The premise makes zero sense. Do you know what would be even better than using a historically uncontrollable wild animal in combat? How about owning a gun? Or a tank? If raptors could be weaponized, why didn't someone just do that with a chimp or a lion? Because it makes zero sense. They would be good for melee combat I suppose, but they'd have to get close enough to avoid guns first. The cost of the dinosaurs at their auctions was also in the 10-30 million+ range. You could literally arm entire armies for those amounts of dollars or buy high end armaments like modern tanks and artillery capable of demolishing city blocks.
Somehow the effects have gotten worse and less believable since the original movie that came out in 1993.
Chris Pratt's special love affair with a raptor can only carry a movie so far.
the best part about the weaponized raptor is that you direct it at a target by pointing a special gun and firing some acoustic signal. the script writers actually put that in and said "yes, that is an extremely believable improvement over firing a standard gun at a something...genius."
The premise makes zero sense. Do you know what would be even better than using a historically uncontrollable wild animal in combat? How about owning a gun? Or a tank? If raptors could be weaponized, why didn't someone just do that with a chimp or a lion? Because it makes zero sense. They would be good for melee combat I suppose, but they'd have to get close enough to avoid guns first. The cost of the dinosaurs at their auctions was also in the 10-30 million+ range. You could literally arm entire armies for those amounts of dollars or buy high end armaments like modern tanks and artillery capable of demolishing city blocks.
Somehow the effects have gotten worse and less believable since the original movie that came out in 1993.
Chris Pratt's special love affair with a raptor can only carry a movie so far.
The worst part for me was the girl deciding to let the dinosaurs out into the world because they're all clones.
They ought to just preface all of these movies where the suspension of disbelief isn't quite enough, by saying this all takes place 3 years before the events leading to Idiocracy.
The intention of weaponizing monsters, aliens, dinosaurs or using monsters to save us from another evil as has always been dumb but it makes for a good excuse for let these animals run rampant. It's never seems to go out of style as the idea has been used in Godzilla, Aliens, dinosaurs, super heroes (Suicide Squad lol), etc.
In this case you literally have animals that people were paying huge amounts of money to see in a zoo. Here's an idea, sell them to people who want to put the animals in zoos. I'd pay top dollar to see an ankylosaurus in a zoo.
Jurrasic Park has always been somewhat more grounded in science, but the series officially jumps the shark when it's comparable plot points come from movies like Godzilla and Suicide Squad.
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the best part about the weaponized raptor is that you direct it at a target by pointing a special gun and firing some acoustic signal. the script writers actually put that in and said "yes, that is an extremely believable improvement over firing a standard gun at a something...genius."
Lol. Didn't even think of that. You're totally right though. They were literally firing a gun at someone to signal the dinosaur.
The premise makes zero sense. Do you know what would be even better than using a historically uncontrollable wild animal in combat? How about owning a gun? Or a tank? If raptors could be weaponized, why didn't someone just do that with a chimp or a lion? Because it makes zero sense. They would be good for melee combat I suppose, but they'd have to get close enough to avoid guns first. The cost of the dinosaurs at their auctions was also in the 10-30 million+ range. You could literally arm entire armies for those amounts of dollars or buy high end armaments like modern tanks and artillery capable of demolishing city blocks.
Somehow the effects have gotten worse and less believable since the original movie that came out in 1993.
Chris Pratt's special love affair with a raptor can only carry a movie so far.
I actually really enjoyed Jurassic World, yeah the last 20 min or so were ridiculous and jumped the shark once the raptors started communicating with the Indominus Rex and turned on everybody. But aside from that I thought it was a fun movie.
But yeah Fallen Kingdom was terrible, I was so disappointed with it. Extremely predictable, super cheesy even for JW standards, and just dumb. I felt JW walked the line between action movie and kids movie, but Fallen Kingdom just went fully over to being a kids movie. I was so disengaged and bored with it I remember having the urge to walk out of the theatre mid-movie if I was by myself.
Think I'm done with that franchise after Fallen Kingdom, which is quite the turnaround after enjoying JW.
