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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.
Pretty much. I wish they hadn't turned it into a franchise. I feel like the series is going to become kind of like Jaws - you can only do so much with dinosaurs before they begin to lose their majesty and the audience doesn't want to be awed anymore, they just want to see how many people get eaten.
That's not to say I hated Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - in many respects I enjoyed it, just as I, for the most part, enjoyed the earlier Jurassic World. It's just that they don't feel like Jurassic Park movies to me.
Not a fact, but a legend. The fact is that Octavian claimed she, as well as her servants, died by snake bite in a suicide. The science to support this story is shaky in hindsight, but it certainly served its purpose in its time.
I know! Civilization was so peaceful before Judaism, wasn't it? Egypt never went to war or committed acts of atrocity. Nor did Babylon, the Hittites, or the ancient Greeks. Ancient China built the Great Wall just for tourists, and India never had any brutality in its cities!
But then once Abraham came along, people started warring with one another, raping, murdering, stealing. I'm sure it all comes back to Judaism.
/Sarcasm
Pretty sure this was a troll topic, though. LOL.
There will always be inaccuracies in any movie or TV show, but I have a real fondness for Agora. I love antiquity, but it's often glossed over by filmmakers. I mean, I love watching movies and shows set in the Middle Ages or Viking era as much as the next person (I'm particularly fond of Vikings...), but there's just not enough ancient Greek/Roman/Egyptian out there. Unless it's a Christian movie, but then it's focused entirely around either Christ or Old Testament Biblical stories. Sometimes you get a good story about Cleopatra or some Roman emperor, but they almost always feel as though they're playing into the myth more than the reality.
Nothing wrong with them, whether it's a historical drama based around the romance between Cleopatra and Mark Antony (with heavy doses of later Roman propaganda thrown in) or a Christian-based film such as Sampson and Deliah, but we very seldom see films like Agora that provide an interesting snapshot into the lives of people living in an ancient city that's about to be torn asunder by politics and religion.
It would be interesting to see more of these kinds of films. We could get a more accurate portrayal of Cleopatra, or go back further to the time of the great pyramids! Pythagoras had an interesting life - in fact, a lot of philosophers had interesting lives. I wish Hollywood didn't just glance over these ages, but I suppose they find them to be a market risk.
Binge watched it myself. I can't wait for season 2! Bring on Danny's dojo, and now that Johnny is starting his own redemption arc it's going to get really interesting.
Supposedly there was a fire and it was all lost. I doubt those 12 minutes would affect the quality of the overall movie, though. As much as I'd love to see them, the film as a whole manages to a poor(ish) film and a terrible, terrible adaptation of a good book. Well, it's more of an adaptation of the first book in the series, "The Book of Three", with a little bit of "The Black Cauldron" inserted.