Everything in (dinosaur) history you need to know before watching Jurassic World: Dominion
From Giganotosaurus to genetically-engineered children, make sure you're caught up ahead of the Jurassic Park franchise finale
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The original Jurassic Park turns 30 next year. Its impact cannot be overstated as a blockbuster work of entertainment, as a technical achievement, as an historic moneymaker for everyone involved. While in an era of indefatigable intellectual property few sequels ever truly mark the definitive end of a franchise, Emily Carmichael and co-writer and director Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion, opening June 10, at least appears to bring its story to some sort of resolution. To ready moviegoers for what to expect, The A.V. Club has put together a “primer” to prepare them for the prehistoric adventure that’s now 65 million and thirty years in the making.
Starting with the science
Back in 1993, International Genetic Technologies, Inc., also known as InGen, extracted DNA from fossilized mosquitoes preserved in amber, and used genetic engineering to clone dinosaurs. Where the animals’ genetic sequences were incomplete, scientists used materials from living reptiles to fill on those spaces; this has repeatedly caused unexpected abnormalities in their genetic makeup, enabling them to adapt both against protective measures InGen developed to control the dinosaur population, as well as larger environmental conditions they face because of being bred in captivity.
At the behest of the company’s now-deceased CEO John Hammond (Sir Richard Attenborough), InGen built Jurassic Park on the fictional Central American island of Isla Nublar as a destination theme park and animal preserve where ticket holders can see and interact with dinosaurs. Before opening it to the public, Hammond invited a team of experts to the park, and their experiences not only set the franchise into motion, but established the pattern that virtually all of the sequels followed up to and including Jurassic World Dominion.
For the latest film, a company called Biosyn, one of InGen’s corpoirate rivals, has acquired worldwide rights to capture and detain dinosaurs, an opportunity that the company’s CEO Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott) leverages for military and scientific purposes. Dodgson made a brief appearance in Jurassic Park, played by Cameron Thor.
Ask the experts
Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) were the first scientists to visit Jurassic Park. Grant, a paleontologist, Sattler, a Paleobotanist, and Malcolm, a chaos theorist, express a variety of doubts about the science utilized to bring dinosaurs back to life—some individual to their area of expertise, and some overlapping as ethically-minded scientists—and many of them are legitimized when a combination of human error and criminality leads to the animals escaping their enclosures, attacking visitors, and eventually causing some brutal casualties.
Malcolm returned for The Lost World (1997), Grant for Jurassic Park III (2001), and Malcolm made a brief appearance in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom speaking in front of government officials as subsequent generations of ambitious businessmen have attempted to fulfill Hammond’s dreams, repeating many of his mistakes in the process. All three return for Dominion: when Sattler investigates evidence that Biosyn has resurrected (or created) a specific of prehistoric locusts that begins devastating wheat crops in the American Midwest, she recruits Grant to help verify her findings. The two of them receive an invitation to Biosyn’s animal preserve and scientific headquarters, thanks to Ian Malcolm, who Dodgson hired to train and motivate his staff despite the scientist’s aptitude for disruption, and, well, chaos.
In the meantime, biotechnologist Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong) has worked for since the original Jurassic Park, first for InGen and later for Biosyn, as one of the chief engineers of the dinosaurs that have not only run rampant across almost all of both corporations’ financial plans, but through his direct efforts, recombined known science to give them skills and abilities they never had before.
Caretakers of the next Jurassic era
While Dr. Wu returns in the Jurassic World films, and plays a pivotal role in Dominion to relieve the damage that his corporate overlords caused, a number of younger characters have taken over for the original Jurassic Park scientists to try and shepherd the franchise into a new era.
The two most important individuals are Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard. Grady is an ex-Navy veteran and a trainer for the velociraptors—specifically Blue, the genetically engineered raptor that becomes a pawn in both Jurassic World (2015) and Fallen Kingdom (2018) as moneyed and unscrupulous parties decide that these deadly predators should be used for military use. Dearing is the former manager of Jurassic World, who develops a more empathetic perspective towards dinosaurs after her all-business worldview gets completely shattered by the events of Jurassic World. Through their experiences at the park, Grady and Dearing rekindle a romance with one another that they maintain through Dominion.
