Jurassic World - Part 5

[Lando81]

it's probably not gonna happen but i would love to see those kids get eaten by a dinosaur. i can already tell they are gonna be annoying

Thank god you can tell from literally seconds of footage. I was worried for a moment that this might be the first JP film with non-annoying kids.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Am I the only one who doesn't get bothered by Tim & Lex?

 

[Lando81]

Am I the only one who doesn't get bothered by Tim & Lex?

They're definitely least annoying but Lex's screaming grows old fast.

 

[Supernova]

I hate kid actors for the most part but with jurassic park they do it because they have to appeal to younglings and sell toys. Lex and tim were annoying for the most part, i mean the raptors killed the hunting guy who was skilled and then somehow they somehow they tirn bumpling raptor idiots in turn kitchen scene.

 

[Zantera]

I'm still hyped for this. There are some minor things that has bothered me in the trailers, like a few lines ("What kind of dinosaur did they cook up in that lab?" and "Its killing/hunting for sports") as well as just a really weird tone. The movie looks like it's going for that clean, realistic and serious tone, but then you have the hokey concept of a mixed DNA dinosaur and all these cheesy 80's lines, and it just feels like they clash. Similar to The Amazing Spider-Man where a giant lizard spraying gas over a city sticks out like a sore thumb in the "dark and serious Spider-Man".

I will say that the "horror" element is something that feels gone, and the movie just looks too clean. Would love a more gritty imagery, right now it feels like a commercial for soaps or something. I'm also a bit skeptical at Chris Pratt being the dinosaur hunter. What made the first movie so great was that our main protagonist Alan Grant really wasn't a badass, he was just a pretty simple guy who learned a lot of things during the movie. He didn't need a motorbike and raptors. I think it could be cool with a JP movie where someone who is completely inexperienced just happens to end up on an island with dinosaurs. Similar to how JP3 starts before the rescue squads arrive. Could be interesting seeing someone getting accidentally washed up on shore trying to survive.

 

[Loki882]

I never found them annoying, and I'm a guy who does frequently get annoyed by bad kid actors. Even Lex's screaming doesn't bother me. She's being chased around by Dinosaurs who are trying to eat. I'd think that there'd be something wrong with her if she DIDN'T scream.

 

[Victarion]

I'm still hyped for this. There are some minor things that has bothered me in the trailers, like a few lines ("What kind of dinosaur did they cook up in that lab?" and "Its killing/hunting for sports") as well as just a really weird tone. The movie looks like it's going for that clean, realistic and serious tone, but then you have the hokey concept of a mixed DNA dinosaur and all these cheesy 80's lines, and it just feels like they clash. Similar to The Amazing Spider-Man where a giant lizard spraying gas over a city sticks out like a sore thumb in the "dark and serious Spider-Man".

I will say that the "horror" element is something that feels gone, and the movie just looks too clean. Would love a more gritty imagery, right now it feels like a commercial for soaps or something. I'm also a bit skeptical at Chris Pratt being the dinosaur hunter. What made the first movie so great was that our main protagonist Alan Grant really wasn't a badass, he was just a pretty simple guy who learned a lot of things during the movie. He didn't need a motorbike and raptors. I think it could be cool with a JP movie where someone who is completely inexperienced just happens to end up on an island with dinosaurs. Similar to how JP3 starts before the rescue squads arrive. Could be interesting seeing someone getting accidentally washed up on shore trying to survive.

To be honest, I found Alan a bit dull compared to Muldoon back then. I still do.

 

[Zantera]

I never found them annoying, and I'm a guy who does frequently get annoyed by bad kid actors. Even Lex's screaming doesn't bother me. She's being chased around by Dinosaurs who are trying to eat. I'd think that there'd be something wrong with her if she DIDN'T scream.

Personally I don't mind the kids being scared and screaming, but the T-Rex scene always makes me frustrated. Even if you are scared and you are a kid, where's the logic in glowing a flashlight in the eye of the T-Rex? I did plenty of dumb things as a kid, but in that situation, the 8 year old me would just have curled up into a ball in the car and tried to stay still/quiet.

 

[StarLord]

Personally I don't mind the kids being scared and screaming, but the T-Rex scene always makes me frustrated. Even if you are scared and you are a kid, where's the logic in glowing a flashlight in the eye of the T-Rex? I did plenty of dumb things as a kid, but in that situation, the 8 year old me would just have curled up into a ball in the car and tried to stay still/quiet.

That wouldn't really be an exciting scene in a movie though.

 

[terry78]

We weren't all as smart as you when we were young'uns.

 

[Spider-Who?]

Personally I don't mind the kids being scared and screaming, but the T-Rex scene always makes me frustrated. Even if you are scared and you are a kid, where's the logic in glowing a flashlight in the eye of the T-Rex? I did plenty of dumb things as a kid, but in that situation, the 8 year old me would just have curled up into a ball in the car and tried to stay still/quiet.

I always took the flash light scene as Lex trying to scare the T.Rex away based on the classic idea/imagery we’ve all been exposed to of man using fire to scare predators away. Lex didn’t have any fire, so a flashlight the closest thing in her mind.

