65 - Adam Driver from the future fights dinosaurs in the past

[JPL]

29 minutes ago, squirtle said:

If you want to know the basic plot...

 

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Driver is transporting people across space from another planet to raise money for his daughter's illness treatment. They hit the asteroids that are about to buy earth 65 million years ago. Only him and a young girl survive and they have to make it to the escape pod which is some distance away before the big one hits. 

 

That's it. It's very streamlined and they don't understand each other, and it's all the better for it.

 

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So there’s no explanation as to why there are humans with futuristic tech hanging around in space 65 million years ago?

 

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8 minutes ago, JPL said:

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So there’s no explanation as to why there are humans with futuristic tech hanging around in space 65 million years ago?

 

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No, and there doesn't need to be. Their tech isn't futuristic, it's just their tech. The film is better for not getting hung up on these details.

 

[Alex W.]

Why didn’t anyone tell me this was out for fuck‘s sake.

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19 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

Why didn’t anyone tell me this was out for fuck‘s sake.

It's out. Go see it.

[Alex W.]

Well that was about as good as a 90 minute Adam Driver dinosaur survival movie needed to be.

 

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Driver’s pathos got me to buy back in when the action sagged, and I appreciated that they give  you a minute to figure out on your own why he had that breakdown after the crash.

 

Throwing in the asteroid was a nice way of raising the stakes and giving you some catharsis because these asshole dinosaurs needed to be extincted.

 

[Stilllife]

Saw this today, it is OK. Not terrible, not great - just something to enjoy. A few nice jump scares (as you'd expect) and some parts that do make you question the technology the main character has. They are well ahead of our technology and able to go out into space but yet they still use standard nylon rope... that made me chuckle.

 

 

[ryanm]

Forget the rope! Driver's society has solved the non-trivial problems of routine interstellar travel but hasn't figured out universal healthcare?

[Alex W.]

The studio probably thought it was less plausible than Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs with a laser rifle.

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1 hour ago, ryanm said:

Forget the rope! Driver's society has solved the non-trivial problems of routine interstellar travel but hasn't figured out universal healthcare?

Universal healthcare is too big a suspension of disbelief.

[Ork1927]

I found this pretty Meh. Premise is good and there are some nice visuals and the dinosaurs look good, but far too much tropey flashback/backstory for a 90 minutes escape form the planet of the dinosaurs movie and the shooting dinosaurs with laser stuff was mainly unsatisfying as the laser hitting the dinosaurs didn't really show anything for the most part - it was a bit like Duck Hunt.

 

It just about dragged itself to a 3/5 as it ended pretty well and there were some nice ideas and a few half decent set pieces, but its very cliched.

[strider]

How on earth do you make a film filled with dinosaurs boring? That was dullsville. 

[Strafe]

Well, I was pretty close, minus the 

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Time travel bit and girl getting grabbed by flying dinos.

 

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[Strafe]

On 14/03/2023 at 21:54, ryanm said:

Forget the rope! Driver's society has solved the non-trivial problems of routine interstellar travel but hasn't figured out universal healthcare?

I’m not sure how reliable the interstellar travel is considering the ship was only going marginally faster than a small asteroid field. Not that asteroids group that close together of course.

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11 hours ago, Strafe said:

I’m not sure how reliable the interstellar travel is considering the ship was only going marginally faster than a small asteroid field. Not that asteroids group that close together of course.

 

Sounds like a set-up to me!

[Loik V credern]

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A tease of film, a tease of a trailer giving the impression this is an action packed b movie rather than something more humanist drama, mute girl being looked after by adult in sci fi horror survival film is as predictable as it gets and that it spends more of the film on that than the dinosaurs doesn't leave much to find that interesting. Doesn't help that she seems a bit dim, crew on nature documentaries don't help out animals struggling to get out of holes or whatever because they're there to observe and you can't interfere with nature, or you can but there's little point when they might get eaten an hour later or fall down another hole the next day. My point only being...they're crew sitting for long hours in bored comfort watching, this girl and Driver are stranded aiming to trek miles to an escape ship, it's not the time to wander off trying to help creatures.

But then of course she's not dim when it comes to tieing a rope around some rocks that's like an elaborate web or tracking down Driver's position when he's about to die and saving his life. 

Driver is also dim though, climbing up some branches high up a tree and inevitably falling when the branches break. How can you be invested in their trek when they so readily put themselves in danger and threat hasn't been established because the film avoids showing any dinosaurs.

Why don't protagonists in films ever talk out loud to themselves? This pilot of ships who travels across space transporting people to different planets is adept with a gun. Not super resourceful but not out of his depth being an action man. We know what dinosaurs are but does he? He doesn't once respond to seeing them. All he says is 'there is something alien out there'. His 'that...uh...is dangerous' in perfect Goldblum tone seems a nod to that character.

