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What? It's an OK movie but that's all. I'm kinda like the theme park public in the movie who want more and bigger and scarier. Problem is I've seen Godzilla (2014). But I didn't get any of that. Financially they made a great decision to make the movie more suitable for tweens. But the movie lacked tension, I found myself mostly rolling my eyes during all the moments when there was meant to be high tension and a great sense of jeopardy for the characters.

5/10 from me.



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Nice!



SpokenTruth said:
The trailers made it appear to me to be one of the most expensive, God-awful pieces of fei-oo to come out in years.

How the hell did it manage this opening?

I must admit, the movie is considerably better than the trailers. I was looking at not going to the movie at all, and thinking it might rate a 3/10 based on the trailers. But it turned out to be OK. The effects are amazing, but I pretty much don't rate movies on effects any more because some many movies have awesome effect but end up being shit. It's like ye olde graphics in video games. I guess the trailers were aimed at a younger audience and the things that might look cool to them don't look so cool to me, like the motorcycling with raptors bit.

This movie isn't close to the original, imo, but it is better than the others.



“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

 

Soundwave said:
SpokenTruth said:
The trailers made it appear to me to be one of the most expensive, God-awful pieces of fei-oo to come out in years.

How the hell did it manage this opening?


Nostalgia, decent word of mouth, plus a nice soft opening period ... Tomorrowland, Mad Max didn't really dominate their periods, so for a lot of people Avengers was the last "big" movie, and that's been a while ago now. 


I also think this being Chris Pratt's 1st major role following the wildly popular Guardians of the Galaxy played a big part in JW's success. Pratt is shaping up to be the next Harrison Ford (big break while in 30s, 1st role an unexpetedly popular Space Opera, now playing more action adventure roles, and rumor is they want Pratt to play Indy)

 

Will probably see this next weekend. My sister-in-law saw it and said it was awsome, she is a sucker for over the top actions movies so take that for what its worth.



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binary solo said:
What? It's an OK movie but that's all. I'm kinda like the theme park public in the movie who want more and bigger and scarier. Problem is I've seen Godzilla (2014). But I didn't get any of that. Financially they made a great decision to make the movie more suitable for tweens. But the movie lacked tension, I found myself mostly rolling my eyes during all the moments when there was meant to be high tension and a great sense of jeopardy for the characters.

5/10 from me.

This is exactly what I fear.



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Mike_L said:

Personally, I was quite let down by the CGI in the first trailer but a quick search shows that it has been improved. The Super Bowl trailer has far better CGI than the original imo. I don't know if you agree with me but the original CGI looks bland and not realistic at all.

Additionally, I was a bit let down by Chris Pratt's motor cycle training with the velociraptors. Those raptors were the most frightening thing about the original movie. People who've seen the movie actually seem ok with it, so that's very calming.

CGI has finally come to a point where it doesn't interfere with my enjoyment of the scenes. E.g. in "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" the CGI is very close to hit that goal imo.

Why did you bold that part of my post? Did you mean to quote someone else? If you did, it doesn't matter 'cause I'm gonna hop on this discussion anyway.

That gif is interesting because usually they de-saturate the colors than make it more vibrant. I certainly agree that the original looks more bland and almost washed out. The waves and splashing around that water-dino-thing look worse in the Super Bowl commercial to me though.

And they handled that part as well as they probably could've. There's another sub-plot involving the velociraptors that I think it pretty dorky though.



NintendoPie said:
Mike_L said:

Personally, I was quite let down by the CGI in the first trailer but a quick search shows that it has been improved. The Super Bowl trailer has far better CGI than the original imo. I don't know if you agree with me but the original CGI looks bland and not realistic at all.

Additionally, I was a bit let down by Chris Pratt's motor cycle training with the velociraptors. Those raptors were the most frightening thing about the original movie. People who've seen the movie actually seem ok with it, so that's very calming.

CGI has finally come to a point where it doesn't interfere with my enjoyment of the scenes. E.g. in "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" the CGI is very close to hit that goal imo.

Why did you bold that part of my post? Did you mean to quote someone else? If you did, it doesn't matter 'cause I'm gonna hop on this discussion anyway.

That gif is interesting because usually they de-saturate the colors than make it more vibrant. I certainly agree that the original looks more bland and almost washed out. The waves and splashing around that water-dino-thing look worse in the Super Bowl commercial to me though.

And they handled that part as well as they probably could've. There's another sub-plot involving the velociraptors that I think it pretty dorky though.

You asked how people could be surprised by the success and I answered that personally I was surprised because I was let down by the trailers. Maybe I misunderstood x}

Thanks for the answer.



Second best weekend ever and already made more then $500 million world wide its safe to say this should make over 1 billion world wide by the time its done. Second Universal movie that did it behind Furious 7 without being re released (first Jurassic Park also made over a billion but was re released a couple of times).



Wow. I knew it would do well, but that is way beyond what I figured anticipation was for the series.

Safe to say we' see Jurassic Park IV or Jurassic Word II in 2018 then.



It's already tracking to beat The Avengerss first weekend in domestic box office  and it's already the biggest in terms of opening weekend worldwide. Only Universal is estimating at the low end of its first weekend gross(which is 204.5m). Everyone else seem to be estimating higher upwards of 207m for its first weekend.