Also making an appearance in Dominion is Barry Sembène (Omar Sy), an animal trainer who worked alongside Grady at Jurassic World. After last being seen narrowly escaping being murdered by a velociraptor, Sembène joins the CIA to track dinosaur poachers, leading him to reconnect with Grady in the events of the new film. The person who leads Grady to Sembène is Franklin Webb (Justice Smith), a former technician at Jurassic World who appeared in Fallen Kingdom. He lands a job at the F.B.I., where he works on cases involving dangerous animals.
A missing link
The character from the previous films you have the most difficulty remembering—or recognizing her importance—is Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon). She first appeared in Fallen Kingdom, the nine-year-old granddaughter daughter of Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell). She is actually a clone of her mother Charlotte (Elva Trill), and comes to embody the scientific potential unlocked by the experts who were able to clone disosaurs. After Benjamin passes away, Grady and Dearing comfort her, establishing trust, and they (and good ol’ Blue) later rescue her from being eaten by the Indoraptor. At the beginning of Dominion, Grady and Dearing raise her in secrecy to protect her from interested parties who want to acquire and study her for their own nefarious purposes. She soon becomes a pawn between Grady, Dearing and ruthless mercenaries.
The new blood
In Dominion, Grady and Dearing cross paths with Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise), a former Air Force pilot and soldier of fortune who agrees to help them rescue Maisie after she transports her and Blue’s offspring into the hands of mercenaries. She is resourceful, and knowledgeable about the dinosaurs—particularly the new ones.
Meanwhile at Biosyn’s science facility, Sattler and Grant are introduced to Ramsay Cole (Mamoudou Athie), one of Malcolm’s proteges who not only leads them on a tour of the facility but monitors them as they try to seek the evidence of Biosyn’s corporate malfeasance.
Don’t forget about the dinosaurs
Blue was mentioned above—as was the animal’s baby, whom Maisie calls Beta, who makes its appearance here for the first time. But the film features a handful for dinosaur species from earlier films, including Ankylosaurus, which wields its bulbous tail like a club; the mammoth, awe-inspiring, cow-like Brachiosaurus; Triceratops; and the horse-like Parasaurolophus. There’s also the terrifying Dilophosaurus, whose colorful signals that it plans to strike at its victim with a venomous spray. And last but never least, there’s the Tyrannosaurus Rex, in fact the same beast from the original film as it has fought—and almost died—to prevail as the king of a particularly volatile food chain.
Among the new dinosaurs making their introduction in Dominion are the Atrociraptor, a feathered predator that exemplifies humankind’s evolving understanding of dinosaurs as genetic descendants of birds; and Giganotosaurus, yet another super-predator whose size exceeds that of the Tyrannosaur and follows in the series of ever-bigger dinosaurs that scientists unadvisably engineer, only for them to turn on their makers (and anyone else within biting range).
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“exemplifies humankind’s evolving understanding of dinosaurs as genetic descendants of birds” It is the other way around.
Everything you need to know (and remember) before watching – and half of the plot of – Jurassic World: Dominion.Fixed that headline for you. Thought it was a recap of all the previous movies, but it also explains so many things from the new one that I imagine a lot of us would like to have discovered for ourselves. I was curious about how they bring the original three back into the story, but now I don’t have to wonder. Thanks, guys. Now I can save time by showing up a half hour late to the movie.
No, don’t do that – there’s (almost) always a cool dinosaur setpiece cold open.
Best opener is Lost World., hands down. That little girl getting death by a thousand cuts from lil’ dino gremlins fucked me up.
half hour late won’t even get you passed the trailers.
yeah I started reading this and was like “what the hell?” Did AV Club get an early screener and seriously think it’s in good taste to discuss plot points a few days before premiere? Come the hell on.
“six million and thirty years in the making.”Sixty five million years, maybe?Glad Omar Sy is getting more work though, I like him in Lupin.
Six *thousand* and thirty years, thank you.
Yep and they disappeared because the dinosaurs fell off the side of the Earth after Jesus lured them there
No you idiot they fell into a big hole and now live in the center of the hollow earth. Don’t you know anything?
“director Colin Trevorrow” no thanks
Everything you need to know (and remember) before watching Jurassic World: Dominion- You don’t have to do this
– You don’t have to pay to spend 3 hours of your life watching a so-so movie that mostly gets by on your nostalgia for a genuinely great movie from 30 years ago
– The original Jurassic Park is available for purchase/rental on many media formats and streaming platforms
– The original Jurassic Park is available for purchase/rental on many media formats and streaming platforms seems to run constantly on a loop on about a dozen basic cable channels.FTFY
During the height of lock down when pop up drive ins became a thing, one of them by me ran Jurassic Park. It was so fun to watch it outside and the fact that it started to rain right when the storm rolls in during the movie made feel like a 4D experience. I recommend everyone see it that way(outside in the rain)
I first saw the original in ‘93 at a drive-in movie theater in Nebraska (back when drive-ins were fairly commonplace and played new releases). As a dinosaur-obsessed kid, it’s still probably my favorite movie-going experience.
