Another Jurassic Park?

Frankly, I only REALLY liked the 1st...

It was fresh, new and really nothing like THAT had been done before (remember, this was 1993, and Digital effects were JUST coming in)

Steven Spielberg who is a big fan of Harry Harryhausen, and the concept art of Wilson O'Brien's Creation, was truly inspired, when he made Jurassic Park.

JP2 & 3 was basically bits and pieces of Michael Crichton's books, Jurassic Park/The Lost World which didn't make it to the 1st Jurassic Park movie...

With Michael Crichton gone, I'm NOT sure if anything original would appear in Jurassic Park 4, if it ever makes it to the silver screen...

Just my opinion

Jurassic World (2015)

Imagine, 1993, me in a dark cinema, waiting for the first frame of Jurassic Park (1993) to come on. The anticipation.

Don't get me wrong, months before the movie, I had gotten the comics, read newspaper and magazine articles to glean any information I could about the movie.

And then it happened, the movie starts... and... I was... MESMERISED!!

The Writer, director, cast and sepcial effect people DID THEY VERY BEST for the movie, and it shows.

Originally, Steven Spielberg thought he would used animatronics and stop motion for the effects. ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) managed to persuade him otherwise. They claimed they could produced a photorealistic dinosaurs on a computer and did a "scene test". Steven Spielberg was sold and CGI came of age.

The movie box office was off the chart and after this movie, Hollywood became addicted to CGI!

For about half an hour, your do not see a complete dinosaur. Just alot of innuendos.

And when they show a hear of brontosaurus... A sense of wonderment washed over me!!

The cinema was PACKED, and everyone in the cinema was sold that dinosaur could exist in real life in 1993, just like the people in the car, in the movie.!!

After 2 diminishing sequel. how does the third sequel hold up, compared with the original?

It is DARN close.

The first 45 minutes of the movie, I get the same sense of wonderment I got watching Jurassic Park, in 1993!!

The segment itself is VERY similar to the first movie, just much MUCH bigger!!!

The "amusement park" is bigger and much MUCH "better" compared with the first one!!

Everything "right" about the first movie was squeezed into the 45 minutes, and as stated about bigger. Very much so.

I thought that the character Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) was the young girl from the first movie and she had "inherit" the company InGen, but, alas, no.

I was stoke, that BD Wong is back but...

Irrfan Khan (Life of Pi (2012) fame) plays the Hammond role!!

I actually like Chris Pratt (the character Owen) here, though truth to be told, he will always be the A-Hole colleague in the movie Wanted (2008)!!

I can actually see him in the Indiana Jones role now.

So who is the baddie here?

Same as in the first movie, namely:


Okay, do I think this is a good movie!

It is a huge movie and it will go on to make AN OBSCENE AMOUNT OF MONEY!

And what I think does not matter, because no matter what I say, you are going to go watch it anyway, right? So, go watch it.

As always.

My Two Sen.

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Jun 13 2015, 12:14 AM

I went to Imax yesterday (1Utama) and the answer is no...

Sad

Do you think Jeff Jeff Goldblum get anything for THAT??

NOT ON THURSDAY THEY DIDN'T!!!!!!

There is a crazy rumor flying around that the Owen character is the kid that Dr Grant scared the shit out of at the beginning of Jurassic Park. You know the annoying kid that said velociraptors are nothing but 6 feet Turkey.

So... You no likey?

The fact that I like it should have been an indication....

Having read the book, I have to interject here.

I read Michael Crichton's Lost World when it first came out, I have a feeling that he was "harassed" to finished the book!!

Hollywood wanted a sequel to the Big Blockbuster Jurassic Park, and paid him a BIG AMOUNT OF MONEY before he even put pen to paper. Key word here, pronto!!!!

As I said, I have a feeling he was harassed...

He actually took a page off Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World as a premise and used that it in his the book. And because of the harassment, he consciously or unconsciously made his second book... hard to film.

Which is why about 80% of the book when out the window during the script process

The book was more about conservation rather than a rescue mission (as in the movie). And in the movie, the whole ending was just Steven Spielbery homage to King Kong. Serious, you can see that right!!

My Additional Two Sen

Disney World charges USD 305, for one person for a 4 days pass...

I think this would be 10 x that at least and with 20K people visiting per day... That should keep the dinosaurs fed and the care takers paid... What do you think??

I hope you know I am hypothesizing (eg grabbing things out of my ass) and Jurassic World does not exist...

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Jun 17 2015, 09:44 PM

Actually, after writing this, I notice that I have not factored in the flight, boat and hotel charges, meaning the ticket price would probably be in the USD 7-8K at least. Not the VIP tickets that allows you to cut Q...

I was actually hoping to see more of the Dilophosaurus (Acid/Poison spitting dinosaur) But alas, no...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Watched this at IMAX 1Utama, and am glad to report, the Audion/Visual system there is still great!

I really want to like this.

The budget is there, the visual is there the sound is there.

First Act and Second Act are entertaining (not without flaws though)


They got rid of the two kids in the first movie, and the story starts with going back to the island to rescue... wait, did they not do THAT in Jurassic Park 2 already...

Oh, no no wait it is not like Jurassic Park 2. TO begin with this is Jurassic World 2.... really THAT'S the best comeback they have?

The script could have been much better.

I kinda remember the scripts of movies I had watch before, so, for me the movie had a shaky script to begin with

And most of the get out of difficult situation sequences.... had been done before...

Although the third act was really flawed (That is how they choose to end the movie?? Really??) the point they made is actually the gist that Michael Crichton tried to get acrossed in his first novel, should we go down the slippery slope of genetic study?

It is an entertaining movie.

Just seems a little repetitive in some places.

But what do I know, I enjoyed Solo and it is tanking at the box office!!

My Two Sen.

A suggestion is to spoiler you observation

Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

I wanted to like this movie.

I really did...

So much so that I plunked down a pretty penny to watched this at Imax (Rm33... ).

And the result is...

The movie is meh...

The producer and director literally threw everything at it including the kitchen sink and the final product is just okay...

It looks more like a parade of dinosaurs and not much else...

I am.... disappointed.

Maybe my expectation was too high.

My Two Sen

I am no longer a kid so...

There are alot of dinosaur in this one, so they should be impressed...

There was one scene where the guy next to me sorta jumpa little.

Reader who read my reviews know i am also a horror freak so a little jade for scare like that scene, hope this helps with your decision with bringing your kids