Jurassic World: Rebirth
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The fact the entire premise of this movie is based on a ******* Snickers bar wrapper should tell you everything you need to know.
That was hilarious. One minor failure and it instantly opens the door to the most dangerous Dino in the lab.
My favorite part was all the times the dads daughters were in danger and he just stood there staring at them, happens 3-4 times
I haven't seen it nor how it is presented. But I think it is a hidden fear in many dads:
- I hope nothing happens to my daughter.
- If something is happening to my daughter I hope I have the courage to trade my life for hers.
It is a real fear for some dads that they will freeze with indecision when that moment happens or move too slowly. Parenthood comes with no manuals. It also comes with no medals for bravery.
KidSilverhair
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(I actually thought Rebirth was okay [yes, dumb, but okay], for what it was. I was entertained. The plot was at least a little different from all the other Jurassic Park/World retreads that just seemed to recycle the same storylines over and over and over. And no Chris Pratt was an improvement.)
Finally went to see it waiting to pick somebody up from the airport -- my thoughts...
SPOILERS insofar as you can even spoil this kind of movie. There are few surprises.
My very modest expectations were met. Gareth Edwards isn't any good at plot or characters but understands how to give a film a sense of visual grandeur (e.g., Rogue One) even if not much more.
There's not much for characters or even a plot, but it holds together with Edwards stringing together an admittedly impressive series of set pieces. The Mosasaurus and Tyrannosaurus sequences stand out. I even bought the D-Rex at the end despite it look more like a MUTO than as an actual dinosaur.
I loved the scaled-up T-Rex -- and there's actually fossil evidence mature adults might have been much larger and definitely bulkier than we thought before, so I was glad to see it come alive on screen.
The Titanosaurus sequence has a genuine sense of wonder about it. And yes, it is derivative of the similar scene with the Brachiosaurus in the original. It works here on its own merits, however, without relying on canned nostalgia. I think the low-angle framing and Jonathan Bailey's performance really sells it.
Reusing the John Williams score in that moment helps. It's lost none of its power. Hearing it made me think to myself the defining figure in cinema the past 50 years is probably not Kubrick, Scorsese, Lucas, Coppola, or even Spielberg. It's Williams. So many great films just don't work without his score.
Jaws
Star Wars
E.T.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Superman
Indiana Jones
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
The Patriot
Lincoln
He's written the soundtrack to most of our lives.
There are a few references and Easter Eggs to either earlier Jurassic films or Edwards films (e.g., the tedious Godzilla from 2014, etc.). It is not running pure nostalgia here, though -- we don't have another travesty offensive to cinema like The Force Awakens on our hands. It manages to tell its own if rather thin story. That story is enough to move between the set pieces, so it works if you're just expecting the entertainment without any of the memorable characters, tension, and deeper themes from the 1993 masterpiece.
At least two sequences I noticed were from the Crichton novels that never previously made it to the screen: (1.) the raft sequence with the Rex (why couldn't he bite through the raft?) and (2.) being stalked through the worker village by the "raptors" and eventually escaping through underground tunnels.
The retcons of the Jurassic World trilogy didn't bother me because I felt Jurassic World took the franchise in increasingly stupid directions anyways. My own head canon was this film was a direct sequel to either Jurassic Park III or even the original. I've posted this story before, but Spielberg's original plan for a sequel to Jurassic Park was something like Rebirth -- a "recovery team" sent back to Isla Nublar on a shady mission to recover what InGen technology it could fine before turning into a survival-horror film.
Then Crichton wrote a sequel about a second island and it all went downhill from there. I would have much rather The Lost World been Pete Postlethwaite as the main character leading the "recovery team," but we ended up with something similar this time around except with Scarlett Johansson.
Scarlett is really attractive and effortlessly charming. Some actors you know are going to make a film entertaining even if the raw material isn't any good, and she's definitely in that category.
Not art but didn't need to be.
Made a pile of money so we'll be getting more of 'em.
SPOILERS insofar as you can even spoil this kind of movie. There are few surprises.
My very modest expectations were met. Gareth Edwards isn't any good at plot or characters but understands how to give a film a sense of visual grandeur (e.g., Rogue One) even if not much more.
