They Should Have Brought Back Cameron Thor as Dodgson
It would have been fun to see that child-molesting POS devoured by a pack of Dilophosauruses.
shareI thought Kevin Bacon would had been a good fit for Dodgson. I dunno wtf Campbell Scott was doing but he was just awful.
shareIt was an odd performance. I don't know if it was bad, necessarily. But it seemed too mannered, but I also feel that was an issue with the script, rather than the performance. I hated all the stuff with him constantly snacking. I get that it was probably meant to be a dig at his callousness regarding the mass hunger he was about to unleash on the world, but he didn't strike me as the gluttonous type, and his frame was too slim to be a habitual-snacker. It was also a rather crass character detail.
I quite like your Kevin Bacon suggestion. I think he'd have brought a certain preppy charisma and flippancy to the character (which is what I think the character needed: more smarm and glibness) whereas Campbell Scott played him as more of a robotic Steve Jobs/Tim Cook type. It was hard to believe he'd be so incompetent and cocky, because he came across as the type who'd pay more attention to detail.
Exactly. In fact, now I'm looking back at it, the bad guy from 'Fallen Kingdom' was a better Dodgson than the actual Dodgson we got in 'Dominion'.
shareFallen Kingdom isn't a great film BUT I do think it features the BEST Jurassic Park villains (at least in terms of human villains).
In the first film, Nedry was a jackass, but he wasn't intentionally trying to kill anyone, and the lawyer was greedy and a coward, but, once again, he wasn't *evil*. The 'villains' in the second film are actually, ironically, heroes at certain stages of the film, saving the lead characters from plunging into the sea at one stage (and, truth be told, it's the heroes who arguably cause all the trouble, by setting the dinosaurs free from the cages and destroying the 'villains' communication equipment). I'm not saying I agree with the villains for trying to capture the dinosaurs and bring them to San Diego as 'theme park attractions', but, once again, they were misguided and foolish, rather than evil. There are no real bad guys in the third film (whiich, is kind of refreshing, funnily enough). The closest the film gets to a 'villain' is Billy, Alan Grant's assistant, and he redeems himself quite quickly, for stupidly stealing a Raptor egg, by saving the kid from the Pteranodons. The fourth film/the first 'Jurassic World' film, has a *proper* villain, with Vic Hoskins (Vincent D'Onofrio), but at times I wasn't sure of his motives, and came across as a clueless jackass rather than a genuinely sinister baddie (at one stage, I even wanted him to be right, when he advised the people running the park to use the trained Raptors to attack the Indominus Rex, because I kept asking myself why no-one had tried that strategy earlier; admittedly, we do get an answer why it ultimately turned out to be a bad idea...)
But the main villains in the fifth film were *genuinely* loathsome, especially Eli Mills. The auctioneer I didn't think was *that* hateful (although he was, admittedly, complicit in the messed-up plan to auction off all the dinosaurs to various wealthy criminals and dodgy governments), but Mills and Ken Wheatley...
...the hunter working alongside him, were not above killing *humans* (in Mills' case, murdering a man, his boss in fact, in his sleep/cold-blood, by suffocating him), let alone dinosaurs, to get their way, and that's why they struck me as the most convincingly evil of all the villains so far.
Even Dodgson, as awful as he was, seemed a little half-hearted about killing humans, and did so out of desperation, whereas when Mills and Wheatley committed their murders, they already had the upper-hand, and it wasn't in a 'put my enemies in a place where they *may* get mauled by dinosaurs, but could also potentially get away' manner, but, a genuine 'this *WILL* kill them' kind of way.