To continue talking about movies and their trailers, let us
get the obligatory disclaimer out of the way: real life sucks. More
specifically, I do not like climate warning, but I have to admit that I like
young Ms. Thunberg even less: her belligerent approach is the last thing the
world needs, and her entourage is somewhat reminiscent of the Hitler youth from
the 1920s and 30s, which is bad.
Pause. The year 2019 – since we are talking about movies and
related memorabilia – saw the release of the movie ‘JoJo Rabbit’, where the
titular character has an imaginary friend. The friend’s name is Adolf Hitler,
and the movie is not a horror like the ‘It’ franchise is, but is supposedly
more light-hearted.
I do not like censure and censorship, but I have to admit
that I am on board with the RF government on this one: they refused to show
this movie in their country. You just don’t mess with some things, and to
someone like them, ‘JoJo Rabbit’ may seem like an early half-assed attempt to
re-write history by pretending that Hitler (and his regime) was imaginary, and
the WWII was all the Communists’ fault, and all the information to the contrary
is fake news. It is paranoid, yes, but some things you just do not fiddle with,
not unless you want to set-off a chain reaction.
…The Donald appears to have set-off a chain reaction again,
seeing how he has twitted a Tweet or two regarding Ms. Thunberg; the tweet is
supposed to be taking sarcastically and despairingly, but, sadly, there is no
indication that he isn’t trying to be genuinely nice here. Of course, he may
also be genuinely trying to get himself impeached, but this is not my point
here; my point here is that Ms. Thunberg’s take on things sometimes isn’t too
different from the Donald’s; Ms. Thunberg has Asperger’s, (or something similar);
what about the Donald? Is he conventionally sane, even? Maybe the good
politicians of Washington D.C. just should have him assessed, and-
-and what if he is
mentally or psychologically deviant? Then what? Aside from the fact that part
of the reason as to why hasn’t been impeached up to date because if he does,
his role will be taken over by Mike Pence, who is feared and hated, (whereas
the Donald himself is more like hated and reviled instead), then where does it
leave the U.S.? With a president that really conventionally not sane? With a
president who has been removed for precisely the same reason, yet who had been
competent enough to get himself elected in the first place? Somewhere else? Hypothetical,
let alone real-life, situations like this one can cause the West to re-evaluate
its’ values, something that it really does not want – but we have digressed.
Let us talk about movies… apolitical movies. How about the
third ‘Jurassic World’ film? It will feature not just the new-original cast,
but also the original cast – Ian Malcolm, Dr. Alan Grant, and Dr. Ellie
Sattler. Put otherwise, we can safely say that this reboot of the JP franchise
ran out of steam and ideas. Both the ‘Fallen Kingdom’ film and the BBR short
feature depicted humans living in a new ‘Jurassic World’, co-existing with
dinosaurs and other formerly extinct Mesozoic monsters, now reborn thanks to
Dr. Wu and his wizardry. That is a good enough concept, but somehow the first
two ‘Jurassic World’ films did not really do it justice; the BBR short feature
did a better job, but it really isn’t that much different from the ‘Jurassic
World: Fallen Kingdom’ film with some elements of the ‘Jurassic Park: The Lost
World’ movie thrown in. Yes, it has done its’ job in getting people excited
once more about dinosaur movies… but only to a limited extent. The first two ‘Jurassic
World’ movies just dropped the ball too much as far as most of the audience
members believe, and it is unlikely that the third film will change this state
of affairs. Anything else?
There is now a trailer for a film named ‘Primal’, that is
supposed to come out later this year or sometime around that. It features a
ship in a storm, where a dangerous convict has escaped and released the rest of
the ship’s cargo, including a white jaguar. What is the punchline?
There are no white jaguars; there are white tigers and
lions, (and boy, are they a real-life mess and a half), but not white jaguars
or leopards. (There may be albino
jaguars and leopards, but I have not heard of them either). The black or melanistic
jaguars and leopards are called black panthers, a fact that became quite known
since MCU’s ‘Black Panther’ film, but white jaguars and leopards just do not
exist. Put otherwise, ‘Primal 2019’ is just as fantasy and unreal as ‘Frozen II’
will be, (or ‘Frozen I’, for that matter). Still, jaguars don’t appear in
movies very often, (even as just monsters – judging by the trailer, the white
jaguar could just as well been an Indoraptor from the JP franchise, both
animals do about as much and are just as real), so hopefully I will be able to
see ‘Primal 2019’ (or whatever), when it comes on screen…
Well, this is it for now. See you all soon!
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