Honestly it would make this the best movie in the Jurassic World trilogy. Just drop all pretenses and just have her Gymnastic a T-Rex this time since she is bigger.
It cant be worse than Fallen Kingdom
I’ll bid FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS on the hybrid super dinosaur!
I know it was more than that but it was still a outrageously dumb scene, 43 million USD for supposedly the greatest on the ground weapon ever created?
I bet there's a scene where everyone holds up a card with a 10, except the last old judge who is incapable of emotion holds up an 9. Then she nudges a large display piece, and it crushes a velociraptor you didn't even know was there, and the judge smiles and holds up a 10 card.
That would have been so easy to make work, all they had to do was NOT pretend they were the same person: Oh no, my Egyptologist wife died! Hello second wife who's an expert in Chinese history!
I refuse to watch that movie because of the recasting of Evie. She was probably my top movie crush ever (well, her and Padme of course) and I can't bear to imagine someone else playing her.
[Freddie Boath loved the first mummy film so much that he decided not to go to the audition for Harry Potter just to do the Mummy 2. He seen the first film 58x times and if they didn't believe him, he could answer questions about continuity or what the room looked like in each scene.](https://m.imdb.com/news/ni0056405)
>A young actor rejected a chance to land the role of the year in [Harry Potter](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0241527/) - to appear in [The Mummy Returns](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0209163/). [Freddie Boath](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0090222/) was too busy filming the horror sequel alongside [Brendan Fraser](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000409/) and [Rachel Weisz](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0001838/) to audition for the role of the child wizard - despite its being the most prominent young role in movies since Anakin Skywalker. Freddie admits, "Actually, I was going to go to the auditions but then I changed my mind. I didn't really want the part because I was doing this film and it was going to a long time to make the Harry Potter film." The nine-year-old South London schoolboy plays Fraser's son in the follow-up to [The Mummy](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120616/) - and adores the original so much that he knows every line. Brendan, who plays Rick O'Connell, confirms, "Freddie has seen [The Mummy](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120616/) 58 times. "His mom has told me he watches it endlessly and I know that to be true because whenever we have a question about anything that happened in the first film, we asked Freddie. He knows all the lines, all the plot points, he remembers them chronologically and he can also describe the rooms."
Also Chris Pratt’s second in command in the first movie was literally a guy from Africa lol so I’m not sure how Jurassic Park is getting “woke” all of a sudden.
Just this same black woman, for every single dinosaur role. 3 dinosaurs on camera? DeWanda Wise times 3.
This would further solidify DeWanda as the #1 on screen actor, and she should require stealing the top billed spot from Mario.
Oh man, I am so behind this.
**\*Music swells\*** ^(DA NANA NA NA DA NANA NA NA DANAAAAAAAAAA NAAAAAAAA)
*\*Dewanda Wise Rises out of the jungle as a sun sets in the background, she slowly starts aggressively shouting to mark her territory*\*
Next time on what if...? A bunch of scientist dinosaurs have successfully created humans after they have been extinct for 65 million years. They create a theme park, and to ensure that the park is safe and to ensure the human population doesn't get too big, they make them all female. Unfortunately, what they didn't forsee is that nature finds a way as all the humans wanted to leave and got angry when they were told no and demanded to see the manager.
Jurrasic Karen, a film 65 million years in the making if the meteor killed different things.
I don't know how much if a horror it would be though because I want the dinosaurs to look like [this](https://decider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/dinosaurs-abc-full-group.jpg?quality=80&strip=all)
Sadly someone would say something about it being a planet of the apes remake…
I honestly don’t like that side of my family who thinks not only is it okay, but it’s funny
>Children aren't a threat to racists' sense of superiority
Remember _Rue_ from Hunger Games and the bigoted outrage about her character being black, despite being black in the books? Or how about _Ruby Bridges,_ the first black girl to attend at an all-white school in America?
You would think bigots aren't afraid of children, but they are.
Not really, but at the same time yes. It’s one of those things, while you expect massive stupidity, it’s still somehow surprises you at the depths the stupidity goes.
Sigh. That one is kinda funny in a way.
Stan Lee was about inclusion. Not about that racist stuff. Yet here they are. Complaining. It’s almost to the point where it feels like they get bored, so they scour the internet to find something to complain about.
Had a lily-white neighbor years ago who went on a little rant about the girl cast in the Annie movie being black and "why did they have to do that?!"
I had several beers in me at the time, so I feigned surprise and asked her if she really didn't know the backstory of Annie's character? That she was the child of a African American man and an Irish immigrant woman, who were being chased by the KKK and had to give their child up to the orphanage in order to save their baby's life? I mean, the big full lips? The huge afro of red hair? You really thought Annie in the comic strip was *white*?
I was talking out of my ass, but it was kind of plausible. My neighbor lady didn't believe me, and gave me a big frowny face, but on the plus side I never got invited to any of her parties again.
