JURASSIC WORLD - this got long
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nanslice► Okay, WHOA. What a ride. I went into this with pretty low expectations and man, did that help me have a ton of fun with this movie. XD First, the negatives:
There were way too many people running around and most of them were annoying. The two kids were pretty obnoxious (that was the thirstiest teenager I've seen in a movie in a long time, stop staring at all the cute girls you fucking weirdo; the younger boy was just fucking annoying, stop running off jesus christ). Claire started off as extremely annoying but she got a lot better. And she was running around in heels, damn girl. Owen was cool, mainly because he respected the raptors and the other dinosaurs so freaking much. That was nice. Owen and Claire didn't really need to have a past romantic relationship, that was not needed.
I liked how family was so important to this (the I. Rex being twisted because she didn't have siblings growing up with her, how important the sibling relationships were for the raptors) but I didn't like how this seemed to mean that Claire should love kids and want to have kids and love her nephews? Because it was clear the audience was meant to think of her as some stone colded bitch for not being all over the boys. That, plus the way Zara (whose only characterization was that she wasn't good with kids) died really made this movie unfriendly towards women who have no use for kids. And I am not even a woman who has no use for kids, I fucking love my nieces and nephews so you know, I'm not being super butthurt about it like that.
It seemed to take forever for shit to go wrong. I liked the build up when it came to the dinosaurs (Owen and the raptors, the I. Rex's development, even Claire running the park) but not the people (the boys and their parents, mainly).
Why the hell did the Pteranodon and Dimorphodon attack the people once the aviary was broken? I didn't understand that hot mess at all.
NOW THE GOOOD.
THE RAPTORS THE RAPTORS THE RAPTORS. I didn't expect them to have too much screen time, even beforeshipwreck_light warned me, so I wasn't too disappointed that they weren't too heavily focused on. What time they had was well spent, let me tell you what. I loved them. I loved them. I loved that they still snapped and shoulder checked each other and ran like a well oiled machine and were still so damn animalistic and wonderful, aaaah. So good.
I knew ahead of time that they were going to die but apparently this was a thing that the people I went with were expecting, without actually knowing. It was tragic but at the same time, I really liked that they weren't loyal dogs to Owen; they were wild animals, they came across a very large, very aggressive dinosaur that shared their vocalizations, and their loyalties shifted. It ended up working for me a lot better than I was expecting. Also, Blue and Rexy now need to be BFFs for life, okay? I don't care if that's not realistic, I don't care, Blue, Rexy and the Mosasaurus (who needs a naaaame!) are now BFFs and they hang out together and everything is great. \o/ The three way fight between Blue, Rexy, and I. Rex was pretty legit and before Blue showed up I was concerned for Rexy, seriously. I was worried.
I actually ended up really liking the I. Rex! WHICH IS SURPRISING since, you know, she kind of slaughtered a bunch of dinosaurs but I really appreciated how that was explained. She was basically traumatized while growing up (kept in a small enclosure, no connection to other animals, no freedom, no others of her species (sure, she had a sibling that she killed, but that's not a particularly rare thing to happen in the animal kingdom - the problem was that he was the only other one of her kind, so she didn't really have any other animals to grow and learn from). I absolutely agree with the fact that she needed to be put down but ultimately she cut a pretty tragic figure.
ALSO. I. Rex was SUCH A GOOD REPRESENTATION of how humanity just FUCKS EVERYTHING UP. We had dinosaurs and we were rediscovering new species every few years but that just wasn't good enough! So instead, we decide to fuck with DNA splicing to create a new species using the DNA of a bunch of other predators without even stopping to consider that maybe this is a bad idea? Maybe while gaining all these awesome traits that the predatory species have, this new animal will ALSO gain a bunch of....PREDATORY FUCKING TRAITS THAT WILL WORK AGAINST US??? And the whole thing came back to bite us in the ass, as it should. Our Frankenstein's monster was ultimately destroyed by the very thing it was suppose to be so much bigger and better than.
