new blog post: a few thoughts on the new jurassic world rebirth trailer https://blog.dante.cool/a-few-thoughts-on-the-new-jurassic-world-rebirth-trailer/ A trailer dropped for Jurassic World: Rebirth yesterday. It will almost assuredly be a completely awful film. let's talk about jurassic park though| masto.posting.haus
very fun. i feel like almost all of it i watched while thinking of the HBO show, because i love (SEASON 1) of that show and i think (SEASON 1 of) westworld HBO explores these really interesting ideas of sentience and the uncanny valley and what it means to be a sentient being and stuff. Which is pretty impressive since i find that concept fucking boring as hell in most things but anyway i digress westworld 73 is so much more about theme parks which is great because i, like michael crichton, f...| letterboxd.com
it's very funny that in retrospect (and i am absolutely guilty of this myself) what most people remember about this movie is the 20 minutes of San Diego Dinosaur Apocalypse and not the other 1h40m of... mostly characters facing off against environmental dangers like falling off cliffs or whatever? but i guess that's not that unreasonable given that the San Diego stuff -- and especially the introductory moments of the San Diego stuff -- have such a creeping, unreal horror to them. It is the on...| letterboxd.com
I think i would say i am a "fan of jurassic park". but even in comparison to me saying "i am a fan of star wars" where if you really drill down into it i'm really a fan of like 1/3 of star wars output and then the "star wars vibe", i similarly am a fan mostly of "the movie jurassic park and then things that remind me of the good parts of jurassic park". this movie does not particularly do that. idk, i remember watching this around the time of release and thinking it wasn't bad. and i guess| letterboxd.com
Fantastically stupid film. Way too long. Filled to the brim with utterly "why the fuck did they do that" sort of sequences. Why is there a full on five minute "drowning escape" sequence? Why did that one dinosaur just shake off literal lava? Why did those guys buy the indoraptor for that much money? Why did they make the indoraptor? Why did Zia say that she's never seen a dinosaur before? Why is Owen suddenly an action hero? Why is Wu evil now? Why are people protesting in favor of the compan...| letterboxd.com
jesus christ dude. interminably long. six movies in one (derogatory). endlessly mugging for the camera, in both a metaphorical and literal sense. starts off with some of the dumbest lines ever written (continuing the trend of the JW series) placed within, i am not shitting you, a diegetic NowThis segment. characters just sort of Do Things arbitrarily in this. useless to make a list of the questions i had during this film because the answer to all of them was clearly "i dunno, seemed like it w...| letterboxd.com
every time i rewatch this i'm surprised by the pacing of it. it's funny, it moves quickly, and the disaster nature of it is just still so good. i don't have too many smart things to say about this movie because i mostly just think it is "a perfect movie", but man it really is a perfect movie. the CGI still holds up, the action scenes are still marvelously terrifying, and the few slow moments that really let the philosophy luxuriate against the hyperconsumerist background of The Park is just m...| letterboxd.com
it's easy to see why they stopped making JP movies after this one (for a while, at least) because like, it seems like they don't really care? about the core premise? anymore? i mean like other than Specific Brand Names (ingen) and the inclusion of (2) returning characters, this might as well have been called Escape From Dinosaur Island and nothing would be different. This is not a movie about "Jurassic Park". This is a movie about a bunch of dipshits going to an evil island and only one Epic ...| letterboxd.com
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.| letterboxd.com
today i watched Fantasy Island (2020), which is a movie that was meant to be a prequel to the 1970s TV show "Fantasy Island" but due to the overall response...| videodante