Skip to main content

Jurasick world - movie

No it is not a spelling mistake.  I really felt sick after watching the latest installment of Hollywood's amalgam of our reptilian ancestors with modern humans.

I am not sure what made this movie popular since nothing that was compiled in this production made any sense other than several instances of showcasing human idiocy that would highlight our place in the pecking order below the reptilian.

It starts with some mindless interaction between members of what constitutes a modern American white family where the parents unload their two kids, older one of which is a loser who owns a headset and maintains a cheesy girl crush, on a vacuous sister that has no clue that her nephews even exist.

Why she signs up to host these two remains a mystery that never unravels.  That she has them brought to a one of a kind theme park containing live dinosaurs that she has operational control of and no time to engage in any other activity other than run this giant park is weird.  Character is played by Bryce Howard who is the daughter of a smart man called Ron Howard.

Then there is an idealistic Navy seal that's found employment at a theme park run by a whacko immigrant of unknown origin played by Irrfan Khan.  The seal's motivation to be at this Dino compound is another mystery that has the audience likely confused until they discover that he has always been wanting to point a gun at a massive creature while ogling at a semi naked woman.  He gets his chance several times during some moronic chase sequences through Hawaii's pastures where some location shoot was done passing of for Costa Rica - again without any logic.

Spielberg has co-funded the project and in terms of return on investment has certainly hit a home run as the film grossed ridiculous amount of money.  I saw it for free with a loaner DVD from our county library.

But with some big names in production and directing behind it I am very confused as to the point of this exercise.   

Comments

  1. RajendraMarch 13, 2016 at 10:13 PM

    I never understood what this reptile -or any other-has that is so fascinating to humans. The fact that people pay to watch such antics speaks volumes of the low (intellect)-life inhabiting the earth..

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

On the go(zay masta) in Japan again

Cool cat the Japanese are Tokyo at dusk  My second visit to this land of the rising sun after almost a decade. Back then clearly I was wet behind the ears product manager and likely didn’t pay attention to all (efficient) things Japanese. But today I did and of course continue to be impressed. It is as much the obvious stuff like on time travel that is both clean and comfortable and all that which makes it possible. The impressive landmark and landscapes that these humans have put together despite their cramped (or because of it) surroundings and precarious geological conditions could amaze a novice architect among us. But it’s also the little things that someone had to think about which have a phenomenal impact on day to day lives that make the Japanese stand apart. Below are few random examples- 1. Providing a very fine machined wooden toothpick in every packet of wooden chopsticks. The said chapsticks are simply set on the To Go counter of any food vendor/ convenience store wher...
Post a Comment
Read more

A few good books

 On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
Post a Comment
Read more

Back in DC

This time for a tech conference in the realm of what else? AI. But applied to an oft neglected space called Knowledge Management. The latter is a community of practice that focuses on analyzing, organizing and making available reams of data that have been gathered over time by various functions within an organization for anyone in the company to utilize. This function or process is ripe for applying AI agents (or agentic AI framework) and optimize for better outcomes. It was informative. More rewarding was getting acquainted with folks who practice this craft as well as learning of what they see in the corporate or public sectors. Since the venue was Washington DC it also afforded me the chance to take evening strolls albeit the weather was trying. With wind chill in the single digit it still is a glamorous place to perambulate through history absorbing what this country has been through since its founding days. I was able to visit the place Lincoln was killed along with his monument t...
Post a Comment
Read more