Commentary
Forgive me as I steal a line from The Critical Drinker, a movie critic on YouTube. “Greed finds a way…” he said of Jurassic World: Dominion, the latest movie in the Jurassic Park franchise.
It is a description that need not contain itself to Hollywood dinosaur flicks when the same could be said of the entertainment industry at large. Books, movies, TV series, music. Talent is being pushed out of the way to allow for the expansion of a mediocre compost heap where the money goes to die.
The thing about decaying waste is that it’s boring to watch. A few weird things might crawl out—it may even grow the odd plant around the edges—but basically, audiences have been left standing amid the buzz of flies like Jeff Goldblum confronted by Triceratops droppings….