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Yes, the raptors in the kitchen is iconic and very tense. But the children's plot armor becomes evident pretty fast, which undermines the horror of the situation.

The long grass scene is the superior showcase of why the velociraptor probably gave Muldoon sleepless nights.

The aerial shot of them zeroing in on Roland's men is straight out of JAWS and them getting picked off effortlessly is just chilling.

The first few men are being killed so fast they arent even getting a chance to scream.

And like others have pointed out, this scene is reminiscent of an actual incident of saltwater crocodiles eating Japanese soldiers near Burma during WWII. Which adds a layer of errieness to an already grisly scene.

The scene doesn't even last long, but is still better executed than the raptors in the kitchen imo.

I imagine, even if George wasn't his friend he would have sent this.

Jaws had an impressive box office. And when you adjust for inflation it was a billion dollar movie.

But Star Wars...

Star Wars is so common place it is easy to forget how massive and game changing it was. When adjusted for inflation I think Star Wars has a 3.5 billion dollar box office (Jesus).

If Jaws invented the summer blockbuster, Star Wars proved it was no fluke.

I love A New Hope, but Jaws just has more rewatchability for me.

Gen Xers were spoiled when it came to blocks cinema. Imagine getting movies this gargantuan back to back...and they are actually GOOD

Quint's monologue is so iconic and well acted that most people overlook how well the subsequent scene is.

After that spooky story you hear whales bellow. Almost as if they are singing a song for Quint's dead men.

Quint starts singing his shanty. Then all three men start singing. Then of course the shark shows up

All of them stop and hear the ramming. At this point even the whales have stopped singing.

Then the lights go out and Quint fruitless shoots at the shark.

It was almost as if the shark was going there just to fuck with the men. Or if all that singing conjured its presence.

This shark is so terrifying it made the other ocean life go silent.

It almost makes the animal borderline supernatural.

Nothing screams 80s/90s/and early 00s nostalgia like the Video Home System.

And man, seeing my favorite film and its sequels in this format is as close as I'm getting to a time machine.

I love how each VHS box has its own identity. Just like each film and film logo had its own identity.

I love the hologram card in The Lost World (they really went all out for that sequel).

The difference between the MCA Universal and Universal logo at the top also helps with the distinctiveness.

Its such a sad thing to see Batman, this damn near unstoppable force, reduced to handling a gun.

To this day, I don't know if he wouldn't have shot the thug if the thug decided to call his bluff.

Just the act of picking up a gun to save someone made this version of Batman toss in the towel.

Its why the DCAU Batman is really the best adaptation.

So many other adaptations (mostly the live action stuff) have him shoot and kill people that this scene would never have worked.

In fact, seeing Batman Beyond with all the other DCAU content as context really makes it that much more tragic.

Guy went toe to toe against aliens, demons, monsters, and even a more brutal alternate version of himself.

In fact, I Imagine he was thinking about the Justice Lord Batman when he made the decision to hang up the cape.

I think the best side characters are the ones that help define the hero or help them learn something. Or at the very least represent or teach a theme of some kind.

Steven Spielberg is really good at casting and using secondary characters.

Out of this list I made, my top 5 are:

\*Matt Hooper (Jaws)

\*Itzhak Stern (Schindler's List)

\*Mike Hovarth (Saving Private Ryan)

\*Teddy (A.I.)

All jokes aside, seeing as Jack and Hack's versions of the characters are actually set in the same continuity (DC Earth 789), this meme isn't that far fetched...

Oh thats right. That Joker fell to his death before he even thought about Lex

Nevermind

What does the villian do when the hero leaves the story?

An interesting existential question that is explored in Hook and Megamind (the latter which explored it a bit more).

Its one of those scenes that actually made you feel bad for Hook. So much of his identity and purpose revolves around a person he hates.

The villian is the catalyst of the story, but the hero makes the story worth watching/reading.

I also find it interesting that they are so deprived of purpose that they actually want the hero to be trained.

In the case of Meganind, he was so desperate he actually trained a new "hero".

Honorable mention goes to the Star Wars prequels, but The Matrix really did embody the VFX landscape in a post T2/Jurassic Park world.

Most artists were still cautious about how they used CGI in the early 90s, but you could definitely sense the confidence they had in the computer rendering by the late 90s and early 00s

Its funny that one of the last lines in the first Matrix films was Neo saying, "A world where anything is possible."

They said that the era of CGI was the first time a director was limited by his own imagination

What better franchise to usher in the future of movie making illusions than a story about virtual reality.

The animatronic puppets and CGI are very seamless so it is easy to forget where one ends and the other begins.

This is the first time we see rendered CGI raptors...

And all these years later and they are still terrifying to look at.

Nevermind the horrific shrieks they are making, but the way they cautiously enter the kitchen, with their toes scrapping the floor just lets you know as bad as things have gotten...they are about to get much worse.

The raptor that snaps at the other one, asserting its dominance, has Phil Tippet written all over it.

He was good at putting little quirks and idiosyncrasies in what he animated that made a special effect turn into a character

*sigh*

I wish I could watch this movie for the first time again

His drawing of the Ark of the Covenant was phenomenal. For the longest time I actually thought that was a 14/1500s drawing.

Be cool to have seen his illustrations of the Sankara Stones or the Thuggee temple. Or the lair of the Grail Knight

It feels like they have been a staple of the comics since the 30s, but they didn't even debut in the Tim Burton film (which was a mixture of Noir and 80s aesthetics), but in the animated series

I always liked it, because it really makes Gotham feel otherworldly or like a parallel universe (in Fringe, airships are a common thing in the parallel universe).

Even in Arkham Knight, the environment of the Stagg airships really helped diversify the game.

It would also help set the DCU Batman apart from other iterations of the character. Just seeing the skyline littered with blimps would create such a distinguishing look to an IP that has been used so much.

*Complicated relationship with father

Check

*Sentimental outlook on the world

Check

*Boomer nostalgia

Check

Its funny how Tim Burton, a person that is more macabre than sentimental, made something that wouldn't look out of place in Steven's filmography