eh its a bit like a reptile. least its not a platypus. i still have no idea whats going on there.
Jurassic Park III - What were they thinking?
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eh its a bit like a reptile. least its not a platypus. i still have no idea whats going on there.
bobbyrawlins
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Jurassic Park is in my rotating top 3 movies of forever.
The 2 sequels wouldn't even crack my top 300. I hope this one exceeds my extremely low expectations, but I kinda doubt it will.
The 2 sequels wouldn't even crack my top 300. I hope this one exceeds my extremely low expectations, but I kinda doubt it will.
Grinchy
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For a person to genuinely (and not just ironically) like JP3 is absurd. That is a person whose taste in movies is objectively terrible.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I think JPII has the absolute best second act of all the films. From when the dinosaurs get cut loose to them finally reaching the copters, I was fucking on the edge of my seat. Every time I watch it, it's just so goddamn good.
HalfBakedProphet
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JPIII was almost as bad as Emmerich's Godzilla. Just unholy levels of shit.
The T-Rex basically played the role of Super Sayian Vegeta, spinosaurus was Android 18. It was a lazy way to hype up the new bad guy
The T-Rex basically played the role of Super Sayian Vegeta, spinosaurus was Android 18. It was a lazy way to hype up the new bad guy
Lol ok???
I was a huge fan of the original as a kid and ate up the third. Remembering it now I'm getting sad.
SJRB
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What's more annoying is that we are supposed to believe that she was married with William H. Macy, for fucks sake.
Anticitizen One
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Time to get some actual facts up in here:
FACT #1: The Pterosaurs in JP III are supposed to be Pteranodons not "Pteradactylus"
FACT #2: The T-rex rampage in San Diego is arguably the worst scene in modern film history
FACT #3: Both TLW and JP III suck. All of our hopes rest with Jurassic World
FACT #1: The Pterosaurs in JP III are supposed to be Pteranodons not "Pteradactylus"
FACT #2: The T-rex rampage in San Diego is arguably the worst scene in modern film history
FACT #3: Both TLW and JP III suck. All of our hopes rest with Jurassic World
HalfBakedProphet
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I almost typed up a response to this, but we already had this argument a few months ago.
But yeah, I still disagree
CarbonRevenge
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Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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I remember Jurassic Park 1 and 2 being giant events when they came out and 3 being just another Summer movie. I barely remembered that it happened.
As each year passes my disdain for JPIII continues to rise. Grant is probably the only reason I'd even watch it now, Sam Neill is a fucking boss.
The plot just shits me, I fucking hate Billy and the effects in general seem worse then the previous two.
I mean, JP2 had it's issues, but it had moments that made up for it and was pretty enjoyable overall but III is an abomination.
The plot just shits me, I fucking hate Billy and the effects in general seem worse then the previous two.
I mean, JP2 had it's issues, but it had moments that made up for it and was pretty enjoyable overall but III is an abomination.
Anticitizen One
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Did you know that Spielberg wasn't even interested in making the Lost World and secretly hired Joe Dante to actually direct it. Spielberg and Koepp just phoned in the script.
Freeza Under The Shower
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which, ironically, is probably the only scene in TLW directly coming from the book.
I always wondered what those random corpses were doing behind the 'raptor area' in the movie. The novel has a reason (not a great one, or physically plausible for that matter), but a reason anyway. In the movie it's like "the fuck is that shit doing here"
Anticitizen One
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publicity footage bro
George Lucas directed a few scenes of JP 1 does that mean he was the director of JP 1? Spielberg directed a few scenes of Revenge of the Sith doesn't make him director of ROTS.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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How did the T-Rex kill everybody on the ship to San Diego and then lock itself back in?
If Raptors did it, where are the Raptors?
If Raptors did it, where are the Raptors?
Anticitizen One
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Exactly
CarbonRevenge
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Actually, going by film terminology, he'd still be a Unit Director being that he would be directing one crew entirely while another directing is doing another. Not to mention the Assistant Directors and a variety of other "directing" roles which exist in a film production.
So, actually, he'd still be considered director. Maybe not the one whose name is attached to the film but there's more than just that director on a film production.
The route the Jurassic Park franchise went down, resembles amazingly well the downfall of Hollywood Blockbusters.
ElRenoRaven
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Yea throw me in the camp that likes 3 better then 2. The whole T Rex rampaging around San Fran was just shit icing on the shit cake that was 2. It was actually ok till that point. Very mediocre but still mediocre. Once it went to the states it just went from meh to WTF is this horse shit.
I don't know, I watched both of them back-to-back recently, and they were pretty equally bad IMO.
