Took the kids to see Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom at the cheap theater last night.
Took the kids to see Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom at the cheap theater last night. To my utter shock I liked it at least as much as an average Marvel movie. The Indoraptor was a much more interesting design than the Indominus. I kinda loved Blue as a velociraptor action hero. Comic-relief stygimoloch head-butting everything and everyone in sight was great. And the “monster in a spooky mansion” plot and setting was a nice change of pace.
Also: "I'd eat me."https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1XK3FofgAUuFiTDnuDxXL_H1CPCTIl31F5jR_M-y_fv1YYnUUlJcVCk854dlm1bo0Cu96uaQ-To
ReplyDeleteI honestly didn’t like it that much but Ted Levine was great and deserved a better death.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was at least as good as any other JP installment after the first one. Dinos in unlikely scenarios and astonishingly bad decisions: the two elements that fuel the franchise.
ReplyDeleteI'd say it was equivalent to JP2, which also changed up the setting at the end.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Swensen In this case, the astoningly bad decisions in this movie that upset me the most had nothing to do with decisions leading to death (besides Ted’s). I was more puzzled by the fact that the dude’s economic logic was absolutely stupid.
ReplyDeleteA. All those mercenaries and equipment could NOT have come cheap. He probably could have gotten a way better return by just buying stock instead.
B. Even if you want to decent point A by saying “Well, he’s evil and a villain, and he needs a motive,” please then don’t show him jumping up and down with joy for selling dinosaurs for like $20 million dollars. He will definitely not recoup the initial investment like that. Evil rich people pay millions of dollars for animals that exist today, but asking for more then 10 mil on a literal one of a kind creature: a bridge too far.
Also how much did the F-35 cost to develop? There is no fucking way that if you showed that Indoraptor to the military they wouldn’t just write you a blank check. Well, okay, maybe not, because it doesn’t actively support a standard industry per se, but they’d still probably give you more then 100 million.
ReplyDeleteI would hope it's at least better than JP2, the one so bad I couldn't even watch more than 20 minutes in either of the attempts I gave it across two decades.
ReplyDeleteAs long as it has the same fun factor of JW1, I'm in.
Stephen Holowczyk I definitely won’t argue that any of the decisions are good, because the movies take place in a world where bringing dinosaurs back to life as a tourist attraction seems like a sound concept.
ReplyDeleteJW2 plays like its parodying dumb capitalists and I feel like that fits right in.
Furiously googling the cost of renting a freighter after getting out of the movie.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering about the appeal of having a gun that can cause a dinosaur to attack. Under what circumstances would that be better than having a gun that shoots bullets?
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