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I really like JW though I did feel there were some unnecessary things in it like the Vincent D'onofrio and his plotline, which seemed like it was there to set up potential storylines for the sequel. I did like that B.D. Wong's character became more in line with what he was like in the book and I did enjoy the callbacks to the original movie and even people involved in making it i.e. a brief shot of a store called Winston's. There was one little callback that I would have liked to have seen:

Yeah the book is amazing and is actually being made into two movies by Seth Rogen, one a documentary and the other a fictionalized retelling. It's kinda sad reading it because it shows Sega could have really been a strong contender in the gaming industry if it wasn't for cultural bickering and corporate espionage from WITHIN the company rather than from an opposing company.

That was the great thing about that console generation, each system had something different as a way to make you want it. They try and do that now with console exclusive games, but eventually most end up on every system. If you haven't already read it I suggest reading Console Wars by Blake Harris, it goes into the rise of Sega and the Sonic franchise against the Mario/Nintendo empire. The behind the scenes mayhem of creating an impressive console and game is amazing along with the racial politics that essentially destroyed Sega in the 90s.

Yeah Jurassic Park was one of the rare instances where a film franchise had continually high quality games. They had the one on Sega where you played as Dr. Grant and a Velociraptor, the Lost World game which was an early sandbox game with a bunch of missions and dinosaurs to interact with, another arcade game where you played as a T-Rex, the Jurassica Park 3 FPS in arcades was even pretty good. They even had an amusement park simulator where you created your own park and chose which dinosaurs to create or if you were like me wait until your park was filled with people and then remove any chance of exiting the park and then deleting the fences so that the dinosaurs ate all of your guests. The only really bad JP game that I remember playing was Trespasser on the PC which had Minnie Driver voicing the character and QWOP like controls for a FPS, boy did that one suck ass.

Yes, that game ruled!

They had that dinosaur in the Lost World first person shooter arcade game. Tough as hell boss level.

Yeah the lawyer was actually a good guy in the book who helped out in many situations, while the old man might be the most heartless bastard ever put onto a page. Hammond does get eaten by the Compys in the end after he decides to stroll through his wrecked but still dangerous park, thinking that the worst has past him. Hell even the doctor who showed the group the eggs in the tour gets killed by a dinosaur, because why not? While the first book and movie were close enough to be an adaptation, the Lost World book and movie are TOTALLY different. There is no San Diego, no mass group of hunters coming to get specimen, and Malcolm doesn't have a daughter, it's just two students of his who sneak onto the trailer when he comes over to the island.

To be fair to the original post's 3rd point, most scientists have felt like they know everything or as much as they can about dinosaurs despite only ever working with bones, since it's all theory anyway, so that didn't seem out of place. It wasn't until a few years ago that scientists started realizing that they had bones mixed up with the various skeletons and that everything they thought they knew was probably wrong. I always loved the JP movies since I was huge into dinosaurs as a kid, though the last two were rife with things to make fun of. Everyone likes to point out how Tea Leoni is maybe the only character next to the hacker granddaughter in the first movie that the fans were actively rooting to get eaten, but lets not forget Julianne Moore's character who is meant to be this great wildlife expert but actively starts trying to touch baby dinosaurs in front of the parents. Or when she was trying to heal the injured T-Rex pup because she didn't want it to get killed by its parents or that an apex predator like a T-Rex might hunt her because she has the pups blood on her clothes, but she never takes the time to mask the scent or maybe I don't know, leave her blood covered jacket behind. Also, the true villain of Lost World is Vince Vaughn's Green Peace character who is responsible for the deaths of dozens of people by hampering Pete Postlethwaite's gun, the T-Rex was tranquilized instead of killed like originally intended, leading to InGen taking it to San Diego and the eventual rampage.

Everything I've heard about this was that it went too knowingly meta, and fans of the previous films were upset that it really didn't get to the centipede until the last 20 minutes, almost as if they forgot what movie they were making. Though doing this movie would give Tiny Lister another notch on the HDTGM All Star rankings.

