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How good everything looks in the final assembly is still up in the air. The real X factor will just be how well everything's paced, cut, whether or not we give a poo poo about anyone involved, etc. The writers have done good stuff but I haven't seem anything of the director's, so I'm wavering.
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:Basically yeah. Rants against the superficiality of pop music are not helping your case. We're talking about a sequel to a film that was manufactured and hyped to the heavens from the instant the book was optioned.
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May 17, 2015 06:11
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You're really conflating two at best tenuously related things here. One is a very real problem in the VFX industry that could become a genuine crisis, and while all the FX companies going away would force some change in how Hollywood does things it would likely mean even more people going broke before studio executives feel any pinch, so it would be nice if they changed sooner instead of later. The other is your judgment of how good Jurassic World is going to be based on the trailers. It may well end up terrible but if it is it won't just be because the CGI looks a little ropey.
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May 17, 2015 06:51
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Thing is, I grew up on Godzilla movies, Doctor Who episodes, and cheap 50s B flicks. Bad special effects rarely bother me unless they're aesthetically unpleasant (like, say, all the ugly mattes in the original Clash of the Titans.) Sure, Jurassic World cost multiple hundreds of millions of dollars and so on, so you expect them to be better to start with, but it won't make a huge difference unless it actually makes the film overall look bad.
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May 17, 2015 19:55
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Mary Poppins in Dinosaur Land would be a really good movie.
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May 17, 2015 20:41
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MisterBibs posted:It's almost as if the whole "Nobody cares about the foreign markets" thing you disagreed with was ultimately correct. John Carter's 211 million worldwide doesn't matter when it only makes 73 domestically. Battleship's 65 domestic matters more than 237 international. Same goes for the positive examples you cite. Pacific Rim, then- underperformed at home, is getting a sequel specifically because it made tons of money overseas.
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May 18, 2015 05:35
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Digital color grading became more common around the turn of the century (O Brother Where Art Thou was a big breakthrough) and that allows for easier and finer manipulation of the image than earlier chemical color timing approaches.
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May 18, 2015 21:23
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This is the second-best Jurassic Park movie, which doesn't mean a whole lot since JP is still waaaaaay above, but I found that more often than not it worked. It's definitely a bit messy, and it does feel cut down in places (while overlong as a whole, so maybe the editing wasn't done very well.) The plot gets a little muddled with both the naive millionaire's group and the more overtly sinister developers, I can kinda see what they were going for overall. But everything with the dinosaurs was pretty strong and the climax achieves a certain kind of camp grandeur. Bryce Dallas Howard manages to push through some of the clumsier moments in the script and make her character actually pretty memorable (despite the gender stuff being a little... off). It's basically Jurassic Park done as a 70s-style disaster movie, with some of the bloat that comes with that.
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Jun 27, 2015 08:25
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I think I would have disliked that scene more if I had grown fond of the character, but she's barely sketched so instead it just felt like a weird focus.
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Jun 28, 2015 22:04
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The best toys are the Imagine-X line. My girlfriend's four year old nephew has a bunch of the playsets, they've got moving electronic parts and all sorts of license things plus generic stuff so you get pirate guys and aliens and Pixar Monsters going to the Batcave.
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Jul 6, 2015 02:15
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NowonSA posted:I was just kind of moderately enjoying this movie until the big Raptor/T-Rex team up at the end, at which point I was 100% on board and the entire movie was elevated from like 2 stars to 3.5 stars for me. Yeah, a good monster fight finish can absolve many sins.
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Jul 12, 2015 04:30
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Immortan posted:Jurassic World is currently at $643M domestic and it needs just $15M to knock out Titanic in the U.S. Titanic was a better movie tho. I mean I didn't hate JW but it's basically okay. Acceptable.
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