• folaht@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    Jurassic park

    First movie I saw in theaters that disappointed me. Too much dinosaurs running around trying to kill everyone without standing still and asking why this is happening.
    A quick jab towards the old man that the park is not considered ready for opening yet is not enough, or that he’s packaging stuff?
    The Goldblum character’s logic failed to intrigue me. He would have been much better to ask the old man questions about park safety and genetic engineering safety that could be scrutinized instead of full on attacking him about commercialization.
    It made the kids more interesting than the adults.
    I forgot what the relationships between the two main characters and the children were, but I believe they were divorced and the kids were theirs?
    At the very least they should have had some character development. Have them both end up with new partners or something and show what makes the new pairs better than the old one.

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      I watched a recent review from TheNostalgiaCritic about this film, and he does touch upon a lot of what you said about the strange motivations of all the characters that led up to the Dinosaurs escaping. That being said, I liked it and would say it is iconic in both story and genre (semi-horror kid-friendly family film aimed at adults?)

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        17 hours ago

        I saw the Siskel and Ebert review and I agree with their point that there was a lack of awe in the movie that E.T. and close encounters of the third kind had.

        This movie had dinosaurs being dangerous at almost all times. Only a moment after they awed a stampede was heading for them. The danger felt convoluted. Tacked in. And it would have been a good time to question the old man about park safety.

        The old man never get punished for his reckless behavior. I don’t get why my downvoters would disagree with me. Would you downvoters really have acted so calmly against the old man when the park goes haywire?