I can't wait for the next JP commentary where they can talk about raptor communication and the benefits of T-Rex urine.

The original JP was one of my most ultimate favoritest movies ever when I was 13 or so and saw it in the theater a half dozen times. The series has disappointed me greatly. JP2 came out of left field for me. They wrote into the first movie the fact that the dinos couldn't have survived due to the lyzene issue, so I had assumed that the sequel would have been about some other corporation retrieving DNA samples from the dead dinos (or the few remaining live dinos) or that the fact that they were breeding in the first movie pretty much trumped that whole lyzene problem.

The first one felt more "sci-fi". There's a scene where they inspect poop to figure out what the dinos are eating. The main characters are people who would know a lot about dinosaurs. The second one has a mathematician and ...  a photo journalist?... and some kind of black-ops guy?... and a bunch of big game hunters?... and a kid? At least the one kid in the original knew something about dinosaurs. There's only one guy who knows anything about dinosaurs in this movie, and he's only there to explain how deadly they are, or explain behavior patterns that he wouldn't even know about given that we've not had a chance to study T-Rex behavior in the wild. This one feels like a bad monster movie, where the first one was more of a science-out-of-control sort of movie. The characters were terrified, but they used their knowledge of dinos to be logical about stuff, and Grant especially was sorta studying the things even as he was running from them.

In fact, I think that should have been the plot. It should have been "some crazy group of paleontologists goes to study the dinosaurs in the wild." Maybe it's two different teams in two different locations and one of the teams ends up needing to be rescued or something. Nice and simple plot that you can add layers of character development and subplots to. That was why the first film worked. It wasn't just the dinosaurs eating people. It was the people they were eating. The second movie forgot that you had to care about the people before the dinosaurs should try to eat them. And you're right about the dino violence. Don't make them all man-eating monsters. I doubt a stegosaurus would attack a puny little human like that just for getting too close. We sure as hell don't look like a threat. They'd probably barely notice you were there.

If kids are remaking it, does that mean Short Round should be played by an adult?

The commentary pretty much nailed every complaint I had with the movie.

I forgot about panic room as well. Also a 'hit' with me.
Speaking of forgotten films starring Jodie Foster, anyone see The Brave One? I liked it. Pretty odd movie, tho.

I'm so stoked for his adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. You could say I was tres stoked.

I don't have JP2. Neither does netflix streaming. >sigh<

I think Temple of Doom was less popular because it didn't have nazis in it. People love nazis.

Is it called "The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra" or "Avatar: Legend of Korra"? It would seem odd to me if it was the former, as Korra is a fire bender. At least, that's what I read in an earlier article. I loved the first show, tho, so I'll definitely check this one out.

http://twitchfilm.com/news/2011/07/blac … railer.php
I can't embed it, but go watch it. It's a trailer for a pilot of a Black Dynamite animated series that looks like it could have been animated by the guys who do Afro Samurai. They're gonna have it on the Adult Swim website pretty soon. I hope it gets picked up.

I've hoped that someone would eventually pull out The Adventures Of The Amazing Screw-On Head and give it another go, cause that would be an awesome animated series. If this becomes a series, I guess that would make up for the loss of Screw-On Head...

I'm a huge Asylum fan and I find many of their films to be highly watchable and entertaining. The Asylum's flicks can't hide their cheap badness behind a layer of slick editing, elaborate camera moves and special effects. Movies like GI Joe can and do. They have the same sort of cheesy-stupid dialogue, the same sort of padding, the same sort of plot issues. The big budget flicks can razzle-dazzle their way out of it by throwing a series of action sequences on screen and adding a bunch of pointless 3D holographic projected images into the cliche padding scenes, but because the Asylum can't do that, you end up noticing how stupid the plot is.

I kinda felt like I was watching an Asylum movie earlier today when I want to see Captain America. The movie overall is pretty good and fun, but there's one scene where [SPOILER] they're storming Red Skull's base and the romantic interest and Tommy Lee Jones' character show up out of nowhere to kick some ass. Then the Captain goes into the hangar just in time to see Skull's plane start taking off. Those two show up out of nowhere in this tank-car and help the Cap chase the plane down, getting him onto the plane just before their car was to fly off a cliff. Add to that the couple of montages of CA doing hero poses while shit explodes behind him... It's fun but it was really fake and over-the-top in a way that clashed with the previous hour or so of the movie. The plane scene SCREAMED Asylum to me, the way it was written. These characters come out of nowhere twice to save his ass, and bad guys will come out of nowhere to attack him because some guy on the script team thought it was be awesome or something.[/spoiler]

My litmus test for any action movie is that if you could replace the action sequences with a simple sentence, then your action scene fails. If you tried that with GI Joe, you could cut the movie down to about 15 minutes. "The Joes chase the bad guys through Paris, but the bad guys get away." I just cut about 20 minutes or so out of the movie and you didn't lose a single bit of character development or plot. You don't even need to be informed about the Eiffel Tower collapsing because it has no further bearing on the story.

You could look at the Asylums films as a perfect argument for how bad big-budget movies have gotten. They are like a mirror that removes the budget so you can see what they look like deep down inside.

Movie about a guy wrongfully imprisoned who gets beaten, raped, becomes a librarian, cooks some books and does some taxes, gets thrown in solitary confinement and ends with a scene where he walks back to his cell, depressed and about to hang himself.

You should cut Red back in at the end, happily walking on a beach, just to twist the knife a little more.

I'd just go with "The Shawshank Damnation". if you're on a windows PC try Lightworks (and then tell me if you like it cause I've never tried it). It's open source and thus free. http://www.lightworksbeta.com/

Any time I hear someone in a movie say "think with your heart" or the equivalent it makes me rage so hard that you would not believe the couple of paragraphs of vitriol I just deleted.

Dunno if you can consider this stuff cliche, but the way a lot of films are injecting weird imperfections and lens 'effects' into the image gets really distracting sometimes. I used to go a whole movie without seeing many lens flares or chromatic aberration or shit hitting the lens or dust and scratches on the lens, etc. Lately it's become pretty ubiquitous in big budget films and in indie films where the team wants to show off all their after effects filters.

That sounds like it would be a pretty cool episode. I never got into Dr. Who because watching episodes in the states used to be a hit-or-miss thing. They'd play them all out of order and you were lucky if you could ever find them on TV. The last couple of doctors have been pretty popular, tho. I'll have to see if the series is on Netflix or something. My mom used to watch it all the time when I was a kid, tho, so I caught a bunch of episodes back then and kinda liked it.

I'd like to see them do a film series for Dr Who. I'm sure that's possible now that the good doctor has become so popular outside of the UK.