How did Jurassic
world become such a success
Jurassic
World completely stole the show for a number of weeks in the box office. It was
monstrous throughout its first month. In this discussion i shall go through the
possible reasons on how it became such success.
Considering
what it had to top with the first movie, Jurassic Park, it did extremely well
in most people’s opinions. The second and third Jurassic Park films paled in
comparison to the first leaving Jurassic fans disappointed in what that got.
Jurassic world changed all that and left Jurassic fans pleased with what they
got. After 14 years since we last had a Jurassic park film and 18 years since
we had the genius Steven Spielberg directing, fans of the films were excited to
see how much 22 years could do to the islands of the coast of Costa Rica. This
film was set 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park, which is a long time
and if people watched Jurassic world as a kid, they would now be fully grown adults,
with the possibility of children with them, that being said, it is fair to say
that those children that watched Jurassic Park 22 years ago would like to see
the next chapter in the saga and it is likely that their children would also
like to see this film because not many kids don’t like to see dinosaurs.
If we move
away from the film for a minute and discuss how perfect the timing of this film
was, that could have played a huge factor in the films success. It was released
in the early summer months before films we all knew were going to be a massive
blockbuster and it was timed with school holidays in mind so that more people
would have their chance to see it.
Jumping back
to the film, its success could be due to the change of characters rather than doing
what the other sequels overly-relied on, which was the characters. The other
sequels kept bringing back character we had already seen before and giving us
nothing much new but what Jurassic world did was bring in entirely new
characters with different backgrounds and professions.
Whilst on
the subject of characters, for these characters they have had to bring in new
talent to play them. New talent that includes Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard
etc, but they also used some not-so-new talent in Vincent D’Onofrio, Irrfan
Khan and even BD Wong, who returned from the first to bring in as an antagonist
and a slight hint towards a sequel.
We now live
in a movie world chocked full of sequels and relation to other media e.g comic
books, this gives directors and other members of the crew to put in nods to the
nostalgia and jurassic world is one of those films. It hints towards every
Jurassic Park film with slight things like Ian Malcolm’s book, Mr DNA and the
man that created it all John Hammond. Thankfully it doesn’t over-rely on these
little nods
My favourite film of
Summer 2015
I
have been to see many films this summer it is a little difficult to choose a
favourite, most were good, some were bad, but one i think topped them all. The
one that topped them has to be Ant-man.
I
liked Ant-man because i believe recent superhero movies have just been
spectacular, this one imparticular. Marvel were coming off the heels of another
great superhero film in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-man is not a very well
known character if you are someone who doesn’t read the comic books, so to a
lot of people this film doesn’t seem that appealing, i am a comic book reader
and i knew about Ant-man.
The
film uses comedy very well, unlike a lot of films recently, which helps lighten
the mood for what would otherwise be a dark tone for a 12A film.
Marvel
have changed their cinematic universe compared to their comic books because
Hank Pym is the creator of Ultron ,the antagonist in Avengers 2, but in
Avengers 2 Tony Stark and Bruce Banner created Ultron. However, in Ant-man Hank
Pym wasn’t even part of the Avengers, as it showed him being part of
S.H.I.E.L.D.
The
casting of Paul Rudd gave a split reaction to many superhero fans but I thought
it could be promising...it was a brilliant idea and went down great for me,
Michael Douglas did a great job as Hank Pym and Corey Stoll, the antagonist
Yellowjacket, perfected the character and the antagonist behaviour.
This
film wasn’t short of great action, it was explosive all the way through, had
many great sequences , my favourite being when Anthony mackie makes a cameo
appearance as Falson when Scott Lang, Ant-man, start to fight over a piece of
equipment Hank needs.
It
also wasn’t short of emotional parts, like when the ant that we form a bond
with ,”Antony” gets ,seemingly, killed by Yellowjacket. Other things like when
yellowjacket goes after Scott’s daughter.
The
film has great visual effects and CGI but also not too much of it. Visual
effects on the ants were absolutely stunning.
As
a custom for marvel films there were 2 post credits scenes which were fantastic
and clearly expand into the larger marvel universe. Stan Lee made a great cameo
as usual.
Ant-man
will clearly be part of the upcoming Captain America film, Civil War.
Obviously
Ant-man won’t compare well to big films like Avengers, Captain America or Iron
man but is still a great and enjoyable film to watch. It wasn’t unbelievably
good but was still a good family fun film.
Ant
man changes the tone from dark,gloomy and no humour for the very humorous tone
to bring Ant man into its own league. It was very funny, great action, great
characters, good but predictable plot and completely stunning visual and CGI
effects.Overall, a brilliant and must-see film for fans of the marvel cinematic
universe or just fans of good films.