[ SECRET POST #3205 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3205 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Jurassic World]


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03.
[Anthony Bourdain]


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[Puzzle&Dragons (mobile app game)]


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[Fear the Walking Dead, Alicia and Nick]


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[Hannah Pilkes, viner]


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[Hetalia, Xenosaga]


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[Undertale]


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[School-Live!]


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[Over the Garden Wall]









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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/rYip9iI.jpg
[Jurassic World]

[kaijinscendre]

That is why it did so well. Perfect popcorn movie.

[sarillia]

This was how I felt when I finally got around to seeing Avatar. I was laughing at times because the stock characters were just so on the nose.

[ketita]

Avatar was worse imo. Those weren't cardboard-cutouts, those were characters pieced together from the carboard left over from when other movies made their cardboard-cutout characters.

[philstar22]

Yup. At least Jurassic World was fun and made you care for the characters at least a little bit. The only thing Avatar had going for it was the graphics and that does not make it worth it.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I love all the JP movies, but I could argue that the main characters of the earlier ones fell just as easily into identifiable 'types'.

I still loved most of the characters, not arguing that, but they very much still were kind of cardboardy too.

[otakugal15]

And those particular tropes work for a reason. I enjoyed them and can't WAIT for that movie to come out.

[(Anonymous)]

All I can remember from the reviews is that its point, highlights and reason for existence is Chris Pratt's thighs first and foremost. So that's what I'll be concentrating on when I watch it.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess I thats why I found it so boring.
I swear I took like three bathroom breaks and every time I came back, it always looked like nothing had advanced or happened plot or character wise.

[nightscale]

Yup I can agree with this, the characters aren't anything new or amazing but I still enjoyed it and ended up really liking Claire by the end anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

This is basically why I mentally rewrite a lot of the relationship subplot into something less awkward.

In my head, Claire and Owen have been dating for a while (the awkward first date went a lot better than canon), but Claire's nervous about marriage because her family keeps pressuring her about kids when she's happier as a Professional Aunt (Owen's got his raptors, he's happy either way), which is the real reason she hasn't been home in so long, and oh god I'm putting too much effort into this, aren't I?

[caerbannog]

I find very little of Jurassic world memorable and find very little (none) rewatch value in it. For a popcorn flick I was hoping for more entertainment. No surprises in that movie at all (that weren't in the trailers)

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Gray a lot, but I think that's really just because I could identify with him as the youngest child with a dismissive, asshole older sibling.

But I have to agree with you here. I was not wowed by the characters, though I enjoyed the character. Tumblr's love affair with Claire continues to baffle me because I found her unlikable throughout.

[morieris]

Same, but I didn't watch for the character interactions. I watched for Chris Pratt, a potential shirtless scene, and dinosaurs. 2/3 isn't bad.

[philstar22]

No shirtless, but some nice back shots in tight pants.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, most of the stereotypes don't bother me but I never warmed to Claire because I am bored with all the "uptight lady meets cool dude who teaches her how to really LIVE life the right way" tropes.

[(Anonymous)]

that was the only trope that annoyed me. I'm so tired of the "dick parent/parental figure has no time for children/young relatives because of being so engrossed in their career" thing :/

[(Anonymous)]

It was just so outdated I felt like I was watching a rom com from the 90s. :(

[(Anonymous)]

Every Hollywood movie has boring stereotypes it seems. It sucks.

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't expecting much from this movie but I hated every character so much that I couldn't even really enjoy the dino-fights. :(

[esteefee]

Yeah. There was something really disjointed about Jurassic World. It's like they put the movie together from a recipe and forgot a key ingredient. They said: "Little kids, check. Hero guy, check. Perky but slightly cold gal, check. Toss in megalo dino on the rampage. Mix in vats of blood and...bake." But, for example, they missed the part where the hero guy actually bonds with the kids even a tiny bit before he saves them, so the kids saying: "We're with him," made absolutely no sense at all, especially since it was the gal who'd just shot the pteranodon to save the hero guy right in front of them. They didn't know the Chris Pratt character from Adam.

I was so little invested in the characters I don't even remember their names.

There was no cohesion, in other words. The people perishing in the park--the hero guy had no connection with them, either. He was out in the field and never close to the action. He was out of communication, and they kept the lead gal out of communication too, hunting down her nephews. They focused too much on the subplot of the shifty InGen guy who wanted the raptors as military assets. They didn't zone in on the owner wanting to save the park inhabitants until too late in the story, so that the story focus was split too much.

This is the sign of an overwritten script that had been chopped up to pieces until it made no sense. All the emotional beats had been removed to make room for plot and action.

I did really like the billionaire boss who took his bird up and called himself a general, though. That was gutsy. Stupid, but gutsy. I wish he'd made it.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally, I thought the movie lacked heart or soul or whatever you want to call it. It ticked all the boxes for exciting popcorn flick, but there was no real sense of emotional connection or loss. People were just faceless casualties and nothing more, and even the protagonists weren't terribly interesting. They had no depth to them at all, not even by relatively shallow blockbuster movie standards.

"This is the sign of an overwritten script that had been chopped up to pieces until it made no sense. All the emotional beats had been removed to make room for plot and action."

Spot fucking on, IMO. Lots of fights and shiny explosions, no relatable sense of fear or any other strong emotion.