Jurassic World (SPOILERS!)

[Patriot666]

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I have my opinions and I really enjoyed it but I don't want to talk about it on here. It really was a great movie and worth the wait.

Right on. Nuff said.

 

[ApeManRyan]

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Right on. Nuff said.

Nuff said indeed!

 

[ironwez20]

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Spinosaurus, brachiosaurus and then those little ones that swarmed the guy in the river, but I didn't miss any of them. It was great to see the T-Rex and Raptors again and then Indominous and Mososarus were real scene stealers in their own right.

O spino was in the movie all right (sorta) and how they did that scene was a huge nod to everyone who hated jp3. Probabably the greatest scene in the whole movie.

 

[Khev]

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I remember reading this script synopsis for JP4 back in 2007 and secretly hoping, hoping that Universal/Amblin would have the balls to DARE make something that high concept:

So... now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about JURASSIC PARK 4 by William Monahan and John Sayles. We’ve been hearing vague rumors about this one for a while now, and I mean vague. There’s not a solid piece of information out there so far, based on the Google search I ran earlier tonight. I can tell you that a few of the rumors I read are close to right, but nothing had the details nailed down.
Steven Spielberg has been quoted as saying that they had the “mother of all ideas” for this sequel, and that if they’d come up with it earlier, this would have been the third film. He claims this will completely reinvigorate the franchise, and Kathleen Kennedy promises that it’s nothing like the other films so far. Normally, those sorts of comments could be dismissed as hype... but in this case, they’re not kidding around. Bill Monahan wrote the first draft based on a story by Spielberg. Monahan’s a busy guy, but most of his stuff hasn’t hit the screen yet, so don’t feel bad if you don’t recognize his name. Ridley Scott’s wrapping up work on his KINGDOM OF HEAVEN right now, and wants to make TRIPOLI at some point, while Martin Scorsese is just gearing up to make THE DEPARTED, which Monahan adapted from the Hong Kong thriller INFERNAL AFFAIRS. As a result of all these other obligations, Monahan moved on after that first draft, and none other than John Sayles was brought on to bat clean-up. I know that most people think of John Sayles as Mr. Indie Cinema if they know his name at all, but he’s also a big-time script doctor and, more importantly, he came from an exploitation background. ALLIGATOR, PIRANHA, and THE HOWLING are all great early genre scripts that he wrote, smart and funny and very aware of what they’re supposed to do.
I’m pleased to report that this second Sayles draft of JURASSIC PARK 4 sees him working in full exploitation mode. I’ve talked to a number of people about this draft, and it seems to radically divide them in terms of reaction. Some people adore the premise and get excited as soon as they hear it. Some people (including the person who gave it to me) are convinced it’s the worst thing they’ve ever read and a signpost on the road to Hollywood Hell. Personally, I think it’s well-written and certainly inventive, but I also think it just might be the single most bug**** crazy franchise sequel I’ve ever read, and I’m not sure we’re ever going to see this thing onscreen. It just doesn’t seem possible that Universal would make something this vigorously whacked out.
I spent the entire first act of the script thinking I had it figured out. I knew where it was going. Problem was, every time I thought I had it figured out, something happened that seemed to change the entire premise of the movie.
The script starts at a Little League game somewhere in America, an idyllic scene that quickly goes bad when pterosaurs attack the kids and their parents. It’s a cool scene, and I couldn’t help but immediately anticipate what might lay ahead. Dinosaurs in America. All-out warfare on home soil. This should be fun. In a series of television clips, we learn that this is the first attack on North American ground following months of this sort of thing in Central America and Mexico. The UN has created a task force to exterminate the dinosaurs. Awesome, I thought. A bad-ass heavily-armed United Nations task force versus the dinosaurs. Bring it on! But then the script throws its first major curve ball, introducing Nick Harris, an unemployed soldier of fortune. Nick’s the lead in the movie. Not Alan Grant. Not Ian Malcolm. Despite all the rumors to the contrary, those characters are not back for this film. Instead, we meet Nick as he watches those same reports on TV that we are. He’s approached by an ex-commander of his and offered a meeting about a job. He’s warned that the guy he’d be working for is a little bit strange...
