#Jurassic Park 25

[kindercelery]

[crazynerdandproud]

I’m trying to decide wether or not to get the first Resident Evil game and try it out but I’m on the fence as I’ve never played a horror game before and don’t know how much I’ll like it.

What do people think? Is it worth it? Are the RE games fun?

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

@popetouching​ #i just assume that the jp dinos didnt have feathers because they were crossbred with modern amphibians#works for me

Headcanon accepted.  Given everything we know about Henry Wu and John Hammond from the book, this is 100% in character.

Errors, “Errors,” and Sci Fi

@strawberry-crocodile

tvtropes calls stuff like the wolf example “science matches on” which I think is a pretty fair shake

This.  This is what’s got me thinking so much about errors.  There’s a certain danger, here.  A certain way that this particular effect — delicious dramatic irony — tempts the mind when reading old stories, even true ones.

What do you know about R.M.S. Titanic? I ask my class every year, and the first hand rises.  “It was unsinkable,” the student inevitably says, and everyone is nodding, “or so they thought.”  I write the word UNSINKABLE on the board, underneath my crude drawing of a ship with four smokestacks.  It will be crossed out before the end of the hour, but not for the reason they expect.

“I find no evidence,” Walter Lord, preeminent biographer of the ship’s survivors, wrote, “that Titanic was ever advertised as unsinkable. This detail seems to have entered the collective mind so as to create a more perfect irony.”  Indeed, historians’ examinations of White Star Line documents show the shipbuilders themselves worried it would be so large as to risk collision; they stocked several more lifeboats than 1910s regulations required.

The War to End All Wars (deep breath, satisfied exhale), also known as World War ONE. Chuckle.  Shake of the head.  What if I told you that this phrase, used primarily in American newspapers after the fact, wasn’t meant to be literal? Nowadays we’d say The Mother of All Wars, or One Hell of a Fucking War, but we wouldn’t mean literal motherhood, literal intercourse.  What if I said the armistice and the Lost Generation and the Roaring 20s were all braced for another outbreak of European conflict, and yet we still failed to prevent it?

Did you know they were so confident in the safety of the S.S. Challenger that they put a civilian schoolteacher onboard? I do, because I’ve heard that one repeated many times.  Only, see, it’s got the cause and effect reversed.  Challenger launched on a day the shuttle’s engineers knew to be dangerously cold, because the first civilian in space was on board. And NASA knew its shuttle project would be cancelled entirely, if they couldn’t get that civilian’s much-delayed entry into space in the next two weeks.  So they launched on a cold day, and killed her instead.

These are all what cognitive science calls Hindsight Bias on the personal level, what sociology calls Presentism on the cultural level.  Social psychology’s a little of both, is primarily interested in why you’re sitting on your couch in a Colonize Mars shirt watching PBS and chuckling at the fools who believed in El Dorado.  It wants to know why the mind flees straight from “marijuana will kill you” to “marijuana will cure cancer” without so much as a pause on the middle ground of its real benefits and drawbacks, its real (mild) risks and rewards.

And they can paralyze the sci-fi writer, if you think too much about them. Jetsons is futurist one decade, retro the next.  “There are no bathrooms on the Enterprise,” the creators of Serenity say smugly, as if Gene Roddenberry should’ve simply known that decades later it’d be acceptable to show a man peeing in full view of the camera, nothing but the curve of the actor’s hand to protect his modesty.  “No sound in space,” the Fandom Menace says, “No explosions in space,” and “A space station can’t collapse in zero-G.”  Only then NASA burns a paper napkin outside of atmosphere, transmits music using only the ghost of nearby planets’ gravities, and logs onto Reddit long enough to point out the Death Star would implode in its own gravity field.  And now we’re the ones pointing, the ones laughing, at those earlier point-and-laughers.  Self-satisfied, smug in superiority.  As if we did the work to find out ourselves, instead of just happening to be born a little later than George Lucas.

[henrykathman]

The Miraculous Horror of Stop Motion

From the same artform that brought you Coraline and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, comes three stories that evoke the existential fear of art.

Original Music by Molly Noise

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Brubaker, Charles. “The Japanese Studios of Rankin/Bass.” Cartoon Research, Jerry Beck, 14 Apr. 2014, cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-japanese-studios-of-rankinbass/.

