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Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)

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I enjoyed it! Thought it was good summer fun but also acknowledge they’re not exactly reinventing the wheel.
 
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It’s just not for me

I didn’t care for the characters or acting

the river boat scene is good and most likely is one of the stand out scenes because it’s from the books

But if you want a better story and characters watch Jurassic world: chaos theory on Netflix’ it’s just more interesting
 
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Reactions to this are all over the place! I'm seeing it tomorrow.
 
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I’ve heard both awful and amazing things, I can’t think of a film like that in terms of reactions. My vibe is the people who want to hate everything Jurassic since Fallen Kingdom are thrilled it’s not perfect so they can dunk on it, and people who want fun summer popcorn fun are very satisfied even if it’s not iconic. I’ll happily go eat some popcorn to this.
 
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It's a summer popcorn movie-- a diversion in the air conditioning to forget about the awfulness of the real world and focus on the awfulness of a make believe world.
 
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I watched it .......oh oh .......
this is EXACTLY like Jurassic Park 3 without the spino following the group around lol.
it's like Jurassic Park 3 without the tension or suspense lol.
I'm not just attacking the movie either, for long parts of this movie, they are just walking around peacefully.
it has very peaceful scenes of the group walking around the locations. they chose very beautiful locations for this movie,
( sure Jurassic Park 2 and 3 had people walking around the island, but there was a sense of danger in those places, felt dangerous, but not really here. )

the main action sequences are in the trailers. they are wonderful. really wonderful action pieces. but brief. the locations are gorgeous.
some people might call it boring, but it depends. it's just a little slower than the trailers made it seem.

this movie definitely redeems Jurassic Park 3 and the spino in a way lol. spino was awesome in that movie compared to this one. the spino was just so great. so threatening. this movie made me miss him.

( the family plot in this movie is pretty awful. just, awful)
 
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REBIRTH has several very good setpieces.

Characters and plot are not particularly strong. And it pulls some punches that it shouldn't have...
Letting the boyfriend and Mahershala Ali escape the movie alive is kind of unforgivable. Remember when this franchise used to mercilessly kill characters the audience liked? Those days are long gone, and now they're even letting annoying characters (the boyfriend, not Ali) survive!
 
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REBIRTH has several very good setpieces.

Characters and plot are not particularly strong. And it pulls some punches that it shouldn't have...
Letting the boyfriend and Mahershala Ali escape the movie alive is kind of unforgivable. Remember when this franchise used to mercilessly kill characters the audience liked? Those days are long gone, and now they're even letting annoying characters (the boyfriend, not Ali) survive!
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I had a much much bigger problem on how

how much they wasted the new monster dino and how they didn't use the raptors for anything.
the new monster dino shows up at the beginning and then disappears. that's such terrible writing.
terrible.
then he appears at the end and I forgot he even existed until then. he's pointless.
also the new turkey raptor hybrids were pretty ugly. didn't like their design.
 
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belloq87 said:
REBIRTH has several very good setpieces.

Characters and plot are not particularly strong. And it pulls some punches that it shouldn't have...
Letting the boyfriend and Mahershala Ali escape the movie alive is kind of unforgivable. Remember when this franchise used to mercilessly kill characters the audience liked? Those days are long gone, and now they're even letting annoying characters (the boyfriend, not Ali) survive!
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I agree. One of them had to go.
 
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Brian G. said:
I agree. One of them had to go.
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choice was very clear lol :lmao:
 
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choice was very clear lol :lmao:
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when he got introduced, I leaned to my wife and said “oh, he’s dying”.
 
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when he got introduced, I leaned to my wife and said “oh, he’s dying”.
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the dialogue was so weird. he was creepy at times. but he jumped out to save the girl and he was a hero in the boat. but then he was being so weird with the dad lol
 
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It's got some very fun set pieces (though the funniest part being the best overall set piece is ripped straight from the original novel that is 35 years old now) but the characters and plot are so barely there that it's frustratingly just slightly above average. I also do not like the addition of mutant dinos that apparently have the ability to shift scales as they please. ScarJo feels like she's sleepwalking through bits of this and very much feels like she was just a movie star name to put on the poster here. Jonathan Bailey really shines though.

It's worlds better than probably all 3 of the previous JW films but it's a real shame that the lacking of story and character outside of the dino action ultimately stops it from reaching anywhere near the heights of the original JP. Again, that's what makes JP the masterpiece it is: it not only has masterful dinosaur action, it has characters, performances and story that match the levels of that action.

Apparently it's doing pretty well at the box office so we'll likely get even more dinosaur 'goodness' but at this point I just have to wonder what you could possibly do with this franchise. Even Rebirth is basically a re-do of JPIII's story (team forced to go onto bad dino island, group of average everyday good people get swept up in action, etc). They've already done a second park, already done rogue islands, already done mutant dinos, already done dinos in modern society.

Dinosaurs are clearly evergreen material, it's just funny that series is creatively super strained at this point.
 
