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Jurassic World Dominion
Mar. 16th, 2023 07:47 amOrion and I watched this last night. I had heard that it was bad. It is indeed very, very bad. However, it actually turns into a much better movie halfway through, for a value of better which is basically that the second half of the movie is one long sequence of people getting chased by dinosaurs through pretty scenery, which is what we all want from a Jurassic Park movie. There are some really nice dinosaur-chase action sequences and some pretty dinosaurs and also some epically stupid plot, but the first half of the movie has the epic stupid but very little of the other two aspects.
Also:
a) I was unprepared for my nostalgia feelings seeing the original trio back together.
b) This movie is actually GREAT original-trio OT3 shipping fodder. The movie clearly thinks it's shipping Ellie and Dr. Sam Neill (sorry, I can't remember his actual name and two hours of movie wasn't helpful at making it stick), but there is at least one nice shippy scene for every individual sub-combo of the three of them.
There is a lot of competition for the stupidest thing that happens in this movie, but one of the main contenders is a scene of such epic, hilarious lack of plausibility that I of course immediately had to go on Youtube and see if anyone had posted it there, which fortunately someone had.
( Embedded with spoilery context; also my second contender for dumbest plot development is described with some other spoilers )
This was incredibly dumb, probably not worth seeing in the theater, but absolutely worth watching with popcorn and a laptop to occupy me whenever the dialogue grew too idiotic to bear and no dinosaurs were available to chase anyone.
Also:
a) I was unprepared for my nostalgia feelings seeing the original trio back together.
b) This movie is actually GREAT original-trio OT3 shipping fodder. The movie clearly thinks it's shipping Ellie and Dr. Sam Neill (sorry, I can't remember his actual name and two hours of movie wasn't helpful at making it stick), but there is at least one nice shippy scene for every individual sub-combo of the three of them.
There is a lot of competition for the stupidest thing that happens in this movie, but one of the main contenders is a scene of such epic, hilarious lack of plausibility that I of course immediately had to go on Youtube and see if anyone had posted it there, which fortunately someone had.
( Embedded with spoilery context; also my second contender for dumbest plot development is described with some other spoilers )
This was incredibly dumb, probably not worth seeing in the theater, but absolutely worth watching with popcorn and a laptop to occupy me whenever the dialogue grew too idiotic to bear and no dinosaurs were available to chase anyone.