Showing posts with label jurassic world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jurassic world. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
WTF WED! THAT'S A CLEAN BURNING FOSSIL FUEL, GLAME GLUMPS!
Boy oh boy, nothing quite gets ya salty like a string of near losses in Smash Bros!
I was playing Smash and, while I rotate between about four characters, my friends usually have one or two mains they use obsessively. This can be maddening when you lose over and over in three player smash because your friend's Metaknight gameplay keeps you from ever getting the knock out on a corner camping Robin or Samus.
The salt was real. And that's okay.
Jurassic Park is an incredibly stupid but gloriously "awesome" concept that is saved by a handful of memorable performances and fantastic dinosaur puppets/CGI.
I really don't mind making enemies over nostalgia.
But the fact that people are freaking out about this new Jurassic World film being silly or scientifically inaccurate, I want to remind you of the all-female frog hybrid dinosaurs from the first film that took place at a park with incredibly poor security rather than being a poor concept because "uh, uh, um, life uh finds a way".
Jurassic World will probably be as silly as the first film. Good.
There is a line between racist comedy and comedy that uses ridiculous stereotypes to comedic effect.
I'm not sure what side of the line this sketch lands on.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
WORD OF THE DAY! 12/2/14!
teaser [teez-er]
noun
1. A short scene or highlight from a film, or made for a film, in order to attract an audience's attention and/or create buzz for the film's upcoming release.
EX. Watch the teaser before I talk about it...
Yeah, it's a pretty brief teaser. Then again, teasers are usually brief. This teaser is especially efficient at creating buzz-- it leaves fan excited and talking without giving enough away to give anyone a definite reason to shout betrayal.
Well, except that other Star Wars fans have already picked apart the five or so elements of the teaser, so let's see what I think about them... SPOILER WARNING!
#1 A black guy wearing Storm Trooper armor on a desert planet? This could mean a few things but let's get over with people freaking out over there being a black guy in storm trooper armor. By this period in the Star Wars Universe, Storm Troopers are mostly conscripts and other hire-ons, as opposed to clones, and therefore storm troopers can look anyway J J wants. "Deal with it."
But there are a lot of possibilities: he could be a good guy character disguised as a jedi (like in a New Hope) or, perhaps even more exciting, he is a storm trooper that becomes a jedi after "the Force Awakens"! That would make for a cool character arc!
#2 Random chick on pill shaped vehicle racing through the desert. Probably another new protagonist. Possibly Han & Leia's daughter?
#3 Droid with ball-shaped body. Fun and neat design idea. Probably gonna make a million new toys and be our R2D2 JR. Or R2JARJAR. I hope not.
#4 The Storm Troopers on a drop ship. The Empire are our villains? Yes. And there is a storm trooper that looks a little short? Hm. Refer back to #1
#5 X-Wings about to have a dog fight over a big body of water! Fun!
#6 Millennium Falcon being chased by TI-Fighters over dunes of desert planet! Crowd goes wild!
#7 Guy in all black walking through trees on a snowy planet? Probably a sith or sith wannabe? Maybe the guy narrating? Maybe--
HOLY CRAP! A RED LIGHTSABER WITH A CROSSGUARD WITH TWO MINI-LIGHTSABERS THAT ARE PERFECTLY FINE IN THIS MOVIE'S FANTASY UNIVERSE! I WANT ONE!
And that lightsaber could be improved with some silly extra parts.
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