This was your best video yet. This really speaks to the soul of the original Jurassic Park fans who have to deal with this corporate shlock. Exactly as you said, BTTF has remained relevant and popular despite only having a trilogy that ended in 1990. Here's hoping we get a big budget Jurassic PARK game for the 30th!
We gotta have some spice, can’t re use the same old company is bad trope instead I wish their was a Jurassic park movie where the military was planning to kill all dinosaurs with a virus, we can get a money heist thrill theme where a team or 8 land on the island infultrating it, we get guns blazing and in the end they end up in the room with the virus and take a sample. They get captured and the military wants to kill them until they find out the entire team is broadcasting to the world. Due to the criticism they are let free just like the end of money heist. I feel like this is a cool idea I made up
What's really interesting is that, despite Michael Crichton saying he never wanted to write another "dinosaur book" after Lost World, his last book titled "Next" is basically just another exploration of genetic testing gone too far without dinosaurs. The company in that book is called BioGen lol. I also really liked the decision to not make Ellie and Alan get together in JP3. They were clearly still friends, Ellie's husband seemed to like Grant and vice versa. Sometimes it can just be nice seeing healthy adult relationships without it being romantic.
Some mushy tropes are there for a reason, because the human spirit craves them. Ellie and grant were my favorite movie couple, I hated jp 3 for breaking them up, "realism" be damned. Sometimes fantasy has to be better than reality
@DutchDread Unhinged response lol. The human spirit craves sexual encounters LMAO. I just said they don't get together romantically but they remain close friends. That's a really cool and refreshing on-screen relationship that still caters to the human spirit or whatever you just said. Like they still like each other. She saves him at the end of JP3 by calling in the military. Saying Ellie and Grant were you favorite onscreen couple in JP1 is admitting to enjoying off-screen interpretation of the two characters.
yes and no like... I feel that while we do need more healthy friendships between grownups of the opposite sex shown on the big screen, Ellie and Grant not getting together in JP3 was a big mistake. The reason stated why they split apart -in universe- is because they disagreed on having kids. This to me spits in the face of the first movie as the whole point of it was Grant learning to appreciate, care and protecting kids and understanding what becoming a parent is like... so for him to have undone all the development for 3 is my one biggest gripw with that movie. Again, I do agree with your statement, seeing healthy adult relationships is nive and we need more of that. I just feel in this case it wasn't quite the right choice, or rather it was done wrong.
11:38 “ugly dinosaur redesigns”…. The Jp 3 raptor has such a unique design and many of the Dino’s have completely fresh coloration and pattern. Jp3 has some of the most colorful dinos in the franchise. The killing off of the only trex in the movie was because trex got tons of screen time in the last 2. If the trex was used more, everyone would complain that the trex was overused.
as someone who’s dad loves the first two movies, i never really got why he hated world so much, as i thought it was ok when it first came out. but then i saw this video, and i thought to myself, “maybe i should watch the first two movies…” so i sat down with my dad and watch the first two movies, and i can see why they’re so beloved. this video not only made me realize how marvel is ruining modern cinema, but it helped me discover why people love the first two movies so much. i also got to spend some time with my dad, so thanks for that as well.
I only ever saw the first movie and the first World, and despite seeing both once, I still remember loving the first JP and I have never once thought about JW besides remembering that I saw it when it came out, and not being able to recall a single thing about it. Great video! Learned a lot from this, and agree with the conclusion. I saw it said in a tweet almost exactly the way you described it, was something like "The generation that made Star Wars and Jaws type movies were inspired by a variety of things they saw in their youth, and the generation that grew up with Star Wars and Jaws just made more of them."
“and agree with the conclusion” Well you’re speaking from a position of complete ignorance if you’ve only watched one of the sequels and can’t even remember it.
