H6RBW said:
I thought the movie was pretty bad.
There was too much left unexplained, or which just didn't make sense. What exactly had the mosasaurus been eating in its enclosure to survive 4 years? How did Claire go from being the cynical corporate type to being this zealous dinosaur rights type? How did this dinosaur boat lift go unnoticed/unimpeded? Small point, but one that bugged me: how was the roof supporting
a dinosaur's weight?
But all that pales next to the end where we inexplicably decide to let dinosaurs loose on the world. Even with the dinosaur rights stuff squarely presented at the beginning of the movie, I was still surprised by that level of stupidity.
The premise they've set up for the next movie seems like it could be interesting, but after watching this I have no confidence they can pull that off.
I happened to have enjoyed the movie.
I was lambasted earlier in this thread for a statement I made regarding these movies. I said something about the plots of all of these movies being basically mindless. I probably should rephrase that, not in that they are mindless flicks like, say, Forbidden World (look it up, bad Roger Corman 1982 Alien ripoff), but that these movies exist to show us dinosaurs eating people. Back in 1993, was anyone going to go to see a movie about lions eating people in a nature reserve? Certainly not nearly as many as did go to see a movie that featured living dinosaurs eating people. Yes, I know that these movies have some underlying themes that suggest caution when working with things like genetics. Even in this last movie, Jeff Goldblum's character said pretty much exactly that.
But at the end of the day, to me these are movies about dinosaurs eating people. And to that end, I've left each of these movies satisfied that I saw what I wanted to see.
Regarding the mosasaur, nevermind your question about what was it eating all this time since the park closed, my question is how in the heck is that beast even here? JP showed us that the scientists get the dino-DNA from mosquitoes trapped in amber. Was there an aquatic mosquito? Or did JW explain that, and I have just forgotten?
Your last statement ... if they are serious about the underlying theme of Mankind messing around with something that he should not and there being serious repercussions resulting from all of this playing God by making dinosaurs, then I think the logical endpoint here is exactly what they have hinted at with the way JW2 ended. I just don't have a lot of confidence that they will actually have the guts to do that. Which is something else earlier in this thread, suggesting that the third JW movie ends very, very badly for humanity, in a kind of Planet of the Apes way, and we'd then get a third trilogy a while later set in a world controlled by dinosaurs. That would be a gutsy movie to make in JW3.