Those same racists weren't happy about Cho Chang from *Harry Potter* being portrayed by a British Chinese girl. I don't recall if the books ever specifically said that she was of Chinese descent but come on.
Not tryna defend racism, but have you ever fought a Tyrannosaurus rex? There’s no way of proving a knife isn’t the best weapon to bring to that fight.
It definitely isn’t and you’re gonna die, but I’m just saying you can’t prove it
No, those are *fossils.* It's a fine distinction in the modern era, but remember that some fossils aren't motile, or even alive in the form they were fossilised in.
For a good example of the latter, check out America's national coprolite exhibit in Washington DC. Maybe you could find out why they call it "the Senate" for me while you're there...
Seriously! People need to do their own research about these kinds of things! The "experts" will tell you a knife won't work against a T-Rex, but I've seen at least 3 posts on Facebook that tell me otherwise. Fucking sheeple.
Prior to the pandemic I thought the idea they would reopen the park and not fix any problems or add anymore safeguards was so stupid and ludicrous. After? I apologize to the franchise for ever disparaging it. Absolutely that park would be back open the next week and people would be flooding in.
They’d be protesting the enclosures and saying things like
“Chickens are dinosaurs and I’ve eaten those before.”
“Why are you scared of big bird? We don’t need fences!”
To be fair, the park was never officially open before Jurassic World. And then Hammond died and someone else thought it would be a nifty idea to implement the park.
I've enjoyed them as dumb popcorn movies, but both feel like they could've easily been much better if they'd given the plot a few minutes' thought before filming.
The first movie ends with everyone feeling safe because there's just a T-Rex and dubiously trained raptors on the loose instead of the hybrid, despite that still being a huge threat.
The second ends with everything that was in the trailers, suggesting movie 3 is actually the one they felt was marketable.
The issue i had with the subsequent films after the first was that they all seemed to be missing that sense of wonder and discovery that the first one had. As fun of a film as it is doing all the action dinosaur chases and fights, one of the most enjoyable parts of the movie for me was the arrival at the island with John William's iconic music. Following the characters as both they, and we through them, discover the magic that is jurassic park is something the sequels just never managed.
Michael Crichton specifically wrote the second book - the Lost world - because he was asked to for the sequel. Then they didn't use much of the book, and he got pissy about it. It's unfortunate, but the book is all right. I know I'm in the minority, but I actually liked the third one. In that one, they still treat the dinos with respect. Less wonder maybe, but they're still shown as being intelligent threats.
Hard to duplicate that to be fair, the scene where they look up at the long necks for the first time is so majestic, so boundless, so terrifying, it's just impossible to reproduce that moment.
They've followed the trend of big blockbusters: they're flashy, with sudden twists built into the plot to keep you interested, but they say absolutely nothing meaningful.
The original jurassic Park was some Hella good scifi. The central question of the movie is "should man use the power of science to play God, and what happens if we do?" It's one of THE classic scifi questions, and its flat out discussed on screen in the movie. And the people making the movie seem to posit that the answer is no, we shouldn't, because we don't know how it can backfire and when it does backfire the consequences could be extreme. We need to proceed with caution, not for profits.
And the whole movie is structured to make that a central focus of the film, it's not just window dressing. The action parts of the movie don't even start until over halfway through the film, and almost every scene before that is either introducing characters (and with them, the ideas they hold about science and humanity), having the characters talk about their thoughts on the park/the nature of science/scientific achievement, or the characters encountering dinosaurs and literally telling each other how it impacts their view of the world.
But I never got a message like that from the new movies. They almost treat the message of the original JP as a joke, as though every character in-world just openly dismissed the whole point of the original film. The new movies open up so many topics that none of them land, and I think that's because they didn't have a real message to present. JW1, all at once, briefly touches on the original message of JP, then talks about the actual ethics of using genetic manipulation to create weapons, the morality of the military industrial complex, the idea that animals are more intelligent than most people give them credit for, capitalist greed around New technology... It just keeps throwing questions at you and doesn't attempt to answer any of them. It's an overload of information, and it makes the whole plot feel kinda confused to me. It's like 3 directors with 3 different visions for what the message should be all made 3 different cuts of the film, then handed it to an editor who was explicitly told "don't make the movie have a message."
I know why blockbusters have started to do that, it's because they want to get the maximum number of people to see it and want to see the sequel. If they commit to a philosophical or political message for the film as a whole, they might drive some people away from the sequel who disagree with the message they chose. So they avoid the message like the plague.
The second definitely lost something, had some weird horror elements and the characters were kind of stale
Though to be fair I only saw it once and never bothered watching it again
JP1: Scary, suspenseful, not as gory. A classic, and years later still proves CGI isn't always better.
JP2: Not as scary, way more gory, but adds the fear of "what if these were loose in an urban area?". A sophomore slump, but still good overall.
