https://screenrant.com/what-went-wrong-with-jurassic-world-trilogy/
Despite being a major box office success, the Jurassic World trilogy represents a serious missed opportunity. Here's why the franchise failed.
1. They tried to shoehorn the original cast to a script they had no reason to be in.
2. This movie was about Tim Cook trying to destroy world agriculture using grasshoppers. Oh, and there were a few scenes with dinosaurs for some reason.
3. The hand gesture working with every single dinosaur. In the first JW movie, it barely worked for a very limited time on some clever, social dinosaurs which were brought up by Owen. Now, all kinds of predators are instantly stopped by the universal hand gesture, to the point that the dinosaur even gets too paralyzed to move when the gesture is performed by multiple people.
4. They are really stretching normal animal behavior into cringe territories. The best thing about Jurassic Park franchise had always been the way it depicted the dinosaurs as animals as opposed to monsters. JW had fantastic animal behavior. Now we have long fingered ostriches, ice water raptors doing unreasonable, unexplainable things just because.
5. The way characters get out of situations are now physically intolerable to watch. Nothing that can not catch a prey so stupidly incompetent can survive for 100 million years.
Obviously, as long as these movies are not produced by people with love and respect for the source material, we will see many other classic franchises being sh@t on.
Well, the 'long fingered ostrich' is a real species called Therizinosaurus.
shareI know, that’s not what I’m complaining about. I can’t stand unrealistic behavior, like its failure to see Claire even though she should be clearly visible looking overhead to that shallow pond, or playing T1000 with a huge dinosaur. They can create suspense without resorting to cheesy getaways, but seems like they forgot how to do that.
share2. 100% THIS. 👍🏼
And although you kind of allude to it with 1 and 5, I'd also add that the film was utterly predictable because it didn't have the guts to kill off any of the heroic/sympathetic characters. I don't particularly want a really nasty, prolonged death, like the ones suffered by Eddie in The Lost World or Zara in 2015's Jurassic World, but there needs to be a sense that practically any character could die at any time, for us to be invested in their fates, and feel any sense of tension. But everything was mapped out and expected from the get-go.
Meh I enjoyed it enough. The Tim Cook thing is funny though. We have to remember these are not the same generation of dinosaurs from the first film. Maybe they are more docile/trainable.(raptors) I don't know. But the first film had its plot holes and so did every single one after to varying degrees. I ignore and just enjoy. It was nice seeing the original cast in this. Glad they got a lot to do. They all looked great as well. It's hard to believe that Goldblum was about 70 and Sam Neil was 75 during filming. They don't look any older than Dern who was about 56. I'm glad they just weren't cameos. I do wish though that the action was slowed down a bit more but they had a lot of characters to work with.
I think we all look for too much in these days. People even complain about the excellent Blade runner sequel which is far superior to the original. So I can only believe that much of the criticism is due to nostalgia or lack of eye wide wonder that the first film generated...
There's exactly enough premise for one movie which they got right the first time.