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[fimbry]

When I was a child, I watched Jurassic Park like 500 times and when I was 4 years old I told my parents that Jeff Goldblum was my favorite of the human characters.

This for some reason alarmed my parents, and they began telling me that I shouldn't like that character. He was a horrible actor, really brought down the film, just awful really.

I was so confused, but accepted that I had bad opinions and my parents knew better.

Cue 25 years later, everyone is going nuts over this guy again. I was just silently watching, thinking wasn't this guy cringe? A bad actor? I was lost. I did really like him, but I thought I was supposed to be alone on that.

I more recently asked my parents about this and turns out they love Jeff Goldblum, loved him in Jurassic Park too. They have no memory of telling me otherwise.

Guys, I believe my parents told me he was a horrible actor because I was 4 years old and liked the shirtless hot guy, and I just believed that for the next 30 years.

[empressofmankind]

Ready or not, here inktober comes...

I am pretty happy with my cover and first page design. I always do this the night before October, to break the sketchbook in. I am actually really excited to start this time! @tiredemomama has prepared my prompts for me, and I absolutely cannot wait. You do not understand how thrilled I am.

Feel free to join us & tag us to show off what you made!!

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I will keep an index here with all the art!

On the art posts, their title links to my Instagram because I had a blast picking background music for each of them. Just FYI.

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Day 1 - Uncle Croc

Day 2 - Cozy

Day 3 - Coffee

Day 4 - Shopping

Day 5 - Pool Day

Day 6 - Masquerades

Day 7 - Garden

Day 8 - Dinner

Day 9 - Eggs

Day 10 - Girls night out, boys night in

Day 11 - Polaroids

Day 12 - Starved

Day 13 - Trick

Day 14 - Library

Day 15 - At the park

Day 16 - Selfish

Day 17 - Guilty pleasure

Day 18 - Late night

Day 19 - Dino glamping

Day 20 - It's art!

Day 21 - Captain

Day 22 - Spa day

Day 23 - Front page news

Day 24 - New Boyfriend

Day 25 - The Dads

Day 26 - Fossil

Day 27 - Tipsy

Day 28 - Pumpkin carving

Day 29 - Crossguild

Day 30 - Skeletons

Day 31 - Jurassic Halloween

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Prompts made by @tiredemomama 🥰

[uptoolateart]

Thanks to @hailqiqi for tagging me about ten thousand years ago. I just have so much to do 😩 Anyway! The original post said:

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers (except me because obvs I have done it). Spread the self-love ❤

Here we go!

Breaking Free - the whole series

I'm cheating here, because I'm listing a multi-book series, but I can't help it. I'm super proud of it. It started as a one-shot of Adrien and Marinette finding Gabriel's basement, and then it spiralled hard. It begins right after Strike Back. From there, it's a complicated, twisted and very bumpy ride.

'How did you think this up?' my BF beta has asked me many times. I don't know, guys. It just seemed obvious at the time 😆

This was my 'getting back into writing' book, after a lengthy creative hiatus / identity crisis. I churned out chapters because I needed to get back in the game and rediscover myself artistically. Then I went back and edited the whole thing a couple years later, to make it better (and expand it by about 20k words).

It became a series because I had requests for sequel scenes. Again, a couple one-shot ideas spiralled, and I merged them with another premise that had been kicking around in my head - Adrien, years later, trying to heal from everything as an adult and find himself as a father with his own teenage son.

That then spiralled again, and I ended up exploring Felix in depth, too, and pushing all the sentibeing stuff to extremes. The whole concept for Book 4 intimidated the hell out of me as soon as I thought of it. I was so worried I wouldn't be able to do it justice. Writing it was sometimes physical torture. But in the end, I think Book 4 contains what might be the best chapter I've ever written for anything in my life.

Still, the saga continues! Book 5 starts posting in 4 weeks. I've set myself another crazy challenge with that one, but I am determined to pull it off. I also have ideas for a few one-shots to collect in a volume I'm calling Book 6. The series is going to be like 700k words by the time I'm done. Maybe more. Will I ever truly finish this thing? I don't know. I fell so hard into the universe I created, and it's going to be hard to let it go. I fully expect to cry when I post the epilogue to Book 5.

