Cult-TV Theme Watch: Dolls, Dummies and Puppets.Theme Song of the Week: Strange World (1999).
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Cult Movie Review: The Darkest Hour (2011). Hatched from a Mutual Zygote: Downstream. 
Collectible of the Week: Knight of Darkness (Ideal. Pop Art: Read-Along Adventures/Buena Vista Records. The Eight Most Disgusting Cult-TV Parasites. Saturday Morning Cult-TV Blogging: Jason of Star C. Cult-TV Blogging: Otherworld: "Rock and Roll Suici. The Cult-TV Faces of: Sports and Fitness. Cult-TV Theme Watch: Sports and Fitness. And Even More Purple Rain: Music on Film Reviews. I look forward to your thoughts on the third film. You bring out so much and really make me think on them (even though we can think oh so differently on some -) ). Still, I always enjoy your takes with these films, John. That deconstruction may be at the core, but I also think Spielberg gets the tone so wrong here (even though it made a boatload of money), and why when most remember this series, the first remains such a touchstone for most moviegoers where this one is an afterthought. Maybe its way of un-doing certain aspects from the preceding film is what evokes that reaction to it. I think we're repeating that experience here. I know you have a distinct fondness for Fincher's third leg in that franchise, while I decidedly do not. In many ways, this reminds me our Alien 3 post-AlIENS schism. All the things Spielberg did so right with the original really get undone, IMO, by this venture. I so wanted to love this all over again when it came out. You know me and I don't have knee-jerk reaction against exposing corporation corruption and greed, but I think the script's need to pour it on thickly comes off self-serving and leaving a bad taste in this viewer's mouth (along with the disjointedness with stitching an ending that is. His was less the " capitalism or big business run amok" approach and more with his usual approach of human folly with technology and the illusion of control it offered. Here, it took an entirely different tack (180° politically from the conservative Crichton's view). 
I found the changes in the original to be entirely advantageous and beneficial to that adaptation. It's no secret Crichton had a much different take with the sequel's direction in his book's story. And perhaps that's due to having read both novels by Crichton (especially the sequel prior to the screening) and found the changes in the screenplay from the novel (as opposed to the original Jurassic Park treatment) wanting. Alas, my hateful antibodies negate that -). I applaud your steadfastness regarding the benefits and good points you find with this sequel.
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