Stop Making Jurassic Park Movies

What are you gonna do there has to be a sequel you have to get them all off there well you know it's certainly the sequel has been discussed by almost everyone but at the moment there are no plans for one so so at least for now there's only one Jurassic Park [Music] based on Michael crichton's novel of the same name Jurassic Park presented a grounded thrilling adventure about the Capitalist dangers of hypothetical genetic technology wrapped in a heartfelt journey of learning to become a parent it was the highest grossing film of all time won three

Academy Awards for its groundbreaking effects and was met with almost unanimous praise Jurassic Park will wasn't a soulless commercial product it was a captivating work of art that could be enjoyed by anyone the film sparked enormous interest in paleontology and finally Educated the mainstream world that dinosaurs were warm-blooded fast-moving avian animals I'm already one final question I know we all know that Jurassic Park just opened but there is already talk of a sequel yes and you know with numbers like these Lauren uh let's face it I don't think we're going to see Jurassic Park turn

extinct at the box office you can look for Universal to try for a sequel work and he would like it but I had no Idea that it would take off in the way that it has it's become sort of this tidal wave type phenomena no stopping out and he said do you want a death scene or a sequel have you talked to your bike manager well right back manager said a sequel I think so I've never done a sequel and I've always thought that probably I shouldn't in terms of a book you know with the

movie sequel is another question but I've got so many letters from kids saying what About the sequel that it's inevitable that in answering all the letters saying I've never done a sequel and I don't know and you end up thinking about it a lot so of course I've been thinking about actual problem because it has to be the same but different yeah now if it's really the same then it's the same and if it's really different then it's not a sequel so yeah so it's in some kind of funny intermediate territory The audiences are quick

to get jaded so now the question is sure you can do dinosaurs but what can you do with them now almost 30 years later in a world dominated by sequels and reboots of decades-old intellectual properties Jurassic Park is a reminder of a once untarnished franchise currently possessing five Canon sequels and five seasons of an animated children's show each entry further dragging the series reputation through the mud this year's Jurassic world Dominion received the worst critical response in the series history and another 300 million dollar drop in box office revenue compared to its previous installment this

world Trilogy has long since entered the realm of Science Fiction parody with bulletproof super powered hybrid dinosaurs that can smile at the camera supposedly real dinosaurs and other reptiles that barely resemble current science absurd action scenes where human Beings are launched into the air and slow motion moments designed to make the audience erupt in Marvel style Standing Ovation this is without acknowledging the aforementioned Netflix series Canon to the film Universe where dinosaurs are ridden and controlled like Ark survival evolved when earning almost 1 billion dollars at the box office is considered disappointing for this franchise

it seems inevitable that it will continue jumping as many sharks as possible until Consumers finally stop consuming it but it doesn't have to be this way and it never had to happen in the first place Jurassic Park never needed a sequel and now more than ever before it's time to stop making Jurassic Park movies I never split any hairs about do I want to make a sequel to Jurassic Park of course I wanted to make a sequel to Jurassic Park it was just when you believe it would be bigger and better Than Jurassic Park I

can't imagine anything being bigger than that Jurassic Park were you concerned that it might not be possible to top a movie like Jurassic Park do you think this movie is going to top Jurassic Park they are backed by popular demand the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park brought director Steven Spielberg so much mail from fans that he agreed to explore the Lost World fans are lining up across the country with hopes of an encore performance big Question how is the movie uh is it up to the first one I have to say no on both parents I

in fact think the movie is a royal screw-up I think given that Steven Spielberg has done this himself why is the movie so sloppy technically we should have had more but it's summer and mostly they want to make money and they want to sell a whole lot of merchandise I think in Spielberg we should have expected more and I have to say what a change Foreign [Music] it shouldn't be controversial to say that the Lost World both the novel and the film were made primarily for financial reasons Crichton was hesitant about a sequel book and

Spielberg returned as director primarily to avoid a repeat of the many awful sequels to Jaws produced without his involvement most of the team between Jurassic Park and its sequel had stayed The same maintaining a degree of tonal and aesthetic consistency critical response was mixed novel included and while it performed well financially it couldn't reach its billion dollar expectations when the Lost World opens in the states tonight it's estimated it will be on its way to making a bone crushing billion dollars Spielberg was absent for the film's premiere and his own biography describes the film as

hack work possibly the worst film in Spielberg's directing career making the lost world since his four-year break after Schindler's List which won him best director and best picture in the same year Jurassic Park released Spielberg was quoted saying I beat myself up growing more and more impatient with myself it may be wistful about doing a talking picture because sometimes I got the feeling I was just making this big silent Roar movie I found myself saying Is that all there is it's not enough for me some of your contemporaries good film directors seem to me to

make the same film again and again but I perceive a growth in your work yeah with a few detours to make a lost world once in a while yeah my sequels aren't as good as my originals because I go into every sequel I've made and I'm too confident this movie made a gazillion dollars which justifies the sequel so I come in like it's going to Be a slam dunk and I wind up making an inferior movie to the one before I'm talking about the lost world and Jurassic Park despite these frequent criticisms the lost world