Ha ha ha. Even though I confused he movie names and not actors that's the first thing that jumped in my mind when I made that mistake. That CNN anchor person confusing Jackson with Fishburne is a classic as Jackson lit him up.
First Man was amazing. Captivating from start to finish. They went a little thin on the Gemeni and Apollo accidents but I really felt like they did a fantastic job portraying Neil Armstrong.
Still to this day it blows my mind they went to the moon in a glorified washing machine powered by a Casio calculator watch. Frickin cowboys the lot of them. Hats off to all of the people who pioneered manned space flight.
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I actually really enjoyed Jurassic World, yeah the last 20 min or so were ridiculous and jumped the shark once the raptors started communicating with the Indominus Rex and turned on everybody. But aside from that I thought it was a fun movie.
But yeah Fallen Kingdom was terrible, I was so disappointed with it. Extremely predictable, super cheesy even for JW standards, and just dumb. I felt JW walked the line between action movie and kids movie, but Fallen Kingdom just went fully over to being a kids movie. I was so disengaged and bored with it I remember having the urge to walk out of the theatre mid-movie if I was by myself.
Think I'm done with that franchise after Fallen Kingdom, which is quite the turnaround after enjoying JW.
I find JW passable. The idea of creating hybrid clones is dumb too. If you could create dinosaurs, you'd instantly have the most profitable business on the planet. People would pay huge bucks to see a triceratops. You don't need to make the dinosaurs more dangerous to get more audience share.
Considering the original Jurassic Park failed because the animals were dangerous and escaped, designing an even more dangerous dinosaur, like indominus rex or whatever they called it, would seem like an automatic no go. And what kinds of psychopathic families are going to these dinosaur shows. Watching goats get torn apart and have their entrails eaten by raptors would traumatize most kids.
What made the original JP so great was the sense of wonder it created. All of the sequels have lacked that. A major reason being the over the top characters and lack of practical effects. Chris Pratt's self-depricating yet super human style really only works when you have another strong personality to keep him in check. Without Bradley Cooper or Aubrey Plaza, he is pretty grating.
First Man was amazing. Captivating from start to finish. They went a little thin on the Gemeni and Apollo accidents but I really felt like they did a fantastic job portraying Neil Armstrong.
Still, to this day it blows my mind they went to the moon in a glorified washing machine powered by a Casio calculator watch. Frickin cowboys the lot of them. Hats off to all of the people who pioneered manned space flight.
It was excellent, exactly how they should have done it, the Right Stuff while great was more of a rah-rah movie, this was all about the impact on the guys, their families and the amazing route they took to get to the moon.
I am still waiting on a Chuck Yeager movie, that man is a legend that deserves a full Hollywood film about him.
Just saw Mortal Engines. The cities and machinery and such were pretty neat to see. It was a pretty by-the-numbers plot. I'm told that it's adapted from a book, and it loses points on being a poor adaption. The one main downside to this movie is that I felt like I got dropped right into the middle of everything with almost no context. There was a little context, thrown at you in very brief lines, and I was able to figure it out, but it didn't do a good job of explaining what needed explaining.
It did have some interesting concepts though.
I'd say it was a 3.5/5
Oh, and it wasn't until I was looking up the roles/info after that I realized the female lead's name is "Hester" and not "Esther", which is what it sounded like for the 100 or so times it was shouted in the movie.
Laugh out loud funny and pretty self aware (of the entire SM franchise). A lot of clever lines and visuals scattered throughout. Best marvel credit and post credit imo and probably the most well made Spiderman movie overall.
My only complaint is a couple of the emotionally "heavy" moments felt forced.
Oh did I mention the animation is a treat too? And I'm not typically an animated movie guy.
Totally agree on Buster Scruggs. That was way better than I expected and you're right those last couple shorts were the type that really make you think and end up on your mind days after seeing it.
Ben Foster is underrated IMO, will have to check out that one.
Excellent reviews!
Soon as I noticed it was Cohen brothers I nearly jumped out of the sofa, loved it and am such a fanboy of their work.