I like how everyone's fine with Pete Postlethwaite taking out a T-Rex but a Spinosaurus taking one out is rage inducing. Pete Postlethwaite was awesome in JP2 by the way.
The scene where the hunter is slowly hunted down and eaten alive by all the tiny little green dinosaurs is great as well.
Unknown One
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Man fuck Spinosaurus! T rex should have killed his/her bitch ass with his/her bigger jaws. Those jaws of Spinosaurus is puny in comparison.
James Woods
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Jeff Goldbum was originally in JPIII. A little bit into filming he got injured and told them he wasn't necessary to the film and left. Like a boss.
Also Spielberg supposedly directed a lot of TLW via satellite.
Also Spielberg supposedly directed a lot of TLW via satellite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrV9yNuT3o
I remember being like "wwwwhat the fuck is thaaaTTTT!?" at the beginning of this scene when the boy first sees dinobird on the bridge. Great shot.
I remember being like "wwwwhat the fuck is thaaaTTTT!?" at the beginning of this scene when the boy first sees dinobird on the bridge. Great shot.
CartridgeBlower
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I've heard this before but is there any evidence of it? I just saw it on the imdb trivia page, and that stuff is always suspect. Like if it is true, what was the part? A brief cameo? It couldn't have been much if he just decided to bounce.
The Last One
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Tea Leoni's screams were just...
But JPII had some issues, too.
It's even more annoying when you realize she was the only character who killed a velociraptor in the series.
There are so many woeful mistakes with Jurassic Park III's Pteranodons. They make the infamous inaccuracies about the Velociraptors in all three films feel mild.
Still probably the best thing about the film, probably because they felt different instead of being "T. rex but bigger".
Still probably the best thing about the film, probably because they felt different instead of being "T. rex but bigger".
The film was just too smug with its "Better than T. rex" new dinosaur. I'd love to see Spinosaurus again, but not in the same way it was in Jurassic Park 3.
dreamcastfan
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Wasn't Gigantosaur (a Larger T-Rex basically) the biggest?
The fight was terrible, and even leading up to the end of it it looked like the Rex would win (and it should of the moment it got it's jaws around Spino's neck) but they pulled it out of their ass and made the Spinosaurs the winner in a effort to make it the new "big bad"
I haven't got a problem with the creature itself, just how it was portrayed in the film. It was almost like it had some sort of vendetta against the humans lol
Although, I guess if I had a Kirby's paint and tile plus ringtone coming from my stomach I'd be pretty upset too.
I’ve never seen the movie, so forgive me if the following is actually addressed but:
At what point do you just... stop going to the island? Just don’t go there. Like, ever, ever again. They didn’t clone any aquatic dinos (I don’t think), and if the flying ones make to civilization, shoot them out of the goddamn sky. Just leave them there to thrive or die off at mother nature’s ever fickle whim.
Failing that: Carpet bomb the whole island. Send plane after plane loaded with the biggest non-nuke bombs we got and don’t stop until all life on the island is extinguished. Then salt the earth, just to be sure.
At what point do you just... stop going to the island? Just don’t go there. Like, ever, ever again. They didn’t clone any aquatic dinos (I don’t think), and if the flying ones make to civilization, shoot them out of the goddamn sky. Just leave them there to thrive or die off at mother nature’s ever fickle whim.
Failing that: Carpet bomb the whole island. Send plane after plane loaded with the biggest non-nuke bombs we got and don’t stop until all life on the island is extinguished. Then salt the earth, just to be sure.
CarbonRevenge
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Well, in the book anyway, the Puerto Rican government bombs the shit outa the island and it is destroyed. That's the one thing I remember for sure about the first Jurassic Park book. They didn't do it in the movies because it's such a divergent narrative.
Fuck yeah, Puerto Rico getting shit done. Knew there was a reason we kept them around.
CarbonRevenge
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There's alot of things that I wish translated from the books into the movies. Alot of it would have turned it into a deep horror film but that that didn't happen. Would have been nice though. I can always dream they followed the books exactly.
Skellig Gra
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I remember seeing on the pre movie trivia that they started filming the movie before the script was done. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight.
Giganotosaurus (I think that's what you're talking about) might look a bit like Tyrannosaurus, but it wasn't a relative and its skeleton has a lot of differences. Spinosaurus is still the largest theropod found to my knowledge.
Tyrannosaurus on the left, Giganotosaurus on the right.
Spring-Loaded
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Tea Leoni's screams were just...
But JPII had some issues, too.
RULES OF NATURE
Pretty sure it's Costa Rica, not Puerto Rico.
Oh yeah for sure, I usually urge people to go read the book if they haven't, It covers some really interesting things such as the chaos theory which was just glossed over in the film and it's just more terrifying in general.
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