Jurassic World (SPOILERS!)

[Irvy]

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This review is funny as hell.

'Jurassic World' Review: A Train Wreck of Morons and Bad CGI

 

[abake]

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"Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?”

My childhood: Consisted of names like Tyrannosaurus rex, Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Iguanodon etc. Dinosaurs I still remember in my drawing in crayons, books and plastic toys.

June 12th 2015 and into our future, Paramount Pictures has ruined this for all children with the introduction of "INDOMINUS REX”. Jurassic World force feed the viewers the thought that after 14 year of waiting for a new JP movie we were already sick of dinosaurs. So Paramount Pictures created their own to market, sell to our children and place a fictional dinosaur into their consciousness. INDOMINUS REX exists now like it or not (with this stand alone movie or future sequels).

I love monster, creature movies. Giant alligators, snakes, apes etc., but JP was a place set aside for Dinosaurs. If I wanted my Dinosaur hit I would watch one of the three JP movies. I can sit on my couch and say “Damn look at those dinosaurs”! JW has violated this. Theres no law but I feel rules have been broken. INDOMINUS REX…..I didn’t know what to feel. "Its not a dinosaur, is it a monster? Then why does it look like a dinosaur. Dad. Yes son. When did INDOMINUS REX live? Well son INDOMINUS REX did not live. I know dad they are all extinct. Oh ****!!!

When I was young I never got bored of the zoo. I never got bored of lions, tigers elephants because I never see them everyday. If there was a opportunity to go to the zoo I would be like “YESSS”!!! Never did I think that I wished for something new. That’s I wished they took a Elephants body and place a lions head on it. That’s sort of thought would have been reserved for a carnival (man with a elephant head, woman with a kangaroo tail). I go to a zoo to see genuine animals NOT splice creatures.

JW reason for INDOMINUS REX is due to park attendance. People want to see something new, something bigger. When they first mentioned this new creature I imagined it to be about twice the size of T-rex. Something that would have obviously stood out as bigger. To be honest it looked the same size to me. Could not tell the difference. IMO the key and focus of the movie should have been around the “Mosasurus” (water dinosaur). I mean its huge, its a water creature, it actually existed and has never been seen in a JP movie. Everything they said they needed to boost attendance was right there. And what does this movie do?? They treat it as a background creature, like a Dinosaur that has been there since the original JP. My favourite scene in JW was when the assistant was dropped into the water and the Pteranodon’s were diving into the water (birds do this in real life). It was a great seen and new visual. Fourteen years ago after JP3 I felt that this franchise needed a reboot. We saw the zoo, we experienced the safari, we went into the wild. We needed a new frontier, a new focus that JP had not yet explored. We needed “Sea World”. Site C (sea). I have no idea how the story could revolve around under water BUT if you could make a movie based on splice creature with camouflage abilities and trained Raptors, you could most likely write a script for JW Seaworld!!

They were never dinosaurs.
They were hybrids from the beginning, and as our knowledge of dinosaurs grows, the once-cutting-edge dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are pretty much fantasy. Even back then we knew that dinosaurs were probably brightly colored, but Spielberg thought the technicolor dinos wouldn't be scary, so he kept grey and green.
By now we know a lot of dinos had feathers, and there's a solid case that even large, adult dinos would keep some form of feathers for display and mating purposes. I would love to see the latest knowledge we have applied to dinos, but within the logic of Jurassic Park, these un-feathered creatures work just fine. And as Wu stated, the Indominus Rex is just the logical next step.

 

[Khev]

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I thought it was interesting that Wu stated that due to ALL the dinos being hybrids (due to at the very least having frog DNA) that most likely none of them look like what they originally would have in nature. I wonder if that line was supposed to throw a bone to the "dinosaurs should have feathers" crowd.

 

[abake]

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I thought it was interesting that Wu stated that due to ALL the dinos being hybrids (due to at the very least having frog DNA) that most likely none of them look like what they originally would have in nature. I wonder if that line was supposed to throw a bone to the "dinosaurs should have feathers" crowd.

That's the way I saw it.
'Cause dinos should have feathers. And colors.

 

[Khev]

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That's the way I saw it.
'Cause dinos should have feathers. And colors.

Ha, looks like we were posting our theories at the exact same time.

 

[Bo Shrek]

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They were never dinosaurs.
They were hybrids from the beginning, and as our knowledge of dinosaurs grows, the once-cutting-edge dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are pretty much fantasy. Even back then we knew that dinosaurs were probably brightly colored, but Spielberg thought the technicolor dinos wouldn't be scary, so he kept grey and green.
By now we know a lot of dinos had feathers, and there's a solid case that even large, adult dinos would keep some form of feathers for display and mating purposes. I would love to see the latest knowledge we have applied to dinos, but within the logic of Jurassic Park, these un-feathered creatures work just fine. And as Wu stated, the Indominus Rex is just the logical next step.

