Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by RGA (R) on June 14, 2015 at 19:52:37

In Reply to: RE: Another thread about an obvious Hollywood piece of crap? posted by Awe-d-o-file on June 14, 2015 at 14:41:13

To be fair you have to somewhat consider the target market and the intent of the movie and base it "within" the genre.

Jurassic Park isn't a "film" - it's target audience is 11 year old kids and the 11 year old kid residing in adults I suppose. It's a special effects roller coaster movie and within that genre it's not terrible - it's not particularly good either - but a solid 5/10.

My frustration with these movies is that it COULD be so much better given the huge amounts of money they throw at them. Jaws worked because it was more character driven and they didn't need to show the shark every second. And the three lead characters were good actors and somewhat rounded and plausible (they weren't brain dead).

With this JP movie - there is no character to hang your hat on and it's basically - "people running away from dinosaurs" for much of the movie. Jaws wasn't completely predictable as one lead you think dies and another does die. In JP you pretty much know who is and who isn't getting chomped from the start. One dimensional characters, more dopey kids used to increase tension.

I don't think any of the JP movies are particularly great - the first movie also had dumb parts throughout. I wished they had "spared some expense" for better writing.

The premise behind these movies IMO is really good - the execution has been mediocre because they don't have the proper target market - trying to play to kids and adults is the wrong way to do it - you wind up with dopey characters and lack of big time scares. Not the dopey "I just survived getting mauled to death by a T-Rex and the next scene the kid is patting a dinosaur on the head as it sneezes on her - oh how cute is that. Piffle. And that was the first "supposedly great" first one.