Spoilers Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - Review and Discussion
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The Indoraptor also has domesticated cat DNA so it'll chase around laser pointers. It sleeps 16 hours a day and decides that 3:00 AM when you're trying to sleep is the perfect time to run back and forth around the house knocking things over and scratching at your door. It loves belly rubs, until it suddenly doesn't for no apparent reason and goes full bear trap on you with its fore and hind claws tearing apart the arm that was just petting it. Its cage is whatever Amazon box just arrived in the mail, regardless of whether its body will fit inside or not; life finds a way.
Also 2 am is when it starts making that hacking noise
Dammit. I hate plotholes.
We are very likely to get Jurassic World 3 as this one is showing some legs at the box office.
It could still squeak out $400m domestic but if not it doesn't matter as it's global total is now already $1 billion +
More dinos are coming for 2020/2021 count on that.
It could still squeak out $400m domestic but if not it doesn't matter as it's global total is now already $1 billion +
More dinos are coming for 2020/2021 count on that.
Ummm.... Yes, count on it. Jurassic World 3 was announced a month or so before Jurassic World 2 was released anywhere. It comes out in June 2021. Even JW2 sucked as much as it did it's the second biggest movie for Universal Studios behind.... Jurassic World 1.
Even when the next one ends with Dr. Wu stealing a suitcase of dino DNA like he did in the last two movies it will still make a billion dollars.
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Love Chris Pratt and Bryce D. Howard. Other than that, this movie resembles the one where the heroes escape by the skin of their teeth, witness the dinosaurs savagely battling each other, and the villain gets gruesomely eaten by the T-Rex.
The plotline of these movies has finally evolved to the idiotic- where the decisions by everyone at almost every turn are so galactically stupid that you can't suspend belief any longer- even while watching a movie about resurrected dinosaurs.
IMHO, they would have been well advised to stop a while back. However, if it makes money...
Love Chris Pratt and Bryce D. Howard. Other than that, this movie resembles the one where the heroes escape by the skin of their teeth, witness the dinosaurs savagely battling each other, and the villain gets gruesomely eaten by the T-Rex.
The plotline of these movies has finally evolved to the idiotic- where the decisions by everyone at almost every turn are so galactically stupid that you can't suspend belief any longer- even while watching a movie about resurrected dinosaurs.
IMHO, they would have been well advised to stop a while back. However, if it makes money...
See, people paying those respectable prices for domestic and import dinosaurs makes total sense, not like that bargain basement auction. And I'm glad we'll be seeing the 2020 and 2021 models soon.
I hope the 2021 military hybrid model has stegosaurus plates on a theropod body. Maybe ceratopsian horns on the head too. Put some style back into it.
I enjoyed ID4 2, and I am a little disappointed we don't appear to be getting a followup on the stuff it set up.
Just saw JW: Fallen Kingdom a couple hours ago, and I enjoyed it. It wasn't amazing, but still pretty fun. The cast was definitely the best part, of course Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard were good again, and I'm big fan of Danielle Pineda, Ted Levine, and James Cromwell, so I got a big kick out of seeing all of them pop up.
The human villains were pretty good, and the Indoraptor was cool.
The story was pretty good, the whole selling the dinos element felt like a logical progression from what we've seen in the past, and felt like the kind of thing people would do in this situation. Maisie being a clone was the biggest surprise of the movie. The ending definitely sets up some very interesting possibilities for the last JW movie.
I give it an A-.
Presumably that will be dealt with by Jason Statham in the trailer for that other movie that I saw before this.
Best part of Alien Resurrection, BTW!
And, I look forward to seeing Maisie's secret dino-powers activate when the next movie hits in three years' time.
At this point, the franchise just needs to embrace that level of preposterous stupidity!
Also, if you combine lava with salt water, you get poisonous chlorine gas, so they should all be dead.
Absolutely agreed!
Presumably that will be dealt with by Jason Statham in the trailer for that other movie that I saw before this.
I'm looking forward to that movie more than any reasonable person should.
I have it a "B" which was probably generous.
Was it fun with some entertaining action and jump scares? Yes. Absolutely.
Was it a good movie? No. Not by a long shot.
Chris Pratt's character was dull and generic compared to the last film (which I thought was great) and most of the dialogue just seemed uninspired. Story was typical "bad guys want to weaponize the beasts" fare we've seen 100 zillion times already. It also had the standard geeky millennial scientist stereotype characters as sidekicks, and they were horrible and annoying.
I thought the previous film was much better. Not that this was all bad, because it wasn't...but definitely not a re-watch for me.
Was it fun with some entertaining action and jump scares? Yes. Absolutely.
Was it a good movie? No. Not by a long shot.
Chris Pratt's character was dull and generic compared to the last film (which I thought was great) and most of the dialogue just seemed uninspired. Story was typical "bad guys want to weaponize the beasts" fare we've seen 100 zillion times already. It also had the standard geeky millennial scientist stereotype characters as sidekicks, and they were horrible and annoying.
I thought the previous film was much better. Not that this was all bad, because it wasn't...but definitely not a re-watch for me.
How does the T-Rex like her meat? Roar!
I agree with the rest of your post, but can't agree with this. The paleo-vet Zia was the MVP of the movie. She was calm, competent, talked down the mercenaries, and saved Blue with minimal resources and despite never actually treating a dinosaur before. She was awesome and completely the opposite of the bumbling or annoying peripheral characters we usually get.
