I saw the new one with my father in law today, after not having seen one since the original trilogy. It was just not good. I'm usually able to turn off my brain and enjoy a movie regardless of the quality, but there were so many things that didn't make sense, or were glossed over without explanation, that I just couldn't suspend my disbelief.
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Signtist@bookwyr.me 3 weeks ago
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m sorry, new one? You mean from like 2019 right?
Right‽
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You know there’s a new version out in the theaters, now. Right?
kandoh@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
The premise of dinosaurs in the modern world is as close to evergreen as you can get. The problem isn’t that the cow has gone dry, so much as the farmers keep jerking off the bull instead.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
First one was grand, didn’t need to be followed up or remade. Now we have a franchise… The only remake I wouldn’t mind seeing is a more brutal first one, closer to what the book was depicting. All I’d be interested in really.
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Both this and Five Nights at Freddy’s have an interesting problem, where they’re based around an entertainment franchise that goes wrong - but the franchise itself necessitates repeated attempts and failure.
lukaro@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I was just saying the other day if the first one had been faithful to the ending of the book we wouldn’t have all this mess.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The book got a sequel.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I remember trying to like the lost world but I just can’t. Only the first is worth watching.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Jurassic Park movie franchise is the best representation of movies that diminish with each movie since the first one.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Eh, the first Jurassic World was a bump up compared to The Lost World and JP3, but yeah, the general trend is accurate.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I thought this was better than Jurassic World 2. I didn’t see the 3rd.
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Genuinely flabbergasted people financially support, and thus incentivise this garbage.
Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The modern film industry in one imagine.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m looking forward to Jurassic Park 9: The Secrets of Dumbledore
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
it’s just a gay porno with a dude in one of those memable T-Rex costumes
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Eh, if Michael Chrichton were still alive today he’d probably condone it all so long as he got his royalty check.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hey, corporation needed to look ‘good’ so it was obvious they would scrap the shitty CEO of the Book and put ‘Santa Claus’ in his place, right?
Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I saw the first Jurassic Park. I enjoyed it. But I feel sated with that single entry. If you love these movies, more power to you, but I don’t really understand it myself.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The books, Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, are very good and very different from the movies. I also recommend Disclosure by the same author.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
In general I feel like I’m more likely to want to revisit and spend more time in the world of a good book than the world of most films, even films I enjoy, so it makes sense to me that there’s enough to easily fill two books worth.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Lost World had some fun stuff (Despite diverging from it’s book even worse than the first movie) but you’re really not missing much, none of the sequels come within a mile the original.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I saw the first one, enjoyed it…not sure I could explain the plot or what happened in it. At the time having the dinosaurs brought to life was spectacle enough; they could have made a movie about the park working correctly and it would have sold tickets.
I watched the second and third one back to back with a girl. They were alright. I don’t care to see them again. I’m not watching any more of them.
Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I saw it and it wasn’t as bad as some of the other but not great. The big bad dies in like a single second with zero build up and its really unsatisfying. Weird character choices, unnecessary and forgetable characters mostly. The nerd guy “Harry” was the best actor for me. 6/10 not worth re-watching or thinking about again
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
6/10 is a very high score considering that review.
RazgrizOne@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s an F in the US education system almost everywhere (maybe everywhere barring specific curves?) and though we may think ill of them as a third world shithole that does mean something.
Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It didn’t make me groan from blatant plot holes or inconsistencies which is better than other movies in the franchise. Plus Industrial Light and Magic made those mutant Dinos look fuckin awesome.
otacon239@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They just work for IGN
llii@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I saw the movie on the weekend and I liked it. Much better than the last two, but obviously not as good as the first one.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Better than Dominion isn’t hard.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I cannot believe they wasted all the original actors returning on such a piece of shit script. Like what a fucking missed opportunity
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I can’t wait for Jurassic World 6 when we send the dinosaurs to space!
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Fast and Furious went to space, why not the Jurassic Park franchise too!
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They can hang out with Leprechaun!
nthavoc@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Then after space it’s the college years followed by Dinosaurnado. Although, a tornado composed of dinosaurs sounds awesome.
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Y9iXjK_uU
Jurassic Park’s Sequel Problem
This video is 7 years old and still relevant.
pachrist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was ok with the first Chris Pratt one. Not great, not awful.
What I really wish they had done was set the next one a couple years down the line. Maybe a couple of those military helicopters that are stealing the dinosaurs at the end crashes in mainland South/Central America. Imagine a Jurassic Park movie that’s a cross between Alien/Predator/Planet of the Apes. Really lean into the highly intelligent apex predator and horror angle.
The problem with these movies, is they keep letting the cat out of the bag, over and over and over. Cat’s out. What’s next?
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I think they tried to do that with the new one. The D Rex (are we still adding rex where it doesn’t belong?) was clearly modelled after the xenomorph.
I wanna be clear they failed. I haven’t been this disappointed in a movie since I saw TLJ for the first time
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
The second Jurassic World movie was that, sort of.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Next week: Jurassic Petting Zoo!
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Jurassic, the pressure builds up!..how the new oil fields get created from scratch.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wtf was the point of this entire film? Like why?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
iamericandre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Money
tungsten5@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I saw the latest fuckrassic park a couple days ago. It was at best… okay. Not worth what the movie theater charges. But if you wait to stream it then it isn’t terrible. But overall, this franchise has lost its luster
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s the big issue with going to the theatre. Two tickets, popcorn and a drink for my wife and I and I’m paying $50+ in Canada. I think the last movie we saw in theatres was dr strange 2 and it wasn’t worth it, before that it was avengers end game. 99% of movies just aren’t worth going to the movies for. I haven’t seen a film i would say was 100% worth it since Fury Road
tungsten5@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah we have similar prices (US). The tickets were $27 (for my wife and myself) and $7 for a coke. If we get popcorn and snacks its just about $50+, depending on what we get. We get snacks beforehand and just hide them in my wifes purse like most people. I used to love going to the movies for the whole experience. But it just keeps getting more expensive and as of late, no good movies are coming out.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Challenge: Let’s broaden the Jurassic world. How do you make a Jurassic movie without the dinosaurs breaking loose?
joostjakob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The dinos are back, but of some species, every generation is smarter than the last, until they actually start speaking. Because they had a super civilisation, and their scientists encoded the key to rebuilding their civilisation in the DNA we found. The next generation becomes smart enough to invent a time machine, and try to manipulate us into going back in time to prevent the comet strike that took them out. Joke’s on them - they were in fact aware of the comet strike, but as we travel back in time together, the human part of the crew sabotage their Armageddon mission and make sure the strike actually happens, to pave the way for mammal domination!
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
What if we remove the dinosaurs and make it about genetically modified super soldiers?
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
With Kurt Russell!
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
Dinosaurs want to break out again but giant asteroid is going to destroy the earth so they team up with humans to stop it. Dinosaurs offer their asteroid know how in exchange for freedom.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Make dinosaurs drill again.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Nice try, Universal
hopesdead@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
I swear Universal said Jurassic World: Dominion would be the last movie for the franchise, then two years later they announced Rebirth.
lefixxx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Happy july-sixth park
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
if yeah want an amazing dinosaur park media, check out Dinosaur Sanctuary.
they treat the dinosaurs as animals, and the whole plot revolves around the upkeep of the zoo.
it was cowritten by a paleontologist and a manga artist.