....this is all ignoring the fact that all of these animals are basically Frankenstein's monsters, hahaha. I really liked the nod to how these animals don't really add up to what science now tells us dinosaurs looked like originally. It was a nice, subtly addition to the script and when it happened I was like AAAWWW SHIT SON.
Like I said above, I really liked the behind the scenes shots of how the park was kept running. Is that weird? I like that kind of stuff, what can I say.
The baby Triceratops were fucking adorable as hell, oh my god. I want twelve.
Vincent D'Onofrio's character was a slimy, skeezy asshole and he played it so well. I think he was as much a villain as I. Rex and his death really should have been longer. I'M JUST SAYING, WE SHOULD HAVE SEEN HIM GET RIPPED APART OKAY, WHAT, THAT DOESN'T SOUND AWFUL RIGHT? Right.
THE BLACK GUY LIVED. \o/!
Overall I liked this movie! Not nearly as much as the original (of course) but definitely better than the third and probably better than the second (I just really love Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore okay???). I kinda want to watch it again, tbh. Maybe I'll go see it with my mom. :\a
There were way too many people running around and most of them were annoying. The two kids were pretty obnoxious (that was the thirstiest teenager I've seen in a movie in a long time, stop staring at all the cute girls you fucking weirdo; the younger boy was just fucking annoying, stop running off jesus christ). Claire started off as extremely annoying but she got a lot better. And she was running around in heels, damn girl. Owen was cool, mainly because he respected the raptors and the other dinosaurs so freaking much. That was nice. Owen and Claire didn't really need to have a past romantic relationship, that was not needed.
I liked how family was so important to this (the I. Rex being twisted because she didn't have siblings growing up with her, how important the sibling relationships were for the raptors) but I didn't like how this seemed to mean that Claire should love kids and want to have kids and love her nephews? Because it was clear the audience was meant to think of her as some stone colded bitch for not being all over the boys. That, plus the way Zara (whose only characterization was that she wasn't good with kids) died really made this movie unfriendly towards women who have no use for kids. And I am not even a woman who has no use for kids, I fucking love my nieces and nephews so you know, I'm not being super butthurt about it like that.
It seemed to take forever for shit to go wrong. I liked the build up when it came to the dinosaurs (Owen and the raptors, the I. Rex's development, even Claire running the park) but not the people (the boys and their parents, mainly).
Why the hell did the Pteranodon and Dimorphodon attack the people once the aviary was broken? I didn't understand that hot mess at all.
NOW THE GOOOD.
THE RAPTORS THE RAPTORS THE RAPTORS. I didn't expect them to have too much screen time, even before
shipwreck_light warned me, so I wasn't too disappointed that they weren't too heavily focused on. What time they had was well spent, let me tell you what. I loved them. I loved them. I loved that they still snapped and shoulder checked each other and ran like a well oiled machine and were still so damn animalistic and wonderful, aaaah. So good. I knew ahead of time that they were going to die but apparently this was a thing that the people I went with were expecting, without actually knowing. It was tragic but at the same time, I really liked that they weren't loyal dogs to Owen; they were wild animals, they came across a very large, very aggressive dinosaur that shared their vocalizations, and their loyalties shifted. It ended up working for me a lot better than I was expecting. Also, Blue and Rexy now need to be BFFs for life, okay? I don't care if that's not realistic, I don't care, Blue, Rexy and the Mosasaurus (who needs a naaaame!) are now BFFs and they hang out together and everything is great. \o/ The three way fight between Blue, Rexy, and I. Rex was pretty legit and before Blue showed up I was concerned for Rexy, seriously. I was worried.
