Obes
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Just watched this. Very pleasantly surprised at how good it was. Adam Sandler with another good film after Uncut Gems.
Out of nowhere! 8 netball hoops out of 10!
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Tommy.
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Same mate, I love a good sports movie and it didn't dissapoint.
This Sandler/Netflix colab has been working out pretty good!
Watched Top Gun Maverick. There were parts of it where I wanted to jump up and high five everyone in the cinema, 10 son of a bitches out of 10
Ray Purchase
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Brilliant 1960's movie, kids all born at the same time, and all LFC fans!
MaxCady
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Now there’s a film. Classic.
SuperTimCahill
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Jurassic World: Dominion
I'll just warn you right now, this is a long spoiler filled rant written in affection shortly after watching the movie.
I'll just warn you right now, this is a long spoiler filled rant written in affection shortly after watching the movie.
This feels like a Disney movie with dinosaurs, and that's not a compliment.
The movie has zero stakes, every aspect of this film (that doesn't include Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum) is utterly charmless and tensionless. I hate Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt and all the other characters that was introduced in the new trilogy.
Of course, just as expected, not one character of note dies in this movie. It's filled with last second saves and bombastic action, and it completely lacks the magic and mystique of the original (and even JP2 and 3). It's also completely predictable from start to end, and the homages to the original just worked as a reminder of how much better movies were 29 years ago.
I loved seeing Sam MFing Neill (my favorite actor), Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern back though, and they earned the movie a point extra each in my rating. You do the math. The original Jurassic Park was my introduction to film and it's still to this day one of my favorites. I adore Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm.
But back to 2022:
There's so much stupid stuff going on in this film, and to me it doesn't feel like a Jurassic Park movie whatsoever. This is soulless disney action with zero logic and they clearly expect the audience to be brainless as well.
A plane crashes on an ice covered lake. The ice doesn't break. Pratt and Howard walks across the same ice covered lake - the ice starts breaking due to their weight. [Poor language removed].
A deer can't hear a T-Rex strolling around just meters away from it. Clearly the film makers have never gone hunting - or even been in a forest - before.
The chopper lady doesn't spot the brachiosaurus that's strolling around in her landing zone until she's like ten meters away from it.
Wasn't the T-Rex vs superdino fight the ending to the first Jurassic World movie? This was literally a copy.
Like I mentioned earlier - not ONE character (that wasn't a villain) got eaten in this film.
It also frustrates me how certain characters (usually female) just casually walks around like "badasses" to grab guns while raptors or bigger predators are attacking with full force, clearly not feeling a single shread of fear. It's stupid and makes the dinos seem like no threat at all. One single raptor in Jurassic Park felt like a bigger threat than every single dino in this film combined.
And wouldn't it be nice if Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler knew in Jurassic Park (the original), that all they had to do to stop the T-Rex or the raptors from attacking was to raise their palms in a calming fashion?
The threat of the dinos (and especially the raptors who, believe it or not, ATE PEOPLE IN THE FIRST FILM) were what made the original so damn exciting and tense. The dinosaurs were the main villains and they were a LOT more interesting than the bland human bad guys in this trilogy.
There's not a single scene in this movie (trilogy) that's even close to the greatness of the "long grass" scene in The Lost World. Not even close (those raptors were frightening.
After every singel installment of this trilogy, I can't help but mention - the dinosaurs looked far better in the original 1993(!!!) film.
Oh and I wouldn't mind if I never had to see Bryce Dallas Howard in a movie again. What a bland, soulless performance, and her face is annoying. They also tried to make the reunion of the "family" emotional, when not a single one of them had been able to make me care about them one bit in three movies. I almost couldn't watch the screen because I hated it so much.
Every time they went for comedy (which was far too often) it fell flat on it's face, and several of the minor characters (including the main ones from the new trilogy) were whiny and unlikeable.
Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern saves this from a half-star rating.
I know I'm probably taking this way too seriously, but like I said: I grew up worshipping the first two Jurassic Park movies, and this one feels like they ripped the soul out of the original and sent it through the Disney mass production machine.
4/10
Sorry about the wall of text, but I had to get this off my chest. Now I'm going to go watch the original.
The movie has zero stakes, every aspect of this film (that doesn't include Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum) is utterly charmless and tensionless. I hate Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt and all the other characters that was introduced in the new trilogy.
Of course, just as expected, not one character of note dies in this movie. It's filled with last second saves and bombastic action, and it completely lacks the magic and mystique of the original (and even JP2 and 3). It's also completely predictable from start to end, and the homages to the original just worked as a reminder of how much better movies were 29 years ago.
I loved seeing Sam MFing Neill (my favorite actor), Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern back though, and they earned the movie a point extra each in my rating. You do the math. The original Jurassic Park was my introduction to film and it's still to this day one of my favorites. I adore Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm.
But back to 2022:
There's so much stupid stuff going on in this film, and to me it doesn't feel like a Jurassic Park movie whatsoever. This is soulless disney action with zero logic and they clearly expect the audience to be brainless as well.
