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Jurassic World Review (Yes Spoilers)
10 years ago
Let's start of by being very clear here: I have a very low tolerance for "hamminess" in movies I want to be more serious or movies that really should be more serious.
At no point in JP1 did I feel it was hammy; everyone acted very naturally and human. Excluding the end sequence in JP2, the rest of JP2 was the limit of hamminess I am willing to withstand, and JP3 was (ironically enough) x3 my lethal dose, as are movies like Age of Ultron and other things I simply cannot stand. But don't misunderstand, I like silly movies like Kung Fury to. At no point in Guardians of the Galaxy did I feel things should be any other way then they were, it just worked the way it was.
Like JP2 this movie reached my limit... but it didn't cross it. I stood on the threshold, but I didn't fall into the abyss. tl;dr I was still interested and in tune with the movie even when it was being stupid, and it does indeed get stupid sporadically throughout the movie.
[[[Character Gripes]]]
I absolutely did not like:
Super cheesy military guy (Vic)
Super business lady/park manager (Claire)
and Jurassic Park geek *nod to audience winkwink* guy. (Lowery)
I like the "idea" of all these characters, and I do think they needed to be there, but I think they were handled poorly and could have been a lot better/less exaggerated/more like real human beings. None of them came off as real people; military guy and the manager were cartoon characters and very one dimensional ones at that. Lowery was just a poor actor and talked very fast at first. Everything involving him seemed unnecessary because he lacked any kind of real personality, even if someone needed to be there and say the things he said. Either his parts were poorly written or he's a bad actor. SHOCKINGLY the kids didn't annoy me... Yeah, I'm at a loss for words there. Of course Owen was great, the guy actually in charge of everything also gave a decent performance while he was around. Good on both of them.
(Spoilers)
[[[Plot]]]
(Spoilers)
I am split 50/50 about the end sequence. I went with a group of people and we all argued in the car whether or not what we just saw was super cool or super stupid. A fucking Velociraptor riding/tag teaming a T-rex to kill the irex(?). Ok maybe it's cool and stupid, I don't know. And as much as my company wanted to pick it apart, I gave the movie the benefit of the doubt. The raptor and the T-rex weren't actually working together (I argued). They just happened to be attacking the same thing at the same time, which makes sense because they both felt threatened by it more then each other. After it was dealt with, they were probably both tired as fuck of fighting, so went their separate ways. STILL, the movie did frame it as something more then that, which did bug the crap out of me, I admit... But it was still a cool thing to see still. I guess it's time to hang up my "I'm a mature adult" hat.
As much as some might disagree, the Indominus Rex was also very believable in it's behavior. I could see a giant 50ft parrot doing a lot of these things if it had the biological abilities this thing had, but I get that a lot of movie goers were probably thrown back; not everyone knows how smart some animals are, so it all probably just seemed like "typical movie monster logic" to them.
Speaking of which I was kind of thrown back by something and taken out of the movie, specifically Dr. Wu refusing to say what was the Indominus Rex was made with. It's like.. REALLY? After it got out and already ate people you're still worried about patents!?!?!?! I'm sorry, that wasn't believable at all, if anything I would be frantically trying to help everyone with spilling as much info a possible to reduce my own liability once the casualties roll in. Also Claire wanted to keep the park open while that thing was loose!?!?! Completely unbelievable to. Could you imagine a zoo trying to keep it quiet a lion was loose? Fucking hell what is a brain, how does it function? The mysteries of life I guess...
The raptor scene- letting them out and everything that happened afterwards - was very well done. I'm happy they killed/ate people. The trailers to this movie painted a very different picture of the raptors, and I wouldn't have liked them or the movie if it went that "big trained dogs" route. That would have been the thing that finally killed the movie for me, thankfully that wasn't the case. It made sense the only human they hesitated with was Owen, that was completely acceptable.
I admit I was grinning hysterically when I realized the kids were walking in the ruins of the Original Jurassic park. But fuck that happened in 22 years? It looks more like 100 passed.
