Batson's Blog

The Jurassic Park universe was new to me as recently as 2015.  I'd never seen the movies growing up because dinosaurs weren't a major interest to me.  I was more into spy movies and superhero movies than anything involving a dinosaur.  Maybe Barney ruined them for me! I decided to watch the trilogy on Netflix and I was pretty impressed. As it is with many movies, the quality of the movies decreased with each sequel that was released. But then the franchise was relaunched with Chris Pratt (coming off of his Guardians of the Galaxy success ... see?  It all goes back to superheroes). I'm usually one to watch movies or television shows in order, so I watched Jurassic World before I could even think about watching Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom . It wasn't a bad movie.  There were definitely some 'Sure, like that would happen' moments, but that's to be expected when you're watching a movie about dinosaurs. After having watched Jurassic Wo...

All I knew about Prometheus was that it was some kind of space adventure movie – most likely involving alien life forms of some kind. I didn’t know, until the last scene, that it was a prequel, of sorts, to the Alien movies. Maybe if I’d known that ahead of time I would have enjoyed Prometheus better than I did. Or, maybe not. I’d put a spoiler alert here, but there’s really nothing worth spoiling, so I won’t bother. It peaked my interest at the start, when an albino human-like being is shown next to a large waterfall. While a ship seems to be taking off into the atmosphere, he takes a sip of something out of a canister and it changes his molecular structure. He falls into the waterfall and then decomposes in the water. All right, so who’s the guy? What did he drink? Why did he decompose? I’m interested in finding out what happened. We go to a scene in Ireland, as two scientists find a cave marking – the same as what are apparently in several other places on Eart...