Why Jurassic Park’s InGen Is Too Stupid To Win

Usually when I bring content from a Media Zealot video, besides trying to get you to check out the full series, it’s a daily quickpost, something I either really agree with to the point I don’t need to comment a lot, or because it’s just something fun. This episode of his series “Villains Too Stupid To Win”, one of a number on his YouTube channel, benefits from a villain who has had enough movies that they made an hour’s worth of failures to point out. Such is the case with the real villains of Jurassic Park and its spin-offs. No, not the dinosaurs. You’d think the allegedly “pea-brained” animals would be stupid but they’re a lot smarter than the people at InGen.

Originally introduced in the Michael Crichton novel Jurassic Park, the second time Crichton has turned a theme park evil (the first being the original Westworld movie), InGen learned how to make dinosaurs…and that was oddly not their biggest mistake. While some characters died in the book, the movie adaptation did so well that some of them survive to do the sequel movie, Crichton himself forced to make a sequel novel so they can make a movie. From there you have three movies, a spin-off franchise, a cartoon, video games, and thus more ways for InGen to completely doom the world with dinosaurs without some cloned little girl being involved. Since this is an hour long it seems a bit big for a “quickpost” even though I really don’t have to add anything. Media Zealot has it all covered. Some swearing from the movie if that bothers you but for everyone else, please enjoy and go follow his channel (link in the first paragraph or through the video) for more content like this.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Star Power #2

Someone never heard about bringing a gun to a fist fight.

Star Power #2

indie published (July, 2013)

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WRITER: Michael Terracciano

ARTIST: Garth Graham

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BW’s Daily Video> The Problem With The Star Wars Special Editions

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Dissecting The 2003 Daredevil Movie

Is there any reviewer that hasn’t commented on 2003’s disappointing superhero adaptation Daredevil? I’m pretty sure you can find restaurant critics who have trashed the film. My opinion: I don’t hate it but I can’t defend it either. Released by 20th Century Fox before it was bought by Disney and renamed 20th Century Studios, Daredevil comes from the Marvel comics that Disney also didn’t own at the time. Make of that what you will.

To celebrate the film’s anniversary Yahoo! Movies’ Ethan Alter sat down with the movie’s director, Mark Steven Johnson, to discuss what happened when making the movie and I thought it would be interesting to go over the interview and compare this with current Marvel productions as well as try to figure out why the film was as bad as it was. How much blame is Johnson taking and how much is he blaming on his bosses and/or the fans for the reception of this movie? We starting with comments by the interviewer in his intro.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Mister Miracle #1 (2017 preview)

It’s only 10 pages. How much pain could there be if it’s only half the comic? Remember, the job of a preview or ashcan or any other comic like this is to sell a potential reader on getting the series. So how does this do?

I could just be doing this to add another Mister Miracle image to the site’s media library.

Mister Miracle#1 preview edition

DC Comics (October, 2017)

“Meet Mister Miracle”

WRITER: Tom King

ARTIST: Mitch Geralds

COVER ART: Nick Derrington or Mitch Geralds; I’m not sure which cover this is

LETTERER: Clayton Cowels

ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Molly Manahan

EDITOR: Jamie S. Rich

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BW’s Daily Video> Kamp Koral & The Current Problems Within The Animation Industry

Note: Some deserved swearing later in the video

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Defining The Term “Woke Media”

Look, kids. CAPES!

I know, I forget he’s supposed to be bisexual as well. That’s because of how the entertainment industry is currently approaching representation. Push back against any of it and you’ll be called racist, sexist, homophobic, or some other flavor of bigot even when that isn’t the part you’re complaining about. I don’t discuss “woke” because to me that’s only a symptom of a larger issue in entertainment right now, the same old “not the existence of A but the absence of B” scenario, and it’s not even being done right or for the right reasons…or the reasons defenders of woke media influences think it’s being done.

The Critical Drinker just dropped a video defining what “woke” actually means, something lost in the sociopolitical culture war that’s going on. To quote a certain swordsman “I don’t think that word means what you think it means”. I’ve seen certain people not part of the culture war following the misunderstanding of the term to believe it means simply having a non-straight white character but as with most things in arguments between idiots that’s not so simple. So let this video explain the definition and then I’ll tell you why defenders of this stuff, and even some critics, are being played by the failing entertainment machine for cheap bucks or their own egos.

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