Also it's pretty damn obvious Dr. Wu is going to be the villain in the next movie, that departure of his wasn't subtle at all. He sounded like a super villain in some parts of this movie already, even if he still came off as having understandable motives. It's clear though his "work" will continue on somewhere else, especially in regards to the deal with generic hardass military guy, which obviously has to do with using dinosaurs as weapons in some way.
All in all, I give it a 7 or 8 out of 10 (that seems to be the consensus online). For perspective, here is my opinion of the JP movies now that I've seen them all
JP1: 10/10
JP2: 7.3/10 (1.3 points just for Jeff Goldblum, otherwise a 6)
JP3: 3/10
JPW: 7.8/10
Honestly I would have given it a 9.x if only a handful of things where done better and a few characters were more believe and less phoned-in.
At no point in JP1 did I feel it was hammy; everyone acted very naturally and human. Excluding the end sequence in JP2, the rest of JP2 was the limit of hamminess I am willing to withstand, and JP3 was (ironically enough) x3 my lethal dose, as are movies like Age of Ultron and other things I simply cannot stand. But don't misunderstand, I like silly movies like Kung Fury to. At no point in Guardians of the Galaxy did I feel things should be any other way then they were, it just worked the way it was.
Like JP2 this movie reached my limit... but it didn't cross it. I stood on the threshold, but I didn't fall into the abyss. tl;dr I was still interested and in tune with the movie even when it was being stupid, and it does indeed get stupid sporadically throughout the movie.
[[[Character Gripes]]]
I absolutely did not like:
Super cheesy military guy (Vic)
Super business lady/park manager (Claire)
and Jurassic Park geek *nod to audience winkwink* guy. (Lowery)
I like the "idea" of all these characters, and I do think they needed to be there, but I think they were handled poorly and could have been a lot better/less exaggerated/more like real human beings. None of them came off as real people; military guy and the manager were cartoon characters and very one dimensional ones at that. Lowery was just a poor actor and talked very fast at first. Everything involving him seemed unnecessary because he lacked any kind of real personality, even if someone needed to be there and say the things he said. Either his parts were poorly written or he's a bad actor. SHOCKINGLY the kids didn't annoy me... Yeah, I'm at a loss for words there. Of course Owen was great, the guy actually in charge of everything also gave a decent performance while he was around. Good on both of them.
(Spoilers)
[[[Plot]]]
(Spoilers)
I am split 50/50 about the end sequence. I went with a group of people and we all argued in the car whether or not what we just saw was super cool or super stupid. A fucking Velociraptor riding/tag teaming a T-rex to kill the irex(?). Ok maybe it's cool and stupid, I don't know. And as much as my company wanted to pick it apart, I gave the movie the benefit of the doubt. The raptor and the T-rex weren't actually working together (I argued). They just happened to be attacking the same thing at the same time, which makes sense because they both felt threatened by it more then each other. After it was dealt with, they were probably both tired as fuck of fighting, so went their separate ways. STILL, the movie did frame it as something more then that, which did bug the crap out of me, I admit... But it was still a cool thing to see still. I guess it's time to hang up my "I'm a mature adult" hat.
As much as some might disagree, the Indominus Rex was also very believable in it's behavior. I could see a giant 50ft parrot doing a lot of these things if it had the biological abilities this thing had, but I get that a lot of movie goers were probably thrown back; not everyone knows how smart some animals are, so it all probably just seemed like "typical movie monster logic" to them.
Speaking of which I was kind of thrown back by something and taken out of the movie, specifically Dr. Wu refusing to say what was the Indominus Rex was made with. It's like.. REALLY? After it got out and already ate people you're still worried about patents!?!?!?! I'm sorry, that wasn't believable at all, if anything I would be frantically trying to help everyone with spilling as much info a possible to reduce my own liability once the casualties roll in. Also Claire wanted to keep the park open while that thing was loose!?!?! Completely unbelievable to. Could you imagine a zoo trying to keep it quiet a lion was loose? Fucking hell what is a brain, how does it function? The mysteries of life I guess...
