The Bobbs Beat: Movies with Peter

--> Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 3 ½ stars The original Jurassic Park is one of my all time favorite movies of all time, and the ultimate summer movie. The OG park was a frightening, heartfelt, intellectual, thrill ride that took movie going experience to a whole new level. That movie remained popular in theatres for months, and was a global sensation. All that said, that type of Jurassic Park movie experience can never be replicated and I thought the first Jurassic World took a pretty good stab getting close to what made the OG JP great. It lacked the intellect and layered characters of the original, but captured the wonder and awe of a world with dinosaurs and added something new with a real working theme park. Even though I highly enjoyed Jurassic World, my expectations were pretty low for Fallen Kingdom. The trailers didn’t grab me and the whole plot point of militarizing dinosaurs, first introduced in Jurassic World, is pretty dumb. However, I was pleasant...

Solo: A Star Wars Story 2 1/2 stars It’s pretty hard for me not to be excited about a Star Wars movie, but this movie was very, very average. I didn’t have super high hopes for this film after hearing about the troubles on set, but the preview made it look like a fun Ocean’s 11-style heist movie with some familiar characters. The problem is there isn’t enough heisting and it’s not that fun. The heists seemed a bit bland, no overly complex plans or decoy switcheroos. They seemed too easy. And the action sequences were pretty forgettable. Even if you didn’t like the Last Jedi, it had spectacular action beats. The millennium falcon chase through the crystal salt mines in TLJ in particular stood out to me. But in this, the chase scenes are almost uneventful and straightforward. All the actors are fine, Donald Glover is stand out for me, but I didn’t find any of them particularly funny or engaging. Overall the movie is fine, but pretty disappointing for a STAR WAR. Hopefully Episode ...