The whole thing was ill-conceived. They needed to think of creative ways to split the cast up into smaller groups of 2s and 3s for *extended* periods of time, maybe have them reunite only at the end of the action sequence.
During the final battle I was getting ready for Giga to say “Humans don’t deserve to live” and for Rexy to reply with “They deserve to choose for themselves!”
You know the worst ? Colin said the Giganotosaurus is like the Joker, despite the fact that other than a big locust, he doesn’t kill anything in the movie. ANYTHING.
Yeah I honestly felt bad for him. The franchise has a habit of making the dinosaurs more of monsters then animals. Ironically he actually felt like a innocent dinosaur just doing it’s thing!
@@Nick64266 For real, dinosaurs have 2 states: 1. insanely humanoid, to the point where they could basically fly the airplane and run their own "dinosyn" lab, also they seamlessly cooperate despite being a totally different species just to kill the one thing Rexy was boutta lose to (cuz the kids cried when the Spino - tho rather bullshittily - won) 2. mindless monsters, often for no real reason (the Theri killing the deer just for the sake of it was legit shockingly hilarious, you could almost hear the animator say "yeet!" while animating that scene lol), sometimes accompanied by temporary invincibility Oh and a bonus 3rd: intercontinental ballistic *laser-guided* high-explosive armor piercing fin-stabilized discarding *raptors*
@@hunormagyar1843 I agree but I actually appreciated the theri, herbivores can be honestly more dangerous than predators because they need to offer enough threat to deter the predators from even considering attacking. So a near sighted/blind Theri slashing first and asking questions never actually fits really well.
It's sad really, so many films are too quick with too much flash and little to know substance or anything memorable attached, I miss how it used to be, especially with older summer blockbusters, great characters and story and fantastic action and suspense Thank God for Top Gun Maverick this year, the true summer blockbuster and one of the best I've seen in a long time, it did everything it had to do right and then some, I think a lot of people, including me, hoped for a lot with the film but expected possible disappointed and it blew all of us away and exceeded all of our expectations
@@georgesikorski9891ok but JP3 got a bad rap even when movies were better. As a kid its serviceable because the movie knows its nog good so it just hits every narrative beat. It was efficient, but the action was good and lots of practical. I mean ofc nothing is gonna compare to the original, but at least JP3 wasn’t as pretentious and condescending as Jurassic World, it didn’t pretend like we were that invested in the family so it had a good brisk pace and the dialogue was over with in a second, whereas Jurassic World drags its goddamn feet with annoying ass characters
You hit my biggest complaint (out of several, extremely large complaints) regarding Dominion at 12:08. Maisie is stuck because it's currently trying to eat her, then rips the cage away, tosses it and... in the span of that 5 seconds, you're telling me 4 characters, 2 of which are in their 40's, one in their 50's, and one in their 70's, managed to all climb up a 30ft ladder in 5 seconds. Or, did it really take longer and the dinosaur... just waited for the next cutscene to start?
That was (big/huge) plot armor, with the Giga looking at his human-prey for 15 seconds before attacking. And that happened every time he was about to attack the humans.
yeah this movie had waaay too much plot armor and yeah anyone whos climbed a ladder will tell you that scene is some bullshit. but what i cant get over is how convenient everything in the movie is. the critical drinker went over that pretty thoroughly
I feel like Trevorrow direly needed to do at least a couple of low-budget films which required him to really work on the kind of craft which allowed Bayona to elevate Fallen Kingdom. He's maybe the blandest of the "one indie movie and now you make blockbusters" crowd.
you hit the nail on the head! The little gorey details like laura dern finding sam jackson’s decapitated arm or the opening scene raptor victim, amped up the suspense tenfold. In the new movies literally only bad guys die. The last innocent victim was the babysitter in the first World movie
@@thunderclanwarrior1253 it’s the old man who owns the Lockwood mansion in fallen kingdom. He died by Mills, who wanted to sell the dinosaurs instead of releasing them on an island in the mainland
That intro couldn't have said it better. As a huge jurassic fan, ive watched the first three movies atleast a dozen times. It really is the entertainment factor that keeps me interested.
A prequel where all hell breaks loose. The movie ends with Hammond covering it up and hiring all new people except for a few key people. 100 people die. The credits roll as he's going to get approval from Dr Grant and Ellie.
"Only characters that deserve it will die" Colin Treverow 2016 Everyone ether didn't take it seriously or thought he was kidding. Fallen Kingdom is rated G in Canada for crying out loud.
@@damndude999 Only G in Quebec, it was 14A in Ontario (which is like a more strict PG-13 essentially, as parents are required for under 14, not just suggested). It was PG in western provinces, and even that is surprising as FK was probably the most violent JP.
@@beerosaurusrex TWL had the highest rating a 14A, considering its the bloodiest in the series no suprise. If you truly believe FK was darker and more violent the TLW your delusional. I did double check and yes your correct its G In Quebec but in BC its still only PG, considering FK only had 1 "dark" moments and the character basically let themselves die came off more as a bad parody then a horror scene.
Going to be honest, I would have liked more scenes of dinos out in the world causing chaos or just seeing how they successfully adapted and integrated themselves into their new environments. Like the Mosasaurus adopting the whales, or the dinosaurs joining other animal herds and flocks. How did it happen? Or even Rexy reuniting with the other T-rexes, which I am convince are her grandkids. What will happen going forward?
I believe that was the original intention, hence Battle at Big Rock. Covid screwed a lot up, but they could have still made this final installment of the trilogy so much better. It was horrid
@@hatboxghost735 I didn't hate it, Grant and Ellie getting together probably had a lot do with it, but yeah. Battle at Big Rock is probably still the best sequel.
@@katherinealvarez9216 yes, that part was great. But they also made Grant a bumbling idiot in this movie which was kind of pathetic… Honestly I was pretty saddened by the movie being such a hardcore fan.
This movie sounds like good proof that having your characters make smart decisions every time can actually hurt the film. I'll remember that next time a nitpicker says everyone acts dumb.
I was so disappointed with this film. It didn't feel like a continuation of Fallen Kingdom, it didn't feel like a conclusion to the Jurassic World trilogy and it definitely didn't feel like a conclusion to the Jurassic franchise as a whole. People can criticise Fallen Kingdom all they want but at least it was entertaining and it continued the story and moved it forward. This was not the film we were promised by the marketing and it was worse because none of the characters feel like they're at risk of any harm
"People can criticise Fallen Kingdom all they want but at least it was entertaining" I wasn't entertainment by it for a single minute. That it wasn't entertaining was one of the main criticism of the movie...
conclusion? it barely had an introduction. Even if it did, what was it? who requested this quest? what question was ask? and do we still care about these characters?
@@lhb82 well I was VERY entertained by fallen kingdom when I watched it in the cinema. I literally don’t get how ppl hate it. It brought us more species of dinos, gave us a good soundtrack and also, hyped us up for dominion
So many high action films in recent years are copies of each other that JWD is more of a genre movie than a franchise movie. Swap out the dinosaurs for secret agents, CIA, aliens, zombies, evil super villains etc and they are mostly the same movies with the same stories and scenes.
EXACTLY!!! And not only do they have the same plots and characters, they're also shot the same way...the camera's constantly flying around during the action scenes while the dialogue scenes are the dullest short-reverse shot setup you could possibly imagine, the colors are the same, just the way the scenes play out visually is identical....while I was watching this trainwreck for the first time I kept expecting Dwayne Johnson or some other generic Hollywood action hack to show up and start jumping around dodging velociraptors. We are SO far removed from what Jurassic Park originally was. Just compare this movie to the first one, or hell, even Jurassic Park III, which was pretty much a very basic jungle adventure movie with dinosaurs, feels more like a continuation of the first one than Dominion. The original had Spielberg's style all over it and was a clever and extremely well put together sci-fi-action blockbuster, this one is just an Asylum movie with a budget. And you're absolutely right about every movie feeling the same. Like you've said, all action blockbusters are the same, the only difference is the context of the story, but that doesn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things.
the worst part about the Quetzalcoatlus scene is that it makes the things terrifying in the AIR, when azhdarchid pterosaurs (not dinosaurs btw) are infinitely scarier on the GROUND. Imagine a stork as tall as a giraffe stalking you through the trees, waiting to spear you with a beak longer than you are tall. It would've been way more effective for the Claire forest scene than using the Therizinosaurus.
The air part can be made effective if carefully arranged. Imagine being in the underbrush seeing a lone quetz, a dot in the sky, proceeding through the growth and looking up again only to notice it isn't there, the forest is silent until you hear rustling of leaves and branches
Omg I had the same idea!! Literally like the plane crashes into the forest (would’ve been a smaller plane too) and as they are trying to get out they hear these low honks and beaks clicking. And turns out their in a Quetzal nesting area and now have to avoid these giant stork giraffes without getting speared
The Giga scene pissed me off so much when I watched it. Like this is what we waited for? A lifeless Dino walking around a car when the very first one had both cars get completely destroyed in the process of the t-Rex getting a couple snacks
Colin Trevorrow: "Don't worry. I'm not making the same mistakes again." Films&Stuff: "No, you're making all new ones." Jurassic World Dominion in a nutshell.
