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Jurassic World (SPOILERS!)
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Took in my third viewing of Jurassic World yesterday, in my IMAX 3D for the second time. I can't believe during my third viewing I still got teary eyed at some scenes. Not sure if anyone agrees with my list but these scenes are the ones that did it for me:
And one thing related to that final scene:
-The scene with the boys riding the monorail to the park and going through the gates, followed up with Gray opening the balcony doors to unveil Jurassic World. Finally, the park is open.
-The boys finding the old visitors center, picking up the "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" banner and looking at the mural on the wall.
-The T-Rex emerging from the darkness and following Claire out of the paddock.
-The T-Rex smashing through the Spinosaurus skeleton and sizing Indominus up.
-Best of all, the T-Rex stepping out onto the helipad and roaring over her kingdom.
-The boys finding the old visitors center, picking up the "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" banner and looking at the mural on the wall.
-The T-Rex emerging from the darkness and following Claire out of the paddock.
-The T-Rex smashing through the Spinosaurus skeleton and sizing Indominus up.
-Best of all, the T-Rex stepping out onto the helipad and roaring over her kingdom.
And one thing related to that final scene:
There has been talk about the appearance of the T-Rex. We get the best look at her on the helipad with the sun shining on her. I think she looked great. I believe she was four in Jurassic Park, which would make her 26 now (and wasn't Sue 27 or 28?). Her dark grey tone has faded a bit which would be expected. I also thought the white around her muzzle (it looked white to me, though maybe it was just the sun) was a nice touch. What I really liked were the scars on her neck.
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The last shot is so dumb. She hiked her wounded ass miles away up that hill just to roar on a building top? [emoji38]
It's called surveying your domain? lolz
Wow, finished watching The Lost World all the way through for the first time in a good 10-12 years or so. That was BAD. So, SO dumb and for the tone they were going for that is definitely one of Spielberg's absolute worst movies. It really is neck and neck with Hook and KOTCS.
Obviously I can handle absurd, I can handle contrived, but you've GOT to have some charm to overcome that kind of stupidity and TLW pretty much had none. Vince Vaughn's Nick Van Owen is pretty much the villain of the whole movie and he's one of the protagonists that we're supposed to root for. And Elsa from The Last Crusade is a more likable love interest than Sarah Harding. Sarah was terrible. Malcolm had some decent lines but by endorsing Sarah I pretty much wanted to write him off too. Some ***** practically sets a baby T-Rex in your daughter's lap, literally drawing in two full grown Rexes and you don't tell her to get the **** out of your life *forever?* There really should have been a moment where he freaking let her have it but nothing.
I actually did like Roland. A lot. Eddie too. Malcolm's daughter was actually pretty likable but ugh, that gymnastics maneuver has got to be one of the worst moments in an event movie ever. And she kills a velociraptor doing it? Worse than the Spino taking down the T-Rex.
Nick got like 20 people killed and then was a smug bastard about Roland not getting his trophy as he triumphantly displayed the bullets that could have saved everyone. Nick and Sarah killed Eddie. None of the action sequences that involved the principle characters had any tension at all because they were all unlikable bastards. Who cares if they die. I felt bad for the guy that got eaten in the waterfall but didn't give a crap about whether Sarah got away from the velociraptors.
And Ian is standing there like an idiot watching a T-Rex stick its head into his DAUGHTER'S tent and he doesn't start screaming and trying to lure the thing away? Oh I hope it doesn't eat her, lets see how this plays out. Just terrible characters.
And while I remember the San Diego sequence to be a fun surprise in the theater that pretty much sucked too. A Tyrannosaurus Rex is stomping outside people's bedroom windows and eating people in the street and you want to get the dumb baby and lure it back to the boat so it won't die? Really Sarah? Really?
And what was with all the goofy made up spoof movies in the video store? It becomes some screwball Last Action Hero type comedy just out of the blue in the third act? A tiny little Animal Control pickup is charging in with a fleet of police cars? Oops, the National Guard wasn't called to apprehend a poodle. The Lost World: From the Files of Police Squad. Hardy har har.
The CGI wasn't even as good as I remembered and was a step down from JP1. Definitely not a movie I'll ever care to watch again.
Obviously I can handle absurd, I can handle contrived, but you've GOT to have some charm to overcome that kind of stupidity and TLW pretty much had none. Vince Vaughn's Nick Van Owen is pretty much the villain of the whole movie and he's one of the protagonists that we're supposed to root for. And Elsa from The Last Crusade is a more likable love interest than Sarah Harding. Sarah was terrible. Malcolm had some decent lines but by endorsing Sarah I pretty much wanted to write him off too. Some ***** practically sets a baby T-Rex in your daughter's lap, literally drawing in two full grown Rexes and you don't tell her to get the **** out of your life *forever?* There really should have been a moment where he freaking let her have it but nothing.
