Aquazillameg: The Oversized Monster From The Sea story- Thoughts after seeing The Meg, Aquaman and Godzilla: King of the Monsters

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a) Submarine rescue and attack?

a.i)  Submarine rescue

In The Meg, a minisub lands on the back of a submarine to rescue the people inside, and soon it's being discovered that the submarine is being attacked by a huge brutal monstrous life form. 

 

Perhaps the assumption is that there's a giant sea creature outside attempting to crush the submarine,

As it leaves, there is an explosion in the vast submarine.  

 

 

 

a.ii) Submarine attack 

In Aquaman a pirate's minisub lands on the back of a large submarine, but it looks as if the minisub is a parasite fastened onto a large fish by suckers

 

 

 

 

a.ii) Hijacked submarine being used for an attack

In Aquaman , the submarine remains functional and attempts to fire a torpedo at the ancient Atlantean ruins, that appears to be an important meeting place of the various Atlantean nobility and people of power.

 

a.iii) Act of failure

In The Meg, members of a submarine crew have been left behind in The Meg and the rescuer is to be blamed for many years to come.

 

a.iv) Thirst for revenge
In Aquaman, a pirate whose father is left to die in the submarine by Aquaman wants revenge leading him to become the supervillain The Mantis.

The Mothra larva inside the pyramid gets out of hand

b) Kramer vs Kramer becomes Gamera vs Gamera

b.i ) Family confusions

 

A family have split up over their concerns for giant monsters and one of their needs to destroy civilisation so that it can start again without destroying the planet. 

 

The parents furiously blame each regarding the way they have raised their daughter and the use of a special all powerful bio-acoustics generator machine that can communicate with the giant monsters. 

 

It's only their confusion that allows them to think that it's real or if you have a problem with someone, they're too busy with dealing with their personal giant monster in their basement.

 

The machine appears to be only something that's an expression of the unconscious, like a physicalised metaphor and hardly likely to be real. 

 

By the end of the film, in the hands of the young girl Madison Russell played by Millie Bobby Brown, it might as well be some sort of weird Navi computer from the anime series Serial Experiments Lain for accessing the Wired which was an ever developing, evolving virtual world similar to the real world's current internet at the time.

 

bio-acoustics generator

Madison steals the bio-acoustics generator

Madison steals the bio-acoustics generator a Fenway Park

b.ii.a) The Man who photographs himself being torn apart by hyenas revealed to be wolves 

 

In the introduction to Kyle Chandler as Dr Mark Russell who father character in Godzilla: king of the monsters, who was out in the wilderness photographing what I thought were hyenas feeding on an animal carcass but on closer examination turned out to be wolves. 

 

I had decided that the animal were ripping his own lower body apart to the point where it was scraps of bones on flesh, and he, screaming with insane laughter, wants to be ripped apart by these animals, and he just didn't realise that the animal carcass was his own body.

Perhaps they they have chewed his male member and left foot, while beginning to rip away much of his lower skin and muscle, but before they can do anything that is too severe or realistic, because it must all have been in the mind. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

b.ii.b) Osprey landing

 

Anyway, a frightening giant monstrous Osprey helicopter lands frightening the wolves away and perhaps doing irrepairable damage to the local environment to pick the man up and take him away.

 

 

b.ii.c) Scene evolved from Devlin and Emmerich's Godzilla?

 

This scene with the osprey landing as the man photographs the wolves echoes the scene in Godzilla where the film's lead character Mr Tatopoulos, separated from his former girlfriend, is electrocuting the ground to collect samples of worms in Chernobyl for scientific study, and then the Russian helicopter lands to take him away. Perhaps I wanted to imagine the worms coming out of his own body as an exciting form of mutation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

b.iii) False memories and fake evidence of a now dead son 

The parents have lost a son and the mother wants to do something about the world in his memory, but really she had no idea what she thought she was doing anyway. 

 

If this dead son of hers was simply a false memory and there was false evidence to back it up. I would be amongst the first the push the idea!

