A good dinosaur movie, TV show, book, cartoon/anime, video game, etc. can work if given better material. JP did so once upon a time, but that ship has sailed a long time ago, even after the tragic passing of original author Michael Critchon in 2008. So yea, there isn't a point of making JP cool anymore. It's nothing more than a brand and only the die hard consoomers will act as if it is cool but not point out the obvious, glaring flaws (which is the same with any other fanbase to media).
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- 25 de Mayo, 2013
Yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to imply that Jurassic Lump 12 is anything good, just that they could provide some pretty fucking stupid shit but as long as it was a cool dino movie it would be cool
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- 25 de Mayo, 2013
All Jurassic Park movies are cool by virtue of featuring dinosaurs fucking shit up. Anything that has dinosaurs wrecking shit is cool by default.
I don't think there should be any more JP movies in the near future, but some side story comics and miniseries could be neat. Though the most important thing is cool and diverse JP toys, including toys of non-dinosaur prehistoric animals like marine reptiles and Permian boys.
Sure, JP is selling like hotcakes because of its merchandising, such as the toys and all. But really, the movies (and even its original book, if you wanna be technical) are also the selling point of the franchise and what made Jurassic Park... well, Jurassic Park. And since the quality of its movies nosedived for so long, it's impossible whether or not we need a new movie any time in the future.
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- 25 de Mayo, 2013
I liked them. They're fun and have dinosaurs.
Well yes, they are "fun" and they have dinosaurs. That's great. But can you please explain without being defensive?
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- 25 de Mayo, 2013
Dinosaurs are badass and fun
You still haven't explained why they are in the Jurassic Park series. Please explain why than just giving a mute answer.
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- 25 de Mayo, 2013
Explained why dinosaurs are in a franchise about cloning dinosaurs?
Not my point. I don't know why I'm arguing with you about this as you've proven to be absolutely mentally retarded.
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- 25 de Mayo, 2013
In other news, Ian Malcom has apparently abandoned his wife and 5th kid for an anime twink
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- 14 de Abr, 2018
I mean there was only ever one movie that was even good in the Jurassic Park franchise which is the first one.
Arguably there is some enjoyment to be had from Lost world and Jurassic World, but nothing really compares and the films I didn't mention are pretty much ass.
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- 2 de Abr, 2018
Fun fact, this is top five amongst my favorite Weird Al songs.And let's not forget this good parody done by Weird Al Yankovic.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0
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- 6 de Mar, 2022
Nowadays I find even the first fi;m a bit too overly polished and cinematically manipulative. Not bad but I guess I am not a fan of Spielberg's family film style. I preferred how the book was a pretty rough and gritty allegory about complex systems always failing. I think I am done with the series. As far as I am concerned my favorite pieces of JP media are the books and the SNES game.
I still love the first JP movie, but if you want another movie with a very similar premise, the 1980 movie Roar (albeit a film with lions, tigers and whatnot instead of dinosaurs) is a way better movie. Plus, it has a very interesting production history, with it being filmed for three years with filmmakers and actors almost quitting midway through, studios like MGM, Paramount and WB rejecting the project, and was not even released in the US until 2015, when it finally premiered in the Alamo Drafthouse.
I'd say that is a better movie than any of the Jurassic Park movies. I'm glad Roar didn't become a huge franchise. Great movie, of course.
I'd say that is a better movie than any of the Jurassic Park movies. I'm glad Roar didn't become a huge franchise. Great movie, of course.
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- 12 de Jun, 2019
Funny you mention that. I'm old enough to remember when Jurassic park had lost its luster as a toyline in the early 2000s after Hasbro shut down kenner and took over production of the lines for jp3 (and a few lines sold at universal theme parks) It was YEARS before jurassic park regularly occupied toy shelves. and the few times it did was for major events like 2013 for the series 20th anniversary (my god next year its 30th) and of course the hasbro toyline for the first Jurassic World, which sucked to no end and showed hasbro didn't give a shit about anything that wasn't mlp, transformers or their own in house toy lines anymore.
Funny how thing can shift and change in the span of a few years to a full decade or so isn't it?
Roar is a gigantic pile of shit dude. Tone is nonexistent. It plays goofy children's music while lions rip out Melanie Griffith's scalp. It's barely even a movie. Just footage of actors in a house getting mauled by big cats.
To each is own. I still like the movie no matter what.
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- 18 de Jun, 2019
The World movies are a lot more acceptable when you put them in the context of Universal studios itself and how they've operated since the 1930s.
They've always gone after a more "blur collar" audience with a catchy central hook like "hey, look at this cool monster" or "hey, look at this cool shark" or "hey, look at these cool cars" and in the case of JP "hey, look at these cool dinosaurs"
And just like with the Universal Monsters movies, the Jaws series or the Fast & The Furious series the more they went on the more ridiculous they got because they had to write their way backwards from having to have a shark eating people, car chases or dinosaurs on the loose, eventually the monster movies became self parody and they wanted to do that with Jaws even.
The World movies are not great but my point is they can be fun if you get in the right headspace, honestly JP got off easy when compared to other ips like Star Wars.
They've always gone after a more "blur collar" audience with a catchy central hook like "hey, look at this cool monster" or "hey, look at this cool shark" or "hey, look at these cool cars" and in the case of JP "hey, look at these cool dinosaurs"
And just like with the Universal Monsters movies, the Jaws series or the Fast & The Furious series the more they went on the more ridiculous they got because they had to write their way backwards from having to have a shark eating people, car chases or dinosaurs on the loose, eventually the monster movies became self parody and they wanted to do that with Jaws even.
The World movies are not great but my point is they can be fun if you get in the right headspace, honestly JP got off easy when compared to other ips like Star Wars.