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<h3>Horse girlies, circle round! As <a href="https://boxd.it/sDCe" rel="nofollow">Nope</a>, the third film in Jordan Peele’s <a href="https://twitter.com/letterboxd/status/1551275564329304066?s=20&amp;t=a8S0i7ot_qWYhIWWFliS_A" rel="nofollow">three colors trilogy</a> lands in cinemas, we round up the Letterboxd reactions from the much-anticipated sci-fi spectacular’s opening weekend screenings. </h3><blockquote>“A good thriller plants a seed that grows throughout the movie until you end with one firm tree that you can look at and say, yeah that’s a nice tree. Jordan Peele owns an orchard.” <a href="https://boxd.it/33xufd" rel="nofollow">—Review of ‘Nope’ by Nolan Baker</a></blockquote>It is very safe to say Jordan Peele holds a special place in film lovers’ hearts after bursting onto the cinema scene with <a href="https://boxd.it/eOCm" rel="nofollow">Get Out</a> in 2017. His feature debut landed so well in part because it made a monster out of a teaspoon—and the systemic racism that a small item of silverware represents—and in part because it was such a U-turn from Peele’s career in television sketch comedy with creative mate Keegan-Michael Key. Get Out topped our list of <a href="https://letterboxd.com/crew/list/the-2010s-most-popular-films/" rel="nofollow">the 100 Most Popular Films of the 2010s</a>, and is the <a href="https://boxd.it/48BMY" rel="nofollow">second highest rated horror of the 2010s</a> (behind <a href="https://boxd.it/icFU" rel="nofollow">The Lighthouse</a>), the third highest-rated <a href="https://boxd.it/4lrqE" rel="nofollow">directorial debut of the 2010s</a> and one of <a href="https://boxd.it/8mXSS" rel="nofollow">the most obsessively rewatched films</a> on Letterboxd. Peele’s follow-up, <a href="https://boxd.it/gnV6" rel="nofollow">Us</a> (2019)—“a complete inverse of the structure in Get Out”, as <a href="https://boxd.it/FDTCL" rel="nofollow">Demi Adejuyigbe writes</a>—was one of our <a href="https://boxd.it/4twtY" rel="nofollow">50 highest-rated films of 2019</a> and <a href="https://boxd.it/4ndoo" rel="nofollow">the fourth highest-rated horror</a> of that year, as well as being the 55th most popular film of the 2010s.  So, yep, the hype is real for <a href="https://boxd.it/sDCe" rel="nofollow">Nope</a>. Perhaps unfairly huge, but it’s been a hell of a few years and we deserve our popcorn. With <a href="https://boxd.it/ikXW" rel="nofollow">Jurassic World Dominion</a> and <a href="https://boxd.it/mMAY" rel="nofollow">Thor: Love and Thunder</a> under-delivering, <a href="https://boxd.it/cjr4" rel="nofollow">Top Gun: Maverick</a> has had to do the heavy Summer of 2022 blockbuster lifting. Until now. <a href="https://boxd.it/32S3vL" rel="nofollow">Jay has a note of caution about our </a><a href="https://boxd.it/32S3vL" rel="nofollow">Nope</a><a href="https://boxd.it/32S3vL" rel="nofollow"> expectations</a>, about what we think we might be getting from a big-budget flying-disc feature, versus what the filmmaker has in mind for us. “Peele directs scenes not only with an ample amount of atmosphere, but with an innate fear of not being able to control or understand with your own eyes. The same frustration some might feel watching a movie marketed as spectacle but [that] ends up being more complex than what their eyes perceive the image in front of them to be.”<h3>Need to know.