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Old 06-02-2022, 02:39 AM   #141
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I watched the movie yesterday, here is a non-spoiler Jurassic World Dominion review with my thoughts on it. Overall I was very afraid of what this movie would be but I loved it and think it works great as a final movie to the franchise. It's similar in style to the previous two Jurassic World movies, in case you don't like those then this is a bit more of that. It won't win any haters but I feel they did a good job with the movie in not "ruining it" like say Star Wars.
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Old 06-04-2022, 11:30 PM   #142
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I watched the movie again, this time in 4DX and had a blast, now that's something you can't recreate at home. The 3D was nice and the added BS of having water and air, feedback etc is always fun. I still liked the movie, I was able to get a few more references which made me enjoy the movie more. I wanted the movie to bomb but it seems to be fairly successful so far but I liked the ending and I think a Jurassic Park 7 could be done well, I'm a bit less fearful but of course I rather not get a sequel to this.

I think the villains of the movie could've been hinted at in previous JW movies. Maisie Lockwood gets another retcon which I don't think it's necessarily better but whatever. I like how they don't have dinosaurs running around everywhere as if it were normal, in general dinosaurs live in the world but are not common and I like how the movie basically takes place at the Dinosaur Reserve.
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Old 06-05-2022, 01:08 AM   #143
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It's similar in style to the previous two Jurassic World movies, in case you don't like those then this is a bit more of that.
Well... there really isn't any going back from that. There could never be a Jurassic Park-level story again in this continuity.
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Old 06-05-2022, 06:58 AM   #144
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Well... there really isn't any going back from that. There could never be a Jurassic Park-level story again in this continuity.
Yeah, and it's not like people care either. It seems that all that matters is that there's dinosaurs that kill people. That's the threshold of quality for most.
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Old 06-05-2022, 10:24 AM   #145
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I mean i agree, Jurassic park told a story and finished it. Every sequel after that has not been needed but they're still the best dinosaur movies even if they can't hold a candle to the original.

This was the sixth movie with dinosaurs in the main land now. I think they did a fantastic job with all that baggage. It's a fun dinosaur movie and doesn't spit on the original. They did it better than star wars and star wars is a franchise that can actually go beyond the original premise unlike Jurassic.

I now feel confident a JP7 could be good even if i don't want a sequel, I'd rather get a prequel, reboot, a tv show or anything other than a JP7.
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Old 06-05-2022, 11:15 AM   #146
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This was the sixth movie with dinosaurs in the main land now. I think they did a fantastic job with all that baggage. It's a fun dinosaur movie and doesn't spit on the original. They did it better than star wars and star wars is a franchise that can actually go beyond the original premise unlike Jurassic.
I got the vibe from Fallen Kingdom that we're supposed to disagree with Ian Malcolm at the beginning of the movie, and side with the 'environmentalist' dinosaur supporters. I guess that's not spitting on the original movie, just spitting on the 'old dinosaur' protagonist from the original.
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No, that's consistent with what Malcolm wants and what others want. Hell I's the same point in the lost world where Malcolm disagreed with his girlfriend who wanted to preserve dinosaurs and he didn't care.
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Old 06-05-2022, 04:19 PM   #148
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No, that's consistent with what Malcolm wants and what others want. Hell I's the same point in the lost world where Malcolm disagreed with his girlfriend who wanted to preserve dinosaurs and he didn't care.
I'm not saying it's inconsistent with his character. It's that the writers of the movie were villifying him for his view on the dinosaur situation.
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Old 06-05-2022, 09:24 PM   #149
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I'm not saying it's inconsistent with his character. It's that the writers of the movie were villifying him for his view on the dinosaur situation.
I think you're seeing too much into that, he was never implied to be a villain like at all. He's just giving the same message he gave the previous two movies he was in. There was a viral marketing campaign of #savethem #actofgod whether they should stay in the island or not for fun but neither side was a villain. The villains of the movie are actually the ones who went to "save them" regardless.

I can definitely say Dominion respected the characters more than JP2 and JP3 did. Not every scene is perfect but they did things right unlike star wars.
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Old 06-10-2022, 01:57 PM   #150
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Critic reviews are not kind to this one.

