Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow, 2021) Movie • Page 29

Because a real film maker made it.

 

Got an email this morning that this is now on Amazon Prime and was legit giddy to fire it up today as like most the general idea of a dinosaur movie is awesome but wasn’t expecting a lot. I honestly can’t remember more than 10-15 minutes of the last two films and couldn’t tell you which scenes are from which

this was ok/fun and second half from Malta black market on was so much more entertaining than the first 45 minutes or so.

Claire ejecting from the plane and being stalked by the Dino while crawling away were exceptional scenes and catching up on the thread not shocked to see so much said and written about them. Honestly those scenes feel like they were filmed by someone else entirely vs the rest of the film / trilogy

 

Just watched this and I'm honestly not sure I've hated a film more than I hated this one.

 

I’m mad at you for making the post and bringing me to the thread

 

Well this movie was SO bad that anybody that watched it should have immediately unfollowed the thread

 

I also should be shamed because when I saw this thread was bumped I thought: “oh they making a 4th one??”

 

It's a twist on the Jeff Goldblum quote - just because you can literally do everything with CGI doesn't mean you should just do everything with CGI.

I like CGI just fine, but it's not always the best solution for every single filmmaking challenge or problem that comes up. You can do it, but it doesn't make for the most enjoyable movies. Like the damn front gate in Jurassic World. In 1993 they were extremely thoughtful and careful about every single aspect of the visual effects and how they were employed.

 

My biggest gripe still remains making the giant locusts the main villain in the final film of a franchise about dinosaurs

 

I need to watch this last one again because I don't remember the locusts being in it that much, but I did make myself a few martinis while watching the movie so there's a strong chance I got kinda tipsy and just started ignoring the stupid parts and enjoying the fun stuff.

I just remember when it was over thinking that it was a decent movie that was way too long and had not nearly enough dinosaurs in it, and that the whole movie itself wasn't nearly as good as the short dinosaur-only prologue(?) thing, or the short T-Rex attacking the drive-in trailer(?) thing, or any of the marketing where they used modern special effects to mix dinosaurs into security footage and stuff like that. The movie needed to have all of that cool stuff in it and lose about 45 minutes of the crap they stuffed in.

Oh, and that short scene where Bryce Dallas Howard has just landed in the forest after ejecting and has to crawl away from the Therizonosaurus and hide under the water was absolutely phenomenal and is hands down the best sequence from anything Jurassic Park related since JP2.

 

Having Peter Parker's dad (I don't remember and won't learn his character's name, he was SO fucking dull) grab the Barbasol can and die just like Nedry was the laziest thing I've ever seen

 

Like I said, I have no idea what scene you're even talking about here haha.

 

You could see it as lazy, but his character is the same one who had Nedry get the Barbasol can in the first movie to begin with, so I think the intent was it to come off as poetic that he would die in a similar fashion.

 

You don't.

 

Dinosaurs just live in public and it’s not really an issue. The locusts are destroying crops worldwide and are the reason Ellie and Grant get involved. The connection is that there is ancient locust dna found in them, so somehow that means they are experts, nothing to do with dinosaurs. Pratt and Bryce’s “child” has dna that Wong needs to fix the, you guessed it, locusts. It all comes back to the stupid locusts. It is baffling they made them so integral to the sixth film in a Dino franchise.

 

The locusts plot is weird, but I wouldn’t have minded something similar to that for a spin-off or a Camp Cretaceous arc… But the context of it being the “finale” of two trilogies (more or less) is so strange to me. They just pivoted to solving an unrelated problem and shrugged their shoulders at the dinosaurs after building up to that for multiple movies.

 

Yeah, that sounds fucking awful. Glad I got drunk. I recommend having a few and then just pulling up the dinosaur-only prologue, the T-Rex drive-in theater attack, and the Therizonosaurus scene on YouTube instead of watching this entire movie.

I've watched a lot of Camp Cretaceous because my kids were obsessed with it for a while, and honestly, the storyline for the first season of that would have made for better movies than what they went with for with these Jurassic World movies.

 

The locusts were fine, the CGI was fine, the movie was just overlong and messy as hell

 

In theory the locusts are a great idea, a logical conclusion to the themes present in the original. But Jesus Christ everything is so bad. Movie is worth it for the OG actors coming back but everything else is terrible. I’m not a particularly harsh viewer but I was sort of shocked at just how bad the movie ended up being.

 

I don't think that directors need to necessarily slowly work their way up over years and years / decades through larger and larger projects, but in this particular instance, Jurassic World does very much play like the guy who made the quirky little $750,000 indie comedy was inexplicably just handed an almost blank check budget wise and the keys to the entire kingdom and really wasn't capable of delivering on what an amazing, unprecedented, ludicrous opportunity that was.

I mean he did make a movie, and it did have dinosaurs, and it made back an ungodly amount of money, which is all that they care about at the end of the day, so everyone is happy, but we really could have gotten something great and special back in 2015, something worthy of the original film.

 

Part of it is definitely inexperience on the filmmakers' part, but the real issue is that they don't have enough clout to challenge the studio or otherwise advocate for themselves. As bad as Michael Bay is, he is an established director who is going to put his personal touch on things, just like other established big-budget directors like Roland Emmerich or Gore Verbinski or any of the other older names. Directors in these big-budget franchises are now being treated like television directors because the extended universes need to fit together like episodes of a show.

A young, hungry director with a ton of money and artistic freedom might not make a film that rivals the Spielberg original, but it would at least be interesting.

 

After how bad fallen kingdom and dominion were I don't know if they need to keep making them. Just let them rest.

 

Locust World

 

I've already said this before, but why on earth did they make locusts the big baddie for the (what was at the time) final film of a major franchise focused on dinosaurs??

In any case, I'm always down for more dinosaur action (not locust action)