@@dark_antihero Honeslty? I much prefer Chris Pratt the Raptor Guy over Redhead who can _somehow_ outrun a T-Rex in heels or, worse still, the God. Damned. Clone Girl! Like you’ve been cloning *living breathing Dinosaurs* for over 20 years, who cares if someone cloned a human? … Oh yeah, her mother was a super-special mega-genius who was not only at the original park but also wanted to have a child so one virgin science birth later (the lady birthed herself, @;£ nothing can convince me this wasn’t an “no woman should have to depend on a man!” thing) we have the single most annoying kid in the film franchise to date 😤😤😤
Oh wow, this was great. Now, some backstory here, ever since you said on Discord that you were making this video, I never exactly cared, since I not a huge fan of JP, felt like it would be something to put on the background while I do something else, but I was impressed and couldn't not focus on the video, even if I'm not really familiar with the topic at hand, you still did a great job explaining it from Point A to Point Z with good narration skills, and using JP as a buildup for what's happening in the current movie landscape was genius because I too am sick of current movie trends, you could say this video was just like the first JP, had a perfect ending with the comparison of the opposite end, Back To The Future. Ngl, I think I prefer this over the Sonic videos, and I hope this blows up/does good for you because I really want you to have an incentive to make more non-Sonic videos, hoping for more, even if editing is a pain in the ass, trust me, I know, but we all have to go through hard shit. Anyway, great video, keep it up.
47:35 This was one of the graces of Camp Cretaceous, where even if they were chased by a carnivore, if said dinosaur got stuck or was in helpless distress the protags would make an effort to genuinely try to help it cause, yknow, end of the day its just an animal doing its thing. And I suspect that only happened in the cartoon cause a kid-focused audience has way more empathy for animals than an adult audience would. Worse thing about Dominion? I saw them introduce and explain the smuggler pilot lady and just drifted off thinkin "yknow a story about a pilot smuggler who goes to exotic locations we could see dinosaurs be wild in? And having a change of heart from assisting in the exploitation of a controversial exotic species in what's basically a metaphor for the illegal poaching animal trade? And having people directly abusing dinosaurs being easymode in garnering sympatheize with them and be happy when they break out and fuck humans up? Why am I not watching THAT movie??"
Fun Fact: Sam Neill has gone on record saying his favorite JP movie is actually JP3, citing he enjoyed filming it. And while I agree it’s the weakest of the original trilogy, 3 is still a better movie that all the World movies. More effort ironically was put into its production, it doesn’t overstay its welcome with a short runtime, and it’s got overall good pacing with the Spinosaurus being an effective menacing and terrifying antagonist.
You maybe right if we're ranking the movies in terms of absolute quality. But in some ways I feel JP3 is the worst out of all 6 movies and here's why. The JW movies came out at a time when Hollywood had already declined, and honestly it wasn't very surprising that they were so terrible. The MCU and the Transformers franchises were in full swing and they had already shown how to make big bucks with movies of horrible quality. But JP3 came out at a time when good movies were still the norm not the exception in Hollywood. And to make a movie that bad at that point in time was a cardinal sin.
yay another JP3 fan! I agree, after the fiasco fo fallen kingdom and the absolute chore that was dominion, I have a much greater respect and admiration for JP3. Its probably compounded by the fact it was the only DVD of the film my family had growing up so I watched it religiously, along with a bunch of paleo documentaries
the jurrasic world trilogy reminds me a lot of the Resident evil movies...such as 1. High dose of CGI 2.Plot that makes no sense 3.Evil company 4.Action deluxe 5. Human Cloning, 6.Creatures as Background items rather then the big highlight 7.Bad guy repeating the same mistakes that previus bad guys did. 8.Repeat use of former plots or events from previus movies. 9.At the end of each Re movie, they build up to something big for the next movie, which never happens when the next movie starts.
As a former Star Wars fan, I can feel the pain of having a once beloved franchise of movies tarnished by unnecessary sequels. But as long as people keep buying tickets for this regurgitated slop, these problems with modern cinema aren’t going away any time soon.
@@millabasset1710 there are not 6 original Star Wars movies. There are three original Star Wars movies, there are three Special Editions that made fans wonder if George Lucas had ruined their childhood, three prequels that made it clear for fans that George Lucas ruined their childhood and Disney made three sequels that made the people who positively knew George Lucas ruined their childhood and wrote hateful letters to Jake LLoyd and Ahmed Best think the prequels are good films.
