Movies

[AquaBat]

So, new Disney film.
You know what word is on everyone's mind right now due to this.

Yes, that oh so terrible word, it's awful and horrible

[Blitz Walrus]

What is it with the sudden wave of sequels that actually live up to the originals? Just walked out of Jurassic World and yeah, fine thriller and feels more like the original then either of the two sequels. James Cameron recently said that Terminator Genesys is the true third movie in the franchise, hell the new Mad Max is straight up better than the original trilogy.

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Someone in Hollywood realized that the shameless cheddar grabs that are sequels can actually make loads MORE cheddar if they are worthy of the franchise name and are good films?

[Exeres]

What is it with the sudden wave of sequels that actually live up to the originals? Just walked out of Jurassic World and yeah, fine thriller and feels more like the original then either of the two sequels. James Cameron recently said that Terminator Genesys is the true third movie in the franchise, hell the new Mad Max is straight up better than the original trilogy.

Didn't the Jurassic producers or director or whoever say that the movie was basically going to be a true sequel to the original, ignoring the second and third? Genesys is doing the same thing, following up on the strongest entry in the canon, and honestly I think Mad Max is one of those movies where chronological canon simply doesn't exist. Is it the same Max? Is it before or after Thunderdome, or Road Warrior, or is it even a remake of the original? It just doesn't matter.

Also, I'm loving the positive feedback for Jurassic World. It'll still be another week or so before I can see it but it's nice knowing I won't be crying for spoiled opportunities.

[Syobon]

Eh, I went to see it this Friday and was pretty underwhelmed.

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Just got back from seeing Jurassic World. I liked it. Not totally amazeballs the best, but it was much better than II and III. No "ALAN" or gymnastics-level stupid scenes.

My experience in a full theater was fun-ish. THe people next to me laughed way too fucking hard at anything close to humor. And some people were reaaaalllly sloooow on the uptake. The scene where they find the old park, for instance. As soon as they had ONE FOOT on the stairs I was like "aw shit, that's the old Visitor Center". So they go up the stairs. THey push open the door. They uncover the ICONIC BANNER, USE THE ICONIC BANNER TO LIGHT THEIR WAY (PAST THE T-REX SKULL), AND THEY ARE HALFWAY THROUGH THE DINING ROOM when someone behind me gasps really loudly and goes "Oh! THat's the old Visitor Center!" I get that some people might not have seen the first film (cough) many times, but you would think the callback to the iconic banner scene would have triggered that realization, not the fucking wall.

As for my complaints... maybe I missed something, but my complaint is that the #29 Jurassic Park jeep
A) works at all, but they cover that one with they fixed their grandfathers dune buggy or something, and
B) did they run on electricity or gas? Nothing would hold a charge for 22 years, and I thought gasoline degrades to uselessness in like <2 years
Other than those complaints, I thought it was pretty good.

Oh, except for the drawn out death scene of the assistant lady.
like "oh jeez we know the mosasaur is gonna fuck em up just quit smacking her against the water you useless pteranodon"
And I was sad when the helicopter crashed. I liked the well-meaning but slightly misguided company owner guy.

And the scene at the end where the velocirapor and the tyrannosaurus are like "we cool?" "yeah bro we cool" "see ya around". I thought it was unrealistic (buhbuhbuh dinosaurs alive "unrealstic" he says), but I was okay with it.

Side note: my friend and I have started cramming Chris Pratt's name into every new thing he stars in (or thing he might potentionally star in) since Guardians. Jurassic Pratt, Indiana Pratt, etc. It's a stupid 'joke' but we giggle every time.

[Syobon]

And I was sad when the helicopter crashed. I liked the well-meaning but slightly misguided company owner guy.

That was the most immersion-breakingly stupid part for me. "We're a billion dollar company with our own private army and multiple helicopters, but we've got no one else to pilot this helicopter!"

[Chloemew]

Yes, that oh so terrible word, it's awful and horrible

Man, this is gonna make even more people think "anthropomorphism" just means animals that walk and wear clothes like humans. :'[ It's a much broader term than that dangit, the friggin' Pixar lamp is anthropomorphic

The movie does look interesting though, even if what I've heard of the plot seems a little generic. I wanna see what kinda gags they can get out of the animals... well, acting like the animals they are. Though I'm disappointed it seems to be pretty much all mammals. Where the birds and lizards at??

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"buhhhhhhhhhhhhh where's snaaaaakemaaaaannn"

[Terraem]

Jurassic World was a fun watch, but it definitely made me go "what?" several times. Characters making extremely dumb decisions mostly. Still though, it's worth seeing. The dinosaur action was very enjoyable though, good job on making the raptors cool again.

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Just watched Kingsman. I thought it was excellent.

My brother could not get over Samuel Jackson's lisp. He thought it was the funniest thing ever.

[Chloemew]

"buhhhhhhhhhhhhh where's snaaaaakemaaaaannn"

I'm gonna punt you

[Rinoko]

I saw Inside Out with some friends today. It was so cute and I loved it and I DIDN'T CRY SHUT UP YOU CAN'T PROVE IT

There were only a couple problems I noticed with the movie:

Why was Bing Bong stealing memories? Is it supposed to be implied those are memories of him????????

The explanation of Sadness' importance was a bit vague. I get why sadness is important in real life, but in the movie's context, it got one line of dialogue and then never brought up again.

The movie's concepts of thoughts, memories, reasoning, and emotion were unique, but a little oversimplified at times.

Would've liked to have seen a bit more of other people's emotions, but I can see how that would make it feel unfocused.

Maybe a little more focus on Riley would have been nice. The emotions are the main characters, but since their job is to make her react to things, we should see her reactions a little more often.

"Wow Marcato you said a couple problems and I see a whole bunch." WELLLLL, they're not huge problems. Mostly just things that could have been tweaked, in my opinion.

But yeah, go see it. The short at the beginning was super cute too and I can't believe they made me care about volcano love.

[Fordicon98]

Saw Jurassic World today. That was fun.

I was kind of on and off liking it because the dinosaur action was cool while everything else was just kinda eh but then the end has a Velociraptor riding a T-Rex while they both fight a super mutant T-Rex and hot daisies that is the best bunch of words I have ever typed here.

[Toddv1997]

Spiderman has been cast as Tom Holland.