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Hi, Harry. I'm Eng Seng from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and this is the first
time I'm submitting a review to AICN. Don't know if this is a little late,
but I just came back from watching Jurassic Park 3 (JP3). Just wanted to
share with you my thoughts on this movie.
Plot:
Sam Neill, one of the palentologists who visited the Site A Jurassic Park
island 8 years ago, is persuaded to take a wealthy businessman and his wife
to Isla Sorna, Site B. They then get stranded on the island and have to
find a way out of the island before they get eaten by the dinosaurs.
Review (Spoilers inside):
Now, basically the producers have tried to go back to the original formula.
JP3 is more like Jurassic Park (the first movie). Unlike the Lost World
where they brought along four-wheel drive jeeps and high-tech weaponry to
hunt and capture the dinosaurs, the visitors aren't well prepared for what
Site B has to offer. The two people who're carrying the firearms gets eaten
very early in the film, so the other people can't do much except run and
hide in trees or trailers or building left behind by InGen.
The story is quite predictable, if you've watched the previous two Jurassic
Park films, then you can guess how it's going to end. Plus, with a small
number of people, you can also guess who's not going to be eaten. It's
basically man versus (various types of) dinosaurs, and a crash course in
how not to be eaten by a Spinosaurus.
JP3 has very little character development. We get to know the most about
Sam Neill
and his family, but very little about the other characters. Sure, as the movie
progresses we get to know why they wanted to go to Site B, but that's about
it. We also don't know how that kid survived for 8 weeks in Site B without been
eaten. This kid is clearly the most intelligent character in the whole
movie! In the end, everyone just wanted to get off the island as fast as
they could. None of the human characters can be considered a bad guy in
this movie. I feel the cast did an
okay job playing the roles, with no one in particular being outstanding.
The special effects in this movie are very impressive. All the dinosaurs
look very real and realistic. The big fight between the Spinosaurus and the
T-Rex looks very good, but sadly we see very little of the T-Rex. Even
though the main dinosaur star of this film is the Spinosaurus, I really
like the scenes involving the Pterodactyls! To me, their scenes are THE
most exciting part of the film. The Spinosaurus is big, but it doesn't seem
as nasty of the T-rex (I can't remember whether the Spinosaurus or the
T-Rex gets eaten). The Spinosaurus and the Velociraptors are THE bad guys.
JP3 makes the Velociraptors very intelligent with dolphin-like voices, but
in the end, they still can fooled by Alan Grant which mean they're still
not that intelligent after all. A velociraptor even got to sniff and touch
Téa Leoni's character (the way it was
going, I thought it was going to lick her).
Quote of the film:
Téa Leoni's character saying: "We've even booked the first commercial
flight to the moon."
Conclusion (No spoilers):
In my opinion, JP3 is not as good as the previous two films. They did a
good job with Jurassic Park, introducing us to the dinosaurs and in the
Lost World, we went dinosaur hunting with high-tech weaponry and lots of
vehicles (and that exciting scene in the trailer toppling over the cliff),
but JP3 does not anything outstanding other than the Pterdactyl scenes. I
wished JP3 was a bit more like the Lost World, that would be more interesting.
With such a small cast, it's easy to guess who's going to eaten next. The
whole movie is basically a long dinosaur chase. The most disappointing
thing about JP3 is its weak ending. It felt like they had to end the movie
abruptly or something.
If you've not seen the previous two films, you'll enjoy this film. But if
you've, you'll not find nothing impressive except for the Pterodactyl
scenes. Oh well, Téa Leoni happens to look better after running around in
Site B for a while than in civilisation.
