Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

[superman-mos]

http://www.cbr.com/the-rock-reveals-smoldering-jumanji-character-concept-art/

 

[Lencho01]

‘Jumanji’ Concept Art Reveals The Rock Playing An Indiana Jones-Type

EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Concept art of my #JUMANJI character. “The Smoldering” Dr. Bravestone. (not sure where my pecs went. This is gonna be fun.. Me, @kevinhart4real, Jack Black, @NickJonas and the Ginger Assassin @karengillanofficial can’t wait to “play the game that plays you”. #JUMANJI #DrBravestone #KingOfTheSmolder #TheAdventureContinues ???? * JUMANJI Costume Designer Laura Jean Shannon

 

[Guts]

Looks like it will take place inside the board game like the animated series.

 

[Alien Anal]

What makes you say that?

The Rocks character could be the good guy version of the hunter from the original film.

 

[Doctor Jones]

You know the first film holds up so well. I still can't believe it's as great as that is, especially in 1995 when that movie had no business being that good in a time when those movies sucked. It has a heart and pathos and Williams like he always does sells it. Hunt is great too.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Is it me or is The Rock trying give a nudge,nudge wink,wink to Disney to cast him as Indie?

 

[BlueLanternKal]

You know the first film holds up so well. I still can't believe it's as great as that is, especially in 1995 when that movie had no business being that good in a time when those movies sucked. It has a heart and pathos and Williams like he always does sells it. Hunt is great too.

Watched this again as an adult about 2-3 years ago. As much as the dated CG sucks, I agree. The characters and the story allows one to overlook it's technical shortcomings.

 

[Kyle]

You know the first film holds up so well. I still can't believe it's as great as that is, especially in 1995 when that movie had no business being that good in a time when those movies sucked. It has a heart and pathos and Williams like he always does sells it. Hunt is great too.

Huh? What? Are you for real, seriously?

1995
Jumanji (obviously, clearly)
Toy Story
Se7en
12 Monkeys
Braveheart
Clueless
Goldeneye
Casino
The Usual Suspects
Heat
Apollo 13
Leaving Las Vegas
Bad Boys
Pochahontas
Babe
Before Sunrise
Billy Madison (back when Sandler was good)
Might Morphin Power Rangers
Casper
The Basketball Diaries
Empire Records
Mallrats

(and more, arranged how google arranged "1995 movies" search)

Unless you're throwing it into some specified category, most of the classics people think of when they think 90s is from 95&96. Those years are the "1984" of the 90s.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Huh? What? Are you for real, seriously?

1995
Jumanji (obviously, clearly)
Toy Story
Se7en
12 Monkeys
Braveheart
Clueless
Goldeneye
Casino
The Usual Suspects
Heat
Apollo 13
Leaving Las Vegas
Bad Boys
Pochahontas
Babe
Before Sunrise
Billy Madison (back when Sandler was good)
Might Morphin Power Rangers
Casper
The Basketball Diaries
Empire Records
Mallrats

(and more, arranged how google arranged "1995 movies" search)

Unless you're throwing it into some specified category, most of the classics people think of when they think 90s is from 95&96. Those years are the "1984" of the 90s.

The 90's were terrible for blockbuster movies. A movie based off a children book about a board game should have been terrible back then but they made it work.

 

[Kyle]

The 90's were terrible for blockbuster movies. A movie based off a children book about a board game should have been terrible back then but they made it work.

So Goldeneye, Bad Boys, Toy Story, Braveheart, Heat, and Apollo 13 are terrible movies... Right...

And 90s overall gave us classics like Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park that movies still struggle to measure up to.

Remember we didn't get the tech for summer movies to go all out that we have today. So those kinds of movies were a lot rarer. Back then summer movies were based on originality and star power like the above named. I will say outside of 95/96 there was a lack, but you'd be crazy to say 95. That was the year that gave us the 90s basically. It all came out that year.

 

[Teelie]

At first I wasn't impressed with the idea of a sequel/reboot. Then they got Dwayne Johnson involved and it sounded better. Now with the cast being fleshed out more and adding Karen Gillan it sounds like it could be a decent movie.

 

[Manofplastic]

Still, one thing i thought was so immensely strong about Jumanji was that you never actually got to see that world. You only got to hear the extreme creepyness and danger of that place, and how one guy was trapped there for decades. sure, some stuff got out into the 'real world' but it's not the same.

you had to use your imagination to imagine just how dark and gritty that place has to be. now, it seems like we might get to actually 'see' that world, and for me that sort of takes away one of its greatest strenghts.

