A friend said "I would never own a Ford Explorer." I asked why. "Remember that scene in Jurassic Park where the T-Rex kicks an Explorer over the cliff and it hangs up in a tree? The airbags didn't deploy!"
Because Jurassic World is terrible. I don't need to watch a video about how someone "changed their mind" about it. As a fan of cinematography as an art, as a scientist, and a lover of real science fiction...it is physically impossible for my opinion of this film to change. It violates those three things to a level of pathetic absurdity.
One of my most vivid memories from childhood is watching one particular scene in one of the original Jurrasic Park movies, for the first time. I was 11, I think, and had never been a big fan of "scary movies". It was the scene where the characters are hiding behind a waterfall, attemtping to evade the dinosaur chasing them. One man is startled by a snake, and jumps into view of the dinosaur, ultimately getting eaten. That one single scene, which I don't even think showed the actual death on-screen, just the crunching of his bones, scared me so badly, that I immediately burts into tears and ran out of the room. Cut to me seeing Jurrasic World, at age 15, and being pretty much compltetely desensitized to the countless on-screen graphic death scenes. I know it's most likely just a fact that comes with growing up, but there's just something about the normalization of very, very casual and graphic death scenes in movies in the past 10 or so years that's just sort of stumped me, I guess.
I also remember that scene vividly (it’s from The Lost World). I think it really has to do with the audio/visual language used to make it. There are just all these little things in that scene that make it truly haunting. The bone crunch that just immediately silences his screams and then the blood that flows down with the waterfall.
This is hands down the best video on the Jurassic World Movies I've ever seen, but I literally had to search for it instead of getting it recommended, despite watching video essays en masse.
I forget where I found this, but I had it added to my Watch Later and just got around to it. I checked the view count when I was adding it to a list and was expecting to see it in the thousands. Congrats on creating something in the realm of Lindsay Ellis, Folding Ideas, Big Joel, Renegade Cut, etc with your first upload. I hope you keep at it, because I think you've got a shot at finding that audience!
What I've heard about the babysitter's death is that the character was originally written to be a "bad guy," and her horrible death was payback for her transgressions. They trimmed her story back, but kept her entire death scene.
Your analysis is very good, deep and full of humor while staying on serious topics. And although I agree on pretty much every thing you just said... there is one thing I'd like to add to support the weight of your words. I personally believe, if a movie sends this kind of message into the world, it has to be visible for the audience. The average viewer shouldn't have to watch a 53 minute long (very well made) video essay to see the meaning behind the film. Otherwise it is a great message that falls on deaf ears.
34:23 actually, it’s far worse than that. Mosasaurus has a second set of jaws made to shred its food apart. She wasn’t just swallowed, she was torn to peices by its inner teeth
33:57 holy shit I had the same thought, this sequence horrified me when I first saw it. The scene always stuck in the back of my mind when watching the rest of the film
Just because a film demonstrates all that's bad with modern blockbusters, and makes a little wink and nudge at the camera, doesn't make it a meaningful critique of those bad things.
You’re absolutely right. This was my first video and was intended to be a little tongue and cheek but this film absolutely falls short of what you could consider a good satire. If anything I hope my use of the film as a point of critique informs more people about the failings of the modern blockbuster landscape.
How does this not have millions of views??!?!? This completely reshapes my feelings on this movie. A point my friends and I always bring up is the secretary death and how unnecessarily gruesome it is, and while it is still that, your context for it and the rest of the movie makes me understand why, and appreciate it, even though I would prefer skipping that scene on every rewatch.
That's not what "too big to fail" means. It was a description of corporations so large that if the firm failed then the would take the rest of the economy down with them. So they had to be preserved.
This is an excellent video with excellent information and effectively illuminating the movie industry and our part as consumers. I believe it deserves many more views...
It is a shame this video only has 2600 views. It really deserves much more. I was aware that this movie was satire but you take it to a whole other level.
For someone who claims to love JP so much, it's kinda weird he keeps referring to the dinos as "he." It's like a major thing that they breed them to be all females, even in JW. It's only after they adapt to start breeding on their own that there's males, and that def wouldn't be the case for the dinos in the 1st JW movie that are bred directly by the company.
