Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow, 2021) Movie • Page 25

This is what I wanted to hear lol

 

If you’re at all interested I’d go see it in theater cause we had a blast.

 

https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/jurassic-park-not-a-good-movie/

I disagree with pretty much everything this article says.

 

Yep. What an awful take

 

Not even going to read that because it rules.

 

I got a paragraph in and noped right out of there.

 

Velocicoaster is the best thing to come out of the Jurassic Park series since the Lost World

 

Just booked my honeymoon at Universal so that's good to hear

 

hoo baby its maybe my favorite coaster

 

It rules, we went on it like five times in a week last summer

 

The arcade game that they have at like every arcade is pretty fun too.

 

“The worker only finds himself in this position because he has to climb up and close the gate manually — yet everything else in the state-of-the-art preserve is automated?“

really, uh, showing yourself there huh

 

This was pretty damn good. Too long, and I have some serious problems with the story / script, but I actually think Trevorrow directed the hell out of this. A legit good movie, and probably the best Jurassic Park sequel.

1. Jurassic Park
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2. Jurassic World: Dominion
3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
4. Jurassic Park 3
5. Jurassic World
6. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

I can't figure out for the life of me why they changed the beginning of the movie from that short that they released on YouTube a while ago. That would have been a much, much better way to start the movie.

 

Again, an extremely bold ranking lol I agree with that last sentiment though.

 

It’s really not. I’d switch his 2 and 3, otherwise I’d agree with it.

 

I think I fault The Lost World a lot because it really comes across as Spielberg not taking the material seriously. Obviously there are some fantastic sequences because he's still Spielberg, but it's a hard dropoff in quality after the first movie where it felt like he was completely invested in bringing his full skill-set to bear immersing you in the story and making it all feel real.

I've mentioned several times how there are sequences in Jurassic World that are inexplicably lifeless and devoid of any energy whatsoever. The biggest example to me is the way the gate to the park is presented. Look at how Spielberg handles the gate in the original JP and contrast that with Jurassic World, where it legit feels like a last-minute afterthought - and from the strangest angle! - that they whipped up with CGI because they realized nobody was gonna notice the reflection on the glass and they didn't shoot any other gate stuff.

Dominion on the other hand is loaded with sequences where it feels like Treverrow is completely dialed in and utilizing all the resources at his disposal to present what is happening to the viewer in really creative and exciting ways. Claire's ejection from the plane was already shot in an interesting way, but then the movies kicks it up another gear with her crawling away from the dinosaur with the long claws and hiding in the water. I don't think there was a single sequence from Jurassic World that works anywhere near as well as her slowly crawling through the mud and hiding from that dino under the water. The way they constantly obscured the Indominus Rex with shit in the frame in Jurassic World just felt annoying and borderline like when they are blocking Mike Myers' penis & Elizabeth Hurley's boobs with random objects in Austin Powers - it felt stupid and like a cheat, whereas the way Claire crawling away from the dino is shot obscured the dinosaur in many of the same ways but felt natural and visceral and horrifying.

The thing that kills me is how they cut the actual beginning of the movie and went with the shitty news stuff. That 'prologue' that is readily available on YouTube is on another level and honestly feels like it could've been directed by Steven Spielberg. From the nature documentary feel of the early footage right up to the T-Rex showing up at the drive-in, everything is shot and edited in a really creative and fun way that really feels like a filmmaker utilizing all of the tools available in this day and age that come along with a $185 million budget to their fullest potential.

As a side note, anyone who is going to watch Jurassic World: Dominion should watch the prologue on YouTube first and then just pretend that's how the movie actually started.

 

this was silly and dumb and rad

i love how they had to introduce the gigantosaur THREE different times (each time emphasizing how it was Earth’s largest carnivore, only for it to get beaten by Rexy, who definitely didn’t look smaller than it).

raptor squad was thrilling. too bad Owen & Claire can never go on a mediterranean vacation now.

also, Maisie is still a clone, fyi. the fact that her mother chose to create her is what changed her outlook, along with her connection to Beta. the big question there is why hadn’t Dr. Wu already been working with her to study her genome and end all human sickness vs creating the indoraptor?

why are they so surprised here that Blue had Beta? maybe it’s just been too long since i’ve seen JP/Lost World, but don’t those bring up the fact that the dino’s have frog genes, which means they can adapt their sex and reproduce asexually? i know the books touch on it, but maybe I’m mixing it up and the movies never did.

 

What type of Dino is that Wolverine Dino though?

 

They definitely mention reproducing asexually in the OG

 

Therizinosaurus.

Treverrow does commentary for the scene in the video in this article -->

https://screenrant.com/jurassic-world-dominion-colin-trevorrow-favorite-scene-breakdown/

Like I said before, I think everyone involved in this scene absolutely killed it.

 

That was definitely my favorite scene

 

This scene and the prologue on YouTube are easily the two best scenes from the entire movie.

I'm a little confused about what is being called the prologue though - I was talking about the video they put up on YouTube that starts off with just dinosaurs 65 million years ago and there's no dialogue, and the dinosaurs end up fighting and the mosquito sucks the dinosaur's blood, and then it jumps 65 million years and there's the T-Rex at the drive-in movies. The whole thing is like 5½ minutes and it is absolutely how the movie should have began.

 

This was truly one of the most dull movies I’ve seen in a while.

 

I will admit this scene and the design of the feathered raptor were good.

 

I did like that scene and even the kind of Spielberg-esque opening scene where the construction workers direct the dinosaurs out of their work zone.

I feel like some of it, like Malta and the plane eject scene might have been Trevorrow just doing some things he planned for "Star Wars" and never got to execute. Either way, it was interesting and also out of place with the rest of the movie.