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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom |OT| The Park is gone [Open Spoilers]
- Thread starter WhiteRabbitEXE
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The narrative was stupid to begin with. People are worried about endangered species when the technology exists to negate the very concept. The action was safe and boring. there's nothing new being introduced to make any films action stand out. The CGI and child actor were not distractions thankfully. But this film was hollow with characters painted in broad strokes, given just enough characterization to make their motivations clear and plausible. Dino doctor and IT nerd were diversity checkboxes.
But what pushed me over the edge was when Gordon Gecko was going nuts over selling dinosaurs for 30 million.
But what pushed me over the edge was when Gordon Gecko was going nuts over selling dinosaurs for 30 million.
Kong Skull Island came out in March, so that isn't a summer movie. And it was way more enjoyable than this garbage, IMO.
It did amuse me to think that it was probably cheaper to buy all those dinosaurs than it was to make the movie.
lmao @ putting TLJ and Rogue One and even Ready Player One anywhere near Suicide Squad and BvS.
Can't even have a Jurassic World thread without people taking ridiculously hyperbolic shots at TLJ.
It also said they left the carnivores on Sorna to take care of themselves. The Spino wasn't anywhere so it's probably dead.
I do strongly dislike how they never mention Sorna in the later movies. It seems like nostalgia pandering at this point. 99% of the people will be left wondering what happened in Sorna. With how Fallen Kingdom ended I am afraid we will never see Sorna again.
99% of the people wont care about Sorma. I dont even think most people do remember that there are two island with dinosaurs.
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there was one? lmao I left as soon the credits appeared
my marvel post credits sense was off
They showed some pterydactyls on the Eiffel Tower. It was nothing.
Was there a man with a long cigarette, striped shirt and black beret yelling "SACRE BLEU!"?
If you can't tell the difference between the marvel movies and this god help you.
I think the film handles this badly because the explanation is the "blink and you'll miss it" shot of bad dudes slamming a briefcase of dino embryos. They weren't just selling individual dinosaurs at the auction they were selling wholes species and the tech to build them. It's less about an environmental disaster of a few dinosaurs getting lose and more about a nuclear proliferation style disaster of bad dudes getting their hands on the ability to clone dinosaurs.
MLB player, Carl Everett, made more money in his career than those fucking dinosaurs.
This is important.
This is important.
It was actually just the one in Vegas like in the gif above. Wich was kinda lame to me since the idea that the Pteranodons reaching Europe would have shown much better how they would be able to reach the whole world, not just the next state.
They're all bad braindead popcorn flicks but the differentiation for me is that the worst marvel movies are boring and often obnoxiously too long. For all the faults of Fallen Kindom at the very least it wasn't that. I could actually see myself watching Fallen Kingdom again at some point, but hell no way am I going to carve out the time to watch the worst 2h+ Marvel films.
He sees his compatriots yelling and waving at him to get the fuck out of there and he's just standing around like an idiot thinking "what possible danger can there be on a dinosaur island?"
I want to know how much it costs to transport those damn dinosaurs, hire a pmc that can be discrete with the risks of getting their face eaten and build a secret laboratory that can house strong and dangerous animals
I liked it too but some people have higher standards than others.
Some people have impossible standards. I'm not sure where people are thinking we can take a story about man-made dinosaurs.
I know a guy paid about $200 grand to have his boat placed in the water after a repair nearby.
We had T-Rex fucking flying.
It's true though. The Jurassic and Marvel flicks are disposable pieces of entertainment meant to sell toys to children and nostalgic adults. Nothing wrong with that.
There is a lot of silly things, but I think arguably it might be the best JP successor. The absurdity of this one helped in a lot of scenes.
T.rex to Velociraptor blood transfusion. Like you getting a blood transfusion from King Kong. LMAO. Must have either 2 or 3 fingers for it to work. They didn't try to get it from the lava proof Barynoyx because...?
I almost posted this. Its literally trying to equate the dems and pubs level of comparisons when there is a gulf between the level of awfulness between them.
I enjoyed it quite a bit. I also skipped all reviews and avoided any information on it.
I agree with you. Let's not forget how much of a snooze fest the lost world is… Also raptor gymnastics.
People comparing this to a Marvel film are accurate. This felt pretty much the same as what they are doing.
It still has moments, which this one does too. The only film that is bottom of the barrel is JP3. I feel bad because I like Joe Johnson, but there is just about nothing there for me.
Yeah, that wasn't too bad. I just feel like it didn't accomplish anything and wasted Grant's return.
In all honesty it's JP > LW / JW / JW2 > JP3. I don't think anyone could make a strong enough argument only one of those three films, because they all offer something different enough.
Well, time to share my thoughts/experience. This was a "popcorn flick" by the highest definition. I enjoyed it cause dinosaurs, in fact the movie felt short to me cause I wanted to see more dinosaurs >_>
Funny thing, my friends and I were the only ones that stayed (or even knew about?) the post credit scene. Everyone else silently left (and no standing ovations like some screens I heard about). My friends all throught it was dumb and written awful, and one friend said he probably won't even be back to watch the 3rd in theaters.
This really WAS a case of "the trailer showed the WHOLE movie" off... I was really hoping it wasn't. The voice-overs in it were from other scenes, but imposed to key scenes that go all throughout the movie. They really got to stop doing that. That final trailer too, that I saw during Solo WAS the whole movie. The ONLY surprise in the whole thing was the clone.
Ok, thoughts...