I'm pretty amazed by how few views this has because it definitely feels like you put a lot of effort into a very well made video and I enjoyed the narrative of a rampaging dinosaur representing blockbuster films 😄 The trouble is that I always get a feeling of melancholy watching essays like this because it feels like the film industry in recent decades has entered a death spiral it can't seem to recover from and it pains me to see once beloved films of my childhood become nothing but half hearted shells of what they once were. Reading far too much into the meta-story at least makes it feel like something can be salvaged.
No need to feel too melancholy, I have great hope for the future of films. Besides a more diverse group of filmmakers putting out more main stream and highly acclaimed work, there are more outlets for filmmakers than ever before and honestly it might be a good thing if the industry collapses (assuming it’s like when large studios were broken up back like 60 years ago) but it’s doubtful since they’ve managed to make their properties profitable far beyond the film experience and until capitalism collapses (and we’ll see when that happens) they will make decisions to make films based on whether or not they can turn it into a whole experience with merch and amusement park tie ins. For now though, it’s just a matter of looking for films outside of what the theater is playing on a loop. Sorry for the ramble lol
@@RomanBearProductions I always enjoy a good ramble 😄 and I certainly hope for the best for the film industry at large. I'm just hoping that collapse doesn't result in tons of job losses for the huge crews and especially the VFX workers but it almost certainly would. That part of the video in particular really hit close to home because I have wanted to work on VFX for films for many years (and I still do) but at the same time I really don't want to feel like I'm just being rung out and spent like a disposable resource. It's not so bad though, I have a decently stable job doing 3D modelling and graphics for an advertising company but I do long to do something more creative and fulfilling.
The two arguments that stuck out to me were about the VFX artists and the military. Giving a face to the expendable characters like the ACU and InGen humanizes the people that we barely see, that get stomped underfoot, that get forgotten. They are the people that I empathize with in blockbusters, not the weakly-written main characters.
I think you're giving everyone involved in this film far more credit than they have earned, I am certain that Colin doesn't have any capacity for self-awareness such as is described here.
As a collective species people understand the causal change that they themselves create poorly which both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World parallel in their own ways. The biggest difference between them is that the latter adds more modern action and technology whereas the former relied much more on skillful setups to portray it’s theme with traditionally obscured vantage point which also plays into the mystery and thriller aspect only enhanced by the effects. I enjoy both films for what they do.
holy gosh I ADORED THIS. You absolutely know what you're talking about and you produced such a high quality commentary!!! I know the youtube algorithm is cruel but I plan on watching your other Overthinking It videos and will maybe light a candle and pray you'll put out another one in the future. Anyway love forever for the entirety of part 9. I feel like your commentary on masculinity in this film is really important and part of the big conversation that's happening today vis-a-vis shows like Our Flag Means Death. Edit: holy shoot I just got to part 10. My dude. Incredible work.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the other entries in the Overthinking It series just as much. Personally I think they get better as they go. Also, I love Our Flag Means Death. Incredibly excited for season 2
This is really great, I had inklings of the themes you mentioned but you really explained them so well and developed my understanding of the film and why I didn’t hate it like others seemed to. Very interested to look into your other videos now :)
Jurassic World is a perfectly watchable film and suitable entry to the franchise, it's sequel Fallen Kingdom however is just hot garbage. It was like both Colin Trevorrow & Spielberg had just completely sold out at that point.
I mean, technically Spielberg sold out for Jurassic Park (the first one) considering he did it as part of a deal to fund Schindler’s List. It just happens that Jurassic Park ended up being an absolute banger as the kids say.
48:14 _"it's fine, he's white, it'll work out for him"_ i should not have laughed as hard as i did. bravo to you on a marvelous video essay! i had not considered this angle on the film before and your case is succinctly made. the idea of mosasaurus being representative of streaming services providing new, original ideas in the wake of blockbuster saturation is particularly interesting, and it makes even more sense when you consider mosasaurus isn't even technically a dinosaur - it's a marine lizard. while it's still a giant reptile, it exists _outside_ of the dinosaur paradigm, like how streaming services are still audiovisual media but are separate entities from the film industry. brilliant!