Speaking of trilogies that end on a high note I gotta give respect to Dreamworks from CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg for deciding Shrek Forever After to not only be the last Shrek film of the franchise (FOR NOW) but to also cancel the planned 5th film and to decide that the 4th film will be the end of it all. The best thing about the 4th film what that it not only fixed the damage that the 3rd film made but to end the franchise on a high note Because Shrek is a work of art that should be left alone and only be touched
@@Daralexen I heard and I'm a little worried, tho they are releasing it on the 25th anniversary of the franchise so it's like they better give some kind of worthy entry of the Shrek franchise seeing the studio's duality between TLW team and the KFP4 team makes me worry about what team will be behind Shrek 5
@@minty6623 I have faith because they still have quality at Dreamworks, as shown by The Last Wish and Wild Robot. However, I don't really know what could be done besides Shrek's kids growing up or a prequel.
The only Jurassic movie I've seen is World, which I thought was very dull and boring. And I don't really care about dinosaurs at all. But this was a good watch. I almost feel like I didn't need to watch it, though. Even just glancing the series from a distance, I could tell what's happened to it. Because it's the exact same thing that's happened to nearly every long running franchise. You could make this exact same video about Star Wars, Ghostbusters, etc. Mainstream Hollywood movies are mostly a joke. However, the unfortunate reality is that people will buy-in to something simply for having the logo of the thing they like. And since entertainment is a business, of course companies are going to capitalize on that fact. It is unavoidable. So at the very least, I would like to see that taken advantage of in a positive way, rather than just cynically to make money. The way I see it there are 3 ways to do unnecessary sequels. 1: Make something true to the original vision. The best and rarest form. But there are some examples in recent years. Creed and Shin Godzilla are great movies that are in line with their originals, while also being quality movies in their own right. 2: Use the IP to get interest in something people would not watch otherwise. A great alternative if wanting to take a series in a new direction. The recent Planet of the Apes trilogy is a great example. Very different than the thing they are based on, getting interest because of the connection to something so famous, but then being movies that stand up on the fact that they are really good movies that are actually about something. Their quality has nothing to do with the IP. They are just good movies that would have gone unseen had they not had the Planet of the Apes name. Essentially tricking people into watching a good movie they would have no interest in otherwise. 3: Make some soulless cash grab garbage to exploit nostalgiac drones who will like anything that with familiar imagery. Exactly what this video describes.
Great video. Well written, well narrated, terrifically edited, super engaging and relevant, just great all around. Excellent work, a lot of hard work was put into this and it shows.
For the video game industry specifically, the point was made that new IPs (especially indies) can thrive alongside legacy ones, but I feel like that's becoming less true over time. Every single one of the GOTY nominees for The Game Awards this year is either a sequel or a remake.
This is absolutely true, I wouldn't say the game industry is some kind of gold standard. However, my point was mostly that the methods of distribution allow for indie titles to be just as accessible as AAA, which is part of their success. You don't need to go to some small indie game store to buy Hollow Knight, Celeste or Outer Wilds, you just go on the same store page that also hosts Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty and everything else. It sucks to see indies not receive their recognition at events like The Game Awards, but that doesn't mean they aren't still doing well on their own terms for their own studios, which is extremely important. More funding for them means more weird, original, creative indie titles in the future, and that's what I want.
I disagree, I think we should have a spinoff series with the Stygimoloch because we all just love the stygimoloch. Other than that though, excellent video. It's a shame that you're going to get annihilated for daring to say that thing I enjoy should end because you hate me enjoying things.
There should be a 12 season spinoff series about Richard Attenborough's left ass hair and the existential dread it feels from being a sentient ass hair.
Something that bugs me about the Jurassic Park franchise is how they treat herbivorous dinosaurs as puppies, sorry but NO, just because they are herbivorous does not mean they are harmless, check out real life herbivores.
Considering we have few instances of herbivore dinos with healed injuries from predators (including Rex bites in face) they ain't docile helpless creatures.
What about The Lost World? There was a scene in which Sarah Harding is attacked by a herd of Stegosaurus. Plus the escaped Triceratops rampaging through the camp.