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CoryLevy91 said:
Apparently it's doing pretty well at the box office so we'll likely get even more dinosaur 'goodness' but at this point I just have to wonder what you could possibly do with this franchise.
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I remember reading a review for Evil Dead Rise that suggested the series become a series of demo reels for aspiring filmmakers who want to prove their acumen through new Evil Dead stories. That’s where I’d love Jurassic Park to go. Clearly the series is infallible, so let some newcomers take some wild swings with it. A mid-budget R-rated horror, a satirical parody, a Western, etc. Audiences get something fresh and Universal gets to essentially set up a minor league to find their next Christopher Nolan. Win-win.
 
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I remember reading a review for Evil Dead Rise that suggested the series become a series of demo reels for aspiring filmmakers who want to prove their acumen through new Evil Dead stories. That’s where I’d love Jurassic Park to go. Clearly the series is infallible, so let some newcomers take some wild swings with it. A mid-budget R-rated horror, a satirical parody, a Western, etc. Audiences get something fresh and Universal gets to essentially set up a minor league to find their next Christopher Nolan. Win-win.
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I adore the idea with Evil Dead and I've said elsewhere on these forums that's what I would love to see happen with Friday the 13th.

But for an IP as big as Jurassic Park/World? I'm not sure that'd be where I'd go. It's one thing to let new voices play in a sandbox that'll cost you $10-15 million to make. It's an entirely other one to let them run free with a $150+ million budgets.

Honestly, reading the original Crichton novel for the first time currently, I would love to see a more faithful adaptation that takes a limited series approach (4-6 episodes, 6-10 hours long sort of deal) that has more of a straight forward horror bend to it. But you can't put a limited series in theaters and make $300+ million on it from the box office so that's a pipe dream.

I'd say a reboot but for who, for what? They can't stray too far from the tried and true because I don't think the masses would accept it but on the other hand it's tiresome seeing the same 'wonderous beauty' scene in every other Jurassic film.

All of this to say I'm trying to solve a problem that Universal wouldn't really even see. Rebirth is doing well and will likely do very well overall box office wise so they likely don't see a problem with the current model. I just personally think there's a chance to create a film as masterful as the original JP, they just need to take their time with it.
 
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the last 2 tried something new with the mansion, dinos on land and the locusts. and people didn't really like them.
and the new one just remade Jurassic Park 3.

I honestly have no idea where they go now.
 
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I adore the idea with Evil Dead and I've said elsewhere on these forums that's what I would love to see happen with Friday the 13th.

But for an IP as big as Jurassic Park/World? I'm not sure that'd be where I'd go. It's one thing to let new voices play in a sandbox that'll cost you $10-15 million to make. It's an entirely other one to let them run free with a $150+ million budgets.

Honestly, reading the original Crichton novel for the first time currently, I would love to see a more faithful adaptation that takes a limited series approach (4-6 episodes, 6-10 hours long sort of deal) that has more of a straight forward horror bend to it. But you can't put a limited series in theaters and make $300+ million on it from the box office so that's a pipe dream.

I'd say a reboot but for who, for what? They can't stray too far from the tried and true because I don't think the masses would accept it but on the other hand it's tiresome seeing the same 'wonderous beauty' scene in every other Jurassic film.

All of this to say I'm trying to solve a problem that Universal wouldn't really even see. Rebirth is doing well and will likely do very well overall box office wise so they likely don't see a problem with the current model. I just personally think there's a chance to create a film as masterful as the original JP, they just need to take their time with it.
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Yeah I don’t think Universal sees it as a problem that needs to be solved, just something I’d personally prefer. Although I don’t think the budget of the movies matter since they’re guaranteed to land in the ballpark of a billion regardless of quality (the locust spin-off did bonkers business a couple years removed from COVID and appeared to have no impact on the sequel). And I also think that the status of the franchise matters less and less with every passing installment…at this point only Jurassic Park was a great movie, and every sequel that hands in “generic monster of the week” schlock after that just sort of dilutes the original’s mark on the overall brand.
 
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The budgets matter somewhat because you're just simply not going to have a film the scale of JP/JW without a huge budget. Trim the budget down a ton and you're looking at a vastly different style of film that will probably result in a vastly different style of box office return, which is probably not what Universal is searching for.

Honestly, though, just imagining a small, secluded story about a family in a campground under siege by a pack of raptors sounds refreshingly simple, scary and smaller in scale that would be nice. But again, they're not looking for smaller in scale.

We could always go backwards. Set a story on the original island shortly after the events of the film for various reasons.

The franchise is just so weird to tackle because it's hard to come up with a story that isn't just 'people go to island for x, dinosaurs are there, stuff happens, end'.
 
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All I'd say re: what to do next would be to continue to go back to the two Crichton novels for sequences that haven't been adapted yet. There are still a few, and while that's not enough for a story, it's at least a start.

But I agree the ideal next move would be a limited series faithfully adapting the first book.
 
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Box office says they’ll be back in theaters for the next one. I just don’t know where to start with the corner they painted themselves into.
 
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