Now, the biggest opening weekend in the history of North American box office. Such being, I assume more than a handful 'round these forums absorbed it. Thoughts?
OT: Jurassic World
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Really? I knew it broke the record for biggest worldwide opening, but I thought "The Avenger's" was still the top grossing opening weekend movie in the US. That would be amazing. Haven't seen it yet but going this weekend. HUGE fan of Chris Pratt so I imagine I'll like it.
It broke the overseas, domestic and worldwide record at the box office.
Domestic - $208.8M bypassing The Avengers $207.4M
Overseas - $315.3M bypassing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 $314.1M
Worldwide - $524.1M bypassing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 $483.2M
Well, pittgirl, it's Inside Out for yours truly this weekend. Reading it's Pixar's return to form. Studio had a hell of run with Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3 back to back to back to back. Then came Cars 2, Brave and Monsters U... All of which were pretty damn forgettable albeit beautifully animated. I'd even venture to Brave is more compelling and empowering to women than the woefully misguided Frozen. Catchy, fun but really a mess of movie with animation that sub-par by today's standards to boot.
Jurassic World's something of an oddity. Big, loud, gleefully 'B' and egregiously dumb in an endearing sort of way. It's like Gremlins 2 spliced with Piranha 3D with a fistful of genomes from Jurassic Park to complete the movie's DNA. It's spectacle drenched in nostalgia. Good for the soul, bad for the brain. Charming enough, fun and delivers the dino carnage we've been waiting for since park almost opened back in '93. Recommended. B-/B.
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The Mrs. saw it and liked it. "Good action movie" was her words.
Wouldn't answer if she liked it or Jurassic Park better; said you can't really compare the two because of the era.
She did say it was a bit predictable, and that she would not take children to see it.
Wouldn't answer if she liked it or Jurassic Park better; said you can't really compare the two because of the era.
She did say it was a bit predictable, and that she would not take children to see it.
I think it's going to be a big movie weekend for us too. JP, Inside/Out AND Me, Earl and the Dying Girl. I'm also dying to see the Beach Boy's movie.
I'll likely wait for RedBox for the Earl and Love/Mercy. But, definitely looking forward to both. Sometimes, I'll bypass something in theaters just to give me more RedBox options months later.
my mom went and saw it, she loved it... said it was a little exhausting as the dinos are rampaging around literally half the movie at least but they wrapped it up before it went on too too long. said the trained raptors seemed silly at first but she ended up liking them (i think chris pratt's hunk-face helped this). said she liked the original better still but that it was better than the lost world and way better than JP3.
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