Movie Franchise Tournament - Round 1 - Jurassic Park vs Halloween

[Bjornebye]

 

 

[Mudface]

Is this Halloween or the Spaghetti Westerns?

[Bjornebye]

Halloween puts the shits up you for sure but Jurassic Park the first one is just outrageously good. They then flogged it quite a bit like most of the franchises but Jurassic World didn't end up that bad for what it was. 

 

Jurassic Park here. 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Mudface said:

Is this Halloween or the Spaghetti Westerns?

Dollars Trilogy is in the next tie, me being thick. 

[Mudface]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

Dollars Trilogy is in the next tie, me being thick. 

Cheers- Jurassic Park gets it then. Halloween became a bit of a joke after the first couple, like the Elm Street and Friday the 13th endless sequels.

[Scooby Dudek]

Not seen any Halloween films.

The first Jurassic park was brilliant, I remember I enjoyed it so much at the cinema that I went out the next day and bought the book.

 

I thought the rest were shit. 

 

Not going to vote in this one.

[Trumo]

Jurassic Park wins this one.

[Elite]

Not into Jurassic Park but it's better than Halloween.

[Bjornebye]

41 minutes ago, Scooby Dudek said:

Not seen any Halloween films.

The first Jurassic park was brilliant, I remember I enjoyed it so much at the cinema that I went out the next day and bought the book.

 

I thought the rest were shit. 

 

Not going to vote in this one.

The book is weird 

[Jack the Sipper]

As with most of these ties, I'm not big on any of the franchises done so far, so I've gone with the one that's produced the film I liked the most - in this case Halloween 3. 

[johnsusername]

Love Halloween but can't really remember the sequels or reboots. 3 was ok, but weird and nothing really to do with Michael Myers - was is repurposed or something?

 

I remember the impact Jurassic Park has at the time on popular culture. I'm still waiting for dinosaurs to be recreated.

 

I thought Jurassic Park 2 was ace - a real old fashioned monster movie. 3 was good and had the bird cage. 

 

The first Jurassic World was okay - although Bryce Dallas Howard was the main attraction.

[Code]

One is «horror» movies, the other one should obviously win. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

This is another of the ties where I've not seen enough to vote.

The first Jurassic Park is, of course, a masterpiece; but I've not seen any of the others.

The only Halloween I've seen is the third one; it's shite, but that may be true of the third in a lot of franchises.

[Red74]

Wtf is going on here with people only seeing Halloween 3? It’s the only one that has no relevance to the rest of the franchise.

 

Halloween 1 supreme moviemaking. Jurassic higher quality with the ongoing movies. 

[Mook]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

The book is weird 

I thought the book was much better than the film.

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, Mook said:

I thought the book was much better than the film.

Some of the characters took it all far too much in their stride. For me it's one of the rare occasions when the film is better than the book. Maybe if I'd read the book first I might have a different opinion but I doubt it. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Myers > terrible green screen CGI

[JohnnyH]

Not a massive horror film fan, but the 1st Halloween scared the bejazus out of me. The Jurassic Park films are great though. I loved the first 3, and am really enjoying the new incarnation too. So easy vote for me.  

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Red74 said:

Halloween 3? It’s the only one that has no relevance to the rest of the franchise.

I'm relieved to hear that, because it is truly fucking awful. 

[JohnnyH]

40 minutes ago, Mook said:

I thought the book was much better than the film.

Me too. Must have been 25 years since I read it, yet the scene in the book of the velociraptor chase to the power boxes to re-boot the park still sticks with me. I couldn’t get over how amazing the writing was to have me on the edge of my seat petrified solely through the amazing narrative. 

[Jack the Sipper]

1 hour ago, Red74 said:

Wtf is going on here with people only seeing Halloween 3? It’s the only one that has no relevance to the rest of the franchise.

 

Halloween 1 supreme moviemaking. Jurassic higher quality with the ongoing movies. 

I saw the first one many years ago. I'm just not a fan of the slasher subgenre, even if Halloween is a great example of the type. Maybe I'll rewatch it again at some point.

[SasaS]

Halloween is a masterpiece, probably Carpenter's best film, even better than The Assault on Precinct 13. I have not seen others, I don't care for horrors too much. Not much of a franchise, just some sequels to a seminal film that reinvented the genre in the '70s.

 

Jurassic Park was very entertaining but each sequel was, similarly, just trying to squeeze a little bit more money (quite a lot of money in fact) out of the original concept (oh, there was actually another island). 

 

 

[Red74]

1 hour ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

I'm relieved to hear that, because it is truly fucking awful. 

Atrocious movie. Someone at Warner Bros must have realised they had a terrible movie on their hands and slapped a Halloween sticker on it to get a couple of quid back. 
 

Song on the adverts was a banger though....

 

 

[Juniper]

Not much of a fan of the Jurassic World films but the original Jurassic Park was unreal, the sequels were ok too so that gets my vote.
 

Watched Halloween ....on Halloween and it’s still a decent film. The second one is good also. The latest one wasn’t too bad but all the others are pants. 

[Baltar]

Halloween 1 was excellent but they just got boring after that one, just the same old story rehashed over and over. Jurassic Park was a masterpiece and the sequels have been entertaining, if not as good as the original.