{"id":295,"date":"2018-07-14T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=295"},"modified":"2018-07-14T11:48:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:48:02","slug":"jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/blockbuster\/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e0_96_YQu0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This film is pretty impossible to review. It was there, it passed, it was ok, we left. But here goes. First of all, it&#8217;s not _that_ terrible, indeed it is probably better than Jurassic World (okay, that&#8217;s a low bar). It&#8217;s way better than trainwrecks such as Independence Day 2, say. It&#8217;s just not very good. On the plus side:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starts with a knowing shot of Bryce Dallas Howard&#8217;s high heels as a nod to the criticism in the previous film.<\/li>\n<li>Contains a &#8220;nasty woman&#8221; joke<\/li>\n<li>Has dinosaurs<\/li>\n<li>Features a new favourite dinosaur in bonehead (Pachycephalosaurus)<\/li>\n<li>Has a couple of nicely framed cinematic shots of dinosaurs shadowed, outlined, foregrounded effectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the negatives outweigh these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The two leads are too clean. They belong in a made for TV Christmas film where Howard returns to small town from the big city, falls in love with Pratt&#8217;s down to earth charm, learns some lessons and they save some puppies from an evil developer.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the CGI is crap<\/li>\n<li>The killing machine dinosaur that is set to revolutionise warfare seems easily outwitted and when it has a chance to kill our heroes, inexplicably decides to move very slowly.<\/li>\n<li>The killing machine dinosaur is activated by pointing a laser at someone and then emitting a sound activation. It will then stop at nothing to get them. Or you could just, you know, shoot them?<\/li>\n<li>Paucity of really cool deaths<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient tension<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are maybe setting the franchise up for a Planet of the Dinosaurs type ending, which might be fun. But this one, see it, don&#8217;t see it, there&#8217;s no real difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This film is pretty impossible to review. It was there, it passed, it was ok, we left. But here goes. First of all, it&#8217;s not _that_ terrible, indeed it is probably better than Jurassic World (okay, that&#8217;s a low bar). It&#8217;s way better than trainwrecks such as Independence Day 2,&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/blockbuster\/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockbuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}