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So what did you think?
Just saw it this evening------I liked it. Not as good as the first one but much better than the second one. Agree on it being a little SLOW at times. My one real complaint—not enough of the ANIMALS themselves.
Maybe your right though. I was the ONLY one who applauded when the “cavalry” came to the rescue. Then again; nothing can beat the T-REX at the end of the first one!
I liked it though it had its problems.
It looked to me like there was a battle between an attempt to make a serious movie, complete with multiple plot lines and spurious character development, and the recognition that it would just interfere with the main event. The end result was a bit incoherant but the intent was transparent enough that you could see where they would have gone if they hadn’t gotten some sense.
In addition to truncated individual story lines it was clear there was an initial attempt to repeat the idiotic choice of centering the movie on a dichotomy which ruined the second movie. I think it is pretty obvious that a huge amount of dialogue ended up on the cutting room floor. The end result was like Pearl Harbor had they come to their senses, realized that the idiotic love triangle detracted from the movie, and snipped it down to 90 minutes.
Overall it was a relatively enjoyable, simple adventure with lots of excitement and well placed laughs in spite of the many dangling threads. Its too bad they didn’t write it that way in the first place. Better yet, they could have made the film about the kid’s time on the island.
I thought a lot of the storyline with the Kirbys was unnecessary and thrown in just to give the plot some depth. Why couldn’t they have been just a wealthy, thrillseeking couple? It would have kept things simpler and easier to swallow. (How the heck did Kirby hire those thugs if he was only pretending to be rich, anyway? You’d think mercenaries would do credit checks…)
I was disappointed in Dr. Grant’s character when he broke his own vow to never return to the island as soon as Kirby waved a blank check under his nose. I thought it should have taken more bargaining from Kirby to persuade him. Granted, Dr. Grant and Dr. Sadler did go to JP for the money in the first movie, but they had no idea what they were getting into. But now Grant knew what a trip to a dinosaur-infested island was like; you’d think he’d be firmer with his resolve.
I also disliked how Dr. Grant dissed Ian Malcolm. I didn’t understand his motivation. Sure, Malcom had made moves on Dr. Sadler, but as soon as he found out she and Dr. Grant were dating, he backed off. Was that the only reason Dr. Grant disliked him? If so, then that’s stupid and petty, and again, a disappointment with Dr. Grant’s character.
The ending was a little silly. What kind of strings did Dr. Sadler pull to get half the US military to show up on the island? And why was it necessary at all? Wouldn’t a single (armed) helicopter have sufficed? After all, I assume the objective was to get Dr. Grant and the others off the island, not to take the place over.
Of course, the dinosaurs were cool. I loved the pteradactyls… pteronadons… whatever. 
They changed the coloring on the brachiosaurs, though, didn’t they? I swear they were wearing camoflauge gear.
My favourite part of the movie was that it was short. God god! What a dull movie! The deus ex machina at the end was a laugh. I mean, this young archaeologist can call out the marines with three ships, landing craft and helicopters, but he can’t pull strings to get funding for the dig they were working on in the beginning of the movie? And it was perfectly okay to shout sometimes, but not at others – when the characters have no idea what might be around to hear them?
I liked the first episode (although when Laura Dern was trying to power up the facility I remember thinking, “Okay, where’s the monster?” “RAWRRRRR!” “Oh, there it is. Right where and when I expected.”). The second one was okay, but I thought the San Diego bit was hokey. This one was just dull.
I sometimes guage how good a movie is by how often I check my watch. I think I checked my watch every minute during JPIII at the beginning. Checked quite a few times throughout the film too.
PLEASE, people! The only way we can torpedo this incredibly stupid fucking dinosaur franchise is to ensure that it DOES NOT MAKE MONEY.
If we DO NOT GO TO SEE THIS FILM, it will NOT MAKE MONEY.
Then when it is time to make JURASSIC PARK IV, the moneymen will shake their heads sadly as say to themselves “The last one did not make money. It would be illogical to make this film. Let us instead produce a lengthy epic of broad sweep based upon the brilliant Andrej Bely novel PETERSBURG. I will phone up an intelligent screenwriter and have him write an intelligent screenplay for us.”
Once again, DO NOT GO TO SEE THIS FILM. This is important! Culture must go on!
But I like JP! This is probably the only movie of the summer I will see. What can I say, I’m addicted. Sure, it won’t win the Palm D’Or, but it was just a fun flick. Sort of a Planet of the Apes type thing. You know its bad, but you still like it.
I was sad that Dr. Grant made that little dig at Ian. I don’t think he hated him…well. I guess I was wrong. I thought it was a nice touch that the Kirbys weren’t rich thrillseekers, because that made them so much more sympathetic.
Oh, come on, people!
Let’s get real - anyone who goes to JP3 knows what they’re getting. They’re getting a dino movie that’s weak on plot and dialog with big scary lizard-things chasing people and occassionally eating one. What else did you expect?
I thought the Kirbys were drug dealers at one point - who else would get the money for that sort of thing, and also have hired muscle with big guns?
I thought the kid was a little too resourceful - I mean, the life expectancy of an adult on the island was what, 15 minutes? He survived 8 weeks? But it is possible (if unlikely) if the kid had made a study of the previous survivors’ accounts, had some wilderness camping experience, and a minimum of pre-conceived notions.