I genuinely don’t get this take. Nobody has to do anything, but “dinosaurs fighting” is pretty high on my list of stuff I’d spend $20 to see on a giant screen. If it makes people happy, who cares?
I want to give you more stars.
Also, they’ve been trying to recapture the magic of the original movie for 30 years, and they’ve failed every time. Does anyone really think that the fifth time is gonna be the charm?
Pretty sure at this point they’re just hunting around for a genre they can jump on.
In that case, they should just do a dinosaur spring break sex comedy like everyone wants.
They did, Turbotastic—it’s called Tammy and the T-Rex, and it stars Denise Richards.It is…gloriously stupid.
It looks fun. I don’t always need amazing. Sometimes just pure mindless fun is good. And I enjoy the theater experience. So I’ll see it once. I won’t buy the dvd, but I will see it once in theaters.
Unfortunately I will definitely be seeing it opening weekend because I have small children who are obsessed with all things dinosaurs, and they have been hotly anticipating the return of Owen, Claire, and Blue, I shit you not. I have no idea why those characters connect with them, but they really, really do, and they can’t fuckin wait for this movie.
Everyone should be watching the amazing new David Attenborough dinosaur miniseries on Apple TV+ instead of this.
That’s what the JURASSIC Universe needs—Richard Attenborough’s knighted kid brother!
“Everything you don’t need to give a shit about because you’re there for dinosaurs and air conditioning, not the stupid fucking world-building.”
Randomly last summer when I saw The Suicide Squad the theatre didn’t have the A.C. on. So uncomfortable.
I wouldn’t have stayed. I go to the movies to be entertained while I freeze my balls off
Randomly last summer when I saw The Suicide Squad the theatre didn’t have the A.C. on. So uncomfortable.For a second, I thought you were talking about the 2016 movie, and I was ready to call the theater.
It can’t be as bad as Fallen Kingdom…or can it?
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I enjoyed Fallen Kingdom more than World because it at least attempted to go in a different direction (results may vary, granted). But my expectation is that Dominion will be convoluted and disappointing and conveniently open-ended.But I’ll still watch it at full price.
There is exactly one (1) good scene in all of Fallen Kingdom. One.And it’s the brachiosaurus on the dock.The rest of the movie is trash.
Everything you need to know:
You can watch the first movie and skip everything after that. You’re welcome!
The feathered fella is the Pyroraptor. The Atrociraptors are the white and orange ones that look more like JP “velociraptors.”
So many haters here. Don’t watch it if you don’t like the new ones.
I loved JP1, it was epic to watch as a kid in theaters, the sequels to it were definitely lackluster but entertaining. I’m a fan of the Jurassic World flicks though, you’ll never get that thrill back you got from the first one but that’s OK. They’re popcorn flicks, not think pieces.
Dinos are the ancestors of birds, not their descendants. Also, since this film is bringing back old characters, why don’t they bring back Roland the hunter from JP2? He was cool
Pete Postlethwaite died 11 years ago.
he died like right after Inception I think. Still though- there are look alikes! Recast him!
Well, I tried calling Pete Postlethwaite’s agent, but he claims Pete is “unavailable,” whatever that means.
He’s a bit under the ground, er, weather the past few years
And really, birds are (one small surviving branch of) dinosaurs. It’s like when people say humans are “descended from apes”–nah, we just are (weird, frail, naked) apes.
there but for the grace of god and all that
Right, but the article says “dinosaurs as genetic descendants of birds”. Even figuratively, that’s backwards.
Oh, definitely. Wasn’t trying to correct OP, just adding more context.
But if that’s true then why do we still have…. Oh wait./s
Man I hated that guy. But thanks for pointing out the Ancestor -> Descendent relationship relative to time. That was bothering me too…
Anyone who complains about “Unobtainium” in Avatar( even though that is an actual slang term ) should refuse to see any movie that has a large dinosaur named “Gigantosaurus” in it based on principals alone.