... which brings us to John Hammond. It’s a great cameo role for Richard Attenborough, and he’s said several times that he is looking forward to it. In the script’s single wittiest scene, we catch up with the eccentric ex-billionaire who is now the most-sued man in history according to the Guiness Book Of World Records. He’s been declared incompetent by his heirs and his company has been taken over by other corporations. Technically, Jurassic Park isn’t even his problem anymore, but he still feels responsible for the dinosaurs and the damage they do. Hammond’s got a big idea: breed some new dinosaurs that can’t reproduce and introduce them into the wild population. A Judas strain that will kill off the dinosaurs within one generation. Easy enough, except the UN has outlawed any breeding of new dinosaurs by anyone and they’ve prohibited the sale, mining, or possession of amber worldwide. Hammond’s got scientists ready and waiting to go, but he needs genetic material to work with. As soon as Hammond mentions where that material might come from, I thought for sure that I was ahead of the script again. Oh, of course! The shaving cream can that Nedry stole. He’s going to hire this guy to put together a team of mercenaries, and they’re going to spend the whole film on Isla Nublar getting picked off one-by-one while trying to find the samples.
After all, the first three films are all pretty much carbon copies of each other, excuses to turn people loose on the island. I almost set the script down at that point, disappointed that they’d do something so predictable again after all this talk about how they were going to turn things upside down. Page sixteen, and I was sure I knew the rest of the script without even reading it.
But I was wrong... again.
Nick Harris does indeed got to Isla Nublar, but he goes alone. He does indeed track down the shaving cream can that Nedry stole, but that’s a mere five pages later. And as soon as he finds it, he’s attacked not only by excavaraptors (think trapdoor spiders), but also by security rangers who work for Grendel Corporation, the mysterious Swiss holding company that took over Jurassic Park from Hammond. Seems they want those genetic samples for their own purposes... whatever those may be. Nick has to get off the island, evading his pursuers, human or otherwise. He manages to make it back to the mainland just long enough to hide the shaving cream can before the security team catches up with him and gasses him into unconsciousness.
All of that happens by page 39, at which point I realized I had no idea where this thing was going, and I quit trying to guess. It kept confounding my expectations. It certainly didn’t feel like it was just another rehash of the same formula. When Nick wakes up, he’s in the tower of a medieval castle in the Alps. Seriously. That’s the precise moment when the entire enterprise goes so over-the-top loony that you’ll either go along with it for the entire insane ride or reject it roundly as a big bag of ludicrous. Nick is introduced to Adrien Joyce, the major domo henchman of Baron von Drax, CEO of the Grendel Corporation. Joyce isn’t a moustache-twirling bad guy bent on torturing Nick into revealing where he hid the shaving cream can. Instead, he offers Nick a job, and in order to explain the job to him, he has to take him on a tour of the entire castle, which turns out to be a fairly sophisticated genetics lab where Grendel Corporation has been breeding some dinosaurs of their own design, cross-breeds that never existed in any era of nature with all sorts of custom modifications.
I want to tread lightly on what happens over the course of the rest of the film on the off chance that Mary Parent or someone at Universal is seriously going to make this thing. There’s the eight-year-old-boy side of me that thinks that a DIRTY DOZEN-style mercenary team of hyper-smart dinosaurs in body armor killing drug dealers and rescuing kidnapped children will be impossible to resist. And then there’s the side of me that says... WHAT THE **** ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! Nick is put in charge of training these five dinosaurs, X1 through X5, and the first thing he does is name them. “Any soldier worth his pay has a name to answer to, not a number,” he says. So we are introduced to Achilles, Hector, Perseus, Orestes, and Spartacus, each of them a specially created deinonychus, which is sort of like a miniature T-rex. They have super-sensitive smell and hearing, incredible strength and speed and pack-hunting instincts, and they have modified forelegs, lengthened and topped with more dextrous fingers, as well as dog DNA for increased obedience and human DNA so they can solve problems well. All of this is topped off with a drug-regulating implant that can dose them with adrenaline or serotonin as the situation demands.
And go ahead. Look at the calendar. We’re a long, long way from April 1st right now.
By the end of the film, there are set pieces that are much, much bigger than anything we’ve seen in the other films, and much crazier. They’re all well-written, and there’s a glee to the bloodletting that you have to admire. There’s also a blatant set-up for a JURASSIC PARK 5 that is just too good for the studio to pass up. That is, of course, if they actually decide to make this one.
In the end, this represents an enormous gamble for Universal and Amblin’, and I admire them for at least exploring this as a possibility. They’ve thrown some damn good writers at it so far. If they make it, it’s anyone’s guess how fans of the series so far are going to react. This is no-holds-barred SF/horror/action with none of the staring-up-at-a-special-effect-in-awe tone of the first three films. This is a drive-in movie, slightly unhinged from page one, with some truly hissable human villains and some outrageous monster characters. Will it work? Will we ever see it onscreen to find out?
Only time will tell. Until then...