</h3>The basics of Nope: there is something in the sky over Haywood’s Hollywood Horses, a family-run ranch that trains steeds for the film industry, and siblings OJ and Emerald (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) are determined to capture footage of this eerie event. Also: the Haywoods may or may not be related to a Black jockey who rode a horse in famous images taken by photographic motion pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in the late 1800s. These few details indicate a classic Peele joint; there is Hollywood history, cinematic homage, social commentary, genre twists and fine Black leads, all wrapped up in a blockbuster spectacle. And that’s about all you need to know going in—except perhaps that a misapplied horror genre tag might be getting in the way of some viewers’ full enjoyment. If you have prepared yourself for an all-out scarefest, heed <a href="https://boxd.it/32WjTn" rel="nofollow">Emo Phillips’ “slight disclaimer</a>”: “This is not really a horror movie. I’d classify it more as a suspenseful sci-fi film.” (Indeed, <a href="https://boxd.it/32QcvB" rel="nofollow">writes David Goleb</a>, “This was just rather disappointing. That may be my own fault however, due to my strong desire for this to have been a true horror movie, rather than what it actually was.”)(For those who worship, it may also pay to be alert to <a href="https://boxd.it/32Ry0H" rel="nofollow">Sophie Shin’s experience</a>: ​​“Tbh I blacked out the moment Steven Yeun came on screen with a cowboy hat on.”)<h3>The arrival. </h3>Nope opened on Friday July 22, and by Sunday night, Letterboxd members had contributed to the film’s reported $44 million US domestic box office opening, filed more 34,100 reviews, and given it a highly respectable 4.0 average rating out of five stars. <a href="https://boxd.it/32luVF" rel="nofollow">Moe is here for</a> the “ALIEN HUNTING”, while <a href="https://boxd.it/32twht" rel="nofollow">Rendy Jones is convinced</a> that “Jordan Peele has watched the ‘<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Sandy,_SpongeBob,_and_the_Worm" rel="nofollow">SpongeBob, Sandy, &amp; the Worm</a>’ episode one too many times”. <a href="https://boxd.it/33lC6p" rel="nofollow">Demi has local knowledge</a> to share, asking: “do people outside of LA know that the weird fry’s ufo thing is real? that there’s a fry’s in burbank with a fake ufo crashed into the store as part of its design… that’s a gag solely for the people who’ve driven 30 minutes north of town for an old radeon graphics card or a very specific replacement remote control that won’t even end up working with their tv. it’s so nice to see myself represented in stories”. Not just you, Demi, <a href="https://boxd.it/33ubSf" rel="nofollow">Dylan Whitehead, too</a>: “Every trip to Frys Electronics would end this way. This is what they took from us.”Getting serious, <a href="https://boxd.it/335Mnj" rel="nofollow">Deven K.B. is</a> “just blown away by how beautifully Peele weaved old-school UFO iconography into a startlingly relevant thesis on exploiting tragedy and chaos as modern spectacle.”In a word, Nope is metacinematic.That’s what ScreeningNotes is most beguiled by, <a href="https://boxd.it/32XfeH" rel="nofollow">observing in their review that</a> the film is “a nickel in the eye of the American cinematic canon, an abduction of the iconography of the Wild West that seeks to retrain the way we watch, an assault on the American ideological edifice that aims to own its own gaze and to resist the imposition of filmic control that it once represented.” Nope is also a love letter to Hollywood’s hidden artisans, and <a href="https://boxd.it/32w6Ex" rel="nofollow">Jacob Knight is very here for the service to filmcraft</a>. “When broken down to its bare essentials, cinema is crafted by a legion of faceless artisans, all coming together to create things that others told them could probably never exist in the first place. At its core, this is what Jordan Peele’s Nope is about, even if it takes its sweet time getting there.” <a href="https://boxd.it/333fV9" rel="nofollow">Ryan Conde, on the other hand, is here for the craft services</a>: “If Jordan Peele made a movie with just a guy eating soup I would watch it.”