Eng SengAnd here's another one...
i just saw Jurassic Park 3 and since i've never sent anything in to this
site i decided i'd write a review and send it.
first, jurassic park is one of the best films in history! the first sequel,
the lost world was a huge disappointment. when i heard jp3 was being made i
had high hopes and thought that they would pull up their socks and make a
sequel that kicked ass!! damn was i wrong or what.
jurassic park 3 isn't bad but it just isn't that great either. the worst
things about it are the length which is too short and the directing is bad.
joe johnston is no steven speilberg and you can tell. the quality of the
first 2 films are sooooooooooo much better and 20 more minutes should've
been added in the beginning for character development cuz it's stupid that
they meet the spinosaurus in the first 20 minutes.NEED MORE TIME PEOPLE!!
jp3 definitly had potential but joe didn't use it properly. everything goes
by too fast and you don't really get a break between action scenes like in
the first 2. the dinos just aren't as awesome as we'd like them to be, even
the spino. i also missed the t-rex since it (spoiler ahead) dies in the
first 20 minutes. they needed more of him.the special effects are good but i
just felt disappointed and sad that the name jurassic park was wasted once
again for a movie that was just ok.
the dinosaurs in this one are cool though. they finally decided to use the
pteranodons (flying dinos) in the best action scene in the movie. the
spino-trex fight is pretty cool too. the raptors were good but not as
suspensful as the 2 other films. another problem is the ending. it is just
too abrupt and nothing exciting happens when (another spoiler) they do get
off the island. they just get off without a fight. dammit!!
in short, it was great to have dr. grant and ellie back. the film is ok and
will pass your time nicely but it isn't as memorable as it should be. no
more jurassic park films. they've milked the poor thing for all it's worth.
go see it but not with great expectations like i did.
from,
fuzzbubble
Father Geek back with still another JP3 review...
Hello
Just caught a sneak preview on the new Jurassic Park installment and I really have to say that I'm quite disappointed with what they did with so much money. I have to fistly admit that the dinosaurs look really real but it is really nothing we haven't seen before. The problem with the movie comes from the weak script and ridiculous humor at the wrong time.
The movie starts with two para gliders crashing onto Isle Sorna which is the same location from the previous sequel. The parents(William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) of one of the para gliders who is a young teenage boy tricks Dr. Alan Grant(Sam Niel) and his assistant onto the island by saying that they just wanted to fly over the place. The rest of the movie became like the first two movies where a series of accidents and deceptions causes the characters to be on the run on the island fighting off small and big dinosaurs for survival. The plot just gets more and more predictable with the usual supporting characters being nibbled or snapped off one by one.
All in all, I think that the movie could have done better if they would come up with a darker script and not blend in heavy comedy with mild action sequences. The movie once again tried to garner for the same family audience that might not want to sit through the same thing a third time...:)
BigHeartAnnnnnd here we go again, this time from Amsterdam...
this afternoon I was lucky enough to attend a special
press-screening of "JP 3" at the City Theatre in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I won 2 tickets for this
event through UIP Distribution.
Before I start my spoilerfilled review, let me first
explain that I don't know the names of all the
dinosaurs or all the actors, I will try to be as clear
as possible when describing a scene to you.
My thoughts on this movie: part of it is good, part of
it leaves me feeling a bit empty.
The first 70 minutes feel like a rollercoaster and are
very intense (a bit too intense for the smaller
audience as some scenes are very graphic) and has
scenes that will drop your jaw.
However, the grand finale is non-existent and made me
leave the theatre with a bit of a cheated feeling.
The good stuff:
1) Sam Neill: the man is back after failing to appear
in The Lost World, and it helps the movie greatly.
Seeing a familiar face amongst new characters helps to
raise the emotional involvement, which is a good thing
for this type of movie. He plays Alan Grant with a
certain kind of cool (which he lacked in JP) and the
fact that he dons a fedora instantly reminds you of
that other action hero made famous by Mr. Spielberg.
