Usually when a franchise gets 5+ sequels at least one is pretty good, but none of the JP sequels have been.
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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.)
Jurassic World was okay…Fallen Kingdom was awful and The one with fucking locusts was the biggest waste of returning talent in an IP that I have ever seen
Sam Neil is understandable because I think he knows he’s “the guy from Jurassic Park” and it was an easy paycheck, Jeff Goldblum, sure, because he knows he’s Jeff Goldblum and no one will ever really hate him, but it’s crazy to me that Laura Dern came back for that script. I hope the paycheck was worth it because… wow.
Which is wild, that he’s “the guy from JP”. I checked his filmography and he has been in at least one movie per year since 1984.
In The Mouth of Madness is the best of the ones I’ve seen. Also one of my fave John Carpenter films.
True. Check out Event Horizon if you’ve not seen it yet and like Mouth of Madness. It’s another Sam Neil-led horror movie and one of the best in the genre IMO.