The Jusassic movies, as well as the source material, are sci-fi fantasy, a dollop of science and a whole lot of fantasy, similar to the Terminator series and just about every space opera, up to and including Star Wars, Star Trek and Avatar and the Alien series. Shortly after the first JP was released, real scientists were explaning how DNA could not be extracted from dino fossils. They need to be viewed as fantasy, just like Game of Thrones  with only special effects relationships to Walking with Dinosaurs. They are NOT in any way, to be seen as documentaries any more than THEM was to be seen as a tome on entomology.

Feathered dinos. When the book was written and the first movie made, the evidence for that had not been discovered. I believe it has been explained away by the use of modern reptile DNA to fill in the blanks.

That said, while I enjoyed the JW:D, it felt much like a James Bond movie with a megabillionaire threatening the world for his profit and included that very Bond-like chase in the middle. 

In short, this movie is best enjoyed while wearing our 9 year old selves' dino-geek shirts. 

Well, not only are the Velociraptors oversize but the most recent research shows them being covered in feathers. Though they're kinda limited in having the 'raptors in the original Jurassic Park in the more lizard version so I guess they don't want to change now. 

There are worse films though. Like 1955's 'King Dinosaur'. I know that the technology back then wasn't that great. But still I think most people know a T. rex wasn't a four-legged animal. Using a modern lizard as a stand-in was um well strange. And there were older movies using stop-motion animated T.rex's that were bipedal. 

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JohnnyK

 

 

disastermaster

 Good grief, where is King Kong when you need him.

 

 

 

 

Yes, yes!  That would make for a really fun movie. Let's throw in  Baragon, Mothra, and Ghidorah for a really crazy movie. 

 

 

 

 

Nah, they already did most of that back in 2019 with Godzilla:  King of the Monsters.

 

I think Rob is accurate in his assessment:  the Jurassic Park movies are simply new versions of the old monster movies that many of us enjoyed when we were kids.  Them. Godzilla.  King Kong.  The Valley of Gwangi.  Only with far better visual effects.

 

Yeah Kong is busy fighting Godzilla! 

The thing with me is Godzilla/Gamera etc are clearly monster films. Dinosaurs were real animals so the over-the-top crazy stuff is a little much for me. Although we've seen the same thing with real world critters like sharks being portrayed as super monsters. Some people argue if 'Jaws' is a 'monster' film or not. Guess it's up to your own viewpoint.  

JohnnyK

 

 

disastermaster

 Good grief, where is King Kong when you need him.

 

 

 

 

Yes, yes!  That would make for a really fun movie. Let's throw in  Baragon, Mothra, and Ghidorah for a really crazy movie. 

 

I think Rob is accurate in his assessment:  the Jurassic Park movies are simply new versions of the old monster movies that many of us enjoyed when we were kids.  Them. Godzilla.  King Kong.  The Valley of Gwangi.  Only with far better visual effects.

disastermaster

 Good grief, where is King Kong when you need him.

 

JohnnyK

JWD is a good, fun action movie; however, having dinos coexisting with humans is an absurd concept. The opening scene shows a flying dino building a nest on the top of One World Trade Center. WHAT!!!!! A T-Rex is shown walking through an outdoor movie being chased by a police helicopter. HUH!!!

Good grief, where is King Kong when you need him.

In Jurassic World Dominion there are a number of important references to the previous Jurassic movies. Such as a mosquito biting a dying T-Rex.  Maybe I should watch the previous 5 movies and go see JWD again. It might make more sense if I did that. 

JWD is a good, fun action movie; however, having dinos coexisting with humans is an absurd concept. The opening scene shows a flying dino building a nest on the top of One World Trade Center. WHAT!!!!! A T-Rex is shown walking through an outdoor movie being chased by a police helicopter. HUH!!! 

Maybe I should go watch it again as a toung-in-cheek movie?

Jeff Goldblum's character (the non-dinosaur doctor/mathematician) is the naysayer in the first movie, the star of the second movie (Lost World) and plays a vital role in the 6th movie. He has a cameo in the fifth movie that sort of sets up his appearance in the final/sixth movie.

The biggest "insane" act is the importation of dinosaurs in the second and fourth movies. The second most insane act is dinosaurs deciding to have death matches or eat humans when the world around them is exploding and burning. Normally, survival instinct kicks in for most living creatures and they flee the area.

Yeah, like any government would allow these deadly creatures to be brought into America or European countries.

These are just another spin on the monster movies we grew up with; instead of giant irradiated ants or Tokyo destroying lizards, we're getting "actual" dinosaurs terrorizing humans.

Hi Rob:

        I only saw the original. Knowing something about the World(Thank You,National Geographic) I saw the average premise, Rogue science makes another Miracle! But, figgured no one in the movie audience remembered from science class that You don't fool with nature. If fish can change sexes for survival so can amphibians! When the Scientist in the movie said they were all Females I knew there was trouble ahead! They spliced Frog D.N.A. Viola'! Eggs get laid and the pressure is off to reproduce, For there are now Males! The premise was interesting though.

JohnnyK

Jurassic Park Dominion

Actually, the name of the movie is Jurassic World: Dominion.

I enjoyed the movie. I watched the original movie, Jurassic Park, the day my daughter was born. I read the book a few years before I saw the movie. I bought it at the Stars & Stripes bookstore in Germany. I bought the second book, The Lost World, when I was stationed at Fort Leavenworth in 1996, but only got around to reading it last year. I still had the original sales receipt inside the book.

The bad guy from Jurassic World: Dominion, Lewis Dodgson, had a bit part in the first movie, but was a major player in the second book, The Lost World. The second movie bore little resemblance to the second book. The third movie had more plotlines from the original book. He wasn't in the next two movies, and he dies in the second book.

Actually, a lot of characters that make appearances in the six movies die in the books. Dr. Wu dies in the first book, but plays a larger part in the final movie.

Probably the most absurd part of the movie is the way they've allowed dinosaurs to roam the world, especially ones that can eat people. Smaller ones would be like those iguanas and pythons that infest Florida, hard to eradicate.

But the giant ones and the flying ones would be fairly easy to eliminate.

First Jurassic Park movie is good the sequals just get worse after that. The latest one is just another movie in the long list of franchises Hollywood keeps trying to milk for nostalgia. 

One of my super powers is the ability to ignore plot holes, problematic realities, and whatever other issues can come out of movies like this. This is a movie made for people like me, people who just want to see dinosaurs eating people.  This movie featured enough of that to keep me interested in its outlandish plot.

Had I made this movie, I would have followed through on the implication of its predecessor, meaning dinosaurs rule the earth again and mankind faces extinction. But that likely goes over like a wet fart in church. Even so, fun time at the movies.