is to me the only sequel worth salvaging out of this creatively bankrupt franchise but it's undeniable that nothing has or can Dethrone the original Jurassic Park even the popular fan website Jurassic Outpost lists favorite sequel underneath Each staff member instead of favorite movie because the answer is obvious nine of these 12 people chose the lost world as their answer unlike later entries without the guidance of Spielberg as director the second film is still masterfully thrilling and intense feeling purposeful and inspired a modern homage to pulpy dinosaur stories of old like King Kong while maintaining some

of the wits and dare I say class of Jurassic Park the score from returning Composer John Williams continues to Delight with new memorable themes refraining from the iconic Melodies that audiences were already familiar with uh you you kind of have that little touch of nostalgia in a way almost makes you miss the first movie while you're watching the second one [Music] generally the lost world makes attempts to differentiate itself from its predecessor utilizing a new setting and Few returning characters not content with naming itself Jurassic Park 2. there is still a genuine passion for the

dinosaurs and their behavior especially their roles in family groups Amira to Ian Malcolm caring for his daughter where Jurassic Park was about creating life and becoming apparent the lost world is about being one this of course does not excuse the film's uneven pacing and noticeable shift into schlocky action movie territory slowly increasing The unbelievable spectacle and body count for later films to follow a jarring but enjoyable climax in San Diego is concluded with a Sentimental statement that the dinosaurs should be left alone on Isla sauna a beautiful shot of the animals living together naturally and

undisturbed a perfect ending to a solid yet unnecessary sequel perhaps a metaphor from Spielberg kept and Creighton themselves that Jurassic Park the franchise should be left alone As well but if you've already made one sequel what's stopping you from making even more Spinosaurus is the guy on the block from this point on we have a big fight and T-Rex gets his ass kicked going to kind of replace T-Rex and so we we actually went after a dinosaur that literally could cause an Extinction on the island Joe always said spinal's not real bright you know he's

not as smart as T-Rex he's Kind of a big dumb oath it's very much more sort of adrenaline rushed action-packed big popcorn ride Joe Johnson he was really decisive he knew exactly the film he wanted to make five weeks out from shooting we decided to throw the script out and start over with a completely new idea and there are actually phone calls where I called my agent and said look you have to get me off this movie I don't care what it takes I don't care if it's the End of my career you have to

get me off tomorrow but to start over and start shooting a hundred million dollar movie without a script you want to blow your brains out it was actually much harder on the production designer than it was on me he had to literally build things sometimes overnight he almost hung himself long before an era of Chris Pratt sticking his hand into the air Jurassic Park 3 was Rock Bottom a soulless empty Film about absolutely nothing with a bland gray aesthetic and ugly dinosaur redesigns that give the appearance of a Sci-Fi channel TV movie the choice to

kill off the film's only featured Tyrannosaur was an apt metaphor for the death of Jurassic Park even changing the logo across the film and its merchandise this was Jurassic Park's first true step into the world of B grade schlock almost indistinguishable from the low budget monster movies that The original film stood so proudly in defiance of crane was no longer involved to co-write and hadn't even watched the film a year after it had released and didn't want to make any more Jurassic Park books David Capp offered some input but did not return to right citing

a lack of worthy ideas to contribute I think the two movies bookend each other really well and if if there was going to be a third one somebody would have to have a big idea first we did talk about It and if I thought I had a great idea I'd sign up in a minute but I did the first two and two movies on one subject is a lot because it's hard enough to do one movie on a subject I did too and I just felt like I used up all my good ideas and if

I had something really valuable to contribute I'd love to John Williams did not return to compose the film's score Spielberg offered the directorial role to Joe Johnston who had a miserable experience partially because There was no completed script we did not have a final script until after we wrapped the movie we had a script for the day that we were shooting maybe the next day and sometimes a week ahead of time but we never had a story that had a beginning middle and end while we were making the film Steven stopped by the first time

he did a shot for our first big special effects sequence and he left saying boy I'm glad I don't have to do this making Jurassic Park 3 was a living Hell on a daily basis it's no secret that the production of Jurassic Park 3 was an absolute Nightmare and it was deservedly hated by most critics and audiences upon release and grossed the lowest out of the entire Series without the lead creative people in charge blatantly admitting they had no ideas left it was clearly time for the IP to be laid to rest the third film

has nothing to say nothing interesting happens and it could be removed from the Serious chronology with zero narrative repercussions despite numerous attempts in the mid-2000s to continue the series with a Jurassic Park 4 featuring parachuting counter-terrorist human dinosaur hybrids Jurassic Park was over and clearly for the better I suspect this is the last and I I three seems to be you know the the definitive number unless it was Rocky that's right these Islands and these dinosaurs and I think now it's time to take it off in a different direction and I know that Steven has

an idea that we'll do that when he decides it's time to make it because of budget and shoes the film was delayed the original script was written by Rise of the plan of the Apes writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda silver however it sounds like director Colin travaro and his Safety Not Guaranteed writer Derek Connolly Have made significant changes to that draft there's a whole bunch of drama surrounding this thing they changed scripts they fired crew they decided to change directions I had said this before I have zero interest in any more Jurassic Parks you know