'Something alien out there' doesn't even make sense to me, are reptiles alien to him? On his home planet and all the planets he's been to? Or does he just mean the t rex he got a brief look at? Because shape wise the t rex is just a bigger dinosaur, it's not alien..right...? The asteroid about to hit used as peril is so lame, it kind of underlines how actually danger free their trek has been.

It doesn’t really make sense does it that Driver and girl would be so human like, if we evolved elsewhere we'd look different, right? Not that I'd want comical ears or scaley skin. 

It's such a thinly written film. There is nothing in this I think that's worth seeing in terms of being outstanding. No memorable scenes, no real good action, no humour, no good dialogue. But it is competently well shot, I like the music and mood.

It's a film that makes so little impact that afterwards I'm likely to look for what everyone else says to see if there's many things I'm missing.

I think I'm likely to watch the trailer again because I'm sure it contains more action. In a film so underwritten where you're just waiting for dinosaur action I do wonder how you do it that feels natural and paced well. Jurassic Park 3 makes the mistake I think of having dinosaurs attacking them immediately after landing on the island, it feels like a roller coaster ride.

In 65, there is never any escalation, never any real jeopardy, just glimpses. I paused the film multiple times to look at the time elapsed and how much there was left because it never gives the sense it'll lift off. And then I'm thinking...has there been enough build up.

The Lost World is a much maligned film, I think unfairly. Malcolm isn't fun any more, he shouldn't be the lead, it's all unnecessary and Spielberg wasn't into it. But the trailer scene...brilliant. The thrashing of the rain, the guy trying to reverse back in the mud, there's several points of escalation in a proper action scene. It's stupid, why bring back a dinosaur cub really, even if to test the indifference of the parents. Then more of the T Rex action when they're asleep. I don't know, I still like it and it's better than every other dinosaur film since. 

That's the disappointing thing, I hoped this would provide the dinosaur thrills that the Jurassic World trilogy couldn't. But no. When I saw the trailer it was like...oh right yeah why don't we get more dinosaur films?

It probably is one of the most limp executions of a promise really, an almost total avoidance of doing action. Is anyone going to a sci fi film about a man landing on a dinosaur roaming Earth for humanist drama? No. 

 

4/10

 

[Darwock]

I’m wondering why they felt the need to redesign the dinosaurs that we did eventually get to see. Their anatomy was all wrong, even what I assume was supposed to be the T-rex - it looked fine until you saw it charging and then it was moving on all fours.

 

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And what the hell was that tongue thing?

Making everything extra weird and freaky is not what is going to appeal to dino fans.

[Captain Novaforce]

Pretty decent 80's b-movie vibes from this one, I enjoyed it 

 

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So Adam Driver and the girl were aliens who just happened to look like Humans? Yeah whatever, it was just an excuse to shoot dinosaurs with a space gun and keep the budget down. At one point I wondered if at the very end the two survivors would be revealed to looking like Greys all along. 

 

 

 

 

[Treble]

Any concept like that was clearly waaay beyond the skill of the writers, bro. 

[Steve McQueef]

Dinosaur murder porn.

[Fargo]

Is this available to rent yet ? 

[Darwock]

Yaaaarrrrrss.

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On 13/03/2023 at 04:10, Stilllife said:

yet they still use standard nylon rope... that made me chuckle.

 

 

 

More to the point;

 

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why did he need to use a rope to climb a wall that was about 6 inches taller than him? 😂

Anyway, weird film. It never really let up but there was so little jeopardy. It was an OK way to use 90 minutes but can’t see myself watching it again. 

[Steve McQueef]

So little jeopardy?

 

Ya what? 

[Darwock]

Yeah I had the opposite complaint - anything and everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. It was almost comical!

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9 hours ago, Steve McQueef said:

So little jeopardy?

 

Ya what? 

 

Like I said, everything went wrong all the time. But you knew it was all going to be A-OK in the end. I can think of plenty of other films recently where you actually worried about the characters even though you knew they were going to make it.

 

So, yeah. That's what. But if it had you on the edge of your seat then fair enough.

 

1 hour ago, Darwock said:

Yeah I had the opposite complaint - anything and everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. It was almost comical!

 

Yes, exactly. My wife and I were laughing and cracking jokes about it. 

[Loik V credern]

I don't get 'it never really let up'? It never got going? 

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It never let up for me as they just staggered from one incident to the next at break neck pace. It felt relentless and yet somehow really dull. Just far too one paced.

 

The attempts at humour were never even close to landing either.

 

Shame. I really thought this was going to be great.