Well now that shyt is official: biggest domestic opening ever.
This weekend it seemed like there was only one box office recordJurassic Worldcouldn’t break: the highest grossing opening weekend. However, it turns out dinosaurs trump superheroes in all respects, as final estimates (via Variety) now put Jurassic World’s domestic weekend total at $209 million, which trumps the $207.4 million record that The Avengers set in 2012. Thus, we have a new reigning box office champion.
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Well there you have it folks. Called it Saturday night. I felt it would end 208-210 so I'm cool with the final number being only about 1.5 Million more than "The Avengers". Universal knew it was going to be close so they didn't call the record. Smart move but now we know they did it. Marvel got owned something crazy. "Furious 7" dethroned "Ultron" is is about to dethrone the first "Avengers" on the all-time Worldwide chart. Now "Jurassic World" is about to smash both Avengers with ease. Sorry Marvel but several L's had happen this summer. "Ant-man" ain't going to save the day. As for Disney, yes Universal might win the summer and the year now but Disney still have "Star Wars" so the war ain't over yet. But congrats to everyone for making History. "Jurassic Park" is a Iconic Legendary Franchise. It has broken the OW 3 times now in the last 22 years.
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Dope read...there's one part in particular that stands out to me:
I know this lament. Trevorrow and I are both late-thirties fanboys who’d like to think our childhood movies were more pure and less cynical than the greasy cash grabs that followed. As it happened, 1993’s Jurassic Parkwas corporatized up to its dilating pupils. The Chicago Tribune interviewed an expert who predicted that the movie’s 1,000 licensed products would generate $1 billion in revenue, about as much as the movie made at the box office. A New York restaurateur claimed producer Kathleen Kennedy nixed her menu’s “Jurassic cheesecake” because the restaurant didn’t make like McDonald’s and officially license its dino-size fries. Yes, there were Pepsisaurs and Tostitodons — as Jake Johnson’s Lowery has it — back in the ‘90s, too.
Of course they didn't "Lose" But to have all your Box Office Records snatched away by something you weren't expecting definitely hurts. Nobody was predicting "Jurassic World" and "Furious 7" to dethrone the Avengers man. So yeah that's an L regardless of the success.
Well there you have it folks. Called it Saturday night. I felt it would end 208-210 so I'm cool with the final number being only about 1.5 Million more than "The Avengers". Universal knew it was going to be close so they didn't call the record. Smart move but now we know they did it. Marvel got owned something crazy. "Furious 7" dethroned "Ultron" is is about to dethrone the first "Avengers" on the all-time Worldwide chart. Now "Jurassic World" is about to smash both Avengers with ease. Sorry Marvel but several L's had happen this summer. "Ant-man" ain't going to save the day. As for Disney, yes Universal might win the summer and the year now but Disney still have "Star Wars" so the war ain't over yet. But congrats to everyone for making History. "Jurassic Park" is a Iconic Legendary Franchise. It has broken the OW 3 times now in the last 22 years.
Jurassic World Records Broke:
Biggest OW US History
Biggest OW June History
Biggest OW Summer History
Biggest OW Worldwide History
Biggest Saturday Gross Ever
Biggest Sunday Gross Ever
Bkg\\Biggest Sequel OW Gross Ever
The only thing I got against these new money records is the price gouging going on for 3D & LieMax upgrades. They basically out here doubling the price. Like I went with my daughter, and I upgraded to 3D LieMax just so I didn't have to wait around another 2 Hours for the next showing.
The only thing I got against these new money records is the price gouging going on for 3D & LieMax upgrades. They basically out here doubling the price. Like I went with my daughter, and I upgraded to 3D LieMax just so I didn't have to wait around another 2 Hours for the next showing.
I feel you but movies have more to deal with as far as entertainment options. Also "Jurassic Park" has broken the record 3 times now so it's not like this franchise didn't move units before. "Jurassic Park" broke the box office long before any marvel movie. I think it's numbers are right in line with what "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World" made just adjusted for Inflation.
Aight, let me expand on this (with some minor spoilers):
Let's get one thing out of the way quickly, this is the best Jurassic Park sequel. That's not that hard since The Lost World is garbage and Jurassic Park III is less garbage but also with less T-Rex, but it is what it is.
First off, it leans on nostalgia a bit but not as much as I expected. Most of the nostalgia came from the well-used classic theme during the early scenes of the kids exploring the park. It also works against the movie because whenever the movie isn't incorporating prime John Williams, the music is generic as fukk.
I liked how the movie opened and moved towards things, it's like three minutes max before these kids head into the park so there's little time wasted on pointless melodrama at that time. More about that later. I also liked how they incorporated Chris Pratt's character. The main characters of the movie are definitely the kids and Bryce Dallas Howard, the latter being their aunt who is too busy running the park to really hang out with or care about them. Yup, they replaced the neglecting father figure with a neglecting aunt. Pratt is basically a trainer for the Raptors (and former navy seal, best line of the movie btw: "I used to be navy, not Navajo") who simply is pulled into the fray because of his expertise, and they keep distance between him and the kids in a way that makes sense because he doesn't know them personally and he's busy trying to do his job and all. There's no forced "we're all best buddies now!" dynamic outside of the kids thinking he's cool because he runs with Raptors and knows his shyt.
