A Screenwriter's Rant: Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer Reaction

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I think it misses the point of Jurassic Park to think it's all about shooting the hell out of dinosaurs. The audience is supposed to acknowledge the fact that as despite as evolved as humans are and as arrogant of our superiority, the sheer might and ferocity of dinosaurs in person is beyond what a couple of guys with shotguns can handle. The whole 'clever girl' scene with the velociraptors covers this perfectly. I personally feel that the later movies where they actually shoot the dinosaurs, the franchise got worse.

[–]TonyDiGerolamo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I see what you're saying, but I don't think that's why they did it. And yes, the scene your talking about is good, but I think it would've been better if the hunter had already shot a bunch of dinosaurs in a previous scene, perhaps from behind a safety barrier to "cull the herd". But Hollywood could never shoot a scene like that these days.

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I guess it could have been to do with the age rating. Even so, Spielberg is all about the orchestra and big explosions more than a hailstorm of epic shooting scenes. It kinda works in Jurassic World, they're in the open, there's a real threat to large numbers of people, and the resources are available. What you're looking for is a zombie apocalypse situation with dinosaurs and a Woody Harrelson to play in a movie called Dinoland, which the more I think of it would be pretty cool, but it wouldn't have that Jurassic Park spark of mystery and awe.

[–]TonyDiGerolamo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They used to make movies before Speilberg where people got killed and it still had that spark.