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Wow, it's been a month since I posted here. How the heck even? It doesn't seem like that much time has passed, but then again, I still have to pause myself and go, wait, it's the middle of June already.
So, interesting real life things. On May 29th and 30th,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dungeonmarm, his mother, and I went to Austin to see Post Modern Jukebox, which was even better than I thought it would be. Jon's mom wanted to go because she's a big fan of Casey Abrams and Haley Reinhart, who were performing that night, and I was simply lucky that she asked if I wanted to go with them. Because PMJ!! It was the last performance of Morgan James in the tour, and the first one for Maiya Sykes, so I feel like I got super lucky, and we had the best of both worlds. (Seriously, I'm mildly obsessed with Take Me to Church, and if you haven't heard their version, you really need to.)
I got a raise at work, and I'm now over $10 an hour, which is awesome and much needed. I don't really have anything to say on the work front? I feel like I work a lot, it takes a lot of my energy, and then I come home and Jon and I watch some sort of media. We finished Sense8 in two days, and right now we're about two thirds of the way through the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
(In other news, I wanted to drain the rest of my Pepsi, but there was way more left than I thought there was? It actually made the pressure in my ears change and leaked a little out of my nose. WTF and also OW.)
Today, Dad and I went to see Jurassic World.
Short version: No one ever gives a fuck about the humans in these movies, right? It's all about the fucking DINOSAURS.
Longer version: Chris Pratt plays a lovable goofball dinosaur warden, Bryce Dallas Howard plays an uptight chick who works too much to have a family. They had one date and didn't work out. Of course, everyone knows that incompatible life views vanish entirely when under a DINOSAUR ATTACK.
Nephews get lost in the park (because obvs, there needs to be a reason for Owen (Pratt) and Karen (Howard) to go out into the park in the first place.) There are evil military people, mad scientist dinosaur makers, dinosaur geeks in the control room, etc. Every single human is drawn in the widest strokes possible, and I'm pretty sure they rely mostly on stereotypes to get the personality of those people across. Was there any reason why the two nephews couldn't be two nieces? Is there any reason that the heroic techie who stays to help Owen and Karen navigate the park was a dude? Not really. There's really no excuse at all.
But who comes to a dinosaur movie wanting care about the people? It's sure as fuck not me. So let's get to the fun stuff.
DINOSAURS.
And, also, REPTILES THAT CAN BE LOOSELY NAMED AS DINOSAURS BECAUSE NO ONE ACTUALLY GIVES A FUCK WHAT THEY ARE.
So, we got introduced to the park and the people, and the ever growing impending sense of doom, where literally every decision a character makes has you, the viewer, going, "That's not going to turn well." Am I bad for thinking that every adult dumb enough to go onto that island kind of deserved what they got? Because COME ON. DINOSAUR THEME PARKS ARE NEVER A GOOD IDEA.
Anyway, I digress.
We meet Owen, who is an ex-Navy dude who got pulled in by the government so we could learn about velociraptor tendencies. Owen, of course, has a bond with the pack, and he's alpha. We also have Blue, Charlie, Delta, and Echo. All the personality that might have been written in for the humans? Was kind of given to the dinosaurs instead. CHARLIE WAS SO LOVEABLE. Blue was such a hardass!
Of course, military dudes are all like, we can use velociraptors for war! And save soldiers lives! And I can't help but think, Vincent D'Onofrio, why are you playing evil military people now? Boooooo.
We're also introduced to the poor mosasaur who is stuck doing sea world shows for food, and then, of course, is the NEW ATTRACTION.
THE EVEN-MORE-GENETICALLY-MODIFIED-THAN-USUAL INDOMINUS REX. Seriously, the list of things that we know are in this thing's genetic makeup makes you head desk. IT HAS
Camouflage. The ability to mask it's heat signature. Brains smart enough to make a trap successful enough to get it out of its enclosure. It is made out of at least these animals: the T-Rex, the Abelisaur, Cuttlefish, Tree Frog, Pit Adder, and Velociraptor. BECAUSE OF COURSE IT DOES.
Suffice to say, it's super smart and ridiculously murderous. It kills for sport, leading to a scene that reminded me very much of Little Foot's mother dying in The Land Before Time (I'm not ashamed to admit I cried), and after some back and forth, it's finally taken down by the raptor squad, a T-Rex, and the aforementioned Moasaur.
And then there was some basic tying of loose ends for the humans, but who cares about that?
DINOSAURS.