I'm not going to see it I get excited because something's awesome and I don't necessarily think about all of the reasons why it how it might be interpreted by people and I just think it's the most epic Jurassic Park death I could possibly imagine foreign if Jurassic Park is Jaws then Jurassic world is the Meg the genre has firmly shifted from tense Thriller into overproduced Sci-Fi Action 18 years after the Lost World Spielberg returned as producer with some terrible story ideas some borrowed from the scrapped Jurassic Park 4 treatments while the up-and-coming Colin travaro was

appointed as director David Capp is Still nowhere to be seen after the lost world and Michael Crichton had passed away in 2008 helping to kick-start the onslaught of soft reboots and Legacy sequels that still Thrive today the first Jurassic world was simply a warning sign of what was yet to come the Wonder and spectacle of The Originals lush jungle aesthetic is paved over with gray concrete walls and Bland corporate architecture wrapped in a blanket of cynical Nostalgia the Wonder and awe of Real prehistoric life is shove to the Wayside for a shining new hybrid while

the actual dinosaurs look like colorless wrinkly plastic it's difficult to maintain suspension of disbelief when the film features 3D Holograms glowing laser sticks awful CGI blood cheesy Death Scenes Chris Pratt on a motorbike with tamed Raptors and giant hamster balls designed specifically to enter the enclosures of dinosaurs with spikes and clubs on their bodies the hero of the Movie is entirely responsible for the Escape of the indominus Rex yet the whole trilogy never once acknowledges this instead Shifting the blame onto Claire for green lighting the hybrid in the first place this is a valid point

but why does the Christian Pratt get a free pass when he walked into the [ __ ] enclosure any feeling of horror or dread is Stripped Away due to the film's poor visual language prioritizing spectacle over empathizing with our core Characters in many situations instead of keeping the camera low to the ground at eye level without human protagonists it often flies up into the air above the height of even the dinosaurs why are we seeing extensive close-ups on the indominus and the escaping pterosaurs from within the Aviary there's no human perspective to relate to here

in most cases the audience should only be seeing what the characters can see if they can't see the dinosaurs then neither Should we providing a bit of mystery and tension this whole scene of the indominus running away from the helicopter and smashing into the Aviary is basically shot like she's the protagonist of the scene it's difficult to feel trapped and Afraid alongside our characters when our perspective is constantly out in the safe open air away from the approaching Dinosaurs the Tyrannosaur attack in Jurassic Park is a perfect opposite example of this almost Every shot is

from within the Explorers with our characters besides some dramatic irony such as when we see now from the T-Rex's perspective that she can attack the children through the ceiling the kitchen scene is shot like a child peering over the benches barely catching glimpses of the approaching Raptors grounding Us in the terror of that scenario even Jurassic Park 3 remembered to keep the camera low to the ground during its own pointless dinosaur Battle world's most interesting concept is the titular theme park meta textually reminding us that corporations would gladly re-attempt a historically terrible idea so they

can make more money while also expecting us to feel Joy and wonder as we witness the entire point of the first two films thrown out the window masrani mentions that this was Hammond's dying wish which is a total reversal of his Arc in the first film and his final Message in the Lost World the functional Park rarely impacts the story that meaningfully only becoming relevant for a moment of pointless Carnage by the escaped pterosaurs Jurassic world is far more concerned with defanging the primary antagonists of the franchise begging the audience to remember how good Jurassic

Park was and to please please please accept their heartfelt apology for Jurassic Park 3. this is a product of access a never-ending Unrestrained mess of boring ideas executed in the blandest safest way possible it's a Marvel movie with Dinosaurs in it so of course it grossed 1.6 billion dollars and was met with positive to mixed reviews there's an attempt at self-aware commentary surrounding the film's status as a derivative legacy sequel a hybrid of a thousand unfocused ideas thrust into the general public uncontrollably that can only be defeated By acknowledging and embracing its nostalgic Heritage but

this metaphor collapses when the movie itself is just not good you can't create a story criticizing the trends of modern popular Cinema while also being the exact thing you're attempting to criticize in this Jurassic world you will see more dinosaurs than you've ever seen in all the other Jurassic movies combined we're gonna have blue we have the mosasaurus We have the T-Rex we're literally blowing up the island we have a Baryonyx in this movie a bit of a Carnotaurus the Carnotaurus fights the sign of ceratops we hope that people come out with their imaginations expanded

of what a Jurassic Park movie can be we have a brand new genetically modified dinosaur called the indoraptor it's a psychopathic murderous beast in a stigimolic we just all love the sticky Molly this is gonna be awesome 2018's Jurassic world Fallen Kingdom soared the series to new heights a darker more mature sequel that fits perfectly in tone with Creighton's original novels elevating Jurassic Park into terrifying Gothic horror developing the subtle commentary on genetic technology with the introduction of a human clone that's the synopsis from Die Hard Jurassic world fans who genuinely believe this film to