Which brings me to one of the dumb bits of the movie, a large part of the plot is based on inGen's plans to give Dinosaurs military use. Yeah, that's right. Vincent D'Onofrio thinks that because Pratt can stick his hand out and stop Raptors from eating him, they can take orders and therefore can be used in modern warfare. There's a ridiculous amount of time spent throughout the movie trying to make this not sound like it would be the dumbest idea ever, and it utterly fails as they keep having D'Onofrio spout these ridiculous lines like "Can you imagine if we had these guys at Tora Bora?". No, Vincent D'Onofrio, I can't imagine what it would be like if Raptors were fighting for the US military at Tora Bora. Nobody ever really acknowledges how crazy an idea it is either, instead everybody's kinda like "I don't think we can control them" and "They're not your play pets", rather than going "What the fukk is this idiot madman talking about saying drones are obsolete and Velociraptors are the future of military warfare?"
So yeah, there's a bunch of really stupid stuff in here but it's spread out wide enough so it never feels too in your face present to really start nagging you. However, there's one thing that really fukking nags me, and that's the 'arc' of the kids. They're shown with their parents in the beginning and all seem well, the parents kinda clown the old kid for his over protective girlfriend who he seems to care little about and just overall they seem like a nice family. There's a hint of some sadness when they say goodbye as they step on the plane and the dad says something like "this was our last family breakfast". It was a kinda weird line and I figured it had to do with the old kid going to college or something, or a "they're growing up so fast" kinda thing.
Anyway, the dynamic between the kids is that the young one is a smart kid who loves dinosaurs, and the old kid doesn't care about him much or the park and is mostly checking out and flirting with girls. I actually thought it was a bit cool they had a kid in there who acted like an a$$hole kid who basically would cheat on his girlfriend, nice anti-trope from the usual perfect romantic lovey-dovey guy. Anyway, it all falls apart horribly when 45 minutes into the movie (I clocked it), out of absolutely nowhere, they bring in a divorce angle. The young kid randomly starts crying about their parents divorcing (apparently that's what the "family breakfast" line was about, and outside of that there was no hint or clue of it whatsoever), the old kid is kinda like "Man up, breh", the young kid is like "No, I'm still sad" and the old kid embraces him. The scene ends and that's literally the last time it's brought up. The whole divorce angle or the kid's fear is completely dropped, never spoken of, the only difference is that now, the old kid wants to show his brother a good time in the park. THAT'S IT! It's every bit as misplaced as it's awful as it's downright insulting and I wish I could stomp the writers in all four of their faces for that shyt being in there.
And there's a thread there because a lot of subplots and characters simply have no ending or are kinda forgotten about. Spoiler alert: the black guy lives, at least I think he lives because the last time the movie showed him he was hiding in a hollow tree trunk with the threatening Raptor being lured away, so I guess we can only assume he lived, although he may be wandering dinosaur infested woods for the rest of his life. I dunno, the movie doesn't tell us anything.
So yeah, it's unfocused and got some weird shyt going on at times, but I'd say most of the stuff with the kids does work (side note: that scene where they fix one of the original Jurassic Park jeeps isn't one of them) and all of the Pratt/Dallas Howard stuff definitely works. I also liked a clever off-hand remark made about the hybrid dinosaur not being that weird since they had to splice DNA to fill the gaps for the other dinosaurs as well, and that's basically the movie's excuse for the dinosaurs not looking like what scientific progress has shown them to look like (such as the fact the T-Rex is supposed to have feathers). All the dinosaur action was great, and as I've said, the ending (call it the grand finale) is a great pay-off. It's tons of fukkery (a slow-motion shot of a Raptor running into the fray to help like a goddamn superhero for one) but it's the best kind of fukkery, dinosaur fukkery. Kids and anyone who still possess the mind of a kid are gonna fukking mark out during that shyt, and it's not even the best part because to top it all off...
Hydrosaur, baby!
So yeah, the stuff that pushes the plot is really kinda stupid but all the stuff around it makes for a good, entertaining movie, so I liked it a lot.
I think the divorce was incorporated well to give context on the kids emotional backgrounds. The reason it was not discoursed further was because when you running for your life your parents divorce is the last thing on your mind and the reason the kids was in their predicament was because the brother wanted to take his lil bros mind ff this divorce which explains his decision to go off road. Also in the end scene when your kids could be dead the last thing on your mind is a divorce when your kids safety is your primary focus. I agree with every other assertion you made tho, and I could have sworn I saw the black guy in the last scene in that emergency hall
I feel you but movies have more to deal with as far as entertainment options. Also "Jurassic Park" has broken the record 3 times now so it's not like this franchise didn't move units before. "Jurassic Park" broke the box office long before any marvel movie. I think it's numbers are right in line with what "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World" made just adjusted for Inflation.
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