Ready Player One | March 29, 2018 | Spielberg directing | No untagged spoilers allowed

[Dementeleus]

@Shawn decloaked like a Klingon bird of prey

 

 

[DeeCee]

1 hour ago, Shawn said:

I was about to say @HerediTele should give himself warning points for derailing this RPO thread into a JP thread, but then I realized he abdicated that particular throne of power.

 

So... I'm just gonna do it for the sake of him saying JP isn't an A+ movie. Because that's what REALLY upsets me here.

 

3 points and a thread ban?

[MrGamer]

Karma caught up to Shit Poster Tele. 

[grim22]

30 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

3 points and a thread ban?

As an admin, I concur. Please hand it out.

[elcaballero]

2 hours ago, tribefan695 said:

My mom always got triggered by Timmy just watching Lex search for the file in the Unix video game instead of slipping the gun over to Ellie.

 

 

Her mouse technique in that scene is top-notch. 

 

[HockeyPads]

I love Jurassic Park and it was a great return to form for Spielberg, but it's never been one of his all time best films (critics certainly weren't saying so back in 1993). It doesn't have the strong character work of Jaws, it doesn't have the emotional heft of E.T, and it lacks the perfect construction of Raiders.

 

It's funny, among Spielberg's famous films, I feel like he likes Jurassic Park the least, because the post-production would get in the way of Schindler's List. "I would sit there angry and bitter giving notes on how a Tyrannosaurus Rex should run chasing a jeep, when all I could think of was what I had shot that day in Krakow."

 

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/22/steven-spielberg-ended-up-resenting-jurassic-park-and-it-was-the-t-rex-that-really-made-him-furious-7334091/?ito=cbshare

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Edited March 11, 2018 by HockeyPads

[Barnack]

1 hour ago, HockeyPads said:

I love Jurassic Park and it was a great return to form for Spielberg, but it's never been one of his all time best films (critics certainly weren't saying so back in 1993).

I think that a case of critic missing the mark (One what does people that gave it bad critics back then think of it today would be a nice exercise like they did recently for The Big Lebowski).

 

It is now considered one of Spielberg best (top 7) by critics all around the worlds:

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php

 

Even made it in the best 1000 of all times, it is a class in how to do exposition and so many other things so well that aged beautifully.

Edited March 11, 2018 by Barnack

[RRA]

JURASSIC PARK was for 1993 a pretty good, maybe a damn good movie. But like T2 from that same era it's had a clear influence on subsequent blockbusters, considered a highly pivotal in the history of CGI on film even though people forget there isn't as much CGI in either film despite their reputations, and within the summer blockbuster realm they've both held their ground against most said subsequent blockbusters. I consider both to be quote "great" films. 

 

Sometimes films age well and get "better" over time when viewed in retrospective context of film and culturally. 

 

 

[La Binoche]

1 hour ago, HockeyPads said:

I love Jurassic Park and it was a great return to form for Spielberg, but it's never been one of his all time best films (critics certainly weren't saying so back in 1993). It doesn't have the strong character work of Jaws, it doesn't have the emotional heft of E.T, and it lacks the perfect construction of Raiders.

 

It's funny, among Spielberg's famous films, I feel like he likes Jurassic Park the least, because the post-production would get in the way of Schindler's List. "I would sit there angry and bitter giving notes on how a Tyrannosaurus Rex should run chasing a jeep, when all I could think of was what I had shot that day in Krakow."

 

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/22/steven-spielberg-ended-up-resenting-jurassic-park-and-it-was-the-t-rex-that-really-made-him-furious-7334091/?ito=cbshare

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Time has been kind to JP.  Teens today dont give a fuck about Jaws or ET but everyone knows JP.  It's a great monster movie thrill ride. 

[MrGlass2]

11 minutes ago, La Binoche said:

Time has been kind to JP.  Teens today dont give a fuck about Jaws or ET but everyone knows JP.  It's a great monster movie thrill ride. 

Well the sequels help to keep JP relevant to teens.

 

Maybe Meg will be their Jaws.

[The Futurist]

Do people actually know Jurassic Park was never supposed to have CGI ?

Ask Phill Tippet, he probably still tells the story with a bottle of sctoch every now and then ...

 

 

[HockeyPads]

Don't get me wrong, I love JP but I do think it gets put on a pedestal by 90's kids because of how much it touched their childhoods. 

 

Films like Jaws or Raiders or E.T. are clearly better films.

 

I've disagreed with Roger Ebert plenty of times, but I feel his review for JP is pretty fair.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jurassic-park-1993

Edited March 11, 2018 by HockeyPads

[Zakiyyah6]

I saw JP on Pay-per-View when I was like 9 and I always felt that it was a solid but extremely overrated film. It's fun, very watchable and has some excellent set pieces like the Raptors in the Kitchen but the characters are very thin and so is the plot. I think a very mediocre script was elevated by Spielberg's genius directing. The reason that the sequels don't offend me is because I've always seen JP as a dumb vaguely anti-science monster movie and nothing more.

[HockeyPads]

8 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

I saw JP on Pay-per-View when I was like 9 and I always felt that it was a solid but extremely overrated film. It's fun, very watchable and has some excellent set pieces like the Raptors in the Kitchen but the characters are very thin and so is the plot. I think a very mediocre script was elevated by Spielberg's genius directing. The reason that the sequels don't offend me is because I've always seen JP as a dumb vaguely anti-science monster movie and nothing more.

I feel the same way about Jurassic Park the way I do War of the Worlds. Two very good films with timeless visuals, and a mediocre screenplay elevated by Spielberg's direction (incidentally, both are written by David Keopp).

 

Lord knows why Spielberg is working with Keopp again for Indy 5. Dude is a bleh screenwriter.

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[Empire]

Jurassic Park may not be his best movie, but it is my favorite. 

[HockeyPads]

1 minute ago, HockeyPads said:

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[Zakiyyah6]

2 minutes ago, HockeyPads said:

I feel the same way about Jurassic Park the way I do War of the Worlds. Two very good films with a mediocre screenplay elevated by Spielberg's directing (incidentally, both are written by David Keopp).

 

Lord knows why Spielberg is working with Keopp for Indy 5. Dude is a bad screenwriter.

I love the original Spider-Man movie because of Sam Raimi, not Keopp's so-so screenplay. Keopp produces screenplays that need strong directors to make work.

[aabattery]

Good god some of the takes in this thread are killing me.

 

@Jay Hollywood hold me

[HockeyPads]

4 minutes ago, aabattery said:

Good god some of the takes in this thread are killing me.

 

@Jay Hollywood hold me

[aabattery]

1 minute ago, HockeyPads said: