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Jurassic Park 3 - 3/1/2006 2:01:47 PM

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RE: Jurassic Park 3 - 27/3/2006 12:40:43 PM

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- 27/3/2006 12:41:55 PM

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Cool!

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RE: - 27/3/2006 12:50:11 PM

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Who is iandawson?

And they're the lousiest reviews of Jurassic Park III that I've ever read.

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RE: RE: - 27/3/2006 1:13:24 PM

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Perhaps it is a test

Well, Jurassic Park 3 was pretty lousy anyway.

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RE: RE: - 27/3/2006 1:34:45 PM

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Pretty lousy? It was bloody awful. God, I hate this film.

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RE: RE: - 27/3/2006 2:17:39 PM

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I think Empire should set up half a star ratings for films like these

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RE: RE: - 27/3/2006 5:00:18 PM

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Whoa. What's with the hate towards Jurassic Park III?

Sure it had a bit of a weak climax but overall I still have more fun with it than I do with The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

It had the feel of Terminator 3 for me. Nothing excellent but entertaining enough with no delusions of grandure.

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- 28/3/2006 1:02:57 PM

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Ok lets face it, its was no where near the original but no one asked it to be. It was fast paced, action packed and had a stronger plot line than the cheesy lost world. The beard handed over the reigns and he wasnt let down.

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RE: - 28/3/2006 2:27:40 PM

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I'll never be able to understand how anybody in their right mind can prefer this to The Lost World.

It's like saying you prefer Batman and Robin over Batman Returns.

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RE: RE: - 28/3/2006 4:06:28 PM

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Neither of them delivered what the original Jurassic Park presented to us, which was an idea that was novel and effects which were superb this side of a documentary channel. The sequels both failed to impress the majority audience due to the fact they were simply repeating action sequences. For instance, which film did they not get attacked by raptors in high grass fields? Anyone? No? THEN DON'T GO ACROSS THEM! Fools.

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RE: RE: - 28/3/2006 4:20:12 PM

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This film would be awful if it didn't actually work. Sam Neill anchors this movie the way Jeff Goldblum couldn't last time, and also the Raptor's evolution is seriously scary. Stupid Spinosaurus though: I heard T-Rex will kill him next time.

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RE: RE: - 29/3/2006 8:39:52 AM

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The Raptors evolution into what? Stupidness? That crap little kid managed to survive in a land filled with the supposedly most intelligent dinosaurs ever to exist.

Sam Neill... I love you but why the hell did you say yes to this pile of shite?!

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RE: RE: - 29/3/2006 8:52:38 AM

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Because everyone thinks he's Merlin now... I don't think they will offer him any other roles

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RE: RE: - 29/3/2006 9:16:22 AM

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I want him to do more stuff like Event Horizon. Now that was awesome.

"Where we're going, you won't need eyes to seeeeeee..."

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RE: RE: - 29/3/2006 9:23:09 AM

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Yes, let us pray he will not succumb to another Jurassic Park... I have no idea what they would call it or how they would plot it, but I hope to hell they do not attempt it

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RE: RE: - 29/3/2006 9:28:02 AM

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The worst thing is that I reckon that they are making a fourth. I hate Hollywood and their bloody cashing in on great films. Jurassic Park should have been left alone. Lost World was great fun, but it didn't make the same impact as the original. And now Jurassic Park 3... one of the worst films I've ever had the misfortune of seeing. It ranks just behind Anaconda and Batman and Robin as the worst film ever made.

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RE: RE: - 29/3/2006 12:49:05 PM

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Actually I do hope they get round to a fourth: I just hope Spielberg directs again. There's a lot more to JP then dinos hunting people: I was always curious as to those other companies trying to steal the embryos.

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RE: RE: - 29/3/2006 1:11:44 PM

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I think in this case the sequels are better than the originals and the fact that both the lost world had characters from the first JP and i think that jeff goldblum is brilliant in the lost world so is the actor who played the fearless t-rex hunter was great, and the lost world shows to never mess with a compy.