2) Joe Johnston. Hail this man for steering clear from
the chosen path and giving this movieseries a new
heartbeat. The pacing of the film is incredible,
within the first en minutes you're diving headfirst
into the action, a lot of senseless dialogue is
skipped in favor of heartstopping scenes. In fact,
this movie's action scenes are far superior to those
made by Spielberg (he seemed more into the wonder of
the dinosaurs, where JP3 is all about action) in my
opinion.
3) The Spinosaurus. This is a big dino and he's mean.
While the spinosaurus appears way too early in the
movie and there is nothing mysterious about him, his
pure strength and scary looks will have kids all over
the world rush out to toy stores and buy the acion
figure.
4)The special FX are wonderful for most parts of the
movie. Where in The Lost World you could see that the
dino's were edited into most shots (see the chase
between the hunters and the 'friendly' dinosaurs for
example), JP 3 really delivers. The cameras roll with
the movement and this gives a tremdous flow of action.
Also, the part with the flying dinosaurs is very
exciting to watch (just check the first appearance of
a flying dino on the bridge-it's classic) and the CGI
seems seemless in most of the scenes.
The bad stuff:
1) The script, which could have been so much better.
For instance, the young kid is acting quite good, but
is given a few very cheesy lines. There are several
holes plotwise (just check out the beginning, where
unseen dino's attack a boat in open sea, nothing is
done with that later in the movie) and the
dissapointing climax is just that, a big
dissapointment. The movie ends with a whisper, where
it should have gone out with a bang.
2) The body count. While a large body count doesn't
mean a movie is good, in the case of JP3, it could
have made it better. Within the first 20 minutes, most
of the supporting cast have been killed and you know
that the big stars will survive. It would have added
more excitement and despair to the movie if Johnston
and co. would have followed Renny Harlin's
storytelling in Deep Blue Sea. It's very exciting to
not know who will die or when in that movie and it
would have made JP3 more of an edge of your seat
movie.
3) The development of characters. Grant isn't pissed
off for long when he's being abducted, all Tea
Leonie's character does is scream,all William Macy
does is run. While for most of the time this is
actually good for the flow of the movie, an added 5 or
10 minutes of showing different sides of the
characters wouldn't have hurted JP3's short run time
(90 minutes).
4) The Spinosaurus. I mentioned him during the good
parts, I'll mention him again now. While it's good to
see a new meanie, his screentime was overused. Popping
out of nowhere and showing up during most action
scenes leaves little mystery. While the tremors of JP1
when the T-Rex arrived are now classic, the
Spinosaurus (which is even bigger) just shows up with
almost no sound or even the slightest hint of a
tremor. It's like a little mouse in the arrival-noise
department, and it hurts the movie. Not much, but
still.
5) The T-Rex. Only 1 minute of screentime or something
in that neighbourhood. While it's good to move
forward, I still think another scene with another
T-Rex wouldn't have posed a big problem.
In the end, I probably could go on for much longer
about what is good (did I mention the cool raptor
scenes alrady?) and the bad (the movie is shot very
dark, it could have been the projection though), but I
always think people should decide for themselves. In
my opinion, JP3 is an improvement over The Lost World
but is not even close to surpassing the original
JP-movie.
Hats off to Joe Johnston for making his own movie and
not trying to stay too close to Spielberg's vision.
Some parents will feel that the movie is too
violent/graphic in some areas, but I don't think
that's a bad thing. Why pretend that chewing on people
is clean and goreless?
One thing that truly disturbed me was the fact that
the script was uninspired for the final act and I do
think that the wonder of the dinosaurs (like in JP1)
has lost most of it's glory. I do feel that the
raptors/T-rex are slowly turning into what
Freddy/Jason/Michael Meyers became in their later
sequels, eye candy and no mystery.
I do believe that moviegoers all over the world will
find this third installment an improvement over The
Lost World.
In the end, you can compare JP3 to Die Hard with a
vengeance, great entertainment until the dissapointing
finale.
Greetings from Amsterdam, Costa King
From France, ol' Father Geek received this one...
