![]() I couldn't believe any actual animal would do any of these things. In Jurassic World we had a ridiculous tag team T-Rex/velociraptor battle, pterosaurs swarming people like flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz, raptors throwing themselves headlong through the glass of a moving vehicle. Should I run from the exploding volcano? Nah, I'll get into a fight then pose dramatically. In the context of the first Jurassic World film it made sense that the genetically engineered Indomitus Rex was larger than life, but this Michael Bay-esque approach has bled into the rest of the dinosaurs. ![]() Unfortunately the films' producers identify more with the former than the latter. The last two Jurassic World films had a cool riff on this theme: The tension between people who want bigger, scarier theme park attractions and/or "genetic weapons" and other characters who want the dinos treated like living, breathing animals. The raptors in Jurassic Park didn't fight a T-Rex because it was fun, they did it because they were backed into a corner. ![]() The T-rex in The Lost World wasn't chasing down humans because it just really liked eating people. They trigger a part of your brain shaped by millions of years of running and hiding from things that think and move like JP's dinosaurs. Its T-rex and raptors were believable as predators, and that made them scary and cool in a way that's different to most movie monsters. The Jurassic Park films have (or had) a theme at the heart of the franchise: Dinosaurs are animals, they are not monsters. Partly it's terrible human characters but a bigger part is the terrible dinosaur characters. The last two Jurassic World movies just make me sad.
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