jurassic park

I agree they should make an impact! They just shouldn't make a schmaltzy impact. Have you seen the film Vice Versa? In the film Vice Versa, Judge Reinhold plays a father who switches bodies with his son, who is portrayed by Fred Savage. Mr. Reinhold was apparently operating under the misapprehension that Fred Savage was a six-year-old who had just been hatched from an egg and was only now witnessing the wonders of the world for the first time ever because after the body switchery occurs he incessantly gawps at every damn thing that transpires. WHOA WOW WHAT AWWW WHEEE. It is a quality of awe disproportionate to the situation he's found himself in. What I'm saying is that, yes, the dinosaurs should be a Big Deal but I'm glad the characters who witness them don't immediately start doing cartwheels and shouting 'bangarang!'

well, sure!

i think they can have a wondrous sublime impact (without being schmaltzy) and then also a terrifying sublime impact. imo lost world loses both, they just seem like disposable monsters except in a couple shots. increased use of CGI definitely part of the problem; spielberg isn't sure where to put his camera to give this things oomph when they need it.

Jurassic Park II isn't that bad, it's Jurassic Park III that is truly terrible.

My possibly controversial take on it is that we should rarely see an entire dinosaur in the frame unless it's somewhere in the distance. In trying to bowl us over with the CGI we lose a bit of that sense of scale which might truly impress upon us the majesty and might of these thunda lizards.

grant reaches out to the image of the dinosaur-- he wants to touch the dinosaur-- but when his fingers brush the glass the image flickers and dies. but with this place? i wanted to give them something that wasn't an illusion.

hammond's obvious joy at playing drosselmeyer to his grandkids is what's most clearly and spielbergily contrasted with grant having no use for children (adapted as he is to eternal separation from desire, in the badlands-- not unlike the dominican miners for whom beauty means staring through ancient glass at the life locked inside). but a starker contrast is with hammond's life on his magic isle, happy father to a vast brood: i insist. on being here. when they're born. what we learn is, kids are difficult.

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neat visual pun here: the proboscis drilling for blood

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never gonna be over it

when his fingers brush the glass

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even inland empire itself doesn't ask her to take her face much further. what a titan

The jello is a great touch.

she's fairly alarmed here.

kids okay?

i didn't ask; why wouldn't they be?

kids get scared.

what's to be scared of? it's just a little hiccup in the power--

i didn't say i was scared.

i didn't say you were scared.

i know.

New trailer is all dumb fan service, from the cast down. This feels like another Sony Spider-man movie, made just to make it. Have they made an installment with a human/dinosaur hybrid? They should, might as well.

lol wow this looks truly truly stupid. in a way i find that appealing. the only parts of the last one where i felt awake and engaged were when they swerved deep into WTF territory by turning into a dopey haunted-house movie with dinosaurs running around and a twist about someone being a clone, iirc. this was terrible, but at least something, whereas the first half, like the first "World" movie, was an absolutely pointless retread of going to a tropical island and encountering dinosaurs.

i can't remember exactly how the last one ended, so no clue how the dinosaurs have so rapidly multiplied that they're just roaming all over the world and threaten human extinction. seems like a pretty good premise for a stupid saturday morning cartoon or Mad Max type movie. again... it's something.

oh, I'd watch that, a humans vs. dinosaur war for the planet of the apes? they need to introduce a talking dinosaur.

god, after the last one, I don't want to see any Jurassic movie ever again, even if it was Jurassic Ass Eaters 6

lmao at scene of Bryce Dallas Howard OUTRUNNING A VELOCIRAPTOR

the only way this movie is good is if they bring the entire production team on camera and eat them

i love these movies because they are dumb as dirt

problem is they're so po-faced and full of lame pathos

“I would watch a steaming pile of shit if it has dinosaurs in it” -my wiife

they were preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

“I would watch a steaming pile of shit if it has dinosaurs in it” -my wiife

lmao

Totally gonna hatewatch this. Supposedly it's even worse than Fallen Kingdom

That's probably a bad thing, but I remember literally nothing about Fallen Kingdom.

I remember the hilarious plot twist and it being really 'talky' for a dinosaur movie

I went to see the first Jurassic World movie with my son who was 7 at the time. It was the first "grown up movie" (probably need bigger quotes there) he ever saw in a movie theatre (it was also in Imax 3D) and the long lasting effect of this is that this is basically his favorite movie franchise and he has seen all 5 jurassic park/world movies many many times and he's really excited about this movie.

So I'm going to see this.

report back!

What a drawn out, confusing disaster.