Chindie Posted June 14, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 14, 2015 Jurassic World has become the first film to break a $500m global opening weekend. It's in spitting distance of taking the US record as well. This year will end up being a record breaker for box office takings. Jurrasic World looks set to be top 5 for all time takings after this weekend, Fast and Furious has made silly money, Age of Ultron has done well, and we've still got major franchise sequels to come (Mission Impossible, Bond, Terminator) and obviously Star Wars at Christmas. We're approaching the point that billion dollar takes are a box office expectation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Just watched Jurassic Park for the first time, not sure how I've managed to miss it all these years. Fun film, do I need to see the others before watching the new one or is there no real continuity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunnski Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Fantastic documentary in a sport I have absolutely no interest in. Says a lot for the power of the documentary and the incredible story that I was completely engrossed throughout. It's on Netflix and would definitely recommend. Watched it a few nights back, was great. So much footage of the 2 brothers from when they first started out to when it all went to shit. One of the best documentaries I've seen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Just saw Jurassic World, legitimately one of the worst films I've ever seen. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOTTI-THE-GOD Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Has anyone seen Hobo with a shotgun ? I caught about 15 min of it the other night looked absolutely nuts . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 15, 2015 Moderator Share Posted June 15, 2015 What? You mean there are people who HAVEN'T SEEN The Man Who Wasn't There? [emoji47] But I agree with everyone above that it looks intriguing so I will try and check it out if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Has anyone seen Hobo with a shotgun ? I caught about 15 min of it the other night looked absolutely nuts . It wasnt as fun as it should have been. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 the equalizer it was ok, will be lost in the mire, theres nothing about it that stood out, it went a bit steven segal too IMO which is never good 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Jurassic World has become the first film to break a $500m global opening weekend. It's in spitting distance of taking the US record as well. This year will end up being a record breaker for box office takings. Jurrasic World looks set to be top 5 for all time takings after this weekend, Fast and Furious has made silly money, Age of Ultron has done well, and we've still got major franchise sequels to come (Mission Impossible, Bond, Terminator) and obviously Star Wars at Christmas. We're approaching the point that billion dollar takes are a box office expectation. Yet piracy is crippling the movie industry and there isn't enough money to make new films because everyone is watching cams. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooligan Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Lords Of London (2014) I have to say i was very disappointed with this. As i watched it, i kept hoping it would get better but it never did.IMDb scored it a 3 I agree with them 3/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Where is Chindie's Jurassic World review? Come on man, it's been out nearly a week 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chindie Posted June 16, 2015 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2015 Where is Chindie's Jurassic World review? Come on man, it's been out nearly a week Apologies, I only saw it last night. When you're talking about a franchise that is based around reviving dinosaurs from extinction to create a theme park, using pop culture science plausibility, it's hard to avoid being on the 'daft' scale. The first movie, 22 years ago, overcame that and made what many believe to be a modern masterpiece of the blockbuster action movie field. Groundbreaking effects, a tight storyline, good performances, it captured the imagination like little else, tapping directly into the inner child that still would quite like to slam a T Rex into a toy car. The series quickly got increasingly daft, even if there are moments that glimpse the heights of the first in both 2 and 3 (and I actually have a soft spot for 3, in all honesty) neither holds a candle to first, and ultimately meant the series was made extinct for 12 years. So it's hard not to be cynical of Jurassic World. A long time coming sequel to a franchise that hadn't covered itself in glory. Early rumours of the plot talking about hybrid genetically modified dinosaurs. Some underwhelming effects in the early trailers. A sneak peak for some reason picking a scene where 2 characters just talk to each other with bizarrely stilted dialogue and not one iota of charisma between them. With all that on my mind, going into the screen last night I was thinking 'If it's fun... I'll be happy. It's not going to be a masterpiece, it's not going to be near the first, just be fun'. And it is fun. The movie opens with a glimpse of the new exhibit at Jurassic World, just hatching. We cut to crashing T-Rex esque feet... that turn out to be a sparrows. 2 kids, a teenager and his younger, dino obsessed brother, are off to a weekend at Jurassic World. For next 40 minutes or so we are introduced to Jurassic World, the culmination of the dream of John Hammond in the first film, a modern theme park with petting zoos, rides, fast food restaurants... We meet Claire, the parks manager (and the young boys aunt), Owen, a former Marine who now acts as the keeper of the raptors who has developed a bond with them similar to a lion tamer, and a few others bit part players. Jurassic World has been a success, but is starting to realise that people grow bored of things quickly, something every theme park in the world knows - hence the need for a new rollercoaster every few years. For Jurassic World, a theme park that has the Seaworld style killer whale show replaced by a mosasaurus show, a crocodile like monster able to swallow a great white whole (it's better and badder than Jaws, geddit?!), that means something, bigger, scarier than a T-Rex. Enter genetic modification kicked a stage on from the first films frog DNA filling the gaps in dino's atomic makeup. The end result? The Indominus Rex, a creature with a name picked by committee, a corporate sponsorship deal in the wings, and immediately the meanest creature on the planet. Owen, the raptor tamer, is invited to check the safety of the creatures paddock, and soon chaos engulfs the park with 22,000 visitors inside... Jurassic World is an inherently silly movie. It's a film that asks you to believe a man could position himself as the alpha in a pack of raptors. A film that asks you to ignore the fact that creatures and characters alike seem to pick up the skills necessary to whatever the narrative needs on a whim. A film that says raptors really could be the future of military campaigns. There are whispers of plots that are thrown in for no reason. A woman manages to mount a rescue mission in a jungle, but never fails to be wearing her heels. It's a dumb movie with a plot you could scribble on a postage stamp and have room to spare. Terrible thing escalates to terrible things. That