In english - In general, a sequel has one major imperative
: more action. But nowadays, where money rules and
blockbusters are kings, by making more and more
franchises, the producers forget to keep a faithful spirit to
the original films. With Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg had
made a work about the consequences of using technology
against nature, or in a more simple way, of wanting to top
God. He was then referring to the myth of Promethea, but
he was more likely referring to those monster flicks like
Frankenstein, adapted from the book of the same name
which also carried the sub-title "or the modern Promethea".
The Lost World was, according to Spielberg himself, a
sequel and just a sequel. A way for him to explore a few
ideas which he couldn't realize in the first one (just as it
was done for the Indiana Joneses), and mostly to answer
a whole lot of fan-mail, requesting, begging for a sequel. I
often think about the first two parts of the Alien saga :
the first one is dark and mysterious as the second one is
pure action, both are nonetheless great horror movies. The
first two Jurassic Park have a similar pattern, but this
third installment is actually the real equivalent to James
Cameron's Aliens.
Here the script is quite simple and the priority is given to
action scenes. Who could've doubted it ? Probably no one.
However, we all had the right to question the quality of
such a movie. We can stay cool. I think those who were
disappointed by The Lost World will find this film more
convincing. And those who appreciated it for its rythm and
its numerous action scenes, will take pleasure in watching
Jurassic Park 3.
As implicitly indicated in the title, Johnston's film doesn't
pretend to be another variation of the same universe, but
more simply an extension of the universe created for the
first one, and a further exploration of that universe. The
writers have managed to be faithful to Michael Crichton's
work, and use some recurring elements of his universe
which weren't used in Jurassic Park. We have a divorced
couple here, and this does not dammage the plot. There is
also a scientific background only briefly exposed (are
raptors more intelligent than we thought?) yet allowing
some great scenes for the raptors.
Following a somewhat failed introduction, as they're rushing
to start the action as soon as they can, the movie
becomes total entertainment. And it is a good
entertainment. There is adventure, excitement, horror and
survival, with some cool references to the classics of the
genre. The microscopical inconsistancies are flushed by the
abundance of action sequences, carefully spaced out not
to appear as too much, and a very effective directing, far
from Spielberg, but more than enough for this kind of movie.
The monster fans will be rewarded by some new dinosaurs,
some of which have an important place in the film.
We come to yet another great element of this movie : the
special effects are great. Once more, following Spielberg's
footsteps, they have chosen not to hire big stars but to
make sure what they've got is high quality. This means that
a good part of the 93 million dollars budget goes to the
dinosaurs. That can seem only secondary, but it has an
important role in making us believe. Knowing the universe
represented here, the movie-lover will foresee the scenes,
thus disarming the wanted effect. But Johnston manages to
create a satisfying ambiance, thanks to which the
spectator's reaction as it happens will be joyous.
Bob from www.filmdeculte.com Here's a brief bit from London, England...
I can confirm that there was a screening of Jurassic Park 3 in London on
Thursday night. The audience reaction was good - with plenty of laughs in
all the right places. As for me, I thought it infinitely superior to The
Lost World - the plot is grittier and the cast is much better - William H
Macy is very funny in the role as the put-upon ex-husband, and Sam Neill
turns in another solid performance. As for the special effects, they were
mindblowingly good - particularly the dino fight sequences. How the people
from XFM thought it was worse than the Lost World is astonishing - did they
see the same movie as us?
KITTY
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Fighting dinosaurs. Flying dinosaurs. Sam and Bill Macy. Hey, whatever. In a summer where we are shelling out money to watch a computer character's hair blow in the breeze for an hour and a half, watching a bunch of creatures each other doesn't sound that much worse. I'm game, at least for a matinee.
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...watching this movie only if you're interested in a semi-appetizer for POTA. Lite snack. If they have cut a lot of shit out, tho, maybe we'll get it back on DVD.
