Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow, 2021) Movie • Page 8

So one of my earliest memories was my parents taking me to see JP when I was 2. They got a lot of evil stares. Apparently I was a good boy, and very quiet throughout. Plus JP apparently was supposed to be really violent at the time. Obviously it’s pretty tame.

 

I don’t hate FK like most of you but it’s a pretty depressing movie.

 

Since these movies love to jump all over the place, have they mentioned anything about Isla Sorna in these new ones?

 

Jurassic World I had fun with in a packed theater opening night. Something felt off about it with especially how mean spirited it seemed -but it was not until I watched it again at home months later I realized how god awful it really was.

fallen kingdom on the other hand, kinda fun opening but then the rest of the movie felt like I was being dragged thru glass. Truly horrendous

 

The babysitter getting torn to pieces for no reason other than she was trying to keep an eye on those shitty kids was where I was immediately done with it. Then Jimmy Fallon appeared (which makes sense that he would do such a corny ride intro, but still).

 

The biggest sign that the movie was going to be bad was the attempt to wink at the audience about product placement being pervasive and then leaning into it as heavy as any movie I have ever seen. There are not a lot of people who would drink a Coca-Cola while working outside in the hot Central American weather, but an endorsement deal makes the situation more likely.

It is also a strange choice to make the minor scientist from the first film into the overarching villain. As great as the first film is, Spielberg got the antagonist wrong; Nedry is the catalyst of the destruction, but the point of the movie is that life will find a way. Hammond is the villain, and the book gave him a much more deserved ending than the films. The CEO in Jurassic World gets a heroes' death even though he is the one making it happen.

 

100% CGI dinosaurs will never be as incredible/scary/exciting to watch than animatronic/puppeteered ones.

 

Do the cinemark XD theaters count as imax?

 

So i saw this on tiktok, and, i know it was posted that Dodgson was coming back but, it looks like some other old friends are joining the party??

 

Omg please not the Kirbys

 

anyone seen the extended sneak peek yet at F9?

 

Saw it last night and it was awesome

 

Any info ?

 

The first half showed the dinosaurs in prehistoric times, and it looked very impressive. Then it switched to the present day and a T-rex rampaged a drive-in theater.

 

Sounds good

 

they’ve got my $15

 

I hope this is at least a two hour exposition of dumb fun, but already I gotta say it feels like we see Rexes getting punked out in movies a bit too often for my taste, and rarely in any way that makes sense.

In real life, T Rex was somehow even more grossly OP that any known terrestrial predators compared to what movies usually depict, more muscular and robust than what we see usually see.






From JP3, King Kong, JW, etc - I hate that I have to unlearn stuff I know about natural history whenever a Tyrannosaur takes an L in a movie to still enjoy the film if it's good.

You REALLY want to see it get taken down a peg by a real life animal? Pit it against a mosasaur (and not even the supersized one in the films) or a large Pliosaur while swimming, bigger and/or more formidable plant-eaters like Argentinasaurus or Triceratops, or possibly some prehistoric crocodilian megafauna. But that's about it.

I hope we get some scenes in Dominion where the grown young one from TLW takes down at least two other superpredator theropods to make up for this nonsense. :p

 

Sir this is a Wendy’s

 

You're saying memey corporate apologist-sounding replies like this are what paleontology consultants (or perhaps studio executives that override their advice) for dinosaur movies have told filmmakers since TLW? Yes, that probably checks out! :p

 

It’s now been twenty years since the Spinosaurus withstood the most powerful bite force of any terrestrial animal in the history of the world, to the neck, then turned around killed that same animal. I was nine. I’m still not over it.

I’m with you.

 

Twenty years, twenty-three days, six hours and fifty two minutes.

Just goofing, in reality I'd have to be emotionally invested in that film to begin with to care that much about it :p

 

But it has little tiny baby arms lol