Anyone who complains about “Unobtainium” in Avatar( even though that is an actual slang term ) should refuse to see any movie that has a large dinosaur named “Gigantosaurus” in it based on principals alone.“Wait, so this guy is named Blade and he just runs around with a sword? This is really fucking with my suspension of disbelief, man.”
Wait, so this guy is named Blade and he just runs around with a sword? I’ll go ahead and blame J. M. Barrie for this attitude – in the book, Peter Pan’s antagonist is named James Hook, and was named that before the whole crocodile incident.
That’s one of my favorite things. I have no issue with that. Perfect verisimilitude is for literary fiction.
It’s Giganotosaurus thank you very much. I’m assuming the Wikipedia link won’t work though…
Giganotosaurus – Wikipedia
I do, and I will!
Giganotosaurus was an actual dinosaur, not a creation of the movie and it’s in-universe scientists. There’s fossils of it and everything. Whether or not the name is too on the nose, it didn’t come from the filmmakers.
Or you know… just remember this…Part 1, awesome!Part 2 shitPart 3 Shit againPart 4 Okay fan service (just for the final fight)Part 5 Return of the Shit!
No mention of Camp Cretaceous during all this JP coverage. I mean, I couldn’t get past 1 episode (I hate that CGI animation style), but it seems to be running like 4 seasons now?
Real dinosaurs (at least the very large ones) wouldn’t be possible today, due to the fact their bodies were adapted to a very different atmosphere composition than we have today. They couldn’t breathe. Juzt like those sci-fi shows were people become minaturized or grow super large. Their bodies couldn’t process the oxygen miolecules in the air. I think Marvel’s Ant-Man got around that with the helmet he wore. I assume it processed the air for him.Yeah, I’m just bored as hell.
counterpoint, they do it in the movies so they can.
The frog DNA helps them breathe better
A science wizard did it!
The best sorts of wizards.
Oh, no…
Poor Nilus’s brain is broken from watching too much of that Hack Fraud Alex Kurtzman’s shitting all over STAR TREK.
Here’s that generic cola beverage I owe you, Norm Chomsky….
The answer to virtually every inaccuracy like this in the Jurassic Park universe is that Wu engineered the dinosaurs that way. The original clones couldn’t breathe in our atmosphere? Wu dropped in some frog lung genes. T-rexes should have feathers? Wu removed the feathers because 1990s park attendees wouldn’t have expected to see them. And so on. It’s like a DNA “wizard did it” out.
Yeah, I’m just bored as hell.So are the people who got to this line and still typed their “relax, man” replies.
Don’t look at me—I gave you an upvote!Is there an easy-to-find link you can post here, or should I just use my Google-Fu to find it for myself…?
It’s not that they “couldn’t process the oxygen molecules”, it’s that today’s atmosphere has less oxygen in it.
Is that you, Neil deGrasse Tyson?
Life, uhhh…life finds a way.
Life, uhhh…life finds a way.
Yes, this, thank you, they literally covered how they can do it in the first Jurassic Park. Of all the Jurassic Park Universe critics the “this could NEVER happen” ones are the weirdest. Fucking duh, my dudes. We see these because we want to see movies with dinosaurs and people being chased by dinosaurs and people chasing dinosaurs and, above all else, because Laura Dern.
It’s the same reason I watched Land of the Lost as a kid and Terra Nova as an adult. Because people being with dinosaurs is fun to think about because dinosaurs are fuckin cool.
Yeah it really seems so obvious I can’t believe anyone is out there thinking “why do people like this???”–because FUCKING DINOSAURS! Duh.
I believe the sizes of the velociraptor and dilophosaurus were swapped, too. The former was chicken-size, the latter the height of an adult human. But they knew the raptors would be the break-out stars. And modern paleontologists say the raptors probably had feathers, but they probably didn’t know that three decades ago.
THEY SPARED NO EXPENSE THOUGH!
The famed biologist JBS Haldane wrote an essay “On being the right size” on why neither 50-foot giants nor tiny humans could exist — it’s not just the air issue — it’s that everything about the human body structure was optimized for the basic size we are. Giants would break their legs under their weight, and miniature humans wouldn’t be able to have muscles strong enough to move their legs. Body shape can’t just be scaled up or down.
They wouldn’t even be able to see, since the photons would presumably be too large to interact with the rods and cones making up their retinas. This has been a long-term gripe of mine, ever since I was a teenager and Isaac Asimov — who had gamely agreed to write a novelization of “Fantastic Voyage” — picked the very concept apart in his introduction to the book, essentially reclassifying it as fantasy, not science fiction.
