Just got back from Jurassic World
First Point: Theaters should really ban parents from bringing their toddlers to PG-13 movies. Especially movies that border into the scary territory. We had a toddler screaming her head off for 15 minutes before an usher came. Keep your fucking kids at home.
About the movie: I thought it was a good, summer blockbuster. Admittedly, I might have ( Read more... )
About the movie: I thought it was a good, summer blockbuster. Admittedly, I might have ( Read more... )
It's interesting that you bring up Flash Gordon. George Lucas actually tried to make a Flash Gordon movie based on the comics, but failed to get the rights, so he made Star Wars instead. The Flash Gordon comics date back to the 1930s and the movie of Flash Gordon actually came after the Star Wars movie in 1980. The movie of Flash Gordon actually ended up being part of the space-fantasy craze despite the source material being an inspiration for it.
I believe I'm around the same age as Rhoda (based on when she was counting down to her 30th). My family moved across the country when I was 8 and I know that I saw "Dinosaurs: The Movie" in our old house, but that I was at my new school across the country when I went to see "Jurassic Park" at the age of 10.
"Dinosaurs: The Movie" is not the same thing as "We're Back". The thing I'm referring to was not produced by Spielberg like "We're Back and "The Land Before Time" were. Click here to check out a VHS rip of Dinosaurs: The Movie on Youtube. It stars Omri Katz from Eerie Indiana!
One more thing. Do you reckon the way everything is all randomly dinosaur-related in the "Mario Brothers" movie is probably a direct result of Jurassic Park? It seems likely to me.
I guessed that the movie of Jurassic World must have been convincing 'in the moment' with its trained-velociraptor explanation. I was hoping perhaps there were some reasons that were convincing outside of the film, because not having seen it, it's hard to understand how those trainable raptors could possibly be the same monsters which essentially had to be kept in a closed pen in the first movie.
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George Lucas actually tried to make a Flash Gordon movie based on the comics, but failed to get the rights, so he made Star Wars instead.
I know that story; it was part of the reason I brought it up. ;)
(It's funny to imagine a world without Star Wars had Lucas actually gotten the rights for Flash Gordon.)
Oh, when I Googled "Adventures in Dinosaur City movie" the only thing that came up was We're Back. So, I go back to my original point; nope haven't seen that one. And I haven't seen the Mario Brothers movie, so I can't comment on that.
it's hard to understand how those trainable raptors could possibly be the same monsters which essentially had to be kept in a closed pen in the first movie
You're right that it is different from the raptors in JP. . . but not as much as I think you're assuming it is. The raptors in JW are not roaming around; their paddock is separate from the park, and I don't think it is even an attraction where visitors can go.
Perhaps using Siegfried and Roy was another poor example. The raptors aren't trained to do, like, circus animal tricks. It's more behavioral study with them and Pratt's character. He became their alpha, similarly to how that one, large raptor in JP alpha'd the other two raptors. But the point is that the raptors--or any dinosaur--can't be trained like a pet dog.
There's a subplot with InGen who wants to use the raptors for like military missions. It's one of the subplots that I said didn't work. . . and it comes to bite everyone in the ass. So, yeah, some of the teeth is taken out of the raptors; but they aren't completely "toothless".
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