Doesn’t seem to be available anywhere.
We’ve been fans of the Jurassic Park franchise from the beginning. (I’m one of the few people who thinks that JP2 The Lost World is a lot more fun and holds up better on repeated viewing than the original. JP3 isn’t too good but does have its moments.) Subsequent efforts have varied. The next-to-last one, Jurassic World: Dominion, was totally forgettable. Still, the franchise does have its thrills, but after viewing Jurassic World: Rebirth, I gotta say “Please put this tired franchise to rest, at least for a while.”
Can’t blame the cast. They’re both stellar and solid and give it all they’ve got, and the CGI is great. The story takes a while to get going, but that said, once it kicks into gear, it’s a good thrill ride with lots of scary monsters. And I guess that’s the main attraction anyway. It just takes too long to catch fire and doesn’t really improve on anything we haven’t seen before.
Unlike JP1 and JP2, we’ll never go back to this one again. I spent about half my viewing time on my iPhone clipping coupons for BJ’s Wholesale Club while occasionally glancing at the screen when the monsters showed up.
Worth a watch if you’ve faithfully followed the franchise over the years, but nothing memorable.
We watched this last night and I couldn’t agree more. The script (by like the biggest box office total writer in history) is just so lazy and predictable. Before anybody even died, I predicted who would become Dino Chow in exact order. They might as well have been wearing red shirts.
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A man and his son show up at a rave in the Moroccan desert. They’re searching for the man’s daughter, whom they haven’t seen in five months. While circulating flyers at the rave, they encounter a group of five ravers who says the daughter might be going to a different rave that they’re planning to attend. The man and his son want to follow this group to the other rave, but then the military shows up and tries to evacuate the area because a war has broken out. The man, his son, and the five ravers take off across the desert in three vehicles to avoid the military. The terrain is difficult, and they encounter many obstacles along the way. The man and his son are socially very different from the ravers, but they form bonds in spite of this. Things start to go terribly wrong partway through the trip, and by the end, they were really going wrong.
I found most of this movie compelling, and at times it was fascinating. But by the end of the film, the problems the group were encountering felt excessive to me. It’s not that anything that happened was impossible, but it just felt like the filmmakers were piling it on to the point of absurdity.
I recommend this film with reservations. I liked most of it, but for the reasons I’ve already given, I don’t think it merits the raves the critics have given it (no pun intended).
Not a movie, but I picked up the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6, which I found used. I hadn’t seen a lot of these cartoons before. Many are from the 1930s and ephemera from the late 1960s. The highlight was the Robert Clampett cartoon Horton Hatches the Egg, the very first cartoon adaptation of a Dr. Seuss book, made in 1942 – 24 years before Chuck Jones would direct How the Grinch stole Christmas and 28 before the cartoon Horton Hears a Who (also directed by Chuck Jones, with Ben Washam). The books for all of these came out earlier, of course.
I hadn’t seen the cartoon in eons, but remembered it pretty well. Mel Blanc, uncharacteristically, didn’t do most of the voices. Kent Rogers (who?) voiced Horton. He’d done some voice work for Warner Brother cartoons. He died two years after doing this one, arguably his biggest role. A little more surprising is that Maisey the mother bird wasn’t voiced by June Foray, but by Sara Berner, who, in addition to cartoons, was a sometime guest actor on Jack Benny’s show, and had a role in Rear Window.
There are a couple of Clampettian touches, like the gag about Maisey’s “bags under her eyes”, and the Peter Lorre fish that, upon seeing Horton nurturing the egg on board the ship, says “Now I’ve seen everything!” and then shoots himself, and the “Hut sut” song, but otherwise it follows the book pretty closely.
A lot of the older cartoons display some surprising casual racism, but, as the disclaimer at the start of the show says, times have changed, and they wanted to present the cartoons with no censorship.
In Bruges.
Pitch black comedy/action.
I don’t know how I managed not to get this film spoiled, but I went in completely blind.
It was, really, phenomenal. Collin Farrell gave an outstanding performance as a right asshole struggling with guilt over a horrifying misdeed. The storytelling was outstanding. It was very funny but it was also thematically complex and thought-provoking. And heartbreaking.
A+
My son and I like to quote this one at appropriate moments (“A bottle!”), and we even tried to plan a trip to Bruges a few years back so we could see the sites/sights. I’m not good at having personal film rankings (like top 5 or top 10), but this is a film I love, and it would be on whatever list for me.
It’s on my 10 out of 10 list.
It is probably in my top 5 movies of all time. Love In Bruges. It should have swept the Oscars.
I had never fully realized that the tower money collector rejects Gleeson’s change…and this is why he has change near the end to drop off the tower before he falls.
Just a little detail.
Oh, that’s a nice observation.
For the record, Bruges is a very cute town, I highly recommend a visit. They definitely filmed on location in several places that you can recognize.
Good on them. I checked out one that was supposed to be too racist- Bugs vs a black hunter- more or less a Elmer Fudd and very stereotyped- then I realized the black guy was a caricature just like Elmer Fudd. I cant defend it, but seeing as it treated the black guy more or less are bad as they treat poor Elmer, not as bad as they said. Most of those are on YouTube, but some are really bad.
Based on the film, it actually seems like a great place to visit. Are there really so few people there? That’s the selling point for me. To have some great history but not too much tourism is very appealing.
It looks to be full of interesting nooks and crannies. 
I suppose you mean alcoves? Lol
Yes, that’s the word - alcoves!
It is touristy—we stopped there on a cruise ship. But it didn’t feel overrun with tourists, and it’s fascinating and beautiful (a step up from “cute”) and I’d go back in a heartbeat.
I have a memory of reading they have beer that runs through the pipes, too. No?
Ah, good one! Seen it many times (brilliant film) and never clocked that. Yay for the jobsworth on the door!
Just a spoiler, actually…