Yeah it's taking longer than usual, but I don't see it being as low as The Lost World and Jurassic Park 3(not yet at least).
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Review Thread
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It could, but I wonder about top critics as it's still fresh there and has a higher average.
I was really unsure how I really felt about it right after getting out of the theater. It was a bit underwhelming to me, in part because the trailers had pretty much shown every climax of every major scene, but with a few days behind me, it's really grown on me. Even though there were no points that was as exciting to me as some points in JW, I think it's by far a superior movie. It demolishes JP3, and I think it's neck to neck with TLW. Now I know TLW isn't a very good movie, but it has some scenes that I love enough for it to be a great experience for me. For Fallen Kingdom to come close to it, is not something I'd expect.
I'm really wondering what they're gonna do next. I mean
I'm really wondering what they're gonna do next. I mean
Sure, some dinosaurs escape, but how many are we really talking about here? In any reasonable scenario, they'll be rounded up quickly, and the problem taken care of. I don't understand how they're gonna be able to take this further (with these dinos) without it being really, really stupid. I see no way these few dinosaurs will somehow populate and conquer the earth. Either, someone is making new dinosaurs somewhere, or we're gonna end up with movies where we follow a crew hunting for rare dinos in the forest. I dunno. Anyone got any ideas?
Score will be finalized between June 21st-24th, but yeah, I see it being a high rotten more than a low rotten(or even under JP3 for now).
There's some tension.
But ... for a dinosaur (hybrid) that is labeled as extremely dangerous and unpredictable ... it sure takes it time to grab the girl. It's more of a raptor ... but it's just ... meh. The design is great though.
There's alot of stuff in Fallen Kingdom that's just terrible ... the film starts great, but goes downhill pretty fast. Please ... please clone the T-REX again, put all the people on an island and make an exciting movie again. The thrill of being hunted by a dinosaur. Hell, I'd pay to see 2 Rex'es hunt the cast ...
There's alot of stuff in Fallen Kingdom that's just terrible ... the film starts great, but goes downhill pretty fast. Please ... please clone the T-REX again, put all the people on an island and make an exciting movie again. The thrill of being hunted by a dinosaur. Hell, I'd pay to see 2 Rex'es hunt the cast ...
I mean ...
The start of the movie is great. It's alot of tension ... the way it's shot is fantastic. When they start evacuating the park, there's some great shots in there ... and tension due to the lava flow. After that, it all goes to shit. Last 30~40 minutes happens in a Mansion? Really? It feels like a different director took over. Like I said, I want to have the same suspense as in Jurassic Park. I loved the T-Rex. It was menacing. The Lost World with both the male and female Rex was great. Just make a movie, on an island, where dinosaurs roamed free ... have more than one Rex and go at it ... I'm tired of this hybrid Dinosaur crap. It adds NOTHING to the franchise
Oh I meant that comment only for the boogey-raptor scene because it stood apart from the rest of the trailer as some grade F cheap cinematography...
saw it and i agree completely
the part in the opening where you get brief glimpses of the trex and mosasaurus in the dark are excellent, really made me hopeful. the volcano run sequence is also very well done , though it doesnt have much to do with dinos. the whole resident evil mansion was however like a bad comic book movie.i dunno whos idea it is to make a raptor the hero of the franchise , this doesnt even sound good on paper. dinos were supposed to be scary. i dunno why they keep putting in those hero vs villain grudge matches in the end.and even tried to add humor to the indoraptor .
The volcano sequence was good. Everything after that? Not so much.
At this point, I hope they just return to Isla Sorna. Release all the dino's and be done with it. Or, show the island that Lockwood bought to let 'em roam free.
I love that Rexy is still present in these movies but at this point ... she's just fan-service. At the start, she was very threatening. However, the Masrani company "cleaned" Isla Sorna, right? What happened to the 3 Rexes on that island? Did they die? I really-really hope that we'll get the supsense back that JP1 had ... I love the T-Rex, but at this point .. it has become a gimmick.
At this point, I hope they just return to Isla Sorna. Release all the dino's and be done with it. Or, show the island that Lockwood bought to let 'em roam free.