A plane crashes on an ice covered lake. The ice doesn't break. Pratt and Howard walks across the same ice covered lake - the ice starts breaking due to their weight. [Poor language removed].
A deer can't hear a T-Rex strolling around just meters away from it. Clearly the film makers have never gone hunting - or even been in a forest - before.
The chopper lady doesn't spot the brachiosaurus that's strolling around in her landing zone until she's like ten meters away from it.
Wasn't the T-Rex vs superdino fight the ending to the first Jurassic World movie? This was literally a copy.
Like I mentioned earlier - not ONE character (that wasn't a villain) got eaten in this film.
It also frustrates me how certain characters (usually female) just casually walks around like "badasses" to grab guns while raptors or bigger predators are attacking with full force, clearly not feeling a single shread of fear. It's stupid and makes the dinos seem like no threat at all. One single raptor in Jurassic Park felt like a bigger threat than every single dino in this film combined.
And wouldn't it be nice if Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler knew in Jurassic Park (the original), that all they had to do to stop the T-Rex or the raptors from attacking was to raise their palms in a calming fashion?
The threat of the dinos (and especially the raptors who, believe it or not, ATE PEOPLE IN THE FIRST FILM) were what made the original so damn exciting and tense. The dinosaurs were the main villains and they were a LOT more interesting than the bland human bad guys in this trilogy.
There's not a single scene in this movie (trilogy) that's even close to the greatness of the "long grass" scene in The Lost World. Not even close (those raptors were frightening.
After every singel installment of this trilogy, I can't help but mention - the dinosaurs looked far better in the original 1993(!!!) film.
Oh and I wouldn't mind if I never had to see Bryce Dallas Howard in a movie again. What a bland, soulless performance, and her face is annoying. They also tried to make the reunion of the "family" emotional, when not a single one of them had been able to make me care about them one bit in three movies. I almost couldn't watch the screen because I hated it so much.
Every time they went for comedy (which was far too often) it fell flat on it's face, and several of the minor characters (including the main ones from the new trilogy) were whiny and unlikeable.
Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern saves this from a half-star rating.
I know I'm probably taking this way too seriously, but like I said: I grew up worshipping the first two Jurassic Park movies, and this one feels like they ripped the soul out of the original and sent it through the Disney mass production machine.
4/10
Sorry about the wall of text, but I had to get this off my chest. Now I'm going to go watch the original.
SuperTimCahill
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Oh, and I forgot:
Chris Pratt on a full speed motorcycle had the same top speed as the velociraptors chasing him. Bryce Dallas Howard ran just as fast as the velociraptors chasing her.
dholliday
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My all-time favourite too, alongside 2001.
full of mega goosepimp moments...but the one that always gets me a little emotional is after Arthur sips from the Grail, and his brother goes GUARDS! KNIGHTS! SQUIRES! Prepare for Battle!
Cue that epic Orff music, which despite being overused in the decades since still has unbelievable power in Excalibur.
As an aside, for years i thought the lyrics of that music had "THE KING WILL COME!", which really fit! But at some point got the entire Carmina Burana on CD, all the lyrics are in Latin
'The King Will Come' is actually Hac in Hora ("at this hour"). The text is from the 13th-century (hence Latin) and is a helpless ode to how we can't control our fate & fortune (hence, O Fortuna).
The rest of Carmina Burana is really good stuff. Sounds almost comedic at times, like the choir are hedonists and just larking about. None of the other pieces ever match the dramatic peak of O Fortuna.
dholliday
deconstructed rep
We just watched a flick i bet no one here will ever see ....except maybe @Billy Dean
Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee (Shark-alarm at Lake Müggel).
I live a short walk from the lake, it's massive. We're so far south of Berlin that we barely count as Berliners, so the film has a lot of in-jokes about regional rivalries and the like. Add a bunch of absurdist random scenes (somewhat Kusturica-lite) and one superb single-take street scene and we got a rare likeable German comedy. 8/10 from my angle.
Just not sure if outsiders could get into it. Even German non-Berliners will struggle with a lot of the humour.
Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee (Shark-alarm at Lake Müggel).
I live a short walk from the lake, it's massive. We're so far south of Berlin that we barely count as Berliners, so the film has a lot of in-jokes about regional rivalries and the like. Add a bunch of absurdist random scenes (somewhat Kusturica-lite) and one superb single-take street scene and we got a rare likeable German comedy. 8/10 from my angle.
Just not sure if outsiders could get into it. Even German non-Berliners will struggle with a lot of the humour.
SuperTimCahill
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Jurassic Park (the original)
A perfect movie. I've seen it probably 40 times and I'll never tire of it. Sam Neill is God.
Just look at the opening scene. The moment "universal pictures presents" show up on screen, John Williams has already managed to build more tension than the entire Jurassic World fiasco could in three movies.
10/10
A perfect movie. I've seen it probably 40 times and I'll never tire of it. Sam Neill is God.
Just look at the opening scene. The moment "universal pictures presents" show up on screen, John Williams has already managed to build more tension than the entire Jurassic World fiasco could in three movies.
10/10
Rita_Poon
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Am I allowed to suggest this particular film has got your "goat"?