Letterboxd — Your life in film

Better than the last one with the cloning twist (although the clone teenager is still annoying as hell). But here’s the thing, I’m going to see a Jurassic movie for DINOSAURS. Personally, I felt this was bland and replaced a lot of dinos with a prehistoric locust storyline. If I wanted locusts, I’d go see The Mummy, I want DINOSAURS.

I didn’t expect this close of a remake of the original and I definitely didn’t expect the turn this took in the third act. The dialogue isn’t great either, but then again, who’s seeing Top Gun for the script. But this movie delivers with the flight sequences and is just an incredibly fun experience all-around. It’s everything you love from an 80’s action nostalgia flick mixed with the best modern-day practical effects and I can’t wait to see it again in imax.

I’m sure someone who loves this will tell me how the ending is brilliant and how I “jUsT dOnT gEt It”. All I have to say to them is FUCK OFFFFF.

It’s not enough to just bring in a good Director, you actually have to let that Director do what he’s known for as well, aka let him cook. In this case, it’s cool they brought in Sam Raimi, but what’s the point if you’re going to overly rein him in and sanitize his product. The best parts of this are the pure fun Sam Raimi shit, the worst parts are the overexposition of broader MCU implications. Just creates an overall “UGH” feeling leaving the theater.

60

This dumb movie really used an example of a guy leading the process of laying off 200 workers as a mcguffin to show how great he was. This movie can fuck right off.

Sad to say this one was just kinda boring. It feels like they dumbed down a lot of the jokes from the first one to make it more kid-friendly which is fine considering who this is for, it just did nothing for me.

There’s no other way to put this. Some might call it dreadful, some might call it horrible, I prefer to call this atrocious.

It’s not for everyone but I had an absolute blast watching this movie. There’s a lot of love-it-or-hate-it, as is the case with most Michael Bay movies but I pretty much loved every choice made here. An eminently rewatchable basic cable movie has been born.

With an asterisk since I was asleep or fighting sleep for a solid 30-45 minutes of a 10:15 showing. What I did see was unique but honestly overwhelming and I’ve been informed it’s way better on a second viewing. I’ll set aside the qualms I have about movies that “need to be seen multiple times to be understood/enjoyed”.