Jurassic World - Part 10

[mclay18]

JW banked $19.9M yesterday. Domestic cume is $278M.

https://***********/ERCboxoffice/status/611586724863602690

Still on track to cross $400M by Sunday.

 

[Boom]

Could we start seeing a bit of a spike in dinosaur movies after the enormous success this movie has had?

I'm surprised we haven't seen a simple time-travel movie where humans travel back to prehistoric earth.

 

[BoredGuy]

will ferrell did it

t:

 

[mclay18]

will ferrell did it

t:

I'd like to pretend Land of the Lost never existed.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

JW banked $19.9M yesterday. Domestic cume is $278M.

https://***********/ERCboxoffice/status/611586724863602690

Still on track to cross $400M by Sunday.

Awesome, it's amazing how well this movie is doing.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Could we start seeing a bit of a spike in dinosaur movies after the enormous success this movie has had?

I'm surprised we haven't seen a simple time-travel movie where humans travel back to prehistoric earth.

You mean like a Planet of the Apes type scenario but with dinosaurs?

If so, you're right... where the hell is this movie???

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I saw it today, and I don't think it is a great movie. I think it is a good one, but no where near close to the first. I also felt like Dallas Howard's character was kind of ridiculously sexist. The raptor CGI is iffy and the park somehow felt smaller then the original. I also felt like they should have shown a lot more of the park and that the second act was oddly truncated. I felt like there was a good 10 mins of dino hunting and the kids on the run that could and should have been there.

All that being said, I loved it. Bryce's role was ridiculous, but she made me care about her. Pratt is Pratt, and thus awesome. I loved the kids' reaction to him, and you will always get me with a brother story. And well, the final act was worth the price of admission. Who didn't fall in love with Blue?

 

[Voltron]

What the hell are you smoking dude. That must be some good stuff. Or were you just not paying any attention during the movie at all? These posts are just, wow. Phantasm explained it all in great detail and it still goes right over your head. Others explained it as well. Yikes.

But............it was Owen's fault...partly.

 

[Teelie]

I haven't been on the forums for a few days and there's like 25 pages of stuff I'm not reading so if some of this is addressed already, then I guess it doesn't matter. I also kept it kind of vague since I don't want to nitpick every little problem with a movie I'm still undecided on.

I saw it last weekend and it was better than I expected it to be but not without its faults.

There were a lot of scenes and stupid mistakes made to deliberately force the story into the direction it went. Things that were obviously done to make one event happen so another could occur.

The raptors weren't as bad as I expected, although having said that, they were quickly wasted and killed off in their plot to make the big bad showdown all the more exciting.

The mosasaur was an obvious chekov's gun from the start (with only the occasional reminder it existed through brief scenes) and the hybrid was ridiculously engineered although that part is loosely justified near the end with the whole "bio weapons" project Vincent was running.

My opinion of it is somewhat clouded by many of the scenes that were just too deliberate in their reason to exist. This scene is clearly a heart string tugger, this one is to make you fearful for the characters, this is to be the big action piece. Then there's the homages, many of which for once felt appropriate and properly inserted as opposed to forced on us like some other previous reboot/make/sequels have done.

There were some very scenes and a good story buried in there but it felt like a better movie was hidden under all the above. There were other, more intelligent ways to get the same story with a similar conclusion without making some characters either stupid, genius or gullible.

I'll have to watch it again to decide if I liked it or not. Right now I just feel on the fence.

 

[MrMaooz]

Dear Ron Howard,

Your daughter is so damn beautiful.

Sincerely,
Every Man Who Has Seen Jurassic World

 

[Marvolo]

I thought the raptor cgi looked great. Every bit as photorealistic as some of the apes in the new Planet Of the Apes films. Tho when they are first introduced and Owen is feeding them there is a shot or two thats not on par with the rest of the film, but thats even the case in the apes films. The rest of the time they looked better than theyve ever looked in this franchise. Maybe not as scary as the dead eye stiff animatronics in JP but very alive and in camera looking and much more empathetic. I connected with Blue in a way I never did with the animatronics in the original films.

What did you think of the final battle, Darth?

