Yes, I'm just an ordinary post-80s audience

Cristina 2022-04-23 07:01:25

When "Jumanji" was released, I still can't forget the feeling of watching this movie in the movie theater. This is one of the only childhood memories I can still clearly recall. So before this Battle of the Jungle was released, I was already looking forward to it. Of course, I was also a little worried. After all, there are not many examples of the success of the sequel.
When the movie ended, I felt relieved. That's right, I don't have high requirements for movies like some great gods. I need magnificent momentum and scenery, shocking special effects, and brain-burning suspense, etc. It seems that only in this way can I prove my high taste. I'm just an ordinary audience, and the requirements for the film are only its purest and most basic function, entertainment. If there must be any meaning and connotation, I think this movie is actually very suitable.
The film's inheritance and adaptation of the first film can be said to be just right, promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses, keeping up with the times, and highlighting a theme, "growth". At that time, I saw this film and was deeply touched. They were all people in the same age group as the pilots in the film. When we grow up, the film will also grow.
1. The game has been transformed from traditional physical chess into a game console. Although the model is a little old, it is to match the role of the pilot. After all, it was impossible for a PS4 to appear in 1996. And as a movie fan and game fan, I think this movie's fusion of RPG games and the movie itself is successful and has a sense of substitution.
2. The sequel has made appropriate changes to the younger age of the previous work. Some people actually criticized this. If you thought the first one was good at the time, now you think this one should be the same as the first one or even younger. It means you haven't grown up. I feel that this change not only caters to the current standard of commercial films, but also suits the appetite of most nostalgic audiences.
3. The characters in the movie continue the setting in the first film, that is, in reality, there are some children or teenagers with problems, they have all kinds of problems, such as nerds, do not like sports, problem children, etc. . These problem children entered the game together. Through mutual cooperation, friendship and mutual trust were established. This is growth.
In addition, there are some details, I will not spoil it. As I said earlier, my requirements for watching movies are actually very simple. If you don't like it, don't look at it. I came back and paid to watch it twice on the video site. The barrage is full of people like this, scolding the street and scolding the whole movie. It’s really hard for you. Guo Degang said it well, in the final analysis it is two words, "successful"!
Of course, I don't have the right to ask others to like this movie as much as I do, I'm just making a suggestion. Just be happy.

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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle quotes

  • Ruby Roundhouse: [whispering to herself] You are the badass.

  • Bethany: [Having returned from Jumanji] I will never complain about my body ever again. Oh, thank God.

    [to her navel]

    Bethany: Oh, I missed you.