Jurassic World (SPOILERS!)

[Khev]

Hey DiFabio didn't you say when TWS came out that you liked it so much it kind of made you go back and appreciate CA:TFA more? Whether or not that is or was the case that's pretty much where I'm at with Jurassic World and Jurassic Park. Obviously like T2 or TWS Jurassic World is best with the foreknowledge of the previous film but while I thought JP was a good movie I think it's a VERY good "Part 1" in a one/two punch with JW.

Going all the way back to 1993 I always felt a bit let down by JP's ending. Raptors! T-Rex! Then he roars and everyone goes home. The T-Rex seemed barely even aware of the humans as they fled. Didn't seem right for a man vs. monster or man vs. animal movie. But now after Jurassic World I'm totally fine with the ending of JP and aside from a few pet peeves that I've already mentioned I find it to be a solid enough all around prequel film.

 

[DiFabio]

Would've been cool if at the end of JW one of the kids goes to give the T-Rex a high five and he eats the kid.

It should have eaten, Pratt, Howard, Iron Man kid and his older brother right then and there. Pausing and looking at them, then at raptor like "good job bros" was silly.


What happened to the hundreds of pterodactyls that were released? I thought it was dumb of them to make that many. Why would you make more than 5 of any of those things?

 

[Khev]

I have pretty much made this same argument pertaining to a certain something else, I shall not name it.

Against me? I think you went to fast and did a fly by because I don't get the reference you're making.

 

[jye4ever]

Hell, you probably still don't even like it. You just don't want your Sideshowfreak pals to lookin' at you funny.

Be honest Jye.

Nah, there's still good in it.

 

[DiFabio]

Hey DiFabio didn't you say when TWS came out that you liked it so much it kind of made you go back and appreciate CA:TFA more? Whether or not that is or was the case that's pretty much where I'm at with Jurassic World and Jurassic Park. Obviously like T2 or TWS Jurassic World is best with the foreknowledge of the previous film but while I thought JP was a good movie I think it's a VERY good "Part 1" in a one/two punch with JW.

Going all the way back to 1993 I always felt a bit let down by JP's ending. Raptors! T-Rex! Then he roars and everyone goes home. The T-Rex seemed barely even aware of the humans as they fled. Didn't seem right for a man vs. monster or man vs. animal movie. But now after Jurassic World I'm totally fine with the ending of JP and aside from a few pet peeves that I've already mentioned I find it to be a solid enough all around prequel film.

I liked Captain America: The First Avenger the first time I saw it, quite a bit actually. It kind of confused me that others didn't like it back in 2011.


Someone else may have said that on here, unless I said Winter Soldier made it better?

 

[jye4ever]

It should have eaten, Pratt, Howard, Iron Man kid and his older brother right then and there. Pausing and looking at them, then at raptor like "good job bros" was silly.


What happened to the hundreds of pterodactyls that were released? I thought it was dumb of them to make that many. Why would you make more than 5 of any of those things?

There sure were a ton of those birds.

That ending you just described would've made this movie better than JP1!

 

[Khev]

It should have eaten, Pratt, Howard, Iron Man kid and his older brother right then and there. Pausing and looking at them, then at raptor like "good job bros" was silly.

He should have tossed a flintlock pistol at Owen's feet then nodded before departing.

What happened to the hundreds of pterodactyls that were released?

Pteranodons and dimorphodons. And I was actively trying to pay attention to all the little side things going on during the pteranodon attack and when Owen and Claire ran into the boys the flying suckers were dropping like flies from all the tranquilizers in the background. Obviously they didn't get all of them as there were several flying when T-Rex did her big roar at the end.

I thought it was dumb of them to make that many. Why would you make more than 5 of any of those things?

Of course it was, which at first I thought was silly but then I realized that it made perfect sense within the context of park as they presented it. When you think about it the park was really nuts. Like something **** Jones from RoboCop would design. I'm sure they did have five pteranodons, then people got bored and so the company made five more. Then people got bored again. Someone proposed making 20 pteranodons. A mucky muck or two probably questioned how wise that would be and Masrani said, "oh come on, live a little people, we have contingencies" or whatever and before you know it they had a hundred.

Same thing with the Mososaurus. The first one was probably a third the size. People kept wanting more and more until finally they had a blue whale leaping out of the water to the joy of the crowd. Masrani himself seemed to indicate that he assumed they were all on borrowed time with the way the park had been operating anyway.

 

[a-dev]

Against me? I think you went to fast and did a fly by because I don't get the reference you're making.

Nah, generally, against the usual criticism of a certain popular sequel.

 

[DiFabio]

Well that was dumb of them to make that many. If people are bored with 5, they'll be bored with 20. If they're bored with 20, then they'd be bored with 50. That is a waste of money too, especially on a carnivore.


That one that attacks Pratt even had a genetically altered Raptor head. At first I was like, "woah, what the ****".

