Jurassic World Dominion is a Trainwreck
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2022
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Jurassic World Dominion brings back the cast of 1993's Jurassic Park, in true legacy sequel fashion, but to what end? I talk about what doesn't work in Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard's latest.
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Honestly, I came out of Dominion both sad and, probably the most wild take, came out appreciating what 'The Rise of Skywalker' did a lot more. At least that movie committed to its story
To quote jeff Goldblum “not a fan”
The first Jurassic World was nostalgic fun but I don't like its' sequels that much. I would prefer to watch JP3 as opposed to Fallen Kingdom or Dominion tbh . Really Jurassic Park probably shouldn't have been a 6 film franchise . They probably should have stopped at The Lost World tbh.
@@RiderNexus Dominion is The Rise of Skywalker of the Jurassic film franchise.
@@TheSt1092 The books actually only consist of Jurassic Park and The Lost World. After that, it was all studio writing so that explains that.
I liked JP1 and JW1 only. JP1 is a classic of course. JW1 didn't take itself seriously and had some fun with itself. Can't say the same about its sequels though
How Ian Malcolm was so right in the first film we didn’t even realize it at the time. He saw this coming. “You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox selling it and now”
They don’t write characters like that anymore, unfortunately.
Cool Cucumber comments like these are on every video related to any JP sequel haha, this is not a new take
It's how I've always thought of the JW Trilogy and why I'm not a fan.
brilliant comment
back when we cared about the characters.
I love when the main king dinosaur came at the main cast, cornered them and yelled, "I am Jurassic Park", made me cry.
Lmao
I especially liked when the T-Rex comes out and says "And I am all the Jurassic Worlds"
And then all the hero dinosaurs show up all at once and attack main king dinosaur
It's Jurassin' time
It made me morb monstrously
It’s like seeing an old friend and realizing you have nothing in common anymore 😞
Bruh, you just hit me in the gut with that comment. 😫
I need a hug now.
So true, it hurts.
basically every new media in a nutshell
Ouch, too true
So so true
I was genuinely praying at least one dinosaur would bite Chris’s hand every time he did the thing
"Woah, woah, easy.."
@@Toroportd “HEY EYES ON ME” Kms
it was somewhat believable when it was dinosaurs he trained but this mf was doing it to every dinosaur he came in contact with and they LISTENED
I have wanted that to happen this whole time. It's so ridiculous. In a way it sums up this whole franchise, though. Huge, vicious prehistoric predators? Don't worry, we got Chris Pratt's Dino Shushin' Hand TM!
@@Hawkmoon1981 omg. You said it in a way I've never been able to. What a rediculous thing. When those two larger dinosaurs are coming out of the cages? And he just like, palms them?
As Malcolm would say "that is one giant pile of shit"
One thing that disappointed me was that the movie felt too... safe. None of the protagonists were ever in any real danger of being eaten by dinosaurs. The only ones who were killed off were the villainous characters/henchmen. In the original trilogy, a few of the heroes did die and that actually keeps the audience on edge, because you don't know who will be killed off next. Even in Jurassic World, you had characters like Simon Masrani and Zara, who were neutral characters, and they were killed off. Fallen Kingdom and Dominion played it way too safe and you knew that all of the heroes would survive.
So true! Trevorrow even insisted that he wouldn’t kill off the T-rex, which honestly could have added weight, but no.
...which automatically erases any sense of thrill
@@srayj tbh, I'd rather them kill off anyone but Rexy.
I thought at least one of the main characters should have got eatten.
jurassic park was gentech-horror, jurassic world is action thriller at best. two different genres
When I sit down to watch a Jurassic Park sequel, giant locusts are exactly what I'm looking for.
That wasn't a cool little jab. Trust me
They definitely added to the cool factor. Maybe we'll get a spinoff if we're lucky. I used to love giant insect movies back in the day. "Empire of the Ants. Tarantula!!!! Honey I shrunk the Kids. Good stuff!!
Somebody didn't pay attention to the story.....the purpose of the locusts ties in perfectly with the plot line of the entire series starting from the original
@@dradra2day It was, stop raging.
@@dradra2day - Yes it was . Pretty good one actually. Not sure what your on about here.
I would actually go as far as to say the film LIED to us. The trailers and promo material made us think Dinosaurs were wreaking havoc on the environment and were causing an ecological imbalance so severe that life as we knew it was at risk. But instead, it was the EXACT same "Our protagonists are trapped in a remote area with Dinosaurs and they have to make it to safety" plotline for the *sixth* movie in a row. Not only that, the film was so thematically drunk that it decided to instead be a Fast and Furious film with a kidnapping plot rather than have anything to do with Jurassic Park!
Yeah! I was like finally we're gonna get to see what this trilogy always promised which was dinosaurs in the WORLD but yet again we ended up in another park
And they built up a lot of dinosaurs in the trailer to seem like they would be important but just had a clip or two. Pyroraptor, atrociraptor... they had no importance. Even Giganotosaurus seemed pointless to me and just there to stomp on Tyrannosaurus. It was such a background Dino in this movie.
Haha, yeah, but it worked for me. I’m a shameless Daniel Craig Bind fan, so the chase through the city in trucks and motor cycles filled my bucket. I could see around the flaws. There were just too many dinosaur fights for no good reason though. I’ll give you that.
@@cindland Like I seen the carno and allosaurus and was looking so forward to at least 8 mins of footage causing trouble. Lol, all we got was a drive by with them in the background.
Bad movies do this all the time and I'm tired of it. They give me a plot that I didn't want to see, and they relegate the plot I really wanted to see in some 1-minute montage or exposition. The new Terminator, Predator, and Men in Black sequels all did this. For example in Terminator I really wanted to see how John Connor rose to power after Judgement Day but they didn't do that. Instead they just re-used the story of Terminator 1 and replaced John Connor with a girl. It's literally the same movie with minor tweaks.
Remember, when being attacked by a dinosaur just hold up your hand and they will magically stop. Works every time.
next time im getting mugged ill just tell the assailant "swiper no swiping" thank you for this advice
It’s incredibly how you can make a Dinosaur move that makes the dinosaurs superfluous to the plot.
Exactly right.
It's kind of impressive
Its obvious hollywood is not trying to make a jurrasic movie.. they marketed the old cast to bring in the 90s kids and them bring in their kids to get indoctrinated about “food crisis” “global pests” “human cloning” to normalize it.. and get it into our heads so when it starts happening in real life we are a conditioned.. just like they did with “terrorists” and terrorism in the 80s and 90s.. and war movies to promote the military industrial complex in the 90s, and with pandemic movies in the 2000s and 2010s..
Yeah, or even a movie
That's what happened to the walking dead, somehow a zombie show became a show solely about human drama with zombies in the background.
It just seems completely bat shit insane:
You have a movie where dinosaurs are roaming the world. How is that not 90% of the plot? Why are there clones and giant locusts? Why hire Chris Pratt for their role and give him absolutely nothing funny to do?
It genuinely feels like they made a list of what to do, and decided to NOT do it.
I haven't been closely following the series due to lack of interest after the third movie but in the original JP, the dinosaurs could only eat food that was genetically modified just for them. So if they did escape without the right food source they would starve. Has that same genome been eliminated or did another company introduce the same modifications into human food sources?
@@Midala87 I don't remember that. They were all female, but they used frog DNA that can change genders though. Malcom has a line where he says, "nature will find a way," alluding to the dinos surviving.
@@Midala87 oh, I found it. They don't produce enough Lysine and need it for a supplement. It's explained by them eating Lysine rich food and Sorkin putting Lysine in their water supply on the Island. /shrug
No one dies so no emotion
There's only so many times you can watch Chris Pratt hold his hand up to stop a velociraptor before it begins to get old lol.
like the second time he did it 2 movies ago ?
a bit like Eleven in Stranger Things, defeating everything by holding her arm out
Forget about a velocirraptor he knows, being an animal handler
The moron teenager doing it to dinosaurs 10 times bigger than a raptor.