be a misunderstood Hidden Gem the delay person isn't smart enough to understand I rode my motorcycle Through the Jungle with a pack of raptors we're not compatible you can only truly appreciate Fallen Kingdom by reading two books that have nothing to do with it apparently it throws away the premise of the entire franchise it has returning Bland characters that nobody cares about it's like a dumb Roger Corman movie with a Budget yeah it wasn't a humongous fan of Jurassic world that film also disappointed me but nowhere near the same amount of disappointment I'm feeling this

movie is so bad that it was legitimately hilarious to watch many people in the theater were just laughing at moments that were supposed to be taken seriously dressable Fallen Kingdom doesn't have an original bone in its body the most original idea it can think of is they Kill off the first dinosaur that you see from the original Jurassic Park when that's the emotional Center of your movie I don't know what to tell you but God damn this is one empty film they have figured out how to clone humans oh I forgot about the whole clone

girl oh maybe I'm a d foreign what are you doing writing the script to the next Jurassic World movie in reality the series 5th entry dealt Further irreparable damage to the image of Jurassic Park as a franchise cementing its place as a laughing stock among other Shameless corporate IPS pushing suspension of disbelief to its absolute Breaking Point Chris Pratt flops around like a ragdoll next to a stream of approaching lava there's a dinosaur auction underground with numbers ticking up in the reflection of the bad guy's glasses a cartoon fight scene and John Hammond's Secret best

friend gets smothered with a pillow why begin with a subdued atmospheric title card when we can use a shockingly ugly 3D logo with overbearing epic music instead soldiers need not attack someone by aiming a gun at them and shooting bullets instead they could aim said gun at their target mark them with a laser pointer not shoot any bullets and tell an idiotic dinosaur hybrid to mold them To death instead the supposed successor to the indominus Rex as smart as a raptor that can't even turn corners without slamming into walls be sure to contain it in

a cage that can be opened with a sliding lock and not any higher form of security calling this a horror film is frankly ridiculous there's no feeling of tension thanks in part to the incredibly Bland characters there's barely even a coherent story and certainly no clear justification for a Dinosaur Expedition on the same day as Mount sibo's eruption unlike the previous film it at least features appreciably engaging cinematography not counting the shots ripped off from Jurassic Park and a decent opening scene that captures the horror tone but has nothing to do with the rest of

the film the moment when the power is rebooted by one set of characters while the others are hiding from the indoraptor is just the same Scene again from Jurassic Park when Ellie restores the systems in the maintenance shed as Grant Lex and Tim are climbing the electric fence receiving deservedly negative reviews Fallen Kingdom was the point of no return even its short film aftermath battle at Big Rock couldn't resist incredibly cheesy superhero style deus ex machina and continued recycling of shots from the first two films it also sounds like the title of a Land Before

Time sequel this was also the beginning for Camp Cretaceous the 49 episode long animated series there was potential here but a subpar first season filled with characters making terrible decisions and dinosaurs routinely tripping over flat terrain or slamming into walls was followed by a barrage of increasing absurdity in the seasons to come a child gets into a one-on-one battle with a Carnotaurus Then saved by his neon blue pet and kylosaur dinosaurs only ever successfully attacked the villains which stripped the entire show of any tension season 3 introduces another horrifically ugly hybrid that I'm supposed to

want toys of and the audience is expected to mentally slot this into the same timeline as Jurassic Park but no one could possibly understand Dominion without watching Camp Cretaceous first to see how Dodson found The barbasol can because every minuscule detail of modern entertainment needs to be explained in some form of pointless expanded universe filler content I cannot relate to adults finding unironic enjoyment from this show It Wants To Be A Goofy cartoon for children while also being Canon to the films and offering vain attempts at horror the first moments of the final season see

six children who have survived on a Dinosaur Island alone for six months Accompanied by a tamed cantrosaurus surrounded by an army of humanoid robot dinosaurs that can talk and shoot lasers in an artificial biodome Forest on Another Dinosaur Island that isn't easily nubla or Isla sauna the first on-screen text after the episode title reads based on the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton this is beyond parody trained Raptors running alongside him on the the motorcycle it really made me go Oh maybe there really was no more story to tell Beyond Lost World yeah that's funny

enough with the Jurassic movies though there is a consistent diminishing of quality as it goes on sure Jurassic Park 3 was the weak you know the ugly stepchild in the family sure absolutely but it's still giant dinosaurs marching around and eating people come on you need to get the dinosaurs into the world just not with the protagonists doing it for stupid reasons because they're Trying to help I mean it would be amazing if they came into the states and there's dinosaurs everywhere it would be great nice once we get to the ending of this movie

