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06-21-2015, 03:30 PM | #31 |
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I honestly liked it. But I'm pretty easy to please. I thought JP 2 and 3 weren't that bad either. I'm not a student of film or a film critic or an intellectual. I just watch movies to be entertained and to escape from reality. It was fun to watch, and I'll watch it again when it comes out on DVD.
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06-23-2015, 02:42 AM | #32 |
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I enjoyed it more than any of the other Jurassic Parks. The first one was the only other good one but suffered from having a bloated sense of its identity and purpose. It thought it was making some kind of grand philosophical statement half the time, and it thought we cared way more about its characters than we did. Screenwriter David Koepp kicked off a long and inauspicious career with that one that recently hit its nadir with the bomb Mortdecai.
Jurassic World understood it was nothing more than a pulp fiction monster movie and didn't have pretensions about being anything more than that. It made the characters simple, obvious and relatable and even gave them great pulpy names like Owen Grady and Lowery Cruthers. It didn't waste time on much of anything else but setting up the next action and chase scene. It added enough new twists, like the dino superpowers and the trained raptors, to give the audience something new and unpredictable. There were some shortcomings, like jungle backdrops that looked like they were budgeted for a movie they didn't expect to be nearly as profitable as this one, but this was overall a much more skillfully constructed thrill machine than the previous sequels and recent dreck like San Andreas. There's nothing more annoying than someone who interprets a movie based on how well it reinforces some narrow-minded parochial philosophy be it religious, secular, political, feminist, etc. The idea that the movie was making any statements about women's rights is ludicrous. Extrapolating what happens to one female character as if it's supposed to apply to the entire gender is always a stretch. If there was anything wrong with Howard's character it's that she didn't get her head bitten off for being the main cause of most of the chaos in the first place. When you find yourself having a criticism of a movie based solely on the gender of the character, because the criticism wouldn't exist if that character's gender was simply switched, then you're the one who has a sexist attitude towards life. As for the having babies part, if all women had careers and no women had babies, the human race would be as extinct as the dinosaurs in about 100 years. So having babies is by definition a more valuable and worthwhile pursuit than having a career. Last edited by JediJones; 06-23-2015 at 02:47 AM.. |
06-28-2015, 11:19 AM | #33 |
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I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed this movie. It's the only movie so far this summer that I actually want to go see again. I can't wait for the blu ray so I can watch it a bunch of times.
The thing that I was most worried about was the trained raptors, but they handled that pretty well by not going overboard with it. The product placement was not an issue. It was just logical. And it was written in the script, not sold afterwards like in most movies. The absolute worst being when you see the Avengers having to walk around a friggin' Audi parked right in the middle of the screen. The only thing that I didn't like was the kids. I wish we could just get one movie without any damn kids in it. The older kid was meant to be a prick, I get that. And they are living in a world that's had dinosaurs in it for over 20 years now. They're as impressed by them as we were in the 80's with NASA. But then the younger kid seemed to be almost autistic at times, then perfectly fine at others. He could have used a bit better characterization. And a name. Really, who names their kid "Gray"? The Hawaii locations looked great in the film. It was nice to see the movie back in a proper tropical setting, instead of how they filmed The Lost World in California. It ruined the look of that movie. Overall it was a great nostalgic revisit of the park. I can't picture how they can make any sequels to it though, without it being just about animals that have gotten off the island somehow. On that note, I'm still hoping for an eventual remake of the original Michael Crichton novel, just so that we can get a darker movie, focusing more on the breeding and escape of the dinos off the island, rather than just the sabotage that happened on one night. |
06-28-2015, 03:23 PM | #34 |
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I highly enjoyed this film. I do not see how having actual restaurants and products in a movie can cause people distress. It adds a sense of realism, as a small child, I was always thrown off by the generic products in tv shows. I was elated when I saw movies that had REAL pop cans I recognized, or actual cereal brands. So fast forward to adulthood and seeing a sign for Margaritaville in a movie does not in anyway bother me, it only adds to the experience.
The acting was great for this type of film, and the effects were impressive. There were a few scenes where the CGI was not perfect but that is expected IMO. I honestly want to see it again ASAP. Being an animal lover though, watching the Dino's die was no fun lol. I hope the sequels come sooner rather than later. The one issue that hurts this movie is the toy licensing. Hasbro really missed the boat by not making the human characters as figures. When the first 2 movies were released the toys were awesome and very popular. But the current toy selection is not so hot. Hopefully it expands a little before being taken off the shelves. Long live dinosaur movies! |
06-28-2015, 07:08 PM | #35 |
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Yeah, I also find myself wanting to see it again and planning to rewatch it a lot on home video. I've only ever seen every other Jurassic Park film once and wasn't a fan of the series by any means. But this movie finally got it right. It kept the pace moving and got through the set-up of the story really efficiently so it could get to the action early and often. It succeeds at being a "bruised-arm" roller coaster ride of a movie. Unlike Mad Max, it's a pleasant-looking movie, so it wouldn't be hard to watch again. It's nowhere near as complex and envelope-pushing as a great action picture like King Kong (2005) but like so many of the movies Spielberg produced in the '80s, it's fast-paced, looks sharp and slick, has simple, relatable characters of average intelligence, and doesn't require you to think too hard, which makes it easy to watch again.
I'm probably going to go tomorrow to see it in IMAX for the last evening showing. It leaves IMAX Tuesday evening when T5 starts. I only saw it in Cinemark XD the first time, which is supposed to be their version of IMAX. It wasn't quite as good as the big IMAX theater nearby though. I definitely would've liked Hasbro to make that rolling ball vehicle in 4" scale. I took a look at the toys but they're just very disappointing. The raptor Blue doesn't even have neck or jaw articulation. Last edited by JediJones; 06-28-2015 at 07:14 PM.. |
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