The raptor scene- letting them out and everything that happened afterwards - was very well done. I'm happy they killed/ate people. The trailers to this movie painted a very different picture of the raptors, and I wouldn't have liked them or the movie if it went that "big trained dogs" route. That would have been the thing that finally killed the movie for me, thankfully that wasn't the case. It made sense the only human they hesitated with was Owen, that was completely acceptable.
I admit I was grinning hysterically when I realized the kids were walking in the ruins of the Original Jurassic park. But fuck that happened in 22 years? It looks more like 100 passed.
Also it's pretty damn obvious Dr. Wu is going to be the villain in the next movie, that departure of his wasn't subtle at all. He sounded like a super villain in some parts of this movie already, even if he still came off as having understandable motives. It's clear though his "work" will continue on somewhere else, especially in regards to the deal with generic hardass military guy, which obviously has to do with using dinosaurs as weapons in some way.
All in all, I give it a 7 or 8 out of 10 (that seems to be the consensus online). For perspective, here is my opinion of the JP movies now that I've seen them all
JP1: 10/10
JP2: 7.3/10 (1.3 points just for Jeff Goldblum, otherwise a 6)
JP3: 3/10
JPW: 7.8/10
Honestly I would have given it a 9.x if only a handful of things where done better and a few characters were more believe and less phoned-in.
Also why would they close the park if they had a big ol' wall and gates separating it from the resort?
The car battery would be also a simple lead-acid battery what would evaporate its acid by 20 years in a jungle.
The tires yes I overlooked it, they would deflate slowly by 20 years, and then its weight would slice it... except if it would be a military tire what are basically an airless piece of heavy rubber.
I think the best explanation is that some employees used that area to take some smoke breaks or fool around out of sight of the tourists and management. Maybe they popped in a few AA or AAA batteries into the goggles to fool around with them recently? Or maybe they even used the jeeps for fun occasionally in the backroads awhile back before they got the new stuff in.
The place were clearly abandoned and it were in a restricted zone. I doubt it.
I just remembered an other lol thing. All dinos had an implant what could sedate them and shock them when they go close to the "invisible fence" right?
I know that the I.Rex teared it out, but it was a _military experiment_ right? That case why they did not used a version what injects the sedative in case its being removed?
Im thinking like the stuff in Shadowrun, I forgot what it is called, a brain implant whats basically a kill switch in case you would betray your "employer"....
This is a modern version of it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airless_tire
But the real problem here is fuel. Gas can get bad! It evaporates and as a highly rafined product it is loosing its chemical features. Gas gets useless already after a very short amount of time. One thing that really really bugs me in so many movies, post apoc movies usually, where the heroes walk around, oh! look a 3142334235 year old car! Hey letz check if it still works! And ... of course it does ...
How'd they manage to completely rebuild/degunk the carburetor? I don't know much about engines, but I do know from personal experience that if you leave gasoline in a lawn mower over winter for a couple years—much less 22 of them!—you're gonna have trouble starting it.
One of the many good things about Mad Max: Fury Road is that the team understood that if you want to make an action movie, don't waste time explaining plot details. Show your audience how the world works. They'll figure it out.
And seriously, did the intern DESERVE a multi-dinosaur pile-up to kill her? That was just gratuitously over the top for a character who's sin was not wanting to have her bosses nephews dumped on her. Seems to just be them trying to invoke the lawyer in JP1 getting TRex'd but it just doesn't work at all. Hell, the entire movie pretty much just spends its entire time trying to remind you of scenes from the other three movies and trying to one-up those scenes.
Have an article about that: http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06.....jurassic-world
I'm pretty sure that's there because that's the plot to the next movie. Obviously Jurassic World is closed now, so they needed to set up a sub-plot since people are obviously not going back to that island.
I feel like I just went full Captain Obvious, lel.
Wouldve been better if it was just Chris Pratt for the majority of the movie.
Maybe I old man(28), but I wish they cut the kids out of this movie. It just seemed so cliche with "their off tracked antics, big brother / little brother divorce thing" that I wish would stop happening in some of these movies.
Sorry if that makes no sense.
"of course our parents are getting a divorce, we're brothers"
"of course we know how to tune up and start a car"
"of course lets go off track and ride RIGHT beside 300ish pound animals."
