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Spoilers Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - Review and Discussion

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I'm a big fan of The Lost World. Funnily enough when I saw it on video as a kid I found it rather dull preferring JPIII but when I re-watched it before seeing the first JW film I really enjoyed it. I haven't rewatched JPIII since it came out on home media so I imagine as an adult it may not be as good as I remember.
 
Locutus of Bored said:
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Yeah, for all The Lost World's many faults, I think it still retained the fun and the wonder of the original to a large enough extent to still be enjoyable, while this one did not, IMO.
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Yeah, the T-Rex scene in TLW is solid and good. Not as "legendary" as the first movie's Rex scene, but it's certainly well done with some good beats in it where, again, it's a little "easy" to ignore the sillier stuff in it. (LIke how they all remain perfectly in the "center" of the RVs falling off the cliff instead of rubbing against the floor or banging into stuff on the sides and making it out the front intact. Really... When you think about it that's just very damn silly, But there's good moments in that sequence and we get to see the new Mercedes SUV show off!

The raptor stuff is good, I just think the movie sort of falls on its face during the San Diego stuff.

I'll probably give the third one a watch today. That's one I found more-or-less enjoyable but I like William H. Macy, Tea Leoni and Sam Neil.
 
Lost World and JPIII both have cringe moments for me but taken as a whole I enjoy them.
LW it's the trope of Dinos running around with the Asians prominent in the foreground.
JPIII it's a 13yr old defending herself against Raptors using gymnastic moves.
 
Locutus of Bored said:
an antagonist dinosaur that pales in comparison to what's come before
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It may have been a mix of fewer species than the Indominus - I was kinda fuzzy on that point - but I found the Indoraptor a genuinely vicious and compelling antagonist, partly due to its more human size, and partly due to its sleeker and darker appearance. It was just plain nasty, and much more hiss-worthy than the Indominus and the awful Spinosaurus. Once one of these creatures reaches a certain size, they become more forces of nature than malevolent individuals - and the Indoraptor was malevolent AF.
 
Ethros said:
The ending was kinda odd..

I just don't buy the "the dinosaurs are loose now and we're just gonna have to get use to living with them! Maybe we'll be the ones to go extinct now!" thing.

First of all, is it still the case that all the dinosaurs are female? I know in JP1 some were breeding somehow but I can't see that being the case for all. But mainly there weren't even that many of them anyway. And don't they all have trackers? Even if not it's really not gonna be hard to track down a huge frickin T-Rex or a Triceratops or whatever. Yeah they're big but a Swat team or whoever could easily take them down. Plus doesn't everyone in America have guns, so all the local red neck hunters would be well up for capturing/killing one, and you could make a fortune on the black market.
Also I don't think the general public are gonna be happy with T-Rex's and Raptors just strolling about the place. So I just don't think the ending was that much of a big deal, they'd all be dealt with very quickly.
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Indeed, that was sssoooo stupid.
 
Gaith said:
Once one of these creatures reaches a certain size, they become more forces of nature than malevolent individuals - and the Indoraptor was malevolent AF.
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Agreed. Being killed instantly by the I. Rex is not as scary as being chewed apart by the Indoraptor.

One area I was very disappointed by in this movie was its waste of James Cromwell, Ted Levine, and Toby Jones. Levine and Jones in particular played very uninteresting characters that could have been removed without affecting the plot.
 
Trekker4747 said:
I'll probably give the third one a watch today. That's one I found more-or-less enjoyable but I like William H. Macy, Tea Leoni and Sam Neil.
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Locutus of Bored said:
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Yeah, I gave it a watch. And, really, the cast is the only thing "good" about this movie. I love me some Tea Leoni so I don't find her as annoying as others did in this movie, William H. Macy and Sam Neil are always good and even some of the smaller characters are decent just because of their actor. (Namely the guy who was able to rig his flashlight batteries to power the camcorder, can't think of his name. Not bothering to look it up, but he's one of "those guys" you see all of the time you just enjoy watching.)

The movie is mercifully short, which I think is what helps it not be "that bad," If this thing was half an hour longer I think it'd be a lot more painful. There is a good degree of stupid in it.

And shame on this movie for killing the T-Rex. Yeah, it was likely a juvenile and, arguably, a Spinosaurus could defeat a T-Rex (the Spino has the benefit of having useful arms) but this is a movie series where T-Rex is king, you can't have him go down like a bitch like that!

I dunno. It's a Meh movie. Neither sequel lives up to the original and, as I said when it first came out, the "best sequel" is Jurassic Wold. It's not saying much, but it's a good sequel.
 
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I was rewatching Independence Day and let's be honest, the cities would be much darker if a huge thing blocked the sun like that. The fire ball would have destroyed Air Force One. You don't care, 22 years later it's still an awesome summer movie. Probably the best summer movie ever made. I rewatch it 1-3 times a year.

Fallen Kingdom:just kind of just there and the dinosaurs are cute. I'll forget about it by Christmas. Is Godzilla 2 out yet?

The movie could have used Nick Robinson, at least he was cute in JW. :lol:
 
I watched ID4 last night too. It's just a good, fun, awesome summer movie. And, yeah, you ignore and forgive all of the silly stuff in it because of how good it is. The sequel, however...
 
Sophie74656 said:
Am i the only one who enjoyed the 2nd independance day? It wasn't amazing but a fun movie
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It had things I enjoyed, like seeing Dr. Okun again and his relationship with his partner, and having Goldblum and Pullman and the other old cast back. And while I find the whole concept of the giant alien queen kinda dumb, there was a visceral sense of "oh fucktitude!" when she sees the bus and she looks at them all like "YOU!" and starts chasing after them.

But I think it criminally underutilized Sela Ward as the new president to give Pullman another rousing speech that doesn't really cut it, but it's a tough act to follow. Vivica Fox was wasted. And the alien destruction of the cities feels almost like an afterthought to the story of the heroes rather than a central focus in addition to them. Tens or even hundreds of millions of people are dying (billions if you go by the peripheral materials about the first invasion, but that never made sense) and it's just sort of glossed over.

So it has elements I liked and would have preferred to be in a better movie, but it pales in comparison to the original, which is one of the defining films of the big brash dumb fun summer blockbuster.
 
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