Jeff Goldblum

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Director:

Roland Emmerich

Starring:

Jeff Goldblum

Liam Hemsworth

Bill Pulman

Plot:

Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind’s new space defenses be enough?

Review:

Wow, just wow. This movie was just a string of clichés and tropes, there was no build up it was from the get go the aliens are trying to kill us, here feel something for these people. Nope, not going to happen. Here watch a woman sacrifice herself for a new mother and newborn. Watch this father give his life for his child. Watch this dork say things that get the girl to like him. This movie was seriously horrible, but not in a way that made it good. This movie was never good, never. They took an interesting premise, a good piece of source material to build from, and made a joke.

1/5

Jurassic Park (1993)

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Jurassic Park (1993)

Director:

Stephen Spielberg

Starring:

Sam Neill

Laura Dern

Jeff Goldblum

Plot:

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

Review:

With all the previews for Jurassic World I had to re-watch Jurassic Park. It’s been a couple years but it is such a good movie that I like to watch it every now and then. While probably not in my top ten, it’s still one of those movies that I recommend everyone watch.

The CG clearly does not hold up, the computer references are surprisingly not as bad as a lot of stuff out there today. Love Jeff Goldblum’s character, a rock star mathematician, he’s one of the few actors that could pull that off.

The little girl never fails to annoy me, though, I feel a bit more charitable toward her now that I’m a mom. The little boy is hilarious. The bad guy gets what’s coming to him and there’s a lot of death, but not so much that I feel depressed when the movie is over.

Jurassic World has a lot to live up to and I’m curious to see if it does.

5/5

“Hold on to your butts.”