Monday Movie Mania Is Back!

That's right! DH and I went to a public theater yesterday!

Well, AMC is the only public movie theater in our town. They didn't even have all twelve of the individual theaters open. A good chunk of the folks working there were masked. Even the movie goers were voluntarily spacing themselves a healthy six feet part in the seats. And their behavior, like the movie itself, gave my tired, cynical heart a sliver of hope.

But my crowd observations are not why you're reading this.

We went because, quite simply, dinosaurs must be seen on the big screen.

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SPOILERS

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Jurassic World: Dominion is the final movie of the second trilogy based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel, Jurassic Park.

PROS

1) Writers Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly and screenwriter Emily Carmichael manage to tie up a ton of loose ends from the other five films.

2) The studio brought back Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neil, the stars of the first trilogy. Our favorite three geeks are older and a little wiser, except not so much when it comes to Ian Malcolm.

3) Blue is back. And our favorite velociraptor shows off her new offspring to Owen.

4) Campbell Scott does a superb job of wrapping several real-life tech CEOs into his performance as main villain, Lewis Dodgson.

5) Mamoudou Athle's Ramsey is the real hero of the story as he works to expose his boss.

6) Ian's unbuttoning and buttoning of his shirt in an attempt to seduce pilot Kayla Watts is a flash in the movie, but I died laughing.

7) Even the fake Barbasol can from the first movie makes a cameo as a foreshadow of Dodgson's final fate. 

8)There are so many Easter eggs! I need to rewatch the movie because know I missed some. But the criticism of Monsanto was my favorite part.

9) B.D. Wong's Dr. Henry Wu redeemed himself in this movie. (Wong is the only actor to appear in all six movies.)

10) Dinosaurs!

CONS

1) The writers crammed a little too much plot into a very limited time frame. I would have preferred a little more character development for the original trio of how they cam to be where they are after thirty years.

I'm working on refilling my well (more about that on Wednesday's post). A new story with some old friends definitely helped.

Overall, I give Jurassic World: Dominion 8 stars out of 10.