 

[Khev]

Well that was dumb of them to make that many. If people are bored with 5, they'll be bored with 20. If they're bored with 20, then they'd be bored with 50. That is a waste of money too, especially on a carnivore.

Of course it was. But we aren't supposed to root for the idiots who designed the aviary.

That one that attacks Pratt even had a genetically altered Raptor head. At first I was like, "woah, what the ****".

Nope. Dimorphodon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimorphodon

 

[DiFabio]

Damn, never even heard of that one before. I think they were in the Jurassic Park: Lost World video game.

I still don't buy all that "the children are bored" or "we need something bigger and better than these dinosaurs". Assuming they built Jurassic World a few years after Jurassic Park III, that theme park isn't even a decade old. Then when you factor in the price of admission (I'm sure Hammond's successors were no where near as idealistic and carefree as he was) and they didn't have "coupon day" every day (so going there would be pretty damn expensive, a luxury really, especially when you take into account all the money they'd need to make to profit after all those hundreds of frivolous dinos, holograms and gyrospheres), then Jurassic World should never lose it's appeal.

It's dinosaurs man! And the only place you can see them is off the coast of costa rica

 

[Khev]

I still don't buy all that "the children are bored" or "we need something bigger and better than these dinosaurs".

Well that probably hampered your enjoyment of the film then.

 

[jye4ever]

That's whats great about JW, none of this stuff brings down the enjoyment of watching it all play out.

 

[azurepred]

Damn some of you guys really think too much about these popcorn flicks. My biggest gripe was why the hell the red head never took off her heels at any point? Like wtf was that, what woman would do that? . I was actually surprised how violent this movie was by pg13 standards. There are tons of little kids in the audience , and that Rex was chopping everything up in its path, eating ppl left and right. I heard some guy on his phone afterwards saying the same thing.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Damn some of you guys really think too much about these popcorn flicks. My biggest gripe was why the hell the red head never took off her heels at any point? Like wtf was that, what woman would do that? .

Blame the actress. It was her idea to keep the shoes in all those scenes That's what happens when the wrong actors are given too much creative control.

 

[DiFabio]

Don't get me wrong, I still liked it, even with those "problems". The dying brachiosaurus was really touching for me. Those quieter, smaller movements were much better than the dinos teaming together to stop iRex. Also, I've liked every Jurassic Park movie that's been made. I don't think it's possible to mess them up because the concept is appealing.

Still, there was a ton of undeniable goofy **** in it and I must, MUST put a damper on the excitement for two of some of my favorite albeit Hobbit loving bros that happen to be a little too *ahem* overenthusiastic in this thread.

 

[Solidus]

Damn some of you guys really think too much about these popcorn flicks. My biggest gripe was why the hell the red head never took off her heels at any point? Like wtf was that, what woman would do that? . I was actually surprised how violent this movie was by pg13 standards. There are tons of little kids in the audience , and that Rex was chopping everything up in its path, eating ppl left and right. I heard some guy on his phone afterwards saying the same thing.

She also outran the T-Rex... in high-heels.

 

[DiFabio]

Damn some of you guys really think too much about these popcorn flicks. My biggest gripe was why the hell the red head never took off her heels at any point? Like wtf was that, what woman would do that? . I was actually surprised how violent this movie was by pg13 standards. There are tons of little kids in the audience , and that Rex was chopping everything up in its path, eating ppl left and right. I heard some guy on his phone afterwards saying the same thing.

I wasn't even paying attention to her shoes, especially when she was all muddy and sweaty. I also wanted to see more of that British secretary lady in the sunglasses. The older brother was an idiot for trying to score with girls his age when he could have tried getting with her! She didn't deserve that gruesome death. It wasn't as sad as Eddie Carr's from the Lost World (which I assume they were paying homage to with the dinosaur double gang bang), but it was still ****ed up.

 

[Khev]

That's whats great about JW, none of this stuff brings down the enjoyment of watching it all play out.

Yep, you can't think your way through this one you've just got to feel it.

 

[Khev]

Don't get me wrong, I still liked it, even with those "problems". The dying brachiosaurus was really touching for me. Those quieter, smaller movements were much better than the dinos teaming together to stop iRex. Also, I've liked every Jurassic Park movie that's been made. I don't think it's possible to mess them up because the concept is appealing.

I actually really liked how they integrated the guests canoeing and the kids being captivated in the gyrophere even AFTER the I-Rex broke out and was gobbling people up. Because you could really see how those moments would be truly amazing but they were also very ominous knowing what had already been unleashed. Kind of like people going about their evenings after the iceberg hit before the **** really hit the fan in Titanic.

Still, there was a ton of undeniable goofy **** in it and I must, MUST put a damper on the excitement for two of some of my favorite albeit Hobbit loving bros that happen to be a little too *ahem* overenthusiastic in this thread.

That undeniably goofy **** was some of the film's best moments.