Book 1 was also how I really got into this fandom and started making friends. Honestly, that book changed my life. Yeah...I'm gonna cry.

Dreaming Wide Awake

This was my follow-up to the S5 finale. The show is now going its own way, but I'm still so proud of how all the tension and emotions turned out in this fic. Again, the story is complex. It's also really surreal, and I think the battle scenes are some of my best. I was soooo nervous about the reader response to one of the big moments in it, but the unanimous reaction was everything I'd hoped for.

How the Heart Learns to Beat Again

A backstory from Nathalie's POV. It starts with her at age 25, as the sole survivor of an old magical order, going on extraordinary adventures seeking legendary artefacts. Then she meets the Agrestes, loses her magic, and gets roped into a new crazy world.

The story also explores Gabriel and Emilie, Colt and Amelie, and Adrien and Felix's creation / infancy. Book 2 (covering Emilie's death and how Gabriel and Nathalie start using the butterfly and peacock) starts posting on Monday. I think these fics are possibly the most mature writing I've ever done. There's a certain 'voice' to them that stands out from my other writing.

Finding a Way (Jurassic Park AU)

This is my most successful fic, so far. It's half goofy / romantic and half tense / action - with a lot of gore. I thought it would be total crack, but it took on a life of its own and became much more serious. There was something magical about how it all came together. I'm planning a sequel, but I need to get through a few other big fics first.

Voyage! Tales of the USS Miraculous (Star Trek Crossover)

This is so far from finished, but I'm having a blast writing it. It's basically all planned out and going to be mammoth when it's done. There's a little of everything in it, and you don't need to know Star Trek to understand it. I'm loving the reader speculations over what might be going on.

Okay! That's my list. Tagging @raspberrycatapult @kuromori4 @cardiac-agreste @mysticraven20 @trinketsinthesun @hamsteriffic @jigglypuff1994 @fandomofone

[werewolfsister]

Inktober 2024

Inktober 2024 Entries: [1. PALETTE SWAP] [2. SPECIES SWAP] [3. PUPPET ZELDA] [4. GAME SWAP] [5. BODY SWAP] [6. DESIGN SWAP] [7. OUTFIT SWAP] [8. MENIAL TASK] [9. DOMAIN] [10. CELEBRATION] [11. EVERAUTUMN] [12. BABY] [13. ANIMAL] [14. MOLGERA/COLGERA] [15. OLDEST OC] [16. PERFORMANCE] [17. NEGLECTED OC] [18. STARTER POKÉMON] [19. DEFEAT] [20. ASTROLOGY] [21. SORCERERS] [22. TURNABOUT INKTOBER] [23. DECAY] [24. RUN] [25. EVERAUTUMN] [26. EVERAUTUMN] [27. FOOD POKEMON] [28. 3 HOURS] [29. KIDDO] [30. ROMANCE] [31. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!] [BONUS: KOROKS!]

Other cool folks: [BONUS: DANGEROUS TASK] [BONUS: PALETTE SWAP] [HELLO OCTOBER!] [EGG CARVING] [WW + MASK] [BREAKDANCE] [SUN] [MANGA REDRAW] [GHOST POKÉMON] [BRAWLER] [JURASSIC PARK] [DANNY DINO PHANTOM] [OFF] [YOKAI] [RITO] [SWORDTEMBER] [KASS] [DINOVEMBER] [ALT ZORAS DOMAIN] [WIND WAKER] [BAWKTOBER] [GARLANDS] [MIRROR] [HANDMAIDENS] [PUZZLE BOX] [FAKETOBER] [FOG] [USUMO] [DR STRANGE?] [MASS EFFECT] [EVIL DEAD] [CENTIPEDES] [JOLTIK PARADE] [MUSIC] [DAEMON] [KIRBYTOBER]

Trick or Treat Asks! [capybara] [plague doctor] [oh deer] [parakeet] [bugs] [raccoon] [kinder egg] [kaso] [scrub] [high hopes] [capybara...?] [malfeasance] [mipha] [ouppy] [passy] [cookies] [revali] [ibuprofen] [vandalism] [candy corn] [swedish shark] [surprise fish attack!?]