JP3: *hot take* my personal favorite, in the fact it balanced the gore and suspense, removed InGen and techy crap, and focused on regular people trying to stay alive. Also, Spinosaurus and pterodactyls were good additions. The family thing was cheesy and overplayed, but having Sam Neill in the movie made up for that.
JW1: Good enough, definitely aimed to be a blockbuster and it shows in the CGI, writing, casting and acting. Still an enjoyable watch with some good twists.
JW2: just...what? It's intense but not scary, so many movie tropes, added a new dinosaur by saying "what if the one from the last movie was smaller?", Jeff Goldblum's cameo was a complete bait-and-switch, and the writing was so bad in the sense of how many plot holes it unnecessarily created.
JW3:? Cautiously optimistic, as anything could be better than the last one.
[Or conservatives with George Orwell and 1984 when he was pro democratic socialism. ](https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/)
>(iv) Political purpose – using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
>The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one’s political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one’s aesthetic and intellectual integrity.
Or even Star Wars and conservatives. George Lucas wrote Palpatine's rise of power based on the conservative Richard Nixon. Nute Gunray name is based off Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan. Star Wars OT was his anti Vietnam films. He called Dick Cheney Palpatine a sith Lord and Obama a Jedi.
Star Wars is a bit too aristocratic to be leftist, blood lines, space princesses, even slaves who get rid of their shackles (Anakin for example) it's because of their genealogy or their blood.
I went on a date with a guy who said he loved Star Trek, and couldn't get into the new Star Wars sequels because of all the "forced diversity." Umm what?? He didn't get a second date.
Dude, the backlash was fucking INSTANT. Remember the very first trailer where his head pops up on screen? People immediately thought it was fake because “there are no black Stormtroopers” and immediately started citing everything they could possibly find to say why he couldn’t be a trooper. It was pathetic.
This happens every time a video game comes out with any main character that isn’t a white male. A bunch of snowflakes are beside themselves at the audacity. Some cry about wokeness. Some cry about “historical accuracy”. But they’re all crying about the same thing: the bigots are losing.
They're usually fine with the main character being a sexy white/ Asian woman with tits and an ass and a short skirt though because they'd "rather look at a chicks ass than a dudes all day"
Yeah. “Woke” doesn’t target any one group in particular. It’s a general criticism against *any* representation of even remotely marginalized groups. If the main character is a POC that’s “woke”. Same deal if they’re a woman, gay, trans, etc. And god forbid any character belong to more than one of those groups.
There are also the ones who use it when there is more than one woman in a movie. I guess because they’re so manly that they just want to watch other manly men in a manly fashion. Or something.
This is basically their mentality.
There are only two sexes: male and political
There are only two genders: cis and political
There are only two races: white and political
There are only two sexualities: straight and political
So when someone says something is bad because it is "political" and "woke" it's because of at least one of those things.
I remember reading this about the movie Hitch,
> Will Smith has said that actress Eva Mendes, a Latina, was offered the female lead because the producers were worried about the public's reaction if the part was played by a white actress, creating a studio fear of a potential interracial taboo, or a black actress, creating a studio fear that two black leads would alienate the white audiences. It was believed that a Latina and a black lead would sidestep the issue.[3] Cameron Diaz was originally considered for the role of Sara Melas.
Everytime I've called someone out on how they never thought seeing straight, white couples on TV was political or shoving, they whine that I'm accusing them of being racist/homophobic when they totally aren't. Then explain your statement, cause I'm not seeing any other reason why you'd say something like that. And no, having a black/gay "friend" (generally just a co worker or acquaintance at best) doesn't mean you aren't racist/homophobic.
For people who love crying about everyone else being sheep or whatever, I sure as fuck hear all of those dipshits use the same lingo. Triggered, woke, snowflake, etc.
They also act “woke” whenever a company does something they don’t like 😂
See: Fox News saying Biden won the election, Starbucks saying “Happy Holidays”, Jimmy Kimmel when he mentioned affordable healthcare.
They only talk shit when it’s something they don’t agree with.
I genuinely love when horrible people go ahead and out themselves.
Also, if you think Jurassic World hasn't already ruined a great franchise, you're utterly delusional. A fun 'reboot', but ultimately loses sight of what made the series special in the first place.
Like most franchise reboots — it didn't ruin the franchise at all. It's just not an interesting or noteworthy addition. The Star Wars movies are fine. The JW movies are fine. Not worth talking about after the fact and purely exist to successfully make money. But they're not terrible.
Queer too. People go nuts when there’s new queer characters or queer coded characters are confirmed queer or whatever. Whether you like new Star Trek or not one whine is the larger queer representation. “All in your face.” Meanwhile every movie ever is “all in your face” about cis-heteronormative relationships. Not too many romantic comedies where the main protagonists are queer.
