Sort of how I feel after rewatching Rebirth a few times now. It’s not as outright stupid and superhero-y as the other World movies but still not a good movie… Nothing indefensibly bad but pretty underwhelming. Basically how I felt about 3.
I ended up feeling like my disappointment with Rebirth was mainly self-inflicted in that I am a such a huge fan of Gareth Edwards and his directing style that I had hyped myself up over the thought of him getting a chance to make a huge budget Hollywood dinosaur movie, and ultimately this movie feels pretty generic as if anyone could have been behind the camera. I also felt it was a super odd choice to completely sideline the raptors and make them the butt of jokes when they were like 50% of what made the first film so visceral and scary, but that is probably a side effect of me being pretty underwhelmed by all of the mutant dinos they made up for this one. I like this movie and think it's pretty fun, but I also am just a sucker for getting to see full Hollywood budgets putting dinosaurs up on the big screen, and can readily admit that this could and should have been so much better than it was. Plus I took my son to see this at the theater and he was basically the same age that I was when my grandfather took me to see the first one at the theater, one of the greatest moviegoing experiences of my life, which my grandfather summed up as: "Beck, that movie was really loud."
The thing that 3 and 7 understand is that they are not going to top the first film and that trying to craft some new narrative is mostly not going to work so just give the people the b-movie they want. There are lots of things to criticize in the Pratt films but the real worst part is the entire dino marines/cloned human/locusts plot was absurd. 7 tries to undo that stuff in the first ten minutes.
Of the movies I saw last year (which wasn’t a lot), I put Cleaner and Captain America: Brave New World below this.
This is correct. The tall grass and the trailer segments are better than anything in all of the films that came after.
The first Jurassic Park will always be the best. I didn’t watch it when it first released because I was only 1 year old lol but I remember watching it a lot before The Lost World in 1997 so when I was 5. Had a red lunch box I would take to school also
I don’t think I’ll finish this. The dialogue scene between Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali where they just state their back stories was too excruciating. I don’t doubt that it’s probably still better than Dominion, but that is not a bar that I need to see cleared.
I think I mentioned back when it came out but the whole “my partner was killed by a car bomb” was baffling.