<h3>Watchlists at the ready.</h3>OJ and Emerald may be looking up, but others are looking at their screens to figure out clues and rediscover the many cultural references embedded in Nope. “Jordan Peele really said, ‘this one’s for the film students’,” <a href="https://boxd.it/33d3wr" rel="nofollow">notes Lance St Laurent</a>. The Spielberg vibes are clear and strong, from <a href="https://boxd.it/2a5e" rel="nofollow">Jaws</a> to <a href="https://boxd.it/2aA2" rel="nofollow">Jurassic Park</a>, obviously <a href="https://boxd.it/29u8" rel="nofollow">Close Encounters of the Third Kind</a>, also <a href="https://boxd.it/2bde" rel="nofollow">War of the Worlds</a>. The motorcycle slide from <a href="https://boxd.it/2b1i" rel="nofollow">Akira</a> gets a nod, as do various <a href="https://boxd.it/boa8s" rel="nofollow">Black westerns</a>, most notably the Poitier/Belafonte vehicle <a href="https://boxd.it/1sRI" rel="nofollow">Buck and the Preacher</a>. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s 2002 <a href="https://boxd.it/2a7a" rel="nofollow">The Mummy</a> spin-off, <a href="https://boxd.it/1YWA" rel="nofollow">The Scorpion King</a>, has a moment. Other films mentioned in Letterboxd reviews and Easter egg round-ups include <a href="https://boxd.it/29Xu" rel="nofollow">The Wizard of Oz</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1UXk" rel="nofollow">Creature from the Black Lagoon</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1YSe" rel="nofollow">Tremors</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1LS6" rel="nofollow">Fire in the Sky</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1a8A" rel="nofollow">Blade</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/26t2" rel="nofollow">Signs</a>, Fede Álvarez’s <a href="https://boxd.it/3GPq" rel="nofollow">Evil Dead</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/aNGk" rel="nofollow">Arrival</a>, and much of <a href="https://letterboxd.com/director/alfred-hitchcock/" rel="nofollow">Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography</a>. However, “in spite of all points of comparison, this is very much its own freaky, deeply idiosyncratic thing,” <a href="https://boxd.it/33fEiZ" rel="nofollow">writes Nick</a>, and like most “goddamn summer blockbusters” that are best enjoyed with “a tub of disgustingly buttery popcorn,” (<a href="https://boxd.it/32YrXr" rel="nofollow">thanks, Julia</a>) the rewatch vibes are strong. “Nope definitely is worth repeated viewing,” <a href="https://boxd.it/32U2sZ" rel="nofollow">says Tay</a>, “if not to totally clarify some murkier parts, then definitely to appreciate some well-planted pieces in the impeccable first act.”Not everyone is boarding the train to the Jordan Peele gold rush out west. There are full-scale, one-star detractors who found the whole affair to be “overhyped garbage” (<a href="https://boxd.it/32Pf2P" rel="nofollow">Jaimie K</a>) with images captured by an “unhinged egomaniac” (<a href="https://boxd.it/32Vkxv" rel="nofollow">Luis Samra</a> on Hoyte van Hoytema’s cinematography—do not read if you don’t want unexamined aspect ratio spoilers). But the number of people saying they’re going straight to IMAX for their rewatch has us wishing we could make <a href="https://boxd.it/32PMVX" rel="nofollow">Chris Feil’s dream</a> come true. “There should be IMAX drive-ins!” he writes. Yup, there should—because at the drive-in, you can see the clouds. ‘Nope’ is screening in US theaters now and opens in other major regions throughout August 2022. —<a href="https://letterboxd.com/ggnz/" rel="nofollow">Gemma Gracewood</a>