There's not much for characters or even a plot, but it holds together with Edwards stringing together an admittedly impressive series of set pieces. The Mosasaurus and Tyrannosaurus sequences stand out. I even bought the D-Rex at the end despite it look more like a MUTO than as an actual dinosaur.
I loved the scaled-up T-Rex -- and there's actually fossil evidence mature adults might have been much larger and definitely bulkier than we thought before, so I was glad to see it come alive on screen.
The Titanosaurus sequence has a genuine sense of wonder about it. And yes, it is derivative of the similar scene with the Brachiosaurus in the original. It works here on its own merits, however, without relying on canned nostalgia. I think the low-angle framing and Jonathan Bailey's performance really sells it.
Reusing the John Williams score in that moment helps. It's lost none of its power. Hearing it made me think to myself the defining figure in cinema the past 50 years is probably not Kubrick, Scorsese, Lucas, Coppola, or even Spielberg. It's Williams. So many great films just don't work without his score.
Jaws
Star Wars
E.T.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Superman
Indiana Jones
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
The Patriot
Lincoln
He's written the soundtrack to most of our lives.
There are a few references and Easter Eggs to either earlier Jurassic films or Edwards films (e.g., the tedious Godzilla from 2014, etc.). It is not running pure nostalgia here, though -- we don't have another travesty offensive to cinema like The Force Awakens on our hands. It manages to tell its own if rather thin story. That story is enough to move between the set pieces, so it works if you're just expecting the entertainment without any of the memorable characters, tension, and deeper themes from the 1993 masterpiece.
At least two sequences I noticed were from the Crichton novels that never previously made it to the screen: (1.) the raft sequence with the Rex (why couldn't he bite through the raft?) and (2.) being stalked through the worker village by the "raptors" and eventually escaping through underground tunnels.
The retcons of the Jurassic World trilogy didn't bother me because I felt Jurassic World took the franchise in increasingly stupid directions anyways. My own head canon was this film was a direct sequel to either Jurassic Park III or even the original. I've posted this story before, but Spielberg's original plan for a sequel to Jurassic Park was something like Rebirth -- a "recovery team" sent back to Isla Nublar on a shady mission to recover what InGen technology it could fine before turning into a survival-horror film.
Then Crichton wrote a sequel about a second island and it all went downhill from there. I would have much rather The Lost World been Pete Postlethwaite as the main character leading the "recovery team," but we ended up with something similar this time around except with Scarlett Johansson.
Scarlett is really attractive and effortlessly charming. Some actors you know are going to make a film entertaining even if the raw material isn't any good, and she's definitely in that category.
Not art but didn't need to be.
Made a pile of money so we'll be getting more of 'em.
What was the point of that family anyway? Anyone who hasnt seen it should just watch the dino attack scenes on youtube and not waste time watching the terrible plot/characters.
I went and took the family. Disappointing obviously. They have to have lost their @$$ on this one with the cost of Johansson. Minus all the horrible parts to it I am still completely baffled by my top (2) questions:
1) how did a snickers wrapper cause all this
2) nasty water dinosaurs chased them to the island, why were they not chasing them at the end
It's the way life works. All good things come to an end sometime and somehow. I think the franchise needs to hang it up.
1) how did a snickers wrapper cause all this
2) nasty water dinosaurs chased them to the island, why were they not chasing them at the end
It's the way life works. All good things come to an end sometime and somehow. I think the franchise needs to hang it up.
The family next to me (mom and dad plus two little boys) left because the boys were crying. I think it was because it was too scary and not because it was that bad of a film, though.
She's hot and literally the only reason I went.
Rebirth is closing in on $700 million worldwide. Roughly twice is budget/marketing. It's well into the money and a sequel is likely as a result. People like dinosaurs just for dinosaurs.
Plot convenience. Why cook up a complex plot involving corporate espionage and a disgruntled contractor and develop those themes/characters like the original when we can just get on with it?
To be fair, one of the redshirts got eaten by a Spinosaurus on the beach.
Again, it is printing money. I'm sure Universal and Johansson want another payday.