 

 

 

b.iv) Jonah vs Jonas

 

The mother has hitched up with a eco terrorist who thinks that he can learn from these giant life forms, be the master and bring down civilisation. His name to Jonah to add to the confusion (just to confuse those who are thinking about the character Jonas Taylor from The Meg) however I recall the actor Charles Dance playing the prison planet doctor name Clemens in Alien 3, and although he isn't Lance Henriksen,  because of the way he turns up and soon ends up in a very cold installation in the antarctic reminds me of Bishop II from Alien 3 

 

Perhaps he has been creating mechanical replicas of himself but soon realised that he himself was not the person that he thought he was and that scenario disintegrated, but as Bishop II played by Charles Dance Henriksen, 

 

He comes to rescue Ripley and Newt as if they were still alive but transformed into members of the Russell family looking nothing like Sigourney Weaver or Carrie Henn.

 

 

c) Undersea whatever

c.i.1) Cityscape in Godzilla: King of the Monsters inspired by Atlantis

 

Deep in the ocean in Godzilla, they discover the home of Godzilla where he comes to sleep and heal his wounds. His pyramid like cradle is surrounded by the remains of a complicated ancient cityscape. The design of the place was inspired by an illustration of Atlantis. 

1. Michael Dougherty: The mountain where Godzilla's lair is located in is inspired by Mount Sinai, while the sea that surrounds it was inspired by supposed ancient designs of Atlantis. I'm not saying it is Atlantis, it's Atlantis-esque. (Godzilla: King of the monsters director's commentary (01:35:36))
   

 

c.i.2) Destruction of an ancient city

 

The explorers marvel at the sight of the ancient city and all they can learn from aeons of stories it could tell but realised that it has to be destroyed with a nuclear bomb making the monster who lives their powered up but homeless.
 

They obviously magically scanned the whole city in 3D while they were there so that they could print the whole place out again with a 3D printer elsewhere, which has been seen as a solution for Palmyra ruins destroyed by a group known as ISIS

c.i.3) Amalgam of cultures in the manner of the Alien vs Predator movie pyramid

 

While the cityscape was supposed to represent a place that predated many cultures. There was the strange pyramid from the film Alien vs Predator that was built by a root culture before they split up into different known cultures, it appeared to be an amalgam of those different cultures that had developed later on. This city perhaps seemed to have been developed in much the same way rather than by attempting to show something that was new and barely imaginable in today's society. However it was very interesting when seen in shadow. 

 

(See also: Von Daniken concepts in Alien vs Predator)

1. We built a library of twenty ruined buildings to pull from. The city predates many cultures so had deliberate design influences from multiple sources , Mesopotamian, Eastern Asian and Central American. We built the city to suggest it was hewn from natural rock and so we studied real examples of real architecture around the world, from Petra's treasures to the Lyceum tombs in Turkey and rock cut cave temples in India such as Ilora and Baja. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QNqyOn4I34)

The mysterious city beneath the sea from "Godzilla: King Of The Monsters"
based upon an illustration of Atlantis, shortly before it's destroyed by a nuclear bomb

 

c.ii)  Old Atlantean Ruins from Aquaman

 

Meanwhile in Aquaman, we have the story of Atlantis' destruction and rebuilding, while there are these ruins of the old Atlantis still to be found and wrecked in the story, soon to be attacked by a rogue submarine firing missiles at it

 

 

The old Atlantean ruins

 

c.iii) Untouched undersea world with megaladon sharks in The Meg

 

In The Meg, we have the discovery of a mysterious ancient sea world that is little disturbed by man. 

 

As mentioned in the film the idea was that since 1875, they all believed that the Mariana trench was the deepest place on Earth. 

 

So there was a theory that what they think is the bottom is actually a layer of hydrogen sulfide with warm water beneath a cloud in freezing cold thermal climb.

 

They wanted to find warm water down there with a completely new under water world

 

In the film, there the Megalodon sharks have existed for countless aeons and so in the course of the movie have been let out by mankinds doings, to trouble mankind.

 

Trench with a layer of gas

Trench with layer removed

d) Big monster seen through an undersea window

d.i) Little girl in The Meg

 

Through the undersea window in the sea-rig undersea observatory, a little girl looks through the glass window and a vast shark like beast with glowing lights comes to try to bite through the window.

