1) Jurassic Park would be nice if the promotional material so far didn't make it seem like just a retread of the same old shit. That's bad for Jurassic Park, because the best thing about the original movie is how Stephen Spielberg managed to evoke a sense of awe and discovery. Granted, the dinosaurs killing people was kind of cool, but the best thing was how he sold it. It just seemed like this really amazing fucking place, and they did a great job of selling how awesome and amazing it is.
How is Jurassic World supposed to compete with that? From the trailers, it automatically seems to be copying the original premise, but MINUS any of the awe and discovery. After all, jurassic world is a world that finds dinosaurs so ho-hum that they've trained velociraptors and people have no problem flocking to that park despite the shitload of people who have gotten eaten by dinosaurs in previous attempts. Even the goddamn characters, the freaking dinosaur food, are stripped of their sense of discovery. Otherwise, how would they have ever have managed to buy a ticket to Jurassic World in the first place?
Don't get me wrong, it might be a good movie. But i'm not sold on it.
2) Terminator Generisysis? Who gives a shit? This franchise never should have gone beyond one movie. "But no, what about Terminator 2?" Terminator 2 was great solely as an action movie, it's James Cameron at his best, yadda yadda yadda. But as a SEQUEL? **** Terminator 2. And that's the thing...this is an ongoing franchise with 2 movies in it (at best). Hell...the only reason T2 was the movie it was is because James Cameron didn't have the means and the budget to do an all out future war movie. And that's what the Terminator franchise should have been. the Terminator, plus MAYBE one "sequel" that shows the badass future war and ends by continuing into The Terminator. Just an Orobouros of movies, that never ends and constantly loops onto itself.
And that's just MAYBE. Because even in that "ideal" situation, that'd still make Terminator 2 an actual PREQUEL. And as we all know, prequels fucking suck. So I maintain that this franchise never should have gone beyond the first fucking movie. granted, Cameron did a great job on the sequel, but in doing so he set the stage for the entire story becoming so convoluted and stupid and fucked up that it doesn't make ANY goddamn sense. And that would be fine if that was what The Terminator was about, but it's NOT what The Terminator was about. "No Fate but what we make?" **** that shit. The Terminator's big fucking reveal was that YES, we are all victims of fate. Like it or hate it, that ends the fucking franchise. There is nowhere to go from there, ESPECIALLY when it's a time travel movie so you already know EXACTLY what everyone's fate is. Terminator becoming a 5-movie-franchise is like someone turning 12 Monkeys into a 5-movie-franchise. Sure, you COULD do it, if you don't give a flying **** about the story and only want to show more scenes of Bald Bruce Willis beating people to death and drooling all over himself. Still, the first movie will always be the only one that fucking matters.
Anyway, **** Terminator movies. Sequels are JUST like a sequel to fucking 12 monkeys. All of the despair and hopelessness, and love-in-the-face-of-despair-and-hopelessness are fucking gone once you establish that you can change the fucking rules in order to show more shootings and beatings. Action, **** yeah! It's like making a movie about a woman dying of cancer, and then she actually fucking dies at the end of the movie. Then some studio **** sees that everyone likes that movie, so he says, "so, what if everyone's favorite cancer woman didn't actually die? The audience saw that she died, but then we can start the sequel with a scene showing how she onlty ALMOST died, and then she beats her cancer and lives a long life?" And that's how I feel about The Terminator. It was fucking dead as soon as the first movie ended. Can we please start learning how to let dead things die with DIGNITY?
3) Star Wars? Eh, I'm interested. Not that I care that much, but Star Wars has always been kind of stupid and kind of cool, so okay. I like these movies enough that I'd be glad seeing more, but I also don't like them enough to care if they're total shit. I'll definitely see it, but I don't particularly care about it one way or the other. There's enough cool shit in even the bad Star Wars movies to keep me entertained for a little while. Simultaneously, none of the good Star Wars movies (with the POSSIBLE exception of ESB) were good enough for me to care whether or not the franchise sucks. I'll watch it, but I am not really anticipating it since I have a really hard time caring about Star Wars. I don't actively dislike the stuff, I am just "mostly indifferent, leaning on the side of cool."
4) Fury Road is my most anticipated. Partly because I've seen enough of it to know that it looks fucking insane. Seriously, this shit looks SO fucking awesome. My only real worry at this point is that it might just come off as a more ball-to-the-wall retread of Mad Max 2. And yeah...Mad Max 2 was the fucking shit, I mean...omfg...wtf! But that was sort of UNIQUE within the Mad Max trilogy. All three of them were kind of different. Even Beyond Thunderdome, while being the weakest link, was different enough that I could appreciate it for at least TRYING to be different. But Fury Road? As fucking amazing as this shit looks, I have to admit that it also looks too much like "Mad Max 2 on steroids and PCP." Which might be fine for pure visual spectacle, but I'd also really like to see something NEW here.
Still...have you SEEN the Fury Road trailers? I mean, omg, holy fucking shit!
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