Boop! 🎃

[inklessletter]

Ink's Art Masterlist

15/MAR/23 - Those eyes (Steve H. art) WIP FINAL

16/MAR/23 - Scoops Steve H. WIP + LINEART FINAL

18/MAR/23 - Robin Sketch Colour

20/MAR/23 - Eddie Sketch

21/MAY/23 - Max Mayfield Sketch

29/MAY/23 - Steve & Eddie Lineart

30/MAY/23 - You're Dangerous, Harrington [TTP] LINEART BASIC COLORS FINAL

02/JUN/23 - Are you real? [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART GRAYSCALE FINAL

07/JUN/23 - Mine or yours? [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART GRAYSCALE FINAL

10/JUN/23 - Harder, Munson [TTP] SNEAK PEEK GRAYSCALE FINAL

11/JUN/23 - Is this shit recording yet? [R: Mature] (not really showing anything explicit, though, just implied)

14/JUN/23 - Do we have a deal, sweetheart? [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART BASIC COLORS FINAL

16/JUN/23 - Hey, sunshine. Doing alright?

16/JUN/23 - Your game is shit, Munson. [TTP] SNEAK PEEK FINAL

17/JUN/23 - The Moon told me about you. [TTP] LINEART FINAL

18/JUN/23 - Eddie, the Goblin King [TTP] SNEAK PEEK SKETCH LINEART FINAL

19/JUN/23 - You're crazy [TTP] SNEAK PEEK FINAL

20/JUN/23 - Elton John is on the radio [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL

24/JUN/23 - Eyes on me. (Twin piece) [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL

24/JUN/23 - Slower, baby. (Twin piece) [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL

25/JUN/23 - Twin Pieces Together

27/JUN/23 - Category 5 pretty boy [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL

29/JUN/23 - Meant to be [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL

02/JUL/23 - Let me give you the summer [TTP] SNEAK PEEK SHAPES BASIC COLOR FINAL

06/JUL/23 - It has always been you [TTP] SNEAK PEEK SHAPES BASIC COLOR FINAL

9/JUL/23 - Twin Pieces Together (Summer Lovin')

9/JUL/23 - Treacherous [TTP] SNEAK PEEK SHAPES COLOR FINAL

10/JUL/23 - Lost on you (Eddie) [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL (NOT RATED) FINAL (RATED MATURE)

11/JUL/23 - Lost on you (Steve) [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL (NOT RATED) FINAL (RATED MATURE)

12/JUL/23 - Twin Pieces Together (Lost on you, Mature versions under the cut)

16/JUL/23 - Chasing the sun, finding herself [TTP] SNEAK PEEK FINAL

21/JUL/23 - No lips, only tongue [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL

28/JUL/23 - He's a prism [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL

27/JUL/23 - Under fairy lights [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL

29/JUL/23 - Kissing you [TTP] (unfinished) SNEAK PEEK SHAPES

6/AUG/23 - Smoking hot [TTP] (unfinished) SNEAK PEEK LINEART

14/AUG/23 - It's a love story [TTP] SNEAK PEEK LINEART FINAL

25/AUG/23 - Don't look at me like that

25/AUG/23 - Jurassic Park AU [TTP] (very unfinished) SNEAK PEEK

30/AUG/23 - Did you mean around your neck? (hands study)

10/SEP/23 - Hard, ice, silver love (hands study) [TTP] (very very very unfinished) SNEAK PEEK

[creaturetaled]

NEW MUSE. Ajax Pallida.

age. 25 years old.

species. red spitting cobra.

occupation. retired underground fighter, current head body modification artist / piercer at royce's tattoo & piercing shop.

orientation. demi.

pronouns. they/he.

RANDOM HEADCANONS.

Similar to Vespa & Javier, Ajax was not a naturally occurring shapeshifter but was instead genetically modified in a laboratory similar to Dr. Henry Wu's research in jurassic park. His venom was a particularly new topic scientists were researching at the time and had never injected into anyone before, & as a result it has some side effects.

Ajax's venom is a type called cytotoxic. This means that it can cause serious necrosis (aka dying tissues) as well as severe blistering of the skin. Ajax's body now has gotten used to it, but his arms are intensely scarred / blackened / his fingers he can't really feel anymore due to the traumatic induction of his transformation.

