Jurassic World - Part 9

[Loki882]

3 was meh. Really didn't like Lost World. I hated almost every character in that film and they made the dumbest of decisions. That makes it really hard to find enjoyment.

Eddie-decent guy, proves surprisingly good at thinking on his feet for a middle-aged equipment manager, and heroically saves multiple people (who are only in that mess through their own stupidity)=Gets gruesomely ripped in half in a overly-long/incredibly mean-spirited sequence.

Nick-self-righteous hypocritical eco-terrorist who's responsible for the majority of the deaths in this movie, and never ONCE expresses the slightest bit of remorse for it and has the GALL to get on Roland's case=Get's away scott-free, is treated like a big hero (complete with "badass one-liner"), and then disappears from the film. I'd like to think that the families of all the people who died because of him tracked him down and fed him to alligators or something, because boy if anyone deserved to be dino chow it was him.

This is a short by telling example of why TLW doesn't work. It's priorities/morals are hopelessly screwed-up and it just comes across as annoying pretentious/hypocritical.

 

[AnneFan]

I thought Godzilla was boring as ****.

100% agree. Such a waste of time. All drumroll and no funky guitar solo.

I'm quietly confident I'll enjoy JW a lot more.

 

[IncognitoWalrus]

So far the impression the reviews are giving me are: "not great, but decent" and "flawed, but fun'. It sounds like the type of movie where if you go into it with the attitude of just wanting to go on a ride, there's a lot to enjoy, but if you go into it expecting a top to bottom great film you'll be sorely disappointed.

The other thing I noticed in both Jeremy Jahns and SchmoesKnow reviews is they both referenced it as being very much straight forward monster movie, just with dinosaurs. For Jahns that was more of a negative, and he seemed to really be looking for it to recapture the same feelings as the original, whereas Schmoes seemed more okay with that and had a more favorable attitude towards the film. Harloff said this was what he wanted Godzilla to be. Mostly everyone seems to agree there is some shoddy character work and too many subplots.

I'm looking forward to checking it out this weekend hopefully. I think I have a good idea of where to dial in my expectations.

That's the right attitude imo. Just turn your brain off and enjoy the ride!

 

[Loki882]

Godzilla's biggest failing was marketing itself as "Godzilla vs. Walter White" and then offing Bryan Cranston before the first act was even over. Also, "GI Generic" as the main character and badly wasting a great cast (Liz Olsen, Ken Watanabe, David Straithairn, etc).

 

[Greens]

Mostly everyone seems to agree there is some shoddy character work and too many subplots.

Stuckmann mentioned that the two kids feel redundant and that the movie relies on CGI a little too much. The latter was to be expected.

 

[Loki882]

The two kid see to be an obvious way to try and essentially create new versions of Tim and Alexis from the first film. Only, I kind of liked Tim and Alexis and they served an actual purpose.

 

[spiderman2]

For what it is worth interstellar was my 2nd favorite movie last year and it got 73 RT score and asm2 was my 3erd favorite movie last year and it only got a 53.

 

[Zantera]

It's a shame that most reviews I've seen so far feels like sugar-coating. Basically huge Jurassic Park fans who talk about the movie like it was as good as JP3, but trying to make up for the holes and say "it was still enjoyable" and so on.

 

[ares834]

So the one thing I am hearing that really disappoints me is that I. Rex isn’t so much a large dangerous animal but rather a monster. This is what I feared and could easily kill my enjoyment of the film. We’ll see Friday.

 

[spiderman2]

It's a shame that most reviews I've seen so far feels like sugar-coating. Basically huge Jurassic Park fans who talk about the movie like it was as good as JP3, but trying to make up for the holes and say "it was still enjoyable" and so on.

I don't know why u say that. It sounds like it is way better then 3 but not has good has 1 and probly better then 2.

 

[spiderman2]

So the one thing I am hearing that really disappoints me is that I. Rex isn’t so much a large dangerous animal but rather a monster. This is what I feared and could easily kill my enjoyment of the film. We’ll see Friday.

I wonder what they mean by that. So The T- Rex is not like a monster?

 

[BatLobster]

For what it is worth interstellar was my 2nd favorite movie last year and it got 73 RT score and asm2 was my 3erd favorite movie last year and it only got a 53.

The thing is, sometimes when a movie is divisive like Interstellar for example, you have people that people that hate it, people that are mixed and then people that are absolutely raving. A RT score does not reflect all of that, it's just a number.

So far with JW, even the most positive reviews aren't full-on raves (at least not that I've seen so far). To me that tends to be a signal that a movie might very well be decent and enjoyable, but don't go in expecting to be blown away (it rarely pays off to go into a movie with that high of an expectation anyway).

 

[IncognitoWalrus]

So the one thing I am hearing that really disappoints me is that I. Rex isn’t so much a large dangerous animal but rather a monster. This is what I feared and could easily kill my enjoyment of the film. We’ll see Friday.

The film actually provides a good reason for why the I-rex is so psychopathic.

