Jurassic World: Rebirth (Gareth Edwards, July 2, 2025) Movie • Page 28

in retrospect I have to agree with you, because that's as good as it/we ever got, which still blows my mind after 30 years, 6 movies & well over a billion dollars in budgets

 

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also, narratively, I think it would have been much better to have Duncan die at the end, but also his character didn't really do much of anything and kinda wasted a great actor, so I can see the appeal of keeping the character alive for a sequel. they definitely should have beefed up his role and made the audience love him and have him sacrifice himself at the end to save the others for the sake of this movie though.

 

I don't know if it was, but it almost came across like a last second test screening change.

 

Also this movie had me going back questioning if ScarJo was ever a good actor because yikes. She was not good in this at all. Some of those line readings were harsh.

 

I'm pretty sure Edwards said that he and Ali wanted the character to die all the way thru production but they hedged their bets and he decided at the last minute to have him live

honestly, I thought all of the actors really came off looking pretty bad all through the setup stuff / first part of the movie, with the possible exception of Jonathan Bailey

 

Man, I just enjoyed the heck out of this; it provided all the dumb dino fun I was looking for, and compared to the disaster that was the previous three films, this felt like a breath of fresh air. And I’m actually glad the kept the main characters alive, haha; I thought the cheap trope would have been to kill them off, haha. My parents saw the film last Tuesday ($6 Tuesday tickets), and my Dad’s reaction was “Not as good as the first! Dinosaurs are too smart!” Hahaha

 

She clearly couldn’t have cared less about this movie haha

 

I think I enjoyed this much more than my long list of complaints and critiques seems to imply. I would definitely go see this again in theaters happily. it's fun to see the dinosaurs up on the big screen.

 

Yeah, I remember the first act feeling really awkward. It didn't try very hard to give you information organically, opting to hit you over the head with these back-to-back stiff conversations at tables and stuff. Not sure there was any way for the actors to salvage that.

Instead of showing you who these characters are throughout the movie, they just flat out stick two characters at a table and say "Your buddy died? Oh that's sad. My kid died." in their second scene together lol. I appreciate the attempt at character depth, but it just ended up making me uncomfortable.

 

For some reason hearing “yeah my partner died in a car bombing” in a Jurassic park movie was so jarring lol

 

At least say the bomb was dropped by a pterodactyl.

 

Yeah he was alright. I also thought the kid actor playing Isabella did a pretty decent job and had a good screen presence. The whole time I couldn't help thinking she would make a great age accurate Dora the Explorer.

 

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I don't get how you make a movie involving abominable hybrid mutant dinosaurs breaching containment in an isolated lab on a remote island and then have that only be like 15% of the runtime. The whole thing should've been just that (+whatever necessary setup, obviously). Could've gotten an Alien-style JW but instead we got a, well, a JW-style JW.

 

This was... fine. It benefits from following objectively two of the worst installments of the franchise. It got some things right, like the river/t-rex scene but still missed on a ton of things.

I just wish these movies would stop with the idea that they need to up the ante with crazy concepts. I don't need mutant dinosaurs. Just give me a tight story of ppl trying to survive in an animal's habitat. There is a rawness from the first, and to some degree LW, that the rest of these movies just clearly lack.

Also, the lack of traditional raptors was a bummer. i guess maybe it was over-done from the last 3, but the mutant flying raptors at the end did nothing for me.

 

This would be sick actually. However then we wouldn’t have gotten the water/ocean segments which were a highlight imo

 

for me personally, I would have loved Gareth Edwards directing a movie where it's just "real" dinosaurs that actually existed & humans stuck together somewhere. this was much better than any of the 3 Jurassic World movies, but I still think the whole notion of people being 'over' dinosaurs is very dumb and hobbles these movies right from the jump. I definitely liked all of the mosasaur, t-rex & spinosaurus stuff here better than any of the mutant / hybrid stuff.

honestly makes me long for some other big-budget, top-shelf Hollywood dinosaur movies or franchises

 

I agree. I had 2 real complaints - the set up of 'people are just bored of dinosaurs now'.. like what?

Also the idealized and sort of abrupt ending.

Overall it was a big, dumb, loud, silly movie and is about what I expected. I thought it did a pretty good job of hinting at old scenarios (the tall grass) that never happened, and then introducing some 'fresh' (as can be at this point) sequences. A lot of the usual silliness of giant, loud dinosaurs just suddenly appearing or disappearing as if they aren't all giant, lumbering, noisy beasts.

 

the more I think and talk about this movie the better The Lost World keeps getting

 

As someone said earlier, a bad Spielberg movie still smokes most movies

 

It’s bad, but has a few cool scenes. Such a letdown with Spielberg returning

 

I'm kinda the opposite - I think it's pretty good but with a few bad scenes

the main problem for me would be that I think the first one is an all-time classic, and none of the other ones come anywhere near that, even Lost World

 

Lost World is good if you turn it off right before the gymnast kick

 

before catching it again recently most of what I remembered was the stuff I didn't like very much, but there were a lot of great sequences and some cool characters that had totally slipped my mind