Spitting cobras actually spray their venom not from their throat, but from tiny holes in the base of their two fangs that can hit a range up to 8 ft. During his underground fighting, he used this to his advantage. While his move didn't kill anyone, there were a few who had a poor reaction, and one he blinded permanently.

These days personality wise he is a lot less aggressive than he used to be - having to literally win fights to save his life (he was leased out by the research facility to bring in more revenue) would pump up the adrenaline, causing his blistering to flare up again.

Current piercings: eyebrows, ears, tongue, stomach, chin, cheek. ( a couple more ,less sfw. )

Is in charge of the shop when Royce is out on business / vacation.

[xtarmanderx]

WIP Tag Game

RULES: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Special shoutout to @tabbytabbytabby for the tag!

This is not the entire list. There are dozens more, but some are just screenshots of notes and some are vague ideas that I don’t remember and would need to read again. I’ve also got tons of ideas scattered in the notes on my phone, but I haven’t made docs for them. Sequel docs exist, too, but most of those aren’t fleshed out enough to be included here.

1. Need a Favor? BuckTommy

2. Sorry. Daddy? Sorry. Daddy? BuckTommy

3. Happy pride BuckTommy

4. Ryan gets a cat Ryan x Carson (Nancy Drew)

5. BuckTommy parents

6. BuckTommy crash

7. BuckTommyEddie

8. BuckTommy meet the friends

9. Shower Tevan

10. What’s in a name BuckTommy

11. Red eye back to you Carson x Ryan

12. Husks - Buddie

13. It’s all I’ve ever known Carson x Ryan

14. BuckTommy

15. Motocrossed Thiam

16. Rockstar Ryan fic Ryan x Carson

17. Ryan high Ryan x Carson

18. Lost in artifacts and cobwebs of the mind Ryan x Carson

19. The Raekoning Thiam

20. Season 4 Ryan/Carson snippets

21. Ryan x Carson Luce’s birth

22. Tony’s shirt Tony Stark x Stephen Strange

23. X-Men Thiam AU (Icarus)

24. Thiam Jatp

25. Avengers Thiam Big Bang

26. Nope Angel x OJ

27. Jaskier prisoner Geraskier

28. Jaskier nightmares Geraskier

29. This Means War (So Fire Away) Thiam

30. Nope 2 Angel x OJ

31. Harringrove fic

32. 5b rewrite with best frand Thiam

33. The Steady Fall of my Heart (Jurassic Park, Alan x Billy)

34. The Black Cauldron (Thiam)

35. The Crown Jewel - Jett

36. Aftershock Thiam

37. Jaskier/Geralt coffee shop au

38. Josh/Brett/Mason/Theo

39. Hercules (Thiam)

40. Treasure Planet Thiam

41. Josh/Brett/Liam - slaves to any semblance of touch

42. Long fic Jett

43. Thiam avatar

44. Good boys are golden boys (Sean x Garrett)

45. Static hearts Thiam

46. Thiam Prompt 7: Oh the Places We’ll Go

47. Smudges of black - discord Jett

48. Miam mating bites (Mason/Liam)

49. The Lies we Tell are Worth Dying For Thiam

50. Anastasia Thiam

51. Jump In Thiam

52. Thason slow burn (Theo/Mason)

53. When Worlds Collide (Asher x Henry, All American x Light as a Feather)

54. Making Waves - Jett

Tagging @snaeken @imjustafangirl-nobodylovesme @extrasteps @equallyloyalandlethal @osirismind @raybyanothername @purplehoodiesandleatherjackets @theoceanismyinkwell and anyone else who wants to do this!

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Yo! Inspired by your enthusiasm for all things Animorphs, I'm re-reading the series for the first time in about 20 years and really enjoying it! Currently up to book #05 rn.

Question tho: can DNA be Acquired from petting a corpse? Is that a thing? 🤔

Also, can DNA be Acquired from a morphed creature? Like, for example, could Marco become a gorilla, then Jake Acquire gorilla DNA from Marco?

My intuition is that these questions are somewhat incoherent in the face of Animorphs' soft-magic system, but also I have vague recollections of there being Jurassic Park style shenanigans involving getting DNA via mosquito bloodsucking, so... 🤔

(bonus intuition: there's a LOT of Animorphs fanfiction in my future)

can DNA be Acquired from petting a corpse? Is that a thing?

