groschopf wrote:Hairy Biker wrote: ↑June 21st, 2021, 2:12 pm Looks like Jurassic World is the big trailer attached to Fast&Furious.
[movie trailer voiceover guy] "Jurassic World III: the dinosaurs get out again... again... again... again again.
Wait — let me try that again! *ahem*
Jurassic World III: because there were so many unanswered questions from the previous five films."
Seriously, I didn't even realize that there had already been a sequel to Jurassic World. And I say that as someone that loved the original film and the Crichton novels.
The Lost World novel was actually pretty good, I thought. But the film deviated so much from the source material, and the film suffered as a result, in my opinion.
Jurassic Park III was even worse because there was no novel to base it upon. The script was so bad, that they had to rewrite it
while they were shooting the movie just to try and salvage something. It showed.
Jurassic World was an interesting idea - what if the park actually worked as intended and people came to think of seeing a T-Rex as the equivalent of seeing an elephant? But of course that isn't interesting enough on its own. You need a "bad guy" dinosaur. The idea of splicing together different types of animal DNA to create a dinosaur was actually something that was explored in the original novel and film. Scientists couldn't create an 100% clone of a dinosaur, so they had to add in frog DNA to fill in the gaps. Frogs in the wild can change their sex so that their species can procreate and survive, which is why the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, which were supposed to be all female, were able to change their sex and procreate. Jurassic World took this concepts too far. Now they were able to create a Frankenstein's monster, combining raptors with tyrannosaurus rex DNA, as well as various other carnivores.
Jurassic World II just doubled down on the DNA splicing. The only part of Jurassic World II that felt like a Jurassic Park movie was the first 5 minutes when a helicopter lands on the island in a thunderstorm and gets attacked by the T-Rex. The rest of it felt more like a Resident Evil story.
I gather that Jurassic World III is about dinosaurs living all over the globe and threatening mankind's existence. I can get behind that, as it was a concept explored in the original novel, with reports of dinosaurs showing up on the mainland. There was one scene were a small carnivore came in through a window and a mother goes into her baby's room to discover her baby being eaten by the small carnivore. Unfortunately, this idea comes on the heels of absurd film after absurd film.