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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. ♥
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. ♥