I love that Rexy is still present in these movies but at this point ... she's just fan-service. At the start, she was very threatening. However, the Masrani company "cleaned" Isla Sorna, right? What happened to the 3 Rexes on that island? Did they die? I really-really hope that we'll get the supsense back that JP1 had ... I love the T-Rex, but at this point .. it has become a gimmick.
I think thats the problem with everything since jp1 . dinos increasingly becoming gimmicks and heroes instead of scary majestic monsters. they just keep going more and more michael bay with dinos to the point where they hardly seem any more special than generic bigger animals.
dinos were scary because they were from a different era , where even 2ft tall compy's were savage predators.not because a few of them were relatively big. the whole blue arc is an utter joke. he's hardly different from an angry pet dog at this point. and finally theres just way too much dino screentime in these films. i literally liked that opening scene more than the entire movie.
And i dont think the 3rd one is gonna go back to roots to be honest.
Our best bet is some crazy producer doing an expensive tv show based on the novel. Its different enough , yet the same and modern AAA tv budgets are big enough to accomodate a season as dino sightings in the original book arent nearly as excessive.
Hell the first 3 to 4 episodes could be made with 0 dino cgi.
It's weird, I think the island stuff after
Owen was shot
I think this is one of the worst scripts I've seen in my life. I feel bad for Bayona, he's a talented director and he did what he could with the material he was given
I've seen way worse scripts, but yeah, it was a huge weak point for the film.
Plus, the editing. Feels like this film was butchered in post.
D'oh, it's fresh again!
The fight to stay fresh now begins!!!
Will life find a way?
The most interesting character in this film was the guy who ...
The movie was a crumbling fossil after the first thirty minutes. And I can't, for the life of me, understand how ...
Buy, hey, the lead characters are taking responsibility! Isn't that cool? The little girl was the most irritating part of the entire movie. If it hadn't been for the expensive back-seats, I would've walked out.
... killed the old-man.
The movie was a crumbling fossil after the first thirty minutes. And I can't, for the life of me, understand how ...
... it's become a established theme to create animals, and then hunt them down brutally.
Buy, hey, the lead characters are taking responsibility! Isn't that cool? The little girl was the most irritating part of the entire movie. If it hadn't been for the expensive back-seats, I would've walked out.
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They were still scary majestic monsters in The Lost World. There wasn't a single hero dino at all. Hell, you could say that for JP3 as well. Jurassic World on the other, is where it all started.
I am definitely seeing this movie now to see how dumb this ending is.
I'll be driving two and a half hours through OC/LA traffic from Irvine, CA to LAX to see this with my girlfriend tomorrow evening. She goes bananas for anything dinosaur related, and she LOVED the two hour-hour Mercedes commercial that was the first Jurassic World. I did have some hope for this because Jeff Goldblum, but damn, looks like an evening I could have better spent on gaming. Good thing I'm crazy about my girlfriend.
The ending definitely is a 'why would you do that' moment. It's a very patchy movie. I enjoyed it as a horror film, but it's whiplash all over the place in terms or writing and pacing.
Yep, seeing the film 2 weeks ago, that ending is pretty out there on the weird front.
There's a post credit scene. But don't stay to watch it, it's a bad post credit scene that doesn't change anything.
Another rotten review just brought it down to 57. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.
Down to 56%...there might be a chance!
Commeee on 54
It's more ambitious and more tightly made, but ehhhh
Check RT.
I kinda wondered if more negative reviews would come out as the US release date got closer.
Down to a 5.9/10 too at the moment.
Here you go!
Me too, great movie, saw it twice even!
This movie works a lot better in theater. It was the first Jurassic Park movie that I saw in theater. The audience absolutely loved it in my theater.
As for the trailer spoil ratio, it basically spoiled all locations but many great scenes were still not spoiled. Or maybe I forgot about the trailer since I usually don't pay much attention to them. I also didn't watch every trailer and still had a good surprising time with some of the twists.
D'oh went back up to 55%.
I'm seeing it this Saturday!