My favorite part about the Atrociraptor chase is that these “perfect hunters” repeatedly fail to catch their quarry because they can’t stop tripping over themselves. If only these DROMAEOSAURS had some kind of body structure, perhaps wings, that could stabilize their movement while running!
How exactly do they work?? The laser gets pointed but it doesn’t stay on the target lol - they just hone in and are then able to carry out a chase relentlessly over the course of 20 miles? That makes zero sense
Also, I got a million dollar idea to sell to the villains. What if you take that laser pointer thingy that commands the raptors to attack ... and attach it to a gun! So you know, if you have it pointed at someone you can just like squeeze your finger a bit and the target instantly dies and you don't have to go through the trouble of transporting a dinosaur everywhere you go and release it near your target etc. And the bullets would be much harder to outrun too.
@@cryoboy ok this laser thing for the indoraptor has caused a lot of arguments and controversies. Let my js share my simple thoughts: the laser pointer should be used specially for assassinations. Let the Dino do ur dirty work for u without anyone knowing that u were responsible for the kill. If only they used that idea in fallen kingdom
@@AtrociCollector Yes, because this way of killing someone is definitely drawing attention away from you since everyone has a device to sick raptors on people. Very inconspicuous.
This movie feels like it had a huge amount of studio influence and editing. There’s various novice mistakes made for sure, but stuff like the Malta chase scene just feels like Universal had a huge hand in hacking that to bits
I can sort of agree but in all honesty, I rewatched the other two films in the Jurassic World series and the first especially is way more ridiculous and overly complicated then I remember, nothing needs to be said for Fallen Kingdom, everyone knows how bad it is apart from the fact that it's filmed better but my point is that Collin directed two of them and was a screenwriter and producer for all three, this series is mostly his doing and I never like to trash directors or actors but he had so much control with this series and this is what he gave us and it is a colossal misfire and disappointment
The closest ive felt to the type of tension AND adventurous entertainment found in jurassic park is Jordan Peele's Nope. The blood house scene feels RIPPED from the t rex escape in the first film, all while having its own individual style and stakes as well. And the climaxl gives the sense that these character are in real danger, and that there must be a creative way to stop their threat.
Wait -- there was blocking in these movies?? I keep telling people. Everybody is misidentifying the problem with this movie. It's not the ideas. It's not the lack of dinosaurs (there's *too* *many* if anything). It's Colin Trevorrow's utter inability to do anything even remotely close to interesting with his direction. He has great ideas but he is just a bad director. He does practically nothing as a director. He's just like "Here's my idea. Let's point a camera at it. That's a wrap! Next idea!"
It's all the more startling because while arguably almost all the "did one indie movie and then they did franchise blockbusters" crowd have struggled to some degree or another (barring those who went into the MCU and are cushioned by the machinery, albeit with lots of stuff outsourced to pre-vis and second units), at least the likes of Gareth Edwards and Jordan Vogt-Roberts demonstrated real visual chops off the bat.
The editing and shot composition in Jurassic World: Dominion was easily one of the main reasons I disliked the film the most. It made scenes that were meant to feel intense feel rushed and sloppy. I'm sorry, but Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom may have had a poor script, but it at least knew how to look pretty
Good to see someone mention that the direction of Fallen Kingdom is great. A good example of direction elevating a bad script, Alien Resurrection is another.
I'll have to take your word on that. Resurrection is one of the worst franchise films ever made, even as a guilty pleasure it can be painful to sit through. The script must have been eye gougingly bad to read in comparison.
I like Resurrection or what it is but i certainly wont defend it, but i am strictly talking about the direction, the script is by whedon so what did you expect
The movie is SAFE because they turned an adult movie about the dangers of genetic engineering and humans playing God, into a movie about simply dinosaurs being kinda cool. The studios, producers, and directors of these new batch of JP movies, think that adult audiences are too stupid to want a thoughtful movie that uses Dinosaurs as a means to tell a larger story/critique of human nature/society so they aim these movies at prepubescent kids. I know this because I showed the original Jurassic Park to some 6 year old kids and they got scared. But they saw this movie no problem.
The overuse of CGI shattering the sense of realism is really pronounced in the parts where you were cutting between the Rex breakout and the Giga attack. In any given part of the Giga scene I almost feel like I'm watching a videogame - I can see that there's many, many layers of compositing, the trees are CGI, the characters are on a sound stage and have been dropped in, there's that awful orange-grey colour over everything, and it does not feel like a "place". In direct contrast, the rex paddock is unified. Alan is standing on a road next to a fence, and there's a crashed car and a big dinosaur. So simple. You really do buy that, even if the dinosaur isn't real, we really are on a road, in the pouring rain, with smashed up equipment everywhere.
@@finscontingencyplan7005 actually my complaint with jurassic world dominion is that the dinosaurs are practical effects when they shouldnt be, resulting in the dinosaurs feeling sluggish and really fake. Like, the entire sequence with the Giganotosaurus sucks because its limited to being a giant practical effect while having to chase around characters and feel menacing. The Giga would’ve been better off being CGI with the practical effect being used at the right time instead of the entire time. It was so obvious when it was practical vs cgi lol
I don’t think its the overuse of CGI, it’s the overuse of BAD CGI. We have the ability to make it near impossible to tell if it’s CGI, especially in the low light scenes. Yet you either have a director who doesn’t understand how to set up a shot to help the digital artists or they’re given no time to finish it properly (looking at you, marvel). It’s insane that there is genuinely some examples of worse CGI in JWD than in the first Jurassic Park in 1993!
@@cacoethes1366 it was all a rush (as my theory) because remember that the movie ended post-production 7 months (seven long months, imagine that) before releasing, hence why most of the effects look flawed. Whatever the reason (probably so they can save costs), they didn't have proper time to finish it, just like with Marvel these days.
You said everything needed to be said. When I went for this movie in the theatres I felt ashamed for being a fan of the franchise and for dragging my friends along what was a trash movie banking on. my childhood nostalgia
DUDE, that's EXACTLY what happened to me I invited a friend of mine to go to the movies with me, but the movie was extremely disappointing and I've never felt so ashamed. It was the first time she had been to the movies, and she told me that the movie was awful, and that she wasted her time going with me to see it. And It was me who had invited her
I am a Jurassic park fanboy at heart, have been ever since I saw the first film at a slumber party at my friends house when I was 10 years old, gave me a deep love for the franchise and dinosaurs in general… and man I still have not seen this movie 😂 when everyone on earth is saying it’s garbage, it makes it really hard to feel any desire to watch it
"Just watch another Spielberg classic" Funny, I watched War of the Worlds yesterday, and I was glued to my sofa during the basement scene where they try to avoid being seen by the "tentacle", then by the aliens coming down, there's so much tension in this scene, and it's perfectly made, like at the moment where this guy wants to shoot them and Tom Cruise tries to prevent him, they have that almost fight scene but in perfect silence, while the kid is looking at the aliens. In a sense, that scene really reminded me of the kitchen scene from Jurassic Park, a scene that still gives me goosebumps and stresses me almost 30 years later, even if I know perfectly how it ends. That's how you make a good suspense.
The climactic jokersaurus scene feels more like someone filmed a family going through a Universal Studios theme park ride. Like some kind of animatronics filled haunted house type thing. Maybe the setup would work there, where nobody has to to anything too stressful or physically impactful, which is fine in an amusement park, but boring as hell in a movie.
This is literally the best review and analysis of Dominion yet! Fantastic video that points out so many things wrong with this movie that I’ve seen no one talk about at all! Thank you for making it!
Every movie after The Lost World feels too bombastic and grand, while the first two films kept their action sequeces more grounded. It's like eating a diet of only sugar, there isn't enough balance to keep you truly satisfied.
When I saw this movie in late June/early July, I was super excited to go see it! But I was seriously underwhelmed after I had exited the theater. This video perfectly sums up most of my issues with it. 3/10
Filmmakers seem to be under the impression that the majority of people want self-insert characters that are badass, invincible, and unstoppable. They are always the smartest and most charismatic person in the room and the top of the food chain. And that those audiences don't have the recall of a goldfish, so it doesn't matter what happened or was said in the scenes prior as long as the self-inserts come out on top in _this_ scene. And box office returns suggest those filmmakers are not wrong.
This movie was vomit-inducingly horrible. The writers and director should be ashamed of themselves for all the money and artistic production talent they wasted.
When "West Side Story" makes 36 million and "Dominion" makes nearly a billion in sales world wide, the studios know they can crap out whatever giant turd they want, slap a dinosaur to it and idiots will eat it with a smile.
I feel like "Love and Monsters" does the horror portions of Jurassic Park very well. It has some minor flaws, but is a much better spiritual successor than the Dominion.
Great video, my dude. When I walked out the theater, I was having trouble comprehending that what we just got was real. If it wasn't the big finale movie to the franchise, things might have be different.
JP: Masterpiece JP2: Decent JP3: Watchable, but amateur JW: Remake of JP, JP2 and JP3 all in one, similar to Force Awakens. Takes the best bits of the original trilogy and crams it into 2 hours. JW2: Poor remake of JP2 JW3: Boring, and similar to the Emmerich movie 2012. An endless series of close encounters, but nothing happens.