Aren't hippos one of the deadliest land animals despite being herbivores? More hippos caused deaths yearly than lions, sharks, bears, and tigers combined.
the saddest thing is that rewatching this video now, I got hit with an ad for Jurassic World Rebirth just as the section for "what jurassic park should have done" irony is quite a spiteful and precise hitter.
JPOG music coming in clutch. This was a wonderful video Caelum. It completely sums up how a majority of us Jurassic Park fans feel. It's crazy how even I, someone who enjoys JP3 because it's so bad, found no enjoyment in the Jurassic World movies. Again nice work! P.S. We all just LOVE the Stygimoloch
I was so p***ed off watching the newest one in theaters. They suckered me in to buying a ticket with the return of the original cast just to give me a movie about F'n locusts. I almost thought it was some kind of elaborate prank on people that grew up watching the original
Man, I was in utter shock at how bad Dominion was. I waited so long to see the original cast return to the big screen once more, and this is the best they can come up with? A movie about Locust, while the Dinosaurs were nothing more than road blocks? How stupid. This was a total bait and switch movement Don't even get me started on the overuse of Chris Pratt's magic hand thing and the retconning of Maisie's background. This is so much wrong with this movie, it's unbelievable.
@@dereklopez9060 chris pratts magic hand....OMG....pretty much had me complaining out loud in the theater the entire time, I felt like an a** hole afterwards for possibly ruining anyone elses good time, but geez, I was stunned by how bad the entire thing was. there was literally no redeeming qualities to that film, and I just couldn't believe it
With Jurassic World Dominion, I thought it was going to be about how the modern world and dinosaurs could try to live together with at least in coexistence before the trailers came out. I don't understand why have giant locusts eating up non-Biosyn crops as part of the story and not just follow through with what the end of Fallen Kingdom showed.
I feel like being a video game kid helped me have a lot of new appreciation and respect for new IPs. When Splatoon first came out, I lost my mind over Nintendo trying their hand at a stylish new IP and sticking the landing, especially since it was around the time I was branching out and trying more game franchises that I had previously written off. Also games inspired my young mind to start creating, so I came to value new IP quickly because I had a few of my own rattling around in my head. Anyway. Never discount the value of fanfiction! If a fandom is hardcore enough, they'll continue the legacy of the series unofficially. No shoddy sequels necessary. Actually, I'd say shoddy sequels sour fans on the whole IP.
I Wholeheartedly agree with you! Thank you so much for this video. I am an animator currently working on my own dinosaur short film and found what you said very inspiring. We really do need more accurate and high quality paleo media in the world. It is indeed time for something completely new and different to take the next step. Celebrating ancient life and educating the general public hopefully also inspiring more future dinosaur lovers who could take the next step after that :)
I’m watching this after the Rebirth trailer and I share many of the same sentiments about the franchise. I respect the first two because Crichton had a hand in them. Everything since then, doesn’t impact the original story whatsoever. I’m optimistic about Rebirth solely because of Koepps return and the novel parallels (e.i. T.Rex river scene), but I’m not holding my breath. I guess we will see.
The thing is that these are the only big dinosaur movies still made. I think if we had other good dinosaur movies more people would agree. I think as longas they can create a quality story its ok to keep making them, hopefully Rebirth is better than dominion. I understand what your saying completely though. I really hope someday we get a cool new dino franchise, as much as I love jurassic park.
Greetings from Brazil! I cannot thank you enough for the existence of this video! As someone who had its life forever changed by the cinematic magic of the first Jurassic Park, it deeply sadness me to witness what they’ve done with the legacy of JP. I agree 100% with all the arguments in this video. You captured and developed the spirit of what many pseudo-fans fails to understand. That Jurassic Park should have never meant to be a franchise. Jurassic Park history (both in the book and film) wasn’t conceived to be a multi-story franchise. But since it gained a sequel, I believe that the story should have ended with The Lost World. This movie was the sequel that was possible to make, considering the impossible mission of making something that could even get closer to the perfection (yes, I said perfection) of the original. There is a paradox that affects Jurassic Park as a franchise (which you also developed in the video). To do something new, you will have to bring new and radical (and ridiculous) ideas, but then you completely break with the aesthetic, tone, message and spirit of the original. But if you try to do something to be consistent with these aspects, then you are just creating more of the same. I like how you pointed out how Jurassic World movies don’t resemble at all the first 2 movies. You can bring the same characters, mention the events, etc, but in the end, as you said, Jurassic Park will look like an independent film compared to the World sequels. I have so much more to take out of my chest, but only one last thing: it is symptomatic of the decadence how we went from scientists protagonists in JP and TLW, to a protagonist that is an ex-navy soldier that happens to be an expert on animal behavior.