<h3>Horse girlies, circle round! As <a href="https://boxd.it/sDCe">Nope</a>, the third film in Jordan Peele’s <a href="https://twitter.com/letterboxd/status/1551275564329304066?s=20&t=a8S0i7ot_qWYhIWWFliS_A">three colors trilogy</a> lands in cinemas, we round up the Letterboxd reactions from the much-anticipated sci-fi spectacular’s opening weekend screenings. </h3>

<blockquote>“A good thriller plants a seed that grows throughout the movie until you end with one firm tree that you can look at and say, yeah that’s a nice tree. Jordan Peele owns an orchard.” <a href="https://boxd.it/33xufd">—Review of ‘Nope’ by Nolan Baker</a></blockquote>

It is very safe to say Jordan Peele holds a special place in film lovers’ hearts after bursting onto the cinema scene with <a href="https://boxd.it/eOCm">Get Out</a> in 2017. His feature debut landed so well in part because it made a monster out of a teaspoon—and the systemic racism that a small item of silverware represents—and in part because it was such a U-turn from Peele’s career in television sketch comedy with creative mate Keegan-Michael Key. 

Get Out topped our list of <a href="https://letterboxd.com/crew/list/the-2010s-most-popular-films/">the 100 Most Popular Films of the 2010s</a>, and is the <a href="https://boxd.it/48BMY">second highest rated horror of the 2010s</a> (behind <a href="https://boxd.it/icFU">The Lighthouse</a>), the third highest-rated <a href="https://boxd.it/4lrqE">directorial debut of the 2010s</a> and one of <a href="https://boxd.it/8mXSS">the most obsessively rewatched films</a> on Letterboxd. 

Peele’s follow-up, <a href="https://boxd.it/gnV6">Us</a> (2019)—“a complete inverse of the structure in Get Out”, as <a href="https://boxd.it/FDTCL">Demi Adejuyigbe writes</a>—was one of our <a href="https://boxd.it/4twtY">50 highest-rated films of 2019</a> and <a href="https://boxd.it/4ndoo">the fourth highest-rated horror</a> of that year, as well as being the 55th most popular film of the 2010s.  

So, yep, the hype is real for <a href="https://boxd.it/sDCe">Nope</a>. Perhaps unfairly huge, but it’s been a hell of a few years and we deserve our popcorn. With <a href="https://boxd.it/ikXW">Jurassic World Dominion</a> and <a href="https://boxd.it/mMAY">Thor: Love and Thunder</a> under-delivering, <a href="https://boxd.it/cjr4">Top Gun: Maverick</a> has had to do the heavy Summer of 2022 blockbuster lifting. Until now. 

<a href="https://boxd.it/32S3vL">Jay has a note of caution about our </a><a href="https://boxd.it/32S3vL">Nope</a><a href="https://boxd.it/32S3vL"> expectations</a>, about what we think we might be getting from a big-budget flying-disc feature, versus what the filmmaker has in mind for us. “Peele directs scenes not only with an ample amount of atmosphere, but with an innate fear of not being able to control or understand with your own eyes. The same frustration some might feel watching a movie marketed as spectacle but [that] ends up being more complex than what their eyes perceive the image in front of them to be.”

<h3>Need to know.</h3>

The basics of Nope: there is something in the sky over Haywood’s Hollywood Horses, a family-run ranch that trains steeds for the film industry, and siblings OJ and Emerald (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) are determined to capture footage of this eerie event. Also: the Haywoods may or may not be related to a Black jockey who rode a horse in famous images taken by photographic motion pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in the late 1800s. 

These few details indicate a classic Peele joint; there is Hollywood history, cinematic homage, social commentary, genre twists and fine Black leads, all wrapped up in a blockbuster spectacle. And that’s about all you need to know going in—except perhaps that a misapplied horror genre tag might be getting in the way of some viewers’ full enjoyment. 

If you have prepared yourself for an all-out scarefest, heed <a href="https://boxd.it/32WjTn">Emo Phillips’ “slight disclaimer</a>”: “This is not really a horror movie. I’d classify it more as a suspenseful sci-fi film.” (Indeed, <a href="https://boxd.it/32QcvB">writes David Goleb</a>, “This was just rather disappointing. That may be my own fault however, due to my strong desire for this to have been a true horror movie, rather than what it actually was.”)

(For those who worship, it may also pay to be alert to <a href="https://boxd.it/32Ry0H">Sophie Shin’s experience</a>: ​​“Tbh I blacked out the moment Steven Yeun came on screen with a cowboy hat on.”)