It’s an interesting take on the trope, especially when it’s immeditatly followed by Grant using a flare. Instead of the Rex being afraid of the “cave man welding flame” and running away, the Rex is attracted to it, because, as we all know, the T.Rex don’t give a ****.

 

[terry78]

One question I have is, do these dinosaurs hunt for food or are some just doing it for sport or to protect their territory? Like if a T-Rex came in here right now but had just finished eating would it start trying to eat people regardless?

 

[Spider-Who?]

One question I have is, do these dinosaurs hunt for food or are some just doing it for sport or to protect their territory? Like if a T-Rex came in here right now but had just finished eating would it start trying to eat people regardless?

Are you asking about the dinosaurs in the movie, or in real life? In any case, the desire to protect one's territory and snuff out potential threats is universal, regardless of the need to eat at that particular moment. But other animals are known to kill "for sport", so it's not out of the realm of possibility for dinosaurs to do the same.

 

[Octoberist]

Personally I don't mind the kids being scared and screaming, but the T-Rex scene always makes me frustrated. Even if you are scared and you are a kid, where's the logic in glowing a flashlight in the eye of the T-Rex? I did plenty of dumb things as a kid, but in that situation, the 8 year old me would just have curled up into a ball in the car and tried to stay still/quiet.

Like Samus from Metroid?

 

[samsnee]

The older kid looks more annoying to me. He looks like a young John Mayer so that may be it.

 

[Victarion]

Am I the only one who doesn't get bothered by Tim & Lex?

I wasn't, and am not, bothered by them. Might be because I was younger than either of the two when I first saw Jurassic Park.

 

[Victarion]

One question I have is, do these dinosaurs hunt for food or are some just doing it for sport or to protect their territory? Like if a T-Rex came in here right now but had just finished eating would it start trying to eat people regardless?

The stampede scene seems to indicate that the Rex would stop once she got her prey.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Are you asking about the dinosaurs in the movie, or in real life? In any case, the desire to protect one's territory and snuff out potential threats is universal, regardless of the need to eat at that particular moment. But other animals are known to kill "for sport", so it's not out of the realm of possibility for dinosaurs to do the same.

It is pretty well stated in the Jurassic Park universe that the Raptors were the only ones who hunt for sport.

The book is different than the film with regards to the T-Rex. In the film, she really only goes after the humans when they are outside her paddock and otherwise ignores them. When she's chasing the Jeep, she stops when they get far enough away. In the book, she tracks them for a good portion of the book all the way upriver and even goes after Tim when he's behind a waterfall. She does leave them to go protect a kill from the younger T-Rex at one point though.

 

[Broseph44]

Been a long time since I read both books, but I absolutely loved them. Gonna have to dive back into them again sometime soon. Maybe around the time JW comes out I will.

 

[Black Narcissus]

 

[ShadowBoxer]

To all the people that have been negative towards this were you not fans of the original? All I seen is people here complaints about the scientific accuracy of the dinosaurs, the CG, the plot, the characters, the kids in the movie. What's next people gonna start complaining about the movies logo design??

All we have are trailers. We don't know how the plot or will play out. The filmmakers did say they weren't trying to copy the original trilogy story so there is that. There could very well be some cool elements or plot twists they aren't gonna spoil in trailers. We also don't know if the kids will be annoying or not. Pretty crazy people are saying they are annoying based off seconds of footage. Personally, I don't watch a Jurassic Park for 100% scientifically accurate representation of dinosaurs or a deep Christopher Nolan philosophical storyline.
As long as the story is engaging and has cool elements and is FUN to watch, I am a happy camper. I don't know what else you would want really.

 

[Sithborg]

Been a long time since I read both books, but I absolutely loved them. Gonna have to dive back into them again sometime soon. Maybe around the time JW comes out I will.

Its a bit weird to see just how many scenes the books inspired in Jurassic Park III.

 

[CGHulk]

 

[smallville fan]

I really don't know about this Sharktopus dinosaur. I feel that it could be a little bit like jumping the shark. I get that the Dinosaurs are all hybrids even from the start but there are so many cool existing species to explore without making it feel like JP3 again and go off creating an all new Dinosaur.

A cool idea they could try is to add a layer of a cover-up story such that people think that it was a real Dinosaur from back in the day rather than an obvious and desperate attempt to get people to come out to the park with the Sharktopus Dinosaur.

 

[AnneFan]

I don't think it jumps the shark because it has good grounding. Human attention spans, abuse of science and the lure of economic benefit. That straight up dinosaur clones just aren't exciting visitors as much as they had a decade or so ago. They have become the norm. The science in this world has also advanced rapidly and the JW team so readily utilise it. To give the public something brand new, which has never existed up to this point. Something with a sense of threat - which has been eroded based on previous comments about this film. Park visitors routinely take selfies in front of glass enclosures with dinosaurs inches behind them. The mother in the trailer even jokes about the dangers of visiting Jurassic World.