It should surprise none of you who know me as a monster movie lover that I absolutely loved this film. It's not going to win any oscars, but it delivers exactly what you'd want to see, and some things you didn't realize you wanted.
[Disclaimer: You have to want awesome dino action to enjoy this film]
Anyone have any thoughts?
Never in my life have I wanted a T-Rex and Velociraptor to fist bump as much as I did from this film.
I loved the film. Indominus-Rex is a great movie monster, and pretty much every scene with him onscreen felt great.
The film felt like what James Cameron did with Aliens. Making the original again is dumb, so you instead take the film into a completely different direction and go all out.
I enjoyed it, it didnt wow me but it was fun overall.
To be fair the plot points where obvious and there where no real surprises in the film, i also never felt like there was any feeling of real tension going on (but i admit that was mostly on me).
1. The iRex's gene distribution was so badly hidden (i wont be surprised if the sequels say "oh there is also some ape genes in there" to explain why it killed for sport).
2. The assistant dying was mildly surprising but only because i was expecting them to pair her up with the old horny kid or something.
3. The moment the kid said "we need more teeth" i knew this was going to turn into "Whale Ex-Machina"
4. That bro moment between Owen and Blue at the end was so awkward.
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Henry Wu and in-Gen create monstrous dinosaurs a la I-Rex for military purpose secretly and a huge swarm of predators gets out of control and someone has to reign them in. Or something like that.
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My biggest issues with the film have to do with pacing and characters, but barring all of that, I thought it was pretty great. There were some things that even I didn't predict, though most of it I was able to.
I mean, there's really not much else to say. I've ******* loved dinosaurs since I was a kid and this gave me everything that The Lost World was supposed to be and more, IMO.
(Contrary to popular opinion, I didn't take much issue with Jurassic Park III.)
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I loved it! It wasn't award winning or revolutionary but it was fun, and like Pacific Rim, I signed up for this movie wanting nothing more than a fun time!
I really liked the movies. My smallish gripe is how incompetent they always set these parks up to be:
There seemed to be little to no emergency plan for the public. Why did they not return to their hotel rooms? Why was there no bunkers or something of the sort to place them in? In a dangerous situation like... um this, you tend to want to have a fall back plan for things falling apart.
I can understand the justification to try to take Indominus-Rex captive in the first try given the investment made but why was there not a mix of non lethal and lethal assuming nonlethal should fail. Why was there also not a second team sent out with the intention of doing lethal given the failure of the first plan?
They really have zero chopper pilots on this multi billion dollar complex??? I... don't think so.
The dude with the amazing gun on the chopper needs some glasses. Its honestly not hard to hit with one of those.
Why where there like zero defenses on the great wall they build themselves? It made no sense for there to not be any sort of mounted weaponry or some sort of escalated force weapons on that wall given thats the ohhh ***** wall essentially. They had two dudes with rifles is all which felt grossly indaiquate.
They showed some tall interior walls but no armed personnel on top of said tall walls.
All of this said, I found the characters enjoyable but I really wish we could get beyond complete incompetence as reason to allow things to happen and perhaps move more to pure bad assery for the reasons things happen. I felt like those who run the park really lacked on all of their tactics following Indominus-Rex's escape. I really liked the main characters but I really wish we could see a movie that was more based on how amazing the dinos are vs how incompetent management is (sort of the recurring theme to these movies).
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The corporation is run by a guy that could buy an entire division's worth of Abrams MBTs, but balks at destroying a $6 million dinosaur when the wrongful death lawsuits would go past the billion mark? Yeah, not really. Also, given what the park is, you'd think the security force would be at least 100 ex-JSOC guys with enough heavy weaponry to stand off an invasion. That said, the ass kicking that Blue and the T-Rex handed the genetic freak was pretty awesome.
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Ah yes, I was wondering what would break first. Your spirit... Or your body.
Ya, that is my single gripe with the film if you want to approach it realistically. The folks know what happened with Jurassic Park when the dinosaurs escaped. You'd think they'd have a helluva lot more contingency plans in place in case the dinosaurs got loose again.
Like a couple of gunships so that you can put down rampaging dinosaurs without risk of harm to people.
And emergency underground bunkers for the tourists if ***** hit the fan.
I'm fine with no gunships part (though it honestly makes no sense for them to have a minigun but no way of using it on-site) because it really would make the film no fun.
But lack of underground bunkers or some sort of shelter for the tourists just seems silly. Having them just sit in the sweltering heat of Costa Rica for one thing? Ugh.
I know it was just a plot device but--
If a dinosaur had escaped its paddock, wouldn't it have been more prudent to confirm that it actually did escape- by searching the area for foot prints, before actually getting into the paddock?
Good movie over all, and i agree with the points Pahfinder brought up. Some netting above the marketplace could have deterred any errant aerial attacks.
Loved the nostalgia as the two boys rediscover the old Pavilion, and the final fight. Tag team to end all tag teams.
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I personally disliked the movie for several reasons.
1. Inclusion of the kids element. Nobody cares and even the movie stopped caring.
2. They have 2 methods of detecting the I-rex, they use one and immediately ignore the other.
3. They implanted chips that shock the animals to paralyze them and forgot about them.
4. As mentioned before: they had a massive disaster in the old park so naturally they won't try to deal with it in the next park.
5. Although the science of reconstructing dinosaurs is good, the results make no sense. The fact that the owner ignored/did not understand that is beyond me.