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...when I watched the whole thing on NBC last night? They showed the pretodactyl chases, they showed the boat attack, they showed the plane attack, they showed the "surprise" cameo, they showed the dino fight, they showed the raptors, they showed the dinos in the field, they showed the quick little glimpses of dinos (carnotaur, Compies, etc.), they showed all the good little surprises where the dinos jump out at you, they showed the deaths, and they showed Sam Neill in a suit that I personally found rather sharp on the man. I mean, the movie is 90 minutes. How much could possibly be left? The only reason I'd see the movie now would be to see how they managed to screw up the ending THIS time. Maybe the raptors get to New York, and just before they pounce on our heroes the Spinosaur shows up out of nowhere and kills them! Then it learns how to speak English, and its first word is "love". Awww. Man, I still wanna see a dino wreak havok on St. Louis. Or at least a giant sloth. Your days are numbered, Laclede's Landing! You shall pay for your overpriced steaks! Mr. User ID Indeed!, where do your Moments come from? Frum yer bluhd!
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What a lame...lame...lame summer
movie season. No stand outs or even any good brain dead action movies worth a yawn. JP3 will fill some seats given what's out there. What will kick ass is the trilogy on DVD loaded with the goods. I'll wait for that box set.
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Alright, I know it SEEMS like it has been a shit summer for movies. The aweful: Tomb Raider, Pearl Harbor, Dr. Dolittle 2, Scary Movie 2, Bully. The so-so: Atlantis, Mummy Returns, Swordfish...Yeah, the high profiles have been, well, a dissapointment on the whole. But look at what we DO have. A flawed but wholly bold and electifying classic (Moulin Rouge), a hypnotic, damnedably frustrating experiment (AI) and a horribly written but mesmerizingly made animated film (Final Fantasy). If you want to see films WORTH SEEING this summer, then I recommend the following: Moulin Rouge, Shrek, Sexy Beast, AI, Final Fantasy, The Princess and the Warrior, Crazy/Beautiful, Made, and last but FAR from least, The Score. Here's hoping that JP3 and Planet of the Apes will at least be damn entertaining flicks, though I hold no illusions they will be classics.
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JP3 is better than the Lost World, but how far really can the Jurrasic Park series go? Every film is just about dinosaurs hunting Humans, if youve seen one youve seen them all. Lay it to rest.
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Jul 15, 2001 11:20:45 AM CDT
These reviews are dead on - Movie is WAY too rushed but it is HI
by wesley snipes
The early reports promising well-armed mercenaries vs dinosaurs wasn't fulfilled in JP3. They're taken out way too early. And it's true, the film feels far too rushed as if 15 minutes of character stuff was chopped out of the beginning. One thing though: It's hilarious! Much of it intentional, some of it perhaps not so intentional (Michael Jeter as a bad-ass, Tea Leoni's acting). Overall, I found it amusing and better than JP2.
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Well there are probably people hoping that JP4 is better already. Speilberg liked the movie enough to get Amblin toget plans for a fourth so Ill see it but I work in a theater so its free. I'll watch it as just eye candy and nothing more.
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that movie was bad, bad and boring. HOW could anyone make dinosaurs boring? Just watch The Lost World. I almost fell asleep. The only thing keeping me awake in that movie was the little game I invented of counting how many times Jeff Goldblum tweeked and stuttered his lines.........Anywhoos - can't see this movie on opening weekend. I'll be in San Diego for the Comi-Con International and will be too busy showing my art "stuff". And next week is Planet of the Apes....don't fret too much fellow AICN'ers. The summer isn't all lost yet - still have POTA, Rush Hour 2 and what am I forgetting?
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I think its time the Jurassic Park movies went the way of the dinosaurs -- extinction. Let the friggin franchise die, Hollywood. JP3 is two too many Jurassic Park movies.
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I don't care much for character development and what not in big dumb popcorn flicks, but even I felt that it seemed unnecesarily rushed. A few more minutes spent on the characters would definitely have made for a more enjoyable flick.