Its just idiotic in this movie. They did it tastefully in the first.
He only did it like 4 times. What’s your issue.
There was literally ZERO reason for the locust and cloning plots. This movie had the easiest job to do - dinosaurs and humans in the real world. That's literally the whole plot, all they had to do was expand upon the initial montage with Claire helping save the dinos, trying to figure out the humanity with seeing dinosaurs as living, breathing animals, etc.
Facts!
Not only that. They could've had a villain that was fed up with the dinosaurs roaming around and becomes hellbent on killing all the dinosaurs. In the process, they could've gone after Blue, which would also be personal to Owen because of their bond so it could've been about him trying to protect Blue from this band of dinosaur killers. That would've been interesting and it would've made perfect sense.
@@jeremiahbooth423 that actually makes perfect sense
@@jeremiahbooth423 bro.
Deadass came up with a better plot for this crappy movie
@@jeremiahbooth423 Random commenter comes up with a better story than Hollywood writers that get paid tons of money.
The Studio: _"Dodgson, Dodgson, we've got Dodgson here!"_
The Fanbase: _"See? Nobody cares. Nice hat..."_
"What are you trying to look like, a secret agent?" Man, that didn't age well
woulda been better if they had Blue wearing that hat pulling all the strings.
@@markmac2206 Blue was the big baddy all this time. And her accomplice was the "Alan" raptor from JP3
WAIT THAT WAS THE SAME GUY???
That literally means so little to the plot of the movie that I had no idea that was supposed to be the same character wtf
@@bigmanchili827 yeah, same guy. Nedry was contacted by Dodson in the first movie I believe, and it is primarily their faults why things went super wrong in Jurassic Park in the first place. I believe Dodson had a much bigger role, being the Biosin guy and everything, but I think his part was taken out of the next two movies following after, so... We never saw him again. This guy's really only important to the first and now last movie, and whatever background plot was involving Biosin itself. Which is unfortunate... But, movies change. There's the book canon, then the movie canon. They're both canon/adjacent, but they diverge and have their own plots. Kind of.
I suppose it is a bit disappointing they didn't make everything work together... I commend them for trying, though. At least, somewhat. I did enjoy Dominion a lot.
My mind always goes to the little girl and how she didn't apologize for all the repercussions her stupidity caused.
Infact No-one in the movie even acknowledged that even happened.
Society doesn’t hold women accountable
@@CC-oy8ii dumbest comment ever
@@CC-oy8ii bro its a kid no need to be in incel
@@r9kv753 lol
@@CC-oy8ii Amber heard would like to chat.
The entire audience at my theater burst into tears and applause when after the final dino battle, Chris Pratt looked at the camera and said "This really is a Jurrasic World Dominion"
My cinema said it was rubbish and 99% hated it
LMAO
And then they all came
And it really was morbin time
@@afriendofepicproportions 😆
One of the things that really annoyed me besides the obvious stupid plot points, was how underused Dodgson was? If you think about it, in the movie’s lore Dodgson was inadvertently the cause of Jurassic Park’s failure, if he hadn’t been working with Nedry. It would have been really cool to explore that with some kind of revelation about him to Sattler, Grant and Malcolm. That everything they went through in Jurassic Park was essentially because of Nedry stealing the embryos for Dodgson’s company, which failed? Idk, I’m reading too much into it I guess but I thought if you’re going to bring back a character like that, why not use him to your advantage and really delve into the lore of the original movie instead of making up some stupid plot about that woman character they made up on the spot who apparently “was there the whole time”. Man such a waste of potential in every way. I adore this franchise and was really hoping it would be a proper send off but it really really wasn’t.
Hey, aren't you the same actress who voiced Mommy Long Legs in Poppy Playtime Chapter 2?
The dinosaurs 🦖 we're already breeding and reproducing regardless of Dodson or Nedry. And, they had dozens of problems on the initial run before Nedry did his thing.
Jurassic Park was a bust with or without Nedry's betrayal.
That would have been SO good
Yeah what the commenters above me said. He wasn't really the reason the park failed but it would have been nice to have a one on one with Ian and Dodgson where Dodgson talks about how he failed back then and then failed again now and in a fit of rage maybe he could try to kill one of the main characters and then Ian could hit him with some chaos theory about how he could never control something with so much uncertainty.
I cried when the cast was about to be killed but the T-Rex appeared and said “it’s Jurassic time” 😭😭😭
Well, I can honestly say thank God they didn't kill off Dr Grant, Dr Malcolm and Dr Sattler.
@@dereklopez9060 it's morbin time
@@eddiew2325 ( Power Rangers theme )
This is called theft.
T-Rex always wins, no matter whom it fights.
They set up this movie to focus on the dinosaurs... Who ended up playing second fiddle to some locusts and a little girl.
Freaking exactly. The movie should have never been made.
For the final Jurassic film this is a big let down.
It's called a movie plot! Look up the meaning!
they're all connected to nature and life. I can't blame you. every film and artwork relies on perspective.
@@butchsprout5725 World trilogy ends with a whimper...
@@Casanovamorris its called a crappy movie plot
I really wanted to see the kids of the first one : due to their trauma, are they completely against the dinos? Or do the good memories outweigh the bad? Maybe the older one remembers more of the bad when the younger just kept the good, driving a wedge between them and the plot has them make peace? Are they having nightmares, tried to get entirely away from the creatures, or on the contrary, maybe worked at the new park, to "get it right this time"?
Some real consequences, some real exploration of what it means to grow up with finis?
There's always something to learn in this movies though. Take, for example, the Atrociraptor. Well, the film illustrates one of its peculiarities: it is a predator that is able to adapt its running speed to that of its prey, but not to reach it, but to make it feel its breath on the neck. Thus, as we have seen, when the human flees on foot, the atrociraptor follows him relentlessly, making him believe he can reach him at any moment; when the human gets on a motorcycle, the atrociraptor, wickedly, increases its speed of pursuit, always with the aim of terrorizing its prey. It goes without saying that the Acrociraptor, precisely because of this curious feature, did not have to wait for the arrival of an asteroid to become extinct ...
Yeah, and then there´s the "Giganotosaurus"...
Lmao 😭
Mind boggling how they had an interesting plot right on their plate - dinosaurs running rampant in the modern world - and they still came up with the most boring story possible. Who cares about locusts? Who cares about that clone girl? You have so many interesting twists you could have taken with dinosaurs running amoke, and still chose the lamest route. Makes me think that we've come to a point where we really don't appreciate good writers, because any script writer with two brain cells to rub together could have done something better. Again, you have goddamn dinosaurs, why would you make the movie about anything but that? I'm so confused. It just makes zero sense.
Producer - guys, we have a movie about dinousaurs, give me a plot
writer 1 - genetically modified locus and supply chain.
writer2 - kidnapping
This. Honestly, how can you fuck up a dinosaur movie? You literally just have to put a T-Rex chasing a human on loop for two hours and people will watch.
I basically lost two years of my life watching that PS1 T-Rex screen saver animation ...
What sucks is most people seem to be fine with this. again box office numbers dont lie lol. I just wish people had higher standards idk a lot of people are just happy to see dino go rarrrrrr i guess
@@disfigured1595 tbf how r people supposed to know its about locusts and shit before seeing it without spoilers?
@@eliw7369 fair point honestly was mainly talking about how people veiw the movie after. my friend for example. Though tying that to box of office numbers is a bad argument per your point.
Kind of sad that this happened, the franchise seems to have a kind of split personality these days in terms of what the point of it is. Like it acknowledges that the science is blindly ambitious and the commercialization is blindly greedy, nature is ultimately beyond our control and trying to manipulate it into being a spectacle for people to revel in is both dangerous and futile. but on the other hand, hey. cool dinosaurs. enjoy the spectacle kids, dont worry only unimportant or bad characters are in actual danger
It probably would've been better off going in a similar direction to matrix 4.