<h3>The arrival. </h3>

Nope opened on Friday July 22, and by Sunday night, Letterboxd members had contributed to the film’s reported $44 million US domestic box office opening, filed more 34,100 reviews, and given it a highly respectable 4.0 average rating out of five stars. 

<a href="https://boxd.it/32luVF">Moe is here for</a> the “ALIEN HUNTING”, while <a href="https://boxd.it/32twht">Rendy Jones is convinced</a> that “Jordan Peele has watched the ‘<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Sandy,_SpongeBob,_and_the_Worm">SpongeBob, Sandy, & the Worm</a>’ episode one too many times”. 

<a href="https://boxd.it/33lC6p">Demi has local knowledge</a> to share, asking: “do people outside of LA know that the weird fry’s ufo thing is real? that there’s a fry’s in burbank with a fake ufo crashed into the store as part of its design… that’s a gag solely for the people who’ve driven 30 minutes north of town for an old radeon graphics card or a very specific replacement remote control that won’t even end up working with their tv. it’s so nice to see myself represented in stories”. Not just you, Demi, <a href="https://boxd.it/33ubSf">Dylan Whitehead, too</a>: “Every trip to Frys Electronics would end this way. This is what they took from us.”

Getting serious, <a href="https://boxd.it/335Mnj">Deven K.B. is</a> “just blown away by how beautifully Peele weaved old-school UFO iconography into a startlingly relevant thesis on exploiting tragedy and chaos as modern spectacle.”

In a word, Nope is metacinematic.

That’s what ScreeningNotes is most beguiled by, <a href="https://boxd.it/32XfeH">observing in their review that</a> the film is “a nickel in the eye of the American cinematic canon, an abduction of the iconography of the Wild West that seeks to retrain the way we watch, an assault on the American ideological edifice that aims to own its own gaze and to resist the imposition of filmic control that it once represented.” 

Nope is also a love letter to Hollywood’s hidden artisans, and <a href="https://boxd.it/32w6Ex">Jacob Knight is very here for the service to filmcraft</a>. “When broken down to its bare essentials, cinema is crafted by a legion of faceless artisans, all coming together to create things that others told them could probably never exist in the first place. At its core, this is what Jordan Peele’s Nope is about, even if it takes its sweet time getting there.” 

<a href="https://boxd.it/333fV9">Ryan Conde, on the other hand, is here for the craft services</a>: “If Jordan Peele made a movie with just a guy eating soup I would watch it.”

<h3>Watchlists at the ready.</h3>

OJ and Emerald may be looking up, but others are looking at their screens to figure out clues and rediscover the many cultural references embedded in Nope. “Jordan Peele really said, ‘this one’s for the film students’,” <a href="https://boxd.it/33d3wr">notes Lance St Laurent</a>. 

The Spielberg vibes are clear and strong, from <a href="https://boxd.it/2a5e">Jaws</a> to <a href="https://boxd.it/2aA2">Jurassic Park</a>, obviously <a href="https://boxd.it/29u8">Close Encounters of the Third Kind</a>, also <a href="https://boxd.it/2bde">War of the Worlds</a>. The motorcycle slide from <a href="https://boxd.it/2b1i">Akira</a> gets a nod, as do various <a href="https://boxd.it/boa8s">Black westerns</a>, most notably the Poitier/Belafonte vehicle <a href="https://boxd.it/1sRI">Buck and the Preacher</a>. 

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s 2002 <a href="https://boxd.it/2a7a">The Mummy</a> spin-off, <a href="https://boxd.it/1YWA">The Scorpion King</a>, has a moment. Other films mentioned in Letterboxd reviews and Easter egg round-ups include <a href="https://boxd.it/29Xu">The Wizard of Oz</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1UXk">Creature from the Black Lagoon</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1YSe">Tremors</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1LS6">Fire in the Sky</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1a8A">Blade</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/26t2">Signs</a>, Fede Álvarez’s <a href="https://boxd.it/3GPq">Evil Dead</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/aNGk">Arrival</a>, and much of <a href="https://letterboxd.com/director/alfred-hitchcock/">Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography</a>. 

