Posted on 06/23/2018 5:34:37 PM PDT by simpson96
Most sequels, prequels and remakes have some vague reason for justifying their existence. Not the Jurassic Park-Jurassic World franchise. They just keep on coming for no other purpose than to cash in on a proven formula marketed for undemanding audiences who just can’t get enough of T-Rexes and flying pterodactyls, and are always willing to plunk down more hard-earned money to scream their way through another excess of what they’ve already seen before. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the latest installment, has more dinosaurs, more screams, and more general chaos, but doesn’t make a single move to explore a fresh idea or add a new slant on a tired old formula. As brainless summer-escapism movies go, this one can’t go fast enough.
Steven Spielberg started all this, and no prehistoric dinosaur rip-off since he threw in the towel has delivered the same excitement or imagination. Still, they keep turning them out faster than a gerbil procreates.
Amazingly, the last Jurassic World chapter from 2015 reportedly grossed more than a billion dollars. This one, directed by Spain’s overrated J. A. Bayona (A Monster Calls), takes place three years after Isla Nublar, the theme park 120 miles east of Costa Rica overrun by howling creatures with bad breath, closed for good and millions were spent settling lawsuits filed by the survivors.
Nut cases are now debating animal-rights issues for flesh-eating creatures which, they insist, deserve the same kind of protection as the deer that carry Lyme disease. Miraculously, the deserted island comes to life again, unleashing hordes of hungry new predators eager to feast on children, studly heroes, sexy girls, and careless French poodles.
This time, the raptors take over—those flying, bat-winged carnivores with teeth like picket fences. When a volcano erupts, threatening to blow up the island and destroy what’s left of
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Andstupid comic book movies.
Same with Star Wars and previously Star Trek. Enough alreddy!
I’ve seen enough oversized velociraptors already.
Chris Pratt is in it. He’s a relatively good guy.
“Most sequels, prequels and remakes have some vague reason for justifying their existence. Not the Jurassic Park-Jurassic World franchise. They just keep on coming for no other purpose than to cash in on a proven formula marketed for undemanding audiences who just can’t get enough of T-Rexes and flying pterodactyls, and are always willing to plunk down more hard-earned money...”
Because they make money. They make money because a lot of people enjoy them.
Whiny artsy dude should just...
Don’t like it, don’t watch it. Same as all the other movies.
Chris Pratt is a devout Christian. One of the few in that rotten town.
I really loved the first one, hated the sequel and never saw another one.
The last Jurassick Park movie I saw in its entirety was the 2nd one. And don’t think I’ve watched the original all the way through in a couple of decades.
Absolutely stupidest movie of the summer, and that’s saying a lot. I took my nephews to see it, being ignorant of all the PC, cliche crap that fills it from start to finish. Diverse good guys/gals vs evil militaristic white villains, one of whom snarls at one point, “what a nasty woman!”. Rule of thumb, if you’re rooting for the villain, it’s a bad movie!
Chris Pratt, there’s no ‘relatively’ about it. He’s a straight up good guy.
But the movie sucks in script and plot. Great special effects, sharp 3D, but disjoint action, roller coaster of one nauseating climax to another.
I couldn’t wait to get out of the theatre.
But my kid and his friend loved it, so I smiled and went along.
Afterward, spent a small fortune on Johnny Rockets. That made it all worth it.
I’m about the same. The first one was fun. The rest were just meh.
But, lots of people like them. Otherwise, they wouldn’t make boatloads of cash for their producers.
Whiny dude was just whiny. Probably because the movie doesn’t ask the “hard questions” or some leftard artsy fartsy crap?
You know how they are.
Too predictable to get another nickle from me.
STOP MAKING FULL SIZED DINOSAURS WITH FULL SIZED FANGS AND FULL SIZED RAZOR CLAWS YOU DUMMIES!
Rex Reed is an aging queen. Who cares about his opinion. On the other hand, by the time you get to a 3rd or 4th sequel, the movies usually stink.
Chris: “God is Real”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjT7laZUpY&feature=share
He certainly slapped a few libs with this acceptance speech.
They’ll keep making more sequels if people keep buying tickets (especially overseas).
From what I’ve seen the special effects are spectacular and the awareness of what volcanoes do is spectacularly stupid. Ditto about the logical ramifications of being around lava and other ejecta.
Lava is HOT. Pyroclastic flows are pretty darn close to being hit with superheated shrapnel.
If lava is, for example, flowing into an enclosed space in any but small quantity the critters in that space aren’t running around trying to eat fleeing humans ... they may be in the beginning stages of being cooked alive! Even before then they’ll be trying to escape rather than eat and probably follow humans into what may feel like an open oven.
It’s cringe worthy thermodynamics on display.
Hollywierd: technical competence and appaling storycraft ... like managing to spill your soda onto a pile of napkins ... efficient but still a spilled drink.
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