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Moviefight:  Schwarzwald posted:Anti-harmonious? She literally devours her only family. That's what i mean: the iRex is consciously against 'family', and everything else the protagonists stand for. Instead of seeking 'harmony' and 'balance', she's downright satanic.
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kiimo posted:Are you familiar with SMG? He's very good and he's very smart but he dissects movies until you know longer even know how to feel, like a robot repeating the word incongruous until it loses it's meaning forever. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Hope this helps.
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SMG, I do not agree with your interpretation of that scene but it was a very interesting read, and I can't really come up with a better explanation for it apart from "we needed some shock value and having a named but minor character get thrown around and get eaten by a whale dragon is the best we can do". So good job.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Moviefight: I think a better companion piece for this would be when the I-Rex bites someone and a crapton of blood spurts out. I think the little line of red on the T-Rex's face in the above scene sold things way better than the goofy amounts of gore Jurassic World sometimes has.
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Jul 3, 2015 16:29
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The Bee posted:I think the little line of red on the T-Rex's face in the above scene sold things way better than the goofy amounts of gore Jurassic World sometimes has. 
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Tellah posted:"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." 
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While it's obviously possible to teach people how to read, nobody can 'read for you'. It's a process. Because what I've written is true, a proper reading will necessarily reach similar conclusions - but the point is the process of reading, which cannot be skipped over.
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Jul 3, 2015 19:52
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Welcome to the jackoff hour where we take your silly fun dinosaur movie and over-analyze it into this. 
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Jul 3, 2015 19:57
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Jurassic Park is literally about a group of critics sent to Jurassic Park to 'over-analyze' Jurassic Park before it's shown to the general public. They're the protagonists.
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kiimo posted:Welcome to the jackoff hour where we take your silly fun dinosaur movie and over-analyze it into this. Not shown: The shooting script for Jurassic World buried in the dino poop.
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It's cool if you don't want to discuss a movie, but then why come to the discussion thread for it?
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You're right, unbookmarking. Sorry for the derail.
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The only fun thing about this movie is that during the quiet parts if you listened really hard you could hear Mad Max playing in the adjacent theater. Analyzing it by looking at the weirdly cynical direction, inexplicably bad editing, and mess of a script critically (think "critical thinking" not "lol heres what i think about movie") is the best way to take something substantial away from the 124 minutes I wasted watching this movie.
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I'd rather go to Jurassic Park than Jurassic World. Seems much more low key. But I'd probably be too poor for it even with the coupon.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Jurassic Park is literally about a group of critics sent to Jurassic Park to 'over-analyze' Jurassic Park before it's shown to the general public. What does the giant pile of dinosaur poo poo represent?
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Jul 4, 2015 04:54
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INH5 posted:What does the giant pile of dinosaur poo poo represent? Previously released blockbuster Last Action Hero.
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INH5 posted:What does the giant pile of dinosaur poo poo represent? Communism.
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INH5 posted:What does the giant pile of dinosaur poo poo represent? 
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I saw this this afternoon, thought it was ok, not terrible but not great either. The divorce subplot felt pretty pointless and I think I would have been more interested in the park inevitably failing on its own merits. More stuff like someone anywhere thinking "free roaming plastic ball" was a good security measure for example, the bemused security guards, or the place being staffed by bored teenagers. Instead it fails because Wu made Hitlersaurus Rex for the military without telling anyone at the park it was secretly part Hitler (btw I was very surprised that Chris Pratt said it was "part raptor" instead of "part human", I waited the whole movie for someone to say it) as part of the military's "use animals for combat" plan which as far as the military is concerned doesn't seem all that bad, to be honest. The raptor pack stuff seemed underdeveloped too. I did like Wu's "no poo poo they aren't real dinosaurs" scene along with the attempts to contain the I-Rex, and thought most of the jokes were pretty cute.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Previously released blockbuster Last Action Hero. 
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Jul 4, 2015 07:14
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Last Action Hero is both very good and very bad, which means it's worth watching.
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Last Action Hero has Arnold Schwarzenegger doing Hamlet, which is all I can ask of a film.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:They shouldn't have given her the Jessica Chastain haircut. Next time I go the the barbershop I'm just gonna say "Give me the Chastain." And hope it doesn't turn into a scene out of Pulp Fiction.