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OK...... this is to those who accept TLW as anything but pure cinematic trash. Spielberg should stick to what he has shown he knows how to do well: dramas (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List), and stay away from action/adventure! JP was a fair adaptation of the book; the first half of the film was an acceptable take from the first third of the book.... after that, both diverged completely. Why? Because Spielberg thought he could do better than the book (wrong!). But with TLW, Spielberg lied to the fans about what the film was to be about from the start. When Crichton wrote the novel, he did it with a screenplay in mind, but what Spielberg delivered was nothing more than a
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Why the f**k do they keep on treating those damn Raptors like the real stars of the JP-movies?
I mean, who else thinks they stink? They are too small and apart from a few scenes in part 1 which were okay, they just... sucked. (alright, the wheatfield of LW was cool, too) I want the T-Rex, for christ's sake! And for JP3 (Spoiler ahead) what happenend to the mobile phone in dinosaur turd scene at the end? Nobody said a word about it. They just might have cut it out (If we are lucky...) -
One of the things that's been bugging me about action flicks of late is that they're getting longer and longer. It's now pretty common that shoot-'em-up chase films clock in at at least 2 1/2 hours, and for the most part none of them NEED to be that long. When I saw Schwarzenegger's last film, "The 6th Day," I got annoyed by the fact it just kept going on and that there were more climaxes than in the average porn movie. Maybe JP3 is only 90 minutes because that's all the time it needs, and for once a studio had the courage to NOT bore us with a lot of extraneous stuff.
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It's good to see that AICN has become a haven for all those losers who have nothing else to do, but pretend that they were at advance screenings of jp3!! These reviews are all so incredibly vague and deficient of any detailed critique, that it is hard not to challenge the authors' contentions that they have actually seen this film. I am confident that there are many of us who could have wwritten more productive posts after simply seeing the movie's trailer, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY ALL THESE "REVIEWERS" HAVE SEEN!!!
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I must be getting older. Here I am, just a shade over thirty, and it seems my worldview has become so jaundiced that I just can
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Why is it that trailers have to be so damn long now-a-days??!! I get laughed at when I go to the movies because I close my eyes and ears when the show the previews. Actually all I want to know is the title and what kind of movie it will be. Unless it's a drama in which case they don't give you enough info.
It comes down to: "Hey, see how much money we have spent on Visual Effects! Come see this movie so you can see how we wrapped the bad script around the action sequenses you just saw." I ask myself the same question: "why go see the moivie now?" Did anyone see the two hour preview of Scary Movie?
It is obvious that the movie industry thinks us as robots that will just go see a movie because there is nothing else to do, but to get us to their movie they intice us with more action or visual effects than the other, or the overdrawn Matrix Syndrome. It's getting boring, which I know most of you feel like. But none the less I found myself going to these films because there was nothing else to do.
Now ask me if I can remember which ones I saw- NOPE! And I won't next year either. But I can tell you that I saw Star Wars in 1977 and actually remember asking my brother why the planets were cut in half (hey I was 5- hell do I know about the suns light casting shadows off of planets?) Point is it's embeded in my mind forever and yet I just saw FF and I can't even remember the begening. We don't need more time, we need more HEART! -
Isn't it funny that the most unbelievable thing in this movie is not the dinosaurs, but that William H. Macy could EVER get a girl as fine as Tea Leoni?
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The effects in the commercial don't actually look all that good; in fact, the part where the three brotosauri gaze down into the camera looks like something out of Turok. I haven't seen the movie, so maybe they chose some bad scenes that didn't transfer well to the little screen. Do the effects in the movie really look better, or are people just saying "Awesome effects" because it's a JP movie, and the first JP movie blew them away?
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More or less. JP3's been ripped into VCD format and put out on the web. Its been available for a few days now, anyone with a fast link, 10 minutes to look around for it and some net knowledge could find it. Its probably a late workprint since its about 4 minutes shorter than the official running time, but its more or less all there.