I always found interesting how jurassic world was pretty "Meta" with his plot: people are getting bored of normal dinosaurs so they make a new bigger and scarier dinosaurs to attract more people and make money.
It's the kind of stuff that makes me feel the movie could have been much better with some minor changes.
@@francesco8000 Maybe it's just me but, I just want them simpler. No delirious main plot about some complex topic, or anything like that.
15 minutes of dinosaurs in a 2 hour film, yet that film still stuck with me. I was talking about Jurassic park ofc but it's honestly amazing how it seemed to balance it.
Idk man, maybe I'm just tired of these sequels
This franchise has one great movie.
@@marcgonzalez9690 kuY
I’m sure others have mentioned this: the worst part of the clone plotline was that she was somehow born with a British accent just because her host had an accent. Somehow despite not being raised by British parents, she developed the British accent on her own!
If I'm not mistaken, the nanny who raised her had a British accent. She even corrected her in the first film over the way the girl pronounced bath with an American accent.
I'm sorry I literally don't remember ANYTHING from these films. Honestly the only thing I remember is she pushed some button. I even forgot she was a clone.
@@TomCruz54321 Well then don’t talk shit
This is not the first time I read about Maisey inexplicably speaking in British english... How did people forget she was raised by a British nanny... "Queen's English, girl... you're not a wild Animal !" :
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@@alexb.e7498 yeah I said the same. I'm like she legit got onto her about how she said bath in American English.
I feel like 90% of shots I've seen from the "World" trilogy has just been people (usually Pratt) holding their hands up in a "whoa there" motion to dinos.
Why would that stop a dinosaur?
Writers: “Because… Well um… So you see… Plot and stuff… Plot armor and stuff… we need to keep Clone Girl, Alan Grant, and Chris Pratt alive for the next trilogy and uh… Well… Give us you’re money and Buy a Dino-Toy”
Yeah I keep saying that at least 30min of the movie was just people holding their hand up.
he does this no less than a dozen times in the movie
@@Ryan-oc4qn I really would have hoped that by the third movie they would take the chance to subvert expectations and just have a raptor bite his hand off.
so tru, i remember there used to be a clicker thingy that Bratt held in previous movies so he used that in his other hand, so the hand that holding up was just a nature pose. But now without the clicker it just make no sense lol
Honestly I’m still trying to piece together exactly how these films even got to this point and the only answer I can come up with is that everyone from the studio to writers to director all see these movies as the same: cheap popcorn movie schlock, nothing more than that
Isn’t that the whole thing about the Jurassic park and World Series as a whole 💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@bird3114 ya but with Lost World and even JP 3 you got the sense they at least tried to do something with the concept they were given, it feels like they just made the World Trilogy because brand recognition gets people into seats and they didn’t need any other reason than that
@@DarkKnightofAnime I agree with lost world but not really Jurassic park 3 like I prefer world and dominion over that but yeah honestly fallen kingdom was the worst, had the best dinosaurs but god damn we’re they underutilized
Is all about 🤑
Lost world and jp3 is easily better than the jw trilogy.
Man...this movie will drop at least 70% when people realize they've been a bait and switched. Came for dinosaurs ends being clones and locusts. Making dinosaurs boring takes skill not many writers who know how to read can master.
This movie honestly reminded me a lot of the Star Wars sequels; I enjoyed them in the theater, but hated them more and more as time passed.
It hit me towards the end of the movie "wait, this is the same fucking ending as Jurassic World 1!!", "wait... did I just watch a dinosaur movie about BUGS???".
yeah...WHY didn't they just build a BIG SHOE to get rid of the locusts? 🥾
The scene where the 2 raptors held down that elephant and screamed "this is jurassic country". 😳 blew my mind.
Then poured bleach on him
There talk now?
Is this a funny bit that people do now? Very funny. Good work.
Alan.
Oh another dumb meme comment
Something I've noticed in virtually EVERY movie that has come out in the last few years has been that there's some exposition dump a third of the way into the movie which has the main characters lay out a plan for what to do for the rest of the movie. And then it ALL HAPPENS. There's no plot twists that surprise me, no detours that take one subplot off on an unexpected tangent, no mystery, no uncertainty for the survival of some characters, none of that. When I saw this film yesterday, after the plot was properly established, I correctly predicted everything that would happen next and nothing surprised me or amazed me. Another example of this was with Dr. Strange 2; nothing was surprising beyond a few brief cameos from other film franchises and everything was explained and layed out before it ever happened. I look back to the original Jurassic Park film to juxtapose it and confirm if this is indeed a new phenomenon with films and I can say that it is. The original JP films DID lay out a plan and have exposition dumps, but those quickly got derailed as soon as the dinos escaped and/or the main characters got lost. These were adventures and fights for survival where the audience wouldn't know what was about to happen next. The same can be said for the Star Wars trilogys; the original trilogy was very adventurous and while the plot of the films weren't derailed as much and it wasn't a fight for survival as much as it was in JP, there was still twists and detours that some or all of the characters went through. Fast forward to the sequel trilogy and we have all the characters huddled together talking about shit that's about to happen rather than the film just throwing those things at the characters. There was a plan to escape or find something or get somewhere and it happens just as the setup says it will happen; no surprises, no revelations, no twists, etc. This takes away the sense of adventure that the original trilogy had because why the time something new happens, you've already had half the fucking characters explain that it is what is gonna happen. Back to Dominion, the whole story is spoon fed to us and when that happens, nothing feels like an adventure or fight for survival like it did in the JP trilogy. The last ~10 Marvel films, the last two Jurassic World films, Disney's Star Wars films, every DCEU film and unfortunately many more films to come are all doing this crap and I hate it. If I could sum it up in one sentence, it would be this: "action/adventure films are becoming more and more predictable and the writers are becoming more and more afraid to put plot twists into the stories."
The ONLY thing that I was partly surprised about and glad to see included was the return of the embryo can from the first film. I was glad that was cleared up and concluded rather than being an unfinished subplot from the first film. But after five seconds of thinking about it, I wondered what the hell was the purpose of the can being in this film in the first place if the dino DNA had escaped the island anyways due to the ending of Fallen Kingdom.
I feel about Jurassic World, kind of how I feel about the latest Star Wars trilogy.
Both trilogies are like a child stuck between two parents: nostalgia, future. They want to move forward, but are afraid of forgetting their past, and thus the trilogy rattles along like a rickety old car, whose owner doesn’t want to overhaul the engine.
It's not that they're afraid of forgetting the past they just don't have any creativity to move forward and create something new. The SW sequel trilogy literally leaves the galaxy as it was at the end of ROTJ where the Sith are eradicated, one fledgling Jedi is left to rebuild the order and the big bad Empire is overthrown. It added nothing to the overall story and nuked the lore with it's inconsistencies
Creatively Bankrupt Studios: “How do we reinvigorate these old franchises?”
Based Filmmakers: “Haha, Top Gun: Maverick, Mad Max: Fury Road and Blade Runner 2049 go brrrrrrrr.”
At least the Jurassic World movies tried to introduce new ideas though
Expect Jurassic World Dominion didn't kill off Dr Grant, Dr Malcolm and Dr Sattler.
Star Wars Sequel trilogy killed off Luke, Han and Leia one by one.
man, you just tried to explain one similie with another and 100 people still upvoted it
This movie was like a comedian explaining a bad joke.
I just loved how every character was oh so conveniently saved by the another in such a cliche way, and how predictable the outcome of every scene. My eyes are tired from rolling them.
Wow, a movie about dinosaurs is predictable. What are the odds? Funny thing is I knew what I was getting before I went in, that's why I went in.
@@TheMeefive oh so you only watch the predictable movies, and dpnt. like any twist or anything that breaks the rules? High bar for entertainment i see.