I noticed In each Jurassic World film they go up against a Dinosaur version of a classic slasher villain. The Indominus Rex is Jason Voorhees The Indo Raptor is Freddy Krueger The Giganotosaurus is the Chatterer Cenobite
I find the similarities between the new Star Wars & Jurassic World trilogies interesting. Both started of with a mostly competent, if not very original opening film, followed by a controversial second film before ending with complete garbage.
The thing that the JP sequels have increasingly gotten wrong was that the dinosaurs are not generic monster movie monsters. In the original they were animals that were a threat not because they were evil but just because they had instincts and behaviors that humans who were trying to keep them did not understand and had not bothered to understand and it was human arrogance that was the real threat. Every sequel has moved away from that portrayal of the dinosaurs.
The Atrociraptors really feel like The Driller from Transformers: Dark of the Moon in that they're just there to fill up an action scene that only pads up the runtime and serves no plot significance.
You can say that to the Giga scenes, the Nasutoceratops rescue, maybe the Parasaur chase, the Pyroraptor encounter and (out of the action) the dialogue & exposition scenes that prolonged unnecessary.
It's almost shocking that Jurassic World and Dominion are directed by the same person. Colin Trevorrow's direction had much more energy the first time around.
The atrociraptors are my all time favorite dinosaurs. I just _love_ the way they can chase a freaking motorcycle at full speed for miles and miles *without* *ever* *getting* *tired!*
@@cryptodino3roberts712 They've been breeding race horses for many many years, but no horse can even come close to keeping up with a motorcycle. And I'm pretty sure no animal on Earth has ever been able to sprint at full speed for as long as the atrociraptors did in that scene -- vertebrate metabolism just doesn't allow it. The movie makers have basically crossed the line into supervillain territory here, only with superpowered dinosaurs rather than people. 😄
@@hummingfrog this why the atrociraptors need thier own origin movie or game. A suicide squad esque story exploring the practicality and consequenses of biological warfare(animals count in that area rifht?)
This film manages to make The Rise of Skywalker look like The Return of the King and just proves that Colin Trevorrow's Duel of the Fates film would've been infinitely worse.
3:10 I wanted to mention that this scene was so absurd, it is now one of my favorite scene in film. A warm-blooded creature falling into ice water is a death sentence, due to hypothermia. Similarly, swimming under the ice is a death sentence, due to drowning. I genuinely thought they were going to defeat the dinosaur by luring it into the crack in the ice and tricking it into falling in. Nope, it jumps in on its own. Everything short of a polar bear, penguin, or seal would be dead in about two minutes from that. Even a polar bear wouldn’t be able to break through even just an inch of ice. Then, the male human falls in. DEFINITELY a death sentence for the human, unless he can warm up in the next five minutes. Oh he’s fine? He’s just walking around in subzero temperatures, completely soaked? Ok, sure!
I found the entire World series to be abysmal. My wife and I just finished dominion (took us 3 sittings) and it was one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever sat through. I'd take more JP3 than any of the World movies easily.
Sounds like they never should’ve lead into it after JW2! Fallen Kingdom was dreadful for me and I just said F@ck it. Cause if that film was bad, the third one was probably gonna be even worst. And you know what (even though I called it). I hate being right! Cause I do love the franchise, this movie was just awful.
"The Jurassic Park series has always been closer to horror than action." I don't agree. I will agree that the original most definitely a horror movie, more akin to a slasher or Jaws. But ALL the others have relied, and related more with Disaster movies, where things just keep going wrong to drive the plot forward. The only thing that 'goes wrong' in the original is that Nedry doesn't make it back to his desk. Each subsequent film trying to outdo the set pieces of the previous is, as you mention, something out of Fast and Furious. Relying more on the spectacle than the actual story, which is why we get the diminishing returns. For me, if the franchise wants to be good/great again it needs to RETURN to its horror roots that it abandoned a long time ago
Jurassic World Dominion is like "Hey we have that Crichton spin-offish story about how the InGen Tech is powering eco catastrophes now and there is a swarm of locusts eating basically everything except for Monsanto stuff, we weill call them BioSyn." - and then they were like: Damn. We introduced dinosaurs into the Jurassic franchise, right? And a cloned human? Oh boy... JW3 should have been the abandoned idea of how sickness is spreading trough dinosaurs, an ancient virus that mutated - and combined with the "sancturary" from JW2 we would had a great apocalyptic thing. I mean the locusts felt apocalyptic too - but people were way too relaxed. Eating, traveling, just talking about coming up issues with food chain. I really like this movie, but the potential on wasted deaths, story-ideas and so on is just baffling.
I would not want an apocalyptic thing as that's already a series called cadilacs and dinosaurs. I do think the sanctuary should be brought back up again. It could be a good place to move certain species. In real life they have polar bear jails. Imagine a dino jail for large carnivores
Camp Cretaceous makes a far better sequel to Jurassic World than Fallen Kingdom or Dominion. Those last two films go so off the rails of what people would want to see in a Jurassic movie. Modern Hollywood is so out of touch.
I really don't understand his or your criticism. This is one of the first jurassic movies whare we are not just in the woods or in buildings. From the malta streets to the mines , and ice lands. This has the most unique set pieces. The observation thing the giga crashes is a cool thing that i would love to see fully operational
In defense of the Giga scene, it didn’t outright attack them to invoke the “animal” like behavior a predator would display. As portrayed in the Trex vs giga scene earlier, they didn’t fight to the death. It was a small scuffle over food, like real animals would do. The giga would be curious of the humans instead of outright attacking them Also the CGI is top notch and some of the giga’s body is out of frame next to the jeep, to invoke its massive size. Sucks the rest of the scene wasn’t good, and for it being the largest theropod in the series; it was sorely underused
Don't predators try to kill their prey as quickly as possible to conserve energy and prevent possible injury? Crocodilians will quickly snap at anything that looks like food. Why would the Giganotosaurus be curious of humans? It was created by them after all.
@@Bagelgeuseas silly my forthcoming explanation will sound, it's the most likely... A dinosaur has never seen a human or any kind of primate, literally ever. The only mammals any dinosaur would have ever encountered would have been small rodents. For the same reason a shark circles a human in crystal clear water; it doesn't know what a human is, as there's nothing like it in the water. A two legged creature with a hump on its back, weird eyes, and is farting bubbles (air tank). That shark is gonna be curious. A dinosaur, possibly even a large theropod, could sniff a human and think, "Hm. This thing smells like a rat but it's so much bigger. Weird."
They milked this cash cow beyond the point of extinction. I can't even go there for this video. It's all coming back to me my god never speak of this shameful fiasco again
It was so awesome to get a couple of recommendations for films/shows that embody the blocking/themes and ideas of Jurassic Park! I thought that was a really nice touch and a great way to wrap up the video!
4:38 This scene fails to properly set up tension because of the way the dinosaur responds to Claire's movements. It wouldn't have gotten as close as it did if it wasn't aware of something crawling on the dirt in front of it. I remember being dumbfounded in the theater thinking "why hasn't it swiped at her yet? It clearly knows she's right there!"
This film was a complete disaster, I couldn’t believe how terrible the script was. What I noticed was the difference of how Jurassic world made terrifying dinosaurs feel to how the original film made it. You can feel the fear in the original Jurassic park and this just felt “don’t worry they will be fine” i hope one day we will get a dinosaur horror film that is made to a standard of Jurassic world. Imagine being alone on a island full of dinosaurs at night trying to survive as a horror? Or even have it based on the PS1 dino crisis which had a fairly decent story. I’m just saying this would be great.
This was a fantastic breakdown! I do think it should be noted that this was entirely shot during the pandemic- being the first film back in production during the hight of it. You can clearly see, from all your great examples , that simple things like blocking were sublimated due to the protocols. For me it’s interesting seeing the film try to create continuity when they clearly don’t have the footage necessary, or the characters have to be staged in a way that complies with the protocols and works for the story. It’s a mess. But from a film making standpoint I can’t help but watch and learn from these “mistakes”/circumstances. Staging this many actors, in a single shot, at the height of the pandemic, seems like a fools errand.
It’s funny how the market model for Hollywood meant that they couldn’t stop making crowded movies even when a disaster meant they couldn’t actually make crowded movies
I can understand what you're saying but plenty of other great films where made during covid like The Batman and that movie turned out great, I can't entirely blame the pandemic, especially since the other two Jurassic World films aren't really good either
@@stevenecarrier from what I remember I recount way more then that and in numerous scenes they were interacting among others, like the club scenes, police crime scenes, funeral scene, many had groups of people so I give absolutely no leeway for Jurassic World Dominion, pandemic or not, it's just a poorly done movie but considering most of the Jurassic World series is mediocre, it kinda makes sense, rewatching the first I really realized how bad it kind of is, the second one worse and Collin has his fingerprints all over them, I just think that he's not a great writer or director
I absolutely agree! I mean, The Batman is literally a masterpiece and Jurassic World: Dominion is what it is - I quite liked it as it worked more like a Michael Crichton novel than any of the previous films, but I’m alone on that. I also understand how fucking hard it is to get any movie made so I usually air on the nicer more forgiving side cause Hollywood is a fucking bitch after all haha
I do agree that JW D has a real issue of not wanting to kill any decently tiered good guys. Now that I think of it, that’s a running problem with the JW trilogy. No one significant dies on the good guys. Like at best you get a C- character like Hammond clone or the babysitter. Where in the JP trilogy we had lots deaths. And I don’t want it to seem like o want deaths for the sake of it. I don’t. I just don’t want it to seem like our heroes are invincible and make the dinosaurs an actual threat.
