'Jurassic World Dominion' Was Bad - Movie Review (feat. Brendan Hodges)
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2022
- David chats with Brendan Hodges about Jurassic World Dominion.
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Colin Trevorrow: "The Giganotosaurus is like the Joker, he just wants to watch the world burn."
Giganotosaurus: *a normal dinosaur that's in the movie for five minutes and just wants to eat*
And then gets team on as if he was the villain all along.
The whole notion that Trevorrow went this direction with the franchise was to "honor Crichton" is completely ludicrous. None of this BS draws from the books at all. He's basically blame-shifting to a beloved and now-deceased author. Really makes me root against him ever having an opportunity to run a franchise like this again.
You sure none of this events were drawn from the books
I understand why people would say it, but....Trevorrow also took it in so many other boring directions that it's freaking useless to even refer to Crichton at this point.
Yes, I've read both Jurassic Park and the Lost World (which has never been truly adapted outside of the idea of Malcolm going to a second island). Are you sure his movies do draw from the books or are you just trolling and throwing jabs at strangers on the internet? I think I know the answer...
@@pjny21 you are 100% right! None of the movies have honored his work outside of the first which he co-wrote. 🤷♂️
Crichton's books Jurassic Park and The Lost World were much better than the movies.
I also want to add : Spielberg´s idea of spectacle when making JP : Cecil B DeMille, David Lean, John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Robert Wise
Trevorrow ´s idea of spectacle when directing JW movies : Rob Cohen, Brett Ratner, John Moore, Johnathan Liebesman
The premises of Spielberg's blockbusters (Jaws, JP, the Indiana Jones) are premises of B movies but Spielberg treats them seriously without patronizing them and in the end he elevates them.
Meanwhile Trevorrow treats Jurassic Park with comtempt.
The Jurassic World movies are as dumb as Bay's Transformers movies but the difference between them is that Bay knows how to do a money shot while Trevorrow doesn't.
Yup.
2 moments that perfectly describe this movie is when Alan Grant first appears he gives a small speech about why he still diggs but who is he talking to? Everyone is just digging at the site and he is just babbling this dumb speech ramdomly? Its so out of place its ridiculous. Then in Malta, after they release the dinos in that small wharehouse, the 2 guys fall into the small arena and fight while they have an audience of other guys calmly sitting arround the arena watching them fight while in the background the loose dinossaurs are atacking people... like what?? Loose dinos in the room and people just casually watching a fight between two guys not even caring about the dinossaurs recking havoc just behind them??? Its just a nonsense movie
lol, Grant would have the worst college interns on those trips, it'd drive him into insanity.
One more moment for you. In a franchise defined by the theme that mankind can't play God, they retcon that a lady successfully cloned herself and then changed every cell of the clone's body to eradicate an illness with no negative repercussions. She did all of this Before the genetic tinkering of the hybrid dinosaurs caused problems, and her technique allows Wu to play God by getting rid of all the locusts. From a movie that sets out to say "we screwed up and now we have to live with dinosaurs" it ends up saying "we screwed up and now we don't have to live with the locusts."
In hindsight I think it could have been a fun and tense scene if the cloned versions of the dinosaurs he was excavating migrated to the site and killed some of the diggers.
It’s a nonsense movie.
The most accurate statement ever!
What really bothers me is the need to constantly outdo the Tyrannosaurus with a larger predator. When observing birds, modern-day theropods, it is typically smaller birds that harass larger birds. Mocking birds will give an impressive and acrobatic air assault on crows if they dare enter their territory. Crows will harass red-tailed hawks if they get too close. Blue Jays, another corvid, will group up on any predatory bird(s) they find and mob them until they leave the area.
T. Rexes are powerful and aggressive enough to drive any other predators from their territory.
My 5 years old cousin fell asleep during the movie. It’s that bad!!!
Wow that says it all. When I was 6 I watch the First JP in the cinemas and was in edge.
The plot and characters were as deep as a schoolyard puddle.
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The pterodactyl’s terrorizing tourists at Margaritaville in JW is what this movie should’ve been. Great review guys, horrendous movie.
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This was a great discussion! I don't care about the Jurassic World movies because they all seem bad but this conversation illustrated why this new one is especially bad!
This whole thing hurts my heart AND butt. First of all, why did the dinosaurs survive the first week in the wild? In reality, we would have sent out trained hunters and killed them immediately. It's not like big animals the size of dinosaurs could have hidden.
Some people have killed the dinosaurs in these franchises but I don't think the kids would appreciate that
@@animezilla4486 As I said, 'In reality...'. This of course is not reality.
But I have to ask, regarding your comment regarding children and their sensitivities, what then changed between this movie and the previous one (Fallen Kingdom) where the remaining dinosaurs on Isla Nublar died in a massive volcanic explosion and fire?
There are a ton of reasons the dinosaurs wouldn't pose a threat to our species. Natural reasons and reasons related to this franchise's own established logic.
I had a very long post going but it's not even worth the time.
This movie is just very stupid.
I have no interest in these movies besides the original but have thoroughly enjoyed the Filmcast discussions of them. Thanks for sharing this Dave!
Dinosaurs are just animals. A 20 mm gatling cannon will kill the biggest, baldest dinosaur! An Abrams tank will do a number on them as well. Not to mention attack jets and helicopters. A couple of RPGs will stop a T Rex. So. there could be no dinosaur apocalypse! I know Holliswood and Disney never have a prerequisite to represent reality! Love your review of this movie! ☢ ENDS ☢
I love to see this. Tanks taking out a T Rex in the next JW movie. Mix it up a little.
