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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.