Is ‘Jurassic World’ Exceptionally Dumb?

Yes, it is. The inciting incident of the chaos at the heart of the movie is the escape of a genetically engineered dinosaur, Indominus Rex (and speaking of dinosaurs how is it that they don’t look as convincing as those from the original movie, which came out 15 years earlier) which escapes its enclosure and […]

Zoombies – Trailer

You might thing that I was intending to wright ‘Zombies,’ but if you did you probably weren’t aware that this is from The Asylum. Zoombies is not about the typical–zombies have become so mainstream that I can write that without a bit of irony–undead but instead zombified animals at a safari park that begin to […]

Jurassic World – Trailer 2

I’m of two minds on the latest Jurassic World trailer.  It goes without saying that there are some awesome moments, particularly when Owen Brady (Chris Pratt) is riding his motorcycle amidst a (Pack?  Pride?  Clutch?) of velociraptors. That being said, very little about the movie makes any sense.  For instance, WHY ON EARTH would anyone genetically engineer […]

‘Jurassic World’ Official Trailer

The full trailer for Jurassic World was released a few hours ago, and the first thing I noticed was that it’s produced with Legendary Pictures, which was unexpected. What was also a bit unusual was that lots of people being literally eaten by exhibits in the last two films didn’t seem to faze the backers this […]