The last act in particular was incredibly BORING.
We spent all this time splitting two different boring stories between the old and new cast, then finally unite them, only to realize there are now absolutely no stakes at all because plot armor.
But hey, remember when those two big dinosaurs fought in all our other movies? Wanna see it again?
God this movie was DULL.
You have to understand that they spent most of the budget on three C's: Celebrities, CGI, and Cocaine. Writers be damned.
No, the last is Corpo mindset. Coke would've make this more interesting.
@@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom Lol. Isn't the corpo mindset is fueled by cocaine?
Cgi is shit
Yeah, I think everyone owes Rise of Skywalker an apology now. Say what you want about that film but at least that had good acting, good characters, good cinematography, good action, good effects, and it didn't just flat out lie to it's audience, it promised Palpatine and we got Palpatine.
Jurassic World Dominion promised dinosaurs living among humans and instead we got GIANT BUGS.....
Colin Trevorow is an inept bait & switch hack who at this point I honestly just believe got lucky with Jurassic World and all the success for it just went to his head.
Anything you guys pointed out that was worth viewing (Claire “chase” scene in the jungle, the giga biting at Macy, etc.) were all in the trailer, lol. so, in other words.. the Trailer is really good. Lol.
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Jurassic park prequel WHEN!?
Should've happen in the late 2000s never understood why 😥😥
SPOILERS FOR JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION IN THIS POST!
What aggravates me is that in the Malta-sequence when they get surrounded by 4 raptors they have all the time in the world to shoot them dead. The raptors slowly circles them while they are all armed. As established in the previous movie, a raptor goes down pretty quick if you shoot them. So why not just instantly shoot them? At least three of them have a weapon.
Later when the guy is trapped in the boat with it he could easily shoot it in the head. Or while the raptor is passing through the door frame shoot it. Stuff like that makes my blood boil.
I have a clear suspicion though that there is a studio mandate that no protagonist is allowed to hurt a dinosaur, because that might be unsympathetic I guess. As far as I can remember there is only one person in the whole franchise that is responsible for killing a dinosaur and that is the daughter in The Lost World. In all other cases I want to say a dinosaur is always killed by another dinosaur.
Edit: Not to mention that in the first Jurassic Park Grant tries to kill a raptor but fails for whatever reason.
David I take comfort listening to you because you don’t say dumb stuff
What an enjoyable discussion!!!
Love ya, Dave
I completely understand everything Brandon said. 100% agree thats exactly how I felt as well. This movie took all the dumb shit and instead of at least making it fun dumb shit they just slapped some nonsensical Mission impossible powder onto it and left it to rot. Nothing about this movie was fun. They ruined every single scene…
I’m gonna say diNO to this movie
As I said I love this movie. I did not find anything wrong with that. If I had to point one thing wrong and it would be the locust icing. That story did not need to be there :-) but I do understand where you guys are coming from.
Any human with a gun can easily kill those dinosaurs. There would be no Jurassic World. That's just not possible. So it's futile to even explore that reality. Jurassic Park movies got this right by always having an isolated setting.
'Jurassic World Dominion' Was Bad - Movie Review (feat. David Chen)
At 5:23 what people don't understand that plot holes are features not flaws
When a painter paints his limit is the size of the frame is painting on, for a filmmaker his limit is time and money : if a movie is too long there will be fewer screening per day and therefore fewer tickets sold and therefore it will make less money and no one wants to lose money (blockbusters are industrial cinema after all), so in order to have your movie shorter you have to use narrative shortcuts (wich is what plot holes are). There is a reason why The Lion King remake is boring next to the original : it tries to fill up the plot holes of the original and in the end it destroys the narrative efficiency of the original and adds 30 useless minutes while telling the same story.
Alternatively, if the movie would be too long with explanation of a plot hole, the filmmaker could trim a scene that goes on too long or even cut superfluous scenes. Some people watch these for the craft and some people for the immersion. A painter is not a filmmaker; the former makes a caricature of a moment and the latter an impersonation of a reality. Dialogue, sound effects, soundtrack, studio demands, scene transitions, special effects, characterization, and plotting are unique demands for a filmmaker and not a painter. And it is the filmmaker's job to construct a narrative with all of those features that is worth something. Plot holes can be shortcuts to the plot, but they can also be detrimental holes. I'll accept retcons and plot holes insofar as the movie can justify them and they're not egregious. Say Jurassic Park, when Grant and the kids fall in the T Rex enclosure. There was no indication the scene before that there would be a twenty foot drop, but they wanted the action scene to show off Grant and have him bond with Tim more so it is fine. The more unrealistic aspects of Jurassic Park III (phone always ringing inside Spinosaurus, the kid surviving weeks on the island, characters finding each other, and the fakeout deaths) are just contrivances that do serve as shortcuts. But act 3 of The Lost World Jurassic Park hinges on the premise that the T Rex killed the boat crew while locked up under the deck and not denting the cockpit as it dents the bus or any building it attacks. This is because a previous draft of the script had raptors, but they were cut. The San Diego sequence is dreadful anyways, so I don't accept the plot's explanation. A feature of this text is now that the T Rex shrunk down, went in to kill the crew and locked itself back up
All the Jurassic World movies suck, and Dominion is the worst of them.
Michael Crichton is such a clever writer, he must be rolling in his grave to see how dumb these movies have become and how they’ve ruined his creation.
i ll never spend a penny on this over hyped hollywoodized Dino flaming shit
I really enjoyed the movie
20min talking about star wars ?