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Well here we are 8 years later and by golly Universal had some cajones after all. Sure they didn't have raptor cyborgs with guns in this movie but the zany spirit of that leaked script years back did permeate this film. I just love that they went in such a crazy direction in pursuit of fresh thrills. Boy did it pay off.

Colin Trevorrow clearly wasn't taking things *too* seriously, heck the fumbled goodbye kiss to the one girl because she had a boyfriend was full on parody with its swelling music and felt like something that Joss Whedon would have done. And I almost want to laugh out loud as I type this but did I *really* just watch a JP movie where a T-Rex and Velociraptor stop and have a brief "you're all right Laruso" moment? Oh yes. Yes I did.

I ****ing LOVE this movie. Love it.

So ballsy, so crazy, and so freaking intense and exciting.

 

[marvinmyles]

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First off I found the Film only mildly entertaining.The Crowd at the Dolby Atmos Theater I was in clapped at the end.It will make a lot of $.But this is not a good review so don't read it.

the lead actress is a Terrible actress and it really showed throughout this film.And it had nothing to do with the Stiff up the @nu$ part she was supposed to be playing.Chris Pratt plays pretty much the only likable character in the entire film and the only character with some brains in his head.That's a good thing because otherwise we would have no one to root for.Vincent D'Onofrio,hog tied in pretty much a one note roll which is a crime because the guy is a damn good actor.The two kids were just annoying and should have ended up Dino chow.This film really needed Ian Malcolm the Jeff Golblum character from the first two films.
And the continuity was all over the place in this film..at one point it's afternoon and the next scene it's pitch black out.Another scene the raptors are racing 40mph jumping all over the place to get through the forest and CP's motorcycle is on a smooth highway right next to them not a pebble or a branch in the jungle.I could go on and on just on the Pterosaurs constant size changing CGI.The Mosasauras was very cool and the best attraction in the film.She even gets the last bite on Indominus Rex.I did not think it was as good as the first 2 films and just a tad better than the 3rd.It's 2015 and I expected more.JMO

 

[Khev]

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I think this is the type of movie that can easily rub any given person the wrong way.

As the guy said above "Jurassic World is no-holds-barred SF/horror/action with none of the staring-up-at-a-special-effect-in-awe tone of the first three films. This is a drive-in movie, slightly unhinged from page one, with some truly hissable human villains and some outrageous monster characters."

Indeed. And you're either on board for that kind of thing or you're going to being going "what the ****" for two straight hours. I'm one of those that is so, so on board for what they did.

 

[a-dev]

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Well, I kinda saw it tonight. I say 'kinda' because we arrived about 5 minutes late, our reserved 'assigned seating' had been taken up by some other people and we ended up sitting in the very front row, to the extreme left....at a 3D showing. To top it off the one pint of lager I had beforehand made me need to go for a piss twice during the film I don't understand it, I can have 4 cans at the bowling alley before I need to go at all and suddenly one pint ****s me over. But anyway, the experience was one of the worst I've ever had at a cinema. It may have coloured my view of the movie which...I thought was total pants. I think I agree with RIDDICK on this one.

