Post by Ladyfingers on Oct 18, 2023 11:38:51 GMT
Your basic update on those old Harryhausen-era adventures where there's some contrived excuse for modern people to voyage to the land of dinosaurs.
I thought it was going to be a time-travel plot; I didn't expect the humans to be ancient aliens with a Syd Mead design aesthetic. The story feels decidedly checklisty, with its asteroid ticking-clock plot device and central premise being current-day dystopian (father who needs money for family medical bills in ancient alien civilisation with modern diversity cast). The talking portable all-purpose computer exposition is pretty amusingly corny. None of this matters, it's just a wandering-through-the-woods survival horror. Some really nice location scouting at times with "exotic" plants and mosses, and some too clearly northern hemisphere temperate to be Cretaceous (grass wasn't around back then).
Blu-ray transfer - like most transfers of current releases - is basically flawless. Given the purported mediocrity of the film I didn't spend any extra on 4K and I don't think it'd add much based on how good the 1080p is. There was certainly no issue with the quality of shadow detail that HDR would feasibly improve.
I laughed a lot more than the makers intended, but I didn't bear them any ill will, which is more than I can say for a lot of films lately. Not really recommended nor entirely advised against. Sometimes you just want to watch a dude zap monsters with a ray gun, and this just barely scratches that itch in the most rudimentary way modern cinema has to offer.
I thought it was going to be a time-travel plot; I didn't expect the humans to be ancient aliens with a Syd Mead design aesthetic. The story feels decidedly checklisty, with its asteroid ticking-clock plot device and central premise being current-day dystopian (father who needs money for family medical bills in ancient alien civilisation with modern diversity cast). The talking portable all-purpose computer exposition is pretty amusingly corny. None of this matters, it's just a wandering-through-the-woods survival horror. Some really nice location scouting at times with "exotic" plants and mosses, and some too clearly northern hemisphere temperate to be Cretaceous (grass wasn't around back then).
Blu-ray transfer - like most transfers of current releases - is basically flawless. Given the purported mediocrity of the film I didn't spend any extra on 4K and I don't think it'd add much based on how good the 1080p is. There was certainly no issue with the quality of shadow detail that HDR would feasibly improve.
I laughed a lot more than the makers intended, but I didn't bear them any ill will, which is more than I can say for a lot of films lately. Not really recommended nor entirely advised against. Sometimes you just want to watch a dude zap monsters with a ray gun, and this just barely scratches that itch in the most rudimentary way modern cinema has to offer.
