Why is this movie so hated?
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jajceboy — 10 years ago(June 29, 2015 11:10 AM)
I like the third one too. It's much better than the second one.
Why? It's just a fun ride, nothing more. You get what you expect and wish for. Dinosaurs chasing, killing and eating people. No need to go any further than that.
The one thing I have issues with are the effects and Tea Leoni. The effects look so fake and Tea was jsut annoying. But other than that a good film
Jurassic World was really good though, and the best after the first one. I can't wait to watch it again.
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eddie052010 — 10 years ago(June 29, 2015 01:01 PM)
While both sequels are flawed (I'll give you that), the third one is way worse than the second one. While the second one was an entertaining popcorn flick, the third one is no fun, as it has utterly boring characters, and the set pieces are poor, as not only do you not care for the characters, but the quick cut editing and weak shooting of the scenes makes the set pieces hard to see and therefore aren't enjoyable. Meanwhile, the amount of unintentionally funny moments in the film make it harder to get take seriously and to get engaged in.
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eddie052010 — 10 years ago(January 27, 2016 07:57 AM)
Admittedly, I don't watch that many summer blockbusters, but my point still stands. The first two (and the fourth one) had great action scenes, and they were well paced without the need for quick cut editing. Here though, they solely rely on such editing to create the illusion of fast and intense action scenes, but instead get really annoying really fast.
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Tsavo — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 02:06 AM)
Yeah, you realize that the Jurassic Park franchise is supposed to be more than that right? You want dinosaurs chasing and eating people, and nothing more, watch a SyFy original. The Jurassic Park series was always about scientific ideas, concepts and of course Dinosaurs (and help to update the publics perceptions of them as animals. Jurassic Park 3, and to an extent, Jurassic World both failed at this, but Jurassic World managed to bring some science in, even if it chose to ignore it later.
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Fletcherj119 — 10 years ago(July 28, 2015 07:49 AM)
- They should've roped Malcolm along with Grant.
- In Ellie's defense, her husband worked for the State Department specializing in International treaties.
- They were responding much too nonchalant about the Pterosaurs apparently escaping the island.
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LukeLovesFilm28 — 10 years ago(September 06, 2015 11:05 PM)
Um, William H Macy, when he is doing his thing as an actor is more interesting and engaging than almost ANYTHING out in theaters right now. But, like a child that didn't get what it wants on Christmas, you throw a fit because this movie didn't live up to all of your petty standards.
BUT, anyone with half a brain can see that these actors have far more heart and soul in every line read than almost everything out there today. They believe what they're saying. They seem to have actually lived these characters lives. That puts JP3 one up on its sequel and a lot of B-movie blockbusters since. -
eddie052010 — 10 years ago(January 27, 2016 08:04 AM)
I have nothing against William H Macy nor most of the cast (apart from the dreadful Tea Leoni). But a film has to have more merit than just its performances, and in that regard JP3 is utter garbage, for all the reasons I've cited. And if I'm being petty and whiny because I don't like the film, why do you think its so good? For someone moaning about me being harsh towards this film, you don't refute my arguments outside of the acting, which I don't have much of a problem with anyway.
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Mightygill — 10 years ago(July 24, 2015 01:48 PM)
Strange. A lot of points used to describe JPIII are even more accurate in describing Jurassic World
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GreenLatrine — 10 years ago(July 30, 2015 06:15 PM)
I saw the original Jurassic Park in the theater in 1993 when I was 14, and I loved it. I got it when it came out on video and watched it regularly.
I saw Lost World just one time, in the theater when it came out in 1997, when I was 19. I thought it was okay. Haven't seen it since (until last week).
I just saw Jurassic Park III for the first time just last week, when I bought all the JP movies on DVD for the first time, at age 37.
I actually liked it. Is it better than the first one one? Hell no. Is it better than the second one? Eh, I don't know. But for years I've heard about the hate for this movie, but I didn't come away with any hate. I thought it was okay enough. Some cheesy and unbelievable moments, but whatever. I'll probably watch it again whenever I get in a JP mood and watch the trilogy. -
stevenandkate — 10 years ago(September 10, 2015 09:32 AM)
My thoughts on why JPIII is hated:
- The Spino 'beating' the T Rex is the main reason in my book. I've read several interviews with people much more qualified than me to answer why that wouldn't happen.
