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Post by cubby on Jun 4, 2024 14:44:44 GMT
It's one of the reasons (among many) Treverow got booted off the Star Wars movies, which in hindsight might have somehow helped him.
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Post by dfunked on Jun 4, 2024 14:45:58 GMT
The third one had a dinosaur fight club in Valetta of all places. Which almost sounds like a feverish cheese dream, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 4, 2024 15:14:58 GMT
Ahh yeah, the sonic sound that made them attack on command that was introduced and forgotten about within 1 minute. God that film was terrible.
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Post by apollo on Jun 5, 2024 19:50:29 GMT
Lisa Frankenstein
Kathryn Newton is really great and this film had potential but its actually not very good at all. is it 80 horror or wants to be Edward scissorhands. Surprised its not straight to netflix or amazon video
4/10
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Post by britesparc on Jun 5, 2024 21:44:43 GMT
Bad Boys for Life (2020) ***
Caught up on this before going to see the latest film. The mix of "straight" action and comedy banter probably tips too far towards the former; it's basically a more-or-less serious (if OTT) police action thriller in which Martin Lawrence is sometimes required to be very silly. Arguably, the angst is maybe a bit more than the franchise can bear, even though Will Smith gives it his all. The film remains totally entertaining; the action is stylish and exciting, the new characters shine, and the chemistry of the leads is palpable. Looking forward to number four.
(Netflix)
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 5, 2024 21:57:03 GMT
Lumberjack The Monster - Takashi Miike does a horror film about Neuralink, the absolute mad lad
7/10
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 5, 2024 22:18:50 GMT
Yeah, that's another one that I had no idea about until a co-worker told me about it. Netflix just dropped it on there without telling anyone.
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Post by harrypalmer on Jun 5, 2024 22:26:20 GMT
Jurassic World - 2/5
So stupid. Doesn’t get value out of the excellent park setting. Could have been great amongst the tourists, disaster movie style, but instead we’re stuck with a bunch of dicks.
Has some nicely mad bits: Operation Neptune Spear-esque raid on the big bad dino with special forces raptors is so stupid it’s fun, the pterodactyl attack is funny (big respect to the guy who makes sure to get his two frozen margaritas) but a reminder of what the whole movie could have been.
Very muddled and tonally weird. Not a single likeable character. The worst one so far.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 5, 2024 23:18:52 GMT
If you think the first Jurassic World is the worst you've seen so far, well good luck with the two sequels as they're worse.
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Post by harrypalmer on Jun 6, 2024 6:41:14 GMT
Honestly can’t wait.
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Post by cubby on Jun 6, 2024 6:54:53 GMT
It's truly bonkers that Universal didn't think "wow we somehow got away with that" after JW made so much money and just quietly get *literally anyone else* to make the subsequent films, but tied that success solely to Treverow and handed the whole trilogy entirely to him, even though he clearly displays extremely bad story choices over and over again. They must have seen what a collosal failure Book of Henry was and started panicking then no?
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 6, 2024 7:00:11 GMT
and yet somehow his plan for Rise of Skywalker still ended up being (slightly) less dumb than what we actually got!
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Post by rawshark on Jun 6, 2024 7:49:45 GMT
Remember that bit in JW where the raptors and the Indominous Rex stop everything to have a chat?
“Hey guys. What’s up?”
“ Oh hi Dom. We were just… running.”
“With that dweeb on the bike?”
“… we don’t know him that well. He’s just been tagging along.”
“Uh huh. Wanna go eat everyone instead?”
“Hell yeah. Hope one of us gets thrown into a window and explodes for no good reason.”
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Post by britesparc on Jun 6, 2024 8:23:09 GMT
and yet somehow his plan for Rise of Skywalker still ended up being (slightly) less dumb than what we actually got! If the Duel of the Fates story that leaked is genuine, then it's a better *story* than Rise of Skywalker at the very least. But the one idea that I think was absolutely genius was Luke's Force ghost essentially haunting Kylo. Just constantly popping up, nagging him, trying to get him to turn to the light side. That's such a funny and clever tweak on the usual "ghostly mentor" role in Star Wars. |
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Post by dfunked on Jun 6, 2024 8:25:16 GMT
I didn't actually mind the first JW film at the time. I'd almost go so far as to say I enjoyed it in the cinema. Grab some popcorn, leave your brain at the door and watch some dinosaurs.
