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21 Muns posted:It'd be a movie where the twist is that you just spent two hours watching the fictional equivalent of someone else's trip to disneytown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke69bHVkHvE Unfortunately the movie is not good
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MisterBibs posted:The thing is, I can see his point. It would've been interesting to see a Jurassic Park where poo poo worked. The thing is, though, Jurassic Park is first-and-foremost a We Tampered In God's Domain property. One way or another, the park must fail, because that's why we're there. Interesting is just interesting. JP is essentially Westworld except with robot cowboys, knights, and Romans, it's dinosaurs. For all of his technothriller bonafides, Crichton was a pseudo-scientific Luddite. And the HBO "Westworld" is a further extension, like Jurassic World, where there's some more interesting stories to be had if the park is initially successful.
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Feb 25, 2017 09:45
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It's too bad Jurassic World didn't tell one of those more interesting stories.
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Feb 25, 2017 10:15
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veni veni veni posted:It's too bad Jurassic World didn't tell one of those more interesting stories. Listen, if everything worked then Buff Chris Pratt would be out of a job and then nobody would watch the movie.
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Feb 25, 2017 12:32
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They should've used Pratt as Johnny Utah in the Point Break remake. Also they should've made it good.
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Feb 25, 2017 12:58
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While we are making stupid suggestions, it would have been a way better movie if Chris Pratt had just gone full Andy and somehow bumbled his way into saving the park. Surely there are some crap films in production atm
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Feb 25, 2017 13:17
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Or go Predator and make boy scout traps for the super smart dino. "What the hell are you?" got any sevens fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Feb 25, 2017 |
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Feb 25, 2017 14:52
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke69bHVkHvE It even failed to live up to the gimmick of being a movie shot entirely in Disney theme parks because there are huge stretches of the movie that are shot on sets and green screens. Not that there wasn't some impressive stuff, like a scene at a crowded Disney resort theme park that looks like it was filmed with a crane shot despite a bunch of oblivious tourists splashing around around them. Or scene where two people meeting on the same ride with their cars going in opposite directions, which must have taken forever to get the timing down.
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Feb 25, 2017 14:56
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It was the first time I ever saw a turkey leg before and I was mad jelly
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21 Muns posted:It'd be a movie where the twist is that you just spent two hours watching the fictional equivalent of someone else's trip to disneytown. Sucker Punch 2: Jurassic World.
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Feb 25, 2017 16:03
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MrBling posted:Listen, if everything worked then Buff Chris Pratt would be out of a job God I loving wish, maybe then people could stop pretending Chris Pratt isn't completely replaceable in just about everything
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Feb 25, 2017 16:48
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Young Freud posted:JP is essentially Westworld except with robot cowboys, knights, and Romans, it's dinosaurs. For all of his technothriller bonafides, Crichton was a pseudo-scientific Luddite. The HBO Westworld takes a lot of it's ideas from the sequel film Futureworld, as well. Futureworld is also an example of a Jurassic Park-type film where everything works as intended.
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Feb 25, 2017 17:04
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Crichton reused the plot of Westworld so much that even Timeline was about a company trying to build a theme park and everything going wrong, only this time the gimmick was that they were using time travel to build a theme park in actual medieval times.
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Feb 25, 2017 17:11
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Guy Mann posted:Crichton reused the plot of Westworld so much that even Timeline was about a company trying to build a theme park and everything going wrong, only this time the gimmick was that they were using time travel to build a theme park in actual medieval times. That one seems like an insanely bad idea in the first place
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Feb 25, 2017 17:49
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I call it, Edge of Cliff World
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Feb 25, 2017 17:50
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I love Oncoming Train Park!
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Guy Mann posted:Crichton reused the plot of Westworld so much that even Timeline was about a company trying to build a theme park and everything going wrong, only this time the gimmick was that they were using time travel to build a theme park in actual medieval times. Does Leslie Nielsen play the company CEO?
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Improbable Lobster posted:I love Oncoming Train Park! Welcome... welcome to Plague Land
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Hat Thoughts posted:That one seems like an insanely bad idea in the first place If I recall this trash correctly, it is a parallel dimensional version of our own pst so it doesnt alter ours but does royally gently caress up theirs.
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Barudak posted:If I recall this trash correctly, it is a parallel dimensional version of our own pst so it doesnt alter ours but does royally gently caress up theirs. Except for the part at the end of the book where he forgets and they go and visit the grave of the guy who stays back in the past.
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Feb 25, 2017 18:26
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Barudak posted:If I recall this trash correctly, it is a parallel dimensional version of our own pst so it doesnt alter ours but does royally gently caress up theirs. There was a twist at the end when the guy they left behind to live in the parallel past left a message to them that they see in their own present. It's like The Late Philip J. Fry except there was no Fry Prime, it's all infinite loop of parallelism.