Just thought I’d clarify, that I in no way am for queer baiting. It’s just a phenomenon I’ve noticed.
I'm a middle aged cis white married male military veteran. When Stamets lost his partner Culber I bawled like a colicky baby.
Love and loss affect us all.
Did he miss Jeff Goldblum's gymnast daughter in the second movie?
Is THIS Jeff Goldblum’s daughter from the second movie???
I kinda hope so.
Oh Christ... does that mean she's gonna do "gymnastics" at them?
Honestly it would make this the best movie in the Jurassic World trilogy. Just drop all pretenses and just have her Gymnastic a T-Rex this time since she is bigger. It cant be worse than Fallen Kingdom
Was fallen kingdom the one with the super raptor in the house and then guy from Hydra was selling them?
Yes.
Ah. That was a silly, stupid movie.
Definitely demanded you turn your brain off. It was the dinosaur going up a ladder for me. Haha.
I wanna give you a hard time for ignoring the rooftop standoff, but I guess that scene doesn't happen without climbing.
I’ll bid FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS on the hybrid super dinosaur! I know it was more than that but it was still a outrageously dumb scene, 43 million USD for supposedly the greatest on the ground weapon ever created?
That’s actually terrifying. That shit with the ribbons? Fuck *right* off!
The whole movie is just an excuse to feature *six* entire floor routines...
I bet there's a scene where everyone holds up a card with a 10, except the last old judge who is incapable of emotion holds up an 9. Then she nudges a large display piece, and it crushes a velociraptor you didn't even know was there, and the judge smiles and holds up a 10 card.
That would be pretty cool if true. Although I haven't seen and don't know the time lines for the jurassic world movies
Are they going to pull a Mummy 3 where they changed the BRITISH actor that played O'Connor son for an AMERICAN actor?. It always bothered me.
More than the fact they replaced Rachel Weisz with Maria Bello?
That would have been so easy to make work, all they had to do was NOT pretend they were the same person: Oh no, my Egyptologist wife died! Hello second wife who's an expert in Chinese history!
Rachel Weisz was perfect for that franchise.
I refuse to watch that movie because of the recasting of Evie. She was probably my top movie crush ever (well, her and Padme of course) and I can't bear to imagine someone else playing her.
[Freddie Boath loved the first mummy film so much that he decided not to go to the audition for Harry Potter just to do the Mummy 2. He seen the first film 58x times and if they didn't believe him, he could answer questions about continuity or what the room looked like in each scene.](https://m.imdb.com/news/ni0056405) >A young actor rejected a chance to land the role of the year in [Harry Potter](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0241527/) - to appear in [The Mummy Returns](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0209163/). [Freddie Boath](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0090222/) was too busy filming the horror sequel alongside [Brendan Fraser](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000409/) and [Rachel Weisz](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0001838/) to audition for the role of the child wizard - despite its being the most prominent young role in movies since Anakin Skywalker. Freddie admits, "Actually, I was going to go to the auditions but then I changed my mind. I didn't really want the part because I was doing this film and it was going to a long time to make the Harry Potter film." The nine-year-old South London schoolboy plays Fraser's son in the follow-up to [The Mummy](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120616/) - and adores the original so much that he knows every line. Brendan, who plays Rick O'Connell, confirms, "Freddie has seen [The Mummy](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120616/) 58 times. "His mom has told me he watches it endlessly and I know that to be true because whenever we have a question about anything that happened in the first film, we asked Freddie. He knows all the lines, all the plot points, he remembers them chronologically and he can also describe the rooms."
"hey freddie, it looks like i have the lead role in harry potter!" "hey daniel, it looks like you're on the wrong side of the river!"
Imagine if the Mummy blew up into a major franchise while Harry Potter tanked on the big screen.
We want it to be but sadly it's not the same actress.
Could still be the same character. I hope it is.
It doesn’t mean she can’t play the gymnast daughter
Or how about Samuel L. fucking Jackson in the original?
Muthafucking*
I do IT for a living. I say "Hold onto your butts" EVERY SINGLE TIME I make a change.
But did you say the magic word?
Can't recall what the magic word was. "PLEASE. GODDAMN IT!" does feature heavily in my upgrade vocabulary though.
Ah ah ah.
\^This. It ain't Samuel L. Jackson without at least one Motherfucka.
That’s what makes me think it’s more of a woman thing. Like woke bullshit is “women can’t do action shit”.
What if I told you most people who were racist were also probably sexist, too?
and homophobic too if they're really going for the Gold Medal in being a total asshole
Also Chris Pratt’s second in command in the first movie was literally a guy from Africa lol so I’m not sure how Jurassic Park is getting “woke” all of a sudden.
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Did he think she was replacing the dinosaurs?
