The Creator - This was an odd movie. It has really fantastic visuals and effects, selling a lot of the world, but it almost feels disjointed at the same time. There's so much old feeling tech, clothes, alongside far future tech and it almost feels jarring at times. It's like a mashup of so many scifi movies from Blade Runner, to District 9, to trying emulate the feeling of the Vietnam war, and yet they try and have moments of levity that feel very out of place with the tone. Two animals "cutely" kill robots and humans in the movie, it's so weird. It's trying to pull at the heart strings over and over, but I don't think it works most of the time. The main pairing of Jacob and Alphy once that starts works for the most part, but that's sorta it. Everyone else feels so awkwardly written, some so bluntly to the point of being cartoonish and it ends weirdly too.
I don't know, it's hard to explain, some of the acting direction, some of the writing, some of the tones, some of the ideas, all of that just sorta pops out in odd places throughout the entire film to me and it never fully nails it. Which is abit of a bummer as I generally like Gareth Edwards with Monsters, Godzilla, and Rogue One (Haven't seen Jurassic Park: Rebirth yet). It's not a terrible movie, like give me this any day over Electric State, but it never quite hits like it should.
Jurassic World: Rebirth - This turned into a Gareth Edwards night when I realized that this was on Netflix also lol This movie feels like World's version of Jurassic Park 3 and I mean that both abit positively and negatively lol Compared to the last couple Jurassic World movies, which I hated, this is far more enjoyable than them as it does a decent job of doing the "Jurassic Park" thing more than even the first World did, which certainly isn't anything original or standout, but at least it's entertaining. Dominion and Fallen Kingdom just failed for being the stupidest ideas for movies instead of capitalizing on the idea of dinosaurs causing havoc within civilization.
To me, this calls back to JP3 where it's sorta bringing things back to a simpler premise, you got a family, a group of experts, going to an island that was abandoned and houses dino's, it's a fairly standard premise. That being said, the writing gets kinda rough with some kinda dumb decisions made, and the whole mutant dino thing is so horribly underused. I didn't like the idea to begin with too much, because I don't need mutant dino's, I just like dino's, and they are there for the whole movie, but they bring out a mutant dino in this, with a terribly dumb intro for it, and then utilized it terribly for the ending. They sorta just...get away and that was it for the Distortus Rex...like they ran out of funding for a cooler ending, it felt anti-climatic to me.
It's also done something I don't know that I've seen in movies often, but they got the monster scaling wrong scene to scene. By default, I think Distortus Rex is like...a really large T-Rex pretty much, bigger than one, but not gigantically so. In one scene though, it comes out of the fog, chomping on a full size, multi-person, transport helicopter, it's mouth big enough to bite through the cockpit, which would make it like...a 100 feet tall or something, quadruple it's supposed size, just for the next scene, it scales down to like, maybe it can take a bit of two people at once lol It's so weird. It makes a cool shot way less cool when your giant monster becomes immediately less gigantic lol
So yeah, it's something I'd rather watch more than the past two World movies, by a large margin, but it's kinda rough, it needed more time in the writers room to either choose if it wanted it to be a classic Jurassic Park styled movie, or maybe something more mature that delved into the ideas of mutant dino's a whole lot more. A more mature, R-Rated, darker toned movie revolving around that, while not a movie I would super want, would've been better than what they did here. Either do the standard Jurassic Park or trying something that at least gives adults a more interesting movie.
