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It opens in the UK today (almost 3 weeks before it's American debut).
I enjoyed the last one, but it was basically a cartoon for kids...moreso than the others.
I will go see it and hope it's just 2 hours of dumb fun.
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I saw it in theater Tuesday. The leads are good, and obviously the fx are impeccable. Interested parties should absolutely go see it. But as with the last one, I have trouble buying into the premise (....spoilers ahead....) that reptiles could have so much brain power, and even mammalian bonding skills. Also, the plot of this new one was too destructive for me, kind of knocking over the whole apple cart. The first one from 1993 remains my favorite in the series.
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I do have a spoiler comment and question.
Yeah, they set up a sequel there.
I guess my biggest problem with it was that, as happened with Star Trek: Insurrection, I disagreed with the film's ethical judgement, and thus I wasn't having the filmmaker's intended reaction as to what would make me happy or unhappy. I was rooting for dino extinction, for the sake of humanity, but the film itself cared more about reptiles than people, and I wasn't onboard with that.
The decisive (and supposedly noble) act near the ending was especially irksome to me. The film's sense of right is messed up.
Having said that, it's not a bad movie if the point is action-adventure and spectacle. I enjoyed many parts of it, and I'll probably enjoy the ensuing rampage in the next one. 
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They are indeed planning a third one. JW: Fallen Kingdom was pretty entertaining—the film certainly delivered on the dino thrills and stunningly rendered CGI visuals—but I had some pretty major problems with its story and characters. Far more so than I did with Jurassic World even. I'll still pick it up on Blu-ray I'm sure and enjoy the hell out of all the dino action over and over again, but I definitely like Jurassic World better. And I like The Lost World: Jurassic Park better than either of them, and Jurassic Park the most! I guess there's only one of the lot that I haven't mentioned—and with good reason!
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Jun 28, 2018 - 6:17 AM
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mastadge
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I do have a spoiler comment and question.
Yeah, they set up a sequel there.
I guess my biggest problem with it was that, as happened with Star Trek: Insurrection, I disagreed with the film's ethical judgement, and thus I wasn't having the filmmaker's intended reaction as to what would make me happy or unhappy. I was rooting for dino extinction, for the sake of humanity, but the film itself cared more about reptiles than people, and I wasn't onboard with that.
The decisive (and supposedly noble) act near the ending was especially irksome to me. The film's sense of right is messed up.
I don't see how this is for the sake of humanity. There are no breeding populations. These animals are loose in an unfamiliar environment. If this weren't a movie world where they are unstoppable monsters, they'd die of starvation almost immediately. If this weren't a movie world where dinosaurs are magically impervious to bullets, they would post very little threat to a trained zoo team trying to sedate and collect them.
Also I'm not sure why you read that as the film's sense of right. The adults decided to let the animals die to save humans. Go back to the discussion at the beginning. They were extinct, they're de-extinct, we should let them go extinct again. Obviously Maisie should feel sympathy for that. Her "mother" died, was re-born, and is now being told by the same person exploiting the dinosaurs that he should get to do what he wants with her. She's responding to the sameness between her situation and theirs, and she's a child.
Anyway. I thought the movie was awful but I definitely read it differently than you did.
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Anyway. I thought the movie was awful but I definitely read it differently than you did.
I could come around to that position; my first-look insights are not always super-sage, and I'll maintain that JP:FK is not a "Great Film" for the ages, whereas the 1993 entry is.
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