What's the latest movie you've seen?

~~Leo656~~ · 11-06-2014, 10:22 PM

Finally watched all three Jurassic Park movies with my wife for her Birthday. I've seen the first one a couple times but for some reason it never grabbed me and I couldn't ever remember it. It's fine, though, I had more reason to actually get into it this time, and I still think it's kind of overrated but it's definitely not bad at all. It looks way better than a lot of movies that came out years later that tried to do essentially the exact same thing (like Peter Jackson's "King Kong", holy sh*t those were some sh*tty-looking dinosaurs) and that's pretty impressive. I liked the balance of CGI and animatronics through all three, using props where appropriate really gave the entire thing more weight than it would have if everything was green-screen.

II was okay, and III wasn't "bad" but I didn't really like it. It was well-made, all three of them were really well-made, but the third one was blatantly just made for the money and it was really obvious that they ran out of story with how they essentially re-created scenes from the first two movies with different actors and bigger dinosaurs. It felt super-lazy, and I'm not surprised that everyone mutually decided after the third one that the franchise needed a break. It wasn't a bad movie, and it had its moments, but it's 100% unnecessary, completely tacked-on, and was only made to show off.

I also can't quite get how they all end with showing some totally unencumbered flying dinosaurs, and they play this super-uplifting music, as if it wasn't a complete horror show. That right there is a Doomsday Scenario, folks. You have genetically-engineered giant lizard/frogs who can switch genders and reproduce regardless of environment, it's been proven that you cannot contain them, and by the end of the second one, we know they have no problem tearing up a heavily-populated area. So why the F'n super-triumphant music at the end of the movies, when the score from Terminator 2 would be infinitely more appropriate? The very fact that these things exist should mean that the human race is literally on borrowed time. That's why the upcoming fourth movie troubles me; if it's anything other than, basically, a Godzilla movie on steroids, there's no realistic point in making it. The only natural conclusion of the Jurassic Park storyline is that dinosaurs exterminate humanity and reclaim the planet. Nothing else CAN happen, realistically, other than dropping a nuke on the island(s) and causing a whole new list of problems.

I liked them overall, though. They're definitely well-made, but you could easily only watch the first one and get all you need from the franchise, in my opinion. II and III are skippable, in my opinion. Not bad, but not necessary.

11-06-2014, 10:22 PM	#11
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Finally watched all three Jurassic Park movies with my wife for her Birthday. I've seen the first one a couple times but for some reason it never grabbed me and I couldn't ever remember it. It's fine, though, I had more reason to actually get into it this time, and I still think it's kind of overrated but it's definitely not bad at all. It looks way better than a lot of movies that came out years later that tried to do essentially the exact same thing (like Peter Jackson's "King Kong", holy sht those were some shtty-looking dinosaurs) and that's pretty impressive. I liked the balance of CGI and animatronics through all three, using props where appropriate really gave the entire thing more weight than it would have if everything was green-screen. II was okay, and III wasn't "bad" but I didn't really like it. It was well-made, all three of them were really well-made, but the third one was blatantly just made for the money and it was really obvious that they ran out of story with how they essentially re-created scenes from the first two movies with different actors and bigger dinosaurs. It felt super-lazy, and I'm not surprised that everyone mutually decided after the third one that the franchise needed a break. It wasn't a bad movie, and it had its moments, but it's 100% unnecessary, completely tacked-on, and was only made to show off. I also can't quite get how they all end with showing some totally unencumbered flying dinosaurs, and they play this super-uplifting music, as if it wasn't a complete horror show. That right there is a Doomsday Scenario, folks. You have genetically-engineered giant lizard/frogs who can switch genders and reproduce regardless of environment, it's been proven that you cannot contain them, and by the end of the second one, we know they have no problem tearing up a heavily-populated area. So why the F'n super-triumphant music at the end of the movies, when the score from Terminator 2 would be infinitely more appropriate? The very fact that these things exist should mean that the human race is literally on borrowed time. That's why the upcoming fourth movie troubles me; if it's anything other than, basically, a Godzilla movie on steroids, there's no realistic point in making it. The only natural conclusion of the Jurassic Park storyline is that dinosaurs exterminate humanity and reclaim the planet. Nothing else CAN happen, realistically, other than dropping a nuke on the island(s) and causing a whole new list of problems. I liked them overall, though. They're definitely well-made, but you could easily only watch the first one and get all you need from the franchise, in my opinion. II and III are skippable, in my opinion. Not bad, but not necessary.