And that oxygen rich environment is what allowed insects to grow to the size of small dogs even when “breathing” through osmosis. Yeah I’m good with not having those conditions again….
JW had plenty of surface pleasures (visuals, sound design, dinosaurs rampaging around) but nothing deeper than that, and it barely even tried to have any characters worth caring about, much less with arcs. I avoided Fallen Kingdom for that reason and I don’t plan on seeing Dominion either. There’s better ways to spend your time.
Opinions like this seem somewhat nostalgia driven. Zoomers aren’t going to watch the original JP unless they’re film nerds because it isn’t modern. Just let those people also enjoy dinosaurs and stop being so offended by them continuing this franchise. This film clearly isn’t for you so stop acting like it was supposed to be. Jeez.
Of course it’s nostalgia driven. Nostalgia is the only reason this film exists. All the marketing for this film is aimed squarely at the nostalgia factor, right down to highlighting all the actors from the original movie that they’ve managed to bring back. Zoomers are the last people this thing is aimed at; it’s for people who remember when the original film came out (and anyone who thinks nostalgia for a decades-old movie isn’t enough to carry a sequel in 2022, go look at Top Gun’s box office numbers from the past two weeks.)
Also, it’s funny how this post reprimands us to respect young people while also implying that they’re too shallow to enjoy a movie just because it’s older.
So are we going to get a Pterodactyl versus Tom Cruise in a Jet dogfight then, Turbotastic?Because I would see that movie first day.
Opinions like this seem somewhat nostalgia driven. […] This film clearly isn’t for you so stop acting like it was supposed to be. Jeez.In fairness, Jurassic World is nostalgia driven. It goes out of its way to show props from the first movie, and nearly every line of dialogue about Indominus Rex doubles as a way of lampshading the bigger-and-louder mentality of franchise sequels. Its fight with the t-rex deliberately baits the old-vs-new arguments.So, I think the movie is for him, and all the thousands of other people who saw Jurassic Park in fifth grade (or whatever) and are now dragging their kids to the sequels. It’s a movie that wants dad to say “you need to see the first one” during the car ride home.
“nostalgia driven”I’m nostalgic for… movies with well-drawn characters that I care about? For the record, JP doesn’t really hit a home run on that front either, and by sheer coincidence it’s also not one of my favorite movies. I liked it well enough when I saw it (it was certainly a technical marvel for its time) and I appreciate its impact and the skill with which it was crafted, but it wouldn’t even be in my top 100 favorite movies.
Well, then—go off and watch some Iranian movie about the forbidden love between a Shite Muslim and a Coptic Christian, shot on Fisher-Price Pixelvision cameras, dirtside.
I don’t know if that’s true. Most of the zoomers I know (I have dozens of young cousins and work with college-age interns) know a mediocre cash-in movie from a genuinely good one. As a parallel example, the original Star Wars trilogy came out a decade before I was born, and I have zero nostalgia around it (if anything I should have nostalgia for the prequels, which came out in my peak late childhood/young teen nostalgia-forming years)….but I still think it’s way better and more fun to watch then the prequel or sequel trilogies. Yes, of course let people enjoy whatever they want, but I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss any criticism of new movies as just nerdy old out-of-touch nostalgia.
What even defines a movie being “modern” to them? When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s I tended to avoid black & white movies (to my later shame as a cinephile) because they were obviously “old”. But does the original JP not basically look (given maybe a slight issue with the effects, very slight given how so much better they were than most movies for years afterwards) like something that could be made today?
JW felt like a proper one-off finale. You really can’t top that fight at the end and I don’t buy that the escaped dinosaurs could possibly sustain a population on the mainland or just get captured/shot.
Fallen Kingdom is delightfully silly. New director not trying to pretend he was making a real movie, no cynical bullshit, no bad corporate America satire, just thrills and chills, and deliriously over the top. Most of it takes place in a bizarro gothic mansion for gods’ sake
Meanwhile in the original JP, even minor/supporting characters are still well-remembered and quoted today, nearly 30 years later.“Clever girl…”
“Hold on to your butts!”
“Uh uh uh you didn’t say the magic word!”
“Bingo! Dino DNA!”
