I laughed at giving him glasses to make him look nerdy

7 hours ago, Mike030270 said:

I laughed at giving him glasses to make him look nerdy

(Takes glasses off)

***Gasp! He’s beautiful!!!***

23 hours ago, paco said:

(Takes glasses off)

***Gasp! He’s beautiful!!!***

Someone can make a bet that they can turn him into prom king in just 6 weeks!

On 6/30/2025 at 5:30 PM, DaEagles4Life said:

Off a book which is good

Same author as The Martian (Matt Damon movie adaptation), which makes the similarities make sense. It also reminds me of Interstellar. I guess I don't understand how in these type of movies there's only ONE person who has the knowledge and skills. Like he's a teacher, but there are no other science experts in the world? There isn't a team going up with trained astronauts and various science experts as backups in case something goes wrong, someone gets sick or dies?

I did see comments online saying the book is great and excited for this movie. So hopefully it's well written and well made.

Meanwhile, a remake of the Stephen King novel (which people are saying looks more faithful to the novel). And directed by Edgar Wright.

Wasn't a fan of the new Jurassic movie

Spoiler

It at least had comedy because the story was crap. I was surprised the T-Rex didn't fight the mutated dinosaur in the end

There was a few scenes that were putting me to sleep too

Jurassic World: Afterbirth - Probably not good, but it offers enough really exciting moments to make it not a total waste. It's just tough to take a movie seriously when one of the main characters switches from a broken leg to running on the broken leg over, and over throughout the movie. If the injury is that difficult to maintain throughout the movie then just cut it out of the story altogether. It really had no bearing on the movie in the first place. And the final boss dinosaur just looked dumb.

We're seeing the new Jurassic tomorrow. So far I've heard that it attempts to have recalls to the original, they brought back the co-writer David Koepp, but that they fall flat. A friend of mine when he saw the trailer said they should just go the route of Fast & Furious at this point, just make it a visual spectacle. Most of the sequels have been bad, Jurassic World at least progressed to having an actual park open for business as a new direction.

Jurassic World Rebirth was ok. Without putting too much thought into it I’d say it’s the 3rd best in the franchise behind the OG and the first Jurassic World.

I wasn’t a fan of the new mutated species though. They went too far where it almost felt like it was an alien.

On 7/2/2025 at 6:17 PM, NOTW said:

Meanwhile, a remake of the Stephen King novel (which people are saying looks more faithful to the novel). And directed by Edgar Wright.

This has 0% chance of beating the original movie no matter what they do, but it looks decent enough.

On 7/2/2025 at 6:16 PM, NOTW said:

Same author as The Martian (Matt Damon movie adaptation), which makes the similarities make sense. It also reminds me of Interstellar. I guess I don't understand how in these type of movies there's only ONE person who has the knowledge and skills. Like he's a teacher, but there are no other science experts in the world? There isn't a team going up with trained astronauts and various science experts as backups in case something goes wrong, someone gets sick or dies?

I did see comments online saying the book is great and excited for this movie. So hopefully it's well written and well made.

It's a good read and yeah you figured out some of the plot

On 7/3/2025 at 11:05 AM, NOTW said:

We're seeing the new Jurassic tomorrow. So far I've heard that it attempts to have recalls to the original, they brought back the co-writer David Koepp, but that they fall flat. A friend of mine when he saw the trailer said they should just go the route of Fast & Furious at this point, just make it a visual spectacle. Most of the sequels have been bad, Jurassic World at least progressed to having an actual park open for business as a new direction.

It’s a fun, summer action stand alone movie. They kept the weird side plots of locusts eating crops/clone children to a minimum. With that said, I don’t think it’s anything amazing or even memorable really. I think making this movie as a one off, heist like movie helped a ton overall as they didn’t try to shoehorn in anything dumb leading to a sequel or trilogy.

On 7/4/2025 at 1:32 PM, LeanMeanGM said:

It’s a fun, summer action stand alone movie. They kept the weird side plots of locusts eating crops/clone children to a minimum. With that said, I don’t think it’s anything amazing or even memorable really. I think making this movie as a one off, heist like movie helped a ton overall as they didn’t try to shoehorn in anything dumb leading to a sequel or trilogy.

I went in with low expectations, and in some ways it was better than I expected. IMO most of the sequels were loaded with a lot of "that was dumb" writing, plot points and character decisions. This one had those, but it didn't seem like as many (the bar was set very low in the other recent sequels).

I saw some people say it's a re-hash of the original JP plot but it's not really. It felt more like a mash up of King Kong, Godzilla, Jaws and Jurassic Park/World. There really wasn't a good reason to make this movie, it didn't have anything really important to bring. At least the JW trilogy tried to take the franchise in a new direction with a functioning park and then dinos spreading all over the world. They fumbled the last 2 sequels to that.

