re: On rewatch, Jurassic World is not a good movie

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But the movie has no staying power.

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Completely disagree here but y’all seem to love shitting on massive blockbusters that are very popular with the general public so you do you.

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The T Rex and Raptor scenes in the original I think you should be at least 9 before you watch.

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Nah, I was 4 when the original came out. I saw it five times in theaters and loved it.

A few years back when my nephew was 3, he was wearing a shirt with a dinosaur on it and I said something to him about raptors. He said, "yeah, the ones with the claw" and tapped his finger three times on the table.

My sister looked at him sideways and said "So... you've seen Jurassic Park, huh?" Apparently his dad let him watch it.

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It's not a great movie, but its infinitely better than Fallen Kingdom.

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100%

FK is fricking terrible.

One other thing in JW that bothers me is how Evil Military Guy uses the scene where Pratt, the guy who the raptors are supposed to love more than anyone else, almost gets eaten by the raptors as a sign that they are ready for field tests.

Were they on a timetable or something? No one in their right mind would see that situation and think “yep, that’s clearly a great example of the raptors showing obedience”.

Pratt literally had to run from them to not die.

Also, why didn’t the raptors just murder them all immediately when they started the motorcycle chase?

Nothing prior to that shows that they wouldn’t just kill them all.

There is only one good JP movie. The rest sit somewhere between unwatchable and decent popcorn, turn off your brain flick. It's too bad Michael Crichton isn't around to write a good ending to this film series with the tone of the first movie.

5 movies???

I'm glad I have only seen the first.

I enjoyed both the chris pratt ones

Jmo both were good fun movies

Also that big arse swimming dinosaur lol who hasn't been wanting something like that

I even enjoyed the splicing to make a t-rex raptor mix one

Nobody likes any of the star wars movies lol the last 3 by Lucas somehow people like

I'm just a different breed I gues

Just so boring compared to the the new ones

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big arse swimming dinosaur

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this guy should show up in the next godzilla movie.

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save for being very disturbed on what happened to Ron Howard’s daughter’s assistant

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Another crazy talking point that I've seen all over the internet that exhibits a massive failing of the series as a whole.

When did live dinosaurs become the fricking morality police? They are agents of chaos who should wantonly kill innocent people constantly for food or to protect their territory. That's what wild animals do.

It only feels superfluous in FK because it stopped happening after the wildly successful only decent movie in the franchise. No one complains about dude getting chewed up from the toes up in the opening scene of JP or Muldoon getting swamped or Arnold's arm getting bitten off (Black man dies off screen - sideye Hollywood).

Eddie Carr gets ripped in half in LW and people complained about how "unfair" that was. Then by FK you have legions of people trying to defend her death as "well, they cut scenes where she was a jerk". Who fricking cares if she was a hero or not. If a pterodactyl wants to eat you, you're getting fricking eaten - sinner or saint.

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There is only one good JP movie. The rest sit somewhere between unwatchable and decent popcorn, turn off your brain flick

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I really like all three in the original trilogy. There are a lot of things in Lost World that bother me (the last part in LA is the most egregious), but all in all it's an entertaining movie for the most part. And I find that I like JP3 a hell of a lot more than most people. I thought it was pretty great. Yes, there are some stupid parts, but I can let those slide because dinosaurs.

I will say though, in JP3...I get why people hate the talking raptor, but that was a dream. That was kinda the whole point...it's supposed to be weird when the raptor says his name, because he's asleep and dreaming. And the movies portray raptors as having pretty high-functioning brain activity. They are super smart. So they can communicate (which we saw in the first one anyway) and figure things out. So it makes sense that if they are only trying to protect their egg, they would peace out after getting it back. Sure, it's kinda silly, but it at least makes some sense. Same with the raptor that tried to climb the door when Alan was trapped behind it...it saw a problem and figured out a solution.