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Have you seen any good movies lately? I thought it would be cool to start a thread where we can share mini reviews and reports on movies. I’ll start.

I recently saw the new Jurassic Park in theaters and enjoyed it. Hadn’t been to a movie theater in a long time.

The dinosaurs were super cool, there was a lot of suspense and action. The plot was satisfying but not amazing. The characters were a little bit weak and the dialogue wasn’t great.

Jurassic Park is one of those movies that i’ll always see. I’ve watched all 7 of them now and enjoyed them all. Obviously the first two are the best, but it’s probably my favorite movie franchise overall.

How about you? What’s the last movie you watched?

I watched Phone Booth last night. It’s kind of viewed as a modern classic but I honestly thought it was stupid. I guess the artistic value comes in the shots and the framing, and the nostalgia for the phone booth itself.

It wasn’t a terrible movie by any means, it’s just… The plot, and the dialogue, was dumb to me. It didn’t hook me. This guy wanted to shoot him because he was cheating on his wife? Or he WANTED to cheat on his wife?

But the shooter was just a random guy who had access to the phone booth? And he was willing to shoot people down in the street? And the cops thought the guy in the phone booth was the shooter the whole time?

And it took them all that time to find the real shooter, but they didn’t find him, even though he walked through the crime scene with a gun case at the end of the movie?

And the guy in the phone booth couldn’t just run away and zig zag? He just had to keep picking up the phone? Also, the repeated quote was stupid. “A ringing phone has to be answered, doesn’t it?” No, dude. It doesn’t!

I just couldn’t look past the plot. It’s not an interesting or believable plot. I thought the writing was poor. Yet people love it!

Maybe the point is to look past that the plot doesn’t make sense and just enjoy it for what it is. Overall, the movie Phone Booth is not for me.