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.)
The first one is the only one I enjoy because it is a good movie.
I like The Lost World because I am a big fan of Goldblum’s sarcastic portrayal of Ian Malcolm. I like 1 scene from 3. Where Grant is dreaming and a raptor looks at him and says “Alan”. That shit was so stupid, it was perfect. It still blows my mind that made it into a movie with the kind of budget and financial expectations Jurassic Park 3 had.
The general premise of Jurassic World had promise. But they ruined it by making up a dinosaur hybrid and just letting it be a monster of the week abomination tear ass-ing through the park in broad day light. What the character of John Hammond did worked because the resulting monsters were based on something that was once real, and because his motivations seemed like something an actual human would try to do with enough hubris and money thinking he was doing something good for humankind. What they turned Dr. Woo and everyone into in Jurassic World was just a mix of incompetence and mustache twirling evil. Which isn’t funny unless its played for camp.
Never bothered with any of the others.
I was disappointed that they didn’t take the chance and do feathered dinosaurs where appropriate in World. Back when Jurrasic Park came out, dinosaurs evolving into birds wasn’t common knowledge and the average person saw them as huge, slow and dumb. The movie did a TON of work of bringing the then-current understanding of dinosaurs into the public consciousness. The new movies could have done the same, but decided to play it safe instead.
Such a missed opportunity! The designers could have gone nuts on feathered designs. And hell, they could still have the “classic” designs around, the movie even features some of the animals from the original island.
Second huge missed opportunity was that the second movie didn’t take place in the ruins of the original park so it could be called “Jurrasic World: The Lost Park”.
Right I really expected the latest movie to have way more feathers. But the story of it was just sooo bad and unmotivated. Lol “We want to study the proteins of a 100% synthetic species for which the entire genome is known. Let’s collect blood.” As if all of biotech simply does not exist. It makes very limited sense imho
Shout out to Jurassic Park 3 which, while terrible in its own way, at least added quills to some of the raptors. At first I thought it strange that only some of them got new design and some of them looked the same as in the first two movies but then it hit me - the ones with the quills were males, while the first two movies had only females!
So yeah, World has zero excuse when even JP3 got some proto-feathers in despite using the same dinos as the first one.