, both movies have the subtitle "Wiedergeburt"). Except Alien went full-on into ethical dilemmas and wasn’t afraid to ask tough societal questions. JW4, on the other hand, stays comfortably in its plush-pony universe. The biggest proof of that? That baby dino. OMFG…
No thanks. One viewing was more than enough. I already thought JW3 couldn’t be topped in terms of mediocrity — but JW4 pulled it off with such ease, it honestly makes me doubt we’ll ever see an entertaining, suspenseful Jurassic dino movie again.
Still, there was popcorn and beer....
There was so much wasted screen time that didn’t move the plot forward at all — they could’ve easily cut 30 minutes without losing anything of value. There was nothing mysterious, nothing thrilling, and no real reunion with classic dinos, even though they awkwardly shoehorned in some callbacks to the original movies.
The whole thing reminded me of Alien: Resurrection — which, funnily enough, also had kind of "rebirth" in its plot (in German, both movies have the subtitle "Wiedergeburt"). Except Alien went full-on into ethical dilemmas and wasn’t afraid to ask tough societal questions. JW4, on the other hand, stays comfortably in its plush-pony universe. The biggest proof of that? That baby dino. OMFG…
No thanks. One viewing was more than enough. I already thought JW3 couldn’t be topped in terms of mediocrity — but JW4 pulled it off with such ease, it honestly makes me doubt we’ll ever see an entertaining, suspenseful Jurassic dino movie again.
Still, there was popcorn and beer....