If I dared make such a statement over social media, I would instantaneously be labeled as things such as curmudgeon, contrarian, hipster or the like, but it’s true.
I simply think Jurassic World was a vastly superior movie over Mad Max: Fury Road.
Neither movie was really mind blowing, thought-provoking or something that blew me away, but when I think about how I felt after seeing both movies, I come away from Jurassic World with more pleasing emotions than I did after seeing Fury Road.
Ultimately, I don’t really understand the maniacal opinion that Fury Road was the greatest movie ever made, nor do I really understand peoples’ desires to see it again and again and again like they’re all claiming to, or actually doing, according to social media.
Fury Road was an entertaining movie, but ultimately, it’s best described as something that my mother would say:
엉터리영화
Which is “bullshit movie” in Korean. It was entertaining sure, but it really was a bullshit movie with a lame plot, excessively over-the-top acting, and was just overall kind of stupid. Again, not to say it wasn’t entertaining, but I think it’s far deserving from the universal praise that everyone seems to be so willing and capable of lavishing onto it.
If I were to go to the theater right now, and had to choose between which movie to see a second time, without any hesitation, it’d be Jurassic World. Chris Pratt plus a posse of velociraptors easily has my favor over the hardcore extreme version of basically a Griswold Family Road Trip movie.