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Guy Mann posted:Crichton reused the plot of Westworld so much that even Timeline was about a company trying to build a theme park and everything going wrong, only this time the gimmick was that they were using time travel to build a theme park in actual medieval times. Yeah, I was thinking about that as well, but I forgot the particulars. I knee the company in Timeline was doing the time runs not for pure research. Barudak posted:If I recall this trash correctly, it is a parallel dimensional version of our own pst so it doesnt alter ours but does royally gently caress up theirs. That whole approach was better done in Bruce Sterling's and Rudy Rucker's "Mozart In Mirrorshades", where a resource extraction company is literally strip-mining the parallel pasts (which, theoretically, gives them unlimited resources), as well as William Gibson's "The Peripheral" where the future people are using a time-traveling communication technology into their alternate past to solve a labor shortage via remotes. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Feb 25, 2017 |
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:There was a twist at the end when the guy they left behind to live in the parallel past left a message to them that they see in their own present. It's like The Late Philip J. Fry except there was no Fry Prime, it's all infinite loop of parallelism. guess it turns out the park was an insanely bad idea...who couldve known
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Feb 25, 2017 18:33
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muscles like this! posted:Except for the part at the end of the book where he forgets and they go and visit the grave of the guy who stays back in the past. Yeah, because there was an Andre Marek from another dimension who came to ours 600 years ago, who was identical to ours. There's a part in Timeline which I always thought was hilariously stupid, which is when the CEO reveals they only know how to transmit people, they have no idea how people actually arrive on the other side; they are, in fact, counting on the other dimensions having figured that out for them, thus everyone in the story is dead right from the start 
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Feb 25, 2017 19:27
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Young Freud posted:Yeah, I was thinking about that as well, but I forgot the particulars. I knee the company in Timeline was doing the time runs not for pure research. Or the episode of Rick and Morty where Rick has a parallel universe for a car battery.
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Feb 25, 2017 19:36
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veni veni veni posted:Just a watched the girl on the train and I have no idea how that lifetime movie of the week scored Emily Blunt. i'm so mad i got roped into reading that book. the twist is so loving bad. Lemon posted:I was also fifteen when it came out and whilst I didn't care for the movie too much one way or the other, I thought this was loving awesome: i rewatched this poo poo on netflix too and was just pretty much waiting until the credits cuz back when this movie came out i had this poo poo on repeat. hiddenmovement posted:12 yo me had a massive crush on Lacey Chabert and that was the only reason I liked it graham for me (and most of the reason i rewatched it). Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Feb 25, 2017 |
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muscles like this! posted:Except for the part at the end of the book where he forgets and they go and visit the grave of the guy who stays back in the past. Also at the end of the book they straight up murder their CEO in cold blood by stranding him back in time in the middle of the Black Death. He never even really did anything particularly villainous aside from maybe being a little incompetent but gently caress you, Michael Crichton has authority issues so you deserve to die.
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Feb 25, 2017 20:36
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Guy Mann posted:Also at the end of the book they straight up murder their CEO in cold blood by stranding him back in time in the middle of the Black Death. He never even really did anything particularly villainous aside from maybe being a little incompetent but gently caress you, Michael Crichton has authority issues so you deserve to die.
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veni veni veni posted:Just a watched the girl on the train and I have no idea how that lifetime movie of the week scored Emily Blunt. I love how Emily Blunt has absolutely no reservations about starring in schlocky films. She was great in The Huntsman: Winter's War as well, and among her upcoming projects are My Little Pony: The Movie and Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes.
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Samuel Clemens posted:I love how Emily Blunt has absolutely no reservations about starring in schlocky films. She was great in The Huntsman: Winter's War as well, and among her upcoming projects are My Little Pony: The Movie and Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes.
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Young Freud posted:Yeah, I was thinking about that as well, but I forgot the particulars. I knee the company in Timeline was doing the time runs not for pure research. btw, The Peripheral would probably be the easiest to adapt of William Gibson's work, straight out. It's a lot less dense, more straightforward in its plot and the competing aims of the "good guys" and the "bad guys", and everything resolves in a way that makes coherent sense. Which is to say it's not top tier Gibson, but reading it the entire time, I imagined it making a pretty effective movie.
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Feb 25, 2017 22:14
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Casimir Radon posted:She's channeling Michael Caine quite successfully. God, I hope they are neighbours.
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Feb 25, 2017 23:12
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Grendels Dad posted:God, I hope they are neighbours. Does Caine still have the mansion Jaws 3 paid for?
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got any sevens posted:Does Caine still have the mansion Jaws 3 paid for? 
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Guy Mann posted:Crichton reused the plot of Westworld so much that even Timeline was about a company trying to build a theme park and everything going wrong, only this time the gimmick was that they were using time travel to build a theme park in actual medieval times. Was this the one where THEY FAX THEMSELVES TO THE PAST! because that's all I remember about that movie. What a dumb idea.
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Casimir Radon posted:Actually he decided to let everyone who went back die because saving them was too much work, and passive aggressively tried to sabotage the rescue operation. At least that's what happened in the book, I don't remember much of the movie at all. The CEO is really similar to what Hammond is like in the JP novel so there's Crichton recycling again. His explanations of how time travel works seem incredibly flawed, almost like they were intentionally written that way. Despite its flaws I like Timeline, seems like it was the last good book he wrote before he went insane and started denying climate change. I've heard Disclosure is pretty messed up too.
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achillesforever6 posted:I heard Pirate Latitudes was pretty decent and Spielberg wanted to adapt it, which I would allow since he's one of the few who could make Crichton's works great movies; Crichton was pretty much a hack in retrospect, though The Andromeda Strain is still a decent book.
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Maybe Crichton was a hack, but I had a good time reading Jurassic Park and Andromeda Strain. His other stuff may be samey to the point of comedy but those are a good read and considerably better than a lot of science fiction I could've read instead.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Not for two hours. Might as well just watch someone else's video of their trip to disneytown. Technically no dinosaurs break out in any Jurassic Park movies because they're not true dinosaurs due to the frog dna inserted into their code. 
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Casimir Radon posted:Mixing Ibn Fadlan and Beowulf was a pretty cool idea. The movie is a bit of a mess but I still like it. The 13th Warrior was really underrated I thought. Never have read the book though.
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