 

[spiderman2]

So far from reviews and from the trailers it sounds like the movie has killer action and I think Chris pat is going to be a character that you really like. Also I have only listened to part of the soundtrack want to see the movie first but it sounds like the soundtrack has some of the classic Jurassic park music but with some fresh music to mixed in there to make it different in a good way. So sounds like at least 1 good character and good soundtrack and good action so those 3 things sound great.

 

[IncognitoWalrus]

I wonder what they mean by that. So The T- Rex is not like a monster?

I-rex kills for sport like a hunter. T-rex kills for food. Big difference.

 

[spiderman2]

The thing is, sometimes when a movie is divisive like Interstellar for example, you have people that people that hate it, people that are mixed and then people that are absolutely raving. A RT score does not reflect all of that, it's just a number.

So far with JW, even the most positive reviews aren't full-on raves (at least not that I've seen so far). To me that tends to be a signal that a movie might very well be decent and enjoyable, but don't go in expecting to be blown away (it rarely pays off to go into a movie with that high of an expectation anyway).

Yeah I hear you and I don't have really high expectations to often in less it is a sequel to a great movie like say dark knight rises after dark knight. But I do have pretty high expectations for this movie though because of being 14 years form the last one and because from trailers this movie looks great and like a big improvement from the last 2. There are so many movies I don't agree with people on but if a movie still gets mixed/bad reviews it dose concern me some and also if I love a movie I want it to get great reviews so that way I fell like it is getting the respect it deserves.

 

[spiderman2]

I-rex kills for sport like a hunter. T-rex kills for food. Big difference.

Oh right like they say in the trailer. While it just depends on like how and why when it comes to why I will or will not like that. So I will have to just want and see.

 

[Grommers]

Interesting reviews so far - I think one of the "advantages" that jurassic park was, that it was clear dinosaurs were animals, not genetic manipulations, these were run of the mill animals, doing animal things. With famous lines like "the t-rex doesn't want too be fed, he wants to hunt", really solidifying that. JP2 wasn't horrendous, but it still touched on that, with JP3 more coming off as a monster film opposed too the animals being more like regular pets.

Sounds like JP:W has gone too a more monster ideaology, instead of making them really feel like animals? The I-Rex was my biggest fear, and the way the reviews etc sound, it just sounds like "ahh this thing is gonna kill us all".

 

[divan]

I frankly don't see how the I-Rex's behaviour is more unrealistic than, say, Bruce from the first Jaws. Even in other (good) Jurassic Park films, you could argue that some of the dinos behaved like animals, but others, like the Raptors in the first film (luring Muldoon into a trap the way they did isn't much more different from what the I-Rex did in the trailer), most certainly did not.

 

[spiderman2]

Interesting reviews so far - I think one of the "advantages" that jurassic park was, that it was clear dinosaurs were animals, not genetic manipulations, these were run of the mill animals, doing animal things. With famous lines like "the t-rex doesn't want too be fed, he wants to hunt", really solidifying that. JP2 wasn't horrendous, but it still touched on that, with JP3 more coming off as a monster film opposed too the animals being more like regular pets.

Sounds like JP:W has gone too a more monster ideaology, instead of making them really feel like animals? The I-Rex was my biggest fear, and the way the reviews etc sound, it just sounds like "ahh this thing is gonna kill us all".

So sounds like they needed more of a balance between animal and monster. With out going into spoilers do any reviews complain about the whole Raptor being trained thing? I know that was a hot topic leading up to this movie. I thought it was a cool good idea and I had no problem with it because people train dangerous animals in real life but that is no garenty that they will not turn on you. I mean they are still a wiled animal after all.

 

[spiderman2]

The movie is trying to get back to 70 now with 28 fresh and 13 rotten. If 7 0f the next 9 are fresh it will be at 70 after 50 reviews.

 

[Schlosser85]

A couple reviews have said the raptor thing is handled well in the movie and they're not actually that "domesticated".

 

[spiderman2]

A couple reviews have said the raptor thing is handled well in the movie and they're not actually that "domesticated".

t: Nice this movie is sounding quit Nice.

 

[jed]

Just got back from watching in cinema. It was great, especially the final act....

the battle between the 2 T-rexs, and the velocriraptor.....

 

[Broseph44]

Oh. My. God. I just watched the final battle of the film. it is pure awesome.

Spoilers so don't read if you really don't wanna know

Spoiler

Rexy is pinned down at one point the I-Rex about to finish her off. Then we hear Blue (one of the raptors) and TLW theme makes its way into the score at this point. From the score the track is called our Rex is bigger than yours. Then blue jumps on the irex attacking me it, Rexy gets back up and joins in. Both double teaming the Irex, and at one point it's really cool blue jumps over to Rexy back for a moment and then leaps back onto the Irex as they continue their attack.

Then the Rex knocks the Irex down into the perimeter fence of the mosasaur. It gets back up and then book the mosasaur grabs the Irex in its jaws and drags it down into the tank. All looked really awesome and well done and no it's not how some thought, where Rexy was planning to strategically push Irex towards the tank. It just so happens she knocked the Irex into the fencing around the tank. Which must've alerted the mosa.