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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Jun 24, 2015 1:17:31 GMT -5
Finally watched Jurassic World and enjoyed it very much and I believe it destroyed 2 and 3. Really like the CGI used for the dinosaurs and I felt they looked really good on the big screen and the 3D was well done.
Totally loved it and really enjoyed the throwbacks that they put in as nods to the original Jurassic Park.
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Post by andrew8798 on Jun 25, 2015 20:37:06 GMT -5
Some talk that the Blu-Ray will be out in October
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Post by 4TheGlory on Jun 25, 2015 21:03:02 GMT -5
Now Rob is getting the hate cause of Doug Which isn't fair at all, in the sibling rivalry review of the movie, he seemed to really enjoy the film and disagreed with Doug every time he kept insisting the film was shit.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jun 28, 2015 21:21:02 GMT -5
I finally saw the film and loved it. Best JP film since the original.
I do have some complaints but they may seem petty:
1. Why did they give that guy shit for wearing a Jurassic Park shirt? The Jurassic World logo was almost entirely the same, they had Mr. DNA, and other designs in the park were more or less like the original JP so it's not like they were trying to distance themselves from it.
2. A pet peeve of mine is how in disaster films the want to follow the main characters around gets in the way of presenting the disaster in a realistic way. What I'm mainly talking about here is the big battle at the end between the dinos. I know the place was evacuated but realistically there should have been other people around, security guards, dino hunters, someone. Instead it was just the main characters and the dinos even though there were thousands of people on the island.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 29, 2015 2:13:31 GMT -5
I finally saw the film and loved it. Best JP film since the original. I do have some complaints but they may seem petty: 1. Why did they give that guy shit for wearing a Jurassic Park shirt? The Jurassic World logo was almost entirely the same, they had Mr. DNA, and other designs in the park were more or less like the original JP so it's not like they were trying to distance themselves from it. 2. A pet peeve of mine is how in disaster films the want to follow the main characters around gets in the way of presenting the disaster in a realistic way. What I'm mainly talking about here is the big battle at the end between the dinos. I know the place was evacuated but realistically there should have been other people around, security guards, dino hunters, someone. Instead it was just the main characters and the dinos even though there were thousands of people on the island. The characters didn't really care. It was for you, an audience member. A nice little jab in the ribs. If all the people who should care showed up in movies then the main characters wouldn't need to exist. I had a lot of problems with the story, and I loved the movie, these two points were not amongst them.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jun 29, 2015 9:39:01 GMT -5
I finally saw the film and loved it. Best JP film since the original. I do have some complaints but they may seem petty: 1. Why did they give that guy shit for wearing a Jurassic Park shirt? The Jurassic World logo was almost entirely the same, they had Mr. DNA, and other designs in the park were more or less like the original JP so it's not like they were trying to distance themselves from it. It was disrespectful to the loving memory of the beloved Dennis Nedry (RIP)
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jun 29, 2015 9:44:32 GMT -5
I finally saw the film and loved it. Best JP film since the original. I do have some complaints but they may seem petty: 1. Why did they give that guy shit for wearing a Jurassic Park shirt? The Jurassic World logo was almost entirely the same, they had Mr. DNA, and other designs in the park were more or less like the original JP so it's not like they were trying to distance themselves from it. It was disrespectful to the loving memory of the beloved Dennis Nedry (RIP) I was kind of hoping that once he was left as the only person in the control room that he would mention how the original Jurassic Park control room was only ran by 2 people.
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Jun 30, 2015 6:02:11 GMT -5
This is what i said last night. I'll clean it up a bit Jurassic World wasnt very good. Lets basically remake the real movie but try and make it bigger and have all the characters be pretty terrible.
Also there were some weird moments like how the assistant got the most brutal death of the whole movie. Why? She didnt do anything bad or shown to have bad characteristics. In the first movie they set up that the lawyer was a prick so you wanted to see him get eaten on the toilet.
Raptors cant work out if they are face or heel was stupid.
Vincent D'Onofrio didnt really even need to be there story wise as things were already f***ed and they were our of options when he tried to be in charge.
Dr Wu coming back from the first movie was the most pointless thing ever. He didn't add anything he was just there.
We would have been better off with a Sam Niel or Jeff Goldbloom cameo. Dr Grant or prof Malcolm on screen for 2 seconds would have made the movie 100 times better.
Ending was stupid. Only bit that was good was when Lauren Lapkus was like oh no i have a boyfriend.
The divorce shit was half assed sandwiched in for no reason. Did give you any more reason to care about the stupid kids.
