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SkinnyPupp · 06-15-2015, 09:14 PM

I'll repost my review from the movie thread:

Jurassic World: 2/10

It was pretty much exactly what I had expected. I would have given it a 3 or 4, if not for the excruciating ad placement shots. That's just fucking insulting. The raptors looked like silly cartoons most of the time, and nothing really made any sense. Stuff just happened because you're supposed to sit your face in front of the screen and watch shit happen. Evil dinosaurs, goodguy dinosaurs, everything.

Funny, in many ways this movie was the exact opposite of Mad Max. If that movie is how you make a proper action movie, this one is the last of the modern action movie that will eventually become extinct (at least for a while). At least that's the hope.

And my post from Facebook:

If there's a threshold at which product placement in a movie becomes too much to stand, Jurassic World went well past it for me.

The movie lived up to my low expectations, but the constant product placement made it less enjoyable than it could have been. I don't mind when a movie uses real products - take a picture of a dinosaur with a Nikon camera, smuggle embryos in a fake barbasol can, use Reece's Pieces to entice an alien out of your garage, I don't care.

But do you REALLY need to take a huge tv-commercial-like sip of Classic Coke before continuing the discussion? Or say "Wanna see something really cool?" right before you pull up in front of the camera in your shiny new Mercedes? Does EVERYONE need to be drinking Starbucks ALL THE TIME?

06-15-2015, 09:14 PM	#66
SkinnyPupp Hacked RS to become a mod Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sunny Hong Kong Posts: 55,079 Thanked 25,874 Times in 9,093 Posts Failed 1,573 Times in 719 Posts Member's Picture Albums	I'll repost my review from the movie thread: Jurassic World: 2/10 It was pretty much exactly what I had expected. I would have given it a 3 or 4, if not for the excruciating ad placement shots. That's just fucking insulting. The raptors looked like silly cartoons most of the time, and nothing really made any sense. Stuff just happened because you're supposed to sit your face in front of the screen and watch shit happen. Evil dinosaurs, goodguy dinosaurs, everything. Funny, in many ways this movie was the exact opposite of Mad Max. If that movie is how you make a proper action movie, this one is the last of the modern action movie that will eventually become extinct (at least for a while). At least that's the hope. And my post from Facebook: If there's a threshold at which product placement in a movie becomes too much to stand, Jurassic World went well past it for me. The movie lived up to my low expectations, but the constant product placement made it less enjoyable than it could have been. I don't mind when a movie uses real products - take a picture of a dinosaur with a Nikon camera, smuggle embryos in a fake barbasol can, use Reece's Pieces to entice an alien out of your garage, I don't care. But do you REALLY need to take a huge tv-commercial-like sip of Classic Coke before continuing the discussion? Or say "Wanna see something really cool?" right before you pull up in front of the camera in your shiny new Mercedes? Does EVERYONE need to be drinking Starbucks ALL THE TIME?