• hopesdead@startrek.website
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    4 days ago

    I swear Universal said Jurassic World: Dominion would be the last movie for the franchise, then two years later they announced Rebirth.

  • pachrist@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I was ok with the first Chris Pratt one. Not great, not awful.

    What I really wish they had done was set the next one a couple years down the line. Maybe a couple of those military helicopters that are stealing the dinosaurs at the end crashes in mainland South/Central America. Imagine a Jurassic Park movie that’s a cross between Alien/Predator/Planet of the Apes. Really lean into the highly intelligent apex predator and horror angle.

    The problem with these movies, is they keep letting the cat out of the bag, over and over and over. Cat’s out. What’s next?

    • I think they tried to do that with the new one. The D Rex (are we still adding rex where it doesn’t belong?) was clearly modelled after the xenomorph.

      I wanna be clear they failed. I haven’t been this disappointed in a movie since I saw TLJ for the first time

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    5 days ago

    The Jurassic Park movie franchise is the best representation of movies that diminish with each movie since the first one.

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    5 days ago

    I saw the movie on the weekend and I liked it. Much better than the last two, but obviously not as good as the first one.

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    5 days ago

    First one was grand, didn’t need to be followed up or remade. Now we have a franchise… The only remake I wouldn’t mind seeing is a more brutal first one, closer to what the book was depicting. All I’d be interested in really.

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      5 days ago

      I was just saying the other day if the first one had been faithful to the ending of the book we wouldn’t have all this mess.

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      5 days ago

      Both this and Five Nights at Freddy’s have an interesting problem, where they’re based around an entertainment franchise that goes wrong - but the franchise itself necessitates repeated attempts and failure.

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    5 days ago

    I saw the latest fuckrassic park a couple days ago. It was at best… okay. Not worth what the movie theater charges. But if you wait to stream it then it isn’t terrible. But overall, this franchise has lost its luster

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      5 days ago

      That’s the big issue with going to the theatre. Two tickets, popcorn and a drink for my wife and I and I’m paying $50+ in Canada. I think the last movie we saw in theatres was dr strange 2 and it wasn’t worth it, before that it was avengers end game. 99% of movies just aren’t worth going to the movies for. I haven’t seen a film i would say was 100% worth it since Fury Road. Everything else im fine watching at home. Better resolution, i have a good screen and sound. And I can pause to go take a piss

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        Yeah we have similar prices (US). The tickets were $27 (for my wife and myself) and $7 for a coke. If we get popcorn and snacks its just about $50+, depending on what we get. We get snacks beforehand and just hide them in my wifes purse like most people. I used to love going to the movies for the whole experience. But it just keeps getting more expensive and as of late, no good movies are coming out.

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    5 days ago

    Eh, if Michael Chrichton were still alive today he’d probably condone it all so long as he got his royalty check. Jurassic Park canon was never holy.

  • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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    5 days ago

    The premise of dinosaurs in the modern world is as close to evergreen as you can get. The problem isn’t that the cow has gone dry, so much as the farmers keep jerking off the bull instead.