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 cant 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 theyve already seen before. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the latest installment, has more dinosaurs, more screams, and more general chaos, but doesnt 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 cant 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 Spains 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 overthose flying, bat-winged carnivores with teeth like picket fences. When a volcano erupts, threatening to blow up the island and destroy whats left of
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I rooted for Chas over Jason Melon, and the movie was fantastic!
Bay and Jackson are going to collaborate on a new feature film.
They are finally going to bring exploding lens flare to the movies.
All the Jurassics have the same exact plot. You either like like them or you don’t. I enjoy them. The latest is more of the same. I hate Star Trek and Star wars. To each his own.
The last one was pretty good. The bad nanny was swallowed whole by a dinosaur fish, and in the end, the guy got the girl. Good popcorn movie.
So it served no purpose and didn't make sense, why was it there in the first place? Well in the middle of an action / adventure movie it's important to have a main character saying "Hello, I'm a Hispanic female so I'm an extra divers girl-power character. But before we meet I want to make sure the audience knows that I'm even more diverse than that. I'm lesbian too!" Virtue signal bonus points x 3.
Rex Reed? I can’t believe that old homo is still alive ...
I hate to admit it, but I really enjoyed the movie. I give it a 3 out of 4.
That said, I get why critics are bashing it so mercilessly. It has a great premise,decent characters, great special effects, intense atmosphere, suspense...
But it has some unbelievably stupid plot holes and dumb character decisions in the final act. They didn’t sink the movie for me, but would for other people.
It deserves points for ambition but not execution. Still loved it as a thoroughly entertaining if sloppy dinosaur adventure movie (though it had potential for greatness).
No. No! Don’t extinguish the Jurassic Part series yet.
Not until after we get one that’s 3D with T-Rexes swallowing the audiences, with drool coming down from the theater ceilings. (Yeah, the drool part won’t make it to the TV screens, but still...)
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Rex Reed was in the greatest movie ever made: “Myra Breckinridge.”
I frequently ask God to restore to me those years I lost.
Rex Reed is still alive?
Jurassic “World” is a stupid Globalist world concept.
The movies are great, keep them coming.
But fans need overlook the fact that Globalism IS A LOSER.
The writers must not have gotten the memo.
Hollywood has really stupid people at the top. People hate globalism.
Based on what is coming out of Hollywood, this movie was not that bad. Try to get beyond the ignorance of script writers (that you can outrun a pyroclastic flow or that water would protect from 5,000 degree lava bombs, that white men are bad, and corporate greed causes bad things to happen) and allow yourself to be entertained. The movie did raise an issue about the ethics of cloning that is timely and will need to be dealt with in the real world.
Replace the franchise with more Sharknado flicks.....
That's what I thought. He'll be 80 in October. I thought he would be a lot older.
Rex Reed is still alive?
Hollywood is dead. They couldn’t make a good movie if their transvestite lover’s life depended on it.
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