Still worse than JP 2 and 3, but not absolute fucking bollocks like JW 2 and 3.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 6, 2024 9:12:14 GMT
The worst thing about the new ones is that sticking your hand out to make friends with dinosaurs is now lore  |
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Post by zisssou on Jun 6, 2024 9:19:00 GMT
I actually want to watch Dominion to see how they now live with humans. Dilophosaurus driving an uber. Turns around and sprays venom in some poor saps face.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 6, 2024 9:19:04 GMT
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Post by Binky on Jun 6, 2024 9:29:29 GMT
I didn't actually mind the first JW film at the time. I'd almost go so far as to say I enjoyed it in the cinema. Grab some popcorn, leave your brain at the door and watch some dinosaurs. Still worse than JP 2 and 3, but not absolute fucking bollocks like JW 2 and 3. I'd go along with that. JW3 committed the cardinal sin of somehow making a movie about chomping, stompy dinosaurs in the modern world BORING. As a fan of the franchise (and by that I mean, I've seen the first movie a billion times, and think there's value in certain set pieces of 2 and 3) I almost fell asleep throughout Dominion and have never rewatched it. |
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Post by harrypalmer on Jun 6, 2024 9:30:25 GMT
I actually want to watch Dominion to see how they now live with humans. Dilophosaurus driving an uber. Turns around and sprays venom in some poor saps face. Like the skeleton ghost taxi driver in ghost busters. Yeah, i'm the same, I'm kind of hopeful every time as literally any scenario that involves dinosaurs sounds cool to me. But for whatever reason no one has been able to capture the essence of the first one. The more I think about it the worse Jurassic World gets. You had a park full of 1000s of screaming people and you don't use them at all bar the pterodactyl scene. Instead we get to hang round with corporate the whole time and have a weird plot about weaponizing raptors. Fucking idiots. |
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Post by zisssou on Jun 6, 2024 9:35:43 GMT
"But for whatever reason no one has been able to capture the essence of the first one."
Pffft I mean how many sequels can we apply this to? haha
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 6, 2024 9:40:48 GMT
I didn't actually mind the first JW film at the time. I'd almost go so far as to say I enjoyed it in the cinema. Grab some popcorn, leave your brain at the door and watch some dinosaurs. Still worse than JP 2 and 3, but not absolute fucking bollocks like JW 2 and 3. I'd go along with that. JW3 committed the cardinal sin of somehow making a movie about chomping, stompy dinosaurs in the modern world BORING. As a fan of the franchise (and by that I mean, I've seen the first movie a billion times, and think there's value in certain set pieces of 2 and 3) I almost fell asleep throughout Dominion and have never rewatched it. What shows how boring Dominion was is the short film Treverrow made to promote it is better than the movie.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 6, 2024 9:57:08 GMT
The worst thing about the new ones is that sticking your hand out to make friends with dinosaurs is now lore Now I really want to watch some Crocodile Dundee. |
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Post by Dougs on Jun 6, 2024 10:43:06 GMT
Still holds up, watched it last year.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 6, 2024 10:44:29 GMT
Guess I know what I'm watching this Sunday then. Not CD2 though, could never stand it.
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Post by cubby on Jun 6, 2024 12:08:53 GMT
Yeah just skip straight to CD3, Skip.
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Post by harrypalmer on Jun 6, 2024 13:20:17 GMT
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Netflix) - 1/5
Wow. What kind of sick fucking asshole comes up with these scripts? I won't lie, I did enjoy Toby Jones in a blond wig with false teeth presiding over a shady underworld arms auction, selling genetically modified dinosaurs to Slovenians for millions of dollars, but in reality, it's quite frankly insulting.
If you're going to write a script which has such ludicrous concepts incorporating activists rescuing dinosaurs from a cataclysmic volcanic eruption being double-crossed by mercenaries, the aforementioned dinosaur auction, and a 'showdown' in a spooky mansion, then you better at least have the most rudimentary skills to pull it off. But nope, it's boring as fuck. I mean, how is it boring?!
As usual, I knew what the plot was going in, and I was quite excited about dinosaurs stalking around a spooky gothic mansion, I thought at least that will be fun, but it isn't, at all. I'm honestly shook at how it is even possible to make that boring. Astonishing. Genuinely seems like the plot could have been written by AI.
To cap it all it sets up an even stupider concept for the next film, which is over 2.5 hours long.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 6, 2024 13:21:11 GMT
Haha. I didn't want to say anything but I was just waiting to see what your response would be once you got into the World movies. I can wait till you get to Dominion.
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Post by rawshark on Jun 6, 2024 13:24:37 GMT
Toby Jones is better than Noby Jones.
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Post by harrypalmer on Jun 6, 2024 13:26:26 GMT
My expectations could not be any lower at this point.
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