I actually did like Roland. A lot. Eddie too. Malcolm's daughter was actually pretty likable but ugh, that gymnastics maneuver has got to be one of the worst moments in an event movie ever. And she kills a velociraptor doing it? Worse than the Spino taking down the T-Rex.
Nick got like 20 people killed and then was a smug bastard about Roland not getting his trophy as he triumphantly displayed the bullets that could have saved everyone. Nick and Sarah killed Eddie. None of the action sequences that involved the principle characters had any tension at all because they were all unlikable bastards. Who cares if they die. I felt bad for the guy that got eaten in the waterfall but didn't give a crap about whether Sarah got away from the velociraptors.
And Ian is standing there like an idiot watching a T-Rex stick its head into his DAUGHTER'S tent and he doesn't start screaming and trying to lure the thing away? Oh I hope it doesn't eat her, lets see how this plays out. Just terrible characters.
And while I remember the San Diego sequence to be a fun surprise in the theater that pretty much sucked too. A Tyrannosaurus Rex is stomping outside people's bedroom windows and eating people in the street and you want to get the dumb baby and lure it back to the boat so it won't die? Really Sarah? Really?
And what was with all the goofy made up spoof movies in the video store? It becomes some screwball Last Action Hero type comedy just out of the blue in the third act? A tiny little Animal Control pickup is charging in with a fleet of police cars? Oops, the National Guard wasn't called to apprehend a poodle. The Lost World: From the Files of Police Squad. Hardy har har.
The CGI wasn't even as good as I remembered and was a step down from JP1. Definitely not a movie I'll ever care to watch again.
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Animals do it all the time. They like to get somewhere high to look around.
Interesting review of TLW, Khev. While I liked it I will agree with jye that JW was none of those things and definitely second best in the franchise.
What a goofy, all over the place thesis. A real hodge podge of carefully selected films that "prove" his point. He rips on Smaug and yet I couldn't help but notice he didn't dare do a split screen comparison between him and Dragonheart.
Or between the dodgy full ship CGI of Titanic vs. a helicarrier. Sure we've had a lot of movies with poor CGI or too much of it or whatever. But the very best visuals the 90's could offer are a joke compared to the best visuals of today.He points to dropping rottentomatoes scores (and uses Robocop 2014 as an odd example as 90% of it is Kinneman in a real suit walking around a real city) while ignoring the fact that not one sci-fi/fantasy film in the 90's was nominated for Best Picture and we've had at least five (all three LOTR, District 9, and Avatar) since that have been.
His real beef seems to be CG environments which the 90's also did poorly. But very few current movies take the Sky Captain/Sin City/ROTS approach where all or most of it is shot green screen with no real sets or locations.
JW is none of this.
Damn straight!
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JW is none of this.
Eh, Jurassic World's characters are no better. Claire is obnoxious in her own way and most if not all the incidents that play out are because of stupid decisions made by dumb characters.
Only one Jurassic movie has a well rounded cast with characters that are more than just caricatures,
That's the ultimate stretch. Claire's defining moment: Luring a full size T-Rex to save the entire group while using herself as live bait. Sarah's defining moment: Luring two full size T-Rexes to the group causing a true hero to be eaten and endangering everyone in order to save a baby dinosaur.
Might as well tell us that TOD is no better than KOTCS due to Willie having several annoying moments.
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Bromance with Khev > JP1
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Claire's defining moment sounds so familiar?
Was that the part where Malcolm used the T-Rex to save Gennaro? Oh was that the part where Grant had already distracted the Rex and then Malcolm stupidly got in its way causing another man to get eaten for no reason?
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Temple of Doom is better than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull because it's a more interesting movie, not because of the female leads or antics of the characters. Temple of Doom is wholly original.
Lost World and Jurassic World are on an even level as far as I'm concerned. I didn't sit in World thinking "oh man, these are righteous, Shakespearean written characters I'm seeing here!"
Best character was Mary Sue, "I told ya so" Owen, a character every Jurassic movie has one or two of. You know, kind of like kids going through divorces/separated parents, carnivore vs. carnivore battles, gruesome Dino eats human scene, big Dino/vehicle sequences and a happy ending that demonstrates the majesty of these creatures.
Lost World and Jurassic World are on an even level as far as I'm concerned. I didn't sit in World thinking "oh man, these are righteous, Shakespearean written characters I'm seeing here!"
Best character was Mary Sue, "I told ya so" Owen, a character every Jurassic movie has one or two of. You know, kind of like kids going through divorces/separated parents, carnivore vs. carnivore battles, gruesome Dino eats human scene, big Dino/vehicle sequences and a happy ending that demonstrates the majesty of these creatures.
JPIII was actually better than The Lost World. I guess I can understand someone liking TLW if all you really want is to watch dinosaurs attacking people like a prehistoric complication of those "When Animals Attack" videos that used to run on Fox. You know all the out of context footage of deer getting up on their hind legs and beating the crap out of hunters and so forth. If that's all you want then I can see why some people would think that TLW has some redeeming moments. But as a movie it was garbage.
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