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.)

  • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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”.

    • newram@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      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

      • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        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.