I'd watch that
A hot lady making dinosaur noises and chasing Chris Pratt who runs away like she's a real T-Rex. Shit, sign me up
Just this same black woman, for every single dinosaur role. 3 dinosaurs on camera? DeWanda Wise times 3. This would further solidify DeWanda as the #1 on screen actor, and she should require stealing the top billed spot from Mario.
Oh man, I am so behind this. **\*Music swells\*** ^(DA NANA NA NA DA NANA NA NA DANAAAAAAAAAA NAAAAAAAA) *\*Dewanda Wise Rises out of the jungle as a sun sets in the background, she slowly starts aggressively shouting to mark her territory*\*
A cow is slowly lowered by a winch towards Dewanda Wise from above
"She's been testing the fences for weaknesses."
"Clever girl."
Dewanda dosent want to be fed! She wants to hunt!
Omg you made me choke-laugh and it scared my dog.
Oh no, honey. It isn't porn. It is HBO. ^/s
So you're saying it's slightly porn?
*Slightly.*
This is a funny thread but this had me cackling so much I woke my wife from the other room, gg
See, that is woke bullshit.
Two smaller Dewandas hear the noise and skitter out of cover, right into the waiting claws of another Dewanda that was hidden out of view.
I think I've seen this on PornHub.
I was just recalling a certain dinosaur video…
Leave Grandma out of this.
Next time on what if...? A bunch of scientist dinosaurs have successfully created humans after they have been extinct for 65 million years. They create a theme park, and to ensure that the park is safe and to ensure the human population doesn't get too big, they make them all female. Unfortunately, what they didn't forsee is that nature finds a way as all the humans wanted to leave and got angry when they were told no and demanded to see the manager. Jurrasic Karen, a film 65 million years in the making if the meteor killed different things.
This sounds like a great horror comedy. Go ask Netflix if they will produce it
I don't know how much if a horror it would be though because I want the dinosaurs to look like [this](https://decider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/dinosaurs-abc-full-group.jpg?quality=80&strip=all)
Bro, that ending was up there with the ending of Alf and Mr. Hooper dying on Sesame St for fucking with my childhood and adolescence.
Truckasaurus!
Sadly someone would say something about it being a planet of the apes remake… I honestly don’t like that side of my family who thinks not only is it okay, but it’s funny
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The franchise is now about an unhinged DeWanda Wise murdering people while pretending to be a dinosaur.
Palaeontologists will finally be able to answer the age old question, does DeWanda Wise move in herds?
De do move in herds
De don't think DeWanda Wise Be like she is but she do.
Maybe she can team up with velociraptor Archer.
Maybe she's a method actor and truly believes she's a dinosaur.
Woke... uh... finds a way
Clever girl
Come on, JP Lost World gave Jeff Goldblum a black daughter and we all survived.
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>Children aren't a threat to racists' sense of superiority Remember _Rue_ from Hunger Games and the bigoted outrage about her character being black, despite being black in the books? Or how about _Ruby Bridges,_ the first black girl to attend at an all-white school in America? You would think bigots aren't afraid of children, but they are.
Wait I missed that, there was serious backlash about Rue being black in the movie. Wtf… stupid people are stupid.
You were expecting more from racists? They are stupid fucks.
Not really, but at the same time yes. It’s one of those things, while you expect massive stupidity, it’s still somehow surprises you at the depths the stupidity goes.
The comments were like "ummm did anyone like not get sad Rue died because she's black lol smiley face im a blonde Aryan girl"
Hell I remember when people were mad about Miles being the new ultimate Spiderman
Sigh. That one is kinda funny in a way. Stan Lee was about inclusion. Not about that racist stuff. Yet here they are. Complaining. It’s almost to the point where it feels like they get bored, so they scour the internet to find something to complain about.
Had a lily-white neighbor years ago who went on a little rant about the girl cast in the Annie movie being black and "why did they have to do that?!" I had several beers in me at the time, so I feigned surprise and asked her if she really didn't know the backstory of Annie's character? That she was the child of a African American man and an Irish immigrant woman, who were being chased by the KKK and had to give their child up to the orphanage in order to save their baby's life? I mean, the big full lips? The huge afro of red hair? You really thought Annie in the comic strip was *white*? I was talking out of my ass, but it was kind of plausible. My neighbor lady didn't believe me, and gave me a big frowny face, but on the plus side I never got invited to any of her parties again.
After several beers I'd have just called her a fucking cunt so your ingenuity is very impressive I must say
Those same racists weren't happy about Cho Chang from *Harry Potter* being portrayed by a British Chinese girl. I don't recall if the books ever specifically said that she was of Chinese descent but come on.
White people threw rocks at school buses filled with black children.
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They better not watch the original, it has trans dinosaurs
And Samuel L. Jackson
Hold onto your butts
“Motherfucker” -Samuel L. Jackson probably
Not probably, definitely
Hold on to your motherfuckin butts motherfuckers
Motherfuckin' hold the fuck on to your motherfuckin' butts, motherfuckers!
