Has anyone seen "Jurassic World"?

[Alex K]

Oh no the movie is a sucka. While, for instance, JP3 held a good balance of action, comedy, timing and child actors from not being irritating this one does not. Yes the characters suck to the point they really harm a stupid monster flick. Imagine a ride among the dinosaurs - these huge CG creatures and then all focuses on one hairy kid saying "No, I think our parents are getting divorce." - I guess it would be a good line for a character just before he gets eaten by a giant T-Rex but not for someone that survives and you have to cheer for. I mean it's such a stupid cliche already that in this big destruction movies you always have a theme of family gathering, so it looks like the whole world needs to get destroyed in order that one stupid american family gets together.

Then the screenplay: imagine everything you see on screen gets explained to you by people in HQ - like pterodactyls escape and then cut to HQ where they tell us that pterodactyls escaped.

Then the dinosaurs that, except for few plant eaters, have fanatic mission of hate toward humans to kill them - like the one Jews had for Jesus in Mel Gibson's "Passion".

And then every scene has to be a tribute to some other scene from a famous movie because these people are too stupid to think up and choreograph an actual scene.

JP1 was all about new special effects, wonder, tension, few laughs.
JP2 was Spielberg being angry that he has to make a sequel and audience had to suffer.
JP3 was about exploration, making up for JP2, action, few laughs and some new fun dinos.
JW was beyond all that, it's not that it feels that they didn't try it's just that they didn't know what to do. Filmmakers were too clunky and incompetent.

I actually don't mind the catastrophe induced family bonding theme. But it wad done so half assedly and heavy handedly here!  They would have had to prepare it somehow and then roll with it - have the kids leave to be with aunt in the park *because* the parents are getting a divorce, damn that would have made *some* sense and then have them come together a la JP3 cliche if you must - but if you really want that story ark, you need to do it right, spend some time on it, and do it consistently.

Generally, the art of atmospheric suspense and built up seems to be a dead art. Too afraid to lose the transformers crowd if one dared to actually take time to produce a sense of dread on top of a working theme park? The park by the way never feels real because no time is spent having real people do something there. That is a big problem - you want the park and the people in it to feel real, and then let danger loom over it. Trevorrow could not pull it off as a writer.