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Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
A good film works within the logical premises that it sets up in the film. Both the original book and the film that was based on it spend a lot of time explaining just how they did it. Now obviously this is all crap because if it wasn't we would have dinosaurs running around in real life. But it sells it well. It makes sense. Find dna inside mosquitoes that were preserved by sap, fill in the gaps with frog dna and we get dinosaurs. But oh no, unexpected consequences with frogs being able to change gender, now we have dino babies! Yes if you sit back and think about it, it falls apart, but it works within the context of the movie. A dinosaur knowing about tracking devices, heat senses and being able to communicate with other dinosaurs after it was established in the film that it was brought up in isolation and didn't really know how to handle anything outside its pen is not set up and explained by the film. And that is what makes it dumb. Entertaining as fuck. But incredibly dumb. Transformers 2 dumb. -
Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
Any creature alive today has millions of years of genetic intuition. That doesn't mean that if you isolate a particular animal from birth and deny them the opportunity to socialise that they are magically going to be able to communicate years down the track in any meaningful way. Whether that is cat, mouse, elephant, panda, human or presumably anything created in a lab either. But I see no reason to continue this argument as I feel I have made my point as clearly as I can. Apparently we are just never gonna agree on this! -
Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
We know it was kept in complete isolation with one exception, which it ate. That it would recognise a raptor as its own kin and talk to them turning them against the humans is completely unrealistic in the universe that it has created for itself. -
Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
You could literally argue that every movie ever made is a perfect 10/10 in its script because it is written that way. Just because something is written doesn't mean it makes sense. Thats ridiculous. The I-Rex was a completely different species that had some raptor dna thrown in. The I-Rex may as well had started speaking in cuttlefish. It has never talked raptor before, how could it possibly know that the raptors were cousins? Why would it communicate with them vs just killing them for sport like everything else it has come across so far in this movie. It makes no sense and is indicative of the script choices that held this movie back from being a truly great movie that could stand with the best popcorn movies ever made. And I'm sure if the I-Rex could suddenly use the Force you can accept that too. Must be a wonderful thing being able to turn off that brain -
Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
Han Solo changed a great deal. It's half the reason why people were so pissed when George changed it to Greedo shooting first. -
Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
Imagine you had been kept in isolation since birth and you finally broke free yesterday. What chances do feel you have in being able to communicate on any real level with other humans? -
Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
About right. -
Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
I'm just going to list a few of my thoughts about why this movie was so dumb before this movie vanishes from my mind entirely. The whole I-Rex escape scene is just flat out silly. I can get behind that its an intelligent animal but this is ridiculous. How does an animal know that there are heat senses monitoring it and that it can hide from them with its abilities and set up an elaborate escape plan of luring them into the cage and then escaping free when they run to escape. Its ridiculous. As is knowing that it has a tracking bug inside it. Firstly, I highly doubt that unlike what is stated in the film that it remembers where it was put in. You are not putting a tracking bug in a fucking I-Rex unless it was under heavy sedation. Even if it somehow does remember where it was put in.....so what? How in the hell is an animal meant to know that it can be tracked by what was put inside it? As is the I-Rex talking to the raptors and convincing them to turn on the humans. We have seen so far that it is a non stop killing machine, and now we are somehow meant to believe that despite looking completely different to the raptors, it knows that it can talk to them in a language that it apparently learnt in complete isolation away from all other animals??? WTF!?! And that really is just the tip of the iceberg. Christ this movie was dumb! -
Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
To be fair this is my 2nd favourite JP movie. But JP2 and 3 were such shitturds thats not much of an achievement. -
Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
My fav part was when the Indominous Rex finally died and everyone breathed a sigh of relief despite there being a fucking T-Rex, not to mention a velociraptor and a shit load of pterodactyls still on the lose.- 570 replies
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Jurassic World (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to K1stpierre's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
Is this the stupidest film I have seen in cinemas? No, I did see Transformers 2 after all. But its certainly up there. Still, reasonably entertaining as far as a monster film goes. -
Diversity and Gender Representation in Movies
Phil in the Blank replied to PDC1987's topic in The Speakeasy
cept those figures were given by Infinity Ward before a COD was released that allowed you to play as a female. You might have the voice of the general public when it comes to film, but clearly you suck at revognising trends in females playing games. -
Diversity and Gender Representation in Movies
Phil in the Blank replied to PDC1987's topic in The Speakeasy
whats that got to do with anything? -
Diversity and Gender Representation in Movies
Phil in the Blank replied to PDC1987's topic in The Speakeasy
In other Video Game News, I really liked what Nintendo did with Splatoon in terms of gender. It's subtle, but also very important IMO. Do you see it? -
Diversity and Gender Representation in Movies
Phil in the Blank replied to PDC1987's topic in The Speakeasy
Even in COD 24% of all players are women according to Infinity Ward. I'm guessing it would be somewhat higher for a game like FIFA. Hardly a rare breed. http://www.lazygamer.net/24/a-quarter-of-all-call-of-duty-gamers-are-female/ -
Jessie, the man with the pulse of the general audience.
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Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking when I started this thread. Was 2012 me really expecting support for Unbreakable > TDK?
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Cept you gotta be funny For those who don't know, Nick Mundy (aka the fat guy) has had a lifelong crush on the Rock and through the screen junkies show (the guys who do Honest Trailers) was able to meet The Rock and do some skits with him to the point and they apparently became friends. So it was nice that The Rock could do this for him.
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Phil in the Blank replied to Plain Old Tele's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
Greatest Action movie ever. -
Is the female demo stronger than the male one?
Phil in the Blank replied to Guy Cohen's topic in The Speakeasy
Less movies taeget the female demographic hence there is less fatigue at the Box Office for more female oriented affair which leads to good returns at the BO for what films there are. Pretty simple really -
Diversity and Gender Representation in Movies
Phil in the Blank replied to PDC1987's topic in The Speakeasy
Why do you think its rare? -
Diversity and Gender Representation in Movies
Phil in the Blank replied to PDC1987's topic in The Speakeasy
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Diversity and Gender Representation in Movies
Phil in the Blank replied to PDC1987's topic in The Speakeasy
Well feminism at its core to me is about having equal opportunities and rights across the genders. I mean, who could be against that? And yeah, their are some crazy feminists out there that are quite literally insane in my opinion. For example this one blogger called Radical Wind thinks that any guy who has ever sticked his penis into a woman's vagina, no matter how much she said she wanted it at the time, is a rapist. https://witchwind.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/piv-is-always-rape-ok/ Clearly insane, I just dismiss those. The feminists that annoy me the most are the ones whom that rather have a debate about a particular topic they simply automatically call the other side misogynist. I see this all the time in arguments between say, sex positive and sex negative feminists. You think women should star in porn? How exploitive are you you misogynist! Oh you don't think women should have a choice as to what they do with their bodies? How misogynist! Why can't we all just get along? -
Diversity and Gender Representation in Movies
Phil in the Blank replied to PDC1987's topic in The Speakeasy
Don't be silly! This western male's erection shall be around for quite some time yet