This one had more character screen time and less dinos, and had a lot of visual references to the earlier movies plus other movies. Hunting a Mosasaurus had a lot of references to Jaws for example. I was waiting for someone to say "we're gonna need a bigger boat."

They put a family with 2 teens and a young girl in there for some reason, they always need to have kids and a family angle (and they're always children of divorce). They were just fluff and not needed. Once you accept the premise that a rich guy is bankrolling an extract team to go to restricted dino island to get dino stuff and you're gonna see dino action, that's really all you need. There were call backs to the original Predator movie, and that's what this should have been. Man vs beast. That's all we needed.

I did like that there were shots that slowed down and enjoyed the awe of dinosaurs. There was a scene that was a reference to the first time they see the brachiosaurs in the first JP where they are just sitting back and taking in the view of these giant beasts.

There were some really dumb things, bad lines and coincidences, and plot armor but that stuff is to be expected and I think they kept it to a minimum compared to the other sequels. This should have been like Predator or Aliens: go in with a team for a horror/sci-fi mission movie and the creatures pick of the humans little by little until a small group survives to get out of there.

As you said, it felt like a standalone story. I don't know the point of making any more of these unless it makes good money and they think they can make more.

I like the idea of Dinosaur movies still. Just wish the stories were better

Maybe there needs to be an adult version so it doesn't need to be so family friendly 🤷‍♂️

1 hour ago, Mike030270 said:

I like the idea of Dinosaur movies still. Just wish the stories were better

Maybe there needs to be an adult version so it doesn't need to be so family friendly 🤷‍♂️

There are some simple options and direction they could take.

This one should have been simply going to the abandoned island to get the dino DNA, equipment in the lab, research, etc. Maybe it's a company that wants to do their own research. There are people in previous movies who bought dinos on the black market and all that. they could still do another movie like that. The island that had the original park and the Jurassic World park could be a setting as well, an abandoned park horror setup.

They could do a dino in the city horror like Cloverfield. Just do smaller scale contained stories that feature the dinos and less need for big corporate stories and global conspiracies.

The Accountant 2 - Already streaming for free on Prime Video. One of the worst marketed movies ever. It’s not as good as the first, it’s a little weird actually, but it’s not terrible. In fact it’s got some really funny, and real kick ass parts in it. The pacing’s just kind of odd, and it lingers on some parts too long. They’ve gone a little overboard with the kids too, but it all still ultimately works.

Nosferatu - Also streaming free on Prime Video. Unnerving but was it supposed to be scary? Because I didn't think it was scary at all. That's not to say I didn't think it was very good, because it was. Did a great job with Orlack.

On 7/8/2025 at 7:36 PM, The_Omega said:

The Accountant 2 - Already streaming for free on Prime Video. One of the worst marketed movies ever. It’s not as good as the first, it’s a little weird actually, but it’s not terrible. In fact it’s got some really funny, and real kick ass parts in it. The pacing’s just kind of odd, and it lingers on some parts too long. They’ve gone a little overboard with the kids too, but it all still ultimately works.

It was worse than the 1st one, and boring at times. I did not care about the main mission at all. Jon Bernthal stole every scene he was in, and the 2 brothers road tripping and getting into a bar fight and all that was fun. It made you forget for a moment what the movie was about. They had a good shoot em up action scene at the end. But it was a pretty forgettable movie.

On 7/10/2025 at 12:26 PM, NOTW said:

It was worse than the 1st one, and boring at times. I did not care about the main mission at all. Jon Bernthal stole every scene he was in, and the 2 brothers road tripping and getting into a bar fight and all that was fun. It made you forget for a moment what the movie was about. They had a good shoot em up action scene at the end. But it was a pretty forgettable movie.

Hey BJ Edgecum, why don’t you give us your review of the new Jurassic World before I pump you full of sleeping pills and chili dog you?

48 minutes ago, hputenis said:

Hey BJ Edgecum, why don’t you give us your review of the new Jurassic World before I pump you full of sleeping pills and chili dog you?

I did that already, Junior.

Why don't you stop stalking my posts already, at least liquor me up first maybe you'll get lucky. 🤣

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Death of a Unicorn - Currently streaming on Max, billed as a "dark comedy”. The only problem is it’s not very funny. At all. It’s not terrible, it has its moments but a few more laughs would have helped.

Written by Tarantino, directed by David Fincher. This has win written all over it.

On 7/30/2025 at 5:36 PM, The_Omega said:

Written by Tarantino, directed by David Fincher. This has win written all over it.

yes