Milking dust
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That’s an F in the US education system almost everywhere (maybe everywhere barring specific curves?) and though we may think ill of them as a third world shithole that does mean something.
6/10 is a D,
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I’m looking forward to Jurassic Park 9: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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Challenge: Let's broaden the Jurassic world. How do you make a Jurassic movie without the dinosaurs breaking loose?
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There is a shifting of themes that basically tracks with the corporate takeover of the US government.
- (1993) Companies fucking around with systems they don't understand is the problem. Rich guy underestimates nature.
- (1997) Rich guy learned lesson. Corporate greed did not.
- (2001) post-dotcom crash: A rich fucker and his stupid family learn the lesson about the company that fucked with nature. Governments are bad for not interveneing.
- (2015) post-Birther: Company and its rich founder are naive and innocent. US Government and US education are the bad guys.
- (2018) Corporate suits are the good guys. Science is the bad guys.
- (2022) A (suddenly) European company is the bad guys. Science is again the bad guy. Americans are the good guys.
- (2025) The US company and Military are the good guys.
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6/10 is a D,
5/10 is an FOh interesting. My schools were 69 and under was F. My understanding was 65 was a typical cutoff
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I need a picture of Universal milking a T-Rex.
That’s not milk!
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Oh interesting. My schools were 69 and under was F. My understanding was 65 was a typical cutoff
I would argue under 60 = F is the norm. It’s even quite a common trope in movies / TV. Example:
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I saw the first Jurassic Park. I enjoyed it. But I feel sated with that single entry. If you love these movies, more power to you, but I don't really understand it myself.
The books, Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, are very good and very different from the movies. I also recommend Disclosure by the same author.
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The premise of dinosaurs in the modern world is as close to evergreen as you can get. The problem isn't that the cow has gone dry, so much as the farmers keep jerking off the bull instead.
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I saw the first Jurassic Park. I enjoyed it. But I feel sated with that single entry. If you love these movies, more power to you, but I don't really understand it myself.
I saw the first one, enjoyed it...not sure I could explain the plot or what happened in it. At the time having the dinosaurs brought to life was spectacle enough; they could have made a movie about the park working correctly and it would have sold tickets.
I watched the second and third one back to back with a girl. They were alright. I don't care to see them again. I'm not watching any more of them.
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Jurassic, the pressure builds up!.....how the new oil fields get created from scratch.
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There is a shifting of themes that basically tracks with the corporate takeover of the US government.
- (1993) Companies fucking around with systems they don't understand is the problem. Rich guy underestimates nature.
- (1997) Rich guy learned lesson. Corporate greed did not.
- (2001) post-dotcom crash: A rich fucker and his stupid family learn the lesson about the company that fucked with nature. Governments are bad for not interveneing.
- (2015) post-Birther: Company and its rich founder are naive and innocent. US Government and US education are the bad guys.
- (2018) Corporate suits are the good guys. Science is the bad guys.
- (2022) A (suddenly) European company is the bad guys. Science is again the bad guy. Americans are the good guys.
- (2025) The US company and Military are the good guys.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Did you actually see the 2025 movie? No way the theme you got from that is US Corpo good. If anything g it's literally the opposite.
I didn't see anything else than 2025. Pretty bad.
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But the main character literally decides to open-source the data instead of selling it to a pharma corp.
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Challenge: Let's broaden the Jurassic world. How do you make a Jurassic movie without the dinosaurs breaking loose?
What if we remove the dinosaurs and make it about genetically modified super soldiers?
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What if we remove the dinosaurs and make it about genetically modified super soldiers?
With Kurt Russell!
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Eh, if Michael Chrichton were still alive today he'd probably condone it all so long as he got his royalty check. Jurassic Park canon was never holy.
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I saw the first Jurassic Park. I enjoyed it. But I feel sated with that single entry. If you love these movies, more power to you, but I don't really understand it myself.
Lost World had some fun stuff (Despite diverging from it's book even worse than the first movie) but you're really not missing much, none of the sequels come within a mile the original.
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I’m looking forward to Jurassic Park 9: The Secrets of Dumbledore
it's just a gay porno with a dude in one of those memable T-Rex costumes
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Challenge: Let's broaden the Jurassic world. How do you make a Jurassic movie without the dinosaurs breaking loose?
Nice try, Universal
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I, for one, did not
Can we go back to "trilogy"?
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I do agree with the main point of your post; however, I feel that your reasoning is backwards.
Big blockbusters give the masses a dose of placebo. You see a movie where people who hold your values win, so you feel like it happened in real life, so you're less likely to make it happen in real life.
So I'm not spoiling this movie, look at the MCU instead: They defeated Thanos and stopped half the world's population from disappearing, and then we failed to properly fight COVID and Donald Trump gained power.
Now, I know correlation doesn't equal causation, and that there were other factors at play, but I also know that when you perceive the image of something, it activates the same neurons as actually seeing that thing - when you watch The Notebook or Armageddon, you feel the emotions of the characters in the film, and you cry.
That, combined with the other psychological tactics that we are constantly being bombarded with, make it difficult for us to navigate the world with a clear head. When you feel like you're winning, why would you fight?
And also, a TON of people are straight apathetic, and a lot more are just plain-old stupid. And there are dozens or hundreds of other factors such as personality of the audience, socioeconomics, religious beliefs, etc... that come into play here as well. It's not quite as cut-and-dry as "monkey see, monkey feels as though it has done," but that does play a large factor in it.
I typed all this but didn't proofread any of it, so I hope it makes sense. I'm sleepy.
