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JURASSIC WORLD Review
http://collider.com/jurassic-world-review/

Reading a lot of 'meh'

I do like this...

There’s really only one character in the entire film that manages to strike a chord on a deeper level—Blue, one of Owen’s raptors. Blue doesn’t get a stitch of dialogue (obviously), but the dino manages to convey more heart and conviction through a physical performance than any of her super-famous human co-stars. Trevorrow puts the Mosasaurus to good use and the Indominus Rex definitely makes for one heck of a villain, but none manage to transcend the fact that they’re CG dinosaurs. There’s definitely some impressive VFX in the film, but dinosaurs in Jurassic Park had a texture to them that seems impossible to replicate even with the best digital effects. When Grant, Ellie, and the rest of the gang touch that sick triceratops in the original film, you share that incredible opportunity with them. Jurassic World can’t replicate that feeling.
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Maybe...the tide is turning. With Rick Baker just tossing it in, Mad Max Fury Road, and the emphasis on practical in the new Star Wars(along with the massive outpouring of love that ensued) and now little things like this...we may very slowly see a compromise. That's the hope anyway. PRACTICAL FX Hollywood. People want em, give the people what they want. CGI is a tool. Not the whole damned toolbox.

*steps offa soapbox*
 
jerseydevil said:
JURASSIC WORLD Review
http://collider.com/jurassic-world-review/

Reading a lot of 'meh'

I do like this...



Maybe...the tide is turning. With Rick Baker just tossing it in, Mad Max Fury Road, and the emphasis on practical in the new Star Wars(along with the massive outpouring of love that ensued) and now little things like this...we may very slowly see a compromise. That's the hope anyway. PRACTICAL FX Hollywood. People want em, give the people what they want. CGI is a tool. Not the whole damned toolbox.

*steps offa soapbox*
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Just saw Jurassic World after my friend who badly wants me to love the film (and the other JP sequels) dragged me to theater after I bailed on him Thursday night. I will admit it wasn't as bad as the trailers made the film seem, but yeah it was okay. I'll probably will have completely forgotten about JW by next week.

I think that 200 million JW made should go to Mad Max instead, but for some reason a lot of people badly want to put the Jurassic Park series on the same level of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, LOTR, Harry Potter, etc. To say Jurassic World is the best sequel since Jurassic Park is like saying Revenge of the Sith is the best Star Wars movie since the original trilogy.
 
I saw Jurassic World on Friday (as part of a wedding reception, of all places) and thought it was terrible. Even worse than I expected.

As soon as the first trailer came out and I saw Chris Pratt in the same spot as the Raptors and not being torn apart immediately, I knew it wasn't going to be "good", but I was at least hoping for a fun movie that was aware of it's own ridiculousness. There was none of that, though. This was straight up, serious action movie stuff.

The characters were all cardboard cut-outs, including Chris Pratt who, by some miracle of film-making managed to not display any of the charisma and charm that he exudes naturally by simply existing in a space. He had maybe one funny line, but the film had little/no humor in it, either.

I don't blame any of the actors. They all did the best they could and you could SEE D'Onofrio TRYING to make something out of it, but no. Nope. Nuh-uh.

There was bad CGI in a number of places. The sign on the park doors that everyone was in an uproar about being ****ty CGI in the first trailer was STILL ****ty CGI.

And, man, not to harp on it, but the whole co-existing with raptors thing really annoys me. Just coincidentally, the original film was on cable this weekend and we watched part of it. That part included the scene after Sam Neill and all arrive at the park and witness the egg hatching. And Sam Neill holds the baby dinosaur and asks "what breed is this?" and the guy says "Velociraptor" and the sheer terror on Neill's face as he replies "You bred raptors?" puts the whole goddamn thing in Jurassic World to shame. Not to mention the ENTIRE REST OF THE MOVIE where the raptors are NOT TO BE ****ED OR CO-EXISTED WITH.

This new film went way out of it's way to reference the original film. WAY out. I assume because they wanted to make sure people only thought of the original and not the sequels. And every single goddamn one of the callbacks was lame and unnecessary with the exception of Benedict Wong returning to play the head geneticist. That's it. Instead of distancing themselves from The Lost World and JP3, despite trying so goddamn hard, this one falls right in line with them.

