JURASSIC WORLD 2: FALLEN KINGDOM (6/22/18) 0

[Larryw7]

It was dumb fun. I had fun watching it, dinosaurs running around eating people is always a great cinematic experience. But boy were the characters dumb. And who was in charge of that Dino auction, Dr. Evil? Those prices for dinosaurs were ridiculous. People pay more for tiger skin rugs than they did for some of those dinosaurs.

[Unca Ben]

6 hours ago, Larryw7 said:

It was dumb fun. I had fun watching it, dinosaurs running around eating people is always a great cinematic experience. But boy were the characters dumb. And who was in charge of that Dino auction, Dr. Evil? Those prices for dinosaurs were ridiculous. People pay more for tiger skin rugs than they did for some of those dinosaurs.

I dozed off for awhile around the auction scene.  I haven't fallen asleep at the movies in a long while.  And I LOVE dinosaurs.

[Darkowl]

Saw it last night. The story and villians were pretty dumb, but there were so many "hell yeah!" moments. Overall, a guilty pleasure!

Edited June 28, 2018 by Darkowl

[RockMyAmadeus]

"Meh."

My review.

[shadroch]

Pretty disappointing.  Best scenes from the trailer turned out to be teases, at best.

[ComicConnoisseur]

Seemed like it was made to sell toys and other merchandise.

[NewEnglandGothic]

1 hour ago, ComicConnoisseur said:

Seemed like it was made to sell toys and other merchandise.

Hopefully, it does so we might get a better movie next time (going by the reviews.)

[1950's war comics]

it was like watching Indiana Jones/Mission Impossible and every other similar movies except with dinosaurs ......

i have seen worse and give it a summertime blockbuster movie ranking of 7 out of 10...

[revat]

On ‎6‎/‎26‎/‎2018 at 9:23 PM, Larryw7 said:

It was dumb fun. I had fun watching it, dinosaurs running around eating people is always a great cinematic experience. But boy were the characters dumb. And who was in charge of that Dino auction, Dr. Evil? Those prices for dinosaurs were ridiculous. People pay more for tiger skin rugs than they did for some of those dinosaurs.

I agree on the dino-prices.  Preposterously low.  That was actually the LEAST realistic thing about the whole movie.  I would have bought the super dino and flipped here on the boards for $10B in like two days.  Also, this was literally the most dangerous animal in the history of existence which they designed to be high intellect, and it was in a cage simple latch lock, when everything else had six digit codes or biometric locks. GTFO.

 

BUT it was a fun movie.  If you like these dinosaur type movies, this one is ranked #3 out of the five Jurassic movies.  Its fine. Some good scares, some insufficiently_thoughtful_persons, not enough goldblum. 

The bad guy felt like a budget Will Arnett. "C'mon!  This is a $3,000 suit!!!"

[fantastic_four]

Liked it, didn't love it.  Aside from the dino action the most interesting bit was (it's a spoiler, so I'll hide it):

Spoiler

the cloned little girl, which is a compelling parallel to the cloning of the dinosaurs.

I'm surprised that hasn't happened already in our society.

Edited July 7, 2018 by fantastic_four

[PunisherPunisherPunisher]

Was your typical Jurassic movie, was watchable, had its good and bad parts 

[Rhane71]

Took my son and we both thought it was good. He talked about it all the way home. 

[iggykoopa]

Saw it and was completely bored. The auction scene made me raise my eyebrows as well... $28 million dollars? For a dinosaur? And then the highly intelligent, people-trained dinosaur locked in his cage with a simple latch..? Wow. This one of of the worst JP/JW movies but it still has dinosaurs so that's always a bonus. Also agree, not enough Goldblum!

[Larryw7]

Goldblum needs a major part in the next movie. He's the only character(except for Grant and Satler)in these movies to  have any common sense. 

[1Cool]

Saw it last night and although not fantastic it definetely moved along well and I left feeling I got my money worth.  Nice action scenes and the dinosaurs were great.  I'd recommend it if you want an exciting summer blockbuster type movie - B grade from me.

[Harley Troy]

On 6/27/2018 at 9:12 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:

"Meh."

My review.

That's being kind. IMHO

[ComicConnoisseur]

Quietly this has done 1.3 billion at the box office worldwide. That's way ahead of many movies this year. This guarantees a third one.

Edited July 18, 2018 by ComicConnoisseur

[paperheart]

5 minutes ago, ComicConnoisseur said:

Quietly this has done 1.3 1.13 billion at the box office worldwide. That's way ahead of many all but 2 movies this year. This guarantees a third and fourth and fifth one.

 

[▫️]

8 hours ago, paperheart said:

 

Yup, sadly this franchise will become like the Transformers. Good first flick and then down the drain.

[fantastic_four]

I hold out some hope for improvement for the next one.  Since all the dinosaurs got out, it's possible to think the next one might be a "War For the Planet of the Apes"-type film that's actually a "War For the Planet of the Dinosaurs."  However, I didn't see enough male/female pairs of each species escape to hold out a ton of hope for that actually being the case...the more likely scenario I see playing out is that they just get killed and/or rounded up and re-caged.