Usually when a franchise gets 5+ sequels at least one is pretty good, but none of the JP sequels have been.
Jurassic World Rebirth spoilers
And this latest one with ScarJo was particularly bad; they took the Star Wars 7-9 approach where they copy and paste scenes from the original movie and weave a slightly different story around them.
Meanwhile the few “new” things they added were thinly veiled shots at the audience “no one is interested in these creatures anymore so we have to invent hybrids”… and the hybrid they created was basically a Rancor from Star Wars.
(Also wtf does the title “rebirth” have anything to do with what happened in the movie? It’s all about collecting dino blood for Pharma research into human heart disease medication. Nothing is “reborn” at all.)
One of the prevailing themes of the original is that these animals are just living their life and they simply don’t belong here 65 million years in the future. They don’t like being kept in zoos, they can’t eat the flora, they’re simply out of place/time. Their violence towards humans is a side effect of their inability to fit in naturally. The T-Rex flips over the Jeep and then starts biting the tires. He doesn’t know what a Jeep is.
In the sequels, they simply want to eat people all the time. Like, I was high when I saw the 5th one, but I’m pretty sure dinosaurs will go out of their way to eat people even when they’re basically on fire. From what I’ve seen of the trailers from the new one, they will flip over a boat and wait for the people to fall out before trying to eat them. It would have made more sense if they said they accidentally fucked up their brains or something and made them ravenous.
Oh, sorry, that’s as long as you don’t hold your hands up. That makes you invisible for some reason.
Maybe the dinosaurs used the time machine from Timeline too frequently.