Jurassic World 2: Fallen Kingdom
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iariaIt was okay.
+ There was way too much dinosaur death in this dinosaur movie for me. That is not what I want in these movies! So I was deeply not a fan of the whole volcanic eruption plot and all the rampant dinosaur death it caused. All those poor dinosaurs dying horrible deaths - :( to the scene of them all running for their lives in a stampede from the eruption, knowing it’s in vain and they’re all going to die, and then watching them drown after they go over the cliff. That poor Brontosaurus dying on the pier... D:
+ On the one hand, I actually like that it ended with the surviving dinosaurs free and running around, and Wu out there with the ability to make more. It could be a fun (probably apocalyptic) direction to take this series (maybe Ellie was right!) and I'm into that. I want to see what humans and dinosaurs living together would look like. But on the other, 1) most of the dinosaurs are confined to one area in one country and I'm pretty sure the president would end up sending the military out to hunt them all down. And there's so few of them and they're (mostly) large so it shouldn't be that difficult. 2) I'm feeling skeptical that the writers are going to deal with this in any slightly realistic way considering how they have very much not dealt with the escape of previous dinosaurs. We know pterodactyls have escaped before but nothing happened. The Mosasaurus escapes some time before the rest of the movie and yet nothing was mentioned of it when it should have been huge news.
+ I loved both videos of Owen and the baby raptors. They were so adorable. (Also not in the movie but there was a shot clip on Twitter from those videos, that ended up not being in the movie, with Blue purring as Owen rubs her neck!!!) Why the hell couldn't we have a movie about that? I also continue to love the Blue/Owen bond and I was sad when she chose to run away instead of stay with him.
+ Owen’s line about “if I die... remember you brought me here” amused me a lot.
+ There was too much happenstance dinosaurs saving our main characters for me. That said the triceratops taking the time to check out Owen and thus saving Owen's life in the forest was a scene I enjoyed even if it made no sense.
+ Maisie totally has raptor blood in her right? Cause that stalking scene at the beginning and then the close up of her eyes when Blue left felt really suggestive. I'll be disappointed if it isn't confirmed in the next movie.
+ I was a little surprised that they had Maisie prefer Owen instead of Claire considering Claire's deeply annoying personal storyline in the first movie. You'd think they'd want to continue that with Maisie attaching herself to Claire and Claire getting attached over the course of the movie. [Also I feel like they should have had a scene at the beginning where Maisie and Claire met when Claire was at the mansion, perhaps having the stalking scene be Maisie stalking Claire, then them talking about Claire going to save the dinosaurs.)
+ I’m pleased that Doctor Wu survived yet again and escaped with at least some of his research. I rather love him as this amoral connection between all the movies.
+ I liked both Zia and Franklin.
+ The writers decision to break Claire and Owen up to presumably add nonsense relationship tension to the movie annoyed me. Not necessary!
+ Honestly I was a little disappointed in Claire's place in the story. It felt like she was left to follow Owen's lead more often than not and react instead of being proactive. Like, I was annoyed that she stayed with Maisie while Owen went on to cause mayhem on the auction floor. She gets injured so Owen has to go play hero and save Maisie.
+ Kids aren’t always good at common sense or reacting well in terrifying situations but Maisie staying huddled in her bed even after she saw the Indorapter's shadow on her wall instead of running was annoyingly dumb. I didn't buy that she'd react that way - she was shown to be very good at running to save herself. So it ended up feeling very contrived.
On the other hand Maisie deciding to let all the dinosaurs free into the world, even regardless of her feeling of affinity as a clone herself or love of dinosaurs, made complete sense to me. I 100% buy most kids saving the dinosaurs from dying in front of them without considering the consequences.
+ The Indoraptor going after Maisie while it had Claire and Owen trapped made no sense. It somehow tracking her to her room after it climbed onto the roof for some reason also made no sense. The only way I can explain it to myself is that it fixated on her when it first met her for some reason. (Her maybe raptor blood?)