Also what was the big deal with that kid. Why was he so smart. The kids in the first movie made sense because they were just kids and Tim was just a kid who liked dinosaurs. The kid in this one was a genius for no reason. He just knew everything about everything. I wantes to to die so much.
Chris Pratt as a hardcore macho dude doesn't work and he seems like hes trying to hard. He works awesome as a comedic hero like in Guardians but here he just seemed like a kid playing soldier or something
Also f*** off Jimmy Fallon
Overall I give it minus five stars for not even bothering to do shit with the franchise and there are like thousands of sick dinos to visit before building their own dumb one
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Post by HMARK Center on Jun 30, 2015 7:01:31 GMT -5
I saw it again last night, as my girlfriend was away when I went to see it the first time. Story issues tend to stick out more the second time, and a couple of them did bug me more this time.
Mostly, though, I think my problems boil down to the fact that the movie creates this awesome theme park, this entire world (no pun intended), but then doesn't do enough with its characters to really bring it to life. Just as an example, Chris Pratt has made his name as one of the more charismatic leading men after Guardians of the Galaxy, and he had a few cool moments in the flick, but they didn't give his character nearly enough to work with...also, the line about "depends on what type of dinosaur they cooked up in that lab" was the worst kind of 1980s made-for-TV drama script writing, I'm sorry.
It's still hands down the best of the sequels, because it at least attempts at times to recapture the sense of awe that the original looked to instill in the audience. It just didn't go far enough with that sense of awe, nor did it try to make its characters anywhere near as interesting as the crew in the original flick.
Still, no regrets in paying $9 for a ticket to see it; it's a big-screen movie, and it's certainly not bad at all, just flawed.
Also, on the Critic review; I'm beginning to wonder why people are so worked up about everything that happens on that site, considering nobody has to pay to watch it. I remember people acting like the Critic had killed their dog after his Bart's Nightmare episode, which baffled me since, y'know, I wasn't paying to watch it.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jun 30, 2015 10:31:33 GMT -5
Dr Wu coming back from the first movie was the most pointless thing ever. He didn't add anything he was just there. We would have been better off with a Sam Niel or Jeff Goldbloom cameo. Dr Grant or prof Malcolm on screen for 2 seconds would have made the movie 100 times better. I do like that you followed a complaint about a pointlessly returning character with a complaint about a lack of other characters returning pointlessly. Wu returning made sense. He was one of the major InGen employees to survive the first movie, and as his job was a very specialised one and he likely be the foremost expert in de-extinction or whatever they called it, why wouldn't he still be employed? He did more of import in JW than he did in the first movie, and I'll hazard a guess he's going to play a bigger antagonistic role in the next couple of films and eventually end up dino food. Having Grant or Malcolm in a cameo really would have been pointless as there's no reason for either to be on the island, and having them cameo any other way would be reaching.
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Jun 30, 2015 15:25:42 GMT -5
Dr Wu coming back from the first movie was the most pointless thing ever. He didn't add anything he was just there. We would have been better off with a Sam Niel or Jeff Goldbloom cameo. Dr Grant or prof Malcolm on screen for 2 seconds would have made the movie 100 times better. I do like that you followed a complaint about a pointlessly returning character with a complaint about a lack of other characters returning pointlessly. Wu returning made sense. He was one of the major InGen employees to survive the first movie, and as his job was a very specialised one and he likely be the foremost expert in de-extinction or whatever they called it, why wouldn't he still be employed? He did more of import in JW than he did in the first movie, and I'll hazard a guess he's going to play a bigger antagonistic role in the next couple of films and eventually end up dino food. Having Grant or Malcolm in a cameo really would have been pointless as there's no reason for either to be on the island, and having them cameo any other way would be reaching. ok so an appearance from an actually fleshed out character who actually survived a dinosaur attack on original malfunctioning park in some way to advance the plot would be pointless but the dude who scribbled on a clipboard then left the first movie makes sense because it could be something in a movie that doesnt even exist yet and is purely speculation at this point. what?
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jun 30, 2015 15:56:45 GMT -5
Jurassic World was honestly the first movie where I 'got' the whole Chris Pratt thing and saw the star and charm in the guy.