@@Endru85x Never said that. My favorite genre is sci-fi
@@TheMeefive i like Sci -fi too, what does it have to do with the topic? You know, a popcorn movie can still have something original between all the tropes used in it. I walked into Bay transfomers expecting a entertaining story about fighting robots from space.....and been disapointed cause there was too much shaky cam, cgi, and robots looked like overgrown kitchen appliances. Also, the humor, dialogues etc. were simply insulting, you could do much better things with source material.
@@Endru85x You asked if I liked twists. Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Planet of the Apes, Dark City, Thirteenth Floor, Fifth Element, Deja Vu, Book of Elijah(did not see that coming)
I still had a damn good time spotting dinosaurs that I never would've known the name of if I hadn't played Ark.
The best part was when rexy said " it's jurassin' time" then jurrassed all over those other peasent dinosaurs, whole theater clapped for two days and my life had never been more complete.
The biggest let-down of Dominion was that the ending seemed incredibly forced and lazy. Fallen Kingdom ended with the premise of dinosaurs being loose in the world, having a potentially interesting setup on how this would play out. Dominion went down the ‘evil corporation’ route and ended with everyone being like, “Oh well, we can’t do anything about these dinosaurs. We’re just going to have to learn to coexist with them, as will nature.”
The entire movie’s premise feels wasted, because it seems like nothing that happened in the movie made any difference. There was no ‘solution’. They spent so much time on nostalgia and forgot to write an interesting, cohesive plot, and it shows.
And when there was plot, it was extremely flawed. Spoiler warning if you care. I wasn't expecting some highly intelligent storyline, but when you consider the effort the Biosyn scientists went to to capture Maisie and Beta, you'd expect them to be somewhat decent at their job. Instead, not only do they put them both alone in an unsupervised room, they allow them to escape before actually doing anything. This particularly bothered me, because it's like the writers said, "The audience won't care. They just want to see CGI dinosaurs eating people." Which, incidentally, we saw a maximum of 5 times.
I wasn't expecting much, so when you take everything into account, it's a tolerable yet dumb movie. As a generic CGI action film, it's OK. As a Jurassic World movie, it doesn't do justice to the characters or storyline of the original concept. JW 1 was OK, a new take on a previously established idea. I can appreciate that. JW 2 and 3, I vote we discount them as canon, encase their screenwriters in liquid amber, and never speak of again.
It's even stupider when you realize that just existing with Dinos isn't something we can do. Beyond the fact they are invasive species that would wreck every ecosystem they get near, there/s also the obvious issue they shouldn't be able to survive much less thrive all over the world. The reason Hammond set up the park on an island is because it was a Tropical one, thus the environment would've been similar to the kind the Dinos were exposed to when they were still alive. Putting them into areas like Deserts, Cold Mountain Regions and other areas is just setting them up to die.
For that matter how exactly did Dinosaurs survive in places where there's snow, that doesn't make sense. Plus didn't the first movie also establish that Ingen cloned plant life from said prehistoric periods as otherwise the Herbivores wouldn't survive? Wasn't that why they brought Satler along, cause studying extinct plants was her job.
yeah i was expecting it to be like TLW. it was convenient how the dinos stayed out of populated areas and didnt destroy property in this one. they get loose at the parks and go on a rampage but in this one "nah, we'll just chill in the woods."
it's pretty stupid when you realise just how easy it would be to wipe them out again. fucking medieval peasants with pitchforks could take a dinosaur down nevermind the amount of firepower we have in the 21st century. there's enough guns and ammo in the US alone to extinct them ten times over.
@@thefanwithoutaface8105 i haven't seen dominion & don't plan on it, & idk if you're referring to just the animals in the original JP, but in real life, dinosaurs, yes, definitely did live in wintery environments. they covered basically the entire planet, they weren't just tropical inhabitants.
@@markmac2206 Ngl, that's pretty realistic. I dont think an animal not familiar with the world they're in, would willingly walk into a noisy, bright or even smelly, area
I just wanted to see dinosaurs wreaking havoc in modern day society since Jurassic Park gave me a taste of the destruction that these prehistoric monster's could dish out in a busy city. Also, did anyone else notice how the Jurassic World movies have toned down the realistic violence that was apart of Jurassic Park? I don't even remember seeing blood in Dominion.
In reality they probably wont do jack shit ngl. Theres also the question of them entering a noisy and an unfamiliar place like a city in the first place.
They're animals, not tiny kaijus
Dinosaurs aren’t monsters lol…Check out uncivilized elk-they have a good vid about how terrible the Dino’s are in World.
The Giganotosaurus got literally Zero kills in Dominion. Nothing. The villain dino didn't do a single meaningful thing to make it a villain
@@Aknight292 I have yet to watch it but, did the giga contributed anything other than the "big monster"?
@@isthatbraised no. It was talked about like some huge threat but all it did was break some stuff, fight the Rex, then die. Nothing else.
When I got out of the cinema I was disappointed. I love the jurassic park and world movies, I grow up with them. They really are my childhood. But this movie just... didn't satisfied me. I thought this would be a good finish for the saga, but it wasn't. The horror of the other movies didn't exist, no one of the main cast was in any danger. They got everything they needed to solve their problems very easy and the supporting cast, yeah it supported without any real reason why. And the antagonist did nothing to stop them (what seemed rational or realistic) when he found out, that he was betrayed by his employee he was just like "I guess that happend, but I am gonna ignore that. They can't stop me cause, how should they? ( people who survived a dinosaur outbreak several times) a dino man and some old people?". His "actions" didn't make any sense. The three important factors of jurassic (my opinion) dinosaurs obviously, science (gen stuff) and horror failed in this movie. Too many new dinosaurs, who didn't do anything than being there and looking awesome. The science stuff got boring, because we had better stuff (for example Indoraptor...) than some insects. And finally the horror just wasn't present, because nobody important died. Which was easy to see through, because they can't kill one of the main cast in the "last movie".The humor and jokes were great as always( Ian Malcom a great character) But there was something missing, that the other movies had...
In the original JP discussion between everyone at the lunch was such a intelligent scene and discussion that really grounded the film and allowed you to take it seriously. That scene would never have made it into a JP/JW nowadays. And thats the sad commentary.
I’m still trying to understand BD Wong’s character’s motivations through this trilogy. World set him up to be a sort of mad scientist in it for the money and glory, Fallen Kingdom doubled down on it and seemed ready to establish him as the main villain of Dominion, and in this film he’s Frankenstein minutes after he made his monster. All his work in the previous Jurassic movies was all leading up to big bugs??? Make it make sense for me.
Dominion wasn't JPs Endgame, just an adventure set in the world years later. The bugs have more to do with Biosyns genetic tampering. Works for me. Also the dinosaurs are more animal like which I enjoyed. Wish we got more of them though.
@@xDerekRx ehh animal like? Still very far on that topic ngl.
He was never supposed to be a villain in the first place
I honestly think he has a great arc. He goes from made scientist in JW, to mad scientist, but with morals in JWFK (remember he told them not to sell the indoraptor - “relax, we’ll make some more” “so will they!”). The saga, and trilogy, ends with him doing what no one has been able to do - use genetic power for *good*, to use it *responsibly*. He didn’t want to make the bugs, he simply wanted to create (same as the novel version) “if I don’t innovate, somebody else will”. Dodgson/Biosyn wanted the bugs, they let him create with their money.
I guess they just didn't want to be predictable and kill him off but yeah his shift in character is pretty jarring. Personally I think they should've made Wu go mad and make dino human hybrids to one up his competition since his big fear is that others would catch up on his work. But the specimens keep dying so that's why he needs Maisie and Beta (sure why not...more toys to sell) but during his incessant monologue one of the dinosaurs (maybe the raptors to pay homage to the books) kills him
"I've been a little harsh on blockbuster movies"
No no, keep going, it's warranted
Honestly the development of this film and what we do know of the behind-the-scenes aspects drives me to believe that this was another example of a director with interesting ideas getting crammed into a corporate formula that bland-ifies most movies nowadays. Directors/writers need to be able to take more risks and have some creative liberties. Without that freedom, we don't get Jurassic Park, Alien, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and so many other classic films/series.
