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Has there ever been a single franchise that suffered from such severe diminishing returns as Jurassic Park? It's almost asymptotic at this point how bad these movies are getting. Even Alien and Terminator seem to have its occasional bright spots and up and downs. The franchise consists of a single good movie and 5 (?) awful sequels.
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Jaws I guess Hellraiser managed at least one good sequel, but everything past that is easily worse than even the worst Jurassic Park ripoff.
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Jun 21, 2021 20:20
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Samuel Clemens posted:Jaws No, because 25% of all Jaws films are good, whereas only 16% of all JP movies are any good, and they've been making JP movies for over a quarter of a century now. The jaws franchise started and finished within 12 years and hasn't reared its ugly head in my lifetime.
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Jun 21, 2021 20:23
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I don't think 16% is accurate, unless you're only allowing for whole movies and not parts. JP2 and JP3 should at least get points for great effects and animatronics, and JP2 has the trailer sequence which stands up to any sequence from the first film. JP3 should also get at least a couple points for being as good as it is despite its script being thrown out 3 weeks before shooting and started over from scratch. I hear a lot of people like Camp Cretaceous and talk about it in the same league as Clone Wars as something that works for adults and carves out its own identity apart from the films, but I'm just not sure I can bring myself to watch it. At least the prequels were interesting bases to start from, if rather flawed. CC is just playing in a toybox filled with garbage. e: While we're talking about this, I just thought I'd throw out my pet idea that if Vince Vaughn's character had been cut from The Lost World and his story was given to Sarah Harding, it would have vastly improved the film. Malcolm's girlfriend being an ecoterrorist who went over Malcolm's head to destroy InGen's corporate machinations would have given the film some extremely necessary life. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jun 21, 2021 |
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Jun 21, 2021 20:33
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Samuel Clemens posted:I guess Hellraiser managed at least one good sequel, but everything past that is easily worse than even the worst Jurassic Park ripoff. Curious as to which sequel you are referring to here, because they are all extremely bad in very different ways. I guess probably 2, but that movie sucks rear end too, it just has some nice matte paintings.
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Jun 21, 2021 23:22
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feedmyleg posted:I don't think 16% is accurate, unless you're only allowing for whole movies and not parts. JP2 and JP3 should at least get points for great effects and animatronics, and JP2 has the trailer sequence which stands up to any sequence from the first film. I don’t know. I watched JP2 for the first time in my adult life a few years back, and it struck me how much the trailer scene is just a rehash of the T-Rex scene from JP1. It’s still extremely well done but it’s more or less choreographed the same.
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Jewmanji posted:I don’t know. I watched JP2 for the first time in my adult life a few years back, and it struck me how much the trailer scene is just a rehash of the T-Rex scene from JP1. It’s still extremely well done but it’s more or less choreographed the same. its a wonderful escalation sequence, a little mean (the bald dude did not deserve that, as opposed to the lawyer who did by virtue of being a coward and abandoning the kids) and a critical lessons that Spielberg (and I imagine Critchton) kept hammering: stop loving with nature.
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Jun 22, 2021 04:45
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The teaser leaked and it’s kinda cool. The T-rex attacks a drive in theater. That’s kinda fun
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Jun 22, 2021 04:47
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Here have the T-Rex escaping the Paddock scene in 4K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc_i5TKdmhs&t=1s
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Jun 22, 2021 04:53
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The last few movies he's made have put the Nic Cage script bot to shame. https://twitter.com/NicCagePlotBot
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Jeeeeeeeesus https://twitter.com/qassini/status/1407232243345629184?s=19 https://twitter.com/nayadontgiveaf/status/1407144220167606279?s=19 Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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Taryn Manning is pretty fair-skinned but they seem to have painted the white characters extra-white
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Vegetable posted:Taryn Manning is pretty fair-skinned but they seem to have painted the white characters extra-white Oh its Caked on white
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CelticPredator posted:The teaser leaked and it’s kinda cool. The T-rex attacks a drive in theater. That’s kinda fun Link?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRHAE1AZugY
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CelticPredator posted:The teaser leaked and it’s kinda cool. The T-rex attacks a drive in theater. That’s kinda fun Does it immediately get lit the gently caress up by depleted uranium rounds turning it's skull into an exploding melon, because this is the 21st century and a T-rex isn't exactly stealth?
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CelticPredator posted:The teaser leaked and it’s kinda cool. The T-rex attacks a drive in theater. That’s kinda fun Does it have someone in the audience going "wow the 3D effects are amazing these days!"
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Lobok posted:Does it have someone in the audience going "wow the 3D effects are amazing these days!" "I gotta get me one of those" is also acceptable.
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Jun 22, 2021 19:44
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Previous trailers had me intrigued, but this one gets me amped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPBH3XO8YEU
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Even with Candyman and Titane in here, this is by far the most terrifying trailer I've seen all week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJO5m6EFL6A
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Jun 23, 2021 17:15
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Netflix: we'll stick a dude in a makeup chair for 4 hours before we dare put someone that weighs over two bills on a dating show.