I wanna also say they definitely play favorites in the dinosaur depictions, somehow Rexy is always shown in a heroic light and given special treatment, she never actively hunts, hurts or kill anyone of the main characters she is just always there to save them from other dinosaurs or execute the evil humans despite never being trained to act this way. Blue she was trained so, Rexy should have been depicted more like a crocodile, only out for herself and sure she can be directed at an enemy but she shouldn't be shown this benevolent. Its similar spineless storytelling that the animals can't be wild or dangerous anymore. I like that they use and spend more time with dinosaurs as characters, but they are given way too much fluff and anthropomorphism that it ruins their majesty.
@@kennethsatria6607 the T-Rex in the JP trilogy was never depicted in a heroic light. She doesn’t care if your good or bad, only if your edible and tasty. Jesus, the parents in JP TLW murder Eddie! I also forgot to mention how in the JW films, dinosaurs are basically immune to damage. Like the I-Rex should’ve had it’s leg shattered when the ankylosaurs hit it with its tail. Ya know… cause it’s tail is designed to break f*cking bone! But noooo, he just shrugs it off like it’s nothing.
Also we must NEVER FORGET Ever since 2015, Colin Trevorrow has been proclaiming that THIS THIRD MOVIE was ALWAYS the movie he intented and wanted to make......and its THIS. The entire Jurassic World trilogy looks like a childrens tv show compaired to the original Jurassic Park trilogy. Even jp3 LOOKS like a masterpiece in comparison to these AWFUL movies. Also a film that REALLY captures that "spielberg" feeling to a current movie is NOPE. So many elements of NOPE is stylized like many of spielbergs earlier films that helps make it a cinematic masterpiece.
When I thought the series couldn’t get worse after fallen kingdom, dominion happened. Sad to see how my most cherished franchise, was literally dragged through the mud and killed. There have been moments, although microscopic, that kind of seemed like the JP of old, but nope. The last 2 entries easily should kill off the franchise as a whole.
Therizinosaurus is thought to be an herbivore, by the way. It also likely didn't use "echolocation" in any way. One could reasonably posit that it might chirp like a bird or cat or make similar noises as many other animals out of curiosity, confusion, or fright. Did that get revealed at all in the film? May watch the new ones one day but not now.
It's not directly said in the film, but the Therizinosaurus is blind in the film, so the echolocation was probably added so that it had a way of getting around its day-to-day
@@dawritersroom01 Which is as weird as giving dilophosaurus frills and venom spit. And not nearly as exciting or justifiable. They . . . really didn't seem to give much of a crap about the dinosaurs in a dinosaur movie, did they?
That was my biggest issue with the JW movies.. they made the dinosaurs into monsters when the JP movies constantly stressed how they were animals that can't be controlled.. knowing they're hunting you like a wild animal was what made them so scary & added tension. None of the new movies feel grounded because they're written like monster movies. Someone also brought up how the intelligence of the dinosaurs is very inconsistent in the JW series. In one scene, they'll be clever & strategic, while in another scene, the same dinosaur is bursting through walls to chase people without any logic. Wouldn't they know to go around objects instead of through them? The raptors literally used doors in JP. Thank god for the locusts....
Jurassic Park was ABSOLUTELY about making dinosaurs into movie-style monsters, even in the novel. Monsters roar before they pounce on prey; carnivorous animals don’t; “velociraptors” are called that because the name sounds scary, and so on. Jurassic Park was just a BETTER monster movie.
What does this video have to do with Blocking and editing though? I went in expecting to learn more about what "blocking" is and how its lacking in the film and would have improved it. But this was mostly just about how bad the film was with a short mention of bad editing in one scene. It's more a review than an analysis. And I was really looking forward to learning more about blocking too. Perhaps the title is misleading and should be fixed.
you're mostly right- pterosaurs were not lizards. there is only one researcher who supports that AFAICT, and he has been debunked probably dozens of times
Having all the characters stand so close together makes the movie look like an episode of Scooby-Doo.
LOL like, zoinks!
@@katie7748came here to say the same thing
The whole thing was ill-conceived. They needed to think of creative ways to split the cast up into smaller groups of 2s and 3s for *extended* periods of time, maybe have them reunite only at the end of the action sequence.
During the final battle I was getting ready for Giga to say “Humans don’t deserve to live” and for Rexy to reply with “They deserve to choose for themselves!”
‘Then you will die with them!’
WHAAAT IVE DOOOOOONE!!!
Giga: the humans are evil!
Rex: from my point of view the dinosaurs are evil!
@@kyle21843 Giga: Then you are lost!
"Finally, a good oponent, our battle will be legendary!"
Rexy and Therizinosaurus: "Not even close"
You know the worst ? Colin said the Giganotosaurus is like the Joker, despite the fact that other than a big locust, he doesn’t kill anything in the movie. ANYTHING.
Yeah I honestly felt bad for him. The franchise has a habit of making the dinosaurs more of monsters then animals. Ironically he actually felt like a innocent dinosaur just doing it’s thing!
@@Nick64266 For real, dinosaurs have 2 states:
1. insanely humanoid, to the point where they could basically fly the airplane and run their own "dinosyn" lab, also they seamlessly cooperate despite being a totally different species just to kill the one thing Rexy was boutta lose to (cuz the kids cried when the Spino - tho rather bullshittily - won)
2. mindless monsters, often for no real reason (the Theri killing the deer just for the sake of it was legit shockingly hilarious, you could almost hear the animator say "yeet!" while animating that scene lol), sometimes accompanied by temporary invincibility
Oh and a bonus 3rd:
intercontinental ballistic *laser-guided* high-explosive armor piercing fin-stabilized discarding *raptors*
Tfw the “heroic” T.Rex has killed more innocent people than the supposedly evil Giga who didn’t even eat one of the villains
@@hunormagyar1843 I agree but I actually appreciated the theri, herbivores can be honestly more dangerous than predators because they need to offer enough threat to deter the predators from even considering attacking. So a near sighted/blind Theri slashing first and asking questions never actually fits really well.
@@YodaOnABender haha that’s funny. Even the veloraptors once considered some of the most dangerous villains of all time are now heroes!
“As long as there’s 2 or 3 good Dino scenes I’m ok with that”.. is a perfect example of how low our expectations have become 😢
Yeah, when people start complimenting JP3, you know something is up
It's sad really, so many films are too quick with too much flash and little to know substance or anything memorable attached, I miss how it used to be, especially with older summer blockbusters, great characters and story and fantastic action and suspense
Thank God for Top Gun Maverick this year, the true summer blockbuster and one of the best I've seen in a long time, it did everything it had to do right and then some, I think a lot of people, including me, hoped for a lot with the film but expected possible disappointed and it blew all of us away and exceeded all of our expectations
@@georgesikorski9891 How can u not love a raptor on a plane saying "Alan?"
That shit is hysterical😂😂😂
@@georgesikorski9891ok but JP3 got a bad rap even when movies were better. As a kid its serviceable because the movie knows its nog good so it just hits every narrative beat. It was efficient, but the action was good and lots of practical. I mean ofc nothing is gonna compare to the original, but at least JP3 wasn’t as pretentious and condescending as Jurassic World, it didn’t pretend like we were that invested in the family so it had a good brisk pace and the dialogue was over with in a second, whereas Jurassic World drags its goddamn feet with annoying ass characters
Because that’s what these movies are about. Everyone watches Jurassic Park for dino action. Easy as that
You hit my biggest complaint (out of several, extremely large complaints) regarding Dominion at 12:08. Maisie is stuck because it's currently trying to eat her, then rips the cage away, tosses it and... in the span of that 5 seconds, you're telling me 4 characters, 2 of which are in their 40's, one in their 50's, and one in their 70's, managed to all climb up a 30ft ladder in 5 seconds. Or, did it really take longer and the dinosaur... just waited for the next cutscene to start?
That was (big/huge) plot armor, with the Giga looking at his human-prey for 15 seconds before attacking. And that happened every time he was about to attack the humans.
yeah this movie had waaay too much plot armor and yeah anyone whos climbed a ladder will tell you that scene is some bullshit. but what i cant get over is how convenient everything in the movie is. the critical drinker went over that pretty thoroughly
Yes, the editing is shit and made the film look goofier and worse than it's actually is
Spielberg telling Trevorrow that he effectively blocked 15 actors in a scene in West Side Story must've burned Trevorrow badly.
I'm pretty sure that didn't happen and is just a witty way of comparing the approach of the two directors that the video's author came up with.
@@UmbrellaGent Colin Trevorrow talked about it in The Hollywood Reporter.
Spielberg's West Side Story is such a gorgeous-looking movie.
@@BeazerProductions Literally one of the best looking films I've ever seen!
I feel like Trevorrow direly needed to do at least a couple of low-budget films which required him to really work on the kind of craft which allowed Bayona to elevate Fallen Kingdom. He's maybe the blandest of the "one indie movie and now you make blockbusters" crowd.
you hit the nail on the head! The little gorey details like laura dern finding sam jackson’s decapitated arm or the opening scene raptor victim, amped up the suspense tenfold. In the new movies literally only bad guys die. The last innocent victim was the babysitter in the first World movie
Benjamin Lockwood : Am I a joke to you ?
