• Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
    29·
    3 天前

    The premise of dinosaurs in the modern world is as close to evergreen as you can get. The problem isn’t that the cow has gone dry, so much as the farmers keep jerking off the bull instead.

  • Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    3 天前

    I saw it and it wasn’t as bad as some of the other but not great. The big bad dies in like a single second with zero build up and its really unsatisfying. Weird character choices, unnecessary and forgetable characters mostly. The nerd guy “Harry” was the best actor for me. 6/10 not worth re-watching or thinking about again

  • pachrist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 天前

    I was ok with the first Chris Pratt one. Not great, not awful.

    What I really wish they had done was set the next one a couple years down the line. Maybe a couple of those military helicopters that are stealing the dinosaurs at the end crashes in mainland South/Central America. Imagine a Jurassic Park movie that’s a cross between Alien/Predator/Planet of the Apes. Really lean into the highly intelligent apex predator and horror angle.

    The problem with these movies, is they keep letting the cat out of the bag, over and over and over. Cat’s out. What’s next?

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
      33·
      2 天前

      I think they tried to do that with the new one. The D Rex (are we still adding rex where it doesn’t belong?) was clearly modelled after the xenomorph.

      I wanna be clear they failed. I haven’t been this disappointed in a movie since I saw TLJ for the first time

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 天前

    Challenge: Let’s broaden the Jurassic world. How do you make a Jurassic movie without the dinosaurs breaking loose?

    • joostjakob@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 天前

      The dinos are back, but of some species, every generation is smarter than the last, until they actually start speaking. Because they had a super civilisation, and their scientists encoded the key to rebuilding their civilisation in the DNA we found. The next generation becomes smart enough to invent a time machine, and try to manipulate us into going back in time to prevent the comet strike that took them out. Joke’s on them - they were in fact aware of the comet strike, but as we travel back in time together, the human part of the crew sabotage their Armageddon mission and make sure the strike actually happens, to pave the way for mammal domination!

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
      2·
      3 天前

      Dinosaurs want to break out again but giant asteroid is going to destroy the earth so they team up with humans to stop it. Dinosaurs offer their asteroid know how in exchange for freedom.

  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world
    19·
    3 天前

    The Jurassic Park movie franchise is the best representation of movies that diminish with each movie since the first one.

  • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
    33·
    3 天前

    I saw the new one with my father in law today, after not having seen one since the original trilogy. It was just not good. I’m usually able to turn off my brain and enjoy a movie regardless of the quality, but there were so many things that didn’t make sense, or were glossed over without explanation, that I just couldn’t suspend my disbelief.

  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
    833·
    3 天前

    There is a shifting of themes that basically tracks with the corporate takeover of the US government.

    1. (1993) Companies fucking around with systems they don’t understand is the problem. Rich guy underestimates nature.
    2. (1997) Rich guy learned lesson. Corporate greed did not.
    3. (2001) post-dotcom crash: A rich fucker and his stupid family learn the lesson about the company that fucked with nature. Governments are bad for not interveneing.
    4. (2015) post-Birther: Company and its rich founder are naive and innocent. US Government and US education are the bad guys.
    5. (2018) Corporate suits are the good guys. Science is the bad guys.
    6. (2022) A (suddenly) European company is the bad guys. Science is again the bad guy. Americans are the good guys.
    7. (2025) The US company and Military are the good guys.
    • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 天前

      I do agree with the main point of your post; however, I feel that your reasoning is backwards.

      Big blockbusters give the masses a dose of placebo. You see a movie where people who hold your values win, so you feel like it happened in real life, so you’re less likely to make it happen in real life.

      So I’m not spoiling this movie, look at the MCU instead: They defeated Thanos and stopped half the world’s population from disappearing, and then we failed to properly fight COVID and Donald Trump gained power.

      Now, I know correlation doesn’t equal causation, and that there were other factors at play, but I also know that when you perceive the image of something, it activates the same neurons as actually seeing that thing - when you watch The Notebook or Armageddon, you feel the emotions of the characters in the film, and you cry.

      That, combined with the other psychological tactics that we are constantly being bombarded with, make it difficult for us to navigate the world with a clear head. When you feel like you’re winning, why would you fight?

      And also, a TON of people are straight apathetic, and a lot more are just plain-old stupid. And there are dozens or hundreds of other factors such as personality of the audience, socioeconomics, religious beliefs, etc… that come into play here as well. It’s not quite as cut-and-dry as “monkey see, monkey feels as though it has done,” but that does play a large factor in it.

      I typed all this but didn’t proofread any of it, so I hope it makes sense. I’m sleepy.

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 天前

        I think people at different levels of media literacy read/watch stories differently.

        I think people with different politics maybe do too; im an anarchist, at best an incoherent and extremely skip-that-part version of what i believe gets spouted by the villain.

    • VeryFrugal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      3 天前

      Did you actually see the 2025 movie? No way the theme you got from that is US Corpo good. If anything g it’s literally the opposite.

      I didn’t see anything else than 2025. Pretty bad.

      But...(spoiler)

      But the main character literally decides to open-source the data instead of selling it to a pharma corp.