6. As mentioned before: multibillion park has 1 rookie pilot.
7. Raptors still too tall and still not feathered.
8. The I-rex's "powers" make no sense genetically. You can't implant a specific gene and obtain a different phenotype that the original animal had. It's that age-old invalid argument that inserting a salmon gene in a berry will turn the berry into a fish.
9. The I-rex is a chimeric construct and we know very little about dinosaur behaviour. How Chris Pratt knew anything about its social behaviour is a mystery.
10. The I-rex cannot possibly communicate with velociraptors JUST because it has their DNA. Heck it wasn't even socialized.
11. The park owner wants nothing to do with the military but keeps inviting them over and giving them privileges.
12. Running in heels...
13. The T-rex is told by a flare signal it will get fed yet it did not feed nor kill the velociraptors.
14. Age-old cars and batteries from the first movie cannot magically work 20+ years later due to oxidation and lack of maintenance. Heck the oil in the engine probably oxidized and solidified.
15. The Mosasaurus could not have seen the I-rex from under the water at night.
16. The military man trying to "talk" words to the velociraptor even though he witnessed numerous times that they respond to whistling commands.
17. No after-credits scene where the chief scientist and the stolen embryos are shown.
18. Raptors lived in cages their whole lives yet the best idea to fight free dinosaurs are more free dinosaurs?
19. Why is there a dinosaur-sized gate where the I-rex is? For what possible purpose?
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The film felt like what James Cameron did with Aliens. Making the original again is dumb, so you instead take the film into a completely different direction and go all out.
And boy did this film go all out.
To be fair the plot points where obvious and there where no real surprises in the film, i also never felt like there was any feeling of real tension going on (but i admit that was mostly on me).
1. The iRex's gene distribution was so badly hidden (i wont be surprised if the sequels say "oh there is also some ape genes in there" to explain why it killed for sport).
2. The assistant dying was mildly surprising but only because i was expecting them to pair her up with the old horny kid or something.
3. The moment the kid said "we need more teeth" i knew this was going to turn into "Whale Ex-Machina"
4. That bro moment between Owen and Blue at the end was so awkward.
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My biggest issues with the film have to do with pacing and characters, but barring all of that, I thought it was pretty great. There were some things that even I didn't predict, though most of it I was able to.
I mean, there's really not much else to say. I've ******* loved dinosaurs since I was a kid and this gave me everything that The Lost World was supposed to be and more, IMO.
(Contrary to popular opinion, I didn't take much issue with Jurassic Park III.)
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All of this said, I found the characters enjoyable but I really wish we could get beyond complete incompetence as reason to allow things to happen and perhaps move more to pure bad assery for the reasons things happen. I felt like those who run the park really lacked on all of their tactics following Indominus-Rex's escape. I really liked the main characters but I really wish we could see a movie that was more based on how amazing the dinos are vs how incompetent management is (sort of the recurring theme to these movies).
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Like a couple of gunships so that you can put down rampaging dinosaurs without risk of harm to people.
And emergency underground bunkers for the tourists if ***** hit the fan.
I'm fine with no gunships part (though it honestly makes no sense for them to have a minigun but no way of using it on-site) because it really would make the film no fun.
But lack of underground bunkers or some sort of shelter for the tourists just seems silly. Having them just sit in the sweltering heat of Costa Rica for one thing? Ugh.
If a dinosaur had escaped its paddock, wouldn't it have been more prudent to confirm that it actually did escape- by searching the area for foot prints, before actually getting into the paddock?
Good movie over all, and i agree with the points Pahfinder brought up. Some netting above the marketplace could have deterred any errant aerial attacks.
Loved the nostalgia as the two boys rediscover the old Pavilion, and the final fight. Tag team to end all tag teams.
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1. Inclusion of the kids element. Nobody cares and even the movie stopped caring.
2. They have 2 methods of detecting the I-rex, they use one and immediately ignore the other.
3. They implanted chips that shock the animals to paralyze them and forgot about them.
4. As mentioned before: they had a massive disaster in the old park so naturally they won't try to deal with it in the next park.
5. Although the science of reconstructing dinosaurs is good, the results make no sense. The fact that the owner ignored/did not understand that is beyond me.
6. As mentioned before: multibillion park has 1 rookie pilot.
7. Raptors still too tall and still not feathered.
8. The I-rex's "powers" make no sense genetically. You can't implant a specific gene and obtain a different phenotype that the original animal had. It's that age-old invalid argument that inserting a salmon gene in a berry will turn the berry into a fish.
9. The I-rex is a chimeric construct and we know very little about dinosaur behaviour. How Chris Pratt knew anything about its social behaviour is a mystery.
10. The I-rex cannot possibly communicate with velociraptors JUST because it has their DNA. Heck it wasn't even socialized.
11. The park owner wants nothing to do with the military but keeps inviting them over and giving them privileges.
12. Running in heels...
13. The T-rex is told by a flare signal it will get fed yet it did not feed nor kill the velociraptors.
14. Age-old cars and batteries from the first movie cannot magically work 20+ years later due to oxidation and lack of maintenance. Heck the oil in the engine probably oxidized and solidified.
15. The Mosasaurus could not have seen the I-rex from under the water at night.
16. The military man trying to "talk" words to the velociraptor even though he witnessed numerous times that they respond to whistling commands.
17. No after-credits scene where the chief scientist and the stolen embryos are shown.
18. Raptors lived in cages their whole lives yet the best idea to fight free dinosaurs are more free dinosaurs?
19. Why is there a dinosaur-sized gate where the I-rex is? For what possible purpose?
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