Anasui Kishibe
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they also don't have Spielberg, who knows a thing or two about valorizing special effects instada overloading the movie with em
Jurassic Park is a true masterpiece
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It's been said a few times, but the book was better. I read the book first and all I could think of was how they could possibly make this into a movie. It seemed impossible.
They did it and the movie is great but it doesn't come close to having the same number of dinosaurs and Hammond is better as a villian than a naive old grandpa.
I would not mind a reboot if it involved being closer to the book and had a different director's viewpoint. I would especially like a scene that was closer to the book when the velociraptors are introduced.
They did it and the movie is great but it doesn't come close to having the same number of dinosaurs and Hammond is better as a villian than a naive old grandpa.
I would not mind a reboot if it involved being closer to the book and had a different director's viewpoint. I would especially like a scene that was closer to the book when the velociraptors are introduced.
Conrad Link
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My favorite movie of all time.
EmCeeGramr
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the movie is the pinnacle of human achievement, even if it's laughably unscientific
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Anasui Kishibe
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you stand correct. I shoulda said "who once knew"
Oli said:
I liked JP3 better. At least it was a serviceable popcorn movie. T-Rex should have been king still, but it mirrored the first one better and Sam Neill is always a better lead than Jeff Goldblum. The aviary was sufficiently suspenseful as well.
Lost World was good only for the dinos eating people/dogs scenes. Everything else was not that great. I will never forgive the T-Rex boat massacre or Jeff Goldblum's "no way it's his" daughter who managed to find the only gymnastic grade bar on the whole island:lol .
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MrHicks said:
True, but it also ushered in the equally and oppositely irritating phenomenon of people asking paleontologists if dinosaurs did the things they did because they "saw it in Jurassic Park."
Anasui Kishibe
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LW was good, a bit boring maybe. Dembo, or Trumbo, or Jumbo or whatever the hell that hunter was called rocked
Wii said:
I blame Lucas. The effects are so different from Spielberg's styles (I seperate them into the JP and older/ A.I. & newer). It seemed to me that Spielberg no longer cared for the franchise.
Didn't his story and another one from Darabount he liked get ditched in favor of the one used which only Lucas liked? If I were him, I would have phoned it in too.
Actually the boat massacre was done by raptors, and they hopped off before the ship got to san diego, it was planned but not filmed.JGS said:
I was just watching the Making of The Lost World, and seems like they had a few other stinkers planned, like having the hunters (being chased by raptors in the long grass) run off a cliffside and turn their backpacks into hanggliders to fly away, only to be attacked by pterosaurs
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crazy monkey said:
THAT IS THE F**KING MONEY SHOT!
My favorite section of a movie ever, T-Rex is and will always be the greatest, when I saw that for the first time I could NOT STOP SMILING. So amazing, they really did it, bought it to life, and his roar was zomg.
Where are the Blu Ray releases?
Man I love Dinosaurs.
hulkamania-owns-you
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this movie is ballin, muthafuckin still!!!
absolutely amazing the cg has held up and those effects still are not standard in hollywood.
it also makes me sick at how quickly the series turned to shit and that it has been so long so they made a new one.
absolutely amazing the cg has held up and those effects still are not standard in hollywood.
it also makes me sick at how quickly the series turned to shit and that it has been so long so they made a new one.
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SanjuroTsubaki said:I know. It wasn't even the best dinosaur movie of 1993.
I saw this when it came out; there were only 2 or 3 other people in the theater. It's sorta like the Gary Busey to Jurassic Park's Nick Nolte.
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Blair said:
Gif get!
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Ian Malcolm: HEY HEY HEY HEY! *waves flare*
Jeff Goldblum ftmfw.
Jeff Goldblum ftmfw.
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Anasui Kishibe said:
"Somewhere on this island is the greatest predator that ever lived. Second greatest must take him down."
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Lost World was amazing also, I could never decide which I liked better heh. 
Probably my most hyped sequel ever, never been as hyped for something since that.
Probably my most hyped sequel ever, never been as hyped for something since that.Foreign Jackass
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Solo said:
You're right about the blockbuster, but Minority Report needs to be in that list.. I'd take out Empire of the Sun to put it in. I'd rank AI higher than Schindler. I don't like Duel enough to put it in the top 10 either. But for the rest, we're pretty much agreeing!
And Spielberg is also top 5 living directors, maybe top 3.
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Wii said:
Tell me about it.
The blatant Spino-wanking was responsible for at least half of JP3's crapiness.
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I think I know what movie I'll watch on my flight to Dallas then Cancun this morning!
Provided I can plug in my laptop on the plane
Provided I can plug in my laptop on the plane
Anticitizen One
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The Lost World was a terrible film. What movie did you watch?
It was basically the Jurassic Park equivalent to the Star Wars prequels
Btw, does anyone here know the 15 species that nedry was supposed to collect? I remember me and my friends narrowed it down but never got to all 15:
Theres the 7 shown in the movie, we see Stegosaurus on the vile, the official map that came out with the movie showed 12 (7 in the film + 5 extra) of the dinosaurs. But the last two remain elusive.