I do have to see it again, albeit at home. I'm not paying for this again. But provisionally I'm saying, sadly, bad film. The Lost World is better.

 

[Khev]

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You know I wondered how this movie would play if I was pissed off, half drunk and sitting in the front corner. Now I know! Thanks dev.

 

[a-dev]

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You know I wondered how this movie would play if I was pissed off, half drunk and sitting in the front corner. Now I know! Thanks dev.

I do what I can.

I mean seriously, my outlook was no doubt hampered from the start. I hate arriving late to the cinema, I should never depend on lifts from friends, I should get the goddamned train, least that way it's my own fault if I don't leave on time. But 3D can be hit&miss at the best of times, certainly when you're in the front row and off to the side. Why they even have those seats I do not know. It ruined it. It really did.

That said, I think any criticism of the movie is unfortunately completely justified. Major cheesefest, particularly towards the end.

 

[Gruson]

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The very last scene of the movie gives me chills every time. The music, the ocean, the park and then you know who! Just love it.

 

[Moonloop]

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Thoroughly impressed. I enjoyed it.

 

[Wor-Gar]

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our reserved 'assigned seating' had been taken up by some other people ...

So you didn't kick their asses out? Are you kidding me? That's the whole point of reserved.

That part of your story to me is pants and pissed me off.






This movie definitely seems hit-or-miss with this crowd. Maybe you have to be in the right mood, because it is a pretty silly movie after all. But I found it immensely more enjoyable than Ultron.

 

[Wor-Gar]

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How crazy that two of the most entertaining films of the year are part FOUR in their respective franchises.

That is pretty funny. Maybe 4's the charm.

 

[Gruson]

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Ultron was terrible...this rocked.

 

[DEADDACK_33]

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Went in with high hopes for Jurassic World. I was worried I had set my hopes to high. But all was well as I loved it! A great movie. It was very nostalgic from start to finish, felt like I was a kid again! I'll probably go see it in IMAX 3D in the coming weeks. I'll use spoiler tags to talk about some specifics.

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Indominus was a great villain. Very menacing in appearance and the camouflage scene was neat. It reminded me of the Carnotarus part from The Lost World novel. Loved it when the kids found the old visitors center. Would have liked to have seen a little more of it, like the kitchen area and the control room. The pterasaur attack was brutal, especially the death of the British girl. The pteranodons shooting underneath the water trying to grab her reminded me of how penguins go after their prey. The Mososaur was a great addition.

Seeing the T-Rex approaching the open paddock door with the original main theme playing nearly brought me to tears. The whole sequence with the T-Rex and Blue fighting Indominus was fantastic.

The final scene with the T-Rex stepping out onto the helipad and roaring was so redeeming after what happened in JP///.

 

[RavenEye]

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I thought this movie got a lot of bad reviews? Did it?

Really curious how this one does. Not that I'm any hurry for another Jurassic -- I think we've had enough and this would be a good one to end on.

But I can see... Jurassic Universe.

Jurassic Park in space.

Well... I'll be honest the franchise should have ended with JP being reestablished than already is. Imho.

 

[Khev]

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The first Jurassic Park is a very good movie but to be honest I felt let down by all three previous JP films. In my heart of hearts the "ooh...ah" followed by a little bit of running and screaming by a handful of people was never what I really wanted these movies to be. I wanted Jaws 3-D done right dammit, and Jurassic World finally gave me that. All hail the cheesy drive-in monster movie.

 

[fosing]

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the thought of raptors getting domesticated-ish...

by temple run dude.

 

[Xenoburger_]

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Do they become "domesticated" though? I thought the film depicts them as being so smart that they understand in order to survive, they have to obey Pratt's character...which seems like a great compliment to the raptors' intelligence.

 

[cilantropants]

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So Dinotopia must have sent some people into a manic frenzy.