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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of darren.naish@port.ac.ukJPIII... yet another spoiler post.
>Spoiler below, rates 7 on the Holtz scale
7 out of... (What is my scale, and is it linear or logrithmic?)
>Basically, I'd say that JPIII was to JP what Jaws 3-D was to Jaws: in other words, one of the worse movies ever>made in the history of cinema (IMHO).I don't know: I paid money to see Battle Beyond the Stars and Beastmaster, and neither of them were as good (!?!) as JPIII.>I already knew what to expect within the first few minutes: kid and adult are paragliding in the vicinity of Isla>Sorna.... hmm, what could *possibly* happen in the rest of the film?And here's a question: what got the guys in the boat? Maybe the _T. rex_ from JPII was hiding in their cooler or something...
>Finally, I wonder if the very end (escaping pterosaurs) was based on the ending of JP? The latter shows a bunch of
>Brown pelicans flying across the sea as Grant and co depart in a helicopter. Believe it or not, very few viewers [at>least here in the UK] actually knew that these were pelicans and thought that they were pterosaurs (!), thus the>ending made no sense to manyOver here as well, sad to say...>(I take it that the ending was a reference to dinosaurs 'flying on into the future',>despite the failure of things at Jurassic Park).That was my take on it, too.
>The next event in my cinema calendar is Planet of the Apes. Let's all pray that Tim Burton doesn't let us down and
>that, even in the 21st century, good movies can still be made.
I'm pinning my hopes in a flick that comes out in December.
Namarie'!
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