 

 

d.i.a) Leaving an impression behind

It leaves an impression of its teeth in the glass. It returns to chomp up a whale that came to the window, as if intimidating the main characters who have to work out what to expect next

 

 

 

 

d.ii) Little boy in Aquaman

 

In Aquaman,  the little boy communicates with the sea animals in the oceanarium. As two boys come to intimidate him, a large shark comes along and hits the window cracking it, scaring the two boys off 

 

 

 

d.iii) Intimidation in Godzilla

 

In Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla is seen through the window intimidating the people the undersea viewing room of the rig. I suppose it's here that I have to fuse Godzilla with the Megalodon shark

 

 

 

e) The Killing of the Shark or Submarine?

e.i) Slashing a megladon shark's side in The Meg

In The Meg, Jonas Taylor slashes the side of the megladon shark with a blade from his minisub causing smaller sharks to taste its blood and then tear it apart

 

 

e.ii) Slashing the side of a Submarine in Aquaman

In Aquaman , the Atlantean king runs a blade through the side of the submarine that had come to fire torpedoes at the meeting in the Atlantean ruin

 

e.iii) Is there the possibility of fusing the idea of the shark and the submarine together with a heroic man, unsure whether this is supposed to be an act of war or not, travelling in his vehicle that might be a living minisub, runs a blade or piece of hard sharp metal through the side of the giant submarine shark, the creature's interior mechanisms and fluids or blood pour out. 

 

A further nonsensical thought would feature smaller shark submarines come in and tear the beast apart.

 

 

f) Self sacrifice of an Oriental man

f.i) Death of Toshi in "The Meg"

 

An oriental man with note book sacifices himself to save the day and with his death there's an explosion. In The Meg it's Masi Oka as the character Toshi killing off a sea creature

 

 

f.ii) Death of Dr Serizawa in "Godzilla: King of the Monsters"

 

In Godzilla: King of the Monsters, it's Ken Watanabe at Dr Serizawa ready to set of a nuclear bomb to give Godzilla the energy he needs to heal. 

 

After he sets up the weapon, he takes off his helmet and touches the great beast as if it was a friend. 

 

Then the bomb explodes consuming everything around destroying the ruins of the ancienty city in a flash.

 

We might also take note of the fact that in the 1954 version of Godzilla, Dr Serizawa is the one who took the oxygen destroyer to the bottom of the ocean to kill Godzilla.

1. Michael Dougherty: It's like he's now heading to the afterlife. Welcome to Valhalla! Honestly, if you keep a close eye, you can see remnants of ships scattered around, like, sort of like Godzilla snacks, You can have. He's he's been chomping down on ships over the centuries, erm, yuh I really wanted this to be a holy experience, like it's not frightening, actually very comforting, it feels like a completion of Serizawa's journey, ah, but it also mirrors the journey of Serizawa in the original '54 film so where as that Serizawa was taking the oxygen destroyer to the bottom of the ocean to kill Godzilla, this incarnation of Serizawa is using a weapon of mass destruction in order to save Godzilla. (Godzilla: King of the monsters director's commentary (01:32:04))
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

g) The Giant Flying beast?

g.i) Vast flying wing

The vast control deck in the rig appears to be being moved into a vast flying wing aircraft, and in its place is another control deck with skeleton crew. 

g.ii) Vast flying monster

 

As the craft separates from the rig, with all the important staff aboard, soon it is being chased by a vast pterodactyl like creature named Rodan, but since I am European and it sounds too much like the name of the sculpt Auguste Rodin, in my ignorance I will call it Rodin.

g.iii) Possibilities of the beast and the vehicle fusing into one? 

Before long one might start to imagine that the flying wing is somehow the Rodin beast itself to the point where it didn't matter if it wasn't.

Does the flying wing have a monster head now, does it flap its wings and do they have windows along the side?

Perhaps it needs a hundred little doors beneath it all for a seperate Osprey to leave the vessel.

g.iv) What if the control room of the flying wing was always in the rig. 

If it turns out that the crew of the rig had never left the actual rig all this time, despite wandering around the vast flying wing, no one would be aware after a while anyway and it would suit the budget.