Anyway I'm glad I watched it illegally and didn't pay $10 for this. Sure, its better than Lost World, but what movie isn't?
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check it out vader 42, if u did read the first two books, u should know that malcom is the main character, and he didnt die in the first book or the second. Hamond did, but not malcom. i do agree that the first book was excelent, but to actually ecpect that the whole book would be turned into a movie, moment by moment is only wishful thinking that would emerge from the mind of a kindergartener. the way the book was turned into film, was the best, and only way for the book to have been turned into a succesful movie, not neccesarly a multimillion dollar franchise but into a good succesful project. on behalf stevens defense, the man does know how to direct adventure, i mean saving private ryan wasnt excatly ur typical drama, not to mention that other succesful triology about an archeologist by the name of indiana jones. and tell me mister vader, how much more different was the lw movie then its original book? not alot, other then the hunting part and sandiego. the message was still delieverd. DONT MESS WITH NATURE, AND DONT TRY TO PLAY GOD!! YOU WILL GET BURNED IN THE PROCESS!! was that not the themes to the books? and wernet they the themes in the movie? they were, making the movies and books very similar. just because a dinosaur gets blown away by a missle launcher in a book and doesnt have that happen in the film adaptation it doesnt mean its false marketing, it only means that it wasnt interpreted and merchandised word by word. with jp3 its a whole new ball park, forget what uve learned. forget everything. just know that there are still dinos living and man is once again in their territory. thats what these movies are about, man and dino interacting. two species seperated by millions of years in evolution, how can we know what to expect. if u dont know science, ull enjoy the eye candy. have fun.
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I see another post mentions that Stan Winstone's puppets , never somehow seem real , and their stiffness and rather obvious look , tends to destroy the mood of the film.The full sized T-Rex etc are wonderful pieces of engineering , and beautifully sculpted,But their movements are so mechanical and limited {compared to the agile cgi versions} and they always seem a bit ,glassy eyed and dry mouthed to me.The raptors are crying out for a bit of dribbled blood speckled saliva!Mind you, Walking With Dinosaurs suffered from obvious puppet heads as well , so perhaps animatronics just can't compete anymore.
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Jul 15, 2001 8:55:18 PM CDT
Leave it to a French guy to bungle a comparison as weak as the M
by liquidnitrate
...taking the story-less action sequel JP3 and comparing its relationship to its far superior predecessor JP, is hardly accurate for Cameron's masterpiece ALIENS vs. Ridley's ALIEN. OK, I loved both and will definitely agree that Alien is far more elegant and classy than its sequels, as the derivative tentpole-franchise JP is to its ludicrously weak sequels. But as a sequel, ALIENS was definitely not weak in the story department. James Cameron may have been clunky with his style, but his script and characters had far MORE depth than the original's upon which it was based. We should be so lucky to have any sequel that imaginative. From the sounds of it, JP3's quality of plot could be more accurately compared to a Lethal Weapon 3 with lizards.
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I don't care how bad this movie is... as long as that No-talent hack Jeff Goblum isn't involved. I was so happy to hear that they were making a NON-Malcolm JP sequel. He is such a hack..... Oh and to clear up another point.. Malcolm died at the end of the first JP book.. just cause he was in the second doesn't mean Crichton meant him to remain alive. To qoute the great author when asked, "Why did you have Ian Malcolm die in Jurassic Park only to turn up alive in The Lost World?
It was answered in the book. And in the movie, of course, he never died. Anyway, there is a long tradition of characters coming back from the dead. Sherlock Holmes died in Reichenbach Falls, but reappeared a few years later."
So there you have it.. SPEILBERG ALLOWED MALCOLM/GOLDBLUM to come back.. not Crichton. I feel Speilberg decided this while under the influence or perhaps because of a deal with the Devil.
