Magonosaurus
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The themes were pretty clear to me when I first saw it, which was why I gave it 2.5/5 instead of a lower score during my first viewing. Looking back now, they weren't really themes that were so intelligent or clever that it's hard to decipher from the movie. It's clearly inserted by someone trying to be clever, but clearly wasn't.Seeing this video has made me somewhat reconsider Jurassic World, though it doesn't improve the experience I had with it. It's a shame that a film with surprisingly well thought-out themes and narrative had such... generic execution.
It's easy to subvert something; it's hard to actually say something meaningful out of the subversion. Saying, "Hurr duhh the first Jurassic Park was clearly the best of the franchise" wasn't something revolutionary or thought-provoking, nor was "Hollywood movies are just lazy cash-ins."
Also, nothing is more insulting than having a movie tell you that you've wasted your time and money watching yet another Hollywood's lazy attempt to steal your money, especially when all I could think about wasn't its supposedly subversive message, but why the fuck that lady was running from a T-Rex on high heels.
It's almost as dumb as Spec Ops: The Line's message, telling its gamers that FPS games are just platforms for gamers to feel like a hero about killing people... while being a game about killing people. It's fucking stupid.
On that same note, stop trying to use "deconstruction" as a means to make your movie seem like it's trying to say something clever either, Hollywood. Especially you, Hack Snyder. You're not being smart by being edgy. You're about as smart as Mark Millar and his more appalling works like The Unfunnies, bearing the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
Actual filmmaking that has actually meaningful things to say like the works of Stanley Kubrick takes years of efforts, if not a whole decade. It takes time to pour that blood and sweat into crafting individual shots 127 times just to get the right shot that defines your vision. That's why making actually good movies people will actually remember for decades to come is so freaking hard.
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