@@juliancar5700 Who?
The fact that I can't remember says a lot-
@@thunderclanwarrior1253 it’s the old man who owns the Lockwood mansion in fallen kingdom. He died by Mills, who wanted to sell the dinosaurs instead of releasing them on an island in the mainland
@@AtrociCollector oo gotcha, thank you!
@@thunderclanwarrior1253 no problem bro
That intro couldn't have said it better. As a huge jurassic fan, ive watched the first three movies atleast a dozen times. It really is the entertainment factor that keeps me interested.
In my mind only the first three movies are canon in the franchise. Colin Trevorrow ruined this franchise.
@@prathapkutty7407 just enjoy life. Theres no need to spread drama when you hate a movie
@@ICE_IS_NICE They are enjoying life. There is no need to instigate drama because someone doesn't like a movie or series.
@@prathapkutty7407 it didn't ruin anything
Just enjoy life. Turn off social media and have a good time with popcorn and a movie.
I would absolutely adore a stand-alone horror film taking place at Jurassic Park or World. That would be amazing
This should be getting more upvotes. Lots of non main-line characters that have had to escape the dinos.
A prequel where all hell breaks loose. The movie ends with Hammond covering it up and hiring all new people except for a few key people. 100 people die. The credits roll as he's going to get approval from Dr Grant and Ellie.
Soooo...a novel accurate movie?
No shit we all would. JP started out as a HORROR piece. Nedry felt his own intestines in his hands for christssake
Jurassic Park is as close as you'll get to horror. And Spielberg did it wonderfully
The ending of Dominion really shows they wanted to have their cake and eat it too. All the new characters survive along with the old ones.
"Only characters that deserve it will die" Colin Treverow 2016
Everyone ether didn't take it seriously or thought he was kidding. Fallen Kingdom is rated G in Canada for crying out loud.
@@damndude999 Only G in Quebec, it was 14A in Ontario (which is like a more strict PG-13 essentially, as parents are required for under 14, not just suggested). It was PG in western provinces, and even that is surprising as FK was probably the most violent JP.
@@beerosaurusrex TWL had the highest rating a 14A, considering its the bloodiest in the series no suprise.
If you truly believe FK was darker and more violent the TLW your delusional.
I did double check and yes your correct its G In Quebec but in BC its still only PG, considering FK only had 1 "dark" moments and the character basically let themselves die came off more as a bad parody then a horror scene.
Going to be honest, I would have liked more scenes of dinos out in the world causing chaos or just seeing how they successfully adapted and integrated themselves into their new environments. Like the Mosasaurus adopting the whales, or the dinosaurs joining other animal herds and flocks. How did it happen? Or even Rexy reuniting with the other T-rexes, which I am convince are her grandkids. What will happen going forward?
The other Tyrannosaurs are the Buck and Doe from Lost World. So they're Rexy's siblings.
@@mortman200 oh that is cool! How sweet!
Wait, what happened to the kid? I'm guessing she's all grown up now. Maybe dead even.
I believe that was the original intention, hence Battle at Big Rock. Covid screwed a lot up, but they could have still made this final installment of the trilogy so much better. It was horrid
@@hatboxghost735 I didn't hate it, Grant and Ellie getting together probably had a lot do with it, but yeah. Battle at Big Rock is probably still the best sequel.
@@katherinealvarez9216 yes, that part was great. But they also made Grant a bumbling idiot in this movie which was kind of pathetic… Honestly I was pretty saddened by the movie being such a hardcore fan.
This movie sounds like good proof that having your characters make smart decisions every time can actually hurt the film.
I'll remember that next time a nitpicker says everyone acts dumb.
They made idiotic decisions, but plot armor protects them
I was so disappointed with this film. It didn't feel like a continuation of Fallen Kingdom, it didn't feel like a conclusion to the Jurassic World trilogy and it definitely didn't feel like a conclusion to the Jurassic franchise as a whole. People can criticise Fallen Kingdom all they want but at least it was entertaining and it continued the story and moved it forward. This was not the film we were promised by the marketing and it was worse because none of the characters feel like they're at risk of any harm
"People can criticise Fallen Kingdom all they want but at least it was entertaining"
I wasn't entertainment by it for a single minute. That it wasn't entertaining was one of the main criticism of the movie...
conclusion? it barely had an introduction. Even if it did, what was it? who requested this quest? what question was ask? and do we still care about these characters?
@@lhb82 well I was VERY entertained by fallen kingdom when I watched it in the cinema. I literally don’t get how ppl hate it. It brought us more species of dinos, gave us a good soundtrack and also, hyped us up for dominion
It was crap
@@AtrociCollector hyped us up for dominion... or what we thought it was supposed to be
"No series is more notorious for losing its magic than Jurassic Park."
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@@cormacmurrihy6192 SO TRUE. You know they're seconds away from having Thanos come back using "secrets only the sith knew" 😂
@@Strogman25 yea lol
@@Strogman25 he’s probably gonna be back in their whole “secret wars” thing, so you’re not far off lol
Don’t forget about the Marvel/Star Wars crossover
So many high action films in recent years are copies of each other that JWD is more of a genre movie than a franchise movie. Swap out the dinosaurs for secret agents, CIA, aliens, zombies, evil super villains etc and they are mostly the same movies with the same stories and scenes.
EXACTLY!!!
And not only do they have the same plots and characters, they're also shot the same way...the camera's constantly flying around during the action scenes while the dialogue scenes are the dullest short-reverse shot setup you could possibly imagine, the colors are the same, just the way the scenes play out visually is identical....while I was watching this trainwreck for the first time I kept expecting Dwayne Johnson or some other generic Hollywood action hack to show up and start jumping around dodging velociraptors.
We are SO far removed from what Jurassic Park originally was. Just compare this movie to the first one, or hell, even Jurassic Park III, which was pretty much a very basic jungle adventure movie with dinosaurs, feels more like a continuation of the first one than Dominion. The original had Spielberg's style all over it and was a clever and extremely well put together sci-fi-action blockbuster, this one is just an Asylum movie with a budget.
And you're absolutely right about every movie feeling the same. Like you've said, all action blockbusters are the same, the only difference is the context of the story, but that doesn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things.
the worst part about the Quetzalcoatlus scene is that it makes the things terrifying in the AIR, when azhdarchid pterosaurs (not dinosaurs btw) are infinitely scarier on the GROUND. Imagine a stork as tall as a giraffe stalking you through the trees, waiting to spear you with a beak longer than you are tall. It would've been way more effective for the Claire forest scene than using the Therizinosaurus.
Mf quetz has a beak stronger than the cast iron engine block
Thats actually a cool thought
The air part can be made effective if carefully arranged. Imagine being in the underbrush seeing a lone quetz, a dot in the sky, proceeding through the growth and looking up again only to notice it isn't there, the forest is silent until you hear rustling of leaves and branches
Omg I had the same idea!! Literally like the plane crashes into the forest (would’ve been a smaller plane too) and as they are trying to get out they hear these low honks and beaks clicking. And turns out their in a Quetzal nesting area and now have to avoid these giant stork giraffes without getting speared
What's the difference? When you make all your characters invincible there is no element of danger.
The Giga scene pissed me off so much when I watched it. Like this is what we waited for? A lifeless Dino walking around a car when the very first one had both cars get completely destroyed in the process of the t-Rex getting a couple snacks
Colin Trevorrow: "Don't worry. I'm not making the same mistakes again."
Films&Stuff: "No, you're making all new ones."
Jurassic World Dominion in a nutshell.
My favorite part about the Atrociraptor chase is that these “perfect hunters” repeatedly fail to catch their quarry because they can’t stop tripping over themselves. If only these DROMAEOSAURS had some kind of body structure, perhaps wings, that could stabilize their movement while running!
How exactly do they work?? The laser gets pointed but it doesn’t stay on the target lol - they just hone in and are then able to carry out a chase relentlessly over the course of 20 miles? That makes zero sense
Also, I got a million dollar idea to sell to the villains. What if you take that laser pointer thingy that commands the raptors to attack ... and attach it to a gun! So you know, if you have it pointed at someone you can just like squeeze your finger a bit and the target instantly dies and you don't have to go through the trouble of transporting a dinosaur everywhere you go and release it near your target etc. And the bullets would be much harder to outrun too.
@@crumblebee6728 they know what to attack. They will chase it to the ends of the earth if they have to. It’s js santos giving them instructions
@@cryoboy ok this laser thing for the indoraptor has caused a lot of arguments and controversies. Let my js share my simple thoughts: the laser pointer should be used specially for assassinations. Let the Dino do ur dirty work for u without anyone knowing that u were responsible for the kill. If only they used that idea in fallen kingdom
@@AtrociCollector Yes, because this way of killing someone is definitely drawing attention away from you since everyone has a device to sick raptors on people. Very inconspicuous.
Basically a mix between "Fast & Furious" and "The Lost World"
who uGet that from?
Lost world is better than this shit
@@LarrySwishamane the 1925 one
@@lunathekuduruk1311 of course it was! easily! too easy! how easy?
lights. camera. action. (Ian yawns)
@@LarrySwishamane Is this some kind of fucking code?
