TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

Oh jeez, so many thoughts about that stupid movie.

I kinda see a pattern here.  #1, very good, entertaining movie.  #2, semi-decent sequel.  #3 bad idea of a movie, like they had no idea what they were doing.  Repeat the cycle.

[Barrister]

Oh, and part of the plot involves the Tim Cook-esque bad guy bioengineering some supersized Cretaceous-era giant locusts that eat all the crops that aren't from his own company's seeds.  Hey I have no problem with big bad corporate supervillains, but that's just cartoonish supervillainy right there that gets spotted within seconds by the Laura Dern character.

Seriously - you're making a movie with living dinosaurs - why does the plot have to be so convoluted and stupid?

[The Brain]

Solo. Kinda meh, but one good thing was that SPOILER: Khaleesi betrayed him.

[CountDeMoney]

Finally - was the big bad guy very clearly inspired by Tim Cook?

Well, it was the Apple Macintosh Quadtra towers in the original movie that Neuman programmed to crash the system, you know. 

So, continuity.

[Barrister]

Finally - was the big bad guy very clearly inspired by Tim Cook?

Well, it was the Apple Macintosh Quadtra towers in the original movie that Neuman programmed to crash the system, you know. 

So, continuity.

LOL - you just made me realize that the original Jurassic Park is so old that it even pre-dates Steve Jobs coming back to Apple!  Never mind that Tim Cook hadn't even joined Apple yet.

[CountDeMoney]

Finally - was the big bad guy very clearly inspired by Tim Cook?

Well, it was the Apple Macintosh Quadtra towers in the original movie that Neuman programmed to crash the system, you know. 

So, continuity.

LOL - you just made me realize that the original Jurassic Park is so old that it even pre-dates Steve Jobs coming back to Apple!  Never mind that Tim Cook hadn't even joined Apple yet.

Maybe the big bad corporate supervillain...is the corporation.  :TimApple:

[Barrister]

Just in case you thought I was kidding about the baddie being a Tim Cook-clone...

Here's Lewis Dodgson, the main bad guy from Jurassic World: Dominion



And here's Tim Cook




And I swear I didn't pick the pictures deliberately that they were making the same hand gesture!

[HVC]

It's cooks fault for ripping off Mr Burns.

[Admiral Yi]

Who was the tech mogul on Don't Look Up supposed to be?  I'm figuring a mix of Dyson and Zuck.

[FunkMonk]

Rian Johnson posted today on Twitter that a new Knives Out movie is coming out on Netflix later this year.

https://twitter.com/rianjohnson/status/1536378456153260033

[Sheilbh]

Hopefully it'll get a cinema release too (I imagine it will).

[Barrister]

Hopefully it'll get a cinema release too (I imagine it will).

I believe it will.

Knives Out was great - I have good hopes for this one.

[celedhring]

First one was a riot. Really looking forward to the next ones, IIRC he's contracted for two sequels.

[Eddie Teach]

Once Upon a Time in America. Ugh. If you're going to wallow in sentimentality, at least do it for a likeable character.

[Razgovory]

I like to wallow.  Sometimes I roll around on my bed saying, "Wallow! Wallow! Wallow! Wallow!" and pretend I'm a pig.  One of those wallowing pigs.