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CHRIS PRATT (OWEN GRADY): Colin saw me in Zero Dark Thirty and thought, "That's the kind of guy I want." Owen was probably spec-ops, a Navy Seal. My idea was that he worked with dolphins in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He works on the outskirts of the island, studying the behaviour of these raptors. He's a rugged guy with a cool motorbike, who likes to fish, fight and ****. He doesn't always drink beer, but when he does he prefers Dos Equis.
Great stuff.
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This is pretty great, and well worth your time...

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CHRIS PRATT (OWEN GRADY): Colin saw me in Zero Dark Thirty and thought, "That's the kind of guy I want." Owen was probably spec-ops, a Navy Seal. My idea was that he worked with dolphins in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He works on the outskirts of the island, studying the behaviour of these raptors. He's a rugged guy with a cool motorbike, who likes to fish, fight and ****. He doesn't always drink beer, but when he does he prefers Dos Equis.
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dang, you posted the same quote while i was posting mine.

that will teach me to refresh before posting
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Not sure when reviews will hit, but my brother saw an early screening of Jurassic World in LA last night and thought it was pretty bad. Jokes that fell flat. He said on the plus side, the kid wasn't annoying. Don't have a lot more detail to share than that.

Just throwing that out there. As a disclaimer, he wasn't a fan of 2 or 3, just 1.
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Not sure when reviews will hit, but my brother saw an early screening of Jurassic World in LA last night and thought it was pretty bad. Jokes that fell flat. He said on the plus side, the kid wasn't annoying. Don't have a lot more detail to share than that.

Just throwing that out there. As a disclaimer, he wasn't a fan of 2 or 3, just 1.
Delete Brother. Ban user.
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Not sure when reviews will hit, but my brother saw an early screening of Jurassic World in LA last night and thought it was pretty bad. Jokes that fell flat. He said on the plus side, the kid wasn't annoying. Don't have a lot more detail to share than that.

Just throwing that out there. As a disclaimer, he wasn't a fan of 2 or 3, just 1.


Mehh
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Your brother has poor taste obviously
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I knew this would happen. Actually I almost expected someone to doubt that I had a brother and that I made this up, but this works just as well.

He could be in the complete minority, certainly. We'll see what the critics say in a few days. Or, the critics could pan it and it could still be enjoyable. But I just wanted to pass along the one early opinion I'd heard.
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This movie is going to suck.
This movie is going to suck.
This movie is going to suck.

If I type it and say it enough, will I really lower my expectations enough to enjoy this flick?
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I knew this would happen. Actually I almost expected someone to doubt that I had a brother and that I made this up, but this works just as well.

He could be in the complete minority, certainly. We'll see what the critics say in a few days. Or, the critics could pan it and it could still be enjoyable. But I just wanted to pass along the one early opinion I'd heard.
I think everyone is just giving you shtick. Pretty cool that your brother got to see it already. I'm going regardless of reviews or critics because....well, dinosaurs
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Also, I'm slightly convinced BDH is gonna die like Saffron Burrows did in Deep Blue Sea. For the greater good and what not.
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I did read in an interview she said her clothes got destroyed
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I knew this would happen. Actually I almost expected someone to doubt that I had a brother and that I made this up, but this works just as well.

He could be in the complete minority, certainly. We'll see what the critics say in a few days. Or, the critics could pan it and it could still be enjoyable. But I just wanted to pass along the one early opinion I'd heard.
It's more the point that your major point to pass along was that the jokes felt flat. In a movie that's 97.5% about CGI dinosaurs. It's like if I had seen Fast & Furious 7 two days earlier and came to TexAgs to say "It wasn't that great, the costume design wasn't up to par."
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I did read in an interview she said her clothes got destroyed
I'd destroy her clothes too
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I did read in an interview she said her clothes got destroyed
You mean the link TCTTS posted on the last page?
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Somehow he didn't comment on the special effects, but more that the script was horrible. I hope for everyone's enjoyment that he's wrong.
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Somehow he didn't comment on the special effects, but more that the script was horrible. I hope for everyone's enjoyment that he's wrong.
FWIW, I almost didn't see Iron Man because a friend had gone to an early showing and told me it was horrible
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Somehow he didn't comment on the special effects, but more that the script was horrible. I hope for everyone's enjoyment that he's wrong.
went to a movie about dinosaurs...complains that the script isnt good.

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I did read in an interview she said her clothes got destroyed
You mean the link TCTTS posted on the last page?