 

 

 

Rodan and the flying wing

 

h) What about the King Ghidorah?

A vast monster that was too fearsome for people to talk about seeping into collective imagery that might appear to have nothing to do with the creature. They can flip through endless non related images and make claims that it's all about King Ghidorah.

It is supposed to be obvious to the rest of the world that William Blake knew about Ghidorah or felt it through an illustration "The Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun" and somewhere in the tomorrow there will be experts to prove it to me with all the illustrations shown on the screen displays.

What we saw of this monster probably didn't really exist either. 

The only monsters that exist in this world are submarines, flying wings and Osprey helicopters, along with sharks in the water and the monstrous actions of human beings and terrible weather

 

 

The three headed monster King Gidorah

 

 "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun" by William Blake

 

 

 

i) The resurrection of Millie Bobby Brown?

I suppose that whatever led the daughter to the house amidst the destruction taking place, might lead me to imagine she was sleep walking in this cubistic nightmare all along.  

How long has it been since the child took her last breath before they revived her, when they drove to the remains of the house and found her body entombed in a bath tub beneath a vast chunk of wall, but somehow magically revive her from what seemed like death. 

 

Why wasn't she breathing and for how long?

 

 

The engraved Passion series: Resurrection (No. 15) ( 1512) by Albrecht Dürer

Almost falling asleep during "Doctor Sleep"

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a) Meeting confusion in Doctor Sleep
I went to see the movie Dr Sleep. If there's a book on sale, I haven't read it. I haven't even read the Shining which this is a sequel to.

In relation to the movie The Shining, first of all I didn't recognise the character Wendy Torrance that was played by Shelly Duval in the Shining. The actress Alex Essoe didn't resemble her at all

I had an idea about who the young boy Danny was supposed to be but I wasn't entirely sure. Perhaps there was a slight sense of forced denial because I didn't really want to buy into really having to know and make any connection between this film's cast and The Shining's cast because they didn't look particularly similar.

b) Who is who? I don't really know.
We are soon introduced to a woman who has a husband and daughter I thought that Wendy Torrance and Lucy Stone were for a while the same person, and so Wendy Torrance somewhere in the 1980s would marry David Stone, and send her son to boarding school, while becoming step mother to Abra Stone, which would mean Danny had a step sister that he seldom ever saw, and Wendy would soon find out that her step daughter was also "Shining".

However, since I didn't know how to recognise the actress who played Wendy, I soon found out that this character was actually Lucy Stone and Abra was her actual biological daughter and the scene where the she finds out about her daughter's powers was some years later when Danny was an adult.

c) Buildings in the square
When we came to find Danny as an adult entering a town where he decides to say. there was a model version of the buildings around the central square in the central green, created by the school children as a project. I didn't know which year this was supposed to be or perhaps if the events of the Shining had taken place perhaps in the fifties or sixties and perhaps this was 1980.

Seeing this part of a model town, I wanted to see models of the models in the central square of the model town, and see models of the models of the models in the centre of that. Perhaps I would have wanted to see see models of the models of the models of the models of the models of the models ad infinitum in the centre, or just as small as they could be physically made on a microscopic level.

d) Years later
Danny stays in the town where time leaps several years later and having had a shave looked even younger. He soon finds himself communicating with the young girl Abra as a form of telepathy through chalk board writings, and I thought she was still somewhere in 1980 talking into the future with him and that we'd find out that she had disappeared many years earlier, but in the end, it seems that he didn't know her at all, and that he wasn't related whatsoever, although they would come to meet and she would come to think of him as a sort of an uncle figure.

e) At the big hotel
We find serving at the bar, someone who doesn't look very much like Joe Turkel. I really didn't know who the person was supposed to be. Then it dawned on me that perhaps he was supposed to be made up to look a bit like Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence, but not that much. Later in the film, it became much more obvious that this was who it was supposed to be and that revelation really bored me, I'd rather just be told that it was a man in a Halloween costume pretending to be Jack Torrence but it wasn't very good.

e) End word
There was a plot of some sort about fighting people who steal children who were "shining" and feed on their energy to become very long lived, but that bored me. I was bored by people breathing in this steam coming out of people's mouths etc.  I was bored by the manner of the villains' deaths, it got to a point where it didn't really matter what what happened to the villains. I'm very easily bored by something that is supposed to be horrific in this way in movies. I probably hope to find a much more valid plot secretly buried in the film that would clear the drama with these villains aside. I didn't like the ending or the specific idea that the entities in the big hotel were these energy draining spirits who would kill off the lead villain. I was bored by the ending in general.

