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A nice little poke at the Jurassic Park franchise at start of the trailer
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
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warhead01 wrote: I am very much looking forward to another MEG movie! I'll take a dozen.
Well, there’s eight books in the series so will you settle for a half dozen ?
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
StraightSilver wrote: I don't really care what the movie is like, that's one hell of a trailer!!
Will definitely give this a go, I enjoyed the first half of the first movie, felt it lost it's way a little towards the end but still a fun watch.
It's Stathem (sp?) Vs a crazy-giant shark in a B action monster movie. That's.... it. I feel that if your watching this type of movie & then critiquing the plot? Then your watching the wrong movie.
Ghaz wrote: A nice little poke at the Jurassic Park franchise at start of the trailer
I believe that's actually how the first novel opens (and yes, the novel came out around the time the first JP was getting big, so it is a poke, just not a trailer/movie-exclusive poke)
I liked the first one, looking forward to seeing more creatures (not just megs) and seeing some actual kills if it can get an appropriate rating.
Hopefully one of the cast won't mysteriously disappear for a year this time
You can get an idea of what kind of creatures might show up by browsing the MEG Book Series Wiki, because everything has a Wiki nowadays
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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
So it wasn’t, like, terrible as far as creature movies go, but it was definitely trying too hard. Instead of one Meg we’ve got Three! Also a horde of killer amphibious lizard things! Oh, and a giant Octopus for good measure! They All converge on the same island 70km from where they escaped their biome!
AduroT wrote: So it wasn’t, like, terrible as far as creature movies go, but it was definitely trying too hard. Instead of one Meg we’ve got Three! Also a horde of killer amphibious lizard things! Oh, and a giant Octopus for good measure! They All converge on the same island 70km from where they escaped their biome!
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
warhead01 wrote: I am very much looking forward to another MEG movie! I'll take a dozen.
Well, there’s eight books in the series so will you settle for a half dozen ?
Eight?! Goddang, how do you drag this concept out that far!?
You don't. It's really a dead (sea) horse after the first one.
"Meg" is a rare franchise where the film is lot less dumb than the original novel it was based on....
AduroT wrote: So it wasn’t, like, terrible as far as creature movies go, but it was definitely trying too hard. Instead of one Meg we’ve got Three! Also a horde of killer amphibious lizard things! Oh, and a giant Octopus for good measure! They All converge on the same island 70km from where they escaped their biome!
Stathem vs a giant shark (again) + a giant squid + 2 more giant shares + a bunch of MG toting monks & some prehistoric lizard things. Not to mention the laws of physics.....
I felt it was bit worse than the first one. Character cast was bit weaker. It's unfortunate that Li Bingbing or Ruby Rose didn't return from the first film. Nice however that Sophia Cai did, it added some realism to their familial relationship that it was the same actor. Also, the bad guys were really, really boring and lazily written, and they didn't even have any interesting endings.
"Is this serious or not" dichotomy of the first movie was evident here too, but it was even more obvious now. First half of the movie felt lot like Deep Blue Sea. second half went into Sharknado territory.
Lizard thingies felt unnecessary and I would rather have had the book version. Oh well, maybe in the third one. Weird that in the first film they were at Marianas Trench, 11 kilometres, and now only 7500 metres??
Any way, it was not unenjoyable or anything, just bit too chaotic at the times, and too paint-by-numbers at other times.
This movie seemed to me to struggle in the beginning. I sat there, it didn't really get me hooked. Later the movie became some kind of weird three way buddy comedy.
The stand out character was DJ. Who learned to swim and fight in the time between the two movies and didn't suck. Easily my favorite character now.
The Uncle was too slap stick, like he wanted to be Jackie Chan or something, and that's not a bad asperation I guess I just didn't see that coming. But I enjoyed him getting thrown around and crashing into stuff.
One bit that sticks out was on Fun Island, the fatish, presumably American tourist the ladies roll their eyes at after he's a little vulgar. He turned around and saved those two ladies and then was I guess eaten by the giant squid.
I didn't care for the lizards but I think they were there just to keep everyone running around or as a weird hook for the little bit joke. If so that's one expensive joke. CGI has to cost a fair bit.
I wanted to like this movie because the first one was fun. This was at best ok. Yes, I'll still watch another one but I will have much lower expectations.
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