This weekend, we're looking down the
barrel of a decades later sequel to a beloved movie that already has
a couple rough sequels. There's also a new indie release with the
same pedigree my favorite movie from last year had. Let's see what's
in store for us at the cinema, folks.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Director: Alfonso
Gomez-Rejon
Writer: Jesse
Andrews
Starring: Thomas
Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke
This movie won both
the audience and jury prizes at Sundance this year. That's the same
path Whiplash took
to becoming one of my favorite movies of the decade. That's not to
say this will give me the same reaction, because Whiplash
is a very special,
personal movie to me, but it's certainly an encouraging sign.
On
a story level, Me and
Earl and the Dying Girl concerns
two teen friends who come together – with some cajoling from their
parents – to help make a dying classmate's remaining days better.
The only way they know how is through making bad amateur films. It
could end up a tonal mess, but there appears to be a playful
melancholy to the trailer that's intriguing.
Jurassic
World
Director:
Colin Trevorrow
Writers:
Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly
Starring:
Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio
There
is no reason to believe this will be good. The
Lost World is one of
Steven Spielberg's worst movies, and while it has some fun B-movie
thrills, Jurassic Park
III – that's three
claw slashes, not Roman numerals, thank you very much – is minor.
But the original Jurassic
Park remains one of the
finest pieces of adventure filmmaking in history, which goes a long,
long way in the goodwill department. The angle chosen for this fourth
entry, with an operational park consistently packed with customers
before something goes wrong thanks to people playing God, is
interesting, too.
But
of course, the main draw is Parks
and Recreation's Andy
Dwyer (you may know him by his real person name, Chris Pratt) hanging
out with his velociraptor friends and going to fight the genetically
engineered new bad dinosaur. After last year's Guardians
of the Galaxy, Pratt has
carved out a niche for himself as the modern Kurt Russell, now
looking like a tough but playful – and extremely charming – good
guy.
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