Comments | xerinmichellex: Just got back from Jurassic World

xerinmichellex

Just got back from Jurassic World

Jun 12, 2015 17:24

First Point: Theaters should really ban parents from bringing their toddlers to PG-13 movies. Especially movies that border into the scary territory. We had a toddler screaming her head off for 15 minutes before an usher came. Keep your fucking kids at home.

About the movie: I thought it was a good, summer blockbuster. Admittedly, I might have ( Read more... )

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fatpie42 June 14 2015, 14:44:52 UTC

I can't understand the idea of anyone training the velociraptors from Jurassic Park. It was clearly indicated that these animals were extremely cunning. Even the appearance of being trained would be simply used as an opportunity to tear you limb from limb later ( ... )

xerinmichellex June 14 2015, 18:14:38 UTC

I can't understand the idea of anyone training the velociraptors from Jurassic Park.

They explain it within the movie in a "yeah, sure" kind of way. Basically Pratt's character "imprinted" on the velociraptors and they respond (somewhat) to his commands, which is basically just "look at me" and "track this thing down". They aren't 100% under Pratt's--or any of the humans--control, and the movie does show this.

It's kinda like Siegfried and Roy and their animals. Yes, they trained them; but ultimately they are still animals, and accidents will and do happen. But I understand--in the basic explanation it sounds stupid. It comes off better in the movie IMO.

Looking back, I'm a little confused as to when the big dinosaur craze started since it seems to pre-date Jurassic Park.I'm not sure when it started either; but I've always suspected that it "boomed" after JP came out. I'm not sure how old you are (or about the "dino craze" in the UK), but I was 5 when JP came out and seemed like JP invigorated a lot of interest in dinosaurs. (It ( ... )

fatpie42 June 14 2015, 21:56:29 UTC

Star Wars is different. It wasn't an interest in space that Star Wars kicked off. It was an interest in space-fantasy. 2001 and other space movies generally involved astronauts, not space princesses. Even "Star Trek" is closer to astronauts and scientists in its focus ( ... )

xerinmichellex June 14 2015, 23:09:03 UTC

Okay, perhaps using Star Wars was a bad example. My overall point was sometimes it takes a single movie like JP, or SW, or LotR that kicks off a "boom" or "craze" in something genre-specific; even though there already exists movies or TV shows or literature that cater to that genre-specific thing.

George Lucas actually tried to make a Flash Gordon movie based on the comics, but failed to get the rights, so he made Star Wars instead.

I know that story; it was part of the reason I brought it up. ;)

(It's funny to imagine a world without Star Wars had Lucas actually gotten the rights for Flash Gordon.)

Oh, when I Googled "Adventures in Dinosaur City movie" the only thing that came up was We're Back. So, I go back to my original point; nope haven't seen that one. And I haven't seen the Mario Brothers movie, so I can't comment on that.

it's hard to understand how those trainable raptors could possibly be the same monsters which essentially had to be kept in a closed pen in the first movieYou're right that it is different from the ( ... )