I'm like Bring It On We're in full stupid mode I can't the the the this is what everything has been leading to Jurassic world Dominion is the culmination of the franchise it concludes a story that Steven Spielberg started telling in 1993. or you could stop making Jurassic Park sequels Because they're never gonna measure up to the first movie Jurassic world Dominion is the movie that travara wanted to make from the beginning requiring two subpar films in order to set up the absolute worst entry of the entire series despite having the longest run time of the

franchise almost two and a half hours with a lengthier Extended Cut it's a film about nothing the entire premise of the narrative Dinosaurs spreading across the planet after Fallen Kingdom is never resolved Shifting the global threat to Giant locusts devouring the food supply because a few wild dinosaurs in rural locations doesn't really make for an extinction level threat to mankind describing this film as the closest in tone to the original is frankly delusional because Jurassic Park demonstrated that while the dinosaurs are incredible animals we shouldn't have Brought them back to begin with Dominion instead offers

the idea that we should simply learn to live with it adopt complacency about catastrophic worldwide change if anything the film's conclusion presents this outcome positively as something Grand and epic it's a good thing that dozens of species have been reintroduced into a foreign environment upsetting the balance of modern nature compare this to topical real world issues threatening us and our planet Such as the pandemic or climate change and this film's message intentional or not is shockingly tone deaf I suppose these are the classic Michael Crichton themes that everyone keeps talking about you think yes we're

getting warmer but it's not going to lead to the catastrophe that's what you've just said right changing the setting from Lush secluded Islands to familiar civilization is backpedaled after an unnecessary action sequence in Malta Shifting the focus to dinosaurs in a lush so included facility in the mountains of Italy it may as well just be another Island it's better than the alternative like the star wars-esque underground dinosaur fight club where Chris Pratt interrogates a man being crucified by two dinosaurs followed by the aforementioned chase scene that only functions to get our least favorite characters on

the plane to biosin taking Dinosaurs off the islands has always been a Potential Threat throughout the franchise ever since the first novel but there is a world of difference between a few small animals like compies and Raptors being found on beaches and farmland like in the books to Giant apex predators rampaging through town square alongside a chaotic motorcycle chase there's no narrative potential in this premise other than endless Bee Movie Carnage a far cry from what Jurassic Park is actually about especially when you consider the first film had a body count of only five people

who cares whether or not they are getting off the island that is not really the threat to me whether they get off the island or not I mean obviously they didn't breed any pterodactyls because they didn't want any getting off the island if this story is truly what Crichton wanted as the fan base likes to claim Then he would have already made it or at least been involved with the production of further film sequels after the Lost World Crichton wanted nothing to do with Jurassic Park anymore maybe let's not speak on behalf of a dead

man the return of Legacy characters Grant Satler and Malcolm while not grossly embarrassing still feels Hollow and cynical arbitrarily reuniting them conveniently in time for the big nostalgic finale in quotes of this new Trilogy and at the right time to try and win over fans of the original films who likely despised Fallen Kingdom it also needs to acknowledge the baffling decisions made in Jurassic Park 3 only to reverse them at the end powering up Grant and Satler for a moment of fan service something that should have already been established after the end of Jurassic Park

needing to address criticism from prior films and apply a Band-Aid fix in later sequels should be A clear indication towards a franchise having run out of steam this is taken to the extreme with Dominion's blatant retconning of Fallen Kingdom not a sequel from 20 years beforehand but it's immediate it predecessor maisie's nature as a clone exists solely for shock value and an excuse for some sequel bait it doesn't tell us anything meaningful about the characters or provide them with emotional arcs and its slap Dash attempt at tying in with the original Jurassic Park storyline reeks

of poorly constructed fan fiction Dominion's solution was to reveal that Maisie isn't a clone but is instead a clone an asexual reproduction of her mother who of course was secretly always a part of the series from the beginning working in the labs on sauna alongside Henry Wu during the construction of Jurassic Park and becoming good friends with Ellie Sattler Maisie is treated almost like a mythical Christ figure everyone knows Her by name I'm Missy Lockwood she's immune to all disease so that she has plot relevance and she's literally an unexplained virgin birth where's my daughter

she wasn't yours to begin with she's the most valuable intellectual property on the planet the Jurassic Park Fan Wiki can't even properly explain the human clone situation themselves citing unsourced information about Charlotte maisie's mother being infertile and Hammond disapproving of her pregnancy Trials details that are simply not in the film as for beta Blues a sexually reproduced baby why would Jurassic World's Latest breed of raptors be intentionally designed with the ability to reproduce indefinitely and uncontrollably especially after the breeding outbreaks in all female dinosaurs from the use of amphibian DNA did Charlotte also have monitor

lizard dna because otherwise how did she reproduce without sperm why would she Willingly clone herself instead of having a normal baby the film suggests that her augmentations to maisie's DNA were achieved with the genetic research from Jurassic Park but the details surrounding the initial pregnancy are vague at best perhaps Dominion's most pointless moment is its dinosaur battle finale where the characters have already escaped but we still need to stick around and see if the good guy dinosaurs can kill the bad guy dinosaur because The dinosaurs are superheroes now in the words of Colin trevara himself

no one Witnesses the final moments of Rexy killing the Raptors in the first film either but including it for the audience felt far more earned in that instance Judah her unexpected arrival inadvertently rescuing the characters from the Raptors who had been established from scene 1 as the major antagonists of the story the T-Rex was also consistently built up as a constant Presence outside of her major scenes defending her territory hunting Gallimimus and being heard roaring in the distance motivating the characters to keep moving conversely this fight is unearned and unimpactful the Giganotosaurus doesn't kill a

