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Cowboys and Aliens

I think Jeremy hit the nail on the head for this one. It needed more sci-fi that made some actual sense.

It did at least go for a more realistic sense. There was a huge disparity between the aliens and humans, and it was only luck that they managed to win.

Today's video was supposed to be Annabelle: Creation but Warner Bros (or a bot pretending to be them) did a copyright strike.

It's up now.

There's a new spinoff channel for sinning TV shows.

So have some Game of Thrones pilot sins.

Edited by Karxrida on Sep 6th 2018 at 11:18:23 AM

Oh yes.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Please tell me he rips the ending apart.

Plenty.

He clearly hated the movie,(enough to even sin the one neat scene) and I cant blame him.

Fallen Kingdom is basically a transitional piece to get to the movie Trevorrow actually wants to be making and it shows. During its development, there were rumors that it was going to take place after a timeskip and be, like, a Mad Max apocalyptic hellscape with T-Rexes and velociraptors with head-mounted laser cannons and shit.

Those rumors were ripped apart by fans because a) that sounds totally stupid and b) there is zero causality between where JW ended and that nonsense.

Watching Fallen Kingdom, I can't shake the feeling that Trevorrow took only the second part to heart. Jeremy hits the nail on the head at the end when he says that Fallen Kingdom feels like the whole movie exists just to get the status quo to where it needs to be for the movie Trevorrow actually wants to make.

Which, based on the "suspenseful" ending about how the dinosaurs are totes going to take over and doom us all, is probably going to be really stupid.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 11th 2018 at 4:04:34 AM

I've heard Jeremy being annoyed plenty, but this time he just straight up seemed pissed off at this movie. I can't blame him. It had a few nice moments, but overall? Dreadful.

Is there anyone in real life who'd go along with the 'let the dinos live' plan? It just seems like a poorly conceived "Let's keep this franchise alive by having our characters do moronic shit" idea.

I would. But that's because I live in a world that understands that dinosaurs are not, in fact, invulnerable chthonic ultra-beasts with teleportation superpowers, the ability to magnetically repel bullets, and an intense murderous hatred for all humanity.

They're really not that dangerous. At least, no moreso than a bear or hippo. They're just big.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 11th 2018 at 6:20:39 AM

I've never seen this movie but I feel how pointless many of the events are up til the ending. The whole thing really is a prologue for whatever future film this is leading to.

The fucking ending is not only dangerous but extremely irresponsible. "Let's release a huge number of gigantic monsters into the wild! Nothing bad can possibly happen!"

All it takes is several hundred surfers getting gulped down by a Mosasaurus and those fuckers will be hunted to extinction. Again.

Which is part of the whole "dinos belligerently hate humans for no reason" thing. There's no reason for the mosasaur to be hunting tiny, tiny humans that are barely as nourishing as a Jelly Bean at its size.

No, the mosasaur should be out there figuring out the appropriate size of whale. Only on rare occasions should any human ever glimpse it again, and then only for a few seconds.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 12th 2018 at 7:30:25 AM

which means that the whales will be hunting to extinction.

No, it doesn't. The planet Earth is very large and there are many whales in it. Somewhere in all of the oceans in all of the world, there is one mosasaur. That's not a dramatic ecological threat.

It's the same with the one Tyrannosaurus that's roaming around in the wild now. Fallen Kingdom draws a direct comparison to the rex taking back the King of the Wild title from the lion, but. No. Lions are still king. This one rex, the only rex, has maybe ten years left to its life and then there will be no more rexes.

Fallen Kingdom's ending tries to make a big fuss out of how the doom of mankind is upon us because the dinosaurs have been unleashed, but seriously. Two dozen or so dinosaurs in numbers far too small to reproduce wandering around the California area until nature takes its course are not really going to affect much.

You'd need a lot more dinosaurs to actually cause any sort of global or even local catastrophe. Far more than could fit in one dude's mansion.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 12th 2018 at 8:05:53 AM

Still, any sufficiently large dinosaur can be a big threat to a densely populated area.

Densely populated areas have a lot of things that are hazardous to wildlife, even large ones. The dinosaurs were a threat on the islands because those were enclosed areas in a small geographic location with few modern killing implements; the deck on Isla Nublar is stacked in the dinos' favor.

Despite this, they still had to nerf the humans to keep the animals threatening. In JW, the Indominus is this big super-dino far more potent than the rex, and they still had to nerf the humans with a dumbf*ck decision to use nonlethals against her in order to justify wiping out the park's security team. Which was, itself, a necessary weasel for the sake of letting the conflict not be resolved five minutes after it started.

When actual guns came out, the Indominus ran like hell every time. And, again, this thing is supposed to be far more dangerous than any of the animals released at the end of Fallen Kingdom.

So, worst case scenario, the rex wanders into a city and eats some people until SWAT shows up and puts her down.

It's really just the rural areas that have something to worry about - and then, more from herbivores eating their crops than the one or two predators.

The thing about the dinosaurs is that they're horror monsters. They aren't meant to be a threat to the world at large. Just to the handful of hapless, unarmed people trapped with them for the duration of a film's events. They are no more capable of destroying the world than Jason Voorhees is.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 12th 2018 at 8:15:55 AM

Fallen Kingdom is like an onion made out of stupid. Every time you get past a layer of dumb, there's whole new dumb waiting for you that you couldn't see because it was obscured by the previous dumbness.

I've rarely see a script that does not work on so many levels.

which means that the whales will be hunting to extinction.

Or more likely the Momosaur dies the moment it meets an Orca Pod. The same way Orcas help drive Megalodons to extinction. Because Momosaur can't defend itself against a pack of aggressive predators who outnumber and out maneuver it.

This is the movie that goes "You can take the blood of a species, and put it in another, unrelated species that is separated from it by 5 or so million years."

Your way overestimating how much Trevorrow cares about logic or science.

Edited by Ghilz on Oct 12th 2018 at 12:36:41 PM

Don't the Jurassic Park dinosaurs asexually produce?