I think the only way I'm truly excited for this movie is the Jurassic World casts gets eaten real quick and the rest of the movie is Sam Neil and Laura Dern doing cool shit, just fully ignoring Trevorrow.
I mean idk... Fallen Kingdom is way worse than Jurassic World. Neither are great but Bayona didn’t make a masterpiece.
so happy to see some Lost World love on here. i love it, and yes, even the san diego part! honestly i enjoy the JW movies just out of fun. they definitely have felt like a more camp big budget syfy flick, but i've still seen them multiple times in the theatres. this is just one of my franchises i guess haha. Fallen Kingdom definitely got wild in the plot, but boy did i love the set pieces haha
Fallen Kingdom was more interesting than JW, at least it tried something different. And also it was so ridiculous that it was fun to clown on, whereas JW was just trying to be as bland and inoffensive as possible.
Jurassic Park 3 is still pretty fun. to me it feel like a slasher movie with dinosaurs. Jaws 2 feels like that as well. the military showing up at the end is definitely ridiculous haha, but man, the pteranodon attack is terrifying
If anyone is old enough to remember the original trailer for JP3 that accompanied The Mummy Returns, like I do......oh man. I was so hyped as a 5th grader for a dark/gritty looking JP film. Then what we got wasn’t that at all. It’s still a decent entry I think. The Pterodactyl scenes in particular were cool.
Yeah I still contend that scene in the pteranodon cage is absolutely terrifying. When the kid walks out on the crossway and something starts walking toward him out of the mist...it’s a great scene. Billy was also supposed to die during that scene but it got rewritten late in production, which is why he suddenly shows up at the very end on the helicopter. There were also alternate endings where the pteranodons and Spinosaur were supposed to attack the military vehicles on the beach and in the air, which is why the ending is so abrupt in the final cut. There was supposed to be a big battle there but it got cut for pacing.
Funnily enough, without some kind of big scene on the beach the movie just sort of ends. Give raptors eggs and look there’s a guy on the beach!