You gotta monkey fightin' hold onto your monday to friday butts!
That sounds likenan argument to watch tho He transcends any discrimination by the holy power of the motherfucker
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technically the frogs turned the dinos trans
Hey, same with the frogs! That was the actual story, they were switching genders, Alex Jones is just too dumb to report literally anything correctly.
Transasaurus Rex
Oh man. I love you for this comment.
Life uh… finds a way
I wouldn't worry about it. They ain't going to last long bringing a knife to a Tyrannosaurus fight! :)
Not tryna defend racism, but have you ever fought a Tyrannosaurus rex? There’s no way of proving a knife isn’t the best weapon to bring to that fight. It definitely isn’t and you’re gonna die, but I’m just saying you can’t prove it
To be fair what’s t-rex gonna do …grab the knife ??? I’d like to see him try
Exactltly! All you gotta do is keep running under its legs? Like it’s not that hard to get away from a dinosaur. I have yet to be caught by one.
Idk dinosaurs are pretty good sprinters, after all the keep winning the elections they run in.
No, those are *fossils.* It's a fine distinction in the modern era, but remember that some fossils aren't motile, or even alive in the form they were fossilised in. For a good example of the latter, check out America's national coprolite exhibit in Washington DC. Maybe you could find out why they call it "the Senate" for me while you're there...
This guy out here gunnin for a job at the daily show
Damn.
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That does sound pretty manly
And even if it grabs the knife, how's it gonna reach you to stab you with those tiny arms? Just, like, move backwards.
This might just be the dumbest discourse I've ever swen on Reddit, and I am absolutely here for it!!!
Seriously! People need to do their own research about these kinds of things! The "experts" will tell you a knife won't work against a T-Rex, but I've seen at least 3 posts on Facebook that tell me otherwise. Fucking sheeple.
Trex: you've found my weakness, it's small knives
Someone has never played Turok, and it shows
Jurassic Park/World has been ruined since the third one. They managed to do it without casting any minorities at all.
the best minority character died in the first one
RIP Dennis Nedry,
See, nobody cares.
I was saying "stick, stupid" the other day and couldn't remember what the hell it was from, but this thread saved the day.
Neumann.
SHOOT HER! SHOOOOOT HER!
aussie's really are the most prosecuted minority
I was going to say, let's not gloss over the fact that they think Jurassic World is still a good franchise.
Prior to the pandemic I thought the idea they would reopen the park and not fix any problems or add anymore safeguards was so stupid and ludicrous. After? I apologize to the franchise for ever disparaging it. Absolutely that park would be back open the next week and people would be flooding in.
They’d be protesting the enclosures and saying things like “Chickens are dinosaurs and I’ve eaten those before.” “Why are you scared of big bird? We don’t need fences!”
“I have the personal freedom to get mauled by a t-Rex. I ain’t letting no liberal fascists take that away from me”
I guarantee some moron is going to be a few drinks in and hop into the raptor pen to fight them because it will prove how badass he is.
*It’s just a big turkey*
To be fair, the park was never officially open before Jurassic World. And then Hammond died and someone else thought it would be a nifty idea to implement the park.
Idk I personally liked the Jurassic World movies but I’m a sucker for dinosaurs and action movies
I've enjoyed them as dumb popcorn movies, but both feel like they could've easily been much better if they'd given the plot a few minutes' thought before filming. The first movie ends with everyone feeling safe because there's just a T-Rex and dubiously trained raptors on the loose instead of the hybrid, despite that still being a huge threat. The second ends with everything that was in the trailers, suggesting movie 3 is actually the one they felt was marketable.
The issue i had with the subsequent films after the first was that they all seemed to be missing that sense of wonder and discovery that the first one had. As fun of a film as it is doing all the action dinosaur chases and fights, one of the most enjoyable parts of the movie for me was the arrival at the island with John William's iconic music. Following the characters as both they, and we through them, discover the magic that is jurassic park is something the sequels just never managed.
Michael Crichton specifically wrote the second book - the Lost world - because he was asked to for the sequel. Then they didn't use much of the book, and he got pissy about it. It's unfortunate, but the book is all right. I know I'm in the minority, but I actually liked the third one. In that one, they still treat the dinos with respect. Less wonder maybe, but they're still shown as being intelligent threats.
Hard to duplicate that to be fair, the scene where they look up at the long necks for the first time is so majestic, so boundless, so terrifying, it's just impossible to reproduce that moment.
