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Quality flick. Obviously nothing will compare to the original (still one of my all time favorite movies) but I would rank it as second. Ranks would go: 1, 5, 4, 3, 2 for me. Very much a flip of some of the other movies where you’re cheering for the dinosaurs. One of those old tropes where “man is worse than man-eating dinosaurs” but I think they played it really well.

Obviously had some clear cut flaws, but glad I went to it. Had a good time. Some really good throwbacks to the original movie as well.
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We went to it Friday Night. I was entertained but really wish I didn't try to figure out certain things that didn't make sense. The 12-year-old thought it was silly. "The girl screamed too much and why did she go to bed when she's being chased by dinosaurs." I love over-the-top cheesy special effects (I like the scene in the one Die hard move where Bruce Willis takes out a helicopter with a car). Therefore, I enjoyed the scene where the good dinosaur and the bad dinosaur are fighting on the roof, they crash through the roof, the bad dinosaur is impaled on the horns of the dinosaur fossil and the good dinosaur doesn't even lose her balance while landing on the impaled bad dinosaur.
 
This was my second favorite, but I agree. The new trilogy (because it’s blatantly obvious there will be another one) isn’t going to win awards or anything, but so far it’s been a fun experience I don’t regret going to for either one of them.
Is there a 100% or 110% chance that the good dinosaur dies in the next movie and Chris Pratt befriends her baby dinosaurs?

I guess the other choice could be that she becomes queen of the dinosaurs and negotiates a well-intentioned but ill-fated peace treaty with the humans that is ultimately broken by a military dinosaur and a greedy human businessman.

I guess I better reiterate that I did enjoy the movie in spite of its flaws.
 
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Sort of spoiler alert!

We went to it Friday Night. I was entertained but really wish I didn't try to figure out certain things that didn't make sense. The 12-year-old thought it was silly. "The girl screamed too much and why did she go to bed when she's being chased by dinosaurs." I love over-the-top cheesy special effects (I like the scene in the one Die hard move where Bruce Willis takes out a helicopter with a car). Therefore, I enjoyed the scene where the good dinosaur and the bad dinosaur are fighting on the roof, they crash through the roof, the bad dinosaur is impaled on the horns of the dinosaur fossil and the good dinosaur doesn't even lose her balance while landing on the impaled bad dinosaur.

Children screaming is a staple of the Jurassic Park franchise.
 
Postdoc at Virginia has opened up today. Project transcribing Dolley Madison letters.
It's not really my area, but it's available. I'll send them something and see what happens.

Since I focus on later stuff, not much is likely to happen, but it's worth a few moments of typing, I suppose.
That's got to be a challenging job. Some of those artificial ingredients have really confusing names.
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First call about the project I am being transitioned off of and I am already being referred to as "that other consultant" while I am literally there.

This will be an invigorating few weeks
 
Oh, Samuel L. Jackson, those SLJs at Proquest just refused my dissertation because there were commas between the words in my official major.

WTF do these SLJs think they are? Just sign off on it and call it good, morons.

And there's a extra blank line at the top of my bibliography pages before the entries begin. Who the hell cares about any of that?
 
Oh, Samuel L. Jackson, those SLJs at Proquest just refused my dissertation because there were commas between the words in my official major.

WTF do these SLJs think they are? Just sign off on it and call it good, morons.

And there's a extra blank line at the top of my bibliography pages before the entries begin. Who the hell cares about any of that?
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Oh, Samuel L. Jackson, those SLJs at Proquest just refused my dissertation because there were commas between the words in my official major.

WTF do these SLJs think they are? Just sign off on it and call it good, morons.

And there's a extra blank line at the top of my bibliography pages before the entries begin. Who the hell cares about any of that?
So does this mean that you're not an official doctor yet and that I should quit PM'ing you about that rash on my skin?
 
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