The Good
Good:
>65 million years ago prologue (and they took, it out for some reason!)
>The initial scene where Grant, Ian, and Laura Dern all meet each other actually felt like the characters being themselves but everything after that was stupid
>Dinosaurs weren't moronicly smart for once, at least compared to the other 2 JW movies.
>Heterosexual relationships and no blatant gay shit, though you could see an implied one at the very end. Very clearly meant to get through the Chinese censors.
>Once the characters meet up and they're going around in the forest and tunnels running from dinosaurs it actually felt like a JP movie
>Therinzinosaurus scene
>Dimetrodon scene
>Sam Neil has barely aged in the last 30 years
>Quetzalcoaltlus
>Dodgson death scene even if it was a shameless ripoff/callback
>Practical effects that didn't look stupidly out of place like in other "OMG PRACTICAL EFFECTS ARE BACK" movies (Star Wars TFA)
>Annoying Asian girl and comedy relief mutt sidekick were only in it for a few minutes
Bad
>Dinosaur global apocalypse was dumb (basically premise #! of the movie)
>genetically modified Locust apocalypse was an interesting premise for another movie and actually felt like something right out of Crichton he would have explored in an alternate universe where he didn’t leave us so soon, but the writers and feel of the movie couldn't combine it successfully into the film
>Chris Pratt’s Jedi Force hand move constantly showing up and even being used by other characters on any dinosaur now. It BARELY works on the raptors he spent years training, stfu with that shit.
>Laura Dern looks like she’s having her soul sucked out of her
>Malcolm chaos rants were subpar especially compared to the books, the writers needed to do better
>Lack of gore. Modern PG-13 is bloodless for some reason.
>Malta Star Wars Cantina was stupid
>Treating Giganotosaurus like an evil dino like it was the Indomitus Rex, when it was just being a dino and did absolutely nothing wrong.
>Dr. Wu being all “SOWWY” and getting away with everything
>Dodgson and his mannerisms were just bizarre. Was he supposed to be parodying Tim Cook or something? Dodgson should have just been a sneaky academic thug like he was in the books
>Grumpy strong black lesbian woman who don't need no man with a heart of gold. It's so 2020 it took me right out of the movie every scene she was in
>Clone Girl was annoying
>Malcolm and Laura Dern infiltrating a lab in Hazmats just felt wrong. It didn’t feel like the same characters as the original film, and they simply had jumped the shark by this point.
>The equally predictable black scientist man who was a goodguy. I knew he was betraying Tim Cook from the moment they showed him because you can't have bad black characters in modern Hollywood movies
>Jeff Goldblum throwing a fire spear
>ANOTHER Rex and other big “good” dinosaur teamup like it’s a Toho kaiju movie.
Basically, they should have taken out the "techno thriller" element. I know Crichton was fond of that genre and the novel Lost World was part techno thriller, but the modern writers can't successfully combine it with dinosaur action. Speilberg knew his limits, which is why he made Lost World pure dinosaur stuff. Also remove clone girl and strong black lesbian woman. Reduce the runtime to an hour and a half. Make it the characters on an adventure in the bio-sanctuary with BioSyn poacher badguys in the periphery.
That being said, It was not as bad as critics were making it, especially compared to current year where you get bafflingly awful things like Lion King 2019, Halo TV series, Eternals, and Obi-Wan series. I’m not sure why critics are ripping it so bad.
Also, this breaks the chain of JP movies being released in order of quality. JP > Lost World > JP 3 > Jurassic World > Dominion > Fallen Kingdom. Of course books > all and RIP Crichton
JW3 is, for now, considered the official end of this story arc. You have to ask yourself- are you satisfied with how this ended? That's why it is being judged to a higher standard.
There are still Site B and the Spinosaurus, neither of them were touched in the JW trilogy, likely to kept something in store in case of a new saga
At this point, they should really go all stupid in a future movie and bring the dino-human hybrids they originally planned for JW
they didnt touch site B/spino because they thought audiences hated them. Same reason star wars disney has no courascant or shit.
granted JW hasn't been run into the ground nearly as bad as Star Wars has and can still exist as a franchise
The Spino problem is that was used as a mere jumpscare. The hint about the mystery of his origin (as he never appeared in the list of the lab dinosaurs made) as well as it's unusuall behavior of hunting down the humans could and should had been developed more
Personally, if they really dont want to use either the site B or the spino, i would do a full reboot, but this time by following more strictly the more horror-like source books
>are you satisfied with how this ended?
I'm not satisfied with anything it did.
Star Wars Cantina was stupid
bs, it was one of the best parts
>Was he supposed to be parodying Tim Cook or something?
yes
>65 million years ago prologue (and they took, it out for some reason!)
Wait they took it out??
Yes they took it out but the final fight with the Giga has a specific call back to it which i think was meant to try and show that the genetically altered T-rex from the park was better than a pure T-rex 65 million years ago but it now makes no sense.
The locust plot was so moronic and just confusing since Dogson clearly did it to increase profits but then is just kind of confused and doesn't care when its out of control. The way Trevorrow described it made it seem like it would be like the Spino or Indominous where its just a monster rampaging because it can. But then it just acts like an animal and doesn't do anything really.
yes, it was removed for runtime reasons and because test audiences were confused by it even though it said "65 million years later" in giant letters on the screen after
test audiences ruin everything
I'm sure when they release it on home video it'll have the "extended edition" or "jurassic edition" or some gay shit
but yeah they should have kept that in and less annoying shit with strong black pilot lady or clone b***h
I want to know what the full cut of this movie before they hacked it down was because that last act feels like they cut out a heap of dialogue.
Hated it. Too much human drama instead of dinos in modern civilization which are relegated to shitty news reel.
Needs more shit like claire escaping the claw dino, the giganotosaurus attacking the outpost, and the dino fight at the end.
And how mighty convenient that the black lesbian pilot decided to grow a conscience just as they needed a plane.
Is it worse than Fallen Kingdom?
Trevorrow isn't Bayona thet's for sure.