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Martman posted:Pro Tip: There is a reason the Fast and the Furious series is shattering records at the box office and people are praising the cars driving fast. Because they're loving awesome.  This feels like the exact sort of movie that, had it spent another year in development, it would have been amazing. As it is, it's competent and forgettable. It's mostly mashups of things that were done better in other movies. Take the second encounter with the I-Rex, with the heartbeat monitors that it swiped from Aliens. Whoever was behind that (the director, possibly) loves that scene from Aliens, but didn't quite get it. The scene in Aliens is constructed so that you see almost nothing of the fight. You just see panicked soldiers glimpsed through violently shaking helmet cams and muzzle flash blocking out the screen. The heartbeat monitors are the only things you see clearly. It works because you can't see the battle, but you can see the disastrous results, and Gorman's catatonic reaction. In JW, the fight is very clear, we see everything in detail (except that backlit shot of the man getting savaged behind a tree branch, which is gorgeous) and then cut to frantic views of the heartbeat monitors. Its reversed. And you see it and go "Ah, that's like that bit in Aliens, which I liked" rather than "Holy gently caress they got slaughtered." It's real problem is that it's an okay movie with far too much telling not showing, following on from a movie that managed to tell its entire story and all its themes with a seatbelt.
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Hbomberguy posted:This happens a lot in Marvel movies too, where people talk about how great various fights were and how they always wanted tohr and halk to fight, but then you sit down and watch the scene and it's two actors dancing against a greenscreen and the camera is in a rubbish place. The one shot in the new BvS trailer where Batman springs from one goon to the next is better than anything the MCU has produced. They've yet to beat the shot where Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike charge at each other in X2
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Xenomrph posted:And? So what? A huge part of the draw of many movies, and especially Jurassic Park, is the audience's imagination of what they would do or what they want to see. A huge part of the "magic" in JP is the mere thought that a dinosaur theme park could be real, even though we don't see a working theme park in the movie. Taking that to its logical conclusion, the movie doesn't need to exist.
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Jul 15, 2015 02:17
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It's kind of like the third Hobbit movie. It had a bunch of goofy elements (far more than Jurassic World) but didn't fully commit to it. The extended edition does, though, resulting in a fantasy film that's equal parts 300, a Total War computer game and Monty Python. That one scene in Jurassic World is the one scene with that tone. If the film had committed to it, it probably would have been a lot more fun, and that scene less jarring. All the rest of the "Dinosaur eats people" scenes are so comparatively sombre and imagination free.
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Oct 26, 2015 00:58
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And loving love the original Jurassic Park, which was insanely successful.
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Oct 26, 2015 02:13
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Burkion posted:John Carter was a doomed movie. It had way too much baggage on it just from all of the different attempts to make it and it was always going to struggle to make its money back, and then there's the half hearted way they actually attempted to make it. The scene near the beginning where he keeps jumping out the window was pretty good. It should have been the opening scene, it would have opened with a ton more energy.
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Nov 2, 2015 04:53
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Uncle Wemus posted:I know he was a confederate in the books but they didnt really mentiin it in the movie did they? Being a confederate veteran is still, for some drat reason, the done thing. See also, Hell on Wheels. Steve2911 posted:John Carter was better than Jurassic World.
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Nov 18, 2015 12:37
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John Carter's only real problem is that it took way too long to get going. It started with no energy, and took a really long time to gain any.
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