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Malcolm waving that torch is like dangling a string in front of a cat's face. For a lot of people, this is good enough. Nostalgia is killing movies.
This would have been a good time for the dinosaur to eat Ian Malcom. Fact is I was rooting for it but of course it didn;t happen.
@@mikekinsella2822 Yeah they played way too safe
I thought the was the worst, cheesiest part of the trailer tbh.
You know your franchise is in trouble when an animated spinoff series made for younger viewers is the strongest thing it has going on
Camp Cretaceous is like the Clone Wars for the Jurassic World trilogy except more kid friendly.
Star Trek before "Strange New Worlds" looks around uncomfortably.
@@fulcrum6760 I don't know why people trash Camp C so much? It's actually pretty interesting
@@tropicaltrapfire0344 I think it is mainly because of season 4. The first 3 seasons is actually great. Season 4 felt like a let down and more of a set up towards season 5.
@@usaspy5941 true. I see your point. Season 3 was definitely the best season so far. Season 4 deviated from the trend we seemed to be going in but hopefully it leads to a better season
I’m glad you pointed out the Barasol Can of Embryos - that was a nitpick for me.
It was covered in mud and no one - not even The Guy whole stole , knew where it was and then Dodgson just has it?
Well it’s explained in Camp Cretaceous (I had to look up cause I wanted to know how he got it) - that he just happened to find it in Isla nublar - like he stubbed his toe and there it was- sort of contrivance.
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Shocking. Every trailer practically was screaming warnings that this would be lame.
8:24 Another JP story is from the Telltale game. It basically explains that another mercenary team was sent AFTER the cannister after "Neuman" failed to show up. It also explains the "Lyson" contingency in that a scientist, over the course of the story, essentially removes it from the Dinosaurs so they can live on their own outside of JP (As they explained in the first movie, they used that contingency to make sure all Dinos would die if they ever stopped getting suplements from the Park) honestly it's kind of bad move when Telltale can make a better story than the ones big production studios think of.
His name is Nedry. You misspelled Newman and you misspelled lysine.
*John Hammond will remember this.
lysine
I always viewed that game as a sequel film. And a great one. I watch playthroughs after I watch the first movie
I was thinking this the entire time. And while it’s great for the fans and the lore, if you have to do outside reading for a film plot to make sense it’s not well written by film standards.
It’s an actual shame because I really enjoyed the film.
For those wondering about how the can was found, it seems the animated show, Camp Cretaceous, (set in the JP/JW universe) is going to answer that when it comes out on Netflix in July... it was supposed to come out before Dominion (back in May) but apparently there would be spoilers for Dominion so they decided to delay the release until after the movie... this is probably also why there's a lot of things out of context and such.... so I'm interested to see where they go with that, also the can has been in the shows teaser's... also I'm pretty sure the Dominion director said Camp Cretaceous got the original ending for Dominion so keep that in mind
So to learn about why the plotholes aren't really plotholes you have to watch a secondary source that was intentionally released after the movie premiered, allowing them to retroactively (in terms of release) fix some of the issues present in the movie. That is bad writing regardless of the release schedule.
I was looking for this comment 😄
I personally think it's better to act like if Camp Cretaceous isn't canon, I prefer to believe that Jurassic Park The Game is totally canon.
Consistently one of the best movie review/analysis channels around. Always insightful and interesting. Thank you. I went to see the original movie five times in the theatre. I couldn’t care less now. Mostly because neither do they.
The best moment to come from this trilogy was the over the top and out of nowhere violent death of the babysitter from Jurassic World.
Still just as shocking today as it was then.
Honestly one of the dumbest moments in that movie.
THE LAST TIME A BABYSITTER GOT MUNCHED THAT BADLY BY A GIANT BEAST.. IT WAS ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGAR ON HIS NANNY IN HIS OWN BEDROOM.. CHRIS PRATT WANTS TO BE HIS FATHER IN LAW TOO.
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She got the most violent on-screen death in the entire World trilogy, even more so than the villain characters, and yet did nothing to deserve it.
I've always assumed the actress must have seriously pissed off someone behind the scenes to get that kind of treatment. She probably just pointed out the plot holes or said "isn't this just Jurassic Park? But instead of corporate espionage, Chris Pratts character is just borderline retarded and opened the dinosaurs enclosures instead of using the computer to check it's still in its cage?"
And that's when Colin Trevorrow and his writing partners decided she had to go early in filming so as to not question any of their stupid writing decisions.
@@Blacklodge_Willy you are wrong.
@@Blacklodge_Willy You are right, that sort of death should be reserved for villains.
I think my favorite scene is when the dinosaur looked to the camera and said, “it’s Jurassic time!” and then did a backflip, snapped a guys neck and saved the day.
Best comment ever lol 😆 🤣
That part was tight!
Wow wow wow.... Wow
Ok this is a joke but Blue basically did that in the last movie
I saw it in 4DX, it was like a ride and was very cool. The plot was like you said “ going in too many directions “
I laugh so hard when I think about that guy holding his hand up in front of dinosaurs to calm them down…absolutely hilarious, give me a break
The more and more we get into this new series, the less I “believe” it. The first movie had a great logic and level of immersion that makes you believe it, and the book was even better at that. But the idea that dinosaurs could rapidly evolve to any climate and biome they wanted and wouldn’t get wiped off the face of the earth the moment they became a threat to the 7.5 billion, tool-using, missile-slinging, homicidal primates that dominate the planet is absolutely laughable.
Ooh rah #Humanpride bitch ass dinos aint shit
Like seriously where was the Military in Jurassic park universe
"no, you don't understand: they are B I G, and some of them have skin that is MILDLY TOUGH! That makes them an unprecedented and insurmountable threat to humankind's existence!" /s
You opened with "simple and efficient" as a description of the first Jurassic Park. I think that if I made a list of all my favorite movies, they would all share that description, no matter the genre.
You know, this might be an odd time to bring this up, but I am very thankful for your content. Many of the other channels I have subscribed to are dedicated to one specific franchise, but you cover all the other bases all in one place.
The creators said this was supposed to be the last movie that wraps it all up, so uh, I think, and I know it’s not entirely unlikely that they will continue, but I think they are done and made this more as an art piece to finish it all up more than anything else.
There was a video game that takes place during the events of *Jurassic Park* that partially revolves around a group of mercenaries that were sent to retrieve the shaving cream can.
Can't really recall the exact events, or even if that game is still considered to be canon, but in the words of Ian Malcolm:
"There it is..."
Nope, not canon, they explain it in the final season of Camp Cretacious but... Uh... Watch at your own risk. While the first 2-3 season were decent to good, they didn't just go off the rails in Season 4, they stopped the cart, picked up the rails, shoved them into the cart, added at least 40 thruster rockets and shot that fucker into orbit where it exploded.
Went to shit REAL bad.
There was something so uncomfortable about watching the Sam Neil and Laura Dern characters from the original film start talking about the crazy dumb Locust plot. It felt like such a disconnect and shows how far the "World" series falls from the original.
I'm really having trouble to not think of Admiral Holdo when I see Dern..
@@Ricardo-cl3vs Yeah, after the face jobs she had she now reminds of Holdo, not Ellie Sattler anymore.
@@Narcan885
It's pretty obvious, isn't it?! 😂 🤣
It's called Side Plot, so you can see something else besides Teeth and Claws all the time
@@SmokeyMonke doesn’t excuse bad writing, or the fact that it didn’t seem right for them to be involved in that weak side plot at all.