However, “in spite of all points of comparison, this is very much its own freaky, deeply idiosyncratic thing,” <a href="https://boxd.it/33fEiZ">writes Nick</a>, and like most “goddamn summer blockbusters” that are best enjoyed with “a tub of disgustingly buttery popcorn,” (<a href="https://boxd.it/32YrXr">thanks, Julia</a>) the rewatch vibes are strong. “Nope definitely is worth repeated viewing,” <a href="https://boxd.it/32U2sZ">says Tay</a>, “if not to totally clarify some murkier parts, then definitely to appreciate some well-planted pieces in the impeccable first act.”

Not everyone is boarding the train to the Jordan Peele gold rush out west. There are full-scale, one-star detractors who found the whole affair to be “overhyped garbage” (<a href="https://boxd.it/32Pf2P">Jaimie K</a>) with images captured by an “unhinged egomaniac” (<a href="https://boxd.it/32Vkxv">Luis Samra</a> on Hoyte van Hoytema’s cinematography—do not read if you don’t want unexamined aspect ratio spoilers). 

But the number of people saying they’re going straight to IMAX for their rewatch has us wishing we could make <a href="https://boxd.it/32PMVX">Chris Feil’s dream</a> come true. “There should be IMAX drive-ins!” he writes. 

Yup, there should—because at the drive-in, you can see the clouds. 

‘Nope’ is screening in US theaters now and opens in other major regions throughout August 2022. 

—<a href="https://letterboxd.com/ggnz/">Gemma Gracewood</a>

Yay or Neigh?—We Round Up the Nope Reactions from Opening Weekend

Friends, if you aren't caught up yet on the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3VukCx4vhlILNV3JCnf8by" rel="nofollow">podcast</a>, for late June we're re-watching the Jurassic World movies right before we cover the brand new Jurassic World: Dominion directed by The Icon Colin Trevorrow. AKA The Road to the Junassic World tm tm tm.To kick things off we're covering <a href="https://boxd.it/4n0g" rel="nofollow">JURASSIC WORLD</a>. Listen I don't think I liked it in theaters but maybe it's aged like some kind of delicious genetically altered fine wine? Next up, they said it couldn't be done; <a href="https://boxd.it/bOnU" rel="nofollow">JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM</a>. We all remember that trailer with the scary violins playing the theme song, right? But then it wasn't scary and everyone got pissed. If we can survive that we'll move onto the final part of the trilogy, <a href="https://boxd.it/ikXW" rel="nofollow">JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION</a>. All I know about this one is that some of the original cast is back and I'm not really sure if the JP nerds are real happy about it. Could this be the journey that rights the wrongs of JW? Stay tuned. (Also peep that 70mm JP artwork Danny made, cripes)As always, you <a href="http://vhsvillage.com/" rel="nofollow">buy prints of Danny's artwork</a> and listen along using the links on <a href="https://70mmpod.com/" rel="nofollow">70mmpod.com</a>. Maybe even join the VHS Village Discord over at our <a href="https://www.patreon.com/70mm" rel="nofollow">Patreon</a>?  xoxo

Friends, if you aren't caught up yet on the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3VukCx4vhlILNV3JCnf8by">podcast</a>, for late June we're re-watching the Jurassic World movies right before we cover the brand new Jurassic World: Dominion directed by The Icon Colin Trevorrow. AKA The Road to the Junassic World tm tm tm.

