Movies
Jurassic Park III
I saw this a weekend or so ago, and I'm not sure what I think of it. It was definitely better than the first sequel, which had some girl doing a gymnastics routine (does anyone else remember this?) to avoid getting caught by some killer dinosaurs. But having the TRex running through the city was kind of funny.
Anyway, back to part 3. The story was horrible...completely unbelievable and retarded. There were tons of groans from me over stupid plot twists and idiotic dialogue that any four year old could have written. But I guess that's the point. It was directed towards kids, while the 2nd one was a more violent version than the first part. Only 3 people die in the whole movie, 1 of which you don't even see, and the other which isn't shown, but rather heard. The one that they do show is decent, and provides a running gag throughout the movie. So if you're looking for dino gore, this isn't the movie for you.
Now here's the gag that simply drove me nuts throughout the movie that I previously mentioned. Turns out this guy who gets eaten had the only cell phone that could call for help, and when he gets eaten by the spiny dinosaur, the cell phone continues to work. So each time the dinosaur finds the main characters, you hear the cell phone ringing, which I guess is still supposed to be funny after seeing it happen about a dozen times! And I don't get how the cell phone continues to work. I mean, I have trouble getting a signal when it's cloudy, and this phone is working inside a freakin' dinosaur? Suuuuurreee..ok. And then, the dinosaur poops out the phone, and the main characters are able to dig it out from mounds of the dino dung. Um, didn't we see this in the first movie, when the blonde chick is digging through the dinosaur poop there too?
Anyway, the main characters fight the dinos, and of course prevail most of the time. William H. Macy is totally wasted in this role, and I have no idea why he took it, besides just being in a Jurassic movie. Tea Leoni is incredibly annoying as his wife, and the kid the movie, as their lost son, is way too smart for a normal child. If I had to hear them talk about their marriage for one more scene, I swear I would have eaten my own cell phone. I was rooting for the dinosaurs to eat the family for lunch, but no luck. Sam Neil was good, as usual, playing the same role as in the first movie. Finally, his student in the movie, who presumably gets killed (of course he appears at the end of the movie somehow alive), is decent as well, and I recognized him from being a supporting character in Face-Off.
Finally, the dinosaurs. The Spinosaurus was pretty cool at first, and seeing it fight the Trex was kind of interesting. The pterydactyls (sp?), or for those of you who don't know, the flying dinos, finally show up to, and are pretty entertaining during one of the action sequences. Raptors are in the movie too, of course, and seemingly have learned to talk to one another by squawking...how exciting.
All in all, it's not worth the 8+ dollars to see the movie. It's a kids movie, and if you've seen the first two movies, you're not missing much. The special effects are cool of course, but it doesn't much make up for the lack of a believable story and horrible dialogue. It's also really short, only about an hour and a half long, and has the kind of ending where you want to just smash something. I hope there is never another dinosaur movie, b/c this series has really been pushed way too far. On a scale of 1-10, I give it a 5, only b/c the dinos look cool.
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