The depressing bit about it is that people watch the absolute hell out of these movies. The last one made almost 900 million dollars. (Hefty profit for a flick estimated to cost under 250 million.)
We’re getting dumber and demanding our entertainment gets dumber with us.
Aside from these movies, are there really any other big name, big budget dinosaur movies along the same lines? I really think that these movies end up making bank, despite being not so great, simply because there’s pretty much no real competition. If there were some actual GOOD and kid appropriate dino movies, things might be a little less rosy for the JP/JW franchise or they might actually have some impetus to deliver something good.
Granted, the last movie was, in my opinion, a slight improvement over the previous chapters.
Wanted to love the last one, expected to. Watched my pirate copy once. Don’t really remember what it was about, don’t care.
There’s a dramatic scene in the Quetzalcoatlus nest where the thing is trying to snatch them. I’m kinda dumb and easy to suspend disbelief, but damn that hurt my brain. It’s be like a pelican struggling to snatch a baby mouse out it’s nest.
I even tried pirating a couple but it’s like the last star wars, I made it maybe 5 minutes before I realized there are a hundred things I’d rather do with a couple of hours instead.
The depressing bit about it is that people watch the absolute hell out of these movies. The last one made almost 900 million dollars. (Hefty profit for a flick estimated to cost under 250 million.)
We’re getting dumber and demanding our entertainment gets dumber with us.
Aside from these movies, are there really any other big name, big budget dinosaur movies along the same lines? I really think that these movies end up making bank, despite being not so great, simply because there’s pretty much no real competition. If there were some actual GOOD and kid appropriate dino movies, things might be a little less rosy for the JP/JW franchise or they might actually have some impetus to deliver something good.
Granted, the last movie was, in my opinion, a slight improvement over the previous chapters.
Heck, there are almost no more big name, big budget movies that aren’t already existing IP.
For a depressing read, scroll through box office mojo top movies for the last dozen years. It’s almost all remakes, sequels etc.
So for a studio, why bother trying to make something new when people will watch the latest Jurrasic money making slop no matter what?
Wanted to love the last one, expected to. Watched my pirate copy once. Don’t really remember what it was about, don’t care.
There’s a dramatic scene in the Quetzalcoatlus nest where the thing is trying to snatch them. I’m kinda dumb and easy to suspend disbelief, but damn that hurt my brain. It’s be like a pelican struggling to snatch a baby mouse out it’s nest.
That sounds pretty bad.
I even tried pirating a couple but it’s like the last star wars, I made it maybe 5 minutes before I realized there are a hundred things I’d rather do with a couple of hours instead.
We’re being made dumber by our sloppifying ux and sloppifying algorithms and sloppifying corporate media.
I’m convinced it’s deliberate at this point.