Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow, 2021) Movie • Page 21

I forgot they posted the first five minutes of the movie that isn’t actually in the movie. It sets up a more interesting premise.

 

Once the movie is released, as in Thursday night the majority of the time, spoiler tags are not required. People can use them if they choose to, but they don’t need to.
I’ve never understood why anyone would actively choose to go into a discussion thread for something and be shocked it’s being openly discussed.

 

I never took that as the start of the movie. Wasn’t it pushed as a prologue?

 

So like Dino’s are still out there with no consequence. Cool.

lol I actually really liked the movie though. Some fun shots in there

 

The fact that they didn’t focus much on the dinosaurs in the outside world could it set it up to have that be a bigger plot of a future film though so that could be a good thing

 

Maybe, but uh… when you’re promoting a movie as the end of a saga, you probably shouldn’t be leaving a better story for the future.

 

when is the christopher nolan jurassic park trilogy

 

When is the Todd Phillips Jurassic trilogy

 

All I know is the Giganotosaurus reminded me so much of the Joker, so it’s only a matter of time before Todd Phillips enters the picture.

 

When he killed those other dinos on the subway, I was like “Whoa. This is a little….twisted.”

 

I spoiled the plot for myself and the fact that the sixth movie in a dinosaur-based franchise is about giant insects is sending me places. It's like, people want to at least go to these movies to see dinosaurs fucking tear shit up and they can't even have that.

 

I went for the Alan, Ellie, and Malcolm.

 

I kinda really liked it?

The bad: it was dumb in the way all 3 have been dumb. The first 15 minutes are boring. The last 10 minutes is weirdly devoid of dinosaurs eating people.

The good: it was fun as fuck. The motorcycle scene was worth half a ticket alone. The underground scene the other half. It backed way way off most of the shit that made Fallen Kingdom a standout of dumbness in a dumb series. (The locust and clone stuff isn't not dumb, but the synopsis makes it sound so much worse than it was in execution.) It felt nostalgic in a good way, cheap but not TROS cheap.

Like, the original movie and most of TLW were legitimately good movies and these aren’t. That’s a fact. But three movies in I think they’re free of those expectations and I can enjoy them for what they are, and in some ways this was the most enjoyable of the three. It doesn’t redeem the JW series as equal to the original, but I can’t imagine anyone who got enjoyment out of either of the last two won’t enjoy this.

 

I’m rewatching Fallen Kingdom and it’s still fucking dumb and awful, but like, I didn’t hate my time watching it.

That’s where my standards are at going into the 3rd one tomorrow

 

Also, did the little girl pick up a human skull to throw at the Dimetrodon in the mine? Why are there human skulls in the mine?

 

Yes. And I don’t know.

 

Trevorrow originally wanted it to be the start of the movie and then decided to cut it. So canonically it is just a prologue.

 

Something that gave me a good laugh was in the beginning when they showed the poll of what people think should be done with the dinosaurs and 7% said "Rebuild Jurassic Park". It's funny because it's definitely accurate that if this actually happened in real life there would be a not insignificant amount of people who wanted that lol

Also makes me think a little more about how out of the place that opening is for the movie showing how people and dinosaurs are interacting. That poll could have been a big plot point in the film with groups wanting to destroy the dinosaurs vs. those who want to protect them and instead it had no significance to the plot lol

 

Fuckin gas leaks in those theaters

 

The real truth is that the majority of people are not anywhere close to as critical as people on the internet.

 

They are critical in different ways. Put those in front of the new Cronenberg film.

 

far as i can tell, a high cinemascore typically means that enough people found the movie was more or less marketed to them accurately enough

 

Big budget CGI dinosaurs are fun to look at, but it's kinda tough when the first film in the franchise is a bonafide masterpiece from one of the greatest living filmmakers to not compare the later films in the franchise back to that first one. I thought Jurassic World was mildly enjoyable despite itself, but I couldn't make it all the way through Fallen Kingdom. I have not seen this one yet, but Jurassic Park the franchise to me is pretty much equivalent to Jaws the franchise: masterpiece of a first movie made by Spielberg, followed by a bunch of lesser movies, some of which are fun and some of which are absolute turds.

I know Spielberg does a ton of producing and running studios and stuff, and this movie is gonna make a ton of money just like Jurassic World did, but I don't know how he can even stomach looking at a single frame of footage that is shot by Colin Treverrow. It's like if you took every instinct that Steven Spielberg has as a filmmaker and literally did the exact opposite of that. It's like movie magic in reverse. There are sequences in Jurassic World where I can't even figure out how they were able to make what is happening on screen so lifeless and dull because what is happening should just be kinda neat in and of itself, but it comes across on screen in the least interesting and/or exciting way humanly possible. Colin Treverrow's filmmaking always makes me think of the anecdote from the filming of American Beauty, where Sam Mendes was making his first movie after having been a theater director, and allegedly he ended up tossing out the first three days of footage and reshooting it all because it came out so badly, but for whatever reason, in this instance, they not only keep the footage but they give him the keys to one of the coolest and most successful movie franchises ever.