single thing in the film it's barely even in it and unlike the indominus Rex and indoraptor before it it's not a hybrid even though it certainly looks like one describing it As the largest terrestrial carnivore is also rather dubious scientifically speaking the dramatic close-up of rexy's eye as she suddenly awakens from supposed near death followed by the nonsensical superhero imagery of her pushing the gigger through the claws of the therizinosaur had me in hysterics the Giga did not deserve to die it simply fell victim to the Jurassic world formula one that has run its course

several times over Okay I can tell you a good example I just took my glasses off that day when you see that big dinosaur yeah and now everyone in this film takes their glasses off at some point how many more times can this series repackage the same familiar set pieces the Mosasaur leaping vertically out of the water to eat something Chris Pratt or another character holding out their hand to blue or some other Theropod or the Tyrannosaurus saving the day never acting as a threat to our main characters and having a fight scene with some

other villainous dinosaur and how many more times can it find a way to ask us do you remember Jurassic Park marketing dictates that Dominion was the Epic conclusion of the Jurassic Saga but the meaning behind that is unclear best and with such high box office results Universal has no reason to stop even with such abysmal critical reception the captivating summer blockbuster is a thing of the past as big studios continue to chase higher profits and green light less engaging stories people say that's what I want from a cinema trip I want to go to the

cinema I want to turn my brain off and when I enjoy some special effects smacking against each other and that's fine if that's what you want but that's not what I want I don't want to turn my brain off I don't just look at how far these movies have come Jurassic Park in retrospect feels like an independent film when contrasted against Dominion's ridiculous shootouts high-speed vehicle Chasers Chris Pratt stabbing the Giga like a video game character and swarms of flaming locusts dropping from the sky AI like meteors wasn't the extinction imagery already the point of

the previous film Dominions one single genuine moment of tension one of two segments in the film capturing the familiar tone of Jurassic Park is abruptly shattered when Chris Pratt appears off-screen to strangle the attacking dilophosaur followed by an electrocution from his Star Wars sidekick a brief flash of what made Jurassic Park so special before slapping the audience in the face to remind them you're watching Jurassic world this new series conceptually fails to capture the Nuance and meaning inherent to the original novel and film the danger of genetic power in crichton's books surrounded hypothetical commercialization and

mistreatment of cloned animals and the idea of enhancing the behavior of dinosaurs for easier viewing by Park guests dodgson mentions the idea of creating pet pygmy dinosaurs or consumer Biologicals patented miniaturized versions of the animals the domestic households designed only to eat In gen brand and dinosaur food these ideas were suggestions of dangerous Concepts that could stem from technology powerful enough to recreate extinct life forms they were not novels about how crazy it would be to walk down the street and get eaten by rampaging carnivorous dinosaurs or how cool it would be to make a

genetic hybrid that can create its own superpowers whenever it needs them in all honesty a Crichton hybrid would likely have been a sad Lonely diseased husk of an animal much like Hammond's dwarf elephant an ethical statement about tampering with life and using it as a test subject for commercial Ventures but if that's what Crichton wanted the book to be about then he would have written it that way or made another sequel but he didn't it's just like I've seen that like oh Chris but the thing the difference between Creighton and people trying to emulate Creighton

is Creighton was good at it you know an idea can feel like it's within a Creighton universe but if the rest of the dialogue writing and everything else that's written in that screenplay is as far from Creighton as can be the movie isn't like a Michael Wright and film is it Jurassic Park the novel and the film were about genetic technology about ethics in advanced science about corporate greed about dinosaurs and About the chaotic nature of playing God it also featured strong character arcs supporting the surface level sequence of events with an engaging emotionally satisfying

Story the Jurassic world films are about nothing except a sequence of events containing big dumb action scenes nostalgic callbacks to better movies and funding Chris Pratt's church I want to thank God always do that when I'm up on a big platform in front of a bunch of young faces I say I Love God that's my thing I love them and you should too God is real [Applause] as you God wants the best for you believe that I do [Applause] [Music] a major component of Jurassic Park's appeal is within its title a theme park where guests

can finally witness centuries of study accumulated into real living breathing Dinosaurs the Experience of Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler modeling at the Brachiosaurus for the first time is one shed directly with the audience especially those in 1993 witnessing realistic believable dinosaurs rendered on screen for the first time these were are real animals real creatures that truly did exist millions of years ago it's no secret that Jurassic Park took some creative Liberties even with the science available at the time the Velociraptors Should have been renamed to Deinonychus if they were going to appear at that scale

and the dilophosaurus frill and Venom were entirely fabricated But ultimately Spielberg really was trying to present the accurate dinosaurs ever put to film at the time only problems that I had were with the Velociraptor and the dilophosaurus there the details were somewhat questionable the Velociraptor was too big and the dilophosaurus certainly didn't spit Venom presenting theropods as bird-like was a paradigm shift in 93 while more obvious features like feathers were still quite speculative for non-abian Dinosaurs the characters involved were genuinely enthusiastic about these creatures Experts of their creative Fields discussing how their theories held up