- My own personal feelings on the dino sounds - in the original JP, the T Rex roars were incredible! I remember seeing people in the audience covering their ears!! In JPTLW, the T Rex roars were more like a small elephant. JPIII, the Spino has a decent sound, but still no comparison to the original T Rex.
- Way too much left unexplained.
- The ending.
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HCxIapetus — 10 years ago(November 01, 2015 04:23 PM)
I didn't hate JPIII, but there are some things I had issues with.
Spino beating the T-Rex too fast. JP and TLW did a good job at hyping up the T-Rex, so when I watched a T-Rex go up against Spino I was very disappointed that it defeated a T-Rex quickly. The T-Rex is popular for a reason with people and this movie just made it look like a wimp.
The kid. I didn't overall hate Eric, there was just something about him that I didn't like.
Amanda Kirby. I agree with most people that don't like her. She just wasn't very likable as a character.
Billy making it out alive. When I thought he was dead, I remember feeling something for his character and thought how brave it was for him to die that way saving everyone. Then when he made it out alive, I just thought "how freaking convenient" for some reason. Ever since then, I just didn't like it. In reality, it would have been awesome for someone to survive that, but watching it in a movie I thought just it made the story weak having all the main characters survive like that.
I didn't mind that the Velociraptors communication stuff, but there were times that I thought it was too distracting.
When it comes to Jurassic World and comparing the two, I think I like both almost equally. I have nostalgic feelings for both because of Alan Grant and
Rexy (the original t-rex)
. I really feel something for these characters, so whenever they are in danger my heart is racing.
However, I do agree with you that JW's story wasn't that appealing. Just in case this next part is spoilerish for some.
I was shockingly okay with the I-Rex and it being an evil lab experiment. But that whole military plot just wasn't that great at all. The characters backgrounds felt one-dimension and paralleled too much to some of the first movie's characters. The only thing that I thoroughly enjoyed was seeing Rexy and Blue go up against the I-Rex. Funny thing is, I found myself feeling only compassion for the dinosaurs and not the humans. Well, I didn't want the kids to die, but I wouldn't have cared if anyone else did.
Edited to add spoiler tags.Be Seeing You.
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ricky_may-47537 — 10 years ago(December 08, 2015 07:50 AM)
I enjoyed JW (definitely a well made sequel/quasi- remake even after 14 years), but I always found the original trilogy to be the best, as the sets, cinematography, and action sequences were all better done in each of the three others (though JW had some pretty good scenes as well). I always found JP 3 to be vastly underrated (maybe not as good as the first or LW, but still better than most people give it credit for). Also, the casts of the first three were all fun to watch (JW had good actors, but they sadly lack the chemistry that a lot of the others in the first three have).
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sander1982 — 10 years ago(December 25, 2015 12:15 PM)
JP3 is an absolute terrible film, TLW & JW are masterpieces compared to it. I'm baffled by the choices they made during the production of the film.
The openingcredits (JPIII slashmarks): What a cheesy way to open this is not a cheap horror slasher. Well cheap it is
The openingscene: If you can get past the immensly bad greenscreen work and Ben Hildebrands screeching voice it is ok but just when things are getting excited, the openingscene ends followed by the annoying Ellie Sattler kid making over the top dino sounds. Them entering the Island and landing in the trees and Ben starting to be attacked by Raptors would have made it better.
Grant & Ellie are not together: A bold move from the filmmakers but handled completely wrong. They seemed to care a lot for eachother in the Original, how is it possible Ellie has two kids and her husband has never ever met Alan?
Triceraplots? ReallY?: The introductions from the others are ok but Amanda Kirby starts to get extremely over the top and once they are on the Island the Amanda & Paul bickering starts. The family crap does never seem to stop from there on.
Alan!: A goofy dreamsequence with a talking feathered Raptor Alan has never even seen. No!
Spinosaurus animatronic: The combination of animatronic/cgi is very well done (when the Spino starts to crush the plane with it's foot) but the headshots of the Spinosaurus just look too fake during the plane attack.
