I saw it Friday. Loved it. Really enjoyed it.
I saw it Friday. Loved it. Really enjoyed it.
I enjoyed the movie though the raptors turning on the humans was predictable to me.
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Loved it as well I just hate the part at the end with the Indominus getting dragged in to the water like that. She was fabulous and I wanted her to win!
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FloatingWaffles said:
1 - Yeah, but that was Hoskins idea. Plus it obviously ends up not being a good idea because they turn and kill almost everyone there aside from Owen and the other main characters. Hoskins is the one in the entire movie who thinks that using them is a good idea, even though it's not, and once he takes control he uses the park getting destroyed to his own personal benefit to try and test them. 4 - The Indominus was part raptor so it made sense that it could communicate with the other raptors. 6 - I feel like this was mainly just to show the character Claire that these animals weren't just science experiments like people on the island keep acting like they are. This is the first time where she actually sees one up close and personal so it shows her that they are actually animals and changes her view on them. 7 - Letting the T-Rex out was more of a last resort sort of thing. I mean think about it. At that point how many military personal were even on the island anymore? Hoskins took control of them and ordered them to take the research and leave. In fact most of the people working on the island left, aside from the one guy who decided to stay behind in the control room and opened the T-Rex door for Claire. The civilians were still hiding in the one place on the island as well. The raptors weren't going to be able to take down the Indominus by themselves so it made sense in a sort of "fight fire with fire" way that releasing the T-Rex would make it fight the Indominus. There were no other options at that point to take anyway. How else were they going to defeat it? |
1. It's a completely unrealistic character - yeah it's his idea, but it's a useless plot device that destroys any sense of realism and ads nothing. No one head of private security there would actually make this type of assessment after seeing a guy make raptors stand in one spot from a suspended walkway.
4. Animals don't communicate that way - they were communicating as if speaking words, with the Raptors looking back and forth as if they were making rational assessments about what was being said. That's not how it works. The entire premise is also ridiculious given that the rex at that point could have easily called all the Raptors and humans as well which would have been a much more realistic response given the threat. Anthromorphizing these animals in this manner breaks all realism.
6. I know why it's there, but it's completely unrealistic. It was added in an absolutely ham fisted, horribly placed manner. The woman wouldn't give a damn about that dinosaur when she already barely gives a dam about humans - let alone when her two newphews are probably dead or dying in the field. Would you stop and shed tears while petting a dead Zebra if your cousins were lost in a Safari with lions that were going around maiming people? I doubt it.
7. Hoskins is private security - actual military would show up (Costa Rican plus international) within hours. When a serial killer is on the lose the solution isn't to release another one from prison to hunt it down. It's ridiculous and frankly suicidal logic.
I liked it. But the original is still the best. People have to remember that this is an action movie. Based on genetically altered hybrid dinosaurs in 2015 nonetheless. Thinking kids don't react the way they would in real life is just plain silly. IT'S A MOVIE!!! You drew yourself to draw a real-life parallel but forgot how fantastic the very idea of the scenario itself is.
There are a few parts that made me shake my head though. First was the Assistant's death. Like really, did they have to do her like that? Talk about overkill! But maybe I'm a POS because I'd probably not care were she not so attractive LOL. And the great high heels-clad foot race from a T-Rex was über ridiculous! Everyone in the theatre was laughing at that. But the biggest surprise is that the black guy survives. My wife and I both laughed at that fact.
Good movie, but not great. Hated that I had to pay for the 3D version because I think the 3D on my home set looks better than movie theatre 3D. And costs a lot less!
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Nem said: I think the movie was a bad movie, but it was entertaining.
Oh and Bieber lookalike (was the role supposed to have been for him?)... totally bad. But you know... you go to see Dinos rampanging and you get your money's worth. |
I guess that can be explained the way that chinese scientist was actually deliberately creating them as weaponry as opposed to their features being mere genetic accidents? Maybe? And perhaps that woman wasn't arrested because she was like Sonic on high heels, lol. Gotta go fast.
contestgamer said:
4. Animals don't communicate that way - they were communicating as if speaking words, with the Raptors looking back and forth as if they were making rational assessments about what was being said. That's not how it works. The entire premise is also ridiculious given that the rex at that point could have easily called all the Raptors and humans as well which would have been a much more realistic response given the threat. Anthromorphizing these animals in this manner breaks all realism. 6. I know why it's there, but it's completely unrealistic. It was added in an absolutely ham fisted, horribly placed manner. The woman wouldn't give a damn about that dinosaur when she already barely gives a dam about humans - let alone when her two newphews are probably dead or dying in the field. Would you stop and shed tears while petting a dead Zebra if your cousins were lost in a Safari with lions that were going around maiming people? I doubt it. 7. Hoskins is private security - actual military would show up (Costa Rican plus international) within hours. When a serial killer is on the lose the solution isn't to release another one from prison to hunt it down. It's ridiculous and frankly suicidal logic. |
Again, why are we looking for realism in this film? It's like when Matrix: Reloaded released many years ago an I read one film critic say that you should only go to see it if you want good action and awesome special effects. Well I didn't go see it because I want to see The Matrix for the great Keanu Reeves acting, the Oscars-level storytelling, and the tearjerker love story. Right?
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FentonCrackshell said:
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A film doesn't have to be based on reality to expect some basic real life justifications and consistencies given the films universe. Just because hthis is a sci fi, doesn't mean we excuse unbelievably poor characteizations (such as crying with the dino while her newphews are out there dying, kissing after her assistant was mauled and thousands of birds still killing around them, kid making a joke while still in the middle of a death trap ride with his brother etc). By your logic we don't even need to worry about scripts anymore, because no matter how bad the writing, how poor the script, the characterizations and how outlandish the motivations and logical leaps are, it doesn't matter because it's a film. The first film, although sci fi still managed FAR better characterization, pacing and motivations and behaviors for both the people and the dinosaurs then this did.
contestgamer said:
A film doesn't have to be based on reality to expect some basic real life justifications and consistencies given the films universe. Just because hthis is a sci fi, doesn't mean we excuse unbelievably poor characteizations (such as crying with the dino while her newphews are out there dying, kissing after her assistant was mauled and thousands of birds still killing around them, kid making a joke while still in the middle of a death trap ride with his brother etc). By your logic we don't even need to worry about scripts anymore, because no matter how bad the writing, how poor the script, the characterizations and how outlandish the motivations and logical leaps are, it doesn't matter because it's a film. The first film, although sci fi still managed FAR better characterization, pacing and motivations and behaviors for both the people and the dinosaurs then this did. |
Do you do this sort of logic-seeking in every film that you watch? Because the Hollywood formula is pretty much the same and it always ends the same (i.e. The heor gets the girl). I'm still waiting for someone to make the film in which all characters make decisions like people do in real life. I'll clear my day in order ro watch all 12 hours of that film.
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FentonCrackshell said:
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Watch JP 1 and then come back and tell me that JW is even remotely on the same logical plain as those. There's a difference between guy getting the girl and guy getting the girl immediately after the girls assistant is mauled in front of her eyes and while hundreds of killing machines are still flying in the skies all around them. That's just lazy script writing.