What I did want to know is how that jeep was still running, doesn't gas go bad? Or perhaps was it diesel?
But yeah, it was very enjoyable on a dinosaurs-are-cool level.
also mmmm that delicious dinosaur eye candy :D it was so fun to see well animated dinos on a big screen
I'm happy it broke boxoffice records to. Because $$$ is the only thing companies look at, this may be what finally starts the new Dinosaur genesis. Movies, TV shows and games will all feature them again just like in the 90's when the original Jurassic Park first came around.
I'm just so damn tired of Zombies; I want them to go away =(
JURASSIC PARK Z!!!
Because who doesn't want their brains, prehistoric!
It's a multitude of problems, really. All of the characters are these faint sketches of personalities that seem to have had great chunks taken out of their individual stories. We're given the occasional set-up for one group, dropped in on the middle of another, and then back to the end of the first group after missing the middle. It's a divorce plot-line that come and goes for no reason, it's a romance with no chemistry that ends with a "Hey yeah, that's still a thing isn't it!", it's deciding a teenagers sole characteristic should be "Hey look, girls! I'm going to stare at them now" done to the point of near-parody (to say nothing of whatever he's-a-genius-except-he's-not thing they were doing with the little brother. In fact, I hated the kids, and every minute of screentime with them was wasted and grating). Everyone likes Owen, but that's more because they like Chris Pratt, who needs simply to show up to be loved. There certainly wasn't anything in this bog standard Action Hero Guy character worth going for.
Then there's the whole concept behind the I-Rex, and the many times the movie decides to get meta and do a bit about how great the original park is or how modern audiences don't appreciate the old stuff anymore or how corporations are making everything empty and soulless spectacles. Which is weird, because the movie then proceeds to do and become everything it says is bad, and do it in lazy ways. It's like the movie hates itself, but thinks that pointing that out makes everything okay. Callbacks to the original movie shoehorned in (especially with the score), the usual CGI-action-this-and-that blockbuster sequence, and a plot that's both overly complex and utterly empty all at once. All that military stuff felt remarkably forced, put into the movie for the sake of having a human bad guy... and then the movie has to go out of its way to make him even more evil and comically bad, because there are too many times he's doing the only sensible thing (like try and actually evacuate the park, or kill the I-Rex).
The finale is something of an odd moment too, and I had a similar argument in my head over it compared to what you said. It's a mixture of things that are cool and such on their own, but put together, it's Calvin playing with his toys. It's this mish-mash of a finale that modern sensibilities are all over (Raptor teams up with the T-Rex to fight a hybrid serial killer dinosaur! How totally epic and cool!!) that's well done on its own, but just plopped at the end of a movie that doesn't do any real job leading up to it.
And also a bunch of other stuff, like the bizarre commentary on animal nature (a creature eating it's sibling is evil? Man, there's a lot of nefarious pet gerbils and rats out there then), as well as the whole respecting nature thing being forced in just as irritatingly as the whole Military Bad thing. Or maybe the absurdly over-the-top death sequence that one character gets for no good reason. Or how there's never the slightest bit of effort put into actually making any tension or thrills, just cheats like giving the I-Rex new powers where necessary and then dropping them immediately.
The above was a ramble of a rant. I'm not sure why. I don't actively hate the movie, nor did I have a bad time watching it. It's just something where the flaws kept jumping out at me on screen, and then they compounded the more I thought about it. Rewatching the original shortly thereafter certainly didn't help (and I don't want to have to compare the movie, but JW makes that difficult, what with how desperate it clearly is to be that movie), since then it just made the flaws stand out all the more.
It's a bad movie. That's what I'm calling it, and for once I'm in the minority opinion about it. I guess folks were that desperate for more dinosaur action.
least they upgraded from a unix system, that was for us nerds~
This is a disney location abandoned in 1999: http://www.imagineeringdisney.com/b.....ry-part-1.html
http://photos.orlandoweekly.com/24-.....attraction/#16
So having the original park overgrown to that degree in the middle of a South American jungle in 22 years? Yeah, 100% possible. And I really REALLY would have loved to walk around it because damn. That was some sexy ruination. Even though it was all done on a set somewhere, it LOOKED stunning, someone on the set design team must be an urbex fan.