Didn’t Wayne Knight and Samuel L Jackson get top billing in the original Jurassic Park?Also, I still use “Clever girl” in my daily conversation on a weekly basis.
This is a UNIX system! I know this!
Let’s starting with the grammar…Let’s starting with the science
dinosaurs as genetic descendants of birds
Other way around, surely?
In 1993, they made a great movie with dinosaurs and shit.In 1997, they made a sequel that was less good, but still pretty watchable.In 2001, they made another sequel, starring the less-fun deuteragonist (tritagonist?) from the first movie. It was mediocre and forgettable.In 2015 they soft-rebooted the series, starring Ron Howard’s daughter and the guy that everyone used to like but then he got super jacked and now he’s just kind douchey and annoying. They’ve made 2 or 3 of those reboot movies, but honestly your time would be better spend watching the original for the umpteenth time.There you go.
As long as they bring back the talking dream raptor I’m all in
The one thing you need to know is Jurassic Park is a great movie and you can watch it now at home. Or go see a revival at a theater.
But avoid the 3D conversion, as it’s migraine-inducing.
I thought it was pretty good for a post-process job on a (then) 20-year-old movie. Though the main thing I remember thinking watching it in 3D was “Wow, the script on this thing is tight” – the theatrical experience was the first time I’d actually watched it properly in years, and I was really impressed with the economy of dialogue and story.
Why do we need to go see this derivative, pandering bullshit in the theater when we can just watch 1925’s The Lost World literally whenever we want from the comfort of the couch?
Don’t know why it hadn’t occured to me, but “child who will become central to plot created by scientists” and the way they handle it makes me think someone had watched Stranger Things before they wrote the script.
Yes, everyone. Let’s starting with the science.
HOW DO YOU MESS UP AN H2 TAG?
Birds are descendants of dinosaurs, in that they descend from dinosaurs. We descend from our ancestors.Dinosaurs are not birds’ descendants. That would imply birds are extinct and dinosaurs live today, having developed from birds.I just… AVC doesn’t even have an editor anymore. There are so many grammatical errors in this article that any copy editor would notice.
I’m only one man
Dinosaurs are birds’ decedents, however.
I was a bit interested in this when I heard Dern, Neill, etc were showing up. Figured I’d see it when it came to some kind of streamer at least.But then I watched the PBS series Prehistoric Planet, which, though it lacks tiny humans running from the dinosaurs, has much better effects than anything I see in the trailer for this Jurassic movie. [The sheer audacity of doing a David-Attenborough-narrated nature documentary, just like his other ones, but having it be seemingly shot millions of years ago, is very cool. There were times I thought, wow, how’d they get that aerial footage? and then, you know. Felt stupid….]
Well I mean they killed his character from JP so its only fair he should get to do his own dinosaur thing. Of course because its Sir David Attenborough and this is well what it is, the Attenborough piece is much better.
I actually like Fallen Kingdom a lot; I’ve always been confused by its reception because I thought it was just so much better than Jurassic World (which I hated initially but have come around on somewhat). It drives the series in a new direction that has a lot of narrative potential (versus let’s just do the first one again but a little different) that I fully expect to be ignored in Dominion. The scene where they’re on the boat watching the remaining dinos be annihilated by explosions is pretty affecting. I think about that brontosaurus wailing as he realizes that he has nowhere left to run kind of often.
The writer or director or someone actually had the nerve to say that was supposed to be THE brontosaurus from the first JP, and knowing that pretty much ruined my life 🙁
…and now my life has been ruined as well.
The T-Rex is a lady, so she’d be the queen of the food chain.Anyway, the comments are filled with people just determined to hate this new film because it doesn’t live up to the original, and it probably won’t, but I just want to see some fuckin’ dinosaurs. I don’t understand why people insist on being so negative and critical. Life is challenging enough, just find the things you LIKE in something and cling to that, goodness.
They lost me when they started making “new” dinosaurs. Like – dinosaurs are already the apex predators and the most fantastical beasts that ever existed – quit trying to fucking “improve” them or whatever.
No shitty “Megasupersaurus” designed to sell toys is going to be nearly as cool or interesting as the real thing.
ex-Navy veteran Owen Grady
He’s both a veteran and ex-Navy, so you don’t have to use both.
You could say “Navy veteran Owen Grady” which would mean the same thing.That’ll be $25, AV Club—or just hire a bloody copy editor, already!
You should also mention that checking your brain at the door is highly recommended, as this movie is dumb with a capitol -umb.