Let’s be honest folks!!!


If Fallen Kingdom came out in 1993 it would be considered just as good as the original, you simply cannot deny this.

Unfortunately we live in the whiny hipster millennial age where every movie gets trashed and people can’t distinguish a gem from a puddle of mud.

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no way would the characters and story be considered "as good as the original" in 1993. even the lost world was considered a lackluster sequel by many critics in 1997.

i thought fallen kingdom was a highly enjoyable movie, but i wouldn't call it a gem.

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No the story and characters aren’t as good, but the action is better and the dinosaurs are cooler and more badass. Also Bryce Dallas Howard is better looking than Laura Dern and the movie does a better job at pulling at the heart strings.

It’s really a question of what movie are you more in the mood for: the original which is part horror and focuses more on characters and realism or Fallen Kingdom which is part fantasy, is more entertaining, and the Dinosaurs aren’t just viewed as cold blooded killers.....you could have a cold beer with some of them and they had a sense of morality.

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Bryce Dallas Howard is better looking than Laura Dern


I always thought Dern was a weak female protagonist for a action/adventure blockbuster. Bryce is a huge upgrading on the feminine front.

And, while the original JP may be the best of the first four in the series and a huge hit at the box office in '93, not to mention iconic, that doesn't necessarily mean it was some masterpiece. It was generally good with a couple of great horrific scenes -- the t-rex and raptors-in-the-kitchen sequences -- but the cast and story were just okay, except for maybe Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum.

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Yeah, they kids were terrible in the original.

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I suppose that's why I prefer the original. I enjoy well written characters and the fact that the film feels like something that could happen in our own world. I didn't find Fallen Kingdom particularly entertaining because it didn't feel like a Jurassic Park film. It wasn't a terrible film, but it wasn't a good film, either. It hit the middle of the road with me.

On that note, many of the dinosaurs in the original aren't cold blooded killers, either. They're animals - some are predators and some are prey. Some are very intelligent, and some don't seem to be. There are a lot of shots of dinosaurs that are simply majestic, even when they're preying on each other there's a sense of awe evoked in the audience! Granted, some of that was because it was amazing special effects (I would argue better effects than the newer movies because they couldn't just rely on color grading to make the CG blend - the dinosaurs in the first two films had to look like they exist in the real world as opposed to making the real world look CGI), but it really holds up.

Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom were both good action films, but there wasn't much other than action.

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So action is more important in a MOVIE then story???? Are you completely dumb? Nothing is more boring then watching action scenes for 2 hours without the smallest empahy for any of the action characters!

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I literally said nothing of what just blithered out of your face.

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YES!!! B.D.H. is much hotter than that Tweety bird, Laura Dern! Laura Dern cannot even be in the same limelight w/B.D.H. in both acting and looks...... She's got perfect "meat around the bone" too! And she's a redhead...... As they say: red on the head, fire in the bed!🤩🔥

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I wholeheartedly agree with you that people just complain too much these days when it comes to movies. Nothing can just be OK. It's either the best or worst thing ever. Until the next movie is released.

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You should check out hippos previous posts, he’s one of the people you’re talking about.

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people just complain too much these days when it comes to movies. Nothing can just be OK. It's either the best or worst thing ever.


Well said. I don't get this mentality.

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This movie is superdumb! And there is more complaining cause todays movies are mainly shit! So what about making better movies then this piece of trash?

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"Point out on the doll where the movie touched you."

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LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
You win the interwebs

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I thought this was better the last movie. Although the premise is far fetched.

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I didn't mind it actually. I know it's silly and dumb but if I had to choose between FK and JW, I'd go with FK.

"And what about the sh*t weasels, the ones that blast out the basement door?" - Col. Curtis

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Yeah i was incredibly bored watching Jurassic World. I went into FK with floor level expectations and I thought it was ok. I wasn’t as bored except when the child actor was child acting. Doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as JP ‘93 but it was slightly better than JW in my opinion.

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This dumb piece of trash is as close to Jurassic Park as to being an aircraft carrier!

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if it came out in 1993 you would be hard-branded a pedophile for oogling chris pratt and his 6-packs

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I’m not sure you know what that word means lol.

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The story of Fallen Kingdom would still be terrible if it was 1993

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What was terrible about the story? Please be specific and provide detailed examples of how you would fix it.

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I enjoyed it, but I'm sorry no, this is not just as good as the original. JW:FK is just dumb fun monster schlock, and I appreciate that. JP was a great film with a great script, and it took itself seriously. They are nearly polar opposites.

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