Idk how I just found this channel but dam dude your underrated this was genuinely one of the most interesting and entertaining long form videos I’ve watched in a while
Also, its a really good first video! I really liked it and i like that the sound and scene editing seem smooth. I'm happy that it last longer than 5 or even 10 minutes, like other movie critics and curator does, but 50 minutes is also a little bit long... Like th VHX make us forget about your point about this movie for while. You could have cut that part and make it more focus on only one thread and central point related to jurassic park. And it could make a whole other video because its something also interesting that point out to the bad effects of not having an oligarchy in movies!
In my opinion, the inaccuracies of the Dinosaurs are not the thing that ruined the movie for me, no... The thing that did was how they portray dinosaurs. Hollywood movies don't want to take risk, and by showing Dinosaurs as Hollywood monsters they didn't took a chance to bring something new. Instead, just put in a bunch of CGI Dinosaurs and make a cake out of every human... Because that's how Dinosaurs are. Also, they portrayed the pterosaurs as mindless monsters that would just crash into buildings with no goddamm reason. I think people overlook those things and the more you think about it, the more you realize how poor of an excuse, and how bad this movie is.
I could be more sympathetic to the argument that Claire is supposed to be the woman who is wonderful and great but marginalized because of sexism if she was a more sympathetic character. The fact that she is successful at her job (until she isn't) doesn't make her a sympathetic character. Not anymore so than Chris Pratt (no one ever remembers his "toxic masculinity" character's name). She is obsessed with her job, is hypocritical and unpleasant towards the men under her (like the tech guy), doesn't give much attention to her nephews, etc. If we were supposed to think she is treated unjustly, she would not be as unlikeable as the others in the movie. But that is to be expected, because nobody seriously thinks this movie was actually intended to be a satire on the state of Hollywood films that intend point out the failures of Hollywood from a basically left-wing standpoint...right? Being creative and snarky and progressive doesn't actually make for an argument about the intent of those who wrote the movie.
Your description of how VFX artists work is what rich people try to sell to the rest of us; that we’re meant to all work 80-100 hours a week just to live 😂
I really liked it. I was hoping to find a new channel when Lindsey Ellis or Folding Ideas doesn't make newer videos. I had imagined you would inter-cut with your face & do it as Lindsey does but I guess it's your style.
I enjoyed Jurassic World. It came out among other big blockbuster films that were always bigger better and more of it. The movie seems almost satirical and very self aware of what it's doing. It was very different from the two JW sequels that go back to trying be super serious and losing what made Jurassic World special. Oh it's the same take you have now, imagine that
9:15 Director Colin Trevorrow states a lotta stuff in a LOT of interviews.. and not all of it pans out. He seems like a smart guy with a vision, but his Jurassic films, especially Dominion, reflect something else. Does that tie into his cynical view of modern cinema? Did he write Jurassic World Dominion in the exact way Universal wanted him to in order to communicate the oximoron of "last film in a multi-million dollar franchise"? There was a trilogy stuffed into a dresser or desk somewhere that was his own personal, perfect sequel/conclusion to Jurassic Park and the Barbasol can.. But he's a director working for a billion dollor film studio. The worst thing he could do is make the exact movie they want.
The VFX artist market is saturated. This means that if you're in the market, get out and do something else. Demand is high, and supply has outstripped it. If supply hadn't outstripped it then they'd get paid more.
As much as I love a good mauler take down of these movies, I can't help but love your perspective on this. These dinosaurs would be shit in a war he's right but that's probably the point, using animals for war is quite frankly abusive.
More tasteless violence in media doesn't mean more violence in real life, it means less empathy in real life. It means people seeing a school shooting and going "it happens" pretending like its a normal thing even making fun of it.