This movie feels like it had a huge amount of studio influence and editing. There’s various novice mistakes made for sure, but stuff like the Malta chase scene just feels like Universal had a huge hand in hacking that to bits
Though it’s not like you could ever make Jurassic Park 6 as some sort of art collective or auteur
@@MegaZeta sure you can
Maybe the pandemic complicated thing more?
I can sort of agree but in all honesty, I rewatched the other two films in the Jurassic World series and the first especially is way more ridiculous and overly complicated then I remember, nothing needs to be said for Fallen Kingdom, everyone knows how bad it is apart from the fact that it's filmed better but my point is that Collin directed two of them and was a screenwriter and producer for all three, this series is mostly his doing and I never like to trash directors or actors but he had so much control with this series and this is what he gave us and it is a colossal misfire and disappointment
@@robertjacques4117 He's an inept hack who just got lucky.
The closest ive felt to the type of tension AND adventurous entertainment found in jurassic park is Jordan Peele's Nope. The blood house scene feels RIPPED from the t rex escape in the first film, all while having its own individual style and stakes as well. And the climaxl gives the sense that these character are in real danger, and that there must be a creative way to stop their threat.
Wait -- there was blocking in these movies?? I keep telling people. Everybody is misidentifying the problem with this movie. It's not the ideas. It's not the lack of dinosaurs (there's *too* *many* if anything). It's Colin Trevorrow's utter inability to do anything even remotely close to interesting with his direction. He has great ideas but he is just a bad director. He does practically nothing as a director. He's just like "Here's my idea. Let's point a camera at it. That's a wrap! Next idea!"
It's all the more startling because while arguably almost all the "did one indie movie and then they did franchise blockbusters" crowd have struggled to some degree or another (barring those who went into the MCU and are cushioned by the machinery, albeit with lots of stuff outsourced to pre-vis and second units), at least the likes of Gareth Edwards and Jordan Vogt-Roberts demonstrated real visual chops off the bat.
The editing and shot composition in Jurassic World: Dominion was easily one of the main reasons I disliked the film the most. It made scenes that were meant to feel intense feel rushed and sloppy. I'm sorry, but Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom may have had a poor script, but it at least knew how to look pretty
Good to see someone mention that the direction of Fallen Kingdom is great. A good example of direction elevating a bad script, Alien Resurrection is another.
I'll have to take your word on that. Resurrection is one of the worst franchise films ever made, even as a guilty pleasure it can be painful to sit through. The script must have been eye gougingly bad to read in comparison.
Bayona is good at elevating iffy scripts - his work on Rings of Power was pretty good
I like Resurrection or what it is but i certainly wont defend it, but i am strictly talking about the direction, the script is by whedon so what did you expect
The movie is SAFE because they turned an adult movie about the dangers of genetic engineering and humans playing God, into a movie about simply dinosaurs being kinda cool. The studios, producers, and directors of these new batch of JP movies, think that adult audiences are too stupid to want a thoughtful movie that uses Dinosaurs as a means to tell a larger story/critique of human nature/society so they aim these movies at prepubescent kids. I know this because I showed the original Jurassic Park to some 6 year old kids and they got scared. But they saw this movie no problem.
The overuse of CGI shattering the sense of realism is really pronounced in the parts where you were cutting between the Rex breakout and the Giga attack. In any given part of the Giga scene I almost feel like I'm watching a videogame - I can see that there's many, many layers of compositing, the trees are CGI, the characters are on a sound stage and have been dropped in, there's that awful orange-grey colour over everything, and it does not feel like a "place". In direct contrast, the rex paddock is unified. Alan is standing on a road next to a fence, and there's a crashed car and a big dinosaur. So simple. You really do buy that, even if the dinosaur isn't real, we really are on a road, in the pouring rain, with smashed up equipment everywhere.
Lol the giga scene was practical and fimed in the set.
@@singularityraptor4022 And it’s been painted over with so much CGI that you wouldn’t be able to tell
@@finscontingencyplan7005 actually my complaint with jurassic world dominion is that the dinosaurs are practical effects when they shouldnt be, resulting in the dinosaurs feeling sluggish and really fake. Like, the entire sequence with the Giganotosaurus sucks because its limited to being a giant practical effect while having to chase around characters and feel menacing. The Giga would’ve been better off being CGI with the practical effect being used at the right time instead of the entire time. It was so obvious when it was practical vs cgi lol
I don’t think its the overuse of CGI, it’s the overuse of BAD CGI. We have the ability to make it near impossible to tell if it’s CGI, especially in the low light scenes. Yet you either have a director who doesn’t understand how to set up a shot to help the digital artists or they’re given no time to finish it properly (looking at you, marvel). It’s insane that there is genuinely some examples of worse CGI in JWD than in the first Jurassic Park in 1993!
@@cacoethes1366 it was all a rush (as my theory) because remember that the movie ended post-production 7 months (seven long months, imagine that) before releasing, hence why most of the effects look flawed. Whatever the reason (probably so they can save costs), they didn't have proper time to finish it, just like with Marvel these days.
You said everything needed to be said. When I went for this movie in the theatres I felt ashamed for being a fan of the franchise and for dragging my friends along what was a trash movie banking on. my childhood nostalgia
It took that long? I'm amazed anyone was still on board after JW, especially after Fallen Kingdom.
DUDE, that's EXACTLY what happened to me
I invited a friend of mine to go to the movies with me, but the movie was extremely disappointing and I've never felt so ashamed. It was the first time she had been to the movies, and she told me that the movie was awful, and that she wasted her time going with me to see it. And It was me who had invited her
JP1: Ellie limps after jumping a fence.
JW3: Claire leaps off rooftops and keeps running.
Claire has had prior experience
I am a Jurassic park fanboy at heart, have been ever since I saw the first film at a slumber party at my friends house when I was 10 years old, gave me a deep love for the franchise and dinosaurs in general… and man I still have not seen this movie 😂 when everyone on earth is saying it’s garbage, it makes it really hard to feel any desire to watch it
Agree to the highest level, as someone who experienced the horror of the t rex break out scene at 4 it would be a disservice.
"Just watch another Spielberg classic"
Funny, I watched War of the Worlds yesterday, and I was glued to my sofa during the basement scene where they try to avoid being seen by the "tentacle", then by the aliens coming down, there's so much tension in this scene, and it's perfectly made, like at the moment where this guy wants to shoot them and Tom Cruise tries to prevent him, they have that almost fight scene but in perfect silence, while the kid is looking at the aliens.
In a sense, that scene really reminded me of the kitchen scene from Jurassic Park, a scene that still gives me goosebumps and stresses me almost 30 years later, even if I know perfectly how it ends. That's how you make a good suspense.
I’ve never walked out of a movie. I walked out of Dominion.
I almost walked out of Fallen Kingdom.
The climactic jokersaurus scene feels more like someone filmed a family going through a Universal Studios theme park ride. Like some kind of animatronics filled haunted house type thing. Maybe the setup would work there, where nobody has to to anything too stressful or physically impactful, which is fine in an amusement park, but boring as hell in a movie.
gafruF
I honestly think Lostworld has great themes
JW Dominion could be a good example of what’s wrong with some modern action movies
This is literally the best review and analysis of Dominion yet! Fantastic video that points out so many things wrong with this movie that I’ve seen no one talk about at all! Thank you for making it!
That is exactly my problem with JWD. The dinosaurs are not a threat, they do not matter at all. They are merely a minor inconvenience.
Every movie after The Lost World feels too bombastic and grand, while the first two films kept their action sequeces more grounded. It's like eating a diet of only sugar, there isn't enough balance to keep you truly satisfied.
This is one of the best video essays I’ve seen all year. Bravo
Remember the excellent short film Trevorrow made of that family at the camp site? That’s not the movie we got with JWD.
Spielberg knew that the movie should be left alone, that’s why he didn’t direct the other Jurassic park/world movie
When I saw this movie in late June/early July, I was super excited to go see it! But I was seriously underwhelmed after I had exited the theater. This video perfectly sums up most of my issues with it.
3/10
Get the extended version.
Li MMB
@@245Carol It's still shit, just longer shit.
Filmmakers seem to be under the impression that the majority of people want self-insert characters that are badass, invincible, and unstoppable. They are always the smartest and most charismatic person in the room and the top of the food chain. And that those audiences don't have the recall of a goldfish, so it doesn't matter what happened or was said in the scenes prior as long as the self-inserts come out on top in _this_ scene.
And box office returns suggest those filmmakers are not wrong.
that chasing scene felt like an eternity
This movie was vomit-inducingly horrible. The writers and director should be ashamed of themselves for all the money and artistic production talent they wasted.
When "West Side Story" makes 36 million and "Dominion" makes nearly a billion in sales world wide, the studios know they can crap out whatever giant turd they want, slap a dinosaur to it and idiots will eat it with a smile.
I feel like "Love and Monsters" does the horror portions of Jurassic Park very well. It has some minor flaws, but is a much better spiritual successor than the Dominion.
Now that was a film that balanced suspense and heart beautifully.
Thank you for that shoutout to West Side Story (2021), a modern day masterpiece.
Huh?
Great video, my dude. When I walked out the theater, I was having trouble comprehending that what we just got was real. If it wasn't the big finale movie to the franchise, things might have be different.
It's just the finale to the JW trilogy. Nothing is ever done, JP won't be an exception.