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Haha...what? - 29/3/2006 6:35:31 PM

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"So let me get this straight, we're going to fly over and then land on an island that is inhabited by dinosaurs, been abandoned at some point by a team of experts, and we're only going to take a handful of armed men with us, despite the fact that a small army once tried the same thing but lost half their men?"

"Ah don't worry, we've got guns."

Stupid, stupid, stupid...

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RE: Haha...what? - 1/4/2006 1:30:13 PM

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But it is funny watching them run away screaming patheticly and then getting eaten or their necks broken by a raptor as the trap they attempt to get the others fails. That's their's no way i would go on a expedition to an island full of dinosaurs.

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RE: Haha...what? - 1/4/2006 6:29:46 PM

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ok so it's not perfect but it's ten times better than Lost Worst, actually I thought it was really great,
but I seem to be the only one

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RE: Haha...what? - 1/4/2006 8:13:21 PM

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Best one of the lot IMO.

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RE: Haha...what? - 5/4/2006 4:58:35 PM

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There is a lot wrong with JP3

The story reason for needing to go back to the island, utter crap (admittedly. 'there's a site B?' in TLW was dumb, but audaciously so).

The ending, the armed forces turn up in time to save the day, utter bollocks.

In between the opening and the ending, cobblers of gigantic proportions with quite funny little moments (stay absolutely still, then people have buggered of while he's talking.

But, ultimately, Crichton's story is(as Crichton's stories often are) ' in sutiation X you should think about why you're doing what you're doing, because if you aren't absolutely sure of the possible consequences, those consequences will bite you in the ass' (See Westworld, Rising Sun and practically every other Crichton spin on the frankenstein theme). This is the reason that JP works in the way no sequel could, since after the 'ooh, scientists better take care' stuff, it then becomes all about watching the dinosaurs run around.

The idea of 'we must destroy what has been created so that we can redress the natural balance is the natural successor to the creation of the dinosaurs, but that's not so easy to market, so all sequels end up being processions of dino related death that occur after spurious reasons to be back in the park (or the other park not originally mentioned).

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RE: RE: - 5/4/2006 5:23:06 PM

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Oh, Gothy, here was me thinking you had good taste.

The Lost World over JP3?

Sam Neill was much better compared to Goldblum, there were some good moments (the running gag with the satellite phone, for instance) and the evolution of the raptors was an interesting aside.

The only thing that stopped this from becoming an ass-kicking movie was the studio interference regarding the finale.

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RE: RE: - 18/4/2006 11:05:40 AM

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I like goldblum better than neil's character because in 2 malcom is in a situation that he's surviving without any proper dino survival methods while grant is a dino expert and can safely get out of nearly any situation.

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Better than 2? Ridiculous! - 1/9/2007 1:08:34 PM

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Funnily enough I just watched Jurassic Park 3 again and it gets less interesting every time I see it. It really has nothing new to offer. People go back to island. Run from dinosaurs. Escape. Yawn.

Okay so that was basically the first two films as well, but Spielberg fleshed out better characters and stories - in the first film we'd never seen ILM dinosaurs and in the second we had dinos in the city. In 3 it's just one big non-stop chase back on the island (every time Ned Flanders and his ex-wifey try to have a character building conversation it stops and a dino appears. And this was written by the guys wrote brilliant stuff like Election and Sideways?!). And the Spinosaurus was supposed to out T-Rex the T-Rex but it just looks lame. Not even that much bigger. Don't even get me started on Pollux Troy coming back from the dead at the end. "I saved your hat, Dr Grant". Piss off!

I welcome a part 4 (supposedly due in a couple of years) but by part 3 the dinos were nothing new and unless you have a fresh idea (dinos attack the whitehouse! T-Rex learns to speak in a french accent!) then why bother?

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- 25/10/2007 5:17:11 PM

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they just get worse

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- 25/10/2007 5:17:11 PM

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they just get worse

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Not as good as the others - but, hey, it's Jurassic Park! - 26/3/2008 10:17:43 PM

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The original is incredible - I love it to pieces. The second is no way near as good, but is very entertaining and in the spirit of the original. This one feels quite separate to the others, despite sam neil's character being in it. but it's still great entertainment about MASSIVE DINOSAURS. cool!

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