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Jurassic Park was a one-off. by blackwater 07/12/2022, 11:31pm PDT
There are some movies that just don't really lend themselves to sequels. They just get say everything that has to be said, and tie up all the plot threads that need to be tied up, and there's nowhere for a sequel to go, nothing for it to do. Highlander is the classic example.

I'd say Jurassic Park fits this mold too. The theme is basically that of Frankenstein. Man meddles with nature, gets his comeuppance. There's also a romance subplot which is pretty well done, and the story of Hammond himself, the Dr. Frankenstein of this particular morality tale. Plus a few throwaway characters -- the bloodsucking lawyer, the overconfident british (?) hunter guy. All that gets wrapped up with a nice bow by the end. You don't really leave the movie wondering how anything turned out or eager for more.

Jurassic Park is so well-executed that most people don't spot how contrived the plot is. Think about it for a moment. When you last went to a zoo, did they have electric fences controlled by a central computer holding back dangerous animals? No, because that would be stupid. Dangerous animals are kept behind physical walls appropriate to the animal. If there are flying animals that are dangerous, they're in an enclosure so that they can't fly out. This may kind of suck for the animals, who would rather be outside, but it's pretty basic to running a ZOO. If you are going to run things like a safari and let animals go wherever they want, you are going to have to give everyone weapons, and probably not invite the kids.

Which brings me to another point. Jurassic Park also really overstates how dangerous dinosaurs would be to humans. Sure, they're big, and tough, and maybe they're smarter than you think, all that stuff. So are elephants. Honestly, so were most of the animals that humans have driven extinct over the years. Wow, they can open doors and climb trees! So can bears. Dinos would be a pretty soft target for modern weapons, as long as you have something large-caliber.

JP stacks the deck by having the dinosaurs chase after literal children. And I think there's literally only one guy who shoots a gun at the rampaging dinosaurs (I'm sure some internet autist will correct me, but that's what I remember from the 1990s.) And it's fine. It's fine to stack the deck, because that's how you create jeopardy and a sense of danger. But it turns the sequels into a farce because they have to pretend that the dinos are much more dangerous than they are to keep up that sense of danger. And the humans also have to be much stupider than anyone would really be.

Hammond makes a lot of really bad and totally avoidable decisions, which gets justified as part of his tragic flaws (hubris, overconfidence, etc.) But again, there's no reason for anyone in THE SEQUELS to make those same bad decisions. So the bad decisions in Jurassic World just look like what they are, obvious contrivances to keep the plot on the rails.

Overall, JP was a classic 1990s movie. There was this new world that was dawning all around. Genetic engineering! Powerful computers! (Let's not forget computers still seemed weird back then) Lifelike computer graphics! The fall of the Soviet Union, even. There was a sense of wonder about it all, but also a fear that the new technologies would not work out. JP was one part wild-eyed Spielbergian adventure, one part Mary Shelley's Frankeinstein, and one part Michael Crichton's tech nerd futurism. The combination goes down well, but it's a period piece that couldn't be made today.

And honestly the "moral" of the story is a bit threadbare. Computers did cause problems, but not exactly the ones Crichton forsaw. And anyway we are not going back to our pre-computerized world. Genetic engineering exists but it's been mostly incremental in its effects rather than revolutionary. The fears turned out to be overblown. Maybe someday humanity will overreach and destroy itself through adopting new technology too fast, but we're currently engaged in destroying ourselves by adopting new technology too slowly, so the whole morality lesson feels stale.

The sequels have mostly just been remaking the same damn movie but without what made the original movie good. So, like Highlander, it's time to just let it die. Or if you must remake it, then just do a scene-by-scene remake. It will be shit but you'll get to "diversify" the cast and add better CGI.
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Jurassic World by laudablepuss 02/02/2015, 7:14am PST NEW
    Eyes rolling out of my head, down the aisle, out of the theater into the parking NT by Rafiki 07/01/2015, 8:35pm PDT NEW
    I would have settled for NO FUCKING KIDS by fabio 07/01/2015, 8:39pm PDT NEW
        It's been pulled off successfully a few times, but it's hit and miss for sure by Eurotrash 07/01/2015, 11:10pm PDT NEW
            It's a definite miss, and so is the whole movie by Rafiki 07/02/2015, 10:21am PDT NEW
                I'm wondering when Wu turned into a cardboard cut out mad scientist NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/02/2015, 6:01pm PDT NEW
        Every thriller with kids needs to cast the two girls from Mama by Oom Shnibble 07/14/2015, 1:18am PDT NEW
        SPOILER WARNING DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN JURASSIC WORLD by ALSO WAIT UNTIL IT'S ON CABLE 07/20/2015, 10:17pm PDT NEW
    I felt like the movie was trying to tell me I am a faggot for liking dinosaurs by more than making babies. 07/20/2015, 7:40pm PDT NEW
    It's a rehash of the first Jurassic Park by Blackwater 10/07/2015, 1:10am PDT NEW
        The SUPER-DINOSAUR and MILITARY VELOCIRAPTORS bits were new by WITTGENSTEIN 10/07/2015, 8:37am PDT NEW
    These Jurassic World movies are complete nonsense! by Roop 07/08/2022, 6:53am PDT NEW
        Re: These Jurassic World movies are complete nonsense! by laudablepuss 07/09/2022, 8:15am PDT NEW
            Re: These Jurassic World movies are complete nonsense! by Roop 07/09/2022, 4:31pm PDT NEW
                Re: These Jurassic World movies are complete nonsense! by Mischief Maker 07/09/2022, 4:51pm PDT NEW
                    They act like that poop would be safe to dig through. And no gas masks!? NT by Also no farts! 07/09/2022, 8:53pm PDT NEW
        I like to imagine reading this post in an Adam West voice by blackwater 07/12/2022, 10:48pm PDT NEW
        Jurassic Park was a one-off. by blackwater 07/12/2022, 11:31pm PDT NEW
 
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