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Jun 23, 2021 17:42
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thrawn527 posted:Teaser for a trailer, but apparently there's going to be a Jurassic World trailer exclusively attached to F9 in IMAX theaters. Jurassic Park but it’s the dinosaurs trying to make sense of and deal with Brexit
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flashy_mcflash posted:Even with Candyman and Titane in here, this is by far the most terrifying trailer I've seen all week. “Let’s pick great looking people, put a mask over their smokin bods, and then say it’s about personality.” Though it would be brutal if they did try it legit and someone saw the face and went “Nah, I’m good.” I’m there for Candyman and Titane
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feedmyleg posted:Previous trailers had me intrigued, but this one gets me amped: FUUUUUUUUUUUCK that looks good.
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Jun 24, 2021 00:38
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I didn't know they kept Tony Todd. Smart move.
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feedmyleg posted:I don't think 16% is accurate, unless you're only allowing for whole movies and not parts. JP2 and JP3 should at least get points for great effects and animatronics, and JP2 has the trailer sequence which stands up to any sequence from the first film. JP3 should also get at least a couple points for being as good as it is despite its script being thrown out 3 weeks before shooting and started over from scratch. JP3 is much better than I think people give it credit for. It's solid "sunday afternoon on TNT" fare, and there are hints of some more interesting character stuff there that obviously doesn't go anywhere but on the whole it's more entertaining than any of the recent series entries. That might have more to do with Sam Neill being the main character instead of Pratt though. I like your theory about JP2, that would've made for a much better film albeit one that would be weirdly reminiscent of Children of Men given Julianne Moore's role in both. feedmyleg posted:Previous trailers had me intrigued, but this one gets me amped: drat that looks good.
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Mat Cauthon posted:JP3 is much better than I think people give it credit for. It's solid "sunday afternoon on TNT" fare, and there are hints of some more interesting character stuff there that obviously doesn't go anywhere but on the whole it's more entertaining than any of the recent series entries. That might have more to do with Sam Neill being the main character instead of Pratt though. JP3 is a perfect example of what a podcast I listen to, We Hate Movies, calls a Hangover Movie. Something to turn on in the late morning, early afternoon when you don't want anything too heavy, just something to have on in the background to pay a little attention to and enjoy at a surface level. It's fun, but not great, and doesn't ask too much of its audience. Its biggest problem is that it doesn't have enough people for the dinos to eat, but whatever, it has flying dinos and they're awesome. JP2 is more frustrating, because there's a great movie hidden somewhere in there, but it never quite pulls it off. It was Spielberg's first movie after a 4 year break after making Schindler's List and the first Jurassic Park, and he's a little rusty making blockbusters, and it shows. For every great scene like the raptors in the tall grass, there's the gymnastics take down bullshit. He also didn't allow his actors to rehearse, saying he wanted, "to capture the actors when they taste the words for the first time, when they look at each other for the first time", which is certainly a choice. He wasn't able to use his usual cinematographer, and the replacement made everything look way darker. Wikipedia even has this bit about how disappointed he was with the movie, and why: Wikipedia posted:Spielberg said that during production he became increasingly disenchanted with the film, stating, "I beat myself up... growing more and more impatient with myself... It made me wistful about doing a talking picture, because sometimes I got the feeling I was just making this big silent-roar movie... I found myself saying, 'Is that all there is? It's not enough for me.'" Spielberg regretted that the film characters are aware they are going to an island of dinosaurs, unlike the previous film. Spielberg later said that he knows a major reason why his sequels tend to not live up to the quality of his original films: "My sequels aren't as good as my originals because I go onto every sequel I've made and I'm too confident. This movie made a ka-zillion dollars, which justifies the sequel, so I come in like it's going to be a slam dunk and I wind up making an inferior movie to the one before. I'm talking about The Lost World and Jurassic Park."
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Meanwhile, James Cameron just goes insane with the sequels he does.
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Jun 24, 2021 13:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKz5kZr8mrg I am here for anything starring King, Elba and Stanfield
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BlueBayou posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKz5kZr8mrg Oh that looks great.
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BlueBayou posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKz5kZr8mrg Kneejerk reaction was I was hoping for a follow up/homage to The Harder They Come, but, uh, yeah that’ll do
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BlueBayou posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKz5kZr8mrg Totally there for this.
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BlueBayou posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKz5kZr8mrg That's a helluva cast
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Jun 24, 2021 18:36
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That looks like a dang fun time.
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BlueBayou posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKz5kZr8mrg Wow.
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BlueBayou posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKz5kZr8mrg haha rad
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It’s a handsome trailer but it also *really* looks like it was shot on a COVID film set. Never seen such empty towns in a Western film.
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BlueBayou posted:
Add Johnathan Majors to that list for me.
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Vegetable posted:It’s a handsome trailer but it also *really* looks like it was shot on a COVID film set. Never seen such empty towns in a Western film. yeah i'm mostly just reacting to all those awesome people being in one place
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