TCTTS said:

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Hate fuels them. They truly, desperately need it. It's an addiction. And Hollywood is often where they get their fix.

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You know what they need to do? Stop checking TexAgs and go watch movies like F1. That movie's a blast and unless they're an F1 snob there's no way they don't love it.

Get out! Go enjoy the movies!

Are you talking to me or them?

Because I saw it and loved it!

TCTTS said:

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Are you talking to me or them?

Because I saw it and loved it!

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Lol, talking to the Hollywood haters, because its the exact type of movie that should please everyone, including them!

I honestly had no idea the others were that bad. Now I'm excited again!

Rotten Tomatoes scores for all the films in the #JurassicWorld franchise 🦕 pic.twitter.com/IwWcbEWiKO

— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) June 30, 2025

TLW is still the only one in the franchise I literally can't watch for 10 minutes. It still infuriates me.

The Lost World and Dominion are the 2 I don't like.

I said it earlier, but I've actually really, really come around on TLW. Yes, it's cheesy at times, but overall I find it miles better than the World trilogy.

TLW is my personal dark-horse favorite of this series. We didn't get kids feeding a dinosaur a branch. We got more stomping and chomping. We got a shot of 4 Japanese men running down a San Diego street looking over their shoulders, as if they are in a Godzilla movie. Not that it's perfect - far from it, especially with that God-awful trapeze artist kick to the raptor's face by a teen girl (who contributes nothing to the movie and you root for her to get stomped and chomped). And there's that great shot of the raptors hunting in the long grass, followed by one of the raptors leaping out of the grass to grab some fat guy.

It is a far better movie than any of the Jurassic World sequels, including Rebirth (which I have seen).

Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Jurassic World
Jurassic Park III
Jurassic World Rebirth (just for the Tyrannosaur sequence)
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World Dominion

As long as we're doing rankings:

Jurassic Park
Jurassic World
Jurassic Park III
Fallen Kingdom
The Lost World
Dominion

JP was the Star Wars of my generation. For those of us that grew up in the 80s and 90s, it was the greatest movie theater experience of our lives up to that point. For me, it's still the greatest. Other movies have gotten close, but nothing had beaten that first shot of the brontosaurus's or the vibrations of the footsteps from the T Rex. Like Star Wars, it has its flaws with some of the writing and acting that 14 year old me overlooked, but unlike SW, the franchise never got its TESB.

The first half of TLW with the Tyrannosaurs is great suspense! From the gymnastics onward, though, it went downhill.

Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Jurassic World

Jurassic World Dominion
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom



Jurassic Park III - up there with Terminator 3 in feeling like they accidentally got the script for a made-for-TV movie but still had A-list stars and special effects.

I think I might be the only person in the world that actually enjoyed Dominion, if only for getting the band back together.

MW03 said:

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I think I might be the only person in the world that actually enjoyed Dominion, if only for getting the band back together.

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I liked it better than liked Fallen Kingdom. I liked Grant and Sattler together again for sure. I thought the least believable part was anyone getting within 5 feet of those giant locust things. The two Hispanic kids just stroll up on it, "Hey, that's weird, it's a locust 50 times bigger than I've ever seen! Lets pick it up!"

Park
World
Lost World
III
Dominion
Fallen Kingdom (These last 2 kind of blend into each other for me)

Down to 53% on RT with some reviews echoing the sentiment of a slow first half. But hey its got dinos and its summer so I'm sure it'll still do well. Its not like the last few of these have set the bar very high.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLC_4L0SwcY/?igsh=M3U5cnBucm0ycnpi

Agree, when 11 year old kids are kicking Raptors in the face after doing a bar routine... yikes. That needed to be cut, especially considering that the lead up with the Raptors picking guys off one by one was setting that up to be a really tense scene... then all of a sudden we're doing some sort of slap stick comedy routine.

Also, the Marines not rolling in to ice the Trex in San Diego made no sense to me. Instead everyone just let that thing rampage all night.

Just sat in our seats for a showing. Have my two oldest with me. We are all looking forward to it, I mean it's dinosaurs chasing/waring people. We'll see what I think afterwards.

My wife hates most action movies and superhero movies. Couldn't get her to see Top Gun or F1 to save her life, but this is the movie that she wants to see. 7:30 today in Kyle...we will see.

I always thought it was ridiculous that the t-Rex, which was too large to exit the cargo hold, had someone killed every person aboard that cargo ship.

I'd forgotten about that asinine scene.

Everyone gets on the boat and sees ripped up dismembered dead people.

