Jurassic World: Dominion - I'd heard so much bad stuff about this movie, so I was kinda putting it off, but I couldn't think of anything else I was in the mood for, so figured I'd just get this over with. I was okay with the first Jurassic World, like it's not great at all, but the setup is fine enough. The second movie was 1/3rd okay until they left the island and then that movie tanked hard.
I would say I like Dominion more than Fallen Kingdom because at the very least it doesn't spend most of its time in a boring mansion, and there's some okay action stuff going throughout the far too long movie as they travel around, but that's not saying much. I kinda hate that Malcolm, Grant, and Satler are here, because it's very clear they have no reason to be in this movie, but they try to make up a really dumb story about cretaceous era locusts threatening the global food supply, which is what the movie is actually about, that's the big threat, not the dinosaurs.
It's all so badly written, it's like two movies put into one, because the Jurassic Park crew are working on the locust stuff, and the World crew are trying to save the clone girl from the second movie and Blue's kid from the new evil company, and they do connect and resolve, but you don't need that locust plot here, this movie is about dinosaurs. The second movie set this up as "dinosaurs are now in civilization", but the movie isn't about that and by the end, it's pushing a kinda stupid idea about co-existing with them, which would never happen.
It's not the worst thing I've seen, some takes I've seen on it get really hyperbolic, but it's definitely not good and shows just how unnecessary this trilogy was. No one wants Jurassic Park to be what this was.
Black Adam - I'm in a mood where I have stuff to watch, mostly tv shows, but I don't want to dedicate the time to it, so I'm catching up on some mid tier stuff. Mid is definitely what I'd consider this movie. Outright, The Rock is awful in this. He has a great look, but he's not a very good actor, he never has been, but there are things I've enjoyed him enough before. Here, he's trying to play this stern, almost brooding, type of character, but he's so one note, he just seems bored. He also can just speak perfect english cause of magic? I guess that's one way of getting around him having to learn English or speak with an accent, something the Rock can't do.
The movie itself is fine, the other heroes in it are more entertaining, there are some decent fights, I do like Black Adam just decimating the military forces throughout, very "anti-hero" stuff. I found the kid in this pretty obnoxious, weird 90's kid movie vibes with him, down to him even skateboarding everywhere, just didn't seem particularly well acted/well written. Compared to the other DC stuff, I'd probably also say it's mid, kinda mid to lower end for me. It's not bad, but I'll never watch it again, all the more so with them rebooting everything.
Justice League Dark - Got in a mood for something abit better than Black Adam, but also DC related, so I decided to go watch one of the animated films. I think I did see this before, but sorta forgot I had, but it's still a decent watch. Kinda funny that it's rated R, when they didn't really need to. Sure, they show people getting killed abit violently and such, but they don't go hard enough to really embrace that rating and making it PG-13 would be pretty easy and not affect anything going on. As most of the animated movies tend to be, it's a solid watch.
