Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-03 (Wednesday)

On 7/3/2025 9:35 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Still catching up on soaps.
 Yesterday, I focused on DOOL - I basically got through the episodes from Mon-Thur of last week. These were more enjoyable, now that we're finally past the dead John and Bo/Hope naval gazing! In the end, Gabi ends up throwing Johnny under the bus to Rafe (who didn't appear in the episode) after Marlena and Roman try to figure out a way to keep Johnny out of legal jeopardy for EJ's shooting. More Sarah/Xander drama. Stephanie discovers her manuscript at the hospital and is irate, confronting Alex, but Alex talks his way out of it by telling Stephanie that her trashy smut is "best-seller" material!
 I watched reruns of "Chicago Med" and "Chicago Fire" in the evening.
 What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Jurassic World Rebirth (theatrical) Gareth Edwards ("Godzilla" and "Rogue One") directs this latest entry in the franchise.  Scarlett Johansson stars as a fixer hired a pharmaceutical company to lead an expedition to extract  blood samples from three different dinosaurs (one water dinosaur, one giant land dinosaur, and a giant flying dinosaur). The pharmaceutical company wants the blood samples to create a new miracle drug.  But the blood samples must be extracted from living dinosaurs, because plot.  And Johansson's team is ridiculously under staffed and pretty much unarmed because if they all had guns and could just shoot the dinosaurs it would be a shorter movie.  To help add to the length of the movie, Johansson's team rescues a family that comes under attack from the giant water dinosaur which adds several more characters to the movie.  And more characters means more people available to be eaten by dinosaurs.  Did I say dinosaurs, I should correct myself and say giant genetically engineered monsters that don't look anything like dinosaurs.  If this was a "Jurassic Park" sequel they would have been battling dinosaurs, but this is "Jurassic World" sequel so instead of dinosaurs we get genetically engineered hybrid creatures.   Anyway, the movie exists, and that's about all I have to say about the movie.  See it or don't.  It's pretty much critic proof.