Now we're onto section 9 and we get to see whether the author noticed passing the Bechdel test for PoC. We get to see whether he knew that the heels were the actress' idea and whether he thinks her choice of "I can do anything a man can do and do it in heels" feminism should be policed by a male director. We get to see whether he noticed that the lead male character's only impact on the plot is to use persuasion to leverage the power of one female character (Blue) against another named female character (Indominus) through empathy and respect. We get to see whether the reviewer noticed that the indisputably masculine character spent the whole movie preaching the need to see the world from the perspective of others with compassion and an eye toward mental health. Survey says: Jesus, he even failed to note the racial and gender diversity in the response team. The diversity gap in the mooks is monstrous on screen, and it's critical as a representation of what's normal rather than what's exceptional. The had a woman literally centered in the shot of the team as they see Indominus and her death is treated with the same casual disregard as the rest. That's real progress, man. The take on the heels is a half-pass, I suppose.
my thoughts exactly. RomanBears made excellent points and insights into the bigger meaning behind the film. I do disagree with some of the later segments but he does acknowledge the fact that the segment about the “toxic masculinity” and lack of diversity is preconceived and explains his points very well. it was a great way to explain your points without being “preachy”.
Alright so the US military does this thing where it pays people in honor and glory rather than money. Those who don't like that deal work as military contractors, and they insist on being paid in money and accept that they'll be seen as the dogs of war. The branding efforts are part of a calculation by the enterprise that it's cheaper to enhance the brand and pay people in honor and glory than to convince people to sign up with money. Similarly, VFX artists are often there for the honor and glory despite the poor pay and bad working conditions. With the military, paying people more would mean higher taxes, so in another sense you should be asking if you would rather pay for your safety in the form of honor and glory or pay for your safety with money. I'll suggest that the problem is much easier to solve when you understand that you're fighting supply and demand relationships and actuarial tables rather than malice on the part of the evil cabal of the military industrial complex. There may be such a cabal, but the moustache-twirling villainy is elsewhere. For the record I don't mind using big data to connect people with the jobs they would like, so the website/recruitment data mining doesn't bug me.
The only objection I have is that violence has become less, not more prominent among new generations, so the whole desensitization argument doesn't stand so well.
As I said during the video, this does not correlate to real world violence. The objection is that violence in media loses its impact which changes the way audiences engage with stories.
5 years old? I got a 5-year-old kid and no way he would understand a movie as this. He wouldn't have the attention span to watch this, to much dialogue, real people etc.... I take this is another one of those "I really thought I was 5 but what you know, if you really think about it I was 7".
If your a hater, read this comment INGEN USED DIFFERENT DNA TO MAKE DINOSAURS, I’l break it down how; if you watched Jurassic park, the screen mentioned that they used FROG dna to fill in the gaps, Changing their size, sound, looks, and behavior Please stop criticizing the Jurassic series please, I want to die in peace after watching Jurassic world dominion
...ALPHA CAR...
A friend said "I would never own a Ford Explorer." I asked why. "Remember that scene in Jurassic Park where the T-Rex kicks an Explorer over the cliff and it hangs up in a tree? The airbags didn't deploy!"
how the fuck does this only have 1700 views when it's literally one of the best video essays around
Aw, thank you.
Because Jurassic World is terrible. I don't need to watch a video about how someone "changed their mind" about it. As a fan of cinematography as an art, as a scientist, and a lover of real science fiction...it is physically impossible for my opinion of this film to change. It violates those three things to a level of pathetic absurdity.
@@codcastrecall2738 and how?
One of my most vivid memories from childhood is watching one particular scene in one of the original Jurrasic Park movies, for the first time. I was 11, I think, and had never been a big fan of "scary movies". It was the scene where the characters are hiding behind a waterfall, attemtping to evade the dinosaur chasing them. One man is startled by a snake, and jumps into view of the dinosaur, ultimately getting eaten. That one single scene, which I don't even think showed the actual death on-screen, just the crunching of his bones, scared me so badly, that I immediately burts into tears and ran out of the room. Cut to me seeing Jurrasic World, at age 15, and being pretty much compltetely desensitized to the countless on-screen graphic death scenes. I know it's most likely just a fact that comes with growing up, but there's just something about the normalization of very, very casual and graphic death scenes in movies in the past 10 or so years that's just sort of stumped me, I guess.