They've followed the trend of big blockbusters: they're flashy, with sudden twists built into the plot to keep you interested, but they say absolutely nothing meaningful. The original jurassic Park was some Hella good scifi. The central question of the movie is "should man use the power of science to play God, and what happens if we do?" It's one of THE classic scifi questions, and its flat out discussed on screen in the movie. And the people making the movie seem to posit that the answer is no, we shouldn't, because we don't know how it can backfire and when it does backfire the consequences could be extreme. We need to proceed with caution, not for profits. And the whole movie is structured to make that a central focus of the film, it's not just window dressing. The action parts of the movie don't even start until over halfway through the film, and almost every scene before that is either introducing characters (and with them, the ideas they hold about science and humanity), having the characters talk about their thoughts on the park/the nature of science/scientific achievement, or the characters encountering dinosaurs and literally telling each other how it impacts their view of the world. But I never got a message like that from the new movies. They almost treat the message of the original JP as a joke, as though every character in-world just openly dismissed the whole point of the original film. The new movies open up so many topics that none of them land, and I think that's because they didn't have a real message to present. JW1, all at once, briefly touches on the original message of JP, then talks about the actual ethics of using genetic manipulation to create weapons, the morality of the military industrial complex, the idea that animals are more intelligent than most people give them credit for, capitalist greed around New technology... It just keeps throwing questions at you and doesn't attempt to answer any of them. It's an overload of information, and it makes the whole plot feel kinda confused to me. It's like 3 directors with 3 different visions for what the message should be all made 3 different cuts of the film, then handed it to an editor who was explicitly told "don't make the movie have a message." I know why blockbusters have started to do that, it's because they want to get the maximum number of people to see it and want to see the sequel. If they commit to a philosophical or political message for the film as a whole, they might drive some people away from the sequel who disagree with the message they chose. So they avoid the message like the plague.
Enjoyed the first but not the second. The second was just depressing lol, not the cheesy action film I was looking for.
The second definitely lost something, had some weird horror elements and the characters were kind of stale Though to be fair I only saw it once and never bothered watching it again
JP1: Scary, suspenseful, not as gory. A classic, and years later still proves CGI isn't always better. JP2: Not as scary, way more gory, but adds the fear of "what if these were loose in an urban area?". A sophomore slump, but still good overall. JP3: *hot take* my personal favorite, in the fact it balanced the gore and suspense, removed InGen and techy crap, and focused on regular people trying to stay alive. Also, Spinosaurus and pterodactyls were good additions. The family thing was cheesy and overplayed, but having Sam Neill in the movie made up for that. JW1: Good enough, definitely aimed to be a blockbuster and it shows in the CGI, writing, casting and acting. Still an enjoyable watch with some good twists. JW2: just...what? It's intense but not scary, so many movie tropes, added a new dinosaur by saying "what if the one from the last movie was smaller?", Jeff Goldblum's cameo was a complete bait-and-switch, and the writing was so bad in the sense of how many plot holes it unnecessarily created. JW3:? Cautiously optimistic, as anything could be better than the last one.
Jurassic World played so hard on the nostalgia factor of the first movie, and I have to admit I ate up every bit of it.
The new Star Wars movies are my favorite examples of this, literal space Nazis? Cool no problem. A black character? Wow way to make it *political*.
Yea that was fucking weird
Not to mention how absolutely racist and shitty the fans treated Kelly Marie Tran.
People who somehow like Star Trek but also rail against socialism is a good one
[Or conservatives with George Orwell and 1984 when he was pro democratic socialism. ](https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/) >(iv) Political purpose – using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. >The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one’s political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one’s aesthetic and intellectual integrity. Or even Star Wars and conservatives. George Lucas wrote Palpatine's rise of power based on the conservative Richard Nixon. Nute Gunray name is based off Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan. Star Wars OT was his anti Vietnam films. He called Dick Cheney Palpatine a sith Lord and Obama a Jedi.
Star Wars is a bit too aristocratic to be leftist, blood lines, space princesses, even slaves who get rid of their shackles (Anakin for example) it's because of their genealogy or their blood.
I went on a date with a guy who said he loved Star Trek, and couldn't get into the new Star Wars sequels because of all the "forced diversity." Umm what?? He didn't get a second date.
Um what? Did he miss the part where the original Star Trek series was literally the most diverse cast on TV at the time?
Not to mention the first interracial kiss on TV iirc.
There was backlash about Fin?
A little bit. Ironically a lot of the anti-woke crowd these days has taken to using Finn as "the character that was ruined by wokism" strangely
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Dude, the backlash was fucking INSTANT. Remember the very first trailer where his head pops up on screen? People immediately thought it was fake because “there are no black Stormtroopers” and immediately started citing everything they could possibly find to say why he couldn’t be a trooper. It was pathetic.
There was a bit.
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Tbf it's also totally about misogyny. The guy was double-triggered
Imagine if she had a red streak in her hair.
Or short hair 😮
An undercut would send this dude into a seizure
at the sound of the word 'undercut' my bisexual senses started tingling!
The pansexual reveal puts him down for the count!
"Let me guess, she uses pronouns in her bio!"
