Jurassic Park db forum

I fear JPIV will be crushed under the competition no matter when it comes out so long as it's in the summer of 2005. In early summer, you have Star Wars: Episode III. Indiana Jones IV will be released on the July 4th weekend. It won't be a good box office summer for Universal I fear.

Which is sad; the new Star Wars trilogy has been REALLY disappointing so far, but it will probably dominate the box office.

I find a similar phenomenon with the JP trilogy. <br /><br />Everyone loved JP...<br />Most fans liked TLW, but non-fans loathed it...<br />Every JP fan in the Northern and Southern hemisphere combined ( ) absolutely hated JP///, but like-wise evryone else loved it.<br /><br />Alright, maybe not so similar, but I can't help bringing it up every chance I get...

Well not all of us HATED it.<br />I, for one, didn't think it was up to par, but that's a long way from hate.

I liked JP3, but as I've said elsewhere, it was purely a "thrill movie," and shouldn't really be included in the main storyline. I mean, all around, the animals acted more like movie monsters than actual dinosaurs, and the design changes to some were a little bit of an extreme departure from the rest of the series (maybe have the Raptors in JP4 keep the quills, but return to the "tiger stripes" from Lost World, and revert the Brachiosaurs and T.rex to their respective JP/LW colour schemes).

I dunno whether to consider Sam Neill's return a sign of hope for this movie or a sign of deterioration. Obviously we all like the character of Dr Alan Grant a lot, but I find it is taking a step too much by bring Neill to do another Jurassic Park feature. It is like the studios are becoming dependant on Alan Grant's character to continue the series, like the tabloids will say "the movie wasn't that great, but an upside was the return of Sam Neill's character to the flick". This is clearly an image of weakness that they have to rely on a character and actor to return to make a movie about dinosaurs succeed. In my opinion, as much as I like Grant and Neill, I think it could be leading to the end of the series.

[quote author=The Raptor link=board=9;threadid=2075;start=0#msg30968 date=1057944634]<br />HEY AND DON'T FORGET! Spider-man 2 will be coming out in 2005 as well. Well that's the movie year for me, but right now i want to go see the league of extrodenary gentlemen<br /><hr></blockquote><br /><br />Dude, sPidey 2's coming out in 2004! And I recommend you wait for LXG to come on on video. :-

[quote author=RaptorAlien link=board=9;threadid=2075;start=15#msg31311 date=1058072219]<br />I find a similar phenomenon with the JP trilogy. <br /><br />Everyone loved JP...<br />Most fans liked TLW, but non-fans loathed it...<br />Every JP fan in the Northern and Southern hemisphere combined ( ) absolutely hated JP///, but like-wise evryone else loved it.<br /><br />Alright, maybe not so similar, but I can't help bringing it up every chance I get... <br /><hr></blockquote><br /><br />Don't pin your prejudiced opinions on us. I've been a Fan since the original JP, and I loathed TLW and liked JP///.

JP4 is gonna be released 2003 december maybe

[quote author=JP Tyrannosaurus link=board=9;threadid=2075;start=15#msg33080 date=1058915518]<br />JP4 is gonna be released 2003 december maybe<br /><hr></blockquote><br /><br />If that were the case, it would get brutally raped by Matrix Revolutions &amp; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in the box office (which, call me a heretic, but I consider those to be superior trilogies overall).