So just watched the new Jurassic World:Dominion movie. Haven’t followed all of the others very close, so maybe I missed something.
When the hero’s first meet Tim Cook Dodgson, he is nearly incoherent and asking Ramsey if he has any of his “bars” to eat. For the rest of the movie, this never seems to come back up at all, he is always coherent and nothing is mentioned about any bars (although he is eating something in one other scene). Is this a call back to another movie? Another plot line that was poorly cut? It seemed to be quite a jarring example of Checkov’s gun not paying off.
I took it as a bit of character building to show he was a [not Musk / Gates / Jobs / Zuckerberg / etc] stereotypical jillionaire who marched to his own slightly odd monomaniacal beat, which you would either interpret as a sign of genius or mental dysfunction, depending on how many of his shares you held.
Like you, I was waiting for the bars to reappear, and half expected them to be made of locust meal [with hidden genetic consequences] as a plot twist.
As an aside, the crazy-rich entrepreneur with no moral compass seems to have been picked up a bit in the past decade as the evil lead in movies. It makes a change from drug czars, rogue actors from an enemy state or heads of global crime syndicates.
Thank you for that. Unless you are a fan of CGI dinosaurs you can definitely miss the movie. The Guardian gave it one star out of five; it might as well have been one star out of all the heavens.
Just saw the movie yesterday, and…I am not a fan of it. It went way too heavy on the whole “dinosaurs rawrr rawrr rawrr” thing and really wore me out; it was positively tiresome to see humans getting pursued by dinos for the 10th time.
The previous Jurassic Park films always had some fun, not-too-serious vibe to them which made them entertaining. This film had none of that; it was just heavy, serious, repetitive, ear-splitting and tiresome.
Huh. I see the reviews are mostly terrible, so I wasn’t expecting much. I actually loved it. I’m a huge fan of the original JP, and having the original three (Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, and Ian Malcolm) back was a big draw for me. I’m not so much into Crisp Rat and his waving-at-dinos thing, but having the Big Three back and interacting with each other made the movie for me. Plot-wise, it reminded me a lot of the original (there was a lot of being chased around by dinos in that one too).
It absolutely worked for me, and I’ll definitely watch it again (though maybe not till it’s on streaming).
I couldn’t stop thinking of Dodgson as Tim Cook, though. The resemblance was uncanny.
I didn’t look at the reviews, the wife just thought it would be a fun time with the kids. It wasn’t completely terrible, the graphics were pretty good, and the 1000s of chase sequences were not totally bad. The plots, on the other hand, were kinda all over the place, like to the point of being distracting.
I kinda liked the ending, but I don’t think I took the message from it that the filmmakers meant. I pretty much was like, “oh hey, they just introduced another untested scientific advance that could lead to ecological disaster upon the world. Six movies and humanity has learned nothing.” Seemed apropos.
Well, I quite enjoyed it. I went in with low expectations, so that was pleasant surprise. Sure, the science was awful, and the plot was ridiculous, and I might have been laughing at things they hadn’t intended as jokes, but it was fun.
I was disappointed that they didn’t have Maisie call Pratt ‘Uncle Owen.’ Especially at the big round habitat thingy reunion, that would have been hilarious.
Going in I expected to hate it. I hated Jurassic World and the other Jurassic World but I love Dinosaurs so I gave it a shot and it was really not bad. I really enjoyed the snippets of people trying to live alongside dinosaurs and the Island adventure was not bad either. t was also fun to see both casts (although it did make the movie a little over stuffed) so for a movie I expected to be a 2 out of 10 being a 6.5 is a win in my book.