I also remember that scene vividly (it’s from The Lost World). I think it really has to do with the audio/visual language used to make it. There are just all these little things in that scene that make it truly haunting. The bone crunch that just immediately silences his screams and then the blood that flows down with the waterfall.
A lot of bad movie are gold if you interpret it as satire, and its pretty great when watching with friends
True, I just thought this one was pretty consistent in its delivery.
Definitely, I was blown away by the consistency as well
The problem is, most bad movies are not actually satire. They are just bad movies.
This is hands down the best video on the Jurassic World Movies I've ever seen, but I literally had to search for it instead of getting it recommended, despite watching video essays en masse.
Forsaken by the algorithm, I clearly haven’t sacrificed nearly enough virgins.
I forget where I found this, but I had it added to my Watch Later and just got around to it. I checked the view count when I was adding it to a list and was expecting to see it in the thousands. Congrats on creating something in the realm of Lindsay Ellis, Folding Ideas, Big Joel, Renegade Cut, etc with your first upload. I hope you keep at it, because I think you've got a shot at finding that audience!
We really appreciate the kind words. Being compared with the likes of Lindsay Ellis, Folding Ideas and Big Joel is a wonderful sentiment.
What I've heard about the babysitter's death is that the character was originally written to be a "bad guy," and her horrible death was payback for her transgressions. They trimmed her story back, but kept her entire death scene.
Your analysis is very good, deep and full of humor while staying on serious topics. And although I agree on pretty much every thing you just said... there is one thing I'd like to add to support the weight of your words.
I personally believe, if a movie sends this kind of message into the world, it has to be visible for the audience. The average viewer shouldn't have to watch a 53 minute long (very well made) video essay to see the meaning behind the film. Otherwise it is a great message that falls on deaf ears.
UNLESS you can't make it too obvious if you want to keep your funding.
34:23 actually, it’s far worse than that. Mosasaurus has a second set of jaws made to shred its food apart. She wasn’t just swallowed, she was torn to peices by its inner teeth
33:57 holy shit I had the same thought, this sequence horrified me when I first saw it. The scene always stuck in the back of my mind when watching the rest of the film
Just because a film demonstrates all that's bad with modern blockbusters, and makes a little wink and nudge at the camera, doesn't make it a meaningful critique of those bad things.
You’re absolutely right. This was my first video and was intended to be a little tongue and cheek but this film absolutely falls short of what you could consider a good satire. If anything I hope my use of the film as a point of critique informs more people about the failings of the modern blockbuster landscape.
How does this not have millions of views??!?!?
This completely reshapes my feelings on this movie.
A point my friends and I always bring up is the secretary death and how unnecessarily gruesome it is, and while it is still that, your context for it and the rest of the movie makes me understand why, and appreciate it, even though I would prefer skipping that scene on every rewatch.
bro killer video!! I learned so much man, amazing work
I really hate how non of the dinosaurs bleed when they are bitten or they just shake off getting impacted
That's not what "too big to fail" means. It was a description of corporations so large that if the firm failed then the would take the rest of the economy down with them. So they had to be preserved.
This is an excellent video with excellent information and effectively illuminating the movie industry and our part as consumers. I believe it deserves many more views...
It is a shame this video only has 2600 views. It really deserves much more. I was aware that this movie was satire but you take it to a whole other level.
For someone who claims to love JP so much, it's kinda weird he keeps referring to the dinos as "he." It's like a major thing that they breed them to be all females, even in JW. It's only after they adapt to start breeding on their own that there's males, and that def wouldn't be the case for the dinos in the 1st JW movie that are bred directly by the company.
I'm pretty amazed by how few views this has because it definitely feels like you put a lot of effort into a very well made video and I enjoyed the narrative of a rampaging dinosaur representing blockbuster films 😄 The trouble is that I always get a feeling of melancholy watching essays like this because it feels like the film industry in recent decades has entered a death spiral it can't seem to recover from and it pains me to see once beloved films of my childhood become nothing but half hearted shells of what they once were. Reading far too much into the meta-story at least makes it feel like something can be salvaged.
