just went to see it again, a friend didn't see it yet and i didn't want to leave him all by himself.
anyway, i must say i still like the movie but my perception - offcourse - is a good amount different now.
Things i've noticed after second viewing
- the amount of action in the movie. a bit too much if you ask me.
- i missed the tension of the first JP1 movie. I can watch that time and time again and still get tense when rexy breaks through the fences and is trying to eat lex and tim, and chasing malcolm. same goes for the danger of the raptors.
- i liked the human bond with raptors, bringing them a bit closer, and though i think that has been executed really well, in another sense, i really don't like it anymore because it totally destroyed the paramount and insane danger that the raptors were in the first movie.
- i disliked the ability for i-rex to take use of all his genepool tampering even more
- the i rex got owned quite humiliaatingly when it was eaten by the mosasaur. IMHO, it deserved a more epic finish.
- i much more noticed the CGI effects on Rexy, and i didn't like it
- i see no point on why Masrani and the helicopter had to die/explode/crash. Birds avoid helicopters too for obvious reasons and it's weird that these dactyls would simply kamikaze into a foreing weird inunderstandable thing. I think there could have been numerous ways to terminate the gun,
i think Masrani was a much too usable character to simply kill off like that.
- the dying brachiosaurus looked even worse 2nd time and his wounds even look less lethal. they could have had some deep bite wounds, open legs, dying from a couple of scratches?
- i think there should have been more then 1 raptor survival, and they should have grouped off in the distance instead of just 1 lonely poor little raptor.
- the raptor communication on one level is very cool and storywise a great addition, but it's unrealistic, it is just killing for fun, going on rampage, trying to see how much he can eat, it doesn't know what it is, yet it instantly knows how to communicate with raptors and even get them to act like it wants to.
despite all of that, here are the good points
- still really like the movie
- still really like the way the i-rex was portrayed visually, at cage breach, the camouflage, the ankylo fight, the hamsterball scene, and the bossfight.
- really like that the scene where rexy is let out of it's cage
- like that the park [was] functional
- really like the addition of the old park
- the raptor hunting
- the humourous scenes
- the Ingen villians
- evil Henry Wu
- the evil mad scientist backstory in there
- still really like how JW is able to fix their incorrect dino portrayel by simply putting in that they're not 'natural' becuase they were engineered with foreign DNA, and that if they were natural, they would look and be very different.
also, i was surprised at just how much and big of a crowd still is attending this movie. it's recieved so well, time and time again.
i'm hoping forward for a sequel, which imho should also find a way to tie-in henry wu's character from the first movie all the way to this one, and how or whether he always was or became evil/friends with the devil.