Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

[sandman slim]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

Never heard of rapters before, what are they?

Redneck dinos. "Pa, get the gun! We got rapters agin!"

[RalphoR]

Since we have Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and Jurassic World I guess all that's left is Jurassic Lost.

[CinemaScope]

Originally Posted by Spidey-Penguin

TLW:JP wasn't set in a park... or JP3 for that matter.

Ha, talk about splitting hairs! They're all the same plot, not that I'm bothered, I won't be watching any more of them, & I don't have any of them on disc.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Spidey-Penguin

TLW:JP wasn't set in a park... or JP3 for that matter.

Ingen was still trying to build one.

[esteban²]

Originally Posted by sandman slim

Dude, really? The finale was the best part! Rex vs. Rex, with occasional raptors...

Really. It's a very common complaint about JW. There's both lots of love and hate for that part. They went waaaay over the top for me.

[Black Sabbath]

[Batman1980]

Breathtaking photo

[Chaotic]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

Breathtaking photo

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

Breathtaking photo

It is amazing isn't it.

[Cremildo]

It's a Bayonian pic. Already the darkness can be felt.

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by Black Sabbath

Spending the night at the museum. Ben Stiller will be your security.

[Riddhi2011]

A Jurassic Park film set in a museum, fully or partially is a jolly good idea!!! The Night at the Museum movies are a testament to how impressive the visuals can be. The Visitor's Centre segments in JP1 were, needless to say, the highlights of the film.

JW2 First Official still low res.jpg

Also, from closer inspection, it seems the photo has a lot of grains, so it may have been shot on film, despite having that "digitally graded" look.

The aspect ratio however, looks closer to 1.89:1, which is the frame ratio of a lot of digital cine cameras. Now this doesn't mean anything. It could be a film source or digital source.

It could very well be a digital shot still with added fake film grain.
We need a daylight pic with camera information, like Trevorrow's Nublar pic, below.

JW Nublar location scout.jpg

[Riddhi2011]

We can confirm Lucy isn't wearing any high HEELS -

JW_Lucy No Heels.jpg

[Wildcat2000]

Originally Posted by esteban²

Really. It's a very common complaint about JW. There's both lots of love and hate for that part. They went waaaay over the top for me.

What? We NEEDED an all-out dinosaur battle. There's never been one in 3 movies.

The series is about dinosaurs breaking loose from a theme park. What do you expect?

If anything more chaos should have happened. It was still quite convenient that most everyone was able to get to safety.

[levcore]

Originally Posted by Riddhi2011

Also, from closer inspection, it seems the photo has a lot of grains, so it may have been shot on film, despite having that "digitally graded" look.

Movies shot on film are also digitally graded.

[Riddhi2011]

Originally Posted by levcore

Movies shot on film are also digitally graded.

No, not all of them. Nolan and Paul T. Anderson use photochemical timing on their films, still. And most film shot movies, due to digital grading have lost their rich analog look that photochemical timing offered. Colour grading on almost every movie nowadays, look artificially tacked on, digital or celluloid sourced. That's what appears to me, anyway. 'Jurassic World' also had that fake looking colour, despite being mostly shot on film.

[levcore]

Originally Posted by Riddhi2011

No, not all of them. Nolan and Paul T. Anderson use photochemical timing on their films, still. And most film shot movies, due to digital grading have lost their rich analog look that photochemical timing offered. Colour grading on almost every movie nowadays, look artificially tacked on, digital or celluloid sourced. That's what appears to me, anyway. 'Jurassic World' also had that fake looking colour, despite being mostly shot on film.

I didn't say all of them but the vast majority are. You've just named pretty much the only two examples of film makers who don't digitally grade their movies! The rest I wasn't debating.

[esteban²]

Originally Posted by Wildcat2000

What? We NEEDED an all-out dinosaur battle. There's never been one in 3 movies. The series is about dinosaurs breaking loose from a theme park. What do you expect?.

It's NOT the fact there was a battle between giants people don't like, it's HOW they did it.


Everyone was waiting for it, since it was expected to happen when they didn't show our favorite giant in full glory and the ending came closer and closer. I was also cheering for that.

It started very well, from the scene where the T-Rex cage is opening till the moment they meet. Great stuff. That music! Then it happens. Raptors get involved. Wait, what? Choosing sides, they start running around on the back of Rexy in a way that looked absolutely ridiculous. The whole thing didn't make sense in any way, it was simply over the top. But it didn't stop there.

That unfortunate camera angle when the D-Rex is down by the edge of the water and the Raptor and the T-Rex are standing next to each other, with their backs towards us ... That looked very silly in combination with what happened next. The first thing I thought was ... "No, they wouldn't do that, that would be too... *Bwaaaaam, splash* .... "They did." They jumped the shark. Didn't stop there either. Next we had a fist-bump moment between the two remaining dinosaurs and a Disney moment between the raptor and Pratt. Even in a world where dinosaurs are running around on screen, there's a line. It felt like a Michael Bay version of Jurassic Park.

That specific part is a returning complaint mentioned in lots and lots of reviews. If the rest of the movie wasn't so damn enjoyable, I would have hated JW.

* Also, the dinosaurs never looked 100% convincing during the finale. They did 20 years ago.

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by sandman slim

Dude, really? The finale was the best part! Rex vs. Rex, with occasional raptors...

That was the only really good scene.

Some of my favorite scenes in the whole franchise are the ones people like to criticize: that one and the San Diego rampage in TLW. Go figure.

[Riddhi2011]

Originally Posted by esteban²

Raptors get involved. Wait, what? Choosing sides, they start running around on the back of Rexy in a way that looked absolutely ridiculous. The whole thing didn't make sense in any way, it was simply over the top...They jumped the shark. Didn't stop there either. Next we had a fist-bump moment between the two remaining dinosaurs and a Disney moment between the raptor and Pratt. Even in a world where dinosaurs are running around on screen, there's a line. It felt like a Michael Bay version of Jurassic Park.
* Also, the dinosaurs never looked 100% convincing during the finale. They did 20 years ago.

Um, I enjoyed all those portions. Trevorrow gave a personality to the dinosaurs and made us root for them. And those non-animal attributes were subtle and tastefully done. You see trained or pet dogs behave in all sorts of ways that are at times very human-like. These Raptors were trained by Pratt, so why not?

About the T-Rex and Blue moment, well, Rexy is over 20 years old; just fought a battle that she would have lost had it not been for Blue and the Mosasaur. She has sustained a lot of injuries and is in no shape or form to hunt a Raptor now. So she just looks and leaves. Plus, in the wild, predators have occasionally been seen to pass on killing a prey; lions have been seen protecting deer cubs, Leopards have been seen protecting baboon cubs. So, we don't know how dinosaurs reacted around prey. They may very well have shown rare and unusual acts of kindness and mercy.

I loved that the raptors and Owen had a deep bond. That is the reason I saw the film 5 times in the cinemas. I didn't go back to see a fake CG looking T-Rex that had no similarity to Rexy, despite being the same animal. I loved that she returned, but it didn't feel real, for the most part. However, Trevorrow did manage to make me feel for her at a certain point when I was sure she would die and then Blue came to the rescue. And my, what a fantastic rescue that was!!!

About the look of the dinos, I agree with you! Jurassic World's CGI looks the most fake out of all the JP movies to me. The reason I suspect is digital grading and improper shading, highlights. In JP trilogy, due to photochemical timing, all flaws in the CG were hidden under film grains and organic looking colour. JW's colours feel so tacked on that it fails at creating that realism. At least that's what I feel.