JW was better than the rest of the sequels, but this doesn't say much as they were mediocre films anyway.
Jurassic World was the best sequel because it borrows more from the original than the other two. In some ways it's the best sequel, but in others also the worst, imho.
Seeing the park open to the public was like a fan's biggest dream, but at the same time... This isn't really Jurassic Park, it's a commercialized copy, both in park and in movie. The product placement in this film is ridiculous, and no in-story jokes about that can make up for that.
The "Samsung innovation center" in Jurassic World looks like a bloated CGI copy of the original visitors center from Jurassic Park.
What i loved about Jurassic Park was that the architecture had a very distinct look. It all looked like a perfect mixture of a safari park and a museum of natural history. It was a look that made sense. Jurassic Park WAS a safari tour through natural history.
Colin Trevorrow went for a completely different look. More like that of any mainstream themepark like Disneyland.
What also really bugged me is how staged everything happens. The original film had massive electrified fences, and remote controlled armored jeeps running on a monorail track. Jurassic World has glass balls that children are allowed to drive freely in a field full of dangerous animals like Triceratops and Stegosaurs, as if The Lost World hadn't already shown what kind of damage they can do.
We already saw how aggressive Stegosaurs can get when protecting their babies, and i'm pretty sure a Triceratops sends a car flying into a tree later in Lost World.
The security at Jurassic World is laughable, and the way cellphone communication strategically malfunctions like 3 times over is below JP3 levels of stupid.
Then when the kids see a huge gaping hole in the gate with the word RESTRICTED on it, that idiot older brother decides it's a good time to go "off-road". Can anyone still care about that idiot after this? Because i pretty much waited for him to get ripped to pieces by a bunch of raptors after that scene. He's worse than Paul and Amanda Kirby combined in levels of epic stupidity if you ask me. Please, feed that oversexed idiot to the Tricicloplots.
Anyway... Look i really want to love Jurassic World, but every time i watch it, there are cringe moments that seem to stack up as the movie goes along. It does a lot of things right, but it also does plenty wrong. I really dislike how much plot armor InGen has now, and i am not looking forward to the next one. For all it's flaws, Jurassic World was sort of the closing chapter for me. I really can't sit through another one now that Isla Nublar is home to not one but two abandoned themeparks.
See, i liked the dream of seeing Jurassic Park opening up to the public as Hammond envisioned it, but now that we actually have that as a movie, the franchise is DONE. The double layer of destroyed parks is a massive sign that this franchise suffers from a massive continuity stretching.
I can't imagine this next one being anything better than The Lost World at best, but probably worse than any other sequel because Jurassic World was the ultimate canonical endgame of Jurassic Park, imho.
After this, the whole idea of militarized hybrid dinosaurs is so far off from Michael Crichton's original idea, that i really can't see the purpose in making that film. Just make DinoRiders if we really have to go down that route.
In the end, once this franchise is done, i think everyone will be honest, and admit that... Jurassic Park really was just one story. It was never a "franchise" like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, where one big story is being told over three episodic movies, but one story being told in one movie, and then a whole bunch of poorly written sequels that are artificially attached to a finished story.
From my point of view, the true "franchise" ended when Michael Crichton refused Universal's request to write a 3rd book.
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Decomposed
9 years ago
In the end, once this franchise is done, i think everyone will be honest, and admit that... Jurassic Park really was just one story. It was never a "franchise" like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, where one big story is being told over three episodic movies, but one story being told in one movie, and then a whole bunch of poorly written sequels that are artificially attached to a finished story.
Yeap, these are my feelings exactly.
Even though each of the sequels did get a few things right, there is just too much stupidity in them. From the clueless naturalist Nick Van Owen who was the main responsible for most deaths in Sorna to the detestable Kirby family to the laughable "dinos-as-weapons" Hoskins character.
Also, yay for Dino Riders!! I still have the toys 😁😁
For within each death there is always a new life, a new beginning - Dillon, Alien 3
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beyondtbm0914
9 years ago
Jurassic World was the best sequel because it borrows more from the original than the other two.
What i loved about Jurassic Park was that the architecture had a very distinct look. It all looked like a perfect mixture of a safari park and a museum of natural history. It was a look that made sense. Jurassic Park WAS a safari tour through natural history.
i really want to love Jurassic World
For all it's flaws, Jurassic World was sort of the closing chapter for me.
I can't imagine this next one being anything better than The Lost World at best
That's what I liked about this sequel and it included pieces from the original. I think to me part of the reason why JW didn't seem so natural as the first one was because it was more mainstream and modernized. But as Spielberg also said, seeing this movie is like seeing the original come alive. The ending solidified it for me with the original T-Rex and I didn't think another movie would be necessary, but now there is going to be one and it's rumored that more from the original are going to be in it. The Lost World had Tim, Lex and Ian. But 3 had only Ellie and Grant. I just think that it was weird. But I also can't imagine it being anything more than The Lost World with militarization. I don't think it will plummet as much as JW3 but it obviously won't be as good as this first JW.
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Honeybefine
8 years ago
Hate JW, but I don't believe JP is a one and done. However, I've always thought of it should be remade. In like an HBO series (much like West World it's sibling). A closer to the book story with a bit of prequel (i.e how it was it done) would be great.
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