Saturday, March 26, 2016

Movie "review": Jurassic World

As with the last post, this one also has a bit (or should I say, a lot) to do with Vincent D'Onofrio. 
If you are going into this expecting an actual, serious movie review, you're in for a surprise. This is a review from the perspective of "I did not actually pay that much attention to the movie", so... you've been warned. Ordinarily, I wouldn't watch movies like this, but the rest of the family wanted to see it and I remembered that it happened to have Vincent D'Onofrio in it, in some capacity, so I figured it was maybe worth a watch. After googling it to get a feeling for how long it was, I noticed that it also had the actor who played the psychiatrist on Law and Order SVU. (all two of your L&O faves in one movie!) 
I didn't really think that Vincent would have a huge role in the movie and I was right. However, I didn't mind half paying attention and trying to see when his character (whose name I did not catch) was on screen. I'm going to write this "review" fresh off of seeing the movie (which as I said, I did not pay much attention to) and before having looked up the summary online so I can see what actually happened. After I do that, I'll write a little bit of my impression after learning what this whole damn thing was actually about. 
Anyways, this definitely was not Law and Order (unsurprisingly), so obviously Vincent's role was different than what I've been used to seeing him as. In this movie, he had some facial hair which I did not like the look of (I'm really not a fan of facial hair, on anyone) and so I kept thinking that I wished his character would shave. From what I gathered, his character was a zookeeper of sorts at the eponymous dinosaur theme park. He said some things here and there, but I was mostly just looking at him and not really paying much attention to the dialogue. Seeing as he was not a main character, there wasn't a ton of him to be seen although there were a few hand-gesturey moments of the kind that we see a lot of in Law and Order. 
I spent a lot of the movie wondering when/if Vincent's character was going to get eaten by the dinosaurs. Towards the end (about 20 mins. before the end) he does seem to get eaten, or at least we see his hand being bitten off by a dinosaur. Since his character does not make an appearance after that, I'm assuming that he may have gotten eaten in full after that. Boo. Poor thing. I kept laughing during this movie because it was just kind of funny, or at least if you don't pay much attention, it is. Also because it was sort of funny to watch Vincent in this role. I kind of would have liked to see him get eaten in full, or perhaps run away from the dinosaur frantically, missing a hand/forearm.. that sounds a little twisted, doesn't it.. in any case. That basically sums up my impression of the movie, having not paid much attention and mostly only looking at Vincent's character. I couldn't really figure out if his character was supposed to be a protagonist or antagonist or something in between. Although he did get punched in the face at one point by the main character. I'm not really sure what that was about (again, going back to the fact that I didn't pay much attention at all...). I probably could have lived without having seen that movie, honestly. Anyways, now to go on and read the summary of what actually happened... the next part of the "review" will be my thoughts after having read said summary. All in all, I thought it was kind of a strange movie (although, that effect can probably be achieved for any movie if you don't pay attention). 

Part 2: post-summary reading...

Apparently Vincent's character was an antagonist. Huh. Maybe that's why he had to get eaten. 
Having now read what actually happened in the movie, I don't really have much to say. Nothing really stuck out to me as anything particularly interesting. Oh well. I'm going to have to watch some other movies that Vincent has been in. Perhaps they'll be more interesting/better. And anyways, there's always Law and Order.. 

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