Extremely uplifting romantic comedy about one woman's search for a pulsating flower hat.
Nice to see someone getting what they deserve for wearing real bearskin, too. It wasn't even flattering.
I recommend reading all the terrible reviews of this, lowering your expectations to floor-level, then seeing it on a good day, in 3D, with good company and on a full stomach. Then, when you've realised you liked it more than you thought you would, see it again. This is what happened to me, and I am now a Fallen Kingdom evangelist. It's a great film, don't @ me.
Don't think of it as a Jurassic Park film, don't compare it…
For an atheist, Ricky Gervais doesn't half have a massive Jesus complex. He's also a bellend and a terrible director. In this, he lets his stupid massive ego get in the way of creating a decent film, every step of the way - it invades his characterisation, his jokes, his plot, everything. Total waste of a good cast and a vaguely okay idea.
Also, just because people can't lie doesn't mean they'll automatically tell you everything they're thinking as soon…
So I watched this thing on the strength of the Netflix summary - thinking "oh, that sounds like the Stanford Prison Experiment, worth a watch" - and ended up pretty disgusted by the whole thing, and myself.
I don't know whether to assume prior knowledge of the real-life study this story takes its premise from, so excuse me if I'm being patronising, but Zimbardo's 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment was a massively influential and controversial psychological/sociological study of the effects of…