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Jurassic Park 6: Jurassic World 3: Dominion is frustrating because it's the first film in the trilogy with any interesting concepts. Having genetic engineering resonate with climate change works brilliantly: the ecosystem is corrupt and full of mutants, the imagery of dinosaurs wandering the Earth is all quietly apocalyptic, etc. But the characters' narratives mostly suck, and all the action scenes they're involved in are straight garbage. Pretty much every single bad thing in the movie is baggage from the previous films. Like, we gotta put BlueTM, the militarized laser-raptors, and clone girl in there. We gotta 'resolve' the unrequited love story from Jurassic Park 3. We're gonna have the T-Rex from JP1 do more baffling fan-service, like anyone gives a poo poo. Ohmigod, it's Dodgson?!!! This poo poo bites. The only really good characters are whistleblower guy and the remorseful Dr. Wu.
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A Fancy Hat posted:The nanny death is weird because it's insanely violent and elaborate compared to the rest of the movie, then nobody mentions her after that. The entire Jurassic World trilogy is so bloodless and unmemorable, but this feels like something from a straight-up dinosaur horror movie. There was originally a subplot in the film, where the older brother is a bully to his autistic younger brother and a general shithead. In that context, the violence against the babysitter is an explosion of misogynistic psychosexual violence unleashed by the monster, which acts as the bully’s dark counterpart. Note the reference to Hitchcock’s Birds, and the otherwise-pointless detail that the monster killed its own brother(!!!). Seeing the horror of the fantasy made real would scare the bully straight and lead to him being a better sibling. This was actually a key component of the narrative, since it’s also the ostensible point of the two leads becoming surrogate parents at the end. Kid became a bully because his parents are getting divorced. Without the bullying subplot, ghastly things just happen without narrative.
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