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The last movie goes out of its way to say they were specifically bred to be exciting horror attractions and not scientific accuracy. Noone was going to want to see big scavenging chickens when they could watch a monster trex eat a goat.
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The thing I love about the Jurassic Park movies is how almost every dinosaur is just a ravenous fucking monster.
I mean you'd think they're just animals, right? That they'd just kill for food or to defend their young or whatever.
But not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs kill for pleasure. They crave human meat at all times.
Have you read the research on how domestic cats hunt? They're adorable furry spree killers who can cut a swath through the local ecology because it's fun.
I love my little tuxie girls, but there are reasons why they're indoor cats, and it's just as much keeping the neighborhood safe from them as it is the other way around.
Tremors was such a great series of movies. You can directly see where control was wrestled away in the sequels and they completely went to shit because of it.
Are those the like exact same sets as deep blue sea?
I genuinely think they are. With a few recycled Meg sets thrown in, and some generic Chinese cityscapes from every low budget Chinese made/targetted action movie in the last 5 years.
CGI looks ridiculously rubbish though.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
The thing I love about the Jurassic Park movies is how almost every dinosaur is just a ravenous fucking monster.
I mean you'd think they're just animals, right? That they'd just kill for food or to defend their young or whatever.
But not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs kill for pleasure. They crave human meat at all times.
Have you read the research on how domestic cats hunt? They're adorable furry spree killers who can cut a swath through the local ecology because it's fun.
I love my little tuxie girls, but there are reasons why they're indoor cats, and it's just as much keeping the neighborhood safe from them as it is the other way around.
My younger Oriental shorthair is the sweetest cat ever. But he caught a mouse in the house and refused to kill it. Just held it in his teeth, occasionally shook it, and growled at anyone who came near him. This cat never growls at anything, but just a vicious little fuck because we might take his living toy away.
Tremors was such a great series of movies. You can directly see where control was wrestled away in the sequels and they completely went to shit because of it.
The first two are the good ones for me. After that, they get way too hokey and campy. Between the second and third film, we go from shriekers that actually have some menace to them and sharply descend to... assblasters. Seriously, that's like something an 11-year-old would think up. Not to mention a sharp downturn in the quality of the effects. The shriekers have awesome practical effect models, but even the CG for them is remarkably good for a budget monster film from 1996. And the characters are pretty convincing as people responding to this whole threat; all of them are they because they chose to be, and all of them have reactions that are a solid mix of "what the fuck?!" and "I actually have a good idea".
Then you get to the third film and effects are terrible, the writing and characters are awful, and the entire production looks like something Syfy was blackmailed into doing. It's got some semi-entertaining moments (Burt mowing down a field of shriekers and Burt surviving gets swallowed by a graboid come to mind), but overall a huge disappointment after the other two films.
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I was onboard with that until halfway when it tried to go even more over the top Stepford Wives meets Get Out. Just normie wives wondering WTF their husbands are doing in the desert is a good enough hook. Nukes? Alien stuff? Dab travel?
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It cracks me up in 2022 we're still making Jaws knock offs.
I am disappointed that Shark Bait is not actually about Nemo and the Tank Gang.
Also, what’s the range on those water scooter thingamabobs? Could they actually get that far out on them?
Prediction:
The movie will make us think the black guy dies, but he will actually make it to that boat and rescue the survivors.
Pretty sure there was a scene in the trailer showing them holding up the black guy in the water, which looked like a later scene (they were bloodied?). But I don't want to rewatch it.
I was onboard with that until halfway when it tried to go even more over the top Stepford Wives meets Get Out. Just normie wives wondering WTF their husbands are doing in the desert is a good enough hook. Nukes? Alien stuff? Dab travel?
I'm disappointed this isn't about the shark movie. We need them to go more crazy. Have the shark surface with a set of reading glasses and a copy of Wuthering Heights and start waxing philosophy.
All I really want to do now is go flop on the couch and watch Jaws again.
"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin’ back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water..."
I still love that the only reason Robert Shaw played Quint is the original actor had tax issues, and then immediately upon finishing the movie Shaw himself had to leave for tax reasons.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
All I really want to do now is go flop on the couch and watch Jaws again.
"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin’ back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water..."
"“I mostly kept away from things that [would let my family] know what I did in the war,” Twible recalled about the days and years before he saw Jaws in theaters in 1975. “It was a shock when I heard it [in the movie], I’ll tell ya. It disheveled me just a bit. Here was a man telling my story to the world… We owe a great deal to Robert Shaw. I never met him, but as a member of the crew of the Indianapolis, I can honestly say we owe a great indebtedness to him.""
edit: and now i'm watching it. The first attack on the girl is horrifying. The mother looking for her son after he gets taken on the little float lounger is pretty affecting.
