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Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021
Deeply nostalgic for a tone and vibe that is not the tone and vibe of the original Ghostbusters?? Confusing. Carrie Coon can deadpan her way through as many blockbusters as she wants, though.
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The Mummy Returns 2001
Making Evelyn and Rick a happily married couple instead of splitting them up to retread the arc of the first movie is the single greatest decision any sequel has ever made.
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Jurassic World 2015
The one thing that does work about this deeply toxic movie is its depiction of Jurassic World as a fully functioning theme park, which remains so fun every time I watch. Here’s my quick fix for the rest:
Gender flip the two leads. We’ve seen the Jurassic Park franchise do the “tough military dino guy” thing a bunch before (including elsewhere in this very movie!), so it’d be much more interesting and original to see it done with a woman.…
