I was not a huge fan of Jurassic World (you can read my review here), but I will readily admit of the other options, it is by far the best sequel to Jurassic Park. The fifth film in the series has a better director in J.A. Bayona (The Impossible, A Monster Calls, The Impossible), but the script is still written by Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow, and the script was one of the biggest problems in that film. One of the most troubling developments in that film was the notion that dinosaurs aren’t impressive enough anymore. That now instead of just normal dinosaurs, we have hybrid dinosaurs, and the weaponization of those dinosaurs by the military seems so so far from just beholding the wonder and danger of these creatures like we did when the jeep pulled up to the Brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park. This trailer makes it look flat out like a monster movie, not a dinosaur movie, and I lose more interest in this sequel the more I see of it. Not even the return of Jeff Goldblum and more misadventures of the world’s worst geneticist, Dr. Henry Wu, can get me excited at this point. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens June 22, 2018. More below from Coming Soon.
Stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return alongside executive producers Steven Spielberg and Colin Trevorrow for Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Pratt and Howard are joined by co-stars James Cromwell, Ted Levine, Justice Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniella Pineda, Toby Jones, Rafe Spall, while BD Wong and Jeff Goldblum reprise their roles.
Directed by J.A. Bayona (The Impossible), the epic action-adventure is written by Jurassic World’s director, Trevorrow, and its co-writer, Derek Connolly. Producers Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley once again partner with Spielberg and Trevorrow in leading the team of filmmakers for this stunning installment. Belén Atienza joins the team as a producer.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will open in theaters on June 22, 2018.
This is one for the DVD watch-list, maybe … somewhere out there there is someone teaching masterclasses in how to completely screw up a franchise, and way too many other someone’s are drinking their cool-aid.
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This director is so much better than this film. Finding Neverland, The Impossible and A Monster Calls are all brilliant films.
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It’s not a good time to be a brilliant artist in Hollywood. Right now being brilliant is the best way to get yourself put into a box with a bunch of comic books and a deadline to write the screenplay you’ll be working from… pending approval by a committee. It occurs to me that maybe Spielberg deserves some leeway with Indy 5. This is the only franchise that belongs to him. Could be he’s just trying to prove that he can swim with the young guns in modern Hollywood. I wish he were beating them all at their game, instead of turning his franchise into the nadir of revived franchises.
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I have no idea what goes on in his head after watching 15 years of disappointments
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It’s entirely possible that he got old, and it doesn’t go deeper than that.
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He got old before he got old….y’know what I mean!
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We saw the first JP, then we saw the facility where the dinosaurs were actually made, and in the last one we saw the park finally open to the public. There is nowhere else to go that is not the height of ridiculousness. The only way I would possibly see this would be if Jeff Goldblum had a really substantial role, since Ian Malcom is one of my favorite film characters of all time. Otherwise, this is not even a rental for me. With movies you sometimes suspend disbelief, but when it comes to the militarization of dinosaurs, I don’t want to. It makes me feel unclean.
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It could be worse; you could have seen Rampage today…..this will have to really try to be worse than that.
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Oh no. 😦
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Not even good bad
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… oh no …
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Saw it coming from a mile away!
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Its worse than that
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No, I was pretty much expecting an Ed Wood movie.
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Those were kinda good bad, this was unfun, hyperviolent, crass and should have been R.
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I wonder…….
Why do they keep coming up with new dinasours that they cant control?… its a narrative i am nit getting the hang of
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I refer you to the world’s worst geneticist: Dr. Henry Wu. Master of the primary mutation…..not so good with predicting further possible mutations. “OHHHH I forgot this might let them breed. OHHHHH shoot, yeah it could turn invisible. Nuts. I’ll get it right in the end.”
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You’re being unfair to Wu. He might have bred raptors without knowing exactly what they were, but at least he could be trusted with the basics of his chosen field. Everyone else remotely connected with InGen, from the top down, was discovered after appearing in an old Stooges short featuring Shemp. At least the military will have control of the dinosaurs now, they’ll know what to do.
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Indominus Rex. The prosecution rests.
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If you could bring an Indominus Rex into existence, wouldn’t you be tempted? I’m not saying you’d go through with it, during tourist season. But Indominus Rex only proves that some people at Universal lost thier minds.
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I’m pointing out Wu forgot he made it so it could turn invisible, after making it possible to allow them to breed. If he wasn’t doing it on purpose, he is awwwwful.
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I suppose I’ve just been venting. It’s been building inside me ever since Hammond came off as avuncular in the first one. THESE PEOPLE ALL DESERVE THE SEVENTH CIRCLE OF HELL, yet they keep making dinosaurs, in film after film after film.
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