No need to feel too melancholy, I have great hope for the future of films. Besides a more diverse group of filmmakers putting out more main stream and highly acclaimed work, there are more outlets for filmmakers than ever before and honestly it might be a good thing if the industry collapses (assuming it’s like when large studios were broken up back like 60 years ago) but it’s doubtful since they’ve managed to make their properties profitable far beyond the film experience and until capitalism collapses (and we’ll see when that happens) they will make decisions to make films based on whether or not they can turn it into a whole experience with merch and amusement park tie ins. For now though, it’s just a matter of looking for films outside of what the theater is playing on a loop. Sorry for the ramble lol
@@RomanBearProductions I always enjoy a good ramble 😄 and I certainly hope for the best for the film industry at large. I'm just hoping that collapse doesn't result in tons of job losses for the huge crews and especially the VFX workers but it almost certainly would. That part of the video in particular really hit close to home because I have wanted to work on VFX for films for many years (and I still do) but at the same time I really don't want to feel like I'm just being rung out and spent like a disposable resource. It's not so bad though, I have a decently stable job doing 3D modelling and graphics for an advertising company but I do long to do something more creative and fulfilling.
The two arguments that stuck out to me were about the VFX artists and the military.
Giving a face to the expendable characters like the ACU and InGen humanizes the people that we barely see, that get stomped underfoot, that get forgotten.
They are the people that I empathize with in blockbusters, not the weakly-written main characters.
1:33 is my favorite moment in the entire franchise.
I think you're giving everyone involved in this film far more credit than they have earned, I am certain that Colin doesn't have any capacity for self-awareness such as is described here.
As a collective species people understand the causal change that they themselves create poorly which both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World parallel in their own ways. The biggest difference between them is that the latter adds more modern action and technology whereas the former relied much more on skillful setups to portray it’s theme with traditionally obscured vantage point which also plays into the mystery and thriller aspect only enhanced by the effects. I enjoy both films for what they do.
holy gosh I ADORED THIS. You absolutely know what you're talking about and you produced such a high quality commentary!!! I know the youtube algorithm is cruel but I plan on watching your other Overthinking It videos and will maybe light a candle and pray you'll put out another one in the future.
Anyway love forever for the entirety of part 9. I feel like your commentary on masculinity in this film is really important and part of the big conversation that's happening today vis-a-vis shows like Our Flag Means Death.
Edit: holy shoot I just got to part 10. My dude. Incredible work.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the other entries in the Overthinking It series just as much. Personally I think they get better as they go. Also, I love Our Flag Means Death. Incredibly excited for season 2
I can't imagine the effort put into this video. Great video and interesting ideas.
Just imagine a few sleepless nights and months of obsession and you'll be halfway there. Thanks for the kind words!
This is really great, I had inklings of the themes you mentioned but you really explained them so well and developed my understanding of the film and why I didn’t hate it like others seemed to. Very interested to look into your other videos now :)
Isn't the apatosaurus also a new dinosaur? I don't remember it from the earlier movies.
Jurassic World is a perfectly watchable film and suitable entry to the franchise, it's sequel Fallen Kingdom however is just hot garbage. It was like both Colin Trevorrow & Spielberg had just completely sold out at that point.
I mean, technically Spielberg sold out for Jurassic Park (the first one) considering he did it as part of a deal to fund Schindler’s List. It just happens that Jurassic Park ended up being an absolute banger as the kids say.
51:00 So much for that point...
it's like four years old, I get it.
48:14 _"it's fine, he's white, it'll work out for him"_
i should not have laughed as hard as i did. bravo to you on a marvelous video essay! i had not considered this angle on the film before and your case is succinctly made. the idea of mosasaurus being representative of streaming services providing new, original ideas in the wake of blockbuster saturation is particularly interesting, and it makes even more sense when you consider mosasaurus isn't even technically a dinosaur - it's a marine lizard. while it's still a giant reptile, it exists _outside_ of the dinosaur paradigm, like how streaming services are still audiovisual media but are separate entities from the film industry. brilliant!
