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June 12, 2015.
HELLO, ALAN.
Hold on to your butts. Nostalgic pandering incoming.
Is this that whole crazy uplifted dino mercs story, or did they trash that?
Hopefully it's dinosaurs with frickin laserbeams.
or flying raptors.
Should've bee Jurassic Planet and crossed over with Planet of the Apes.
That would've at least been funny
http://i.imgur.com/HL6wb.jpg
Can't wait for JURADIC WORL.
Dino Crisis 3: The Movie or GTFO
CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC. It looks like we might get a Dino Riders movie out of this yet!
I was hoping to see Malcom. :(
I'm ready for a dang Dino movie.
itchy and scratchy land: the movie
it's like reference inception
Jurassic Parks and Recreation.
Already better than Transformers.
confirmed
I still can't believe that the fat retarded guy from Parks and Recreation is an action hero now.
He is basically the face of America.
hey come on... He's the new Sam Worthington.
He ain't that bad.
Why did people think Sam Worthington was amazing again?
People thought that?
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Originally Posted by Dolemite
Like Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill?
I don't recall either of them being fat or retarded.
Chris Pratt is fat?
Being a lead in a Jurrassic movie doesn't equal action star, unless I missed the Expendables/Jurrassic Park crossover somewhere?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
He used to be. But i guess once a fatty always a fatty go Dolemite.
Didn't see the trailer apparently?Quote:
Originally Posted by Low
He's certainly not a fatass now. For the slower people in the thread, I just meant that it was a surprising transformation.
Or Guardians of the Galaxy, either.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
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Originally Posted by YellerDog
Jurrassic Park with Gyro cars. Same everyday looking shmoes gawking at dinosaurs and running. If anything he seems a believable choice for the role.
Chris Pratt has a lot of charisma and his delivery is hilarious. Waaay better than Sam Borington.
There's the matter of DIRTBIKES AND RAPTORS, you half-blind lout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Low
The raptors in this better be genetically enhanced guard dogs.
Looks like he's training them in front of a crowd (a park event I guess) like a lion tamer.
Makes more sense than a 14yr old gymnast being able to swing on some random pipes in a shed. Then kicking a raptor after jumping around like an idiot.
Agreed. That was so retarded. Pratt, in contrast, is actually pretty likable.
This post certainly says a lot more about your mindset than it does mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Yeah, fatty.
This looks so fucking ridiculous. I can't wait.
Looks ridiculous. I'll see it. Lol
My wife really wants to see this. She knows it's going to be ridiculous but it's her Number One Seed of the summer.
"TO ME, MY DINOS! LET US AWAY!"
Chris Pratt totally channeling that Beastmaster vibe.
I don't know why, but just the thought of rolling deep on a motorcycle with 4 raptors as your posse is just the most rockstar thing a person could ever do. Like the dream of my 8 year old self coming to life.
How the fuck do the dinosaurs look worse than they did 20 years ago?
20 years ago the majority of the effects were practical as opposed to CGI. They still can't light a CG effect better than actual light on a physical object, makes it read as fake.
What a bunch of assholes.
What movie was it that recently had a ball chamber for actors to sit in that just flashed 360 degrees of light off their faces, just to get the cg scenes right?Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Hey this was fun! Lots of nods to the first one.
Let me guess...ripples in a cup of water?
Nope!
Dino rape?
Now you're just trying to remind him of that weekend he spent with Yoshi.
New park is built on the ruins of the old park.
Mr. DNA!
Yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shinobi128
This movie was great! Way more fun than 2 or 3!
Worth seeing in 3D?
Go all the way and D-BOX it.
Or whatever.
Click for full size ?
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This was great! Go see it. Fanservice Tornado.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNDiZGdDBcI
Fun as hell
So this made a retarded amount of money. About $70 million more than they were shooting for. $204million. Beating the Avengers 2. I wonder if they will make more now?? Lol
Looking forward to being disappointed by it later.
This was nice movie! Very comfy.