Your favorite scene, the lumber camp, that's funny. That was immediately mine too. I thought no one would really latch onto that scene since it's so, non-action in an action film. But wow, it did it for me. But for one particular reason, one second....we're looking at the back of the dinosaur with the guy with the flare with the truck in the distance. And the dinosaur pauses its front left mid stride as it looks back. That moment .. It was perfect. It seemed so real, so grounded. So many questions were asked and unanswered with that hesitation of a homeless, lioved, gentle, confused dinosaur being led away with others. Amazing. Simply invested.
We are putting way more time & effort into a franchise than its own writers did. *I dont mean that as an insult to them* , *in fact shame on us* . The issue isnt just that it's bad, it's hollow. There is no reason to debate or critique or breakdown because there was no real intent. It's like if someone came to you today with a 10,000 word critique of a story you wrote in 5th grade.
That's so true. I don't even bother watching these movies for that reason. What's the point? I know it's going to be dirt
@@Jurassicparkatmospheres Even if it was dirt, people still went out to see the movie, plus the writers/studios that worked on the film would still get millions of dollars from it, even if the film is downright *terrible.*
One of the themes that for me made the original Jurassic Park interesting was how it put a group of scientists who while not the physically strongest, were mostly intellectually strong individuals who’d been studying and admiring these creatures to the point where they felt like they understood them beyond the average person in present time. So when faced with the reality of having to survive against them, it made it truly interesting to see how their human qualities would merge with their intellectualism and understanding of dinosaurs to survive. It's what made the character triumphs and deaths worth it, and it was constantly reinforced throughout the film that the dinosaurs would reign supreme over them.
This latest film wants to capture these elements, but it forgets that puzzle-like structure of what would make these JW characters worth watching for. Maybe with a different writer, I’d probably enjoy Owen’s character and angle more, but it falls flat for me, and the plots introduced in the story don’t seem to suit what his character would shine in doing anyway. They’re trying to pose these big questions, but they don’t have any real character vessel for you to forge an attachment to the concept. Maybe if they had changed that up, they would’ve been able to seamlessly utilize the dinosaurs more than having to use them as set pieces.
I agree with your take. I also think that they were so worried about everything being fast-paced, that they didn’t take time to develop the characters and give them nuance. Some of my favorite scenes in the original are actually the exposition scenes, like the lunch scene, Ellie’s scene with John and the ice cream, Ian with the water drop and Alan in the tree with the kids, because they don’t just give exposition, they humanize these people so that we understand them and their motivations. In the new series, Claire and Owen feel especially hollow. After 3 movies, I still don’t feel like I know them.
The thing that was always missing for me in the first JW film was, why was Claire there? In a world of management positions, why pick that particular place? She seems indifferent about the “assets” for a majority of the film, which is why it’s so jarring to me in the second film when she becomes a huge dinosaur advocate. Imagine if we got even one scene of her talking with her nephews about the magic and wonder of dinosaurs and how much she once loved them, but over time, has become jaded and numb about the wonder and focuses more on the profitability to the point where she has become disconnected from why she started working there in the first place. A scene like that could have given her character more depth and explained to us her personal motivations for shifting her focus to protecting the dinosaurs in the second installment. We also could have had more information about Owen’s time in the military and why he trained animals, which ties into your idea of someone with a particular skill set being challenged, but the issue there is that he never loses. In the original JP, our characters are mangled and traumatized and almost killed multiple times, just squeaking by with their lives, but in JW, they come through with some trauma, probably, but not even a physical scratch. At least in Fallen Kingdom, I appreciated Claire getting her leg stabbed by a claw...until a minute later when she goes action hero and climbs on a roof, despite her injury.
Ultimately they forgot what made the original so great, amazing characters, a fascinating premise that has adults debating their own childish joy against the greater safety and moral ramifications of the technology at use and suspense that is built and earned.
I’ve just despised this whole World trilogy. Since leaving my first viewing of JW & realizing I didn’t remember a single character’s name, I’ve just dreaded every potential subsequent entry & been proven right. As someone who’s always loved The Lost World despite how often it’s been lampooned, I feel vindicated seeing execs not just swing & miss thrice with this revival but drill into the earth with ruining the franchise’s quality making movies so much worse than even the original 3rd film
I liked the first one quite a bit. It attempted to be different. But the second one was basically lost world. And this movie basically sent the dinosaurs into the backseat
Lol you tried not to like it smh
I completely agree with you. Universal Pictures turned Jurassic Park into Jurassic Poop. 🦖💩🦕💩
as a Halloween and Jurassic fan i agree 100%. 2 dogshit trilogies at the same time.
@@elmono6299 I want this captioned in the scene where Malcom looks at the Triceratops shit
I like first 10 mins when the T-Rex went to McDonald's, ate a Big Mac, and after the first bite he looked into the camera and said "Sweet DAMN! THIS IS SOMETHIN ELSE!!!"
Chris Pratt is now a meme, he is synonymous with the talk to the hand guy, with how many time he did the talk to the hand gesture
Here's the main problem with this last installment. I haven't seen it yet, but considering that there was only a small group of dinos that escaped at the end of "Fallen Kingdom", how did they suddenly multiple and spread out across the world when they would have easily been killed or captured after the previous film? There's absolutely no way the world would be living with them after four years.
Because "Life finds a way"
Wait…you haven’t seen it…and you have a problem…
@@generalshadow9027 You don't have to see the film, only the preview, to note that there is a major story problem with the sudden large amount of dinosaurs scattered around the world that wouldn't have happened due to the small group of them that escaped in "Fallen Kingdom".
@@generalshadow9027 You can have a problem with the premise of a movie when It's building off the plot of the last one. If a movie makes no sense, even by the little you know about it, then It's fine to complain. Especially since the movie never explained how the dinosaurs spread from that tiny amount let out during the previous movie.
@@generalshadow9027 Yesterday I hadn't seen the movie. But I knew the premise. And I had major problems with it too.
Today I watched the movie, and low and behold, all my concerns came true. Ever. Single. One. The movie is literally so poorly crafted that someone who hasn't even watched it yet, can pick it apart perfectly and stab all its plotholes without even watching 5 minutes. Because the writers are predictably lazy. Predictably, they would not care to write a proper cohesive story. They would not care to tell believable reasons and justification for the events that unfold.
Predictably, they simply put together a ton of "cool set pieces" and then found the simplest way to loosely string them together with some weak story thread they never cared to double check its own integrity.
Modern Hollywood writing 101.
Kinda funny how this trilogy went exactly the same way as the Star Wars sequels
Begins with the first sequel in decades. First movie is okay
Second movie has a different director, for some reason feels the need to kill or destroy stuff from the original movies. Is the most divisive film in the franchise.
The third film has the same director from the first film in the trilogy as they attempt to pretend that they had this trilogy planned out from the start but the last film ends up being the worst in the franchise
Is it irony that Colin might have actually had the better Star wars movie lined up?
You totally nailed it.
@@xDerekRx oh no doubt his would’ve been better. There’s fanfics better than episode 9
They shouldn't change director in second movie or at least plan whole trilogy out
It’s the third best in the franchise
original JP had two key things: wonder and fear. The dinos have become so commonplace that Chris Pratt trains them like dogs. The wonder and fear is completely gone. The dinos get the same emotional reaction as the chitari from the avengers.
It might be a train reck and a fan service moment but when I was a kid I loved and breathed these movies and I will be damned if I didn't cry at the end of this movie this is the send off of the Jurassic franchise (most likely) and honestly I wouldn't have it any other.
Goodbye Jurassic Park I will hold you in my heart forever but it's time for you to fossilize into the pages of history and thank you Ian Malcolm for inspiring me all those years ago with one phrase "life finds a way"
We need more dinosaur movies that aren't trying to bank off being the same franchise as Jurassic Park.
My favourite scene in the film was the scene where she's crawling along the ground, with the camera down at her level, she slowly crawls towards the swamp as we see the Freddy Krueger clawed dinosaur creeping up behind her, as she crawls into the water. That should have been the trailer. Just that, nothing else.
But right before that when the Dino smacked the deer to eat the berries. I really lol’d.
@@dessys2754 "MY BERRIES"
*bitchslaps deer across the forest
This movie needed more dinosaurs in the real world. They introduced the idea that Dinos are in the way of humans and other animals but by the end everything is just ok? I really liked the found footage style stuff but wish there was more. The Therizinosaurus chasing Clair was the best scene
One part that I just had to laugh at was when Pratt’s character asks Pilot lady “that was another plane right?” Just after the clear screech of a pterodactyl above them. I thought this guy was already a dinosaur expert 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You know it’s bad when I was sitting in the theater waiting for it to be over
Edit: also you know it’s bad when absolutely nothing changes from the start to the end. Like the world is literally the exact same as it was when it started. All it was was “go to a place, run away from a dinosaur. Then once they escape that dinosaur, they get to a new place. And then they run into a dinosaur again… not a good movie.
Facts, ultimately the movie was waaaaaaay to long 😴🤦♂️
The number of times someone almost died but then an outstretched hand saved them was silly
Was it boring?
It was basically JP 1 but really bad
God it drags on and on, and it wasn't even good to begin with. Why the hell is it so long?
My dream is an R rated mini series that follows the books exactly. 2 seasons, 13 episodes each, and then done. Totally new cast, get the same guys back who do the practical Dino work, and lean into the horror, action, corporate espionage, and the complex madness of Hammond.
Never going to happen. Either way a movie would still be better than a series.
If you want the story of the books, then go read the books.
@@HOTD108_ "durr stories shouldn't be intelligent or good"
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 I totally disagree about it being better. I think a mini series (emphasis on mini, not something meant to last 10 years) is the best way to adapt a novel. It allows you to get a lot more in there than a single movie.
@@HOTD108_ if people had that attitude we wouldn’t have had the first movie lmao.
Regarding how Dodgson found the shaving cream can with embryos, iirc, in CC, he was traveling Isla Nublar alongside Kenji, Kenji’s dad, and 2 rich people, and he happens to notice the shaving cream can partially buried in the ground.
2:50 absolutely perfectly summed it up exactly as I did
For the shaving cream can, the embryos did die and the can was recovered as part of a 1994 cleanup on Isla Nublar, that Biosyn had a man on the inside to retrieve.
As with most things in the Jurassic Franchise, things are explained in deep cut viral marketing sites and other lore than the actual movies.
It makes 0 sense. How do you find a tiny can of shaving cream buriend under foots of mud, years later in the middle of a dinosaur infested island? At the very least it would be a corroded flattened out pancake of tin foil. And as the video mentions.... why even fetishize it? Why care about it, if not for nostalgia factor?
@@Narcan885 I recommend reading the second book. Granted Dotson dies, but you’d get the understanding why he would keep it. That can cost him some reputation within Biosyn and I’d keep it as a reminder.
Imagine this franchise, they spend millions on elaborate marketing and sub-grid lore - yet they can not be bothered with making the actual movies any good.. It's like someone creating the most beautiful cover artwork for a book, then the pages inside are written by a 10 year old.
I remember that sense of awe watching the original Jurassic Park, when you first saw the dinosaurs, you were right there in the same feelings as the characters in the movie. It was breathtaking and the music really shaped the experience as well. Same with the first sighting of the T-rex and the raptors.
What makes it worse is that 2 weeks before dominion prehistoric planet came out what is an absouluteley amazing piece of dinosaur media.
My reasoning around the cannister was that he gave it to Dennis so it's probably not the lost one but another/ a prototype, assuming he came up with the idea for it.
The problem is that the studios do not trust the audience to turn up for an "intellectual story" so the directors/screenwriters have to find ways to depict what they have envisioned in scenes that they are allowed to get away with
They made Jurassic World for a Chinese audience.
Unfortunately, Xi Jinping now hates America and American culture, so the only people who watch Jurassic World are the mouthbreathers in America who watch movies to turn their brain off and watch pretty colors
There are ways to get around that but it's no guarantee people would sit down to watch it though. What should've been this amazing philosophical movie was turned into just an action flick
@@kuhanblock9380 Just watch Prehistoric Planet! Apple tv costs 4.99 per month and you cancel it, the CGI is so much better, the dinosaurs are so absurdly accurate compared to Jurassic World, the content doesn’t insult your intelligence, no stupid locust subplot, it’s narrated by David Attenborough (how ironic) and produced by Jon Favreau while Hans Zimmer does the music
So much better than any of the Jurassic World movies
@@mariomouse8265 it's been on my list, just haven't had the time
Well? The locust element is actually kind of intellectual and everybody DOES hate it. Comments like this make me think this movie didn’t have a chance anyway. The decent sci fi stuff was the best part, the 15 min of spy BS in Malta is what hurts the movie.
Heres something else you forgot to point out. The can of shaving cream was not only buried in mud and carried away by water but it was on an island that was destroyed when its volcano erupted. Unless Louis manage to find it before that happened the chances of finding it are 0. Even if it somehow survived the destruction like say the lava never reached its final location the chances of finding would still be 0. Theres no way you're going to find something like that on a lava covered island.
Pretty sure Jurassic world camp Cretaceous will cover that in season 5. Kinda sucks it has to be in a kiddy show though :/
The found it in the Camp Cretaceous cartoon
We've already seen it at least once
In the Jurassic Park video game, there's a side plot of finding and retrieving the can.
It's even funnier when you consider that, in the original book, the island was *NUKED* at the end by the U.S government (though some raptors escaped aboard a ship).
The island was destroyed like 25 years later, they probably looked for it a few weeks after. It wouldn’t be THAT hard to find. They know Nedry was headed to the docks and his car is right there. I don’t understand what the issue is here. It’s also metal, there are ways of detecting metal.
Normally, i'd walk out of this movie after the first half hour and sneak into another flick, but my friend seemed to like it, so I stayed till the end.
Movie managed to irritated me with nearly every scene.
Tying a 4 ton running dino to your horse in Montana?
Ejector seat in the back seat of your plane?
Ejector seat in a vintage cargo plane made BEFORE ejector seats were invented?
Installing an ejector seat LESS practical and cheap than buying 3 parachutes and jumping out the giant door in the back of your plane?
Both people survive a plane crashing into ICE?
Swole Chris Pratt pulled out of the icy lake by a woman half his weight who's standing on ice with no traction?
Soaking wet Chris Pratt running around an icy mountaintop and not shivering and dying of exposure?
Cargo pilot with THAT many skill sets?
Burnt locusts coming alive and flying around 10 minutes after being burned?
Burning the locusts in that room --which you now have to fireproof the room --- instead of just gassing the room with pesticide?
Therazonasaurus merely watching the girl get away?
raptors can keep up with motorcycle, but cant catch a girl on foot?
mercenaries with guns drawn DONT shoot at raptors sloowly emerging from cages?
dinos loose in an underground bazaar, and people keep on gambling and cooking meat?
Grant and friends outrun demetredons in a dark cave?
Ian Malcom on the payroll of THIS guy?
ugh...the list goes on an on.
I had more fun making the list than actually watching the movie.
This is exactly what I thought, thanks wording it out
9:02 "Oh, he reminds me of Tim Cook" was literally my first thought when I saw the character
My wife and I went to see it yesterday. I nearly fell asleep halfway through because it was dragging so badly. I agree 100% -- the central plot of the movie seemed to be "genetically modified locusts are devastating mid-western farms and it's all Biosys' fault." However, this "plot" doesn't even get it's initial setup until nearly 15 minutes in, and even then it's the brief scene of the two kids barricading themselves in the barn. The only other two scenes that even touch on this alleged carnage are when Ellie visits the farm later, and a later scene where the computer guy points to a heat map on his monitor showing the spread of the locusts. That's it. There's no build-up, no establishing stakes, etc -- it's just, "so there's monster locusts now."
