nausicaa83 | "I got my hands in my pockets and I'm crossing my fingers she'll find I am simple."

And I finally watched Jurassic World! Super late to the party, I know, but I got scarred for life by those awful sequels, and the trailer for this one left me all kinds of meh. So I waited for an HD copy online. Sorry.

In conclusion? If the original one is a 10, this one is a 7. Really worth watching, but definitely not as good as the original. When the kids entered the park for the first time, and the music started, I had big fat tears rolling down my cheeks. I loved that they kept a lot of references to the original, but they didn't build the whole movie on them. The dinosaurs were cool, and the fight scenes were great. And thank god Owen's sexist remarks were no more than what we had already seen in the trailer. I liked Claire a lot, her and her indestructible shoes. Seriously, I gotta get me a pair of those. And the way they used the T-Rex was fantastic.

I think the main problem is, that we don't have any bonding. In the original movie the characters spent a lot of time together, falling in love with the dinosaurs who weren't trying to kill them, exploring, running for their lives, and they grew to love each other, and we them. But in this case they sacrificed all that for cool chases, and for the evil guy's plot. Which were really interesting, and cool to watch, don't get me wrong, but by the end of the movie I didn't really care at all if the humans survived or not. And it still irked me that they tried to humanize the raptors. That's because I first saw that movie 20 years ago, and to this day that kitchen scene is still one of the best scary sequences I've ever witnessed. You desperately want the kids to survive, because you care about them, but at the same time you're in awe at the raptors' intelligence and hunting abilities. Bringing human emotions and puppy eyes in all that, meh. It didn't work at all for me. Thank god they did that wonderful final shot of the T-Rex. Hell yeah, that's the queen of the island!

In conclusion, good movie, thrilling ride (ah ha), and I'm definitely going to watch the sequel, but it was only my brain that enjoyed it. My heart was only involved when the original theme played. I get teary-eyed just thinking about it! Hope they'll hire a better screenwriter for the next one. Especially for poor Owen. He's the most one-dimensional character ever, and it's only Chris Pratt's acting that makes him a bit sympathetic. The way he's written, he has as much personality as one of those holo-dinosaurs.

I'm going to listen to the soundtrack some more now. ♥

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Sounds reasonably good fun. It's a shame when they don't bother to make the characters people you can empathise with... but I hear there's pterodons so who cares!

The dinosaurs were incredible, and they even acknowledged the fact that the real ones looked different (feathered raptors, for instance), that was a nice touch. Really great visual effects, and the pteranodons were definitely the icing of the cake. They do show them eating meat, even if they aren't supposed to, but again, they insist a lot with the "it's a collage of various genetic sources", so it didn't really bother me.

And the original theme is everywhere in the soundtrack, it's so moving!

Oh, and speaking of, have you seen this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQrRg3LtjXY)? :D

Not enough people getting eaten was acknowledged as a problem with the first film. It was still good though, despite them not knowing how to build a fence. I watched it again about two weeks ago.

I haven't watched it in five years, it's definitely time to watch it again. *_______*

I was watching the original film lat night and wondered what the new one was like. I love character-driven films with good special effects, but apparently one of these points was totally left out in the new edition, so I guess I won't be watching it unless it pops right under my nose because someone else wants to give it a go. Oh, well.

Sadly the characters are completely bland. I was worried they would be annoying, judging from the trailer, but they're not. They just have no personality.

You know what they really did perfectly with this movie? I know it sounds like I'm taking the piss, but I was genuinely impressed: it works from a burocratic, technological point of view. The way the attractions work, the museum, the money problems, the reunions with the corporations to ask for funding. Okay, in a movie about dinosaurs it might sound like a waste of time, but it really made it realistic. That's something like thirty minutes of no dinosaurs, people talking about the difficulties of running a theme park, shots of guests in the museum, discussions in the labs about the genetic material they're stitching together, and it works in making it believable. Kudos for that! It certainly worked way better with establishing this universe than Chris Pratt being a... ex-navy raptor-imprinting zookeeper? We never got a single line about who this guy is, his credentials, why they made him work with the raptors of all people, so uhm. At least Dr Grant dug up their bones. Two minutes on screen, we know why they got this guy and the paleobotanist to visit the park.

To be fair Jeff Goldblum had no reason to be there (what was he? a chaos theory philosopher? I think?), but he looked super hot and had the best lines, so we'll give him a pass. :D

If I remember well, Jeff Goldblum's character's part in the book was bigger and deeper than the pathetic few scenes that were left in the movie. On the plus side, though, his leg gets bitten off in the book, while they manage to save it in the movie (I guess they didn't want to waste more CGI money to show that, so they went the easy way). And yes, Jeff Goldblum is so sexy he could have any inanimate part in any rubbish movie and I'd still like him! ;)

Well they had already traumatized us all by chopping off Samuel L. Jackson's arm (I used to have nightmares about that when I was a kid!), taking Goldblum's leg too would have been really too much.

Thinking about it now, my generation grew up on some very age-inappropriate movies, holy shit.

DINOSAURI!!!!
Eheheh... mi compri facilmente :D

Tutto vero quello che hai detto, ma io la vedo in maniera più semplicistica: è un film su un parco con i dinosauri, nessuno si aspetta davvero una trama complessa, non c'è tempo per approfondire i personaggi (anche se nel primo lo avevano fatto molto bene), è solo.. scappa dal dinosauro che te vuole magnareee :DDD

L'ho amato tantissimo!
^__^
E lo so che inorridirai, ma... pucci Velociraptor che amano il loro papino!
♥♥♥ Quanto son teneri? :D

Inorridisco! :D

Mi stanno bene pucci tutti gli altri (e viva il T-Rex regina di tutto), ma i Raptor sono macchine di morte, perchèèèèè!

Eh, il primo film ci aveva abituato troppo bene: personaggi carismatici, in fuga per salvarsi la pelle, e che diventano una grande famiglia, e nel mezzo pure i dinosauri paurosi! In meno di due ore passiamo dal Dr Grant che odia i bambini a lui che se li coccola mentre pisolano sull'elicottero in fuga dall'isola, avrei voluto qualcosa di simile fra Claire e i nipoti. Ma non hanno una sola scena insieme in cui possano avere una vera conversazione, e le crisi protettive di lei vengono dal fatto che sono i figli di sua sorella, non dal loro legame, che è inesistente. Peccato, perchè è stata davvero un'occasione sprecata, aveva tanto potenziale quella storia.

E non riesco a credere che mi abbiano ammazzato Morgana!!! C'è per due minuti e si becca la morte comica! Ma perchèèèèèè!!!

Inaspettatamente ho amato molto l'I-REX. Quando si è messa a conversare con i Raptor ero lì che esultavo. Anche se ovviamente alla fine si tifa per il T-Rex, ci mancherebbe. La bimba c'ha vent'anni ma il super dinosauro se lo magna a colazione! Fuck yeah!

"I got my hands in my pockets and I'm crossing my fingers she'll find I am simple."

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