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Anyone else surprised by this? I wasn't exactly inspired to run out and see it by the promotional stuff, and most of the reviews I've seen (even from you guys) have been lukewarm at best. I have to assume this thing craters after this from word of mouth, but maybe people just don't care. Either way, it's already surpassed JP III and easily go past Lost World eventually, so I'm sure we'll be seeing more of these in the future.

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That actually disappoints me a little. Part of what I like about this was that it was a fitting sendoff that helped undo some of the damage that 2 and 3 did. This really needed to be the end. But with this much money, they are going to try and shoehorn 2 more more awful sequels.
 
Jurassic World has a 7.6 IMDB rating and is dominating the box office ?
 
I'd give Jurassic World an 8/10.

I thought it was pretty damn entertaining. It was predictable and cheesy at times, but I thought it came together nicely.

As a kid I was obsessed with the original, this wasn't as good as Jurassic Park but was A LOT better than 2 and 3.
 
I expected to hate it but Jurassic World ended up being a pretty solid genre film.
 
the movie was garbage. i laughed. like a lot. how many god damn holes..

san andreas was the main draw for me, which followed. omg was it even worse.
 
Jurassic World: 5/10

Basically 5 points for special effects and dinosaurs eating each other. The plot was awful and none of it made sense. So let me get this straight: one division of InGen conspired with another sector of InGen to steal InGen technology from InGen while in the process ruining InGen so they can take over InGen. None of it was even remotely plausible. At least give me something.

They never really gave a good reason for the Asian scientist to betray the company he had worked for for 30 years- least of all in a way that would lead to a bunch of deaths. The supposed 'bad guy' didn't strike me as bad, just a hollow cliche. The character development was as bad as Avatar. And the ending was awful, with the DeuxExMachinasaurus that kept jumping up and eating shit. If the damn thing jumps up to eat everything that comes near its pond, then why has it never breached the enclosure previously to snack on the thousands of human chicken nuggets that daily massed in that plaza??? The ending was just awful. And get ready for a bunch of sequels- that was the only reason why the Dr. got off the island with the embryos, so we can get the Pepsisaurus in the next movie. Look, it was fun to watch for the visuals and for that I can't competely berate it. But wow was that plot awful.
 
Everyone I've talked to says Jurassic World was great.

I've not heard a single bad review.

Kind of surprised to walk into the thread and read the negative comments.

I haven't seen it though, so I wouldn't know, but it is interesting to see the disparity.
 
I'd give Jurassic world a 6/10 only because of the great effects.

The plot has already been eviscerated on here, so I'll go after the characters. Absolutely awful. I kept hoping the annoying little punk with the mophead would get eaten because I was really sick of his crap. It's like the director said "your role is to act really, really excited at all the cool stuff", and damn, did that brat deliver.

Every single character was a complete cliché. Amazing, really, that not one of them varied from that even a little bit.

It was really a lot closer to a reboot than a sequel. You could line up the characters in this one and quite easily switch them off with their counterparts from the original. The male lead who is suspicious that things aren't right, a budding romance with a woman, two kids who get lost and attacked by dinosaurs, the good-hearted owner who doesn't realize the problems with his creation, the dark-haired geeky guy providing cryptic warnings about fiddling with nature, the inside traitor guy, etc..

To me, it was exactly like watching the original (which was a great summer movie), only with less competent actors (except for the Indian guy), and absolutely no sense of wonder. But the excitement and cool dinosaurs were there, so it's a decent popcorn flick.
 
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I was entertained, but that's a fairly low bar. I'd give it a soft 6/10 because it met my expectations as far as dinosaurs and special effects, which is the primary driver to see these movies. It also had a good number of funny moments. Almost everything else was mediocre to bad.

The plot is indeed dumb.
The acting is pretty terrible outside of a few people. Chris Pratt plays Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallace Howard does the 'every hot, uptight woman thrown into an action plot ever' role. The two kids in particular are brutal.
The villains are bad caricatures of B-movie villains, but a lot of the campiness is self-aware. The movie takes itself less seriously than the original by a long shot.
The special effects are great.

The only people involved with this movie that would proudly put it on their resume are the special effects team and the financial beneficiaries, of which there are many.
 
Maybe I missed it, but

what was the explanation for why all the fancy sensors didn't detect the beast while it was still in the enclosure?[/quote]
 
Maybe I missed it, but

what was the explanation for why all the fancy sensors didn't detect the beast while it was still in the enclosure?

It had thermal regulation from tree frogs or some bullshit.
 
Btw, I read a really nice piece on why they did what they did wi
It had thermal regulation from tree frogs or some bullshit.

Okay, I thought it might have been that, but it didn't (and doesn't) make a lick of sense to me still, so I thought maybe there was something else I'd missed.

After all there was

that tracking device embedded, which is a much simpler, less sophisticated means of detecting it's location. The idea that you'd use a more complicated thermal sensor instead of the tracking device to determine whether or not it is in the cage made no sense. So, I thought I must have missed something.
 
Ron Howard can do two things...direct movies and make smoking hot daughters.

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