BeserkerHilf
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Rjones, I'm trying to turn over a new leaf here, so I'm going to put this a politely as I can: You are so far objectively wrong about the original in such a way that your review not only doesn't deserve the click, but if I were a mod, I'd abuse my power to delete your link.
First, watching both in one day isn't indicative of quality. Second, when you use an existing IP, regardless of subtitle, the simple recognition triggers bias. I'm not sure what you were trying to prove with this entire paragraph, but boy did you waste a lot of time avoiding the point. Furthermore, why should I give a **** about your opinion if you can't even get Alan Parrish's name right? And get at least the basic plot right; it's not a Big-scenario. When Alan is summoned from the board game, he's not a kid trapped in a man's body, but a man-out-of-time trying to cope with the town moving on without him. It's a minor note, but the town went under as a result of Alan's father not finding his son, which provide Alan with perspective that his father did in fact care about him, despite an unconventional way of showing it, which ironically was conventional in that time period.
Now regarding the original's tone: again, you're off base in just about every way. The film does a great job of balancing the narrative threads of Alan coping with the new world, Alan's father issues literally h[a]unting him at every turn, how that affects his relationship with Peter and Judy, and the game spreading chaos throughout town. They never combat each other nor stop the film dead.
Your criticism of the CGI is a hilarious cheap shot to grasp at straws for a point. This is ILM we're talking about on a Jurassic Park-sized budget, where JP didn't have the major star-paycheck to cut into the budget. There is nothing in the new movie that *****es in quality or is more memorable than shots like this:
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Which leads me to the new garbage-fire of movie I saw tonight. Aside from the cast doing their best here, this is an absolute waste of 2 hours. Yes, it holds onto the theme of the game giving the players a new-found perspective on their life, but it just about ditches all the imagination and personality the original had. Almost nothing about Alan's anecdotal horror of the jungle or the chaos that was summoned by the game was represented by the Jungle. They get sucked in and they're just sort of in Hawaii. Aside from a Rhino stampede set piece straight out of King Kong, it's all very sound-stagey and tame. My greatest criticism of this movie is that the original brought the menace of the jungle into the real world, this one just brings a ****-ton of our first-world problem-mundanity into the jungle.
First, watching both in one day isn't indicative of quality. Second, when you use an existing IP, regardless of subtitle, the simple recognition triggers bias. I'm not sure what you were trying to prove with this entire paragraph, but boy did you waste a lot of time avoiding the point. Furthermore, why should I give a **** about your opinion if you can't even get Alan Parrish's name right? And get at least the basic plot right; it's not a Big-scenario. When Alan is summoned from the board game, he's not a kid trapped in a man's body, but a man-out-of-time trying to cope with the town moving on without him. It's a minor note, but the town went under as a result of Alan's father not finding his son, which provide Alan with perspective that his father did in fact care about him, despite an unconventional way of showing it, which ironically was conventional in that time period.
Now regarding the original's tone: again, you're off base in just about every way. The film does a great job of balancing the narrative threads of Alan coping with the new world, Alan's father issues literally h[a]unting him at every turn, how that affects his relationship with Peter and Judy, and the game spreading chaos throughout town. They never combat each other nor stop the film dead.
Your criticism of the CGI is a hilarious cheap shot to grasp at straws for a point. This is ILM we're talking about on a Jurassic Park-sized budget, where JP didn't have the major star-paycheck to cut into the budget. There is nothing in the new movie that *****es in quality or is more memorable than shots like this:
Which leads me to the new garbage-fire of movie I saw tonight. Aside from the cast doing their best here, this is an absolute waste of 2 hours. Yes, it holds onto the theme of the game giving the players a new-found perspective on their life, but it just about ditches all the imagination and personality the original had. Almost nothing about Alan's anecdotal horror of the jungle or the chaos that was summoned by the game was represented by the Jungle. They get sucked in and they're just sort of in Hawaii. Aside from a Rhino stampede set piece straight out of King Kong, it's all very sound-stagey and tame. My greatest criticism of this movie is that the original brought the menace of the jungle into the real world, this one just brings a ****-ton of our first-world problem-mundanity into the jungle.
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