 

[Smilodon]

I think it worked pretty well when they did it in Zathura, so a PG-13 action adventure set in a board game can still work pretty well I think. I think a good chunk of the appeal of both films were the kids though, I'm interested in how it'll work with adults.

 

[Kirmit]

Hopefully because of this movie they release a board game based on the original Jumanji game (obviously the logistics would be different ), I always wanted one.

 

[Alien Anal]

Hopefully because of this movie they release a board game based on the original Jumanji game (obviously the logistics would be different ), I always wanted one.

Baha they did! Back when the original came out. My brother and I would play it all the time. It was fun because after rolling the dice we would then spend 30 mins running around pretending it was happening.

 

[batfreakforever]

If it's a continuation from the williams movie without !@#$ing on it then I'm all for this new one.

 

[Kyle]

Hopefully because of this movie they release a board game based on the original Jumanji game (obviously the logistics would be different ), I always wanted one.

They did. It would be cool if they put one out that's closer to the film version though...

 

[Schlosser85]

Dr. Bravestone

 

[lime]

I love Jumanji so I will definitely give this a chance. But my hopes are low until a trailer convinces me otherwise.

 

[Kirmit]

Baha they did! Back when the original came out. My brother and I would play it all the time. It was fun because after rolling the dice we would then spend 30 mins running around pretending it was happening.

Did they?? Aw man, young me really missed out.

 

[Doctor Jones]

So Goldeneye, Bad Boys, Toy Story, Braveheart, Heat, and Apollo 13 are terrible movies... Right...

And 90s overall gave us classics like Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park that movies still struggle to measure up to.

Remember we didn't get the tech for summer movies to go all out that we have today. So those kinds of movies were a lot rarer. Back then summer movies were based on originality and star power like the above named. I will say outside of 95/96 there was a lack, but you'd be crazy to say 95. That was the year that gave us the 90s basically. It all came out that year.

I don't consider Apollo 13 and Heat blockbuster movies. So we differ in opinion there.

I never said there were no good blockbuster films in the 90's just that the 90's were terrible for blockbuster films. That isn't mutually exclusive. But also in terms of brand properties, they were bad.

 

[Kyle]

In terms of brand properties a lot of that was near impossible until 1999/2000 due to budgetary and special effects reasons. Two entirely different animals. Prior to that it was original star driven vehicles and a lot smaller books that could be made into films technically. Example Jack Reacher is more the kind of "brand" properties the 90s could deliver on, not HP or LOTR or MARVEL besides Blade and only DC around was the fall of Batman. Thus if your definiton of blockbuster is "must have superheroes! Must be game based! Must have more special effects than it knows what to do with" those were near impossible at the time because of where we were technically.

Superhero films and big space Odysseys in the 90s like all years prior were rare, thus if an abundance of that is what you're after then any decade prior to 00s is bad. Or if they were attempted you often had lousy sfx to back it up such as Mortal Kombat. Apollo 13 was the special effects spectacle despite being commonplace today. Hell just creating a twister was a huge deal. If you're talking superhero type films, yeah those years were a disaster because they were a lot less numerous. We still have Batman And Robins popping up everywhere a lot today, but in the years prior to the 00s where you've got 6 comic book films give or take a decade vs 20+ then it's an obvious matter of odds.

If you're talking big summer type tentpole movies that were original and star based those rocked and unlike today were more original than not which is a huge pro in my book. In terms of "brand blockbusters" in today's terms that didn't exist by and a whole lot large until 1999/2000, it was more a time of creating original content that sometimes was loosely based on books and continues to be a source for material to today. Basically it was the last decade before Hollywood started to become more of a brand recreation manufacturing machine, which I don't mind and like some of what's been created there but there has to be originality and risks thrown in - we've all seen what that can lead to this summer. Jumanji when it came out wasn't a brand name blockbuster.

The film this and past couple months that most resembles a 90s blockbuster is 'Deepwater Horizon' which in today's world wouldn't be called a blockbuster, despite if it came out years prior it would have been. Also, chances are it will be one of the best films the past of this and the past couple months as well (hopefully, because of the names behind it). That film would have been a summer blockbuster "ages ago." If you want to see brands, then yeah these years rock however if you love to see more original blockbusters that didn't rely on brand recognition, this year alone can't help but be nostalgic for much better days.

 

[Lencho01]

‘Jumanji’ Starts Production and The Rock Shares a Set Video Full of Good Vibes

 

[Abudefduf]

Uh, just by looking at Karen Gillian and Kevin Hart I think I know what's gonna happen now. Come on internet, do your thing.

 

[terry78]

Matching colors. Get it, Kev.