alongside seeing the real animals The public's interest in paleontology skyrocketed creating the Jurassic Park generation who have grown Into the current wave of leading paleontologists and paleo artists that we see today Jurassic Park is probably the best thing that ever happened to paleontology more jobs more funding that came from Jurassic Park I don't think we can overstate how important that was to paleontology I probably wouldn't have my job and a lot of my colleagues wouldn't either the first part of the process is doing our research talking to paleontologists reading all of the Research looking at

all the research we can find to be paleontologically correct you have to make sure that the movie's credible when people ask me you know what's a dime what's a dinosaur really look like where can I see a dinosaur by time we go see the movie Jurassic Park the Jurassic world films completely disregard a modern paleo accuracy to instead half-heartedly continue the established aesthetic of the original Films since many new and old species have regressed aesthetically and in their scientific accuracy the incomplete DNA can no longer be used as a crutch especially after the prologue of

dominion featured an Argentinian Giganotosaurus that looks exactly the same as its cloned counterpart roaming North America 30 million years too late and squaring off with the Tyrannosaurus Rex many of the world dinosaurs have a wet wrinkly Plastic look to them with heavily desaturated color palettes compared to the original movies stegosaurs drooped their tails pteranodons look more like giant bats the dimorphodons have rex head syndrome and look like background aliens from Star Wars the Mosasaur is enormous and far too crocodilian similarly most theropods are visually characterized more like crocodiles instead of birds or other types of

lizards and the one time they finally Made a fully feathered Raptor they gave it the ugliest monster phase possible these prehistoric reptiles are not only ugly but are treated with an insultingly mean-spirited monster movie irreverence pterosaurs are shot out of the sky collapsing onto concrete herds of sauropods are mauled and left to die in misery Raptors are blown up with rocket launchers and kitchen stoves or fall out of planes and an entire island of coexisting dinosaurs plummet to their Watery Graves after escaping a cloud of black volcanic ash these moments aren't always intended to be

viewed in a positive light but this just means the films can employ as much gruesome dinosaur death as they like if it means a cheap tug on the heartstrings for the audience not every scene needs to be full of whimsical ore that would get repetitive but the excessive cruelty on display is just disrespectful to the core appeal of the series it's important In these movies that the animals never be characterized as villains because they're not they're just they're doing what they do it's when the humans come in conflict with one another through greed or hate

they find themselves sort of at the mercy of them if Jurassic world wants us to believe that no one cares about dinosaurs anymore becoming mundane and familiar due to the existence of the park an analog to the audience's relationship with the Franchise itself why does it show us crowds of people ecstatic to see the Tyrannosaurus all the mosasaur or the petting zoo in the one place on Earth where these animals are viewable to the public of course people still love dinosaurs and the billion dollar returns of this series prove that people still love the original

Jurassic Park and want to recapture that experience again but what's left now is a shadow of its former self its success derived from Inheritance of the Jurassic Park label getting butts in seats from name recognition and being the only major live-action film series about dinosaurs he's exploiting your enchantment with these I refuse to believe these films inspire a new generation in the same way that Jurassic Park once did due to their treatment of dinosaurs as either bloodthirsty monsters or fodder for shoehorned nostalgic sadness [Music] The Jurassic world films have been released in an era where

these kinds of nostalgic cash grabs are commonplace and in a climate of critical apathy surrounding major Blockbuster films endless trash the rise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the discourse surrounding it from popular figures online have conditioned audiences to trade Standalone quality storytelling for Non-Stop action spectacle and obnoxious dialogue movies aren't meant To be good anymore they're meant to pacify you for two hours and advertise the next five movies in their post-credit scenes fueling click bait speculation online that keeps the ball rolling while waiting for that next teaser trailer it's incredibly rare to see a

modern film that meets halfway maintaining broad appeal without becoming shallow corporate sludge it seems that even with these modern expectations certain commonly accepted Viewpoints still exist to oppose it Terminator and alien are known for their incredible second entries that are sometimes considered superior to the original but are Then followed by a spew of far worse stories to follow Sam raimi's Spider-Man 2 was a phenomenal film but few say the same for the infamous mess that is Spider-Man 3. The Godfather Part 2 was one of the most beloved sequels of all time but the third is

always left out of this Conversation it is not inherently impossible to create a good film sequel but they require a strong vision and an ability to at least somewhat maintain the tone of the original without retreading the same ground if it's not controversial to say that alien and Terminator should have stopped at number two then Jurassic Park should be held to the same standard the lost world was enough made clear by the abysmal Jurassic Park 3. film sequels in Particular pose a dangerous threat more so than many other genres of entertainment as big budget Studio

films continue to dominate the box office and push smaller lower budget films to the Wayside quality filmmaking in the independent space is reserved for limited releases which are very easy to miss while Spider-Man left his wallet at home has multiple showings per day for weeks or months after its release it's a rare sight for a new IP to receive box Office Acclaim 44 of the top 50 highest grossing films of 2021 were sequels or based upon and or featuring elements from existing intellectual property like books stage plays video games and theme park rides compare this

