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The giraffes looked so real.
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I like that he was willing to get a little darker in the second one, at least. If you ever wondered what people sound like as they're being devoured, this movie is for you.
― Shaved Cyborg (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 04:47 (five years ago) link
His actual worst film will probably always be his segment from /Twilight Zone: the Movie/
― a surprise challenge that ended with a gunging (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 04:57 (five years ago) link
hook, y'all, it's hook
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 05:01 (five years ago) link
Can't really argue against that, but I still think that the early, London-set scenes in Hook are quite lovely, and Hoffman and Hoskins do some entertaining hamming. But those Lost Boys sequences are rough.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 05:07 (five years ago) link
Spielberg movies I will probably never watch but am happy to assume are trash: The Terminal, Ready Player One, and probably the second half of Crystal Skull
Really though, The Lost World was surprisingly not-bad enough that I'm a little more jazzed to see some Spielberg that I might've unjustly ignored. Like Always, which is in this set I have with the Jurassic Parks and ET and Jaws (because why wouldn't Always be nestled in that particular set?). It always looked kinda boring and I've literally never heard anyone say a single word about it, but I was just adequately entertained by what some argue is Spielberg's worst film, so why not? What other magic might he have up his sleeve? Might 1941 become less of an interminable slog after the twenty minutes I watched? Could be! He's a filmsmith, that Spielberg!
― Shaved Cyborg (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 05:35 (five years ago) link
always is fine, 1941 is not fine, ready player one is roughly as embarrassing as your dad announcing over the school PA that he’s here to deliver the diarrhoea medication you accidentally left behind on the breakfast table this morning
― a surprise challenge that ended with a gunging (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 07:45 (five years ago) link
I found Munich to be the Ready Player One of his adult movies - it’s such a gruesome “take me seriously!!” movie
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 09:15 (five years ago) link
https://screencrush.com/lost-world-jurassic-park-easter-egg/
― Shaved Cyborg (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 11:29 (five years ago) link
I thought that was going to be about when the t-rex walks past a basketball court and mimes dribbling.
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 11:57 (five years ago) link
Well, the Eyes Wide Shut turned to utter shit. No reason this one shouldn't too, I guess.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
(the Eyes Wide Shut THREAD turned, et al)
I don't know what happened in the Eyes Wide Shut thraed but I am making the effort to discuss my recent viewings of the film Jurassic Park and its sequel Jurassic Park: The Lost World which seems to be within the rubric. Perhaps you are aggrieved because I gave Jurassic Park: The Lost World ** instead of 1/2*, in which case you will find comment cards in the back of the room and a box into which you can drop yours once you've filled it out. If the ink pens on the table are dried out just let me know, I think I have an extra in my satchel.
― Shaved Cyborg (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
(That was directed at the predictable thread-revive rush to namecheck Spielberg's "worst" films.)
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
bridge of zzz's is as bad as many of his other movies many of which think they are good but they are in fact bad
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
god forbid we let the sainted jurassic park thread fall foul of mischief
― a surprise challenge that ended with a gunging (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
lol i wasnt even gonna acknowledge but yes
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
I think, ultimately, the Spielberg I have the least amount of time for is his Steven Schmaltzberg persona. Which is why I find his Twilight Zone segment so gross. So much whimsy! So much wonder! Trilling flutes and mouths agape in awe! On that tip, I feel like the awe on display in Jurassic Park was proportionate to the sitch and quite restrained for him. And then it was completely absent in The Lost World and I think that's a very good thing indeed. Even the kid who saw a t-rex in his back yard (which he presumably watched gobble down his dog off-camera) seemed only half-moved by the experience.
― Shaved Cyborg (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
disagree, the dinos should make an impact! the fact that they barely register on all the characters in that movie is one of its many problems imo. we should buy that they are a special threat, with a pinch of the sublime.one of the only really good crichton lines mysteriously not used in any of the films: someone asks malcolm if he remembers what happened, and he's like "john, I was bitten by a tyrranosaurus rex, it's the kind of thing that tends to stick in your memory."
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
I agree they should make an impact! They just shouldn't make a schmaltzy impact. Have you seen the film Vice Versa? In the film Vice Versa, Judge Reinhold plays a father who switches bodies with his son, who is portrayed by Fred Savage. Mr. Reinhold was apparently operating under the misapprehension that Fred Savage was a six-year-old who had just been hatched from an egg and was only now witnessing the wonders of the world for the first time ever because after the body switchery occurs he incessantly gawps at every damn thing that transpires. WHOA WOW WHAT AWWW WHEEE. It is a quality of awe disproportionate to the situation he's found himself in. What I'm saying is that, yes, the dinosaurs should be a Big Deal but I'm glad the characters who witness them don't immediately start doing cartwheels and shouting 'bangarang!'
