I saw JWR Sunday. It was competent, but pretty bad. 100% of the deaths were predictable (... at least after one character jumps in to save another). Twice "OG" Jurassic Park dinosaurs get treated as punks and kill nobody. Plus the premise of the movie is stupid:
1. Dinosaurs are dying across the world for "reasons" (IE, no reason.)
2. Paleontologist convinces pharmaceutical company they can cure heart disease (for $) with blood samples of "the three biggest dinosaurs" (ugh.)
3. So they go to the Ingen island with dinosaurs... and dinosaur mutants. (Ugh.) Oh, Dinosaurs do not die out along the equator for "reasons." (IE, no reason.)
It's a boring, by the numbers, and insulting movie. But here's my theory: Originally, this was supposed to be a Jurassic Flu movie.
1. Dinosaurs are dying across the globe having been infected by the "Dinosaur Flu." But birds have also began to carry the flu, leading to egg shortages as farms needed to exterminate their chickens or whatever. And secretly there have been human infections, so there's legitimate fear this is going to lead to a pandemic.
2. Pharmaceutical company hired paleontologist et al. to go to the equator to get blood samples from the dinosaurs that haven't gone extinct so they can develop an anti-virus for birds and humans.
3. So they go to the Ingen island with dinosaurs, take samples from assorted dinosaurs, and maybe discover that Ingen/Pharmaceutical company developed the virus in the first place as a contingency plan, but the local dinosaurs "found a way" to survive... IE, they developed anti-bodies that they could copy to produce a vaccine.
To be clear, this is a miserable movie premise... but it does the two things JWR wants to do - (1) wipe the slate clean of dinosaurs "across the world" which was a stupid premise for JW3 and (2) give our protagonists a real reason to go to the island. Furthermore, JWR ends with the hired goods "betraying" the pharmaceutical company (in a really, really weird way... and out of nowhere), but such a "betrayal" makes sense in a JF movie if they find out their employers caused the pandemic in the first place!
Do I want to see a Jurassic Flu movie? NO! It's a terrible idea that blatantly exploits recent trauma to undo a stupid choice from JW3. But it's a movie in a way that JWR just wasn't.
1. Dinosaurs are dying across the world for "reasons" (IE, no reason.)
2. Paleontologist convinces pharmaceutical company they can cure heart disease (for $) with blood samples of "the three biggest dinosaurs" (ugh.)
3. So they go to the Ingen island with dinosaurs... and dinosaur mutants. (Ugh.) Oh, Dinosaurs do not die out along the equator for "reasons." (IE, no reason.)
It's a boring, by the numbers, and insulting movie. But here's my theory: Originally, this was supposed to be a Jurassic Flu movie.
1. Dinosaurs are dying across the globe having been infected by the "Dinosaur Flu." But birds have also began to carry the flu, leading to egg shortages as farms needed to exterminate their chickens or whatever. And secretly there have been human infections, so there's legitimate fear this is going to lead to a pandemic.
2. Pharmaceutical company hired paleontologist et al. to go to the equator to get blood samples from the dinosaurs that haven't gone extinct so they can develop an anti-virus for birds and humans.
3. So they go to the Ingen island with dinosaurs, take samples from assorted dinosaurs, and maybe discover that Ingen/Pharmaceutical company developed the virus in the first place as a contingency plan, but the local dinosaurs "found a way" to survive... IE, they developed anti-bodies that they could copy to produce a vaccine.
To be clear, this is a miserable movie premise... but it does the two things JWR wants to do - (1) wipe the slate clean of dinosaurs "across the world" which was a stupid premise for JW3 and (2) give our protagonists a real reason to go to the island. Furthermore, JWR ends with the hired goods "betraying" the pharmaceutical company (in a really, really weird way... and out of nowhere), but such a "betrayal" makes sense in a JF movie if they find out their employers caused the pandemic in the first place!
Do I want to see a Jurassic Flu movie? NO! It's a terrible idea that blatantly exploits recent trauma to undo a stupid choice from JW3. But it's a movie in a way that JWR just wasn't.