50:45 In hindsight its disappointing that Netflix is less keen on killing blockbusters and more keen on putting the cinemas out of business
Idk how I just found this channel but dam dude your underrated this was genuinely one of the most interesting and entertaining long form videos I’ve watched in a while
why youtube never recommend me this?
Also, its a really good first video! I really liked it and i like that the sound and scene editing seem smooth. I'm happy that it last longer than 5 or even 10 minutes, like other movie critics and curator does, but 50 minutes is also a little bit long... Like th VHX make us forget about your point about this movie for while. You could have cut that part and make it more focus on only one thread and central point related to jurassic park. And it could make a whole other video because its something also interesting that point out to the bad effects of not having an oligarchy in movies!
In my opinion, the inaccuracies of the Dinosaurs are not the thing that ruined the movie for me, no... The thing that did was how they portray dinosaurs. Hollywood movies don't want to take risk, and by showing Dinosaurs as Hollywood monsters they didn't took a chance to bring something new. Instead, just put in a bunch of CGI Dinosaurs and make a cake out of every human... Because that's how Dinosaurs are. Also, they portrayed the pterosaurs as mindless monsters that would just crash into buildings with no goddamm reason. I think people overlook those things and the more you think about it, the more you realize how poor of an excuse, and how bad this movie is.
HOW DOES THIS ONLY HAVE 6K VIEWS
I could be more sympathetic to the argument that Claire is supposed to be the woman who is wonderful and great but marginalized because of sexism if she was a more sympathetic character. The fact that she is successful at her job (until she isn't) doesn't make her a sympathetic character. Not anymore so than Chris Pratt (no one ever remembers his "toxic masculinity" character's name). She is obsessed with her job, is hypocritical and unpleasant towards the men under her (like the tech guy), doesn't give much attention to her nephews, etc. If we were supposed to think she is treated unjustly, she would not be as unlikeable as the others in the movie.
But that is to be expected, because nobody seriously thinks this movie was actually intended to be a satire on the state of Hollywood films that intend point out the failures of Hollywood from a basically left-wing standpoint...right? Being creative and snarky and progressive doesn't actually make for an argument about the intent of those who wrote the movie.
I'd love to hear what you have to say about streaming services now, five years later. Also this video fucking rules. Please make more.
Good job on the video 👍
Should have more views!
33:45 Aaaaah. Bite the hand that feeds. Gotcha.
Your description of how VFX artists work is what rich people try to sell to the rest of us; that we’re meant to all work 80-100 hours a week just to live 😂
What the actual hell how do you have 300 some subscribers? I enjoyed your stuff
I really liked it. I was hoping to find a new channel when Lindsey Ellis or Folding Ideas doesn't make newer videos. I had imagined you would inter-cut with your face & do it as Lindsey does but I guess it's your style.
The old school ‘Lone Ranger’ was dope. The remake with Depp is like most remakes. Hollywood crap with talentless people.
I think as soon as the pod scene started thats when I knew the movie was gonna be not worth my time.
I enjoyed Jurassic World. It came out among other big blockbuster films that were always bigger better and more of it. The movie seems almost satirical and very self aware of what it's doing. It was very different from the two JW sequels that go back to trying be super serious and losing what made Jurassic World special. Oh it's the same take you have now, imagine that
9:15 Director Colin Trevorrow states a lotta stuff in a LOT of interviews.. and not all of it pans out.
He seems like a smart guy with a vision, but his Jurassic films, especially Dominion, reflect something else.
Does that tie into his cynical view of modern cinema? Did he write Jurassic World Dominion in the exact way Universal wanted him to in order to communicate the oximoron of "last film in a multi-million dollar franchise"?
There was a trilogy stuffed into a dresser or desk somewhere that was his own personal, perfect sequel/conclusion to Jurassic Park and the Barbasol can..
But he's a director working for a billion dollor film studio. The worst thing he could do is make the exact movie they want.
It's Jurrasin' time 😮
The VFX artist market is saturated. This means that if you're in the market, get out and do something else. Demand is high, and supply has outstripped it. If supply hadn't outstripped it then they'd get paid more.