Saw it tonight and loved it! I really want to be an extra in one of these movies (one of the ones that gets eaten).
Numbers were updated. This was the biggest opening of all time now. Wtf.
It was seriously that good. Felt like Spielberg at the top of his game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN6Rlh4KonQ
I am really not into Chris Pratt. For those that have seen it, does the narrative scope of the movie carry beyond his performance, or is it a bunch of contrived dinosaur scenarios to go along with the Pratt "charm"a'thon?
I usually side more Jay than Mike in Redletter critiques.
You ol' stick in the mud.
It's worth watching for that shot of Paddock 9 opening. I can't get it out of my head.
Saw it. The casting is strong (especially all the side parts), and the movie is put together very well. Nothing especially...challenging...or unexpected happened though. It certainly *feels* like a movie from my youth, even if I had no real emotional response (which makes me wonder if kids today would be moved). Some of the banter elicited an approving chuckle, and even going in anti-Pratt, he's perfectly likable, but I maintain the part should have been given to someone else. It's like he slips out of character periodically and I can't not see him as the chubby buffoon of Park City for a beat.
There's no real message to the story; I suppose some could be built from references to the first movie or military short-sightedness being bad, or man being the real monster, some basic, you know...ultimately felt empty at the end. I think the scientific/dinosaur could have been played up a LOT, that was a missed opportunity.
Doc's description of "comfy" is pretty apt. As a cinematic experience, it was that. I guess it varies by person if that's a good thing or not.
I thought it had all the nostalgia a 35 yr old could want. Seeing a Disney World of Jurassic Park as the theme music climaxed made me grin from ear to ear. I loved it. I love Meme-Lord being a combination of Han Solo-Bogart'insolence & the Duke's insufferable toughness, hunting dinosaurs with a goddamn Winchester rifle!
You are right, there were no unexpected plot turns. That's the only down side.
I'm really surprised by how not-good Jurassic World was after hearing so much good about it. It was a movie that I watched in the theater for 2-ish hours. I don't hate it at all, but there were some really stupid things in it that completely broke suspension of disbelief. "Where are the dinosaurs?" in the ball-ride, camera pans around, "Oh, 5 feet in front of me." was the first thing that pulled me away from the screen, and then the movie never let me back in. Things like it being a bright, sunny afternoon in one shot and dead of night in the next, with zero indication of any activity beyond our heroes driving half a mile. Chris Pratt stars as the Great White Hunter, "Your boyfriend's kind of a badass!" Things like that just made this little more than an evening at the movies rather than anything I cared too much about.
I see it as colorful breakfast cereal. Not particularly nourishing, not an everyday food, but damn if it doesn't hit like 1993 where it needs to.
If you weren't 10 in 1993, your milage may vary. It's possible you may be Too Old.
Jesus, dude, thank you. The Mrs. and I saw this tonight and walked out wondering how no one else could see how stupid this was. A lot of it was still enjoyable, and we laughed a lot (at things we weren't supposed to), but everyone told us how amazing this was and it just isn't. It felt like a Michael Bay reboot of the franchise.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
In addition to the bits you pointed out, how many times did they pump the "You're breaking up, can't hear your really important news," well - four or five? And every character but Pratt's was about as smart as Tea Leone in the third movie. "Okay," flick at best. I doubt I'll watch it again even on TV or Netflix.
I can barely remember anything about the film and I saw it just a few days ago. Stuff happens but there's no heart, no vision. Artistically, competency is no substitute for ambition.
$1 billion.
Neat. More dinosaur movies.
How do the gyro spheres stay so clean? Don't they ride on the glass? Did I miss something about them? Did the kids get out and squeegee the shit off when they went off-roading?
Yeah this is what I felt like they advertised and delivered. Pratt played the hero and Howard the heroine roles really well. There were a lot of silly plot devices.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
The new Rex was basically part whatever animal the plot needed and the ending w the raptor alpha switch was super Spielbergy. But that's what they said we'd get going in.
I saw it again in dbox seats. The asshole military guys retarded military guy character was even better the second time.