They know that there is a T-Rex on board

Somehow though this Trex is just laying low in stealth mode not making a sound in the cargo hold.

Everyone acts confused until the rando security guy finds the hold control switch and opens it up... at which point the audience finds out that stealth rex was ready to pop out as soon as those doors opened.

Lots to unpack here... like how the eff did the dismembered arm with the control switch close the hold with T-Rex back in there?

How the eff did Trex get out of the steel containment trap we saw her in leaving the park.

No one on the boat radioed anything to anyone? Probably because stealth rex picked them off from the shadows I guess...


But if we're really talking about continuity issues in these movies, I'm still pissed about how somehow in JP1 Rex rips down the fence, steps out of his cage easily, mauls a car then pushes it back through the hole he made in the fence.... only for us to find out that on the other side of that hole that we watched him stroll through is a 100 foot drop into a canopy of trees? Seriously WTF. Can Trex hover? Fly? How did he walk out of the paddock when we know there is a steep drop right on the other side of the fence? How the hell were people supposed to see Trex at this ****ty park if he was 100 feet down from the road?

AggieEP said:

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I'd forgotten about that asinine scene.

Everyone gets on the boat and sees ripped up dismembered dead people.

They know that there is a T-Rex on board

Somehow though this Trex is just laying low in stealth mode not making a sound in the cargo hold.

Everyone acts confused until the rando security guy finds the hold control switch and opens it up... at which point the audience finds out that stealth rex was ready to pop out as soon as those doors opened.

Lots to unpack here... like how the eff did the dismembered arm with the control switch close the hold with T-Rex back in there?

How the eff did Trex get out of the steel containment trap we saw her in leaving the park.

No one on the boat radioed anything to anyone? Probably because stealth rex picked them off from the shadows I guess...


But if we're really talking about continuity issues in these movies, I'm still pissed about how somehow in JP1 Rex rips down the fence, steps out of his cage easily, mauls a car then pushes it back through the hole he made in the fence.... only for us to find out that on the other side of that hole that we watched him stroll through is a 100 foot drop into a canopy of trees? Seriously WTF. Can Trex hover? Fly? How did he walk out of the paddock when we know there is a steep drop right on the other side of the fence? How the hell were people supposed to see Trex at this ****ty park if he was 100 feet down from the road?

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My favorite part of the second one is they see the boat coming 50 miles (knots) an hour straight at the harbor and nobody says out loud like, "Hey, the boat is clearly out of control and full of dinosaurs maybe we should back everyone up like 30 or 40 feet?"

All the people that work at the harbor are baffled, and only Jeff Goldblum with his Chaos Theory knowledge decides it's a good idea for everyone to get out of the way at the last second.

Walked out after 50 minutes. First time to do that one in a long time.

LB12Diamond said:

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Walked out after 50 minutes. First time to do that one in a long time.

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You just don't like Snickers and altoids ads.

Is that code for horrible writing and zero character development ?

Kids and I enjoyed it. Yes there were some silly parts but it was a fun summer action flick with dinosaurs eating some people. I also appreciated some of the nods to scenes from both the JP and TLW novels they put in.

Don't mind Sea Speed, he just now discovered product placements in blockbuster summer movie releases and it's really thrown him for a loop.

AggieEP said:

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Don't mind Sea Speed, he just now discovered product placements in blockbuster summer movie releases and it's really thrown him for a loop.

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AggieEP said:

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Don't mind Sea Speed, he just now discovered product placements in blockbuster summer movie releases and it's really thrown him for a loop.

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This was next level though. It literally is opens with product placement and the Altoids scene felt like it was two minutes long. It was egregious and terrible.

Sea Speed said:

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AggieEP said:

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Don't mind Sea Speed, he just now discovered product placements in blockbuster summer movie releases and it's really thrown him for a loop.

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This was next level though. It literally is opens with product placement and the Altoids scene felt like it was two minutes long. It was egregious and terrible.

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Have you seen E.T.?

That movie was objectively good so it doesn't stand out like it does in a movie that is terrible. This felt Michael bay transformers level of ridiculous product placement.

It's not like Newman from Seinfeld wasn't out there product placing Barbasol in 1994.

But in 1994, we did like 6 minutes of exposition whereas now we need to do 35+ minutes of it. (Apparently, when you have a disastrously written movie).

Advanced the plot as opposed to Altoids meaning nothing to the plot of JWR.

Again, that movie was objectively good. And as stated above it fit in and felt organic as well as advanced the plot. The Altoids bit seemed to be written specifically to have an Altoids bit.