+ It looked like when Wu was evacuating he was taking samples of dinosaur dna with him. ... If he had all the dinosaur dna why go to all the expense and danger of 'saving' the ones on the island instead of making new ones? That said going for Blue did make sense to me.
+ The Baryonyx scene was so deeply stupid. The fact that it gets hit in the head with lava and then shakes it off with seemingly no issue, and then continues to try and get Frnaklin and Claire while getting hit by it several more times was so stupid.
+ Lockwood was dumb to believe Mills would just turn himself in, like, dude really?
+ I don't get why Mills was doing everything at the Lockwood mansion when I feel like it would have made more sense for him to be doing all this illegal stuff away from his employer instead of under his nose. Also selling dinosaurs for only 10/20 million seems ridiculously cheap.
+ Why the hell was Mills still at the mansion so long after everything went to shit? Dude.
+ I'm surprised that none of the dinosaurs were moved to the other island. Or that no other million/billionaires or governments decided to act on their own to either save some of the dinosaurs or snatch them up for other purposes. Only Lockwood wanting to doesn't make sense to me.
Battle at Big Rock
I liked it.
+ I guess life found a way somehow. Even though it makes no sense based on the number of animals we saw escape, I'm going to accept it because it's giving me what I want. I really liked the little glimpses at the end of the dinosaurs in everyday life and what little we heard between the parents.
Also we'll probably never get it but I really want a movie with Alan, Ellie, Ian, Lexie and Tim (and Sarah and Kelly) reacting to this latest dinosaur situation.
+ I enjoyed the little dinosaur battle and the attack on the camper. It was nicely tense.
+ I liked the family. Mateo asking if the Nasutoceratops should be eating people food amused me, as did Kadasha pointing out it's a dinosaur and can eat whatever it wants.
+ I love that the wife didn't just cower in the back with the kids but tried to fight just as much as her husband. I liked that the daughter saved them all.
+ I am skeptical that an Allosaurus would take two crossbow bolts to the face and just decide to leave it's convenient meal to run away. That in no way tracks with how bloodthirsty the carnivorous dinosaurs are in these movies. They tend to greet gunfire with renewed determination to murder everyone. That family should 100% be dead.
+ There was way too much dinosaur death in this dinosaur movie for me. That is not what I want in these movies! So I was deeply not a fan of the whole volcanic eruption plot and all the rampant dinosaur death it caused. All those poor dinosaurs dying horrible deaths - :( to the scene of them all running for their lives in a stampede from the eruption, knowing it’s in vain and they’re all going to die, and then watching them drown after they go over the cliff. That poor Brontosaurus dying on the pier... D:
+ On the one hand, I actually like that it ended with the surviving dinosaurs free and running around, and Wu out there with the ability to make more. It could be a fun (probably apocalyptic) direction to take this series (maybe Ellie was right!) and I'm into that. I want to see what humans and dinosaurs living together would look like. But on the other, 1) most of the dinosaurs are confined to one area in one country and I'm pretty sure the president would end up sending the military out to hunt them all down. And there's so few of them and they're (mostly) large so it shouldn't be that difficult. 2) I'm feeling skeptical that the writers are going to deal with this in any slightly realistic way considering how they have very much not dealt with the escape of previous dinosaurs. We know pterodactyls have escaped before but nothing happened. The Mosasaurus escapes some time before the rest of the movie and yet nothing was mentioned of it when it should have been huge news.
+ I loved both videos of Owen and the baby raptors. They were so adorable. (Also not in the movie but there was a shot clip on Twitter from those videos, that ended up not being in the movie, with Blue purring as Owen rubs her neck!!!) Why the hell couldn't we have a movie about that? I also continue to love the Blue/Owen bond and I was sad when she chose to run away instead of stay with him.
+ Owen’s line about “if I die... remember you brought me here” amused me a lot.
+ There was too much happenstance dinosaurs saving our main characters for me. That said the triceratops taking the time to check out Owen and thus saving Owen's life in the forest was a scene I enjoyed even if it made no sense.
+ Maisie totally has raptor blood in her right? Cause that stalking scene at the beginning and then the close up of her eyes when Blue left felt really suggestive. I'll be disappointed if it isn't confirmed in the next movie.
