• kandykarter@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      I miss the old days, where if a franchise got to 7 or 8 installments, the budget would have shrunk and the ideas would have become insane. In a just world, Jurassic Park 8 would be a straight-to-dvd release that takes place in space or something.

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      Same here. I gave up after the 3rd in this one. It’s a rare franchise that can maintain the quality of the original without resorting to gimmicks after that.

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      In this particular case, it’s timing. Saw the reboot with my wife since we were excited to see the return. Both thought it was ok. Saw next one at home, and I think we skipped the 3rd. This is the 4th one in the reboot, right? Lol. This one, my wife is taking the kid to see it in theaters because now he is interested in dinosaurs and started watching some of the movies over the past year including the Netflix animated show (which i saw some of with him and from what I saw seemed way better than it should have been). So they release long enough, and you start getting new generations to take notice of who are young enough to not put so much thought into how awful they really are. The name sells.

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      For Jurassic Parks, I watch every single one. They’re usually fun enough to turn off your brain and watch tense and thrilling dino carnage. I never watch any with unreasonably high expectations.

      I enjoy the original so much I’ve seen it with a full symphony playing the sound track live and in sync, with the projector screen above them.

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      It’s striking the number of those reviews compare it to and call it a rehash of Jurassic Park 3. Cuz from the trailer I saw I thought it might be the same movie.

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Life, uh, finds a way.

      No, but seriously, the only way this “roars back to life” is with a complete, feathered overall of the dinosaurs on screen. 🤌🏼

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    1 month ago

    Peter Bradshaw will give a hundred genre films 3 star reviews despite positive body text and then out of nowhere do a four or five star rating for the most mid thing ever (see Miami Vice).

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    Honestly, if anyone could bring it back it’d be her, and I’m glad they’re finally dropping “world”, all the jurassic worlds sucked. It needed something new if it’d continue.