All in all, I would give that movie...a B-? Because humans are dumb, but GIANT PREHISTORIC LIZARDS. RAAAAWR.
So, interesting real life things. On May 29th and 30th,
dungeonmarm, his mother, and I went to Austin to see Post Modern Jukebox, which was even better than I thought it would be. Jon's mom wanted to go because she's a big fan of Casey Abrams and Haley Reinhart, who were performing that night, and I was simply lucky that she asked if I wanted to go with them. Because PMJ!! It was the last performance of Morgan James in the tour, and the first one for Maiya Sykes, so I feel like I got super lucky, and we had the best of both worlds. (Seriously, I'm mildly obsessed with Take Me to Church, and if you haven't heard their version, you really need to.)I got a raise at work, and I'm now over $10 an hour, which is awesome and much needed. I don't really have anything to say on the work front? I feel like I work a lot, it takes a lot of my energy, and then I come home and Jon and I watch some sort of media. We finished Sense8 in two days, and right now we're about two thirds of the way through the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
(In other news, I wanted to drain the rest of my Pepsi, but there was way more left than I thought there was? It actually made the pressure in my ears change and leaked a little out of my nose. WTF and also OW.)
Today, Dad and I went to see Jurassic World.
Short version: No one ever gives a fuck about the humans in these movies, right? It's all about the fucking DINOSAURS.
Longer version: Chris Pratt plays a lovable goofball dinosaur warden, Bryce Dallas Howard plays an uptight chick who works too much to have a family. They had one date and didn't work out. Of course, everyone knows that incompatible life views vanish entirely when under a DINOSAUR ATTACK.
Nephews get lost in the park (because obvs, there needs to be a reason for Owen (Pratt) and Karen (Howard) to go out into the park in the first place.) There are evil military people, mad scientist dinosaur makers, dinosaur geeks in the control room, etc. Every single human is drawn in the widest strokes possible, and I'm pretty sure they rely mostly on stereotypes to get the personality of those people across. Was there any reason why the two nephews couldn't be two nieces? Is there any reason that the heroic techie who stays to help Owen and Karen navigate the park was a dude? Not really. There's really no excuse at all.
But who comes to a dinosaur movie wanting care about the people? It's sure as fuck not me. So let's get to the fun stuff.
DINOSAURS.
And, also, REPTILES THAT CAN BE LOOSELY NAMED AS DINOSAURS BECAUSE NO ONE ACTUALLY GIVES A FUCK WHAT THEY ARE.
So, we got introduced to the park and the people, and the ever growing impending sense of doom, where literally every decision a character makes has you, the viewer, going, "That's not going to turn well." Am I bad for thinking that every adult dumb enough to go onto that island kind of deserved what they got? Because COME ON. DINOSAUR THEME PARKS ARE NEVER A GOOD IDEA.
Anyway, I digress.
We meet Owen, who is an ex-Navy dude who got pulled in by the government so we could learn about velociraptor tendencies. Owen, of course, has a bond with the pack, and he's alpha. We also have Blue, Charlie, Delta, and Echo. All the personality that might have been written in for the humans? Was kind of given to the dinosaurs instead. CHARLIE WAS SO LOVEABLE. Blue was such a hardass!
Of course, military dudes are all like, we can use velociraptors for war! And save soldiers lives! And I can't help but think, Vincent D'Onofrio, why are you playing evil military people now? Boooooo.
We're also introduced to the poor mosasaur who is stuck doing sea world shows for food, and then, of course, is the NEW ATTRACTION.
THE EVEN-MORE-GENETICALLY-MODIFIED-THAN-USUAL INDOMINUS REX. Seriously, the list of things that we know are in this thing's genetic makeup makes you head desk. IT HAS
Camouflage. The ability to mask it's heat signature. Brains smart enough to make a trap successful enough to get it out of its enclosure. It is made out of at least these animals: the T-Rex, the Abelisaur, Cuttlefish, Tree Frog, Pit Adder, and Velociraptor. BECAUSE OF COURSE IT DOES.
Suffice to say, it's super smart and ridiculously murderous. It kills for sport, leading to a scene that reminded me very much of Little Foot's mother dying in The Land Before Time (I'm not ashamed to admit I cried), and after some back and forth, it's finally taken down by the raptor squad, a T-Rex, and the aforementioned Moasaur.
And then there was some basic tying of loose ends for the humans, but who cares about that?
DINOSAURS.
All in all, I would give that movie...a B-? Because humans are dumb, but GIANT PREHISTORIC LIZARDS. RAAAAWR.