Killing of the star of the first two films: The T-Rex. Everyone's favorite killed off within the minute. It's ok for me to have it being killed (another one could have shown up at the end for some kind of revenge move) but this was just a slap in the face.
Ben Hildebrand: Who was he? Just a friend Amanda met on vacation? Eric never referenced him ever again and doesn't seem to be traumatized just one tiny bit.
The bio factory scene was pretty cool, but Paul's constant goofy appearance really annoyed me, the clumziness with his bag, talking about his shop, the kicking of the glass at the vendor machine etc etc it's all too much!
Recycled shots: Two Obvious shots are recycled in the film, amazing they didn't care that people would notice.
Jungle boy: Eric uses his last gasgrenades to save Alan Grant, Eric has a peculiar jungle outfit on which looks just too perfectly made and soooooo silly. He collected T-Rex pee (yeah right), Ian Malcolm's character is downgraded
Corny reunion: The reunion scene is handled quite good but the music makes it too sobby but it fits the rest of the film in that way. The sattelite Phone can be heard from the Spinosaurus stomach, the spinosaurus wrecks a huge fence but can't break through a small steel door? Impossible
Only perfect scene in the film: The Pteranodon sequence is fantastic, great build up, Eric has just been reunited but swept away again I really enjoyed that moment with Billy using the parasail to get Eric back.
Billy was right: Terrible cgi on the brachios, why they don't learn that the best looking cgi is when the flesh isn't so animated/moving so much (JW had some of this too) it looks like a cartoon sequence.
Turd Alert, retreiving the sattelite phone: The music, the annoying ringtone, the great amounts of poop, it all feels so silly. Oh but wait, it gets more ridiculous when a Ceratosaurus comes in and finds his snacks stink too much.
Barney- This is gonna be gggguuuureaaatttt!: And here comes the most terrible scene of the film, no I'm not talking about the Spino vs boat, but that Ellie Sattler kid during it Who the hell decided it would be great to have a kid dancing to Barney during a suspenseful scene. Helloooo? Wrawrawraaaaa! and Ellie knows exactly what to do. whatever at this point we don't give a sht anymore I guess.
The raptors leave the interior of the Island (their nests!) to retreive two stolen eggs. As if an animal like that would leave those nests unguarded. How can they count those huge amounts of eggs in the first place the use of the prototype resonating chamber thingy was corny as sht too.
The megaphone thing: As if Amanda screaming through the megaphone wasn't annoying enough the suit guy does a repeat of this, how does he get noticed before the marines? How did he get on the beach? How did Billy survive that Pteranodon attack, managed to get picked up before the rest and find Alan Grants hat? Ughhhhh!
What a piece of crap, it feels like a watered down version of JP and the whole quality of it is the same as a Sunday afternoon kiddie tv film. -
IndianaMcClane — 10 years ago(January 08, 2016 02:08 AM)
I've always wondered if part of it had to do with them as sequels in terms of scale being really reserved in comparison to
The Lost World
and
Jurassic World
. Both of which made clear attempts to up the ante and expand on the mythos. Not to mention having larger stakes, and body counts while we're at it. Because really, it's all about a small group of people trying to rescue a kid and get off the island. With TLW you've got them contending with an InGen mercenary group with the danger of dinosaurs being brought to the mainland that gets realized at the end, or JW you finally got to see a fully operational version of the park when things break loose with a genetically engineered super-dinosaur thrown into the mix. And so on which can make JP3 feel pretty lightweight by comparison. Though you also hear about the characters being more annoying, then again I've heard that complaint for all the sequels here and there from different people. But, I digress. Or something like the "Alan" nightmare sequence will come up, but then again TLW actually had a raptor get taken out with children's gymnastics in what is supposed to be the "real world".
Ultimately, I think each
Jurassic Park
movie is entertaining on some level. I don't really care how anyone ranks any series, I stand by that coming down to personal taste, but I'd rank this one lower myself. But as a simple chase/adventure film, it does its job IMO. -
bond_98 — 10 years ago(January 24, 2016 04:18 PM)
Isn't everything a cash grab. I mean they don't make these movies to feed starving kids in africa. Frankly i don't hate any of the Jurassic Park Movies. But i do feel like this is the weakest of the Jurassic Park Movies.