-Kahuna Blair saying ALOHA! -
Made will not disappoint. Sounds like this one might.
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I read online somewhere that there's a Harryosaurus in this movie and I expect to see it gosh darn it! Harryosaurus Geekosaurus is quite large and rotund like a Brontosaurus but it has red feathers from the top of its head to the tip of its tail. This much maligned and altogether overlooked member of the dinosaur species was a carnivore and enjoyed eating smaller dinosaurs but was also a health food addict and always washed the meat down with some nice leafy foliage from the trees. I sure hope Joe Johnston didn't overlook Harryosaurus Geekosaurus because as we all know now this species is extinct and can't be cloned although it can be brought back to life via the magic of special effects. And here's the top secret title for JP4: The Land that Time Forgot to Keep Track of.
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Here is my one question for you: If you were going to make a Jurassic Park movie, what would you do to make it RIGHT? Seriously, what do you guys want to see in a Jurassic Park movie? I really don't explect any of you guys to reply, but I just want you guys to think about it. Personally, if you read The Lost World book (100+ times better than the underrated movie) there are invisible dinosaurs that have camaflouge capabilities. Imagine being stalked, not in a forest, not in a field, but inside the very place you're hiding, not knowing that even in a well lit room with nowhere for anotehr creature to hide you may not be alone...
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Here is my one question for you: If you were going to make a Jurassic Park movie, what would you do to make it RIGHT? Seriously, what do you guys want to see in a Jurassic Park movie? I really don't explect any of you guys to reply, but I just want you guys to think about it. Personally, if you read The Lost World book (100+ times better than the underrated movie) there are invisible dinosaurs that have camaflouge capabilities. Imagine being stalked, not in a forest, not in a field, but inside the very place you're hiding, not knowing that even in a well lit room with nowhere for anotehr creature to hide you may not be alone...
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Surely we don't have another JP movie where no-one shoots a raptor?They aren't bullet proof, and continually insulting the audience's intelligence by having humans run away without defending themselves with a gun is not the way to make an action film.
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Rambo how in the hell can you say that the Lost World movie and book weren't that different?
HOW ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY HAD 2 DIFFERENT MAIN CHARACTERS WHO HAD ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING IN COMMON?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Shit, the main character from the book isn't even mentioned in the movie.
God even the child character made me sick, in the book it was a teenage girl and a young black boy (who helped the main character), who stow away in a droor in the trailer. The genius script writer who only knew he needed a child in the movie had the great idea of mixing the 2 and making a teenage black girl(whos now Malcolms daughter?!?!?!) who rides along. Brilliant!!! Eddie Car in the movie was the tech expert, in the book he's a hired hand to the tech dude.
Here's a small difference that you might not have noticed either. NEITHER PLOT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH EACHOTHER.
The only similarities I saw were, were things that could have been cut and pasted from the book.
Names, gadgets, the types of dinos.
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Jul 16, 2001 4:57:58 AM CDT
Anyone who thinks the first two books are similar to the films o
by indiana jones
The novels "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World" are each probably about 95% different from their respective films. And yes, Malcolm DOES die at the end of the first book, no question.
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After seeing Jurrasic Park 3, I would just like to point out that during prehistoric times there was sea creatures which would scare the living bejesus out of us all. But in these films there are none, surely some mistake. But good on the director of JP3 for giving us pure action from start to finish, some films which are called Action films have 1 set piece for the whole movie and even that fails to live up to expectations.
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[minor spoilers]
By coincidence, I just finished reading the first Jurassic Park book, and from the previews it looks like a lot of the material for it (the aviary, the river scenes) will be straight from unused material from the first book... -
Now c'mon. This movie rocked. It was better than The Lost World, though I do admit that it was too short and the character development...well their was no character development. At least we didnt have some stupid kid swinging around on a pole knocking raptors of cat walks like in TLW. That was so cheesy.
-drew
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