An Invasion of the Body Snatchers style sci-fi movie featuring Michael Moriarty, Garrett Morris, and Paul Sorvino where a small town finds a white liquid rising from the ground that apparently tastes great, causing them to sell it as a yogurt-esque product that people love. Unfortunately the simply named Stuff turns people into violent addicts controlled by the product and from what's shown in the movie, hollows out their bodies to where it's just Stuff inside them. When not in a body The Stuff acts like the Blob and tries to infect as many people as possible. Moriarty plays a corporate spy originally tasked with finding how the stuff is made so a secret cabal of ice cream conglomerates can copy the recipe, Morris plays a ice cream company owner who is skilled in hand-to-hand combat for some reason, and Sorvino plays a racist Ted Turner like militia leader who helps to reveal the secret of The Stuff. There's a lot to laugh at in this movie from Moriarty's odd southern accent to the 80s special effects for dead bodies and The Stuff. Also there is a scene where Danny Aiello plays an FDA reviewer who gets killed by the friendliest looking dog despite the puppet version of the dog attacking him in a poorly cut scene.

They were favors in that he actually directed those movies. I think he got Fury Road just on the fact that they got him to direct the Babe sequel.

Those favors he banked were called Babe: Pig in the City and Happy Feet 1 & 2.

FUCK THAT!

What I found interesting about the Jem movie was the initial poster made it look like this uber serious version of what is a very light cartoon. And the trailer shows that they have completely removed the fantasy element of the movie and made the movie like a regular rock biopic of a musician, which really doesn't make sense. At least with Josie they kept the peppy beat of the cartoon rather than try to do a Chris Nolan version of the story.

Oh dear lord let there be a reverse earthquake gun in this movie that the Rock just stumbles across.

I could never really get too much into these types of movies as the destruction was SO massive that it's really futile for the main characters to try and fight. 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and this movie all just destroy the shit out of the world and it seems like whatever work the protagonist does to help people is negated by the millions dying around them. At least with a crazy destruction movie like Knowing, the main character accepted his fate and died, which was a pretty realistic ending to an otherwise batshit movie. I'll watch this in theaters because like the other destruction fests, the CGI is usually really good and the craziness makes up for the surely depressing realization that the world is doomed no matter what. Plus I really hope the Rock punches the shit outta that douchey earthquake.

I think the overall goal of this movie was to create a set of moments inside this world that the viewing public had been away from for so long. The story was developed through the action and the brief interludes among characters. Similar to how we just understood that Lord Humungus was a bad dude with a legion of men following him, Immortan Joe was the same kind of guy in the lawless wasteland. All that was really revealed in the movie was that he had mixed Norse mythology with cars to create a weird religion where petrol and the "mother's milk" were to be worshiped while water was to be left to the unworthy masses who lived beneath Joe and the War Boy's. A prequel would be nice to see, but with the mention of Mad Max: Furiosa being already written, I would love to see how the sequels build upon this world and the characters introduced within Fury Road continue to interact with one another like the Gyro Captain and Max had in the last two Gibson Max movies.

I mean he had white hair, wore a turban and threatened people with a sword. What else could you ask for?

I remember seeing the trailer and instantly thinking "Is Adam Sandler going to fuck his mom while he looks like his dad?!"

Fucking loved this movie. It was better than I expected and can't wait for the sequels.

This isn't so bad as a satire of corruption in boxing, but the acting was pretty bad outside of Sam Jackson who I thought was pretty good as the Don King-like promoter.

There was a cracked article years ago talking about how stupid Ethan Hunt was by believing his IMF bosses as in each movie they basically turn on him, screw him over in some fashion, or give him faulty information. I too would love to find out that IMF is basically ISIS from Archer, which seems plausible after Ghost Protocol.

How I felt when originally trying to figure out this movie. How I felt five minutes later:

Sorry it was the only good Trekkies Gif I could find from Fanboys.