I don't think this film will result in documentaries being made about its meaning, buried conspiracies and what people thought was what. Actually this film almost sent me to sleep, but I remained awake, and to talk about this would give too much of the plot away because I have basically told you mostly what was the bewildering nonsense that went through my head as I tried to work out what exactly I was watching, which for me was a priceless experience.

It might be that I went to see the film looking for foggy confusion, and I found enough of it, and so I'm glad that I went to see the movie, I was bored by the villains, and if other people liked it and want to tell me how they loved it, I will be happy for them. I appreciate that the movie's budget wasn't very big. I am made aware that Stephen King liked the movie and he wasn't a fan of Kubrick's The Shining, but he liked the TV version more because it resembled his book more but I never bothered to watch it.

Floating Houses of the Third Kind

(After the posters for "Cabin In The Woods" and " Hereditary" along with the Gale Farm scene from "The Wizard of Oz". (Assembled on Photoshop)

Looked for another decent floating house in a poster for some time, and so today decided to settle for the house spinning through the air in the Wizard of Oz movie. 

There's nothing more behind it other than I saw the Hereditary poster and thought that the house assembled in a strange way with the roof above and underneath ought to be a flying vehicle, and I like the Close Encounters of the Third Kind movie.

Probably the picture has something to do with childhood visits to the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition

Seeing "First Man"

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On the 21st of October 2018, I went to see First Man which I considered to be a slightlystrange film for me to see, I am a fan of space rockets and exploration having been born around the time of the first Lunar Landing. However this film featured lots of extremely boring moments of down to Earth human drama where it seemed that Neil Armstrong (played by someone who looked remarkably unsimilar to the actual man) was someone with slight difficulty communicating his inner feelings, peppered with moments of life and death situations in rocket ships.

Trips through the darkness of space often looked mysterious and occasionally pretty. The final moonscape might inspire some people who see little or no reason to go back to the moon. 
 
I wanted to see things to perceive as lunar ruins or robot heads in craters and there was no chance of it, there wasn't even the feint shimmer around the moon that some blame on a supposed atmosphere around the surface that instead might be a ruin of glass canopy placed there by an ancient cicilisation or was there something extra for iMax audiences because I only got to see it in the X-Screen. Perhaps a lot of a sense of the details in the rather grim looking spaceship interiors might have seemed lessened.

However my creative thoughts started to kick in to try to alleviate the utter banality of the film .

The child's bracelet that Armstrong left on the moon,  I mistook for a bracelet of teeth when it was first shown in the drawer and wished that it actually was supposed to be.

There was small window that the Armstrong character pulled the curtain/drape across at a funeral that I wished was a long hundred metre shaft or one going off into infinity with multiple curtains/drapes being pulled across it at the same time and he realised that this would never be so.

When the Neil Armstrong character suddenly played with one of his sons holding him horizontally and doing things such as sticking his head in the fridge etc, I thought that the boy needed a docking port on top of his head and various other places such as the fridge interior to make it seem as if Neil was practising his Apollo docking with the Eagle routine. 

Perhaps a test rocket capsule in the film could be used as an oversized kitchen oven for cooking astronauts. Perhaps, the story every night would be that the Neil Armstrong should fear the idea of astronauts being baked inside the kitchen cook and then one day wake up in the middle of the night with the urge to open the oven door, crawl inside and find himself in the Eagle 11 capsule connected with the Eagle lander.

Certain papers that the Armstrong character was being handed all were blurred to the camera lens and I hoped that this meant he was living in a fake reality loosely created by extra-terrestrials based on his existence on Earth that saw no reason to make the contents of the papers clear in this loose reproduction.

