What do people see in this movie? Does it make sense to like this?
It doesn't seem to make any sense. What does this movie have that proper movies don't?
The only things I can think of are 'the rendered graphics were cool for their time' and 'Jon Williams score'.
Sure, there's Jeff Goldblum, but he's always Jeff Goldblum. The guy from 'Memoirs of an Invisible Man' isn't really that charismatic, the kids are nothing but annoying, the female I barely remember, the technology is basically idiotic.
Newman isn't all that funny in this movie, and the 'story', such as it is, consists of 'trying to escape'. Yeah, we've never seen THAT before.
So basically the whole thing is just an island where ancient monsters were revived so innocent animals are murdered for them (or worse, offered for them to murder), then people visit that island and the 'containment' fails. Then it rains and it's a crappy 'B-horror' movie for awhile, some people die.
I don't get the appeal - nothing about it makes sense from the electric fence stuff to the dinosaurs themselves to idiotic things like car chasing people DOWN A TREE...
I just look at what's left after I remove - besides the two 'cool' things - all the idiotic or gimmicky parts, or things I have seen in better movies, the boring things, and of course things that do not make sense, and my hand is pretty much empty. All that's left are a couple of 'fun-ish' Newman scenes, some Jeff Goldblum sermons, a couple of 'dinosaur pr0n'-scenes, and some fancy helicopter flying.
What exactly makes this some kind of movie anyone would want to watch?
It's all contained in one tiny island, which is always boring (I want my movies to have more expansive things, like galactic exploration, but all I get is some monster chasing people in a tiny place).
Nothing basically happens beyond 'ooh, scary monsters are loose, whoa, now they ate people' and 'let's drive very slowly so a dinosaur can keep up'.
I mean, if a Tyrannosaurus Rex can't easily crush a couple of human kids just because of some plexi glass, there's something wrong.
When I saw this movie the first time, I thought it was a joke movie, some kind of 'clown thing' that someone just made because they had some spare time and newly-achieved level of rendered graphics they could incorporate into a movie. As 'cool' as that looked back in the day, pretty much everything this movie tells/shows us about dinosaurs is wrong anyway, and 'cool graphics' do not make a good movie.
I was gobsmacked to hear that people actually... LIKE..?!? ... this movie. THIS movie? Really? Seriously? A movie I couldn't even believe anyone made seriously? A JOKE MOVIE?
It brings my braincells close to brink of suicide hearing someone thinks this is the BEST movie ever made (I can't even believe this can be true even in theory, I just can't bring myself to thinking that low of even this planet's populace) almost as much as when someone even considers 'T2' to be a passable as a turd with a manufacturing fault that makes it smell worse than normal, let alone a better than mediocre movie.
Is it that computer graphics somehow mesmerize people into thinking they must like a movie? I mean, look at Avatar movies - are they objectively GOOD MOVIES?
This planet and its people make no sense.. but I would at least like to understand WHY anyone would think this is not only a 'good movie', but 'the best movie ever made', when all I see is awful nonsense coupled with good music and some cool-looking renders.
What am I missing? I mean, when considering what it could be that makes people like this... I keep thinking about this movie but all I remember are idiotic scenes that make no sense.