to video games a medium where small independent releases can Triumph alongside giant AAA titles sharing the front page on steam or the best sellers list on the Nintendo eShop games also benefit from the iteration of sequels Focus focusing on improving Mechanics and taking advantage of newer hardware and software as they often don't strictly rely on storytelling as their core strength in the same way as film and literature this medium is a gold mine critically and financially that Jurassic world has shockingly left undisturbed many people are challenged by this suggestion of letting franchises go believing that

the same things must continue indefinitely producing a never-ending Armada of Capital C content For their consumption and preventing newer stories from Gaining footing in the industry why watch something new when you could watch a prequel story about young John Hammond or the 33rd season of The Simpsons unfortunately this is a product of modern popular culture and influencer content encouraging people to base their entire personalities around corporations I've been busting my [ __ ] ass being a Star Wars fan for five [ __ ] years in the Same way going to bat for their box office

results begging for extended Universe material antagonizing those who criticize the brand and generally behaving like [ __ ] parasites desperately awaiting an invitation to a red carpet Premiere among the Hollywood Elite this isn't dissimilar from Funko Pop collecting parents turning their children into slobbering Billboards of their own interests praying that the Next Generation never gets anything original to connect with only being exposed to the same things said parents were already attached to from their own youth this incessant regurgitation of Ip from the late 20th century has conditioned grown adults to latch on to their childhood

in a way that oversteps harmless fun and encroaches on a near-abusive shunning of new ideas blocking a new generation from forming their own interests when do our children Get to have their own Star Wars or Jurassic Park without just being another Star Wars or Jurassic Park film unlike replacing the best attractions at Major theme parks older movies don't have to disappear so long as you're not relying on shoddy streaming services they can have their moment in the sun upon release and still be re-watched endlessly in the future while new stories get to emerge alongside them

you can love the old world still being ready To embrace the truly new this is coming from someone who is featured in an official Jurassic Park toy commercial but you won't see me sucking up to companies like a pathetic leech Jurassic World not a fan realistically what should Jurassic Park have done should it have ended after its second or third entry and being left alone forever is such a thing even possible in this nostalgia-fueled era of Hollywood one series one story has dodged the corporate curse for over three decades it's the only movie franchise I

can think of where the proposal of another film is met with universal vitriol from its core fan base despite the desire from General audiences this is of course the greatest film Trilogy of all time foreign yeah well I'm not going to do Back to the Future anymore three is enough you Know three is a good number and that's all there will ever be a Back to the Future enough is enough we actually had t-shirts made up uh that had Back to the Future before with a circle and a slash through the Roman numeral four Back

to the Future No No at the end of part three it says the end something you rarely see at the end of any movie anymore Back to the Future four never happen and stop asking me the question nope uh it's a Trilogy at the rate Hollywood is going with additional movies it may end up being the only Trilogy so I think three is the perfect amount of sequels that any movie should be done no remakes no back to the music it's true that the sequels to Back to the Future were also a result of corporate

interest the first film performed so well that Universal requested more with or without zemeckis and Gail's involvement not only did they manage to craft two incredible sequels An idea that never occurred to them during production of the original but they obtained creative rights to the series as a means of blocking any further installments from production Back to the Future ended on a high note in 1990 living on through the hearts of fans worldwide remembered as a series of Timeless classics just because there aren't any new films releasing today doesn't mean that new generations can't just

watch what Already exists made 25 years after this film comes out it's still going to be having almost the same interest and viewers as it did when it opened uh nine ten-year-old kids they they know the movies backwards and forwards it's amazing foreign Back to the Future lives on in popular culture for better or worse with supplementary merchandise like toys comic books video games and a Broadway Musical adaptation keeping the series alive without tarnishing its image it's ironic that its beloved theme park ride was replaced by The Simpsons a zombified television show that refuses to

die regardless of its critical reception the absolute total opposite of Back to the Future there's no reason Jurassic Park couldn't have followed in Back to the future's footsteps continue producing their wonderful toy lines for kids and adult Collectors develop video games like the already successful Evolution series and something more akin to the survival horror of Dino Crisis and maybe the occasional non-canon cartoon series or spin-off almost 30 years after its release Jurassic Park is beloved by many you can still buy figures of the Legacy characters like Grant Sattler and Malcolm 4K Blu-rays of every film

adult tailored Lego sets of the Tyrannosaur Breakout dozens of expensive statues for enthusiastic collectors and countless other merchandise themed specifically around the first film will the same ever be said of Jurassic world in 30 years from now who's going to care enough to rush to Target to secure the latest clone baby Funko Pop does anyone even care now without a time machine of our own it's not possible to repair Jurassic Park's reputation by ending the Series in 1997 Or 2001 but it can avoid further missteps if the right calls are made now in the present

day after all the future is what we make of it so let's make it a good one to whom it may concern please stop making Jurassic Park movies thank you for watching foreign foreign [Music]