The moments of fear took the form of astronauts caught in spinning rockets and the hideous shaking of the rocket as it headed up through the heavens into the darkness of space accompanied with thunderous noise

People who bring very young restless children who keep loudly asking questions such as why so-and-so is crying etc and have no interest in rocket ships, might be advised to choose another film for the sake of the child because the film is not very entertaining in that way and the rocket ship scenes area often very very noisy and nightmarish. I was thankful when a couple with their daughter sitting nearby did finally leave half way through.

Obviously I'll have to see it again but on the iMax, especially to make sure that there was nothing of the slightest bit of interest on the moon. Perhaps I need to take a dozen year restless five year old children with me just to see make sure there isn't one of them who would enjoy the movie.

The Road to Mandalay continuum

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29th September 2017 A Tiawanese movie "The Road To Mandalay" finally gets a nationwide release in England over a year after it was initially released in its own country

30th September 2017. It's revealed on video that Boris Johnson embarassed himself by quoting lines from the Rudyard Kiplings poem The Road to Mandalay before live camera, while visiting a temple during a state visit Myanmar.

1st October 2017. A mass shooting takes place in Las Vegas from the Mandalay Bay hotel, where one man is believed to have shot 59 people dead amongst a crowd of concert goers.

2nd October 2017: I made the comments on Twitter:

• 2 Oct 2017 : "Boris Johnson revealed to be waffling The Road to Mandalay while in Burma on one day and a mass shooting from Mandalay Bay Hotel another."

• ‏ 2 Oct 2017 : "Lars Von Trier is still very much alive probably because the film of a similar name that he made was actually spelt Manderlay!"

11th October 2017, I began looking further into the Mandalay business to see if anything else was happening and noticed the information about the Taiwanese movie

• ‏ 11 Oct 2017 "Oddly the 2016 Taiwanese movie "The Road to Mandalay" film directed by Midi Z had a British release on September the 29th of this year"

16th October 2017, Bjork takes a potshot as Lars Von Trier accusing him of sexual harrassment, and the following day, Von Trier denied the allegation. I don't wish to really say that this has anything to do with the Mandalay shootings but in a dream like way it's a bit odd

Seeing "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom"

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a) Before hand
When I watched the trailer, I  started wanting to fuse dinosaurs with helicopter wreckage, and soon began to notice how the posters echoed the layout of some of the HR Giger paintings and as I began to compare them to Giger's Necronom series, I found that nearly all of them in some way did. What was this all about, was there a secret relationship between the work of the artist and the intentions behind the film, or was it just, of course in this lost reality of the modern world, there's very little to cling onto as a cultural backbone, and looking for that in the works , namely the Necronom series,  of the now deceased HR Giger is the way to keep on going, until a new visionary begins to appear

b) Seeing Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
On 10th June 2018, I managed to see Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and almost enjoyed on certain levels, but my mind was taking me to another level of the movie trying to escape from the banality of the film. I've never really taken that much to these Jurassic Park and World films, although I very much like the scene in Jurassic World where a man travels on his motorcycle through the forest along side the Velociraptors, hunting for the new hybrid giant dinosaur

It might be pretty much pointless in having me describe the film itself because talking about it seems pointless, other than it becomes one scenario that ridiculously transforms into another scenario which transforms into another scenario following an idiot plot strategy. I felt sorry for all of the dinosaurs, even the most vicious ones such as the imitation. Tyrannosaurus Rex for having been born into this world with nowhere much to go. As we know from the Jurassic Park movies, they're merely genetic composits based on the original creatures rather than real dinosaurs resurrected from those ancient times.

Save the dinosaurs from the volcano plot transforms into someone wants any old excuse to get hold of the dinosaurs and make money out of them transforms into suddenly the dinosaurs get released unto the world.  Why hadn't the people who were planning to transfer the dinosaurs to a safe location examined the progress of the volcano earlier? The plot might as well have an abstract dream like relevance that doesn't necessarily need to make sense other than get the film flowing, near enough playing with the audience's mind and pulling emotional strings for the hell of it.