Okay..Although I Love Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom, and Blue is my Favorite Velociraptor
As much as I love a good mauler take down of these movies, I can't help but love your perspective on this. These dinosaurs would be shit in a war he's right but that's probably the point, using animals for war is quite frankly abusive.
Nice
More tasteless violence in media doesn't mean more violence in real life, it means less empathy in real life. It means people seeing a school shooting and going "it happens" pretending like its a normal thing even making fun of it.
Now we're onto section 9 and we get to see whether the author noticed passing the Bechdel test for PoC. We get to see whether he knew that the heels were the actress' idea and whether he thinks her choice of "I can do anything a man can do and do it in heels" feminism should be policed by a male director. We get to see whether he noticed that the lead male character's only impact on the plot is to use persuasion to leverage the power of one female character (Blue) against another named female character (Indominus) through empathy and respect. We get to see whether the reviewer noticed that the indisputably masculine character spent the whole movie preaching the need to see the world from the perspective of others with compassion and an eye toward mental health.
Survey says: Jesus, he even failed to note the racial and gender diversity in the response team. The diversity gap in the mooks is monstrous on screen, and it's critical as a representation of what's normal rather than what's exceptional. The had a woman literally centered in the shot of the team as they see Indominus and her death is treated with the same casual disregard as the rest. That's real progress, man.
The take on the heels is a half-pass, I suppose.
my thoughts exactly. RomanBears made excellent points and insights into the bigger meaning behind the film. I do disagree with some of the later segments but he does acknowledge the fact that the segment about the “toxic masculinity” and lack of diversity is preconceived and explains his points very well. it was a great way to explain your points without being “preachy”.
Excellent video lol
Alright so the US military does this thing where it pays people in honor and glory rather than money. Those who don't like that deal work as military contractors, and they insist on being paid in money and accept that they'll be seen as the dogs of war. The branding efforts are part of a calculation by the enterprise that it's cheaper to enhance the brand and pay people in honor and glory than to convince people to sign up with money. Similarly, VFX artists are often there for the honor and glory despite the poor pay and bad working conditions. With the military, paying people more would mean higher taxes, so in another sense you should be asking if you would rather pay for your safety in the form of honor and glory or pay for your safety with money.
I'll suggest that the problem is much easier to solve when you understand that you're fighting supply and demand relationships and actuarial tables rather than malice on the part of the evil cabal of the military industrial complex. There may be such a cabal, but the moustache-twirling villainy is elsewhere.
For the record I don't mind using big data to connect people with the jobs they would like, so the website/recruitment data mining doesn't bug me.
I actually loved Jurassic World ):
misplaced love .
bru the lost world was a good movie even though the novel was better
Dinos for the win
Short and sweet
The only objection I have is that violence has become less, not more prominent among new generations, so the whole desensitization argument doesn't stand so well.
As I said during the video, this does not correlate to real world violence. The objection is that violence in media loses its impact which changes the way audiences engage with stories.
Gota twitter my guy?
@romanbearpro
There is a black male with white female relationship in the movie Get Out!!!
... oh wait...
Beside that there is stranger things i guess...
Personally I like Jurassic World and BayFormers.
5 years old? I got a 5-year-old kid and no way he would understand a movie as this. He wouldn't have the attention span to watch this, to much dialogue, real people etc.... I take this is another one of those "I really thought I was 5 but what you know, if you really think about it I was 7".
I watched the original Jurassic park at 5. I didn’t have the greatest attention span either but yknow, there are dinosaurs so I was pretty invested.
If your a hater, read this comment
INGEN USED DIFFERENT DNA TO MAKE DINOSAURS,
I’l break it down how; if you watched Jurassic park, the screen mentioned that they used FROG dna to fill in the gaps, Changing their size, sound, looks, and behavior
Please stop criticizing the Jurassic series please, I want to die in peace after watching Jurassic world dominion
Jurassic World is still a bland movie but okay
Still not as bland as your mother.
Save Martha was a moment that deeply moved me, stop mocking it.
There are like 5 video essays on why Save Martha is a great scene.
Boo-Hoo