To kick things off we're covering <a href="https://boxd.it/4n0g">JURASSIC WORLD</a>. Listen I don't think I liked it in theaters but maybe it's aged like some kind of delicious genetically altered fine wine? Next up, they said it couldn't be done; <a href="https://boxd.it/bOnU">JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM</a>. We all remember that trailer with the scary violins playing the theme song, right? But then it wasn't scary and everyone got pissed. If we can survive that we'll move onto the final part of the trilogy, <a href="https://boxd.it/ikXW">JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION</a>. All I know about this one is that some of the original cast is back and I'm not really sure if the JP nerds are real happy about it. Could this be the journey that rights the wrongs of JW? Stay tuned. (Also peep that 70mm JP artwork Danny made, cripes)

As always, you <a href="http://vhsvillage.com/">buy prints of Danny's artwork</a> and listen along using the links on <a href="https://70mmpod.com/">70mmpod.com</a>. Maybe even join the VHS Village Discord over at our <a href="https://www.patreon.com/70mm">Patreon</a>? 
xoxo

70mm - The Road to the Junassic World

protolexus’s ★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

My eyes closing involuntarily, they are introducing themselves again, take a deep breath, dinosaurs are circling, the music swells. Heartbreak feels good in a place like this.Next on 70mm

slim’s ★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Saw this with my son and the highlight was him turning to me during one scene and in his best Arnold voice saying "get to da choppah!"My sweet boy.More on a very special <a href="https://pod.link/70mm/episode/47084f005342e55b24a3c6f2ace86c36" rel="nofollow">70mm podcast</a>.

Dany’s diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

All I could think was that I could be watching Top Gun Maverick in the theater next door. Next week on <a href="https://solo.to/70mm" rel="nofollow">70mm</a> should be interesting.

Dale Andrews’s ★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Am I mad because it was a bad movie or because it’s not the story I wanted the franchise to tell.

TheAndyFunke’s ★★★½ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

groogruxdave’s ★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

I almost DNF'd after the first ten minutes. Might have saved a few hours. More like Trevor-NO This is mutated genetic hybrid made to look like a summer blockbuster, taking pieces from other major IP hits of the past, to form something that ends up being completely destructive to itself and my good time. That shirt and button quick shot with Jeff though, chefskiss.jpg

jonesylovesbeer’s ★★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

My kids were on the edge of their seats which made me like this more than I was prepared for. I wish Jeff Goldblum would adopt me. Also, I zeroed in on that bad ass dragon works scout sheath Starlord was wearing. Spent too much time guessing what kind of drop point knife he had in it. I thought ESSE or a Becker with custom scales. Maybe even a Dan Tope or Dark Timber custom job. I'll save you the Google it's no one I've ever heard of that only sells knives through a Facebook page.

Alex’s ★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Ty McGowen’s ½★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

It’s been almost 30 years and 5 sequels since the release of Jurassic Park, and the greatest Jurassic content we’ve gotten is a Netflix kids show called Camp Cretaceous. Hey all you annoying Star Wars fans, you could’ve had it so much worse, so chill out.

middlecasey’s ★★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Part Jurassic World part Mission Impossible part Taken part Indiana Jones etc etc. I…didn’t hate it? I liked it better than the other two, easily. When the t. Rex and the Freddy Kruegersaurus work together at the end? Perfection.

Luka’s ★★★★½ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

I love dinosaurs and I love Jurassic Park! And this movie finally gave me what both Jurassic World movies forgot from the original: SIMPLE SCENES OF JUST DINOSAURS EATING PLANTS!!!The movie is basically 2.5h of fan service. Ellie, Alan and Ian are back! They have a great story. Claire and Owen are also back - their story somehow tries to redeem the awful plot set up in Fallen Kingdom. There's new characters as well and some are surprisingly great (given the track record of World movies).I could go on a rant about all the bad stuff in the movie (looking at you nameless bad guy who exists to be eaten by a dinosaur), but I don't remember the last time I felt such pure enjoyment in the theater as here seeing those dinos eat trees 🌴🦕♥️