@@beerosaurusrex Well, some things are not meant to last forever.
Omg Films & Stuff got a cameo from nicholas cage at 1:53 that's so cool
I was just thinking that 🤣🤣🤣
The lost art of making a good movie.
JP: Masterpiece
JP2: Decent
JP3: Watchable, but amateur
JW: Remake of JP, JP2 and JP3 all in one, similar to Force Awakens. Takes the best bits of the original trilogy and crams it into 2 hours.
JW2: Poor remake of JP2
JW3: Boring, and similar to the Emmerich movie 2012. An endless series of close encounters, but nothing happens.
I noticed In each Jurassic World film they go up against a Dinosaur version of a classic slasher villain.
The Indominus Rex is Jason Voorhees
The Indo Raptor is Freddy Krueger
The Giganotosaurus is the Chatterer Cenobite
Love all the mini-reference clips... spot on my dude.
When The Rise of Skywalker looks like a better functioning movie than you, you know you messed up.
Dominion is better The Rise of Skywalker
Both are bad but TROS is infinitely worse than this because it's such a coward of a movie.
The rise of skywalker was way worse bro
I find the similarities between the new Star Wars & Jurassic World trilogies interesting. Both started of with a mostly competent, if not very original opening film, followed by a controversial second film before ending with complete garbage.
@@AndySomething Same with the DGG Halloween movies.
The best way to improve this film is to make a completely different movie altogether.
That could be said, unfortunately, for nearly any sequel/reboot of the last 10 years.
Other than Top Gun Maverick. A perfect sequel
The thing that the JP sequels have increasingly gotten wrong was that the dinosaurs are not generic monster movie monsters. In the original they were animals that were a threat not because they were evil but just because they had instincts and behaviors that humans who were trying to keep them did not understand and had not bothered to understand and it was human arrogance that was the real threat. Every sequel has moved away from that portrayal of the dinosaurs.
The Atrociraptors really feel like The Driller from Transformers: Dark of the Moon in that they're just there to fill up an action scene that only pads up the runtime and serves no plot significance.
Yes exactly
Wow it's almost like that's what action movies do or something 🤔 maybe put down the screenplay for dummies book and enjoy a film once in a while
@@R1ck_Ryder Lol
The atrociraptors also show the advancements in dinosaur related technology. What was a prototype in fallen kingdom is now an available product
You can say that to the Giga scenes, the Nasutoceratops rescue, maybe the Parasaur chase, the Pyroraptor encounter and (out of the action) the dialogue & exposition scenes that prolonged unnecessary.
It's almost shocking that Jurassic World and Dominion are directed by the same person. Colin Trevorrow's direction had much more energy the first time around.
I’m convinced he just got lucky with the first film.
The atrociraptors are my all time favorite dinosaurs. I just _love_ the way they can chase a freaking motorcycle at full speed for miles and miles *without* *ever* *getting* *tired!*
They are said in the movie to be bred for speed. Think like old school money horses only trained to stop for a secret word.
@@cryptodino3roberts712 They've been breeding race horses for many many years, but no horse can even come close to keeping up with a motorcycle. And I'm pretty sure no animal on Earth has ever been able to sprint at full speed for as long as the atrociraptors did in that scene -- vertebrate metabolism just doesn't allow it. The movie makers have basically crossed the line into supervillain territory here, only with superpowered dinosaurs rather than people. 😄
@@hummingfrog this why the atrociraptors need thier own origin movie or game. A suicide squad esque story exploring the practicality and consequenses of biological warfare(animals count in that area rifht?)
Camp Cretaceous had plenty of "kills"...for a "kids" show. Just like the classic "Jonny Quest" show.
This film manages to make The Rise of Skywalker look like The Return of the King and just proves that Colin Trevorrow's Duel of the Fates film would've been infinitely worse.
Fun Fact: Quetzalcoatlus, Dimetrodon & Lystrosaurus weren't dinosaurs.
@@onerandomguy4832 I did.
@@onerandomguy4832 no one asks in the comment we just want to express ourselves dumbass
Thats like common knowledge
@@onerandomguy4832 are you that pathetic to simply slap all your insecurities onto someone who knows more than you?
@@onerandomguy4832 fun fact: its a common fact and calling them dinosaurs shows that you don't know what you're talking about
3:10 I wanted to mention that this scene was so absurd, it is now one of my favorite scene in film.
A warm-blooded creature falling into ice water is a death sentence, due to hypothermia. Similarly, swimming under the ice is a death sentence, due to drowning. I genuinely thought they were going to defeat the dinosaur by luring it into the crack in the ice and tricking it into falling in.
Nope, it jumps in on its own. Everything short of a polar bear, penguin, or seal would be dead in about two minutes from that. Even a polar bear wouldn’t be able to break through even just an inch of ice.
Then, the male human falls in. DEFINITELY a death sentence for the human, unless he can warm up in the next five minutes. Oh he’s fine? He’s just walking around in subzero temperatures, completely soaked? Ok, sure!
collin trevorrow: but i bring back the saga!
fans: and we salute you for it. Now dont come back!
I found the entire World series to be abysmal. My wife and I just finished dominion (took us 3 sittings) and it was one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever sat through. I'd take more JP3 than any of the World movies easily.
Sounds like they never should’ve lead into it after JW2! Fallen Kingdom was dreadful for me and I just said F@ck it. Cause if that film was bad, the third one was probably gonna be even worst.
And you know what (even though I called it). I hate being right! Cause I do love the franchise, this movie was just awful.
"The Jurassic Park series has always been closer to horror than action."
I don't agree.
I will agree that the original most definitely a horror movie, more akin to a slasher or Jaws. But ALL the others have relied, and related more with Disaster movies, where things just keep going wrong to drive the plot forward. The only thing that 'goes wrong' in the original is that Nedry doesn't make it back to his desk.
Each subsequent film trying to outdo the set pieces of the previous is, as you mention, something out of Fast and Furious. Relying more on the spectacle than the actual story, which is why we get the diminishing returns.
For me, if the franchise wants to be good/great again it needs to RETURN to its horror roots that it abandoned a long time ago
If J.A Bayona directed Dominion he would have given us more dinos encounter scenes.
He would've made a better shot and framed film that's for sure
Bayona really should've directed the first Jurassic World, not Colin.
Very good edit and info about why Dominion dropped the ball.
Jurassic World Dominion is like "Hey we have that Crichton spin-offish story about how the InGen Tech is powering eco catastrophes now and there is a swarm of locusts eating basically everything except for Monsanto stuff, we weill call them BioSyn." - and then they were like: Damn. We introduced dinosaurs into the Jurassic franchise, right? And a cloned human? Oh boy... JW3 should have been the abandoned idea of how sickness is spreading trough dinosaurs, an ancient virus that mutated - and combined with the "sancturary" from JW2 we would had a great apocalyptic thing. I mean the locusts felt apocalyptic too - but people were way too relaxed. Eating, traveling, just talking about coming up issues with food chain. I really like this movie, but the potential on wasted deaths, story-ideas and so on is just baffling.
I would not want an apocalyptic thing as that's already a series called cadilacs and dinosaurs. I do think the sanctuary should be brought back up again. It could be a good place to move certain species. In real life they have polar bear jails. Imagine a dino jail for large carnivores
The final line of this video will stick with me forever. No truer words have been said.
Glad to have subscribed. First Jurrasic Park was amazing.
Camp Cretaceous makes a far better sequel to Jurassic World than Fallen Kingdom or Dominion. Those last two films go so off the rails of what people would want to see in a Jurassic movie. Modern Hollywood is so out of touch.
That underwater scene is the ONLY good set piece in the whole film..
I really don't understand his or your criticism. This is one of the first jurassic movies whare we are not just in the woods or in buildings. From the malta streets to the mines , and ice lands. This has the most unique set pieces. The observation thing the giga crashes is a cool thing that i would love to see fully operational
In defense of the Giga scene, it didn’t outright attack them to invoke the “animal” like behavior a predator would display. As portrayed in the Trex vs giga scene earlier, they didn’t fight to the death. It was a small scuffle over food, like real animals would do. The giga would be curious of the humans instead of outright attacking them
Also the CGI is top notch and some of the giga’s body is out of frame next to the jeep, to invoke its massive size. Sucks the rest of the scene wasn’t good, and for it being the largest theropod in the series; it was sorely underused
Don't predators try to kill their prey as quickly as possible to conserve energy and prevent possible injury? Crocodilians will quickly snap at anything that looks like food. Why would the Giganotosaurus be curious of humans? It was created by them after all.
@@Bagelgeuseas silly my forthcoming explanation will sound, it's the most likely...
A dinosaur has never seen a human or any kind of primate, literally ever. The only mammals any dinosaur would have ever encountered would have been small rodents. For the same reason a shark circles a human in crystal clear water; it doesn't know what a human is, as there's nothing like it in the water. A two legged creature with a hump on its back, weird eyes, and is farting bubbles (air tank). That shark is gonna be curious. A dinosaur, possibly even a large theropod, could sniff a human and think, "Hm. This thing smells like a rat but it's so much bigger. Weird."
@@DoomRulz The Giganotosaurus was created by humans. It should know what they are.
@@Bagelgeuse How?
@@DoomRulz It was cloned by Biosyn scientists.