It was basically the Jurassic Park equivalent to the Star Wars prequels
Btw, does anyone here know the 15 species that nedry was supposed to collect? I remember me and my friends narrowed it down but never got to all 15:
Theres the 7 shown in the movie, we see Stegosaurus on the vile, the official map that came out with the movie showed 12 (7 in the film + 5 extra) of the dinosaurs. But the last two remain elusive.
PhoncipleBone
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The movie that introduced DTS to the world.
jesus, this says we wont get JP bluray release until oct/nov. 2010. http://www.nukethefridge.com/index....g-to-blu-ray-disc&catid=15:dvd-news&Itemid=41
Wii said:
I know. That's what makes me so upset. It was an obvious plot hole and Spielberg didn't bother to clean it up.
I get that a lot was tied to the boat crashing into the dock (It was impressive too from a scale standpoint), but they should have scrapped the scene and have the boat land safely and then the T-Rex causes all kinds of havoc then.
At a minimum, they could have added a 5 second recorded radio transmission saying: "The raptors got out! Mayday!Mayday! Aargh!!!"
The long grass scene is probably my favorite so I'm glad they didn't mess it up. I felt so much dread in that scene as I didn't know who was going to make or not and it seemed hopeless overall. I loved that and the barn/roof/truck scenes which were all great until Ms. Mary Lou Retton wannabe ruined it with the gymanastic move. It takes me out of the movie completely when things like that and the boat scene happen.
With that said, I only wish Michael Bay's movies were as good as Lost World which I did like (**3/4), it was just disappointing.
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My pick for "Dumbest Lost World Scene" was when Bob Bakker looses his shit when a dinky little snake gets in his shirt when, less than three feet away, on the other side of the waterfall is a fucking rampaging tyrannosaur...
tintinrudd
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Other than Schindlers List i think its Spielbergs last great movie.
Everything that followed both of those copied ideas and style from them.
Everything that followed both of those copied ideas and style from them.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
You've gone a bit nutty on us here.:lolNightBlade88 said:
tintinrudd
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NightBlade88 said:
War of the worlds felt JP remade with aliens. Don't try to deny it.
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They... they were both essentially science fiction monster movies. Superficial similarities in genre and style don't tank an entire movie.
I mean fuck, JP is itself a less subtle Jaws.
Not to mention the fact that he's done, like, completely different movies since then. Catch Me If You Can, Munich, Minority Report, The Terminal, etc. etc.
Unless your sarcasm went over my head, I just can't understand how you can justify what you're saying.
They... they were both essentially science fiction monster movies. Superficial similarities in genre and style don't tank an entire movie.
I mean fuck, JP is itself a less subtle Jaws.
Not to mention the fact that he's done, like, completely different movies since then. Catch Me If You Can, Munich, Minority Report, The Terminal, etc. etc.
Unless your sarcasm went over my head, I just can't understand how you can justify what you're saying.
The movie did not age well. The effects did, though.
The entire movie just has a made for TV feel to it, from the intro onward. And the tense set pieces basically consist of people doing exactly the wrong thing, over and over. (Let's shine a bright light at the giant killer dinosaur and see it it notices where we're hiding. Great idea!)
Saw it for the first time since it came out earlier this year, and boy. It was just okay at the time, and pretty poor now.
The entire movie just has a made for TV feel to it, from the intro onward. And the tense set pieces basically consist of people doing exactly the wrong thing, over and over. (Let's shine a bright light at the giant killer dinosaur and see it it notices where we're hiding. Great idea!)
Saw it for the first time since it came out earlier this year, and boy. It was just okay at the time, and pretty poor now.
universalmind
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I saw it for the first time a few weeks ago and I thought it was boring.
War of the Worlds was awful. They created so many plot holes.
War of the Worlds was awful. They created so many plot holes.
tintinrudd
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Duki said:
Every single one of those had problems with pacing, drama/comedy mix or were just simply too light in terms of dramatic impact.
To me he's like watching Ron Howard films, the exact opposite of Tarantino and Scorcese.
Schrade
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Movie was great for special effects/computer animation. The changes from the book sucked.
Why didn't they have the little mini elephant at the beginning? That would have been an awesome scene.
Also, changing it so Ellie and whatshisface were a couple was dumb.
And the biggest travesty was making that stupid, annoying little girl be the computer geek! WTF? The little boy was the computer geek.. why change it?
Why didn't they have the little mini elephant at the beginning? That would have been an awesome scene.
Also, changing it so Ellie and whatshisface were a couple was dumb.
And the biggest travesty was making that stupid, annoying little girl be the computer geek! WTF? The little boy was the computer geek.. why change it?
tintinrudd
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Boom Blox is the best thing he's been involved in for a decade at least.Wii said:
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Wii said:
Bakker is a real personality, alright, with a genuine passion and enthusiasm for dinosaurs and paleontology, but he can sometimes go a bit overboard with the speculation. Still, I got a kick out of the caricature of him they did for the movie.
I have a lot of respect for Horner and the careful, thorough science he does, and that makes his borderline-crackpot, arm-waving scavenging T. rex theory-- which is based on no evidence whatsoever that couldn't equally apply to all giant theropods-- all the more perplexing.
If they ever do a JP4, I want the T. rex to get it's revenge and devour a Horner knockoff. :lol
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