― Shaved Cyborg (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
well, sure!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
i think they can have a wondrous sublime impact (without being schmaltzy) and then also a terrifying sublime impact. imo lost world loses both, they just seem like disposable monsters except in a couple shots. increased use of CGI definitely part of the problem; spielberg isn't sure where to put his camera to give this things oomph when they need it.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
Jurassic Park II isn't that bad, it's Jurassic Park III that is truly terrible.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
My possibly controversial take on it is that we should rarely see an entire dinosaur in the frame unless it's somewhere in the distance. In trying to bowl us over with the CGI we lose a bit of that sense of scale which might truly impress upon us the majesty and might of these thunda lizards.
― Shaved Cyborg (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
grant reaches out to the image of the dinosaur-- he wants to touch the dinosaur-- but when his fingers brush the glass the image flickers and dies. but with this place? i wanted to give them something that wasn't an illusion.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 21 April 2019 09:55 (four years ago) link
hammond's obvious joy at playing drosselmeyer to his grandkids is what's most clearly and spielbergily contrasted with grant having no use for children (adapted as he is to eternal separation from desire, in the badlands-- not unlike the dominican miners for whom beauty means staring through ancient glass at the life locked inside). but a starker contrast is with hammond's life on his magic isle, happy father to a vast brood: i insist. on being here. when they're born. what we learn is, kids are difficult.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 21 April 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link
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neat visual pun here: the proboscis drilling for blood
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 21 April 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
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never gonna be over it
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 21 April 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
when his fingers brush the glass
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― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 21 April 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
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even inland empire itself doesn't ask her to take her face much further. what a titan
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 21 April 2019 11:26 (four years ago) link
The jello is a great touch.
― jmm, Sunday, 21 April 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
she's fairly alarmed here.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 21 April 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
kids okay?
i didn't ask; why wouldn't they be?
kids get scared.
what's to be scared of? it's just a little hiccup in the power--
i didn't say i was scared.
i didn't say you were scared.
i know.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 5 December 2019 07:53 (four years ago) link
New trailer is all dumb fan service, from the cast down. This feels like another Sony Spider-man movie, made just to make it. Have they made an installment with a human/dinosaur hybrid? They should, might as well.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
lol wow this looks truly truly stupid. in a way i find that appealing. the only parts of the last one where i felt awake and engaged were when they swerved deep into WTF territory by turning into a dopey haunted-house movie with dinosaurs running around and a twist about someone being a clone, iirc. this was terrible, but at least something, whereas the first half, like the first "World" movie, was an absolutely pointless retread of going to a tropical island and encountering dinosaurs.
i can't remember exactly how the last one ended, so no clue how the dinosaurs have so rapidly multiplied that they're just roaming all over the world and threaten human extinction. seems like a pretty good premise for a stupid saturday morning cartoon or Mad Max type movie. again... it's something.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 10 February 2022 23:47 (two years ago) link
oh, I'd watch that, a humans vs. dinosaur war for the planet of the apes? they need to introduce a talking dinosaur.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 February 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link
god, after the last one, I don't want to see any Jurassic movie ever again, even if it was Jurassic Ass Eaters 6
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 February 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
lmao at scene of Bryce Dallas Howard OUTRUNNING A VELOCIRAPTOR
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 February 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link
the only way this movie is good is if they bring the entire production team on camera and eat them
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 February 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
i love these movies because they are dumb as dirt
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 11 February 2022 03:08 (two years ago) link
problem is they're so po-faced and full of lame pathos
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 February 2022 03:42 (two years ago) link
“I would watch a steaming pile of shit if it has dinosaurs in it” -my wiife
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 11 February 2022 04:13 (two years ago) link
they were preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
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― circa1916, Friday, 11 February 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
lmao
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 February 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
Totally gonna hatewatch this. Supposedly it's even worse than Fallen Kingdom
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
That's probably a bad thing, but I remember literally nothing about Fallen Kingdom.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
I remember the hilarious plot twist and it being really 'talky' for a dinosaur movie
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
I went to see the first Jurassic World movie with my son who was 7 at the time. It was the first "grown up movie" (probably need bigger quotes there) he ever saw in a movie theatre (it was also in Imax 3D) and the long lasting effect of this is that this is basically his favorite movie franchise and he has seen all 5 jurassic park/world movies many many times and he's really excited about this movie.
So I'm going to see this.
― silverfish, Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
report back!
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
What a drawn out, confusing disaster.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 16 July 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link