Nosf on
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Havelock3.0What are you?Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered Userregular
You know the thing about a shark…he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, he doesn't seem be living, until he bites ya and the black eyes roll over white
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
I remember I think it was Dreyfus? Who said the part that bothered him the most was the actress dubbing her lines in when the shark grabs her. Like she was just doing voice work with like a basin of water, but he said it fucked with him.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
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The thing I remember most about Jaws is how much the author of the book regrets writing the book because of how much fear it created in people towards sharks. Entertaining movie, but the world would legitimately be better off without people hate-killing sharks because of the miasma of misinformation and fear surrounding them, due largely to the likes of Hollywood.
I'd honestly not at all mind a ban on movies about killer sharks (unless they're clearly mutated, alien, actually monsters of some variety, etc), it's fucking hard enough protecting them without people thinking that they're murder machines that will cruelly toy with you by snapping off various body parts for maximum drama before devouring what's left, typically in front of a crowd of shocked, helpless onlookers.
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I mean you'd think they're just animals, right? That they'd just kill for food or to defend their young or whatever.
But not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs kill for pleasure. They crave human meat at all times.
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This is why you don't have a movie franchise featuring dinosaur chases in high heels or gymnastic swinging.
Finally the horror becomes reality.
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Are those the like exact same sets as deep blue sea?
Have you read the research on how domestic cats hunt? They're adorable furry spree killers who can cut a swath through the local ecology because it's fun.
I love my little tuxie girls, but there are reasons why they're indoor cats, and it's just as much keeping the neighborhood safe from them as it is the other way around.
I genuinely think they are. With a few recycled Meg sets thrown in, and some generic Chinese cityscapes from every low budget Chinese made/targetted action movie in the last 5 years.
CGI looks ridiculously rubbish though.
My younger Oriental shorthair is the sweetest cat ever. But he caught a mouse in the house and refused to kill it. Just held it in his teeth, occasionally shook it, and growled at anyone who came near him. This cat never growls at anything, but just a vicious little fuck because we might take his living toy away.
Cats are fucking metal.
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The first two are the good ones for me. After that, they get way too hokey and campy. Between the second and third film, we go from shriekers that actually have some menace to them and sharply descend to... assblasters. Seriously, that's like something an 11-year-old would think up. Not to mention a sharp downturn in the quality of the effects. The shriekers have awesome practical effect models, but even the CG for them is remarkably good for a budget monster film from 1996. And the characters are pretty convincing as people responding to this whole threat; all of them are they because they chose to be, and all of them have reactions that are a solid mix of "what the fuck?!" and "I actually have a good idea".
Then you get to the third film and effects are terrible, the writing and characters are awful, and the entire production looks like something Syfy was blackmailed into doing. It's got some semi-entertaining moments (Burt mowing down a field of shriekers and Burt surviving gets swallowed by a graboid come to mind), but overall a huge disappointment after the other two films.
And dinosaurs are basically big lizards.
And based on my observation of lizard behavior
dinosaurs would mostly just sit completely still for like 23 hours a day.
Dinosaurs are big birds, not big lizards.
Terrifying
That's impossible. Birds weren't invented until 1950.
That one was built to last I tell you what.
You just hate Blake Lively so like that movie was one long porn for you.
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Also, what’s the range on those water scooter thingamabobs? Could they actually get that far out on them?
Prediction:
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I'm disappointed this isn't about the shark movie. We need them to go more crazy. Have the shark surface with a set of reading glasses and a copy of Wuthering Heights and start waxing philosophy.
"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin’ back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water..."
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I love the scene in Chasing Amy that apes this, but instead they're injuries sustained during sex.
"“I mostly kept away from things that [would let my family] know what I did in the war,” Twible recalled about the days and years before he saw Jaws in theaters in 1975. “It was a shock when I heard it [in the movie], I’ll tell ya. It disheveled me just a bit. Here was a man telling my story to the world… We owe a great deal to Robert Shaw. I never met him, but as a member of the crew of the Indianapolis, I can honestly say we owe a great indebtedness to him.""
edit: and now i'm watching it. The first attack on the girl is horrifying. The mother looking for her son after he gets taken on the little float lounger is pretty affecting.
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I'd honestly not at all mind a ban on movies about killer sharks (unless they're clearly mutated, alien, actually monsters of some variety, etc), it's fucking hard enough protecting them without people thinking that they're murder machines that will cruelly toy with you by snapping off various body parts for maximum drama before devouring what's left, typically in front of a crowd of shocked, helpless onlookers.