Thought it ruled. My friend noticed that Jeep #29 that they took is the same Jeep that Dr. Grant and Sadler first saw dinosaurs in in Jurassic Park
I also did not look at any casting notes before the movie and was pleasantly surprised Not really a spoiler, just don't want to name drop if people haven't looked at the cast yet Spoiler Jake Johnson was hilarious
Man.. What a great watch. Really enjoyed Pratt. Thought he was phenomenal and I loved the ending. Would watch again probably.
"it ruled" that is definitely what I said when the first one came out Nostalgia, its delicate, but potent
Think it was posted somewhere that the early cgi was far from complete. They do that to get a trailer out. Saw a comparison someone did and the dinosaur in the water looked far better between the 1st trailer and the 2nd one.
Ok full review, not really spoiling the plot, but I'll put this in a spoiler anyway. Full disclosure, I'm a very bad critic because I'm easily entertained. Spoiler The first thing you have to do as a viewer is suspend reality, not just to there being a park full of dinosaurs, but realizing that there have been three previous movies where dinosaurs killed many and the park was a total failure so the thought of them re-opening the park is ridiculous, but whatever. Second, since you've suspended that reality, you also have to suspend the idea that a genetically constructed evil dinosaur can be, and was, made. They made the dinosaur because, as they say, people have grown bored with dinosaurs and they want a new attraction, so they make a bigger, more badass dinosaur. The thought that dinosaurs could possibly be boring is ridiculous, but since you've totally suspended reality then whatever, I can go with it. That was on of the only part of the movie I didn't like, such as the older brother being bored with everything, but I get it. I mean, otherwise you just have a re-hashing of the first three, so you need a new bad guy. It's ridiculous fiction, so I'm down. But since they realize how ridiculous that thought is, they are OK with making it a little bit cheesy and over the top. You can't have a super serious movie with that absurd of a plot anyway, so fuck it. That's why I think Pratt did such a good job. He plays a "serious" character in a park run rampant with killing machines, but since that's ridiculous to begin with, they were cool with him allowing his own comedic abilities to show through the character. Sometimes it comes across as cheesy, but since the whole plot is ridiculous, it's OK. It's for that reason that he is allowed to have some stupid one liners, and it still be OK because he was the one saying the lines. I thought he was funny and did a great job, but I'm a big Chris Pratt fan. The action scenes were awesome. Truly awesome. Jake Johnson was really funny. Some great homages to the original Jurassic Park when they are about to take the jeep. I cracked up when he picked up those night vision goggles. The only other thing that I didn't like was Private Pile being the bad guy. I think they could have cast a better person to be a bad guy with a military mindset. Sets up great for a sequel.
It wasn't necessarily toned down. The trailer just isn't the finished product when it comes to CGI. That's why you end up with shit like this from the Lost commercial. That was used in a commercial, then replaced with:
My aunt wants me to take my 7 yr old cousin who is obsessed with Jurassic Park... can't decide if this one is too scary/violent
THere was like a four year old girl next to us and I can't imagine that she'll be able to sleep for weeks. I think 7 may be too young but who knows
My 5-year-old saw Age of Ultron and didn't bat an eye. He does NOT want to see Jurassic World. He doesn't want the dinosaurs to eat people apparently.
That's what I've been trying to tell her, but he loves all the Jurassic park movies and says he won't get scared.
Jurassic park theme slowed down 1000x. Awesome. Enjoy. https://m.soundcloud.com/birdfeeder/jurassic-park-theme-1000-slower
Saw the original in theater when I was 8. Did I have nightmares? Yes 2 hours after we got home I ran into my parents room because I had already had one where a TRex ripped the roof off of my bedroom and tried to eat me. I had several more. Was it worth it? Yes. Let the kids see. well not the 4 year olds. but the 7 is aiight
I was underwhelmed The action scenes were good but the plot was just awful. 2&3 had better plots. I realize it's fiction but still
i must know one thing from those who saw the movie already: does it involve humans teaming up with raptors? the trailer left me very afraid that this is the case.
saw a 10am showing, didn't realize how full it would be and then like on the last trailer a class of like 30 kids walked in and it was super annoying which is why i hate going to theaters overall i'd give it a 7 or so, it's rewatchable but not great Spoiler I hated the brothers storyline and how melodramatic and cliched it was. OMG dad and mom are splitting OMG/cute girl now I'm deaf. Not to mention the whole "remember when we fixed grandpa's impala?" boom, replaced a battery and fixed a starter issue on a non-used jeep of 20 years. Shit like that is how you know the script became secondary to actually caring to make another installment the proper way. I also felt the pacing was way off. They allowed it to escape too soon. Had they waited another 15 or so minutes they could have fleshed out the setting better instead of rushing through all of it which didn't allow me to believe that this place exists and has existed to the point where visitors are bored. Also, they really mis-framed the trex fight sequence with how you barely see any of it and it's all just way too zoomed in like a Transformers city destruction scene. And there is way way too much blue in the movie. No clue why they went with that but it became distracting to me. Pratt, BDH, and D'onofrio were amazing though. All 3 of those knocked it out of the park.
I remember going to the Dark Knight at night and someone had a newborn in there. I think you can't avoid stupid.
It's not like they could just re-hash the same story lines of the first three. Well, I would have been cool with it, but I totally understand why they didn't. Since they couldn't do that they knew they had to do something else, and the only other thing they could do wouldn't be "realistic." I think since they knew it wasn't realistic they went ahead and took some more liberties and just said fuck it, let's make a fun movie to watch and not take it too seriously. That's why you get cheesy one-liners from Pratt and it's perfectly fine, especially from him because he's funny.
Don't really want to spend pages debating this because it just kills the vibe of the thread, but this shit is so stupid. You can't just say "it's about dinosaurs, so suspend disbelief for EVERYTHING" or "it doesn't take it self too seriously so it can be cheesy". The first one is exactly what kills your logic. When something is done properly, you don't have to worry about things being stupid or cheesy. I don't see why people have to hide behind this logic and just express that maybe some stuff wasn't that great. Doesn't mean it's the worst movie of all time because it's certainly far from that.
Just got back. I thought it was secretly a satire on the state of Hollywood Franchises. "Bigger and more everything" to the point of ridiculousness. I thought, without the nostalgia factor of the first one, the movie would not have held up. The dialogue was so cheesy and thin (exposition, exposition, exposition, bad one-liner, exposition, good one-liner, exposition) that without the call backs to the first one, the movie would have collapsed in on its own ridiculousness. But darn it, they played the nostalgia just right that I was fist pumping when the final battle happened. Also, has no one yet pointed out the real brains behind the whole film: Spoiler
It's one thing for a 7-yr-old to watch a movie like Jurassic Park on a TV at home. It's an entirely different experience for a 7-yr-old to watch a movie like Jurassic Park in the theater.
I saw the first one in theaters the summer before starting fourth grade. My son is about to go into the third grade but he was terrified of the Jurassic World trailer they showed before Avengers. We're raising pansies.
I was working on Beethoven's 2nd at Universal when JP came out, and I ventured over to the Citywalk to check it out one afternoon. Went straight home to call my sister and tell her under no circumstances should she take her 7-yr-old son to see that film. Heey kids, let's go see a movie where the adults abandon the children in a jeep that a T-rex will tear apart, overturn, and stomp into the mud! Citywalk also had 70mm and kickass sound, so it was a pretty intense experience.
There is no better Spielberg than when he's making movies about kids almost dying. That's a sick talent to have but he's the master at it.