Even worse than Jurassic World. That's quite something.

This was better than Abrams Star Wars? It was hardly better than Terminator Geni$y$

I totally agree on every point. I agree that IDR was a terrible movie and that JW was an insult to the original series in respect with the few points you listed against it further down the thread.

If you ask me, the whole idea of an genetically modified dinosaur is an insult in itself to begin with. As if nature doesn't provide us already with countless nightmarish beasts in all shapes, forms and sizes in every prehistoric era. There are more than enough "monsters" to go around from the beginning of the long history of life right up until the Pleistocene Megafauna without having to invent nonsensical new ones. As if we could be more creative and resourceful and scary than nature itself. And that's the main problem with the movie, while the original Jurassic Park was a celebration of nature and its wonders ("Life always finds a way"), JW was a celebration of "science", hubris and human stupidity.

Although, to be fair, the original movie also contained warnings against the dangers of science and worked as some sort of cautionary tale ("Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should"), but it also contained a strong admiration, love and respect for nature e.g Grant taking off his glasses seeing Brachiosaurs for the first time.

Jurassic World kinda destroys this sense of awe and wonder the first movie generated insofar as in JP, the viewer gets to observe nature in all its might through a real animal that has existed, the T-Rex, the "King Lizard Tyrant" for God's sake, which ruled the earth for millions of years, not a tricking-cunning-implant-finding-camouflaging-raptor-loving piece of CGI meat called Indominus Rex. Gimme a break!

Now let's not even mention that JW has no soul due to its lack of real animatronic dinosaurs, nor that the effects look more fake than 20 years ago; and don't get me started on the idea of Raptors collaborating with humans or on the idea of setting them loose to chase down terrorists in the caves of Afghanistan. I mean, common.

That being said, i agree, as bad as JW is, IDR is even worse. JW at least had the Mosausaur. IDR had nothing.

I would also throw T: Genesys in the bunch as it was an incomprehensible mess too, yet, again, as pathetic as this one was, it is also still better than IDR in my book. In Genesys, i got to see Arnie playing the Terminator again, Will Smith wasn't even in IDR!

Yeah, IDR is definitively in my top 3 worst sequels ever.


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I agree with this 100%! The Force Awakens and Jurassic World did play it safe by reusing the parts that made the originals so lovable, but it worked. I was able to get moments of genuine enjoyment out of those films, and could almost forget that they were cheap ploys to make more money.
This movie was an atrocity, completely lacking the spirit of the original, and I couldn't believe what I was watching the whole time. It felt like they didn't even try to live up to the original, whereas the TFA and JW at least made an attempt to recapture the magic of their predecessors.