JurASSic world and more Smash DLC

Before anything else, rest in peace to Christopher Lee and Magnus Härenstam. Congrats to prince Carl Philip for finally getting married.

With that out of the way, I saw Jurassic world today.

I don't really have a relationship with Jurassic park as a whole. I've only seen each movie once plus the Nostalgia critic reviews. The first thing I saw from Jurassic park I saw was the shot of the T-rex eating a guy whole, and none of the movies made THAT much of an impression on me. Though I've helped immortalize the main John Williams theme in Sas-K. YTMND does that to you.

Guess you could call my relation with this little film series very casual. Heck, the only game I played was the awful SNES one, very briefly. I understand why Jurassic park was groundbreaking in its CG and I agree that The lost world and Jurassic park 3 sucked. If I was to watch Jurassic park again, I think I'd like it. It has aged well, and most of its fault in character and story were pretty relevant then as now. Only difference is that we don't gawk at its effects anymore. It certainly got the CG ball rolling. Its impact is eternal, but it's not timeless.

Which brings us to Jurassic park 4, i.e. Jurassic world. Darn decent name, actually. Even if it could be confused with The lost world.

To be honest, I found this movie pretty darn enjoyable. It might be as good as the original. Possibly better.

The effects are good, most of the acting is above average, the fear and terror feels genuine, the "park" is pretty believable in its design, the humans are surprisingly good, the action is really good, it's suspenseful, it's pretty much the true Jurassic park 2. Pretty much the only worthy sequel.

What's lame is the villain, the superdinosaur and its abilities (it's also boring and bland in design, but better than the one from 3), how the humans never learn, and possibly the fact that almost no characters from the previous flicks return. There's small stuff scattered throughout, but nothing major. They reused good and bad stuff from the past movies, but a lot of it never feels like it was done in bad taste. It's obvious they deliberately did a lot of the stuff to make it feel like a flick from the early 90s. Yes, we've seen most of the stuff before, but they try to up the ante by being more over-the-top.

Not gonna get into spoilers, but there's a lot of fist pumpingly awesome stuff, like in the original. It's completely silly, but so well done that it doesn't matter. Also, I hope you're not a fan of gruesome deaths, because a lot of the violence is off-screen or have little blood in it. A lot of crazy stuff, though. Trust me.

Movies like this is where the true antagonist AND protagonist is the effects. You don't go into a movie like this for an intriguing drama. It's not Citizen Kane by any means, and it's not supposed to be. Still, the human characters are actually not that bad and we end up actually caring about the cast. It's well done for what it's worth. They never feel like a distraction from the effects, this case being the dinosaurs. The movie still delivers on both humans and what we came for, unlike the new Godzilla which didn't deliver until the end. I was actually a bit surprised. The villain is lame, but he was designed to be.

Also, the intelligence and abilities of the hypersaur depends entirely on the scene. Then again, this is one of those classic adventure flicks where you leave your brain at the door and just enjoy the visual medium. Not gonna get into the science of this place, far too done.

Let's say the movies or the books Jurassic park didn't exist. Would you go visit a zoo with actual dinosaurs?

Anyway, the movie is stupid but awesome, just like the original. What truly sets it appart is the details to this world and the characters we're not supposed to care about but kinda do anyway. That, and how over-the-top it is. It combines horror, action, monster flick, drama and comedy, like Jurassic park. You've seen it before, but you'll LOVE seeing it again. Worthy sequel in every sense of the word. Recommended! 7/10

Also, there was an event where Sakurai (in his unholy english dubbed form WHY THE HELL IS THIS STILL A THING GAWDS LOOK YOU MADE ME GO SEVERA) announced Roy and Ryu as DLC for Smash. Which was already leaked because that patch hit Japan yesterday. There was also mii costumes from Megaman X, battle network, Splatoon, Virtua fighter, and Heihachi. Why not release the latter as an actual character is a mystery to me. There's also a few stages, like Dreamland 64 and Ryu's stage. Which I know is gonna have Guile's theme but they held back on it. You'll also be able to upload replays to youtube in the future. Lastly, there's a miiverse stage. However, I'm broke as a joke, so I'll wait for now. Will get the miiverse stage because it's free. Indifferent to Roy, but Ryu's inclusion was great. Gives hope for even more DLC. Splatoon deserves a stage, at the very least.

Next time: more Sas-K light novels. Unless something comes up.