****ing terrible movie.

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adgy-san said:
I saw Jurassic World on Friday (as part of a wedding reception, of all places) and thought it was terrible. Even worse than I expected.
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Even though I thought Jurassic World was a okay blockbuster film, I tend to lean more on the side of the haters than the lovers of Jurassic World. I guess now that JW is going to be it's own franchise I guess I could say this film reminds me a bit of the first Transformers movie. As a kid I never cared for Transformers, so when the first movie came out and all the fanboys raved about it I felt alone in the camp of "that movie was kind of s****y." What I was seeing in that first Transformers film was the blimps of a tumor that would end up being a cancerous franchise upon film. Jurassic World very much has the same seeds of crap that first Transformers movie had. It's not offensive enough to get me all riled up against JW the film, but I can only see this franchise going down hill from here, and JW is hardly a plateau film a franchise should be based around.
 
KingsFan1985 said:
Even though I thought Jurassic World was a okay blockbuster film, I tend to lean more on the side of the haters than the lovers of Jurassic World. I guess now that JW is going to be it's own franchise I guess I could say this film reminds me a bit of the first Transformers movie. As a kid I never cared for Transformers, so when the first movie came out and all the fanboys raved about it I felt alone in the camp of "that movie was kind of s****y." What I was seeing in that first Transformers film was the blimps of a tumor that would end up being a cancerous franchise upon film. Jurassic World very much has the same seeds of crap that first Transformers movie had. It's not offensive enough to get me all riled up against JW the film, but I can only see this franchise going down hill from here, and JW is hardly a plateau film a franchise should be based around.
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I certainly can't hold it against anyone who enjoyed Jurassic World. It's getting a lot of positive reviews and many people who I like and whose opinions I generally respect seemed to have enjoyed the movie to some degree. Lord knows I've enjoyed/defended plenty of ****ty blockbuster movies in my time. I mean, the last Tron movie was really kind of ****ty, but I enjoyed it, anyway. The dialogue in Pacific Rim is cringe-worthy sometimes, but I STILL drop the remote any time I see it playing. I would argue that those two films were much better on a technical level than JW, but whatever. I'm not going to assume everyone who liked JW is an idiot.

But, man, the more I think about Jurassic World, the more I hate it.

Last night even, 4 days after having seen it, I was thinking about it in the shower and getting mad at the complete lack of any kind of character arc for ANYONE in the whole movie. Bryce Dallas Howard is portrayed as a career-woman who cares more about her job than her family, her sister is crying on the phone with BDH because she isn't spending time with the kids and at NO POINT during the movie do we really see that change. Yeah, she takes off her jacket and says "I'm ready" to go save them in the park and she drives the truck while the Raptors are running after them and all that, but there's still never that moment where you see her realize the error of her ways.

In the original movie, Sam Neill's character hates kids, thinks they smell, etc. And you can actually see him soften and change during the time he is forced to spend with them. There is a definite change in him from the start to the end. He has that scene where he's in the tree with the kids and they feed the Brachiosaurus and they fall asleep on him and you can SEE him change. He has that moment.

There's nothing like that for anyone in Jurassic World.

And I was thinking about this in the shower last night. I don't know why it gets to me so much. I don't think it bothers me that much that it made so much money or has a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. That **** happens all the time for bad blockbusters. So... I don't know. Maybe it's the raptor thing.
 
jerseydevil said:
The Stunt Doubles That Played Mad Max And Furiosa Ended Up Getting Married
http://uproxx.com/movies/2015/06/the-stunt-doubles-that-played-mad-max-and-furiosa-got-married/
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Finally watched JW today. Enjoyed it for what it was, but maybe that's because it was in IMAX 3D.

Surely it has one of the worst, most cruel/undeserved, dragged-out, human deaths in Movie History, right?

Oh, and Bryce Dallas Howard looks nothing like Jessica Chastain. LOL. But she made it through miles of jungle still in her heels.
 
My better half and kids took me to see JW as well for Father's Day. We all enjoyed but get what you are saying on the death scene - wow! After reading everyone's critique here I was very worried but I liked it. Chaos theory at its' finest!
 
My Jurassic World review: very, very "meh". Terrible dialog between the 2 stars, the older boy should have been portrayed as more rebellious/disinterested in the beginning so the brother relationship could have been more poignant, the whole 2nd half of the movie was just stupid, and the "main" dinosaur's head kept changing size throughout the whole movie (and her whole body size, really).

The scariest part of the movie was the picture of the raptor on the wall in the "old park" set. And the complete misuse of John Williams' themes at inappropriate times drove me nuts. The new music was fine, but completely not memorable.

Not a complete waste of film, but totally predictable....I went in with no expectations, so it was actually a bit better than I thought it would be. Better than "Jurassic Park 3".....worst movie of all time, so not saying much.

Oh, and how does Aunt Claire's hair stay so perfect? Until that one part where it is slightly disheveled looking, only to look perfect again in the next scene?
 
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so, isn't the guy on the left the doctor from area 51 that got killed telepathically by the aliens?

it took me almost an hour to find bill pullman
 
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