The IT guy Justice was a little more of what you're describing, in that he was constantly screaming, but in his defense, he was on an exploding volcanic island being chased by lava and dinosaurs and nearly drowning. But he was completely competent at his actual job.
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Yeah, it was definitely the IT guy who stands out more.
Yeah, spunky/snarky Paleo-Vet Millennial girl I liked, she was fine. Millennial Antsy Tech guy was annoying. Even the movie forgot about him for a bit.
But of course he's jumpy. Of course he has a girly scream. Of course he's concerned about allergies and stuff so he's generous with the lotions/pest oils or whatever. "Is it the T-Rex?!" God. Shut. UP!
Yeah but that lead to a great line by Clair, "Hey at least it's not the T-Rex."
Given that Millennial Antsy Tech Guy really didn't want to go there in the first place, I thought they did a terrible job of establishing why he ever agreed to go there in the first place.
Just, overall, I thought this was the dumbest movie in the series by far, and not in a dumb-fun sort of way either. Every other movie, the reason for going to the island makes sense.
But everyone in Fallen Kingdom just looks stupid for failing to learn the lessons from The Lost World. And the notion of using dinosaurs as weapons seems really stupid. We've been training lions & tigers for years but we don't send them out to fight wars.
(I have this same problem with the eeeevillll plans to weaponize the Xenomorphs in the Alien franchise but Weyland-Yutani is so over-the-top in those movies that they're practically cartoons.) Also, evil corporate guy in this movie loses points for not being played by Ben Mendelsohn. 
I thought it was interesting how philosophical Ian Malcolm was about the dinosaurs this time around. It's a change from his more practical "We should stay far away from all of this so we don't get eaten" mentality from The Lost World.
I didn't completely dislike the movie. Chris Pratt & Bryce Dallas Howard brought a lot of charisma and show why they're movie stars. Pratt in particular has really impressed me in the last 4 years, going from the dumb fat schlubby guy from Parks & Recreation to now being one of the best leading men in Hollywood.
I predicted the twist of the girl being a clone after about her 2nd scene, so it was a long wait for that pay-off and it didn't really seem to go anywhere. It's an interesting idea but I don't think they really knew what to do with it.
Also, being James Cromwell's daughter tends to be a raw deal in movies (almost as bad as being Olivia Williams' husband in movies).
Furthermore, we've got another example of James Cromwell inventing or creating something and it goes horribly wrong!
Normally I wouldn't care about a movie like The Meg one way or another. But I love Jason Statham. He's practically a sub-genre unto himself. You could put him in a Jane Austen adaptation and it would still come across like a badass action movie. (He even made London tolerable, and GOOD GOD was that a stupid movie.)
Just, overall, I thought this was the dumbest movie in the series by far, and not in a dumb-fun sort of way either. Every other movie, the reason for going to the island makes sense.
- It was the first time, so they didn't realize how horribly wrong things would go.
- They thought they'd learned their lessons from the first time.
- A shady outfit in Costa Rica was giving parasailing tours of the infamous dinosaur island. This makes sense given that it's a shady outfit in Costa Rica where all you need is a motorboat and a bunch of gullible tourists.
- 14 years later, they figured they'd finally fixed all the bugs and put in a bunch more infrastructure, making it finally a functioning park.
But everyone in Fallen Kingdom just looks stupid for failing to learn the lessons from The Lost World. And the notion of using dinosaurs as weapons seems really stupid. We've been training lions & tigers for years but we don't send them out to fight wars.
(I have this same problem with the eeeevillll plans to weaponize the Xenomorphs in the Alien franchise but Weyland-Yutani is so over-the-top in those movies that they're practically cartoons.) Also, evil corporate guy in this movie loses points for not being played by Ben Mendelsohn. I thought it was interesting how philosophical Ian Malcolm was about the dinosaurs this time around. It's a change from his more practical "We should stay far away from all of this so we don't get eaten" mentality from The Lost World.
I didn't completely dislike the movie. Chris Pratt & Bryce Dallas Howard brought a lot of charisma and show why they're movie stars. Pratt in particular has really impressed me in the last 4 years, going from the dumb fat schlubby guy from Parks & Recreation to now being one of the best leading men in Hollywood.
I predicted the twist of the girl being a clone after about her 2nd scene, so it was a long wait for that pay-off and it didn't really seem to go anywhere. It's an interesting idea but I don't think they really knew what to do with it.
Also, being James Cromwell's daughter tends to be a raw deal in movies (almost as bad as being Olivia Williams' husband in movies).
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom-- Died in a car crash.
- Big Hero 6-- Missing, presumed dead for most of the film.
- The General's Daughter-- Raped & murdered.
- Spider-Man 3-- Survived but is a character who is most famous in the comics for dying. (Also played by Bryce Dallas Howard!)
Furthermore, we've got another example of James Cromwell inventing or creating something and it goes horribly wrong!
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom-- Helped John Hammond clone dinosaurs, who inevitably escape & eat people.
- Big Hero 6-- Built tiny robots as part of an elaborate revenge scheme.
- I, Robot-- Created sentient androids who tried to enslave humanity to save it from itself.
- Surrogates-- Created android avatars for people, causing all of society to become a bunch of smelly shut-ins living their lives through their Surrogates.
Normally I wouldn't care about a movie like The Meg one way or another. But I love Jason Statham. He's practically a sub-genre unto himself. You could put him in a Jane Austen adaptation and it would still come across like a badass action movie. (He even made London tolerable, and GOOD GOD was that a stupid movie.)