doubble’s ★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Amy’s ★★★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Kenneth’s ★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Ultimately forgettable, horridly overlong, and mostly sucks - but it doesn't suck entirely, so mark me down as mildly surprised I guess. Went into this expecting memes and long smirks as actors deliver stale memes and generally the most drab possible "celebration" of the franchise. And yeah, there was a lot of that, but it wasn't as bad as No Way Home and even threatened at multiple points to deliver on the promise of an entertaining movie. There's a lot to dislike to be honest. More than I really care to get into. Not worth putting down the laundry list of cons I have.But, if I had to encapsulate what I disliked most about this, I'd have to say this:There is a moment somewhere between the 15m-135m mark where someone (I forget who. I saw this movie less than a day ago as I start writing this and already I've forgotten) cracks a joke that you'd have to be into Jurassic Park memes on Reddit or something to understand and then there is this weird silence where they put a space for the audience to laugh. It sucks. So maybe this is just how movies are now. Whatever. TL;DR: Has some fun parts! Def the best of the new trilogy. I don't know why in any scenario they would decide to make this 2.5hrs. Terrible move. I have no idea. Laundry List That I Said I Wouldn't Put On Here:<blockquote>Everyone is too sexy. Why does everyone have to be the most attractive person and also be an action star.Comes tantalizingly close to good with that Malta sequence but the scenes in the Dolamites don't really follow that thread and it feels a little wasted.Nothing ruins flow like EIGHT PROTAGONISTS. Jurassic Park should never have been turned into a franchise. Bad move overall. You know why the first one rules? Spielberg on top of his game with a solid screenplay powered by Michael Crichton.Completely shafts dinosaurs. These aren't forces of nature to be survived, they're CGI baddies for everyone to have an Avengers style team-up on.The way the movie treated DBH makes me sad in ways I can't fully articulate and/or want to mark down publicly without thinking through. Needless to say I find how she was directed a bit.....bothersome?Is this a prequel to Dinotopia or Gattaca?</blockquote>

PopFenton’s diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Gabb’s ★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

My favourite part of seeing this in theatres was seeing all the happy people come out of Top Gun Maverick 2 stars for the movie and a heart for Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and the JP theme

Marcie’s diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

TheBullMcCabe’s ★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Imagine having the premise of Dinosaur's roaming earth ………. And this is what you came up with The acting was horrific

Ian de Borja’s ★★½ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Was this movie good? Not really. But it opens up with a fake NowThis Facebook video catching people up on the world of dinosaurs, so if you still decided to take this too seriously after that, I don’t know what to tell you. At 2.5 hours this is maybe the most egregious case of “this was clearly two movies that they squished into one” I’ve seen. Literally cut almost all of the Pratt / Howard / Clone kid story and it’s a much better movie. That all being said, I did enjoy a fair amount of the back half of the movie, incredibly stupid but fun to watch with a some drinks. Finally, shout out to Chris Pratt for pulling off an all time vanity role. My guy not only raw dog grabs a Newman-killing Dino by the throat, he also runs around with a baby raptor on his back. Unsure what his agent makes, but they probably deserve more money for getting him scenes like this.

Megan’s ★½ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Yikes. This was not good. Horrible acting, stupid story, zero chemistry between Chris and Bryce, runtime way too long, and some of the dinosaurs looked like hot garbage.

Jerrett’s ★★½ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

It's another movie about dinosaurs!

cinephilly’s ★★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Silje Nord’s ★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

Gonna start with the positives: there's more dinosaurs with feathers than ever before, and I love that! Other than that, I have to admit I find it absolutely infuriating when they do shit like make Ellie do her "remove her glasses in shock and awe" move looking at.....a field decimated by genetically engineered locusts? This story is so bad on so many levels. Is Dodgson the most nothingburger villain in film history? I'm baffled as to what they were trying to accomplish with that character. The dialogue is so bad it's funny sometimes, but mostly just a bit sad.

Jordan McGrath’s ★★ diary entry for Jurassic World Dominion

A big bag of nothing. How does somebody read this script and the first thing that comes out of their mouth not be ‘Why doesn’t anything happen for the first 45 pages?’