Has anyone seen "Jurassic World"?

[Alex K]

I'm a big fan of the JP series and, predictably, the first installment in particular.

I am very excited about the new one, although I pretty firmly expect that it will fail in some aspects I find essential in the first one.

So has anyone here seen it and wants to share their analysis?

[Chad32]

I heard they were coming out with Jurassic World, but I haven't seen it. Is it out now?

The first movie was a great horror movie. the other ones I'm not a huge fan of. I forget if it was the second or third movie where almost every death was due to something the protagonists did, and the "villains" of the movie weren't really villainous.

[Anomalocaris]

I'm a big fan of the JP series and, predictably, the first installment in particular.

I am very excited about the new one, although I pretty firmly expect that it will fail in some aspects I find essential in the first one.

So has anyone here seen it and wants to share their analysis?

I wonder how that hemster ball shaped safari vehicle shown in the theatrical trailor is suppose to work.

Also, not even bob Bakker thinks stegosaurus can run.

[Aoi Magi]

I watched it, and if you totally forget the existence of JP1, and believe JP3 was the first movie in the series, then yeh it's a good movie. Otherwise you are in for a disappointment. In this movie, there is some action, loads of stupidity, good CG (but way less realistic) and 0 characterization. Throughout the movie, the only character I could somehow care about would be the raptor.

PS: regarding the illogical dinosaurs, they do have an explanation. They are not natural but made in lab, so anything goes.

[Minimalist]

The first one was good...until the kids showed up and then it went right down the shitter.

The others never got out of the shitter.

[Alex K]

I watched it, and if you totally forget the existence of JP1, and believe JP3 was the first movie in the series, then yeh it's a good movie. Otherwise you are in for a disappointment. In this movie, there is some action, loads of stupidity, good CG (but way less realistic) and 0 characterization. Throughout the movie, the only character I could somehow care about would be the raptor.

PS: regarding the illogical dinosaurs, they do have an explanation. They are not natural but made in lab, so anything goes.

Can you say what type of stupidity?

[Chad32]

Kids in movies can be a mixed bag, because they typically don't have the experience needed to be good actors. There are some exceptions, I'm sure, but I don't set the bar real high when it comes to kids.

[Alex K]

I thought the kids in JP were ok. The boy is somewhat annoying, but that's on purpose as he is actually annoying Alan Grant in-universe, so that's perfectly acceptable, and even makes for pretty funny, if slightly heavy-handed way to characterize Grant

[Aoi Magi]

The kids are there most likely because they came cheap, other than that it seemed like a mixture of different plots and they didn't serve to enhance any of them. I don't want to say much because I don't want to give out spoilers, but none of the human characters serve any real purpose in this movie. The acting wasn't the worst I have seen, but the story didn't let them do much either.

[Pyrrho]

I think they put kids in movies like this to have characters to which kids in the audience can relate.  It is all about making money, not about making a good movie.  And that explains why so many movies are so bad in so many ways.