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Gatts posted:Next time I go the the barbershop I'm just gonna say "Give me the Chastain." And hope it doesn't turn into a scene out of Pulp Fiction. You'll look fly, I promise you.
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Had a good time watching the movie in 2D and 3D. Regardless of the quality of the film, my eight year old self has to know: How are the toys? I had Dino Riders and JP, kids these days need good dinosaur toys.
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Die Laughing posted:Had a good time watching the movie in 2D and 3D. Regardless of the quality of the film, my eight year old self has to know: How are the toys? I had Dino Riders and JP, kids these days need good dinosaur toys. I mean yeah you'll get people saying "NOT MY JP TOYS" but I think kids today could have fun with them.
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Xenomrph posted:Hit or miss. If you're expecting the DINO DAMAGE soft plastic dinos and human characters and vehicles for them to eat, you'll be disappointed. But there's still some cool stuff that kids would like I think. There's an Irex that can chomp its jaws and attack a little gyrosphere that comes with it, and the gyrosphere can partially break apart so the Irex can eat the generic dude inside. The gyrosphere can shoot a little disc, and the Irex has a spring-loaded DINO DAMAGE wound on its side that pops open if it gets hit. Toys are not for kids. Toys are for the shelves of true men. 
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Steve2911 posted:Toys are not for kids. Toys are for the shelves of true virgins. Ftfy
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The toys are loving terrible solid lumps of very cheap quality, hollow plastic. I wanted to see if they'd remade the awesome rubber-skinned t-rexes I used to have as a kid so I could put one on a shelf, but the only rex they've made is piss yellow and cheap-feeling. The i-rex isn't much better. Shame!
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dog days are over posted:The toys are loving terrible solid lumps of very cheap quality, hollow plastic. I wanted to see if they'd remade the awesome rubber-skinned t-rexes I used to have as a kid so I could put one on a shelf, but the only rex they've made is piss yellow and cheap-feeling. The i-rex isn't much better. Shame! There was this peak in the toy industry in the mid 2000s where everything was firing on all cylinders, and then the economy tanked and it's never really recovered since.
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Burkion posted:There was this peak in the toy industry in the mid 2000s where everything was firing on all cylinders, and then the economy tanked and it's never really recovered since.
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Sedgr posted:Saw this the other day and while I wasn't very thrilled by the whole thing I was struck by the idea that the whole movie seems to be made up of really obvious commentary on the idea of franchise revitalization and difficulties of making a summer blockbuster. Maybe Claire represents the screenwriter while Owen represents the director?
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dog days are over posted:The toys are loving terrible solid lumps of very cheap quality, hollow plastic. I wanted to see if they'd remade the awesome rubber-skinned t-rexes I used to have as a kid so I could put one on a shelf, but the only rex they've made is piss yellow and cheap-feeling. The i-rex isn't much better. Shame! But the irex is rubber and battery powered and glows?
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ruby idiot railed posted:But the irex is rubber and battery powered and glows? It also can't stand up unless you disassemble it and Macguyver a counterweight in its hips because it's so front heavy, but that's neither here nor there.
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The playskool heroes lines of derpy (insert franchise here) are actually really impressive. Plus look at that smug grin.
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Xenomrph posted:And roars and opens its mouth. It's huge and pretty impressive for a kid's dinosaur toy. Just saw the write-up on that, ugh. Good thing I only bought the Stegoceratops. e: and the jeep
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Speaking of the toys, I saw that a bunch of them had the "JW" corporate logo tattooed/grown into their skin.... did the dinos in the movie have that? It seemed especially prominent on the iRex toy, but I don't remember noticing it in the flick.
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The best toys are the Imagine-X line. My girlfriend's four year old nephew has a bunch of the playsets, they've got moving electronic parts and all sorts of license things plus generic stuff so you get pirate guys and aliens and Pixar Monsters going to the Batcave.
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GORDON posted:Speaking of the toys, I saw that a bunch of them had the "JW" corporate logo tattooed/grown into their skin.... did the dinos in the movie have that? It seemed especially prominent on the iRex toy, but I don't remember noticing it in the flick. All Jurassic Park toys have the logo on them. It's a thing.
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GORDON posted:Speaking of the toys, I saw that a bunch of them had the "JW" corporate logo tattooed/grown into their skin.... did the dinos in the movie have that? It seemed especially prominent on the iRex toy, but I don't remember noticing it in the flick. 
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