The dinosaurs in the film seemed to only be in the movie for no other reason than to justify calling this another Jurassic installment; virtually all of their scenes serve solely for action sequences, none of which relate to the locust thing, and I got the impression a lot of the dino shots were just the CGI team showboating (as is often the case in modern films). The thing is, we could remove the dinosaurs from the story and it still works -- a genetically modified locust is terrorizing the US, and we need to get to Biosys to stop it. Why do dinosaurs even need to be in this?
Then there's story structure overall. The narrative was frustratingly overcrowded, and I found myself numerous times thinking, "Oh yeah, I totally forgot we had this whole other thing going on with Ellie and Allen!" Early in the film there's a brief scene of Claire and two cohorts rescuing a baby dino and exposing an illegal breeding facility.....which served no purpose in the plot whatsoever. The only time this shit is ever even mentioned again is nearly an hour in when Ellie and Allen are about to board the Biosys plane; Ellie walks by the caged dino and the woman tells her all the dinos were rescued from an illegal breeding facility they found out from an "anonymous tip." WTF? Why was this even needed?
The film sets up four different narratives:
a) Owen and Claire tracking down Maisie.
b) Monster locusts are gonna destroy us all
c) Ellie and Allen visiting Biosys and attempting to nab a DNA sample
d) Blue's offspring is captured and taken to Biosys, and Owen promises to Blue to bring her home
For at least 2/3 of the film these four narratives run separate to one another with very little seeming to connect them. It's not until Maisie unites with Ellie and Allen in the lab that things start to tie together. Oh...almost forgot...there's also Kayla Watts, because why not?
The film moves at a painfully slow pace at the start, particularly during the early scenes with Maisie, Owen, and Claire at the cabin. We go through this whole rigmarole of Maisie feeling trapped and venturing into town against her parents' wishes.......which is never brought up ever again. I get that it was necessary to setup the later scene where Maisie gets captured on the bridge, but did we really need to drag this out for 10 minutes?!
Overall, it just felt like a convoluted hot mess of a script, with little thought put into structuring the narrative concisely. This film could've easily been cut down to 90 minutes. But it's run time is 146 minutes...2 hrs & 20 minutes?!
No offense to Colin Trevorrow, but I get the impression the essence of the original JP film is lost on him; he seems only interested in making a 2 hr spectacle with cool CG dinosaur FX -- which by the way, look god awful.
Dammit.. i REALLY wanted to love this film. So much of the marketing made us believe we'd get something entirely different. Especially seeing the "battle at bigrock" shortfilm released and the scenes where the t rex was being chased into the forest by choppers and ambushed a drive in theater. So many amazing moments wasted in the misleading marketing. The locust plot was the worst part for me. The Beta and Maisie rescue shouldn't have taken as much time as it did either. So much else could have been done with this film.. im honestly heartbroken after seeing the movie.. 😩😞
Something tells me we were supposed to get something entirely different, but was changed at some point with all the delays cause of covid... i feel that the movie was hinted at 4 years ago, was gonna be amazing.. then the movie released...😔😓
I agree, I was so excited and when I walked out I felt.. idk, maybe cheated? A little hurt lol. I know I’m dramatic but this is the most important movie franchise to me and so my disappointment with this one really hurt
@@TheCoolCucumber I wouldn’t say that I had high expectations but I had an idea of what I wanted/thought I was going to see and was pretty excited for it only to be disappointed. I guess you could call that high expectations lol
Fanfilm? Battle at big rock is official
@@izuto727 Made from the same director to
"I pirated it and I still wanted a refund"
The dinosaurs coexisting plot is still more compelling than the clones and giant loust plot.
“How did Dodgson find it?” They explain that in Telltale’s Jurassic Park game but the events of that game got retconned in Jurassic World so who knows how he actually got it here. Lol
It's a corporate product. It was never going to be good when the first and only priority was profitability. That's not art.
@@TheCoolCucumber The more money is involved the more voices are involved and what they want in there films
I remember looking forward to seeing Alan Grant, Ellie Statler and Ian Malcolm meeting with Owen Grady and Claire Dearing, but it doesn’t happen till close to the end and even then, they don’t interact that much. Complete disappointment. 😔
And I was also annoyed that they had 3 scenarios where Claire could have died to at least add some *suspense* or substance but they didn’t have the guts to kill her off. Another complete disappointment.
Killing off the pretty female lead is something that you don't normally do, unless it's a slasher movie. Remember how up in arms people were about Claire's assistant getting horrendously eaten after being tossed around by a Pterodon? She wasn't the lead, and the character was annoying, but people didn't like it.
@@franciscodanconia4324 At least a character died to add some stakes and tension in that movie. Anyone hardly died in Jurassic World: Dominion.
@@hunterolaughlin I know right? They killed off Samuel L Monkeyfighting Jackson in the first movie.
The shaving cream!!!!! I know this one! It was shown in Camp Cretaceous, which is cannot to the franchise, that he found the can while visiting the island after Kenji's dad, Mr Kon invited him to the island to view his proposition for controllable dinos, as mr talks quietly and for some reason asks random people if they have his food was an investor.
It was so awful that it sounded like a bad parody movie. The moment the Therizina and Rex look at each other and decide to team up against the Giga i had the most epic laugh and i just couldn't stop laughing in the middle of the cinema it was too much lol!
6:32 - that’s literally the premise of the first Pokémon movie.
6:45 - literally Mewtwo’s character motivation in the above.
The best thing I can say about this movie is that if rumors are to be believed, Bryce Dallas Howard is now free to direct and star in the MCU Fantastic Four.
Bruh
@@Jake_Marbais_ Her mando season 2 episode was incredibly well directed, so I'm intrigued
bruh those weren't theories, those were literally fan casting
Finally some good news
Lmao she'd be a terrible sue storm
I love how Jurassic parks idea of taming a dinosaur is basically - hold your hands out and be scared, yet hopeful.
I thought they were going to make the Dobson character into some kind of AntiChrist figure. With the locusts, food supplies going to be going to nill, etc. I was waiting for this to turn into some updated version of the Omen (seeing that Sam Neill was in this - it would make sense.) It's like WHY create the damn locusts in the first place? To control the food supply - again going into Antichrist movie stuff. It was weird.
I was literally in the theater saying “Okay this is terrible. But, maybe the Spinosaurus will make a cameo so I can atleast go home with one little scene of satisfaction”. It never did…..
Dimetrodons were a giant middle finger for the spino fans lol
@@SpinosaurusStudios_ yeah when I seen them i was like yeah spinosaurus but nope.
@@Brayden-hc1pq I dont even know how th they got the dna for that, mosquitoes probably hasnt evolved by that time.
What, blood slicing locusts or something?
They said in a scene that they saved dinos from sorna so I got exited and thought we might get sorta camios like tiger raptors or spino or hell maybe the baby trex will grow up but nope nothing
Insane how the writers managed to screw up such an interesting premise...
How?
It's like missing a wide open layup. Dinosaurs living with humans. The story is laid out on a plate for them and they chose LOCUSTS instead.
That aside, sign of the times... getting as many supposed alpha women in as many unbelievable positions of power as possible. Just getting old and tired and making for meh movies. The producers can't help themselves. Couldn't believe how old Laura Dean looked. She's like 55 but looks 70, and with a facelift! She was also superfluous and the CEO was silly. Apart from Blue, just rubbish all round basically.
@@nuntana2 this is the most pathetic criticism you could’ve come up. We all can tell you’re a single lonely man who is bitter about women
I needed two days to watch the movie. On day one fell asleep around the 55 min mark. On day two i forced myself to finish it just to see how low it can go. And it did go low .....