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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - 2018

JohnC

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oof, terrible advert in the cinema with the 2 leads standing there smiling begging us to go see the movie cos the dinosaurs are worth paying for. It's like they are at gunpoint and every time they say the full name of the movie it seems more awkward and corporate. It takes a lot to rob chris pratt of his innate likeability but they've managed it here. Well done.

 

 

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DarhkFox

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The reviews are out. I am not sure who to believe.

 

IGN rated it 8.4 saying it was a great mix of action and horror. (not that IGN is much to go by)

 

Many other places have given it a much lower score - ie 2/5.

 

Anyone watching it today?

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I saw it last night at the Multimedia screening. It's fucking astonishingly brilliant and has jumped straight to the top of my list for the year. If you thought the first one was a big stupid dinosaur movie trying to be exactly that then you'll love this. It's so stupid. So stupid. Stupid. Characters make ridiculous decisions, a lot of the script is a bit naff, the best bit is 45 minutes in then the whole thing scales way down, but I properly, genuinely loved it.

 

I cried laughing twice, the scale of the thing for the first hour is insane. So much happening on screen. Bayhem you can follow. You've seen most of it in the trailers but it doesn't make it any less impactful on the big screen all sewn together. The direction/camerawork is genuinely really good. Everything looks HUGE, there are some really nice horror sequences and the action sings throughout. Pratt is Pratt (they've made him a bit more likeable, a slightly stupid Pratt style dick rather than the straight up dick of the first film) and Boobs Dallas Howard does a good job with what she's given. Which isn't a huge amount. And a fair amount of her shots are a bit pervy. Which is a shame. 

 

They're never going to make another Jurassic Park. They knocked it out of the part the first time. It's one of the best movies ever made and completely ruins Dinosaurs in Theme Parks movies forever. Of course it does. It's the Jaws of that theme. So I'd much rather Universal keep spending hundreds of millions of pounds of massive stupid dinosaur movies that make me cry laughing than trying to recreate a formula already perfected with JP. Give me The Meg over Jaws 2 any day. Give me Jurassic World 2 over Jurassic Park 2 any day. Go in expecting a fun stupid as hell dinosaur movie and you'll come away gobsmacked. The ending also comes out of nowhere and had me laughing the whole way home. 

 

5 stupid, idiotic, sometimes painful but occasionally massively brilliant stars from me. 

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Literally just got out of this and it was just so dull and managed to make dinosaurs - dinosaurs! - boring.

 

@BitterToad is completely right about characters making stupid, stupid decisions and the whole plot is just idiotic and the ending beggars belief. I thought the previous film was rubbish too, so at least they are consistent I suppose.

 

 

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@BitterToad My favourite bit of the original was when a group of bad-ass Raptors teamed up with some soldiers to fight a bigger dinosaur, had an "all-is-lost" moment, and then one of the Raptors teamed up with a T-Rex to turn the tide. Are you saying I'll enjoy this?

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39 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

@BitterToad My favourite bit of the original was when a group of bad-ass Raptors teamed up with some soldiers to fight a bigger dinosaur, had an "all-is-lost" moment, and then one of the Raptors teamed up with a T-Rex to turn the tide. Are you saying I'll enjoy this?

I'm hoping that's a yes as I loved JPW

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BitterToad

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3 hours ago, Alex W. said:

@BitterToad My favourite bit of the original was when a group of bad-ass Raptors teamed up with some soldiers to fight a bigger dinosaur, had an "all-is-lost" moment, and then one of the Raptors teamed up with a T-Rex to turn the tide. Are you saying I'll enjoy this?

I would say 100% yes. Even if the journey doesn't get you the end had me laughing out loud in my seat. BONKERS.

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2 hours ago, Rudderless said:

The bit on the pier with the lone dinosaur - was that a Brachiosaurus or a Brontosaurus? I thought the latter at first, but I'm doubting myself.

 

Pretty positive it's a Brachiosaurus, which would make sense as it's the first living dinosaur that you're properly introduced to in Jurassic Park.

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What the fuck did I just watch! My fucking eyes. That has to be the stupidest film I've seen in some time. Its about 5 different films smooshed together. All of them dreadful. Theres some twists and turns in there that are laughably pointless and it all just feels like it was written in one 50 hour aderol fuelled binge.

 

I had a blast of course, because it is SO fucking awful that it constantly entertains with how dumb it's willing to go. But maaaaan. 

 

That lone dinosaur on the pier had me in fucking stitches.

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kerraig UK

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1 hour ago, Melon_Bread said:

I really enjoyed it, yeah you gotta check your brain in at the door but the director elevated it with some amazing iconic looking scenes.

 

Also put Toby Jones in everything please.

Toby Jones has fucked his face up by having his top teeth done in that totally ridiculous Hollywood way that means he can no longer speak properly 

 

The scenes with him and Rafe Spall having a lisp off were excruciating 

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BitterToad

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On 06/06/2018 at 23:55, Gabe said:

@BitterToad What about the ending made you laugh? I have a hunch but curious.

 

 

It's just the complete surprise of it. I just never saw it coming. I haven't seen any of the marketing outside of one trailer, I hadn't seen the Lion for example. The film goes from "7 or 8 dinosaurs have escaped from a lab into the wild" to "dinosaurs exist among humans and we live in a Jurassic World:Fallen Kingdom now and people need to learn to cope and survive and here is a T Rex going up against a Lion." And then the Jeff Goldblum speech over the top of it all just trying to cover it with some form of exposition. It's made me so excited for a third movie.   Pile the nonsense on, keep it coming. You've got your audience now, I'm in. 

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