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What do people see in this movie? Does it make sense to like this?

posted 7 months ago by avortac4 (3746)
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It doesn't seem to make any sense. What does this movie have that proper movies don't?

The only things I can think of are 'the rendered graphics were cool for their time' and 'Jon Williams score'.

Sure, there's Jeff Goldblum, but he's always Jeff Goldblum. The guy from 'Memoirs of an Invisible Man' isn't really that charismatic, the kids are nothing but annoying, the female I barely remember, the technology is basically idiotic.

Newman isn't all that funny in this movie, and the 'story', such as it is, consists of 'trying to escape'. Yeah, we've never seen THAT before.

So basically the whole thing is just an island where ancient monsters were revived so innocent animals are murdered for them (or worse, offered for them to murder), then people visit that island and the 'containment' fails. Then it rains and it's a crappy 'B-horror' movie for awhile, some people die.

I don't get the appeal - nothing about it makes sense from the electric fence stuff to the dinosaurs themselves to idiotic things like car chasing people DOWN A TREE...

I just look at what's left after I remove - besides the two 'cool' things - all the idiotic or gimmicky parts, or things I have seen in better movies, the boring things, and of course things that do not make sense, and my hand is pretty much empty. All that's left are a couple of 'fun-ish' Newman scenes, some Jeff Goldblum sermons, a couple of 'dinosaur pr0n'-scenes, and some fancy helicopter flying.

What exactly makes this some kind of movie anyone would want to watch?

It's all contained in one tiny island, which is always boring (I want my movies to have more expansive things, like galactic exploration, but all I get is some monster chasing people in a tiny place).

Nothing basically happens beyond 'ooh, scary monsters are loose, whoa, now they ate people' and 'let's drive very slowly so a dinosaur can keep up'.

I mean, if a Tyrannosaurus Rex can't easily crush a couple of human kids just because of some plexi glass, there's something wrong.

When I saw this movie the first time, I thought it was a joke movie, some kind of 'clown thing' that someone just made because they had some spare time and newly-achieved level of rendered graphics they could incorporate into a movie. As 'cool' as that looked back in the day, pretty much everything this movie tells/shows us about dinosaurs is wrong anyway, and 'cool graphics' do not make a good movie.

I was gobsmacked to hear that people actually... LIKE..?!? ... this movie. THIS movie? Really? Seriously? A movie I couldn't even believe anyone made seriously? A JOKE MOVIE?

It brings my braincells close to brink of suicide hearing someone thinks this is the BEST movie ever made (I can't even believe this can be true even in theory, I just can't bring myself to thinking that low of even this planet's populace) almost as much as when someone even considers 'T2' to be a passable as a turd with a manufacturing fault that makes it smell worse than normal, let alone a better than mediocre movie.

Is it that computer graphics somehow mesmerize people into thinking they must like a movie? I mean, look at Avatar movies - are they objectively GOOD MOVIES?

This planet and its people make no sense.. but I would at least like to understand WHY anyone would think this is not only a 'good movie', but 'the best movie ever made', when all I see is awful nonsense coupled with good music and some cool-looking renders.

What am I missing? I mean, when considering what it could be that makes people like this... I keep thinking about this movie but all I remember are idiotic scenes that make no sense.

[–] BKB (10077) 7 months ago

I mean, whenever I see threads like this, to me, this sounds like Gen Z experiencing sour grapes because we had great movies back in the day when they were too young or not around to experience it and this is one of them it looks like?? This movie is fucking amazing and so much, it ultimately spawned JURASSIC WORLD

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14484) 6 months ago

Yeah, the Gen Z people have to be the dumbest generation I've seen in ages. They don't even question scientific accuracy in some of their own generation's films, nor do they question the bad quality of their films' generation, and yet they have the nerve to dump on our movies, which were much better told and acted in by comparison?

[–] cv1cv (470) 6 months ago

BEWARE! Avortac4 is a troll trying to waste everyone's time with such idiotic comments. Look at his posts. He doesn't think anything in any film makes sense. His post may seem like it makes sense in the first sentence or two. But he always quickly wanders off into a completely idiotic idea, and then writes a wall of text that makes no sense. And his sole purpose is to waste your time, thinking he's cute for doing so. Don't feed the troll. If you write a comment, you're giving this troll EXACTLY what he wants. Don't comment after my comment.

[–] BKB (10077) 6 months ago

Gen Z sucking the life & joy out of classic movies because their movies simply suck

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) 6 months ago

80's/90's nostalgia fanboys are the absolute worst moviegoers on the planet. They're the 40-year-old virgins who unironically think popcorn flicks like Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Army of Darkness, E.T. and The Karate Kid are on the same level, if not even higher and better, than Schindler's List, The Godfather, and anything by Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurasawa, or Stanley Kubrick. They're the grown babies who can't separate their own nostalgia from facts and logic. "It's one of the best movies of all time because I grew up with!!!!" is basically their argument. They yearn for the years of Crystal Pepsi, Pogs, and really cheesy glam metal.

Some guy on here said that Gen Z'ers are the worst moviegoers. I guarantee had Michael Bay's Transformers franchise been released in 1987 with the exact same level of stupidity, 80's/90's fanboys would be worshipping it as an all-time classic. So no, don't be afraid to express your opinion. This movie is fun but it starts to break down if you think about it too much.

[–] MavKilledGoose (867) 5 months ago

> They're the grown babies who can't separate their own nostalgia from facts and logic.

Well, in fairness, their attachment is formative and emotional. For precisely those reasons, a different generation -- older or younger -- will offer a more sober, less biased assessment. A problem with technology-fueled spectacle is that the technology improves and the spectacle becomes grander. Many of the timeless movies you mentioned are period pieces, which naturally tend to hold up better.

On the whole, people who falsely romanticize their childhood are probably in a better place psychologically. It's utterly normal. We should want all parents to genuinely believe their children are special. That said, I was 12 when this movie came out. When I returned to school in the Fall, I was one of the few kids who had not seen it. Not surprisingly, I don't have a soft spot for it (except for the theme music).

[–] HarrySkywalker (702) 2 months ago

Worst obvious trolling attempt ever.