It cannot! We know from the times where there's huge effort to capture a live animal (#15 and the shark, #25 and the polar bear) that you can't get DNA from a sample or a dead animal. And #44 says outright that when a hork-bajir dies, Cassie can no longer acquire him.

There is that weird plan in #18 with trying to acquire DNA from blood. My headcanon is that — since we never see it attempted — that plan never would've worked, because there are fundamental differences between human and andalite blood Ax doesn't know about. (E.g. maybe andalite blood cells are all nucleated, or they're semi-independent organisms like human gut flora.)

Also, can DNA be Acquired from a morphed creature? Like, for example, could Marco become a gorilla, then Jake Acquire gorilla DNA from Marco?

Also no! It's a plot point in #50 and in #20 that you can only acquire an original version of an animal, not a morpher.

So: you need to be touching a real, living version of an organism in order to acquire its DNA. Again, there's arguable debate about the "real" part in #18, and Tobias seems acquirable once he's a nothlit (#49), but that's the rule.

[mariacallous]

Forty-seven years ago today, everything changed. True believers might already know what it was: On May 25, 1977, Star Wars hit movie theaters and irrevocably altered nearly everything pertaining to the act of moviegoing. Lines around the block, overly excited nerds, an appetite for action figures. Star Wars taught Hollywood that certain genres—sci-fi, fantasy, anything that percolated in the offbeat TV shows, books, and comics of the 1950s and ’60s—had fans, and those fandoms would show up. Star Wars made a meager $1.6 million in the US in its opening weekend. But people kept coming back, and by the end of its initial run it had made more than $300 million. Hollywood’s Next Big Thing had arrived.

Common wisdom dictates that Jaws, which came out in 1975 and made some $260 million, was the first summer blockbuster. That’s true, but it was Star Wars that shifted the idea of what kind of film future popcorn flicks tried to be. In the years after its release, a trove of sci-fi and genre films landed in theaters: Blade Runner, Alien, E.T., the Mad Max sequel The Road Warrior. By the ’90s, the summer movie energy had shifted to action fare—Twister, Speed, Jurassic Park, Independence Day—but nerd stuff still ruled. For every Forrest Gump there was a Batman Returns or Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Then came a little juggernaut called Marvel. By the time Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies started clearing nine-figure opening weekends in the aughts, it was obvious that comic book heroes’ true superpowers involved making your money disappear. The Avengers opened in early May 2012 and nearly recouped its $200-million-plus production budget in three days. Suddenly, there were at least two superhero movies every year, if not every summer, and some new Star Wars flicks at the holidays.

The one-two punch of Covid-19 theater closures and streaming pretty much kneecapped this entire process. The summer of 2020 had virtually no blockbusters, and by the time moviegoers returned to multiplexes in 2021 and 2022, there had been a vibe shift. Movies like Black Widow and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness did well, but they weren’t events. Rushing to Fandango for tickets didn’t feel as urgent as it once did. Last summer, Barbenheimer was the buzziest thing in movies. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 made money, but they still got beat by Barbie’s might.

Overall, this year could be a wake-up call for studios that superhero fatigue has fully set in, says Chris Nashawaty, author of The Future Was Now, a new book out in July about how the movies of 1982—Blade Runner, E.T., Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, among others—ushered in the current blockbuster era. That epoch, he says, “was always going to be something that couldn’t last forever; I’m frankly surprised that it lasted as long as it did.”

Nashawaty says the success of Barbenheimer—both movies—indicates that audiences are hungry for smart films, but Hollywood’s risk aversion likely means studios will greenlight more projects based on toys and games like Monopoly rather than movies about physicists. “This is a real existential moment in Hollywood right now,” he adds, and studios need to be bold to stay relevant.

Summer 2024, which unofficially begins this weekend, promises a move away from the formula that has been in play for decades. There are only a handful of big popcorn-ready movies coming, and they’re decidedly less family-friendly than the blockbusters of yore. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which dropped on Friday, is a teeth-chatteringly gritty prequel about a kidnapped woman (Anya Taylor-Joy playing the younger version of Charlize Theron’s character from Mad Max: Fury Road) who ends up in a war between two overlords and has to fight her way out. Deadpool & Wolverine is a Marvel movie, yes, but it’s apparently a paean to pegging and cocaine so hard-R that Ryan Reynolds won’t shut up about it.