He doesn't own the internet you know? I don't know where i read it... I rea a lot of stuff on the movie, not just what you see here...
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One Thousand!
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Somehow he didn't comment on the special effects, but more that the script was horrible. I hope for everyone's enjoyment that he's wrong.
went to a movie about dinosaurs...complains that the script isnt good.




Exactly the wrong attitude to have. It doesn't have to be Shakespeare, but just because it "has dinosaurs" doesn't mean its ok if the script, acting, etc all suck. I'm just tired of the apologist attitude that if a movie is an "action movie" then expectations should be vastly lowered when it comes to decent plot lines, script, and acting. Hell, the first one is a classic, and is the very reason we've had three sequels, because it was so well made and not just an "action movie".

Ok, now commence the usual Entertainment board argument of "regular movie lovers" vs. "movie snobs".
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67% so far on RT. Anything over 50 and I'll give it a shot.
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Uproxx Review
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Too soon. Rage.
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Man, every critic I respect and trust is absolutely ripping this movie apart. I'll still be going in with an open mind, but this is a huge bummer.
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I knew this would happen. Actually I almost expected someone to doubt that I had a brother and that I made this up, but this works just as well.

He could be in the complete minority, certainly. We'll see what the critics say in a few days. Or, the critics could pan it and it could still be enjoyable. But I just wanted to pass along the one early opinion I'd heard.
It's more the point that your major point to pass along was that the jokes felt flat. In a movie that's 97.5% about CGI dinosaurs. It's like if I had seen Fast & Furious 7 two days earlier and came to TexAgs to say "It wasn't that great, the costume design wasn't up to par."
the first JP had great jokes/one-liners.

"dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth"

"the only person on my side is the blood sucking lawyer" - "thank you"

"when the pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists."

"well, we're back in the car again"

"clever girl" (not a joke, but great one-liner that's now a meme)

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Uproxx Review

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In a lot of ways, Jurassic World reminds me of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The thing we were rooting against in the first movie (the T-800 Terminator, the T. rex, the Velociraptors) now have new models that are even more dangerous, so now we find ourselves rooting for the old model against the T-1000 and the Indominus Rex. (Yes, the same T. rex from the first Jurassic Park is in Jurassic World.)

Supports my theory from 4/20/2015
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prediction: T-Rex saves the day at the end (just like the original), reclaiming his throne as the "King"
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The film never captures the sense of awe it is telling us that we lost; it reminds me of Tomorrowland in that Jurassic World is a movie that browbeats you with what you're doing wrong as opposed to presenting a vision of someone doing it right. We don't experience awe, the film says, because we're jaded and distracted, but then the film fails to give us a single awe-filled moment.

Jurassic World is like a bottle of flat soda that's been sitting in the sun - the caffeine and sugar will still do their thing, but the drink has lost all of its desired taste and fizz. Dinosaurs are always cooler than not having dinosaurs, and the movie moves at a fast enough clip that it never drags. But it also never works, and Jurassic World ends up as a generic bore that will, I think, be more interesting to dissect in the future than to ever actually watch.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/10/jurassic-world-review-the-park-should-have-stayed-closed
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Didn't a T-rex get chomped by the big bad in Lost World or JP3? Can't remember which.
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http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/first-reviews-of-jurassic-world-20150610

http://www.indiewire.com/article/review-why-jurassic-world-is-such-a-huge-disappointment-20150610

http://screencrush.com/jurassic-world-review/

http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a15946/jurassic-world-review

http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/theatrical-reviews/jurassic-world-30533
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Didn't a T-rex get chomped by the big bad in Lost World or JP3? Can't remember which.
In JP3, a T-Rex got in a fight with Spinosaur (which had never been mentioned in any other movie or book), but that was on Isla Sorna (the breeding ground island), not Isla Nublar (the theme park island)

For reference:
JP - Isla Nublar
LW- Isla Sorna
JP3 - Isla Sorna
JW - Isla Nublar
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Didn't a T-rex get chomped by the big bad in Lost World or JP3? Can't remember which.
Lost World was a different island, not sure about JP3.

JP1 was just the park. They had labs there, but that was all for "show" (which doesn't make sense, b/c there were embryos there for Nedry to steal).

Lost World was a different island, where all the magic really happened. After the Isla Nublar incident (JP1), the second island was abandoned and the dinosaurs ran loose.

Jurassic World is back on Isla Nublar (original park location).
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"dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth"
That line always annoys me. The lines before that are great. And then she has to kill the joke with her feminism bs.
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"dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth"
That line always annoys me. The lines before that are great. And then she has to kill the joke with her feminism bs.
I am as anti-feminist as they come in some regards but I thought it was great.
 
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