I have no problem with Grant dissing Malcolm. I never liked the Malcolm character and it had nothing to do with having the hots for the lady scientist in JP1.
I think it’s fairly obvious that this was due to Laura Dern’s husband’s connections–he does work for the federal government in International relations.
Well, you have to admit that he didn’t think he was actually landing on the island–who wouldn’t say “Yes” if it meant simply flying over?
I liked the film (though I’m inclined to be generous since I didn’t pay to see it). Nothing great, certainly better than the last installment. Some very good setpieces and the effects still work quite well (except for the first appearance by the spinosaurus, IMHO). No preachiness, no need for an alternate villain (evil scientist, greedy capitalist), just a basic momentum that keeps things running for the brief 90 minutes. Plus, the kid wasn’t annoying (and Tea Leoni was far less hateful than in Deep Impact).
I think they should look to history when deciding to make more JP movies. After all…
Spielberg makes Jaws, great movie.
Then we had Jaws 2, then Jaws 3-D.
Anybody else see a pattern here?
Oh, and my review: I WANT MY $8.50 BACK!
Then again, a couple of thrillseekers with connections with the Costa Rican government… and they’re content to just whiz by in a helicopter? Dr. Grant bought that story? People were interested in Dr. Grant only because of his JP experience-- that much was made clear in the beginning. That he didn’t think farther ahead, to wonder exactly what the Kirbys wanted him to do, and that he wasn’t more skeptical of them surprised me.
My ticket was free. My JP/TLW: JP2 DVD set came with a coupon.
re: Dr Grant
We find out during the film that Dr. Grant had never been on the island. I guess he thought the Kirbys knew that.
The plot seemed like it was thought up in an afternoon.
The editing was a bit choppy, especially the ending, like one second surrounded by Raptors, next home free. As for ‘Billy’ surviving, aah! what a bag of shite.
Still enjoyable for the ‘intelligent’ raptors (no alpha male?). And the pteradons(?) pteradactyl(?), is there a difference?
What killed the guys in the boat at the start of the movie?
Supposedly the Spinosaurous. I asked in another thread.
They were Pteranodons; Pterodactyl is a different critter (it lacks the big “rudder” coming off the back of the skull). Both belong to the group known as Pterosaurs.
Gotta love those “Pt” names, don’t ya? 
I finally saw it yesterday. It was…eh.
I did see one critter that I wasn’t familiar with ,though. When they were digging through the Spinosaurus dung heaps looking for the phone, a red & black dino (it looked to be only about man-sized, but it was difficult to tell because of the editing) with a big horn on its nose showed up for a cameo. What the heck was that?
The Brachiosaurs also looked a bit hokey. Not so much because of the camo skins, but they just looked…fake. Not nearly as well done as in the first movie. They must have had a different CGI crew working on them this time around.
As for The Main Event[sup]tm[/sup], I’ve already expressed my opinion on that little atrocity elsewhere…
A little kid in the cinema said it was an Allosaurous. From what I’ve see on When Dinosaurs Walked AMeria, I think that may be true.
It was a really goofy movie, though I had to appreciate the CGI. The one thing that really bothered me is how the Raptors keep getting smarter and more dangerous. Hell, by JPIV (which I heard somewhere is already planned) the damn things will be building nuclear reactors and laser weapons. I also can’t stomach the conversion of a very recognizable gun, the Barret Light Fifty, into a twenty millimeter cannon that fires plane-blasting silver suppositories. If the movie wasn’t part of the whole Jurassic Park franchise, it would have probably been a straight-to-video b-movie job. Blerg.
Me, I’m waiting for the one where they hunt down all the dinos with attack helicopters and precision-guided munitions.
While it is true that almost all theropods had some sort of skull adornment, none of them ever had a true horn. At least, none that I know of.
Allosaurs do have prominent horn-like protrusions (actually, more like pointy crests) over each eye, but nothing on the snout like the critter in JP3 had; unfortunately, it was on-screen for too brief a time to get a really good look at it.
Heh…sort of like the aliens in Laserblast, eh?
Hehe, reminds me of that scene in “The Critic.”
With Alan and Ellie closing the door and the raptor coming in, giving a little speech, and smoking its little pipe.
Running from dinosaurs, running from other dinosaurs, running from more dinosaurs. That was the gist of the movie, and they spent too little time on all the other aspects of it.
I felt that they could have worked on that “communication” thing more. Shown more of the dinosaurs “talking” to each other, more of Dr. Grant and Billy figuring the details out. Then maybe they could have hauled that bony whistle out sooner and used it more than once. The first time, say, with near-disastrous results (allowing for–you guessed it–another dinosaur chase) and then the second time using it cleverly and saving the day.
How did Ben die? Could he not get free and just died of dehydration while Eric wrung his hands? Injuries? Or did something get him after he cut Eric free?
Another thing-- I really thought the velociraptors would have killed them all anyway, after they recovered their eggs. What stopped them? In JP and TLW: JP2, they were vicious, attack-anything-that-looks-edible killers; suddenly, they’re too intelligent for that?
I better stop before everyone thinks all I do is gripe.
I too wondered what happened to Ben. I think it makes most sense that he either sustained serious injuries during their landing, or something got to him. I don’t think Eric would have just let him hang there otherwise. I’m leaning towards something having gotten to him first-- maybe the compys, as a large predator like the T-rex or spinosaurus would have swallowed him whole and not left a body behind.