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

[nausicaa83]

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. ♥

Comments

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

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

[space-oddity-75.livejournal.com]

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! ;)

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

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.