They make it out to be that it's something of a dino-snore of a movie.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/09/jura...franchise.html

https://gizmodo.com/jurassic-park-fi...-do-1849036980

https://reason.com/2022/06/10/jurass...ostalgia-trip/

I'll still see it, of course, but the trailers just didn't do anything for me.
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Old 06-10-2022, 09:20 PM   #151
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I enjoyed it. This is one of those franchises where I don't really understand the fanbase. The first movie is a classic and the best one, but how long can they ponder the same question and do the same movie? What do fans really want from this franchise? Sure, each movie got worse in the original trilogy but at that point, people are just watching for some dinosaurs on the big screen and I think the Jurassic World movies have been great popcorn flicks for that very purpose.

As for Dominion, it wasn't exactly what I expected or wanted, but I thought it was pretty good overall. I didn't expect the original cast to be featured as much as they were and I thought it was clever how they separated the old and new cast for most of the movie until their stories converged. The action was pretty good too and I loved just how scary they made the dinosaurs feel this time. It was like a horror movie whenever sh*t was going down with the dinosaurs and I thought they did a great job creating tension as well. They've seriously been snoozing on making a cool action adventure Jurassic Park game.
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Old 06-10-2022, 11:06 PM   #152
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Yeah I don't know what people are expecting from this. It's a big budget dinosaur movie with Great action, effects and good acting unlike a b dino movie. The original movie is perfect but it tells a full stand alone story. Anything after that is just for fun to explore that world but it's not going to be better.

I know a lot of the bad reviews also stem from the fact that it's cool to hate Colin Trevorrow and because extremists think Chris Pratt is a right wing Nazi. Oh and it's not a marvel movie so it doesn't get any free points. I'm not saying it's for everyone, I'd you want an action movie with dinos this is for you. If you hated the previous Jurassic World movies then this isn't for you. But it's silly to rank this as the worst JP movie. For what it's worth I liked it and I hated the idea of dinosaurs in the mainland.

@Turo if you can check out Jurassic World Aftermath, it's a survival horror game. It's awesome.
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I expect I'd like it as much as 3, 4, and 5. As in a few notable moments and neat spectacle but otherwise meh. With a nonsense story. So it's not like it's in bad company, sure. Honestly only with 3 I felt cheated, mostly because of the running time and sense of "we've seen this before."

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Old 06-11-2022, 02:24 AM   #154
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might as well make a Dino Riders movie (if i made a MASK movie id set it in 80s like the toon)
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Old 06-11-2022, 01:47 PM   #156
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Did they go anywhere with the 'girl was a literal clone of her mother' plot from the last movie?
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Old 06-11-2022, 05:31 PM   #157
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might as well make a Dino Riders movie (if i made a MASK movie id set it in 80s like the toon)
I'd prefer Dinosaurs and Cadillacs.
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Old 06-12-2022, 04:54 AM   #158
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Old 06-12-2022, 06:32 AM   #159
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Did they go anywhere with the 'girl was a literal clone of her mother' plot from the last movie?
I'm wondering this too. Otherwise... why?
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Saw it. Wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. I was surprised that they legitimately gave all of the classic cast stuff of value to do. Nobody felt underutilized. They got some surprising dramatic mileage out of the clone girl, which I did not think was possible after seeing the last one. Ellie and Alan get some nice moments.

The only weak links are the new characters. Black lesbian Han Solo (complete with Millennium Falcon) didn't serve any purpose but for them to say they have a black lesbian in the movie. They could've easily made one of the other characters a pilot and we could've been saved 10 minutes of running time. The nerdy black guy who snitches out the evil megacorporation is fine but we never get any sense of why he did the snitching or how he wouldn't have been vetted better.

The main bad guy is actually pretty good. He's not a big looming presence, but he's believable. He's quirky and logical and isn't just doing evil for evil's sake. I don't know if I'd ever seen that actor playing him but he was fun to watch.

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Also, the shaving cream can from JP1? It's neat to finally have a nod to it... but why is it like a valuable thing now? Nedry even said it was going to go bad if he didn't get it into refrigeration/freeze within a short amount of time and he obviously failed to and it wasn't even being frozen now, 30 years later.

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