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In Reply to: RE: 'Yourassic World': Maybe 20 years is too soon . . . posted by Billy Wonka on June 12, 2015 at 23:21:16
what a waste of bandwidth- when will you learn not to bother to watch this crap?
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Edits: 06/15/15Follow Ups:
The original is considered one by many, many film goers who loved it well enough to support the seemingly endless spawn it produced. Many of the target generation of the original are now adults whose kids are the perfect age to experience this latest endevourer, and are probably THRILLED to take the family to share that experience with them. That aspect is cool with me, I hope people enjoy it.
These films aren't something I particularly care for, but I will watch it on BR when released.
It's just Hollywood junk food, but at least not just another remake of Spiderman, Batman or Buttman, et al. THAT'S where Hollywood has truly failed us.
Billy bites the bullet for many here, he's brave and... hardy. I always appreciate his reviews, even when the fodder is so obviously such.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I guess I'm turning into a grumpy old man.......but I actually ran a video store for 4 years in the early 80's when VCR's got hot. I love good film. In the last 20 years I've learned to despise ANYTHING the mass media machine tries to ram down my throat. That certainly includes Hollywood blockbusters (among other things) which as I see it are almost never worth watching much less even good.
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What are you going to the movies for though? Many people don't want to go to a movie to get a dose of real life problems, or history lessons, or to watch someone's inner turmoil. What they go for is to release their brain for 2 hours in the world of candy land.
I usually find the folks who junk all of Hollywood tend to think they're above everyone else in taste or class - well I have an English Lit degree so I have seen the heightened self importance of readers abound. Everyone else is stupid because they like Rock/Pop/Jazz etc music - if they had any taste they would only like Classical music and only like 4 pianists in the history of piano playing and Piano is a superior instrument to all other instruments. And anything written after 1700 is complete trash. Yes there are these people.
The same with movies - the fact that something is in color and is in the English language automatically means it can't be rated higher than a B.
Movies like plays can be summed up in a manner to Aristotle's outline of importance: Plot, Character, Theme, Language, Rhythm, and Spectacle
What is interesting is the the artsy types typically accuse the mainstream of being suckers for spectacle - big loud special effects - although they themselves focus a LOT (indeed most) of their attention on cinematography and various oohs and aahs of camera angles and lighting. But this too is pure spectacle - the lowest form (least important) aspect of theater and by modern times film.
...and as you imply/state, less than coincidental parallels to the "popular" vs "audiophile/artsy" mentality as regards music. Neither is surprising considering our location at the moment. Goes with the territory.
Grumpy Old Men, now THAT was a pretty bad movie.
Hell, you KNOW I leave some grumpy-ass posts and be the grumpus amongst us!
I just had a moment of... clarlty... where that made-to-be-a-blockbuster
didn't annoy me as much as they usually do!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
To be fair you have to somewhat consider the target market and the intent of the movie and base it "within" the genre.
Jurassic Park isn't a "film" - it's target audience is 11 year old kids and the 11 year old kid residing in adults I suppose. It's a special effects roller coaster movie and within that genre it's not terrible - it's not particularly good either - but a solid 5/10.
My frustration with these movies is that it COULD be so much better given the huge amounts of money they throw at them. Jaws worked because it was more character driven and they didn't need to show the shark every second. And the three lead characters were good actors and somewhat rounded and plausible (they weren't brain dead).
With this JP movie - there is no character to hang your hat on and it's basically - "people running away from dinosaurs" for much of the movie. Jaws wasn't completely predictable as one lead you think dies and another does die. In JP you pretty much know who is and who isn't getting chomped from the start. One dimensional characters, more dopey kids used to increase tension.
I don't think any of the JP movies are particularly great - the first movie also had dumb parts throughout. I wished they had "spared some expense" for better writing.
The premise behind these movies IMO is really good - the execution has been mediocre because they don't have the proper target market - trying to play to kids and adults is the wrong way to do it - you wind up with dopey characters and lack of big time scares. Not the dopey "I just survived getting mauled to death by a T-Rex and the next scene the kid is patting a dinosaur on the head as it sneezes on her - oh how cute is that. Piffle. And that was the first "supposedly great" first one.
Agreed with most of your post. I don't see a need to discuss it or any other of that genre here. It will happen anyway and I will likely always criticize these types of films. I remember how much better Hollywood was even just a few decades ago?
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For people who derive the greatest satisfaction from hating things that other people enjoy.
"A lie is half-way around the world before the truth can get its boots on."
-Mark Twain
I feel sorry for those with a holier than thou like you. He never said he liked it. Why would anyone want to feed the worst of Hollywood. Sequels? Really? What doesn't get a sequel now days.
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Coming from Mr. Negative Nancy...do you read what you post???
thanks for the laugh...that was great...
Mark
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