The series of weird indies coming in the next few months—the thriller Cuckoo, Ti West’s latest horror flick MaXXXine, a new collab from Poor Things pals Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos called Kinds of Kindness—finally have some room to get into the summer movie conversation.

Make no mistake: I am typing these things with glee and admiration. Glossy family movies have their place, but they’ve grown awfully predictable. Safe—not necessarily in their plots, but in their substance. No matter how fun last year’s barn-burner The Super Mario Bros. Movie was, you can’t say anything about it was surprising, much less new. No one walked into the theater for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and walked out as gobsmacked as they were when they saw Star Wars, or even Speed.

This is not a “Hollywood is so homogenized” argument. Rather, it’s a reminder that Tinseltown wasn’t always this way. Its influence used to introduce people to the future. What’s happening now has the potential to mark a return to the kind of startlingly original movies that used to be hits. Between the pandemic, streaming, and the Hollywood strikes of last summer, a lot of old habits got broken, and there’s a sense that a renaissance is afoot.

This revitalization won’t come easy, if it comes at all. Summer 2024 still has its share of redos and sequels—a new Inside Out movie, reboots of ’90s summer staples The Crow and Twister. (The latter is the aptly-named Twisters; there are more tornadoes this time, apparently.) But even those movies at least feel like they’re grasping for the prefranchise days, even if they’re birthing franchises in the process.

Furiosa is currently projected to bring in more than $40 million at the US box office this weekend, a figure that would bring it close to Fury Road’s tally but may not convince Hollywood execs that it should bankroll more R-rated, original shockbusters. It would, presumably, best The Garfield Movie, which is also out this weekend and has the makings of a more surefire hit: well-known IP, animated, PG-rated. (For the record, though: Critics seem to think it sucks.) Early ticket sales for Deadpool & Wolverine are already breaking records for an R-rated movie. Should it dominate the conversation for a couple weeks while also raking in money, that embrace of a very not-Disney Disney movie—coupled with Furiosa and Hot Barbenheimer Summer—could signal a tipping point.

Look, nothing will ever completely derail Hollywood’s reliance on sure things. Video game adaptations remain poised to take the crown long held by superhero flicks. (Borderlands, starring Cate Blanchett, is coming to theaters this August.) But if this summer’s ever-sprawling slate turns up just enough weird hits, maybe we’ll once again know the feeling of walking out of Star Wars for the first time.

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Emprex's Top 30 Sci Fi Movies

Since Sci Fi month is around the corner here are my top 30 Sci Fi films.One installment per franchise

30.Soylent Green

29.Gattaca

28.Invisible Man

27.Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

26.Last Starfighter

25.Dark City

24.Snow Piercer

23.The Blob

22.Time After Time

21.Ex Machina

20.Logans Run

19.Enemy Mine

18.Alien

17.2001 A Space Odyssey

16.Predator

15.Day the Earth Stood Still

14.Robocop

13.Iron Giant

12.Tron

11.The Fly

10.Jurassic Park

9.Godzilla Minus One

8.20 000 Leagues Under The Sea

7.Planet of the Apes

6Terminator 2 Judgement Day

5.ET

4.Galaxy Quest

3.Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan

2.Star Wars

1.Metropolis

Feel free to share your thoughts on the films or share your own favorite sci fi films

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Bottleneck Gallery will release Jurassic Park by Alex Hovey and Beetlejuice by Sara Deck today, October 25, at 12pm EST.

Jurassic Park is a 24x36 screen print, limited to 75, for $60. Its variant is limited to 100 for $70. Beetlejuice is an 18x24 giclee print, limited to 50, for $40. A lenticular version on 1mm PET is limited to 100 for $75.

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'Jurassic Park' by Alex Hovey.

Officially licensed 24" x 36" screen print, in a numbered Regular edition of 175 for $60; and a numbered Variant edition of 100 for $70.

On sale Wednesday October 25 at 12pm ET through Bottleneck Gallery.