JURASSIC WORLD 4: Rebirth Trailer 2

[Necropolitan]

Agreed. In this case, the fact that he was willing to make that sacrifice only to survive was satisfying.

Plus it did so in a way where it makes sense that he survived as opposed to how heroic sacrifices all too often get averted by having the character survive events that 100% should have killed them, often without explaining how they survived.

In this case the reason for survival is simple, just drop the thing that's going to cause the death and run once the others are safe.

I also think the movie did a great job of allowing audiences to suspend their disbelief, aside from the t-rex managing to teleport in the time it took one character to turn around.

 

[MoonSong]

Finally went to see it. In general it isn't a great movie, but I was in for a popcorn movie and it delivers.

The cast is the best part, everybody seems like they were having fun. I like that the villain isn't just midlessly moustache twirling evil for the sake of being evil, just ammoral and in the end all out for himself.

The sequences in the water are a welcome novelty. I know there's one in JPIII but the ones here are the right amount of action and danger factor.

Now stuff I didn't like. Vazquez I mean Nina's death feels too gratuitous. Not against having a female red shirt die, but from the very first moment she appears o -screen she gets a giant "I'm not going to survive" bilboard over her head, and the men go out basically fighting while she's just taken out randomly and in a less dignified way.

The mutants feel superfluous. Just there for the marketing when a TRex and raptors would have made the trick. But hey they gotta sell toys.

The final twist at the end, priceless.

Sadly there is no discussion about the origins of the ancient Aztec-style temple.

It isn't Aztec-style. It is Mayan-like. The iconography is elaborate and the snake head looks like the ones in Chichen Itza. I'm not aware of Mayan temples built on the side of a mountain though.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It isn't Aztec-style. It is Mayan-like

Did you miss the bit where they explained that it was the hidden shrine of Tamoachan?

 

[Clint_L]

I'll wait for streaming, if at all. I was just thinking that the JP franchise is amazingly resilient considering that there has only been one really good film in the franchise, the first. It's obviously an incredibly appealing concept, but every subsequent film has reeked of studio-enforced mediocrity, with predictable stories driven by cheap thrills rather than character. Although Scorsese was referring to superhero films with his comments about movies that are really just thrill rides, I think the JP franchise is the epitome of what he was getting at.

 

[Necropolitan]

I like that the villain isn't just midlessly moustache twirling evil for the sake of being evil, just ammoral and in the end all out for himself.

I loved how he kept getting "I can work with this moments" where you could see him realize how he could gain from doing something evil (getting rid of the girl, grabbing the gun, leaving the main protagonist behind, etc.) and how the movie relied on showing him being an amoral opportunist rather than having him or other characters say it.

You could even see it in his eyes, Rupert Friend did an incredible job.

Now stuff I didn't like. Vazquez I mean Nina's death feels too gratuitous. Not against having a female red shirt die, but from the very first moment she appears o -screen she gets a giant "I'm not going to survive" bilboard over her head, and the men go out basically fighting while she's just taken out randomly and in a less dignified way.

Yeah, her entire character could have been replaced with another character pointing out that the spinosauruses were swimming towards the shore and they needed to head inland.

The mutants feel superfluous. Just there for the marketing when a TRex and raptors would have made the trick. But hey they gotta sell toys.

It's mainly an adaptation of one of the novels where it was originally a T-Rex and raptors, so that makes sense.