Oh, one other thing. Dr Wu being an asshole about what was in the I-Rex? And the whole military thing? It's setup for the next movie. Yeah. They're playing the Weyland-Yutani card here, which should all end in tears.
And yup, I most certainly assume that's the next movie set-up.
i don't want to go and see any more sequels of it unless they do a complete remake and follow the books more closely, which although they might have to improve the acting quality, the story would be more gripping
i must admit though i wouldn't have the stamina to write a review like this, so good job :)
Unfortunately, the things I did not like were numerous and glaring. I shall now list them in no particular order:
1)Why was Dr. Wu's research done on the island? He is researching the military application of dinosaurs and has his prototype in a zoo?! Come on! I know JW declared JP2 & JP3 non cannon, but is Ingen so small it can't afford another lab? Preferably one in the middle of a desert? And they just kept rubbing it in. "What is it?" "It's classified" blah blah blah. I get Claire does not care about the details, but why the fuck is she not cleared to know what's in the animals she is in charge of? The movie would not have happened if Claire knew the Irex could be invisible to thermal.
2) Why is Owen so opposed to the idea of military raptors? I get that the military guy was an ass and hilariously incompetent, but training raptors for that would not be very hard. Hell Blue and the other raptors should have been far more friendly if Owen really raised them from birth. Even the most wild wolf breed is as tame as a regular dog if raised from birth and trained right. I get that they are shoehorning in an instinct is key line, but nurture kicks natures ass for captivity raised animals. That and it hammered in that raptors are smart as hell, which means that they should be easier to train. Raptors in the military would be handled just like the K9 units, if a bit more cautiously. I know Owen was pissed that Military guy did not respect the raptors, but the military guys in the K9 teams respect the hell out of their dogs and would treat the raptors with ALL THE RESPECT.
3) Just how incompetent was the guard on the Irex pen? Also, where did the people building it go? They are there when Claire visits with the boss, but gone when it's just her and Owen? The Irex is fucking huge! SOMEONE would have noticed if it climbed out of the pen. Hell, the claw marks are in plane view of the booth, how did he NOT see the Irex scratching the wall? I get that the thermal system did not work, but why did that mean sending people into the pen right away? Hell, I would check the system 10 times before going into that pen. At the very least I would check the tracking beacon first. This movie should have been: "where did it go" "I don't know, let me call central" "Irex is in the pen" "ok, the thermal system must be broken" "whatever" END.
4) AND THE MOST HEINOUS OF ALL: Nothing vibrated when the dinosaurs walked. I was paying attention, and not once did the ground shake when the Irex walked. Even when it was right there and its footsteps loud (when owen and claire were in the old jeep shed) did anything shift around. It just emphasized that the dinos were cg and pushed me right out of the movie. How do you miss that? The T-rex signature is that the ground shakes when it walks, how could it not be included it the movie?
*steps off soapbox* Sorry. I enjoyed the movie and will watch it again, but I've filed it in the same bin as Pacific Rim... and that's just sad.
Secondly? 100% agreed with you.
Jurassic Park was a scifi thriller.
Everything else has been more of a monster movie, with, yes, Jurassic Park 3 being the worst, tjough you like 2 more than I do xD
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6836512/
Though I'm actually hoping to see Indominus make a return. I want to say that when the Mosasaur pulled her into the water, it let her go like it did with the shark. Then Indom either communicated with it like the raptors, escaped, or tore it up. Basically I'm just not assuming she died because there was no body. lol
Also I saw it the night before. it was released. It inspired me to make a little drink series for Jurassic world. I made an Indominus Rex cocktail actually. I also made a fanfic, lol
I know in the game they explained how they obtained the DNA, but not everyone plays the game so they left a gap there. At least in JP1, they explained how they got the dinosaur DNA and that they filled in the gaps with frog DNA. With the Mosasaur, its pretty much like "and here's our Mosasaur exhibit right next to the roller coaster with fire breathing dragons" .