On another note, Ive decided to see this movie again in 3D on the BigD screen at my local carmike.Right now Best Buy is selling a selection of films with a $7.50 coupon for a JW ticket. So Im gonna buy the Incredible Hulk and use the coupon for the bargain time. Its a win win.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I saw it today, and I don't think it is a great movie. I think it is a good one, but no where near close to the first. I also felt like Dallas Howard's character was kind of ridiculously sexist. The raptor CGI is iffy and the park somehow felt smaller then the original. I also felt like they should have shown a lot more of the park and that the second act was oddly truncated. I felt like there was a good 10 mins of dino hunting and the kids on the run that could and should have been there.

All that being said, I loved it. Bryce's role was ridiculous, but she made me care about her. Pratt is Pratt, and thus awesome. I loved the kids' reaction to him, and you will always get me with a brother story. And well, the final act was worth the price of admission. Who didn't fall in love with Blue?

I liked how part of the movie was a search mission for the kids, but they never found them.

I also was disappointed they didn't use more of the Mosasaur. They really missed an opportunity to do a really scary and suspenseful scene with it if one of the characters wound up in the water.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Dear Ron Howard,

Your daughter is so damn beautiful.

Sincerely,
Every Man Who Has Seen Jurassic World

When she "gets ready". Good Lord.

I have thought he was attractive for over a decade, but she is better then ever in that regard.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I liked how part of the movie was a search mission for the kids, but they never found them.

Yep. I like where it took them, but it made everything that happened during that time a bit pointless.

 

[Marvolo]

I don't see how it was Owen's fault. He was told it wasn't in the paddock and had no reason to believe otherwise.

Exactlt how the hell was he to know the dang thing could hide its own heat signature. The only way he could have known that is if the scientists who created it had disclosed which animal dna was used to make it. Since he was lacking that info he cant be blamed for not knowing that the thing could do that. So rather than standing around wsmaiting on Claire to get ahold of the control center he goes in to check out the paddock to figure out how it got out. Claire doesnt wait around either. She immediately heads to the control center and calls and tells them to locate its tracker. Which they do asap. So neither Claire nor Owne acted wrong.

And the I-Rex got out because that one park employee opened the main paddock door inatead of using the service entrance door for humans. Thats how it got out. Not becauae of anythinf Claire or Owen did.

Voltron, must have been on his phone or high or just not paying attention very well.

 

[MrMaooz]

When she "gets ready". Good Lord.

I have thought he was attractive for over a decade, but she is better then ever in that regard.

How I felt when she "got ready" and spent the rest of the film like that:

 

[John McGuirk]

Compare this T.Rex to what we got on JW. I wish they didn't get rid of animatronics.

Then again, they ditched pretty much everything that makes a quality movie.

 

[Marvolo]

When she "gets ready".[ Good Lord.

I have thought he was attractive for over a decade, but she is better then ever in that regard.

That got a big laugh from my audience.

 

[ThePhantasm]

I'm not gonna lie, I like the animatronics in the original films more than the CGI in this one. But I also don't think this film would have worked without the CGI, so its not a big deal to me.

 

[Voltron]

Ok, then partly everyone's fault. Everyone had a hand instead of waiting for the location. Bc when I saw those claw marks on the wall I was thinking, that's a decoy, and sure enough it was.

 

[Sithborg]

That got a big laugh from my audience.

I laughed at it, becuase she did nothing about her shoes, which is what Owen was complaining about.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

That got a big laugh from my audience.

It got something out of me, that's for sure.

The biggest laugh was for how the kids reacted to meeting Owen. The biggest groan was definitely for the shot of the heels while she was running. That was so ridiculously bad.

 

[MrMaooz]

Biggest laugh at my viewing was "I have a boyfriend."

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Ok, then partly everyone's fault. Everyone had a hand instead of waiting for the location. Bc when I saw those claw marks on the wall I was thinking, that's a decoy, and sure enough it was.

The fault was those who created a dino that was meant to be a weapon and wouldn't reveal what it was made up of. No one knew what they were dealing with, which was the entire problem.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Biggest laugh at my viewing was "I have a boyfriend."

Didn't really get a reaction from my crowd, though I enjoyed it. t: