I’m not long back from having seeing Jurassic World; now whilst it is a good film, there are many flaws with it. The first and foremost being that the dinosaurs inspire fear through size and look rather than the cunning of the raptors or ideal of the T-rex that the original used. So this means when you see the Indominus-Rex (the mutant one they cooked up), you don’t hold your breath or clench your knuckles white as you did when the Raptors hunted the kids in the kitchen after opening the door. Here you don’t even respect the power of this creature, you just look at it and think it’s a big dinosaur that can’t be killed, there is in intrinsic sense of fear or terror behind it; which for my money is needed for a Jurassic Park film to work. Which is even more infuriating as initially they had started this creatures arc with signs of intelligence (to escape its cage and remove a tracking implant) but, at the end it just ended up being a big dinosaur that could kill anything in its path through size.
However, the use of this creature is a good attempt at modernising the themes of the original, as it preached that man should not play god “Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun.” As Ian Malcolm phrased it to Hammond in the original film, which is still true here and that very quote came to me during my watching of Jurassic World. As in Jurassic World they are not just making dinosaurs but they are making new dinosaurs, bigger and scarier just to wow audiences at the park for money. They went and made an attraction without though to nature and ended up making a monster rather a dinosaur “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.” Though they did use this to good affect during one section of the film when we see it has hunted for sport not for food, as it has been well established in the series the dinosaurs hunt when hungry or when threatened not for sport. So perhaps this was an attempt by the writers to show that this monster was even more dangerous as it was human in act of hunting for sport.
Alongside its similar representation of the playing god theme of the original it does reference the original many times, which initially was nice for the fans but at one point it became too much. The references started with little things like the DNA character (google it and you’ll know what I mean) appearing on a screen, someone wearing a Jurassic Park T-shirt and a red flare being used to lure a T-rex, which I’d almost say is the best scene in the entire film. Those references were fine but about an hour into the film a sequence where the two kids stumble into the original parks complex happened, which initially was cool but in retrospect I found it detracting from the film as it became impossible not to compare to two. That was bound to happen anyway but just not to the same degree that I find myself doing because of it, and hampered efforts for this to be a new and separate film.
Though that all being said it is still a great film in its own right; as with the original you get Goosebumps from the reveal of the T-rex, you can see the raptors thinking behind their eyes. The sense of awe and wonder may not be the same of the original but it is damn sure close to it; it changes the ratio of man and dinosaur being mixed after 65 million years of evolution and whilst achieving similar effects it takes a different route to achieve it.
If you want to hear more of what I thought of the film head to my channel where I take 30 minutes to discuss everything.
However, the use of this creature is a good attempt at modernising the themes of the original, as it preached that man should not play god “Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun.” As Ian Malcolm phrased it to Hammond in the original film, which is still true here and that very quote came to me during my watching of Jurassic World. As in Jurassic World they are not just making dinosaurs but they are making new dinosaurs, bigger and scarier just to wow audiences at the park for money. They went and made an attraction without though to nature and ended up making a monster rather a dinosaur “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.” Though they did use this to good affect during one section of the film when we see it has hunted for sport not for food, as it has been well established in the series the dinosaurs hunt when hungry or when threatened not for sport. So perhaps this was an attempt by the writers to show that this monster was even more dangerous as it was human in act of hunting for sport.
Alongside its similar representation of the playing god theme of the original it does reference the original many times, which initially was nice for the fans but at one point it became too much. The references started with little things like the DNA character (google it and you’ll know what I mean) appearing on a screen, someone wearing a Jurassic Park T-shirt and a red flare being used to lure a T-rex, which I’d almost say is the best scene in the entire film. Those references were fine but about an hour into the film a sequence where the two kids stumble into the original parks complex happened, which initially was cool but in retrospect I found it detracting from the film as it became impossible not to compare to two. That was bound to happen anyway but just not to the same degree that I find myself doing because of it, and hampered efforts for this to be a new and separate film.
Though that all being said it is still a great film in its own right; as with the original you get Goosebumps from the reveal of the T-rex, you can see the raptors thinking behind their eyes. The sense of awe and wonder may not be the same of the original but it is damn sure close to it; it changes the ratio of man and dinosaur being mixed after 65 million years of evolution and whilst achieving similar effects it takes a different route to achieve it.
8/10.
If you want to hear more of what I thought of the film head to my channel where I take 30 minutes to discuss everything.
