We just rewatched the original Jurassic Park as a family, and GODDAMN does that movie hold up. Every single beat is perfect, and when I think how appalling the new Jurassic World films were, I just want to walk into the sea. The franchise was ROBBED.
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Jurassic Park: Ellie is kind, funny, brave, competent in the field, dresses for her job, calls out sexism and gets realistically dirty instead of Hollywood Hot-Dirty. Jurassic World: Claire has
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JP: Dr Grant is a gruff, sarcastic man who's awkward around kids, but opens up to protecting them while still maintaining his personality. JW: Owen is a showboating asshole.
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JP: Lex and Tim have distinct personalities and interact realistically as siblings. They are realistically terrified and vulnerable. JW: Zach and Gray's parents are maybe getting a divorce but it's never raised again, Zach is a baby sexist and we know little about either of them.
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JP: The dinosaurs behave like real animals, so that the same t-rex who menaced the humans ends up saving them by virtue of hunting the raptors. JW: Owen is a magic Raptor Whisperer and in the second film we get a t-rex roaring and killing instead of running from a live volcano.
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JP: Slow, emotional build before introducing the dinosaurs, so that the audience is captivated along with the characters. JW: Here's a bunch of CGI baby dinos with no introduction and no sensawunda, we're gonna pan away from them now bc the park is about Capitalism, Babey.
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ANYWAY I could do this for literal hours but the point is, Jurassic Park still kicks ass and the Jurassic World films suck dinosaur nutsack.
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Honest to god, I think JP's CGI looks miles better than a lot of stuff that was being made even 10-20 years later, because it's so relatively restrained and makes constant use of human-level perspective rather than, say, gratuitous overhead zoom shots. Feeds the sense of awe.
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