I thought he was an annoying clown in GOTG.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jun 30, 2015 17:00:53 GMT -5
I do like that you followed a complaint about a pointlessly returning character with a complaint about a lack of other characters returning pointlessly. Wu returning made sense. He was one of the major InGen employees to survive the first movie, and as his job was a very specialised one and he likely be the foremost expert in de-extinction or whatever they called it, why wouldn't he still be employed? He did more of import in JW than he did in the first movie, and I'll hazard a guess he's going to play a bigger antagonistic role in the next couple of films and eventually end up dino food. Having Grant or Malcolm in a cameo really would have been pointless as there's no reason for either to be on the island, and having them cameo any other way would be reaching. ok so an appearance from an actually fleshed out character who actually survived a dinosaur attack on original malfunctioning park in some way to advance the plot would be pointless but the dude who scribbled on a clipboard then left the first movie makes sense because it could be something in a movie that doesnt even exist yet and is purely speculation at this point. what? There would be no reason for Malcolm to reappear, other than a "I told ya so...again!" scene which he delivered in the second film. Grant didn't even want to go to Isla Sorna, let alone go back to Isla Nublar. Henry Wu was InGen's chief geneticist. It makes sense for him to be involved again in InGen's successor company developing their own park and bringing Hammond's vision to reality.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jun 30, 2015 17:54:33 GMT -5
ok so an appearance from an actually fleshed out character who actually survived a dinosaur attack on original malfunctioning park in some way to advance the plot would be pointless but the dude who scribbled on a clipboard then left the first movie makes sense because it could be something in a movie that doesnt even exist yet and is purely speculation at this point. what? There would be no reason for Malcolm to reappear, other than a "I told ya so...again!" scene which he delivered in the second film. Grant didn't even want to go to Isla Sorna, let alone go back to Isla Nublar. Henry Wu was InGen's chief geneticist. It makes sense for him to be involved again in InGen's successor company developing their own park and bringing Hammond's vision to reality. Bingo. At this point they've taken the story arcs as far as they can go with Malcolm and Grant. Both are great characters, but you can only go back to the well so many times. Wu advances the story anyway, so the original point is moot. It goes all the way back to the point made in the first film - they have the power to create dinosaurs but they don't respect that power. In creating an almost perfect predator it's clear nobody has learned a damn thing from the events of the first film, and Wu is the perfect character to get the point across. He should know better, but he's arrogant and proud of what he has created, even though it has led to death and destruction. You could achieve that with a new character, but when you have a character who played a direct role in the events of the first film it resonates so much better.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jun 30, 2015 20:31:46 GMT -5
Personally I'm glad they brought back Wu. He's a fascinating character in the book. His rationale and motives are very interesting. Ironically in the book he wanted to create more docile dinosaurs, so it's funny that he ended up creating a dinosaur version of a serial killer.
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Post by Psy on Jun 30, 2015 21:34:04 GMT -5
Book spoiler in tags, and question. {Spoiler}Didn't Wu die in the first book? I can't remember. I know there are differences (like Hammond dying) but thought that was odd. If I remember right he tries to let some of the survivors into a building but a raptor jumps off a roof and eviscerates him.
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Post by andrew8798 on Jun 30, 2015 21:35:06 GMT -5
Book spoiler in tags, and question. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Didn't Wu die in the first book? I can't remember. I know there are differences (like Hammond dying) but thought that was odd. If I remember right he tries to let some of the survivors into a building but a raptor jumps off a roof and eviscerates him. {Spoiler}He does
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Post by SenorCrest on Jul 1, 2015 0:55:54 GMT -5
Do you think the park is still running a Unix system? I think the movie was great except for the whole military part.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jul 1, 2015 8:41:07 GMT -5
Book spoiler in tags, and question. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Didn't Wu die in the first book? I can't remember. I know there are differences (like Hammond dying) but thought that was odd. If I remember right he tries to let some of the survivors into a building but a raptor jumps off a roof and eviscerates him. For me the most baffling and annoying change from the book is {Spoiler}Gennaro the lawyer. From a badass who volunteers to help Muldoon round up the T-Rex and then go and fight the raptors with him to a snivelling buffoon who gets eaten whilst taking a dump.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 1, 2015 9:57:00 GMT -5
Book spoiler in tags, and question. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Didn't Wu die in the first book? I can't remember. I know there are differences (like Hammond dying) but thought that was odd. If I remember right he tries to let some of the survivors into a building but a raptor jumps off a roof and eviscerates him. For me the most baffling and annoying change from the book is Gennaro the lawyer. From a badass who volunteers to help Muldoon round up the T-Rex and then go and fight the raptors with him to a snivelling buffoon who gets eaten whilst taking a dump. {Spoiler}They basically merged Gennero with Ed Regis. No one was going to buy a lawyer as being a brave hero, and besides, if you had a second hero it would dilute Grant's role.
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