I saw the movie on the weekend and I liked it. Much better than the last two, but obviously not as good as the first one.
I can’t wait for Jurassic World 6 when we send the dinosaurs to space!
Fast and Furious went to space, why not the Jurassic Park franchise too!
Genuinely flabbergasted people financially support, and thus incentivise this garbage.
First one was grand, didn’t need to be followed up or remade. Now we have a franchise… The only remake I wouldn’t mind seeing is a more brutal first one, closer to what the book was depicting. All I’d be interested in really.
Both this and Five Nights at Freddy’s have an interesting problem, where they’re based around an entertainment franchise that goes wrong - but the franchise itself necessitates repeated attempts and failure.
I remember trying to like the lost world but I just can’t. Only the first is worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Y9iXjK_uU
Jurassic Park’s Sequel Problem
This video is 7 years old and still relevant.
Wtf was the point of this entire film? Like why?
Money
IDK, maybe this?
There is a shifting of themes that basically tracks with the corporate takeover of the US government.
- (1993) Companies fucking around with systems they don’t understand is the problem. Rich guy underestimates nature.
- (1997) Rich guy learned lesson. Corporate greed did not.
- (2001) post-dotcom crash: A rich fucker and his stupid family learn the lesson about the company that fucked with nature. Governments are bad for not interveneing.
- (2015) post-Birther: Company and its rich founder are naive and innocent. US Government and US education are the bad guys.
- (2018) Corporate suits are the good guys. Science is the bad guys.
- (2022) A (suddenly) European company is the bad guys. Science is again the bad guy. Americans are the good guys.
- (2025) The US company and Military are the good guys.
I do agree with the main point of your post; however, I feel that your reasoning is backwards.
Big blockbusters give the masses a dose of placebo. You see a movie where people who hold your values win, so you feel like it happened in real life, so you’re less likely to make it happen in real life.
So I’m not spoiling this movie, look at the MCU instead: They defeated Thanos and stopped half the world’s population from disappearing, and then we failed to properly fight COVID and Donald Trump gained power.
Now, I know correlation doesn’t equal causation, and that there were other factors at play, but I also know that when you perceive the image of something, it activates the same neurons as actually seeing that thing - when you watch The Notebook or Armageddon, you feel the emotions of the characters in the film, and you cry.
That, combined with the other psychological tactics that we are constantly being bombarded with, make it difficult for us to navigate the world with a clear head. When you feel like you’re winning, why would you fight?
And also, a TON of people are straight apathetic, and a lot more are just plain-old stupid. And there are dozens or hundreds of other factors such as personality of the audience, socioeconomics, religious beliefs, etc… that come into play here as well. It’s not quite as cut-and-dry as “monkey see, monkey feels as though it has done,” but that does play a large factor in it.
I typed all this but didn’t proofread any of it, so I hope it makes sense. I’m sleepy.
Did you actually see the 2025 movie? No way the theme you got from that is US Corpo good. If anything g it’s literally the opposite.
I didn’t see anything else than 2025. Pretty bad.
But...(spoiler)
But the main character literally decides to open-source the data instead of selling it to a pharma corp.
I saw the latest fuckrassic park a couple days ago. It was at best… okay. Not worth what the movie theater charges. But if you wait to stream it then it isn’t terrible. But overall, this franchise has lost its luster
That’s the big issue with going to the theatre. Two tickets, popcorn and a drink for my wife and I and I’m paying $50+ in Canada. I think the last movie we saw in theatres was dr strange 2 and it wasn’t worth it, before that it was avengers end game. 99% of movies just aren’t worth going to the movies for. I haven’t seen a film i would say was 100% worth it since Fury Road. Everything else im fine watching at home. Better resolution, i have a good screen and sound. And I can pause to go take a piss
Yeah we have similar prices (US). The tickets were $27 (for my wife and myself) and $7 for a coke. If we get popcorn and snacks its just about $50+, depending on what we get. We get snacks beforehand and just hide them in my wifes purse like most people. I used to love going to the movies for the whole experience. But it just keeps getting more expensive and as of late, no good movies are coming out.
The premise of dinosaurs in the modern world is as close to evergreen as you can get. The problem isn’t that the cow has gone dry, so much as the farmers keep jerking off the bull instead.
Eh, if Michael Chrichton were still alive today he’d probably condone it all so long as he got his royalty check. Jurassic Park canon was never holy.
Hey, corporation needed to look ‘good’ so it was obvious they would scrap the shitty CEO of the Book and put ‘Santa Claus’ in his place, right?
Wait, what?
The actor is the same from the 90’s Miracle on 34th Street
Happy july-sixth park
if yeah want an amazing dinosaur park media, check out Dinosaur Sanctuary.
they treat the dinosaurs as animals, and the whole plot revolves around the upkeep of the zoo.
it was cowritten by a paleontologist and a manga artist.
that manga speaks to my soul as I worked in a zoo when I was 18 to 21. it really hits my nostalgia,
I saw the new one with my father in law today, after not having seen one since the original trilogy. It was just not good. I’m usually able to turn off my brain and enjoy a movie regardless of the quality, but there were so many things that didn’t make sense, or were glossed over without explanation, that I just couldn’t suspend my disbelief.
I’m sorry, new one? You mean from like 2019 right?
Right‽
You know there’s a new version out in the theaters, now. Right?
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I, for one, did not
Can we go back to “trilogy”?
Jurassic, the pressure builds up!..how the new oil fields get created from scratch.
I’m looking forward to Jurassic Park 9: The Secrets of Dumbledore
it’s just a gay porno with a dude in one of those memable T-Rex costumes