Perhaps they did it far better with the first Alien movie where the final script after having gone through numerous bizarre transformations had to be pulled together by Dan O'Bannon from a mishmash of various pieces rewritten by Giler and Hill. Where the attempt to answer an SOS turns into the Company plot where an android is trying to smuggle an alien life form back to Earth for commerce before that scenario goes out of control. Here the surprise is that the child pushes the button to unleash the dinosaurs onto the outside world, believing that these genetic constructs based on dinosaurs have the right to live.

One male character appears to scream in a high voice every time a dinosaur starts trying to chase him, and I really found this irritating.

James Cromwell plays the brother of the character played by Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park. Perhaps this made me cringe although Cromwell is a fine actor, but the way he becomes part of the plot seems ridiculous.

I have to say that the moment we are introduced to the Indoraptor and see the whole thing lit up, I was rather bored by its design. and I was bored to see how an idiot man opens the cage to extract a tooth for his necklace and in turn gets eaten.

Later we find that the Indoraptor is being envisioned as a sort of Nosferatu by the film maker who appears to certain scenes on the film by that name , this idea made me cringe because, there was the young girl after all she had been through running away from this beast, hiding upstairs under a blanket without taking any action. But when the creature entered her house, I noticed that we started to loose understanding of which was was up and down. (Afterwards I noticed that there's the new poster for the film Hereditary which seemed to show a house with no up or down and the roof on both sides)

Death of the Indoraptor

Detail of the corpse impaled on the tricerotops skull

Giger's Necronom V

I found the final fight between the Indoraptor and the humans to be rather uninteresting, as if it showed the creature off to be another moronic creation, once it finally was killed impaled on the horns of a tricarotops skull, it didn't interest me to see it but as memories became distant, perhaps I wanted to imagine that this Indoraptor was another loose Alien ripoff monster, but this scene of death,
I wanted to imagine this as strange idol formed from multiple non human bodies, and perhaps loosely thoughts would start to want to reshape it into an imitation of Giger's Necronom V with body parts being pierced by horn like structures, before becoming a hideous tableau of trophies to be shoved into the corner of a Predator ship, and someone will have been trying to plan this for longer than anyone could imagine as a sacrificial ritual to release an unnamed god. If no one else out there wants to biomechanise this scene, perhaps it's up to me to produce endless sketches of such a thing as the most terrible of faux-Giger drawings designed to lead nowhere and interest no one for more than five seconds

It didn't interest me to know that the young girl was a clone of the daughter of the James Cromwell's man who gets suffocated by Ralph Spall's character who spoke with an American accent that belonged to some sort of British comedy show.

I'm afraid that I find it hard to sit back and enjoy this sort of thing, while perhaps I might realise that I'm surrounded by numerous dozens of people sitting back and enjoying it all the way through, as if they've already been hypnotised into accepting everything that they see in it. Perhaps there's something that they put in the diet soda and the popcorn, neither of which I bother with.


c) Conjuring inner stories out of the darkness
When a young girl is glimpsed in the film running around upstairs, my first idea was that she ought to be a mutant child who was part dinosaur and this would be obvious later, and once we get to see this, this should ruin the film completely.

When they showed the dinosaur museum, my biggest fear perhaps was the idea of one of these dinosaur exhibits coming alive rather in the manner of some sort of ghostly waxworks museum instead of the creatures that were supposed to be actual dinosaurs running around the mansion.

Later we see the girl behind the glass and the jaws of the Indoraptor coming at her reflected on the glass before her face, as if for half a moment she were transforming into this mutant dinosaur child I had half imagined.

When she discovers the photo of the woman that she believes to be her mother in her grandfather's journal, perhaps I expected her to find photos of half fossilised dinosaur/human mutants painfully fused together in absurd sex positions , it's difficult to work out whether a limb from one should be a jaw, spine or rib of the other, and this turns out to be the truth of what her grandfather must have been shockingly into in his private life, bringing together people form across the world to pay money to see these mutant orgies, or coming long distances to see drawings of the grandfather explosing his male member as it transforms into some sort of body scaly spiny part of a vast ancient reptile.

Trump interview by Piers Morgan as a secret Carmen Miranda revival night

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Many thanks to Mr D. Hughes for pointing out on Twitter the silliness of the "ITV Exclusive" symbol.