Just saw this. It was fun and solid but not outstanding. Pratt was good, though it was odd seeing him dial it down and play it like a generic action hero. I would have liked to have seen him inject a bit more personality into his role.
Loved the part where the kids are in the gyrosphere and one goes, "where are the dinosaurs?!" and the camera pans around and there's, like, 20 of lounging around five feet in front of them. That was so retarded.
And my girlfriend was pretty offended by the usual Hollywood scene where they basically try to tell the audience that women can't be complete until they squeeze out some kids. It was the scene where Bryce Dallas Howard (yum) is on the phone with her sister and and mentions "IF I have kids," and her sister immediately corrects her, saying "WHEN you have kids. OMG they're WORTH IT. *sob*" Then, of course, at the end when she's looking at her sister's family tearfully reunited, her gaze turns to Pratt and you just know she'll be pushing out his kids someday soon. Subtle programming to just be good citizens, procreate, work, and don't make waves.
And there were several of those "character tries to call other character with important info but the phone/walkie-talkie gets all filled with static" bits. I counted at least three or four of those.
Otherwise, decent movie. Pacing was fast and non-stop, casting was good, but there wasn't much of a story and overall it wasn't nearly as iconic as the original (how could it be?). And seeing an occasional puppet here or there would have been nice instead of relying on CG for every single dino shot.
BTW, was the younger brother supposed to have aspergers or something?
This kind of pissed me off because bitch doesn't know how to text in 2015? The call squeezed through for a sec, send the goddamned kid a message.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
A good cell signal is an anathema to modern filmmakers. They make storytelling hard!
I think it showed that there was room to capture that spirit, if not quite live up. There's a shot where you see this grotto with people boating alongside brachiosaurs and the like and it's shoved off to the side and only for a moment, looking just gorgeous. I think the difference between Spielberg directing and just slapping his name on it is that probably would have evolved into a longer sequence as the first attraction the boys visit. Same animal that gave our first peek of the original park such a feeling of awe, different twist on the setting. GG. Instead we get... I don't even remember, actually. And that's kind of the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
Things like that and more than one character who isn't functionally retarded and they might have made a decent movie to go with their special effects.
but that's America in 2015Quote:
Originally Posted by Curtis
I addressed this in KTMR in 2010! I am so cutting edge!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
This movie was a perfectly fine summer movie but when the sequel is spawned I'm sure it's going to be awful. They are going to take the genetic mash up thing and run with it I bet. The human raptor hybrid abortion mock up leaked forever ago is totally going to happen.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIHhxsNUcAAg1ke.jpg
THEY'RE LEARNING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfcqQf61S-kQuote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
And the caged raptors were enhanced with cg.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1435148583
I think that's the problem...they enhanced the physical puppets with CG, so in reality they actually just looked like bad CG models instead of puppets. I mean, I really didn't think the caged Raptors were physical props at all.
That's what I was thinking. J World was great and fun as ever, but just thinking about where they could with a sequel has me cringing. It's a perfect example of not being able to leave well enough alone. This movie did so well because it was so far removed not only from the JP3, but the original, and it pretty much acted as if 2 and 3 didn't even exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilMog
Mad Max: Fury Road was a perfect summer movie. Jurassic World was just forgettable.
It was good fun. Mad Max I'll pick up on disc, this I won't.
I came out of this movie happy, but I also felt that it was two hours to justify a cool scene of a guy on a motorcycle with a raptor team; and yeah, apparently that scene had been bouncing around in development hell since 2005.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING. Kind of disappointing. I wasn't expecting much, but this is far from the calibre of JPark. A bunch of dinosaurs that don't really exist? Is this even a dinosaur movie? JP was so awesome because it was also educational. That movie got so many people pumped about learning about dinosaurs. This movie is a hollow action shell of the original with awful CG and bland writing. But it's not bad enough to be able to really make fun of it either. Yeah, it's a lot better than JP3. But does that really mean much more than "adequate"?
Chris Pratt was good, though.