Jurassic World (SPOILERS!)

[Khev]

It's the thought that counts.

Oh I'll give Malcolm that. He was an idiot but was clearly trying to save people while putting himself in direct danger. As opposed to freaking Vince Vaughn. I'm surprised that Nick didn't just take a machine gun down to the camp and open fire on everyone while their backs were turned. I'm against animal imprisonment so I think I'll head down to the local zoo and just let all the elephants, tigers, and alligators out of their cages while hundreds of people are there just walking around.

Oh they're out and killing people now? Well let me rush over and hide all the bullets from the police who show up to rescue everyone.

Just what the hell were they trying to say with that movie? Did David Koepp get his leg broken by bullies on the playground and he secretly always wished that his dad was a T-Rex who would come and eat them?

 

[DiFabio]

Yeah, Malcolm clearly meant well.

If World was half as realistic as the ground rules that Jurassic Park laid, Claire shouldn't have been able to run a mile to the visitors center in high heels and the T-Rex should have followed Claire instead of falling for the flare she threw. You know, kinda like she did 22 years before with Malcolm?


Instead, Claire has contrived plot armor that let her go the distance and have a T-Rex, an animal that should be indifferent to the plight of humans, stand by her side and follow her intended plan of fighting another dinosaur.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

No one liked the lawyer in JP anyway, so that makes Malcom a hero. I doubt anyone who watches that scene thinks, "Oh, not him...poor guy."

 

[Khev]

Yeah, Malcolm clearly meant well.

If World was half as realistic as the ground rules that Jurassic Park laid, Claire shouldn't have been able to run a mile to the visitors center in high heels and the T-Rex should have followed Claire instead of falling for the flare she threw. You know, kinda like she did 22 years before with Malcolm?

I am amazed that people still truly believe that the T-Rex was charging Claire at full speed and simply couldn't catch her. We already KNOW this particular Rex pauses when it comes across a "WTF" moment. It did when it saw Gennaro. And maybe I need to watch JP again but I don't really remember Malcolm throwing his flare into a much more massive creature that would have clearly refocused the Rex's attention.

If you want to prefer JP because you just like the characters better or it was "first" or whatever I can understand that. Yes JW is "better" but at least you're still preferring one good movie over another good movie. Kind of like the T1/T2 debate or whatever. But TLW and JPIII? Crap. Both of them, just crap.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I am amazed that people still truly believe that the T-Rex was charging Claire at full speed and simply couldn't catch her. We already KNOW this particular Rex pauses when it comes across a "WTF" moment. It did when it saw Gennaro. And maybe I need to watch JP again but I don't really remember Malcolm throwing his flare into a much more massive creature that would have clearly refocused the Rex's attention.

It's hard to tell where Malcom's flare landed since the infrastructure of the park changed suddenly in that scene. Maybe Malcom ultered reality with his flair

 

[Khev]

$500 million in 17 days. Another $158 million and it passes Titanic's domestic total.

'Jurassic' Holds Off Challengers - Box Office Mojo

 

[DiFabio]

It should have been able to catch Claire, or atleast buck her with it's head like it did to Malcolm. The distance from the Rex paddock to the visitors center where iRex, Owen and the kids were hanging out seemed quite far to run with a huge T-Rex chasing you down. You shouldn't be able to outrun a T-Rex, as seen in Jurassic Park and Lost World, certainly not in heels.

Besides, Claire falls to the ground right as she throws the flare. T-Rex has her eye on the prize. It shouldn't be fooled by the flare because Claire just spent several minutes running with it like a ****ing Olympic torch. Okay, it saw the iRex, still doesn't change the fact that seconds before it did it laid it's eyes on this tasty looking, strawberry haired appetizer that fell to it's feet. I'm not even sure why the T-Rex decided to fight the iRex. The iRex seemed to want to be cool and hang with it's raptor bros, why not say "yo, T-Rex, let's split these little human ****s, we can split a kid and adult between the two of us, you can have the woman if you want"?

 

[jye4ever]

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Hard to beat DiFabio at forum lolz.

Nearly impossible actually.

 

[Khev]

It should have been able to catch Claire, or atleast buck her with it's head like it did to Malcolm.

Of course it could have. But it wasn't trying to.

The distance from the Rex paddock to the visitors center where iRex, Owen and the kids were hanging out seemed quite far to run with a huge T-Rex chasing you down. You shouldn't be able to outrun a T-Rex, as seen in Jurassic Park and Lost World,

Oh you can outrun a T-Rex in TLW. Quite easily, even if you're panicked and running over uneven ground in a dark forest. Just don't trip while your "faster than a Jeep" buddies are running around you.

The iRex seemed to want to be cool and hang with it's raptor bros, why not say "yo, T-Rex, let's split these little human ****s, we can split a kid and adult between the two of us, you can have the woman if you want"?

Well the I-Rex's "friendship" between the Raptors didn't really work out and T-Rexes aren't pack hunters. So neither would have had any reason to "team up" at that point. Even at the end with Blue the Rex was all, "wait that was YOU helping me? Dude, that's not how I work. Let's just say I'm too tired to eat you right now and call it a night."

 

[Khev]

Hard to beat DiFabio at forum lolz.