+ I was a little surprised that they had Maisie prefer Owen instead of Claire considering Claire's deeply annoying personal storyline in the first movie. You'd think they'd want to continue that with Maisie attaching herself to Claire and Claire getting attached over the course of the movie. [Also I feel like they should have had a scene at the beginning where Maisie and Claire met when Claire was at the mansion, perhaps having the stalking scene be Maisie stalking Claire, then them talking about Claire going to save the dinosaurs.)
+ I’m pleased that Doctor Wu survived yet again and escaped with at least some of his research. I rather love him as this amoral connection between all the movies.
+ I liked both Zia and Franklin.
+ The writers decision to break Claire and Owen up to presumably add nonsense relationship tension to the movie annoyed me. Not necessary!
+ Honestly I was a little disappointed in Claire's place in the story. It felt like she was left to follow Owen's lead more often than not and react instead of being proactive. Like, I was annoyed that she stayed with Maisie while Owen went on to cause mayhem on the auction floor. She gets injured so Owen has to go play hero and save Maisie.
+ Kids aren’t always good at common sense or reacting well in terrifying situations but Maisie staying huddled in her bed even after she saw the Indorapter's shadow on her wall instead of running was annoyingly dumb. I didn't buy that she'd react that way - she was shown to be very good at running to save herself. So it ended up feeling very contrived.
On the other hand Maisie deciding to let all the dinosaurs free into the world, even regardless of her feeling of affinity as a clone herself or love of dinosaurs, made complete sense to me. I 100% buy most kids saving the dinosaurs from dying in front of them without considering the consequences.
+ The Indoraptor going after Maisie while it had Claire and Owen trapped made no sense. It somehow tracking her to her room after it climbed onto the roof for some reason also made no sense. The only way I can explain it to myself is that it fixated on her when it first met her for some reason. (Her maybe raptor blood?)
+ It looked like when Wu was evacuating he was taking samples of dinosaur dna with him. ... If he had all the dinosaur dna why go to all the expense and danger of 'saving' the ones on the island instead of making new ones? That said going for Blue did make sense to me.
+ The Baryonyx scene was so deeply stupid. The fact that it gets hit in the head with lava and then shakes it off with seemingly no issue, and then continues to try and get Frnaklin and Claire while getting hit by it several more times was so stupid.
+ Lockwood was dumb to believe Mills would just turn himself in, like, dude really?
+ I don't get why Mills was doing everything at the Lockwood mansion when I feel like it would have made more sense for him to be doing all this illegal stuff away from his employer instead of under his nose. Also selling dinosaurs for only 10/20 million seems ridiculously cheap.
+ Why the hell was Mills still at the mansion so long after everything went to shit? Dude.
+ I'm surprised that none of the dinosaurs were moved to the other island. Or that no other million/billionaires or governments decided to act on their own to either save some of the dinosaurs or snatch them up for other purposes. Only Lockwood wanting to doesn't make sense to me.
Battle at Big Rock
I liked it.
+ I guess life found a way somehow. Even though it makes no sense based on the number of animals we saw escape, I'm going to accept it because it's giving me what I want. I really liked the little glimpses at the end of the dinosaurs in everyday life and what little we heard between the parents.
Also we'll probably never get it but I really want a movie with Alan, Ellie, Ian, Lexie and Tim (and Sarah and Kelly) reacting to this latest dinosaur situation.
+ I enjoyed the little dinosaur battle and the attack on the camper. It was nicely tense.
+ I liked the family. Mateo asking if the Nasutoceratops should be eating people food amused me, as did Kadasha pointing out it's a dinosaur and can eat whatever it wants.
+ I love that the wife didn't just cower in the back with the kids but tried to fight just as much as her husband. I liked that the daughter saved them all.
+ I am skeptical that an Allosaurus would take two crossbow bolts to the face and just decide to leave it's convenient meal to run away. That in no way tracks with how bloodthirsty the carnivorous dinosaurs are in these movies. They tend to greet gunfire with renewed determination to murder everyone. That family should 100% be dead.