This felt like TLW all over again:
-going back to the island for a type of rescue operation
-old sick man in bed in a mansion
-scientists vs poachers (sort of)
-an injured dino needs to be treated on a med table in a truck
-dinos get brought back to the mainland
-dinos get out, havoc insues
But, there were tons of call backs to the original. Where World went the nostalgic "remember this?" this went all out (and we kept pointing them all out throughout the movie):
-mirror with "objects may seem closer than they appear"
-dino shadow against the wallpaper
-raptor opening a door with its claws
-dino saves the day at the end (raptor fighting with a larger carnivore)
-bring the power back up (I was waiting to hear "we're back in business!")
-"there will be a large red button... push it"
-there's plenty others but I can't remember them all right now...
EDIT: a Brachy being the first dino shown when they get to the island
The BIGGEST criticisms my friends had, especially since we come from one of the most expensive places to live in the country (Bay Area) and the movie took place up north (I think?) "those dinosaurs sold for sooooo cheap! 4 million for an Ankylosaurus?! wtf?!?! Selling that mansion on that land would've made WAY more than that now that the old guy died!!" Also "how much are those military vehicles that they were using? Oh, way more than 4 mill..." They may not be the ultimate weapon/tool, and there's still might be DNA vials left, but there's NO WAY that a dinosaur would realistically go for that little, in this country, in this economy.
Anyways, in the end it really was a "turn off my brains cause dinos". I never expected something on par with JP and never will, because there was a certain level of special that movie was that can't be reproduced. The Stan Winston efforts, the "Spielburgization" of it, the movie magic of it all as seeing it as a little kid in theaters... Yeah, you just can't do that again. But they don't like doing dinosaurs in movies and games much, so I'll take what I can get :x (And I hated the VERY short-lived Terranova on tv...)
EDIT: Oh and it still wasn't worse than 3. The annoying screaming Kirbys ruined the whole thing for me.
Funny thing, my friends and I were the only ones that stayed (or even knew about?) the post credit scene. Everyone else silently left (and no standing ovations like some screens I heard about). My friends all throught it was dumb and written awful, and one friend said he probably won't even be back to watch the 3rd in theaters.
This really WAS a case of "the trailer showed the WHOLE movie" off... I was really hoping it wasn't. The voice-overs in it were from other scenes, but imposed to key scenes that go all throughout the movie. They really got to stop doing that. That final trailer too, that I saw during Solo WAS the whole movie. The ONLY surprise in the whole thing was the clone.
Ok, thoughts...
This felt like TLW all over again:
-going back to the island for a type of rescue operation
-old sick man in bed in a mansion
-scientists vs poachers (sort of)
-an injured dino needs to be treated on a med table in a truck
-dinos get brought back to the mainland
-dinos get out, havoc insues
But, there were tons of call backs to the original. Where World went the nostalgic "remember this?" this went all out (and we kept pointing them all out throughout the movie):
-mirror with "objects may seem closer than they appear"
-dino shadow against the wallpaper
-raptor opening a door with its claws
-dino saves the day at the end (raptor fighting with a larger carnivore)
-bring the power back up (I was waiting to hear "we're back in business!")
-"there will be a large red button... push it"
-there's plenty others but I can't remember them all right now...
EDIT: a Brachy being the first dino shown when they get to the island
The BIGGEST criticisms my friends had, especially since we come from one of the most expensive places to live in the country (Bay Area) and the movie took place up north (I think?) "those dinosaurs sold for sooooo cheap! 4 million for an Ankylosaurus?! wtf?!?! Selling that mansion on that land would've made WAY more than that now that the old guy died!!" Also "how much are those military vehicles that they were using? Oh, way more than 4 mill..." They may not be the ultimate weapon/tool, and there's still might be DNA vials left, but there's NO WAY that a dinosaur would realistically go for that little, in this country, in this economy.
Anyways, in the end it really was a "turn off my brains cause dinos". I never expected something on par with JP and never will, because there was a certain level of special that movie was that can't be reproduced. The Stan Winston efforts, the "Spielburgization" of it, the movie magic of it all as seeing it as a little kid in theaters... Yeah, you just can't do that again. But they don't like doing dinosaurs in movies and games much, so I'll take what I can get :x (And I hated the VERY short-lived Terranova on tv...)
EDIT: Oh and it still wasn't worse than 3. The annoying screaming Kirbys ruined the whole thing for me.
This was another simple and lackluster Jurassic movie. People just need to let go of the hope of any future Jurassic movie being anything remotely similar to the first movie. That movie hit perfect strides with the first reveal of the T-Rex, the stalking moments of the raptors and the amazing kitchen scene.
This was a movie that just tried too hard. The cliche appearance of the T-Rex. The child not being able to close the elevator door just before the last second. The first appearance of the Brachiosaurus.
It just felt that the director borrowed too much from the first movie, just because those moments had the most impact. It did, but it will not have the same impact once you have seen these dinosaurs in 5 movies after that. There is no surprise for the audience anymore. You have to use a different approach.
This is a 6/10 movie from me. I even enjoyed the first Jurassic World more.
This was a movie that just tried too hard. The cliche appearance of the T-Rex. The child not being able to close the elevator door just before the last second. The first appearance of the Brachiosaurus.
It just felt that the director borrowed too much from the first movie, just because those moments had the most impact. It did, but it will not have the same impact once you have seen these dinosaurs in 5 movies after that. There is no surprise for the audience anymore. You have to use a different approach.
This is a 6/10 movie from me. I even enjoyed the first Jurassic World more.
The trailer spoiled the entire island visit. No question.
Only after that I felt like I was watching a fresh movie.
Only after that I felt like I was watching a fresh movie.
See, I don't see the problem in that. T-Rex is great. If anything, Goldblum was a more cliche return.