You got that right. One of us needs to bait him into reflecting back on where TDKR went wrong.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Even at the end with Blue the Rex was all, "wait that was YOU helping me? Dude, that's not how I work. Let's just say I'm too tired to eat you right now and call it a night."

Yup, I'm pretty sure that's how the scene was written in the script

 

[DiFabio]

Wait, why wasn't the T-Rex trying to catch Claire? Why wouldn't it want to!?! So it was following her because it knew Claire was trying to show it something? That's even sillier!

T-Rex and blue gave each other knowing looks like "yeah, we pwned that guy, good work and good night". I saw it, then looked around at my audience with the **** eating grins and knew they saw it too. I can't believe the T-Rex decided to be a Good Samaritan, maybe getting it's throat ripped out by a Spino was a better send off afterall!




Also, just to clarify, I ain't hating on World, I liked it. I'm just sayin', it's no sillier or over the top than the others.

 

[jye4ever]

You got that right. One of us needs to bait him into reflecting back on where TDKR went wrong.

TDKR thread is the mother of all movie threads.

 

[Khev]

Wait, why wasn't the T-Rex trying to catch Claire? Why wouldn't it want to!?! So it was following her because it knew Claire was trying to show it something? That's even sillier!

I'm sure it didn't know what the hell was going on. For 10 years a flare drops on a goat signaling that it's time to go show off and eat a goat in front of park guests and suddenly in the middle of the night a door that never opens rises and some human chick is holding a flare in her hand and then takes off? The whole thing would have been very weird and it's actually quite reasonable to assume that the Rex would have emerged with a bit of caution. It would have eaten Claire obviously, but it had a few moments of "what the **** is going on here" which obviously was enough time for Claire to survive.

T-Rex and blue gave each other knowing looks like "yeah, we pwned that guy, good work and good night". I saw it, then looked around at my audience with the **** eating grins and knew they saw it too. I can't believe the T-Rex decided to be a Good Samaritan, maybe getting it's throat ripped out by a Spino was a better send off afterall!

After I saw the movie for the first time I called it the Rex's "you're all right Laruso" moment with Blue. And I'm totally fine with that.

 

[jye4ever]

Wait, why wasn't the T-Rex trying to catch Claire? Why wouldn't it want to!?! So it was following her because it knew Claire was trying to show it something? That's even sillier!

T-Rex and blue gave each other knowing looks like "yeah, we pwned that guy, good work and good night". I saw it, then looked around at my audience with the **** eating grins and knew they saw it too. I can't believe the T-Rex decided to be a Good Samaritan, maybe getting it's throat ripped out by a Spino was a better send off afterall!




Also, just to clarify, I ain't hating on World, I liked it. I'm just sayin', it's no sillier or over the top than the others.

But we're talking smiles here. Forget writing and all that junk.

Did the other 2 give you the same smiles are JW?

Some silly **** can still be better than other silly ****.

TLW gave me a Terminator grin.

J3 gave me a sad.

JW gave me a big smile.

What did your raw midichlorians tell you, how feels you?

 

[Khev]

But we're talking smiles here. Forget writing and all that junk.

Did the other 2 give you the same smiles are JW?

Some silly **** can still be better than other silly ****.

TLW gave me a Terminator grin.

J3 gave me a sad.

JW gave me a big smile.

Yes DiFabio seems to be equating silly but immensely crowd pleasing moments with silly but immensely annoying and stupid moments. They aren't one and the same.

Who watches a Jurassic Park movie and goes, "hey, WAIT a minute! The T-Rex caught one guy after 11 steps but not this other lady after 12? Shenanigans!"

Might as well complain about injured Reese and Sarah outrunning a speeding semi for like a mile and a half. Claire barely had to run 20 yards while the Rex was confused. It isn't a big deal.

 

[jye4ever]

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[DiFabio]

You got that right. One of us needs to bait him into reflecting back on where TDKR went wrong.

 

[DiFabio]

But we're talking smiles here. Forget writing and all that junk.

Did the other 2 give you the same smiles are JW?

Some silly **** can still be better than other silly ****.


TLW gave me a Terminator grin.

J3 gave me a sad.

JW gave me a big smile.

What did your raw midichlorians tell you, how feels you?

***** please. All the Jurassic movies got the same beats!

I'm sure I smiled during Lost World, I know I smiled at III. All the Jurassic movies have pretty much the same sentimental "these 65 million year old animals are truly majestic" feels endings too. I probably had a goofy smile when the T-Rex roared and Grant is in the helicopter looking out at birds thinking "those used to be dinos", or when Hammond is talking about the dinos and we see them all in their element at the end of Lost World, or when we see a nice mirror to the first movie and we see Grant seeing the birds again, but this time as pterodactyls in III, or when the T-Rex goes up on a nice, helicopter pedestal and lets out an iconic roar in World.

 

[Wor-Gar]

You know, I'm watching JPIII again right now. It's just so asinine. Nothing makes sense. Here's two examples that literally just played before I had to walk away:

Grant and kid are hiding in a well lit storehouse with sunshine pouring in but kid must light a faint lamp to recognize Grant.

Worst beat: Spino at massive spiky iron fence chasing kid and Grant who just happen to slip through a convenient hole in iron fence, but here's the kicker: Spino has no trouble crashing through spiky iron fence but then is fouled by crappy ancient visitor center doors on rusted hinges.