They milked this cash cow beyond the point of extinction. I can't even go there for this video. It's all coming back to me my god never speak of this shameful fiasco again
It was so awesome to get a couple of recommendations for films/shows that embody the blocking/themes and ideas of Jurassic Park! I thought that was a really nice touch and a great way to wrap up the video!
9:25
Yep even when I first watched this movie I noticed how unbelievably abysmal the editing and character positioning was in this few seconds.
I haven't watch this movie yet, but the giganotosaurus scene reminds me a bit of Missile Silo mission in Dino Crisis 2.
4:38 This scene fails to properly set up tension because of the way the dinosaur responds to Claire's movements. It wouldn't have gotten as close as it did if it wasn't aware of something crawling on the dirt in front of it. I remember being dumbfounded in the theater thinking "why hasn't it swiped at her yet? It clearly knows she's right there!"
This film was a complete disaster, I couldn’t believe how terrible the script was. What I noticed was the difference of how Jurassic world made terrifying dinosaurs feel to how the original film made it. You can feel the fear in the original Jurassic park and this just felt “don’t worry they will be fine” i hope one day we will get a dinosaur horror film that is made to a standard of Jurassic world. Imagine being alone on a island full of dinosaurs at night trying to survive as a horror? Or even have it based on the PS1 dino crisis which had a fairly decent story. I’m just saying this would be great.
This was a fantastic breakdown! I do think it should be noted that this was entirely shot during the pandemic- being the first film back in production during the hight of it. You can clearly see, from all your great examples , that simple things like blocking were sublimated due to the protocols. For me it’s interesting seeing the film try to create continuity when they clearly don’t have the footage necessary, or the characters have to be staged in a way that complies with the protocols and works for the story. It’s a mess. But from a film making standpoint I can’t help but watch and learn from these “mistakes”/circumstances. Staging this many actors, in a single shot, at the height of the pandemic, seems like a fools errand.
It’s funny how the market model for Hollywood meant that they couldn’t stop making crowded movies even when a disaster meant they couldn’t actually make crowded movies
I can understand what you're saying but plenty of other great films where made during covid like The Batman and that movie turned out great, I can't entirely blame the pandemic, especially since the other two Jurassic World films aren't really good either
@@robertjacques4117 but The Batman had 2, maybe 3, main characters.
@@stevenecarrier from what I remember I recount way more then that and in numerous scenes they were interacting among others, like the club scenes, police crime scenes, funeral scene, many had groups of people so I give absolutely no leeway for Jurassic World Dominion, pandemic or not, it's just a poorly done movie but considering most of the Jurassic World series is mediocre, it kinda makes sense, rewatching the first I really realized how bad it kind of is, the second one worse and Collin has his fingerprints all over them, I just think that he's not a great writer or director
I absolutely agree! I mean, The Batman is literally a masterpiece and Jurassic World: Dominion is what it is - I quite liked it as it worked more like a Michael Crichton novel than any of the previous films, but I’m alone on that. I also understand how fucking hard it is to get any movie made so I usually air on the nicer more forgiving side cause Hollywood is a fucking bitch after all haha
A really good analysis of garbage. A great learning experience for newbie filmmakers.
I do agree that JW D has a real issue of not wanting to kill any decently tiered good guys. Now that I think of it, that’s a running problem with the JW trilogy. No one significant dies on the good guys. Like at best you get a C- character like Hammond clone or the babysitter.
Where in the JP trilogy we had lots deaths. And I don’t want it to seem like o want deaths for the sake of it. I don’t. I just don’t want it to seem like our heroes are invincible and make the dinosaurs an actual threat.
I wanna also say they definitely play favorites in the dinosaur depictions, somehow Rexy is always shown in a heroic light and given special treatment, she never actively hunts, hurts or kill anyone of the main characters she is just always there to save them from other dinosaurs or execute the evil humans despite never being trained to act this way.
Blue she was trained so, Rexy should have been depicted more like a crocodile, only out for herself and sure she can be directed at an enemy but she shouldn't be shown this benevolent.
Its similar spineless storytelling that the animals can't be wild or dangerous anymore.
I like that they use and spend more time with dinosaurs as characters, but they are given way too much fluff and anthropomorphism that it ruins their majesty.
@@kennethsatria6607 the T-Rex in the JP trilogy was never depicted in a heroic light. She doesn’t care if your good or bad, only if your edible and tasty. Jesus, the parents in JP TLW murder Eddie!
I also forgot to mention how in the JW films, dinosaurs are basically immune to damage. Like the I-Rex should’ve had it’s leg shattered when the ankylosaurs hit it with its tail. Ya know… cause it’s tail is designed to break f*cking bone! But noooo, he just shrugs it off like it’s nothing.
Would you talk about Camp Cretaceous? I think it might have what you're looking for.
It's the Gravity editor, what'd you expect?
You know I thought you may be different but you just like everyone else, you see what yoy wnat to see)
I am a huge JP fan. It was difficult to finish the last two JW movies.
Also we must NEVER FORGET
Ever since 2015, Colin Trevorrow has been proclaiming that THIS THIRD MOVIE was ALWAYS the movie he intented and wanted to make......and its THIS. The entire Jurassic World trilogy looks like a childrens tv show compaired to the original Jurassic Park trilogy. Even jp3 LOOKS like a masterpiece in comparison to these AWFUL movies.
Also a film that REALLY captures that "spielberg" feeling to a current movie is NOPE. So many elements of NOPE is stylized like many of spielbergs earlier films that helps make it a cinematic masterpiece.
I'm glad you acknowledged that Fallen Kingdom is really well directed. The worst part of that film is it's atrocious script
That last/closing line alone deserves a like!
When I thought the series couldn’t get worse after fallen kingdom, dominion happened. Sad to see how my most cherished franchise, was literally dragged through the mud and killed. There have been moments, although microscopic, that kind of seemed like the JP of old, but nope. The last 2 entries easily should kill off the franchise as a whole.
This is done so well! Love the humour bits.
Therizinosaurus is thought to be an herbivore, by the way. It also likely didn't use "echolocation" in any way. One could reasonably posit that it might chirp like a bird or cat or make similar noises as many other animals out of curiosity, confusion, or fright.
Did that get revealed at all in the film? May watch the new ones one day but not now.
It's not directly said in the film, but the Therizinosaurus is blind in the film, so the echolocation was probably added so that it had a way of getting around its day-to-day
@@dawritersroom01 Which is . . . just weird. Echolocation isn't something that pops up because of blindness.
@@SecretRaginMan Only other explanation then is that the JW Theri always had echolocation, then.
@@dawritersroom01 Which is as weird as giving dilophosaurus frills and venom spit. And not nearly as exciting or justifiable.
They . . . really didn't seem to give much of a crap about the dinosaurs in a dinosaur movie, did they?
@@SecretRaginMan Not really. Still, it managed to be one of the better dinos in the film
I think your over critical on some…. That Raptor chase was awesome
It was a great idea, but was one of the most boring action scenes ever made. How do you make a raptor chase through city streets so unexciting?
That was my biggest issue with the JW movies.. they made the dinosaurs into monsters when the JP movies constantly stressed how they were animals that can't be controlled.. knowing they're hunting you like a wild animal was what made them so scary & added tension. None of the new movies feel grounded because they're written like monster movies.
Someone also brought up how the intelligence of the dinosaurs is very inconsistent in the JW series. In one scene, they'll be clever & strategic, while in another scene, the same dinosaur is bursting through walls to chase people without any logic. Wouldn't they know to go around objects instead of through them? The raptors literally used doors in JP. Thank god for the locusts....
Jurassic Park was ABSOLUTELY about making dinosaurs into movie-style monsters, even in the novel. Monsters roar before they pounce on prey; carnivorous animals don’t; “velociraptors” are called that because the name sounds scary, and so on.
Jurassic Park was just a BETTER monster movie.
@@MegaZeta It feels way more grounded to me. There's even a line about how they're not monsters.
The atrociraptors are likely put into a rage state.
What does this video have to do with Blocking and editing though? I went in expecting to learn more about what "blocking" is and how its lacking in the film and would have improved it. But this was mostly just about how bad the film was with a short mention of bad editing in one scene. It's more a review than an analysis. And I was really looking forward to learning more about blocking too. Perhaps the title is misleading and should be fixed.
I fully expected a video about the movie. He literally says, let's talk about Jurassic World
Same
Dimetrodon isn't a dinosaur, it's a synapsid. Which is a fancy way to say that it's a proto-mammal. Also pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus were lizards.
you're mostly right- pterosaurs were not lizards. there is only one researcher who supports that AFAICT, and he has been debunked probably dozens of times
Pterosaurs were archosaurs (like dinosaurs) - not lizards (sorry). I think Lystrosaurus was also a synapsid (but could be wrong)
No one cares, they were in the movie about dinosaurs so they'll be talked about like dinosaurs.
@@msscott22 I just think it's cool that our proto-mammal ancestors looked like that. Synapsids are amazing but most people don't know about them.
Now this is a video essay that has something to say. Well done.
This film was trying to be Irwin Allen's "The Swarm," but with locusts (featuring dinosaurs.)
I think prey is also a Good example of jungle horror with a monster
I'm surprised I haven't seen a slew of videos about why that film rocks so hard. I've watched it three times already