makes it one of those movies where you can spoil the entire plot and lose none of the film's attraction. You will know already if you fancy seeing it. Looking for depth, meaning, thoughtfulness? Save your money and save your time, this ain't the movie for you. The characters are thin enough to read through, at best archetypes pulled off the shelf, wound up and allowed to rattle through the expected motions. Bryce Dallas Howard is the cold female exec who may have a heart in there somewhere but has barriers up. Chris Pratt the man's man quick with a joke but serious and capable when needed. Vincent D'Onofrio the slimey guy with an agenda. And so on. The effects meander from quite impressive to pretty ropey, and seem to do this on a whim. Even some of the 'hero' shots of the dinosaurs occasionally look subpar to the standard we expect today. You look back at the practical effects from something like the third movie and can't help thinking that it looks better than some of the shots here. Equally theres shots that grab you - the mosasaur leaping from the water as part of the show in the films opening act, for instance. Some good cinematography helps this no end. So it's to the films credit that none of this matters. This stupid movie, with a tired plot a sentence long, filled with the usual Spielberg tropes (kids in danger, etc), dumb characters, dead end subplots that do nothing, characters you could read the plot sentence through, is fun enough that it doesn't matter. I cringed to the edge of pain when I saw that shot of Pratt's character riding along with the raptors. I shook my head when 'GM dinosaur' reared its head in the rumour mill. It felt like a tired franchise chasing a quick buck on nostalgia. And yet it works. The GM dinosaur feels 'legitimate' to the films rules - it feels like something a corporation chasing the dollar would do, and it calls back to Goldblums 'you haven't stopped to think if you should' speech from 1993. You buy the rules of the game Pratt has with the raptors. In the opening hour you buy everything in truth. That park feels real. The stupid gets ramped up as the film goes on, culminating with something that verges on the absurd (if you haven't guessed whats going to happen you're not paying attention). But it is so much fun. A lot of this, I think, is down to Pratt. He has a character made of wishes and tissue paper. He has a character that does nothing you've not seen a thousand action heroes do before now. But he does it so well you go with it. He has a personality that shines through the framework of the character and enlivens it. Bryce Dallas Howard does ok with her deadweight of a character as well. The film is dragged along on the back of this and works even when it starts to lose the foundation of that real world theme park feel of the opening hour. The Indominus Rex doesn't have the... charm... of the original dinosaurs and it comes to embody the problem the film has of giving abilities and skills to things whenever the plot needs it, but it works as a creature to threaten the movie and ends up in a number of nice set pieces. You almost instantly forget the itch of dislike that comes with the idea of an invented creature made up to scare the kids. It's still daft, but it works - and I actually enjoyed a little throwaway line that straight up states 'in all of these movies we've been basing things on the idea that the dinosaurs are hybrids, we just kicked it up a gear', which may as well have the character turn to the viewer and say 'understand, right? Now shut up your whinging'. The film is a fun ride in a way that only blockbusters can be. It's dumb, even for a blockbuster of recent years. But I keep coming back to the fact I enjoyed it so much. I'm convinced theres other problems with it - it seems to suggest some dinosaurs are really, really stupid while others are quite clever, but doesn't really explain why, for instance, and I'm sure there's plot holes - but I don't care. We get the obligatory nostalgia, the film even has some subtle digs at the other films in the franchise. It might be the most fun mass market blockbuster I've seen for a while. It's certainly stupid. Beyond stupid even. Stupid is in it's DNA. But theres more than a little fun in there too and it outweighs all the problems and all the concerns tenfold. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I rather they made Billy and the Cloneasaurus myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 16, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 16, 2015 Just watched Jurassic Park for the first time, not sure how I've managed to miss it all these years. Fun film, do I need to see the others before watching the new one or is there no real continuity? You can ignore the other 2 and jump straight to World. The other 2 aren't a patch on the first but are a laugh nonetheless so worth a watch if you're not burnt out on dinosaurs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Is the new mad max worth driving 45 minutes to see? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 (edited) Damian Lewis has had his odds slashed on becoming the next Bond due to a flurry of bets. Some pretty credible actors being spoken about in Lewis & Elba. With James Mcavoy, Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy also but I dont think they would suit the role. I always thought a reason for replacing Daniel Craig was because he was getting older but Lewis and Elba are around the same age and I suppose they wont be rebooting again just continuing in this vein. I think Daniel Craig has done a great job in the grittier more realistic recent Bonds. Just hope they dont do something stupid and choose Henry Cavill. Edited June 17, 2015 by Nicho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 He's 44, at least 2 years away from his 1st bond film, multi film deal each 2 years apart, puts him in his mid 50s, don't see it personally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Tom Hardy would be brilliant as Bond. He's brilliant in everything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 17, 2015 Moderator Share Posted June 17, 2015 I think you can be too good as an actor to be Bond. Putting Hardy or Fassbender as Bond would take them out of the film world. For me it's slightly a poisoned chalice. I know Craig has done a few bits and bobs elsewhere whilst being Bond but he has for all intents and porpoises disappeared from the movie world save for this one franchise. If I was Hardy or Fassbender I'd say thanks but no thanks. Lewis OTOH doesn't have as high a profile so it might suit him to be catapulted from where he is currently. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Jurassic World in IMAX last night. Part of me absolutely loved it, part of me absolutely hated it. I didn't appreciate the Dinosaurs talking to each other and giving each other mutual respect, regardless of the films history. I don't think Dinosaurs can understand what a common enemy is, let alone give each other knowing nods and turn-coating on a new Alpha. But despite that, I really liked it. I thought the new dino felt legitimate. I thought the attractions were absolutely spot on, and would probably be what would be available should the technology for these creatures to exist be like. I didn't mind the action, there were a couple of surprises the kids' minder dying. So overall I give it an unprecedented 10.5/10 because of dinosaurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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