Jurassic World - Official Trailer has been added as a related post - related requested by Lilithia on that post.

Chris Pratt has some kind of trained raptor army???

that's... kinda cool actually

Think about it, they're advanced enough to genetically evolve a super dinosaur, why is it implausible they played god and made obedient raptors?

You mean Starlord has a trained raptor army?

I have been looking forward to this for a long time. Haters sit back. Just shhhhhhhhhh. Hush now. We know. We don't care. We rikey.

This is an old man '90s moment, i watched Jurassic Park around a dozen times in theaters. We used to go to the cheap theaters 5 years after release and JP would still be playing every weekend. This certainly won't be the same phenomenon but it sorta feels like it could be good.

A nice "could be good" is enough for me at the moment.

Btw, I know and play video games with the guy who drives the JP Jeep around Orange County, CA and a coworker of mine like still wears Jurassic Park shirts he's had since he was 12. So we have ourselves a little fan club.

Jurassic Park had fantastic effects and CGI, but the story was complete crap. This one looks much the same, except that the CGI is, well, rather run-of-the-mill at this point. I'll see it when I can do so for free.

Jurassic Park when it came out was simply: a phenomenon. I've never seen movie theaters packed for two weeks straight--no matter the time--for the same show. Everyone had seen the show over and over again. It was simply too amazing--it was the first show to PERFECTLY nail CGI--and it picked one of the best topics for CGI that you could... Who can ever forget the first time you saw and heard that T-Rex step out into the clearing and roar. It was mesmerizing (I do feel bad for those of you that hated it; there will always be haters, for any movie, or any book...but I think those of us that liked it all got the same sense of wonderment from that show...those scenes; which IS why we kept going back). It reminded me of the similar feeling you get from amusement park rides (pick your ride that fits what I'm describing).

The first time I saw that, I had to do a double take. Nothing, EVER, had been even remotely close to being that good. I mean nothing. Seeing the "gigantic" Brachiosaurus (as there have been sauropods found that, unlike the "brachi" @ 26m--length wise, is utterly dwarfed by ones like the Amphicoelias Fragillimus, that could be as long as 60m) was just amazing (this IS the movie that made CGI a reality for movies and mainstreamed it).

It helped that I saw the movie on a screen that was as big as an IMAX. One of those old-fashioned ones with a balcony and decorations. Torn down and replaced by a screen half it's size, but still fit just as many people (ah, what greed does to us)...

It was the T-Rex scene that left us awe struck and electrified--it truly felt like a dinosaur had come back to life...and yes, it was a bit terrifying. Add in the great music, well done sound (who can forget our *THX* openings), and something so well done that it basically was something new--the CGI--it was a hit that people saw so many times.

Jurassic Park did for CGI, what Star Wars did for extended special effects and the company(s) that created it. Both jump started a new generation of movies. Avatar tried to bring us into the 3D realm (which I DO like, and I would say it "worked" for as much as it possibly could...as I have a 3D HDTV and quite a collection of shows...but...), but 3D has too many issues left for it to "change" things *yet*. Sound is another place that can change things (along with many other aspects and ideas that deal with including or adding onto the sensory perception of a movie; maybe we just have to wait until we can connect almost directly neurally).

I hope this movie will be worth watching (I hope it can end up being much more than that), but it merely looks like a huge money grabbing scheme (plus Jurassic Park was at least based on a pretty good book; which BTW is worth reading even if you saw the movie). The fact that the new huge "T-Rex/Velociraptor" seems impervious to a 30mm machine gun makes me want to just...laugh; then add in the swarm of flying dinosaur people snatchers.

They created a new dino...so it's a T-Rex with freaking lasers on its head? Because that's the only excuse people can have to see this lame cash-in.

Not everything good needs to be remade!

Wish Wayne Knight were in it.