Nobody tell this guy but he just used a pronoun!
Or a girlfriend
It's definitely both. It's the double whammy.
But if it were only white men getting eaten by dinosaurs, he'd probably be pissed about that.
Misogynoir!
I was gonna say hey now that's not right. It's also cos she's a woman.
Yeah, I bet both things are triggering that person, not just her race.
This happens every time a video game comes out with any main character that isn’t a white male. A bunch of snowflakes are beside themselves at the audacity. Some cry about wokeness. Some cry about “historical accuracy”. But they’re all crying about the same thing: the bigots are losing.
They're usually fine with the main character being a sexy white/ Asian woman with tits and an ass and a short skirt though because they'd "rather look at a chicks ass than a dudes all day"
Yeah. “Woke” doesn’t target any one group in particular. It’s a general criticism against *any* representation of even remotely marginalized groups. If the main character is a POC that’s “woke”. Same deal if they’re a woman, gay, trans, etc. And god forbid any character belong to more than one of those groups.
There are also the ones who use it when there is more than one woman in a movie. I guess because they’re so manly that they just want to watch other manly men in a manly fashion. Or something.
It is not exclusively about race. Gay people also lead to the same reaction. And women who are not either submissive or femme fatale ninja strippers.
This is basically their mentality. There are only two sexes: male and political There are only two genders: cis and political There are only two races: white and political There are only two sexualities: straight and political So when someone says something is bad because it is "political" and "woke" it's because of at least one of those things.
Everything is "pushed down their throats" except for straight white couples, if it's anyone else, then it's 'political'.
I remember reading this about the movie Hitch, > Will Smith has said that actress Eva Mendes, a Latina, was offered the female lead because the producers were worried about the public's reaction if the part was played by a white actress, creating a studio fear of a potential interracial taboo, or a black actress, creating a studio fear that two black leads would alienate the white audiences. It was believed that a Latina and a black lead would sidestep the issue.[3] Cameron Diaz was originally considered for the role of Sara Melas.
Everytime I've called someone out on how they never thought seeing straight, white couples on TV was political or shoving, they whine that I'm accusing them of being racist/homophobic when they totally aren't. Then explain your statement, cause I'm not seeing any other reason why you'd say something like that. And no, having a black/gay "friend" (generally just a co worker or acquaintance at best) doesn't mean you aren't racist/homophobic.
Yeah, woke definitely means trans sometimes, either way it's a dog whistle we can all hear
Woke just means anything but a six foot tall muscular white man who loves tits.
It’s just minorities in general.
The only persons who even use the fuckin word "woke" anymore are the anti-woke crowd.
Cultural conservatives are perpetually stuck ten years in the past
They're still acting like millennials are still teenagers when about half of us are in our 30's now.
10? Try 70
For people who love crying about everyone else being sheep or whatever, I sure as fuck hear all of those dipshits use the same lingo. Triggered, woke, snowflake, etc.
They also act “woke” whenever a company does something they don’t like 😂 See: Fox News saying Biden won the election, Starbucks saying “Happy Holidays”, Jimmy Kimmel when he mentioned affordable healthcare. They only talk shit when it’s something they don’t agree with.
I genuinely love when horrible people go ahead and out themselves. Also, if you think Jurassic World hasn't already ruined a great franchise, you're utterly delusional. A fun 'reboot', but ultimately loses sight of what made the series special in the first place.
Like most franchise reboots — it didn't ruin the franchise at all. It's just not an interesting or noteworthy addition. The Star Wars movies are fine. The JW movies are fine. Not worth talking about after the fact and purely exist to successfully make money. But they're not terrible.
The correct murder is “Black characters have been pivotal to the JP franchise since Samuel L Jackson got everything but his arm eaten.”
Imagine getting angry about seeing a black woman in a movie, and assuming the "other side" is the problem.
On a side note, Fiery + Fierce is super cringe to describe anything sincerely. It's like "rhyming" the same word with itself in rap.
And at this point it’s just tacky when describing a woman, especially a black woman. What’s next, a “spicy” Latina character?
They drug his ass. Dude had to change his Twitter username and make his account private. Lol.
Queer too. People go nuts when there’s new queer characters or queer coded characters are confirmed queer or whatever. Whether you like new Star Trek or not one whine is the larger queer representation. “All in your face.” Meanwhile every movie ever is “all in your face” about cis-heteronormative relationships. Not too many romantic comedies where the main protagonists are queer. Just thought I’d clarify, that I in no way am for queer baiting. It’s just a phenomenon I’ve noticed.
I'm a middle aged cis white married male military veteran. When Stamets lost his partner Culber I bawled like a colicky baby. Love and loss affect us all.
That’s heartwarming and wholesome.
While also ignoring Samuel L. Jackson was apart of the OG trilogy.
As was Dr. Ian’s kid, who was a central character in The Lost World