But they still referred to them and us as "Tyrannosaurus rex, Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops etc". It was the movies way to bring actual dinosaurs to life. JW is bring a in a creature and calling it a dinosaur

 

[Khev]

Since half the world has already seen this movie I went ahead and added "spoilers" to the thread title.

I really liked how they did Claire and the flare. Obviously her running with it is a visual cue from the first film but they also established earlier in the movie that they drop flares to signal the T-Rex that a live goat is ready for eating. So apparently its had 20 years to realize "follow the flare to food." I could see it being slightly unsure of its environment when it first stepped out of the paddock and that being reason enough why it didn't eat her immediately. Or maybe she was just thinking, "hey, this seems familiar, maybe she's going to lead me to a tasty meal sitting on a toilet."

 

[beeshaw]

Can't watch till my lunch break, but I'll toss it up anyways.

 

[a-dev]

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There you go.

I didn't think they had a "moment", people just interpreted it wrong. It's not like they winked or blew kisses at each other. They literally just looked at each other and walked away. I'm guessing the Rex was thinking "Should I go eat this raptor now? I'm wounded pretty bad and really tired but...**** it I'm leaving". And I think Blue was only watching her to see what she would do next.

Blue then looks over at Owen not out of love or friendship, but to interpret his next command.

That's how I saw it.

I guess that's what I'm looking for, rationalisations that can work to explain something that otherwise might seem forced and silly crowd-pleasing stuff to an original film purist. As a T2 and Aliens fan I know all about this.

Not Uncle Bob, she was 22 years older, so I guess she was...Pops.

But that's how you do a freaking Pops. Charging through a Spinosaurus skeleton in slow motion not "I've been waiting for you," *monkey smile*

I feel she really compares more to Uncle Bob then. Rex busting up the Spinosaurus skeleton = Uncle Bob demolishing the police force with a mini-gun and grenade launcher. Or going back further Uncle Bob, being non lethal but nevertheless bad-a$$ in the biker bar.

 

[Gruson]

IT GOT THE RECORD! Yes!
$208.8 Million Opening Weekend
Best all time now!

 

[a-dev]

And Rory, blame Khev for me bringing up Terminator in here! I was just taking up something I remember him saying previously.

 

[Khev]

IT GOT THE RECORD! Yes!
$208.8 Million Opening Weekend
Best all time now!

YES!!!!

 

[Khev]

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I feel she really compares more to Uncle Bob then. Rex busting up the Spinosaurus skeleton = Uncle Bob demolishing the police force with a mini-gun and grenade launcher. Or going back further Uncle Bob, being non lethal but nevertheless bad-a$$ in the biker bar.

Yes maybe then. Except when Uncle Bob destroyed the T-1000 no one had to slowly back away.

 

[a-dev]

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Yes maybe then. Except when Uncle Bob destroyed the T-1000 no one had to slowly back away.

No one else was around, but previously....

 

[a-dev]

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I officially declare the Bobification of the T-Rex.

 

[Xenoburger_]

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I guess that's what I'm looking for, rationalisations that can work to explain something that otherwise might seem forced and silly crowd-pleasing stuff to an original film purist. As a T2 and Aliens fan I know all about this.

After that scene finishes, one of the videos recommended is "Top 10 Memorable Scenes in Bad Movies".


What did you think of Blue running in slow-mo and leaping on the I-Rex, a-dev?

This immediately came to mind:

 

[Khev]

This movie actually did have some pretty good lines in it.

"Okay everyone, we're keeping this contained and we'll resolve this ourselves. Nobody else needs to get--"

"Eaten?"

 

[Khev]

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The whole Raptor attack on the Security team was SO Aliens.

It even had Claire fleeing in the APC with underage cargo as a creature jumped on her vehicle and broke the glass trying to get at her.

And tell me you guys didn't instantly think "Predator" when the kids jumped the waterfall and then climbed out of the river and laid face down in the mud.

 

[a-dev]

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*I need a vacation vid*

After that scene finishes, one of the videos recommended is "Top 10 Memorable Scenes in Bad Movies".

I have rationalisation for that line

Importantly, if I am to not only excuse but embrace something that might seem silly in a movie - it has to be an overall good movie. I mean why try to rationalise anything in the likes of Batman & Robin? The good has to dramatically outweigh the bad for it to be worth taking said bad with said good. And when it does, usually 'life, uh, finds a way' to see that even the 'bad' isn't actually bad in the overall context.

What did you think of Blue running in slow-mo and leaping on the I-Rex, a-dev?

This immediately came to mind:

I didn't think of that but that's a good comparison actually

 

[Wor-Gar]

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The last thing we see the rex doing in JP is laying the smackdown on the raptors.

In JW she should have killed that cocky hero raptor and beat the **** out of the I-rex with it's limp corpse.

When did this become a wrestling movie?