Has anyone seen "Jurassic World"?

[Clueless Morgan]

Another thing that made it hard for me to maintain suspension of disbelief is the incoherent reaction of characters to catastrophe and tragedy. So she just finds out that her nephews jumped off a 1000 foot waterfall and rather than being in panicking rescue mode, the next interaction is that she is acting cute to charm main hero guy into taking her with him. Wtf?!! That pissed me off. Same in the control room when the animal escapes and some guards are eaten. There is no sense of horror in anyone, hell the main concern of control room  technician is that big baddie threw his plastic dinosaurs on the floor. Wtf! Same again when they send in the military guys. They get killed off one by one Aliens-style (which was a cool scene because it was lifted 1:1 from a classic, no original ideas here) and noone really seems to mind all that much. I've acted more horrified when my computer crashes or something.

Okay, there's another thing:  The aunt is supposedly sprinting around this island in, like, 3" spike heels.  And never trips, stumbles, sprains an ankle, nothing.  There was that stupid moment when she "adventurizes" her silly outfit, but she keeps her high heels on?

Seriously, did the director go on vacation after the first scene?

I'm not so sure he ever came home from his last vacation - maybe he did all of his direction over Skype from a beach chair in Bermuda?

Yeah I'll give a few quick comments here.

Good:
1. 1.85:1 aspect ratio.

3. The child actors were as good if not better than the actors in the 1993 film: in particular Ty Simpkins delivers a more believable scared child than Joseph Mazzello.

Disagree - I thought the kids in JW were dreadful.  I have a lot of affection for the kids in the original movie because I was so close to their ages when I saw it in '93.

5. It is set on Isla Nublar, the original island planned for Jurassic Park.

Was it just me or did the island get gigantic since the first movie?

6. There are two kids that play a major role in the film - not just one.

There were two kids in the first movie...  maybe people didn't like them (I did) but there were two.  Three if you count the big-eyed, snot-nosed twerp Allen gives the raptor lesson to in the very beginning.

7. It was nice to see B D Wong reprise his role from the original film.

But with absolutely no explanation for why he's suddenly okay with designing super-dinos, or why he's even there at all.

Bad:
1. The main character from JP/TLW - Ian Malcolm - isn't in this film.

Ian Malcolm wasn't the main character in JP, Allen was.

4. Wu makes a "new dinosaur" for a "new attraction". Why???

This was, like, the most successful commentary of the whole movie: people want bigger, badder shit and they'll lose interest in a park if new attractions aren't added.  I agree about why it had to be genetically modified super-dinos and not, like, roller coasters or something, but I sort of bought their explanation for this.

5. The kids go run about on their own, lose with a killer dino on the loose. Yeah - WHY??? The whole point of JP was that the kids were guided by Grant - they survived the whole ordeal together, and made their way across the island on foot, and they bonded.

It would have been interesting to have the main "hero" guy guiding the kids in this movie, but then the parallels to JP1 would have been just too much for me to stomach.

(Clearly I didn't care enough about this movie to learn any character names... )

In JW you have some of the most ridiculous things - for example, the kids find some Jeeps that have been sitting in an old InGen building for 22 years, and they manage to start one and drive away. WHAT?!! And WHY? Why did InGen not service those Jeeps and use them? Why are their old buildings wasting away unused for 22 years??

An excellent example of lack of character building.  The whole movie is an example of the "ex machina" trope.  Need the kids to be able to fix a car?  BAM!  They used to work on cars with their grandpa!  Need a way to kill the fuck-you-up-osaurus?  BAM!!  Release the t-rex who was no where to be seen in the rest of the movie!!!  Need to explain why the brothers are being sent off to a dino death island all by themselves?  BAM!! The parents are getting a divorce!!

7. Why is the killer dino rampaging anyway? I mean, in JP the T-Rex they're all scared of is just doing what it does - hunting for food, but this dino goes around killing everything just because it can.

Because the dino is supposed to be "smart", and what do smart things do?  They rampage.  Clearly.  

8. The rampaging dino claws out the tracker that's implanted in it. Again - WHY? That's just not realistic.

Because the dinosaur is supposed to be "smart" - clearly smarter than the writers of this movie.

10. The raptors - where are their feathers from JPIII? And OK, no feathers, but why do they behave in a way that defies belief at the end of the film?? WHY???

HA!  I don't even remember the third movie - well, I remember something about blowing into a dino skull like a conch shell.  I love, love, love JP1 and I have a huge sentimental attachment to TLW:JP, and I think I should just leave the JP movie franchise at that.

12. Wu's darker character was overall great. However, what motivation is there to keep what genes are spliced together a "secret" from the executives? That just doesn't make any sense. That whole part of the story could have been done better, and it could still have lead to the so-called "twist" in the story that happens later on.

Except that he was completely unexplained, both in his involvement with InGen again and his weird agreement to genetically engineer super-dinos.

Any reason why Spielberg wouldn't direct?

Self-respect/dignity maybe?

One can hope.  

It was in fact the protagonist Owen Grady who allowed the mutant dino to escape its enclosure in the first place! He was too stupid to check the other side of the wall before going in to the enclosure.

Ah, that was so galling!!!  So they put all this protection around the raptor enclosure, make sure there's an air-lock-type entrance so the raptors can't escape or anything and then create the fuck-you-up-osaurus and just let the main entrance gate open into a parking lot or something??  WTF?!?!?  They knew they were creating a super-dino, why would they not build an enclosure that was, you know, just a little more escape proof???