I actually ended up really liking the I. Rex! WHICH IS SURPRISING since, you know, she kind of slaughtered a bunch of dinosaurs but I really appreciated how that was explained. She was basically traumatized while growing up (kept in a small enclosure, no connection to other animals, no freedom, no others of her species (sure, she had a sibling that she killed, but that's not a particularly rare thing to happen in the animal kingdom - the problem was that he was the only other one of her kind, so she didn't really have any other animals to grow and learn from). I absolutely agree with the fact that she needed to be put down but ultimately she cut a pretty tragic figure.
ALSO. I. Rex was SUCH A GOOD REPRESENTATION of how humanity just FUCKS EVERYTHING UP. We had dinosaurs and we were rediscovering new species every few years but that just wasn't good enough! So instead, we decide to fuck with DNA splicing to create a new species using the DNA of a bunch of other predators without even stopping to consider that maybe this is a bad idea? Maybe while gaining all these awesome traits that the predatory species have, this new animal will ALSO gain a bunch of....PREDATORY FUCKING TRAITS THAT WILL WORK AGAINST US??? And the whole thing came back to bite us in the ass, as it should. Our Frankenstein's monster was ultimately destroyed by the very thing it was suppose to be so much bigger and better than.
....this is all ignoring the fact that all of these animals are basically Frankenstein's monsters, hahaha. I really liked the nod to how these animals don't really add up to what science now tells us dinosaurs looked like originally. It was a nice, subtly addition to the script and when it happened I was like AAAWWW SHIT SON.
Like I said above, I really liked the behind the scenes shots of how the park was kept running. Is that weird? I like that kind of stuff, what can I say.
The baby Triceratops were fucking adorable as hell, oh my god. I want twelve.
Vincent D'Onofrio's character was a slimy, skeezy asshole and he played it so well. I think he was as much a villain as I. Rex and his death really should have been longer. I'M JUST SAYING, WE SHOULD HAVE SEEN HIM GET RIPPED APART OKAY, WHAT, THAT DOESN'T SOUND AWFUL RIGHT? Right.
THE BLACK GUY LIVED. \o/!
Overall I liked this movie! Not nearly as much as the original (of course) but definitely better than the third and probably better than the second (I just really love Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore okay???). I kinda want to watch it again, tbh. Maybe I'll go see it with my mom. :\a
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Date: 2015-06-15 09:27 pm (UTC)I'm spelunking DW for anyone talking about Jurassic World, and I wanted to bounce up and down at you along with this post!
Just.
Too many humans, don't care.
really made this movie unfriendly towards women who have no use for kids
Yes yes it was and as a childfree woman I was really pissed off about it.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPTORS! JUST. So. Incredible.
Also it made total sense that the pack would go a little wild, between being free for the first time and meeting the I.Rex, who could talk to them and had Definite Opinions. And then all of the other humans weren't people they were bonded to, and noisy and wrong-smelling and... yeah, total hunting fest.
But they came back to Owen! That was great.
I want to draw sparkly hearts around everything you said about the I.Rex. Because yes.
The behind-the-scenes scenes were good. Could have been better with less annoying humans, but.
Zomg, baby!Triceratops! with saddles! ZOMG!
+runs off before I totally bore you with 'yes yes yes this' babble.
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Date: 2015-06-17 08:19 pm (UTC)YESSS. The raptors' betrayal was so good and I love that it happened but I also loved when they turned on I. Rex (even though it made me a bit sad, both for them and for her). ;3;
I am always good with yes yes yes this babble! It's wonderful! :D
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Date: 2015-06-15 09:54 pm (UTC)Also, I spent the whole movie from Owen's first appearance telling my nephew that Owen was Mommy Raptor. zD //no regrets//
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Date: 2015-06-17 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-06-21 07:04 am (UTC)I. Rex was a gorgeous beastie. Although, I have to tell you, I totally went "Yeah, them's raptor claws" when I first saw her feet. To me, that was a feature not a bug. And hell, they got that across visually.
To answer your questions: beside someone forgot that Pteranodons ate fish and Dimorphodon probably insects, besides adorable, derpy bastards in the last case.