I’m glad you didn’t bash TLW like a lot of other channels I’ve seen. I agree it was completely unnecessary but it was never an inherently bad movie whatsoever, at least to me. Edit: And yes, I hate Camp Cretaceous with a burning passion and no one can change my mind
I used to think camp cretaceous was ok but I knew years ago an ongoing jp series is impossible to make. I rolled my eyes at the mention of a series being made and, while it's better than it could've been, it's still stupid and pointless.
@@buster3041 Agreed. I stopped after Season 2 because I knew this series was going on way too long and it was clear that they had no idea how to continue the story when it could’ve just ended with 2 and going home. The fact that they stretched it out to Season 3, 4 and 5… really tires me
camp cretaceous was clear indication to me that Dominion felt more like a live action adaptation of animated property that never existed. At best! I'll have admit that ive compartmentalize this saga like its the 6th Sense. Because only in your dreams or another planet entirely are going to survive being shot w/ a dino tranq in midst of volcano eruption.....with full capacity? And with EVERYTHING that has transpired after that, sound like someone who has suffered traumatic brain damage , lucid vivid hallucination? Or does this sound familiar "die before he even knew he had accident?" To me, if there was a possibility to resurrect some integrity for dominion's storyboard, make it animated. and if not, some episodic limited release on streaming. And do your story and your characters, and this trademark u obviously have some passion for, with ample justice & courage of your convictions, instead brand recognition, copy & paste, or any worse, a drag & drop measure of resolve & followed immediately by a back to back to back to back in epic battle of 2 prehistoric bohemians. like original power rangers.
The lost world is the only movie I can consistently rewatch in the Jurassic Park Franchise Edit: When Camp Cretaceous was revealed I knew I wasn’t going to like its more silly like nature
Fantastic video! I've never seen a video so articulately describe the ongoing murder of beloved franchises by modern Hollywood. Great job to you and all others involved! Keep up the great work!
on an extra side note, this is also a perfect shutdown of "This is what Crichton would've wanted!" "argument". Very satisfying video for a long time JP fan.
Excellent work! Hope this gets lots of viewership, especially for its final message about Hollywood's bad habits in the modern day. I can really feel your enthusiasm for that first film, here.
Very great video I thought you made a lot of valid points and while I don't necessarily want this franchise to end I did end up agreeing with a lot of things you said. Overall I think we can both agree that this franchise was great and that Spielberg's original vision will always be remembered. Anyways have a good day and take care!
Jurassic Park should’ve been one movie and that’s it. Even the crew wanted it that way before the studio demanded a sequel. I like the other 5 movies, Jurassic World 1 being my second favourite of the franchise but Jurassic Park should’ve never have been a franchise.
As someone with little to no experience with the Jurassic Park series, this video was a fascinating watch! No doubt I'll have to give the first a watch at some point in the near future. The point about Back to the Future I find especially compelling as someone who loves that series. BTTF is, indeed, a great example on how to keep a property alive without tarnishing its legacy by exploring it in other mediums and steadfastly refusing to tarnish the original vision with unnecessary additions.
Never heard someone breakdown jurassic world so well. The camera work, atmosphere of the film, music, dialogue sound effects and pacing all make so much difference. I remember jurassic park used to scare me so much as a kid but i loved it because of all these films. Specifically when the t rex escapes and the raptors in the kitchen. I think if i watfhed jurassic world as a kid i would find it nowhere near as captivating. The worrying thing is is that alot of young people prefer jurassic world to jurassic park. Im going to assume because of attention spam, lack of depth in understanding the meaning behind jurassic park with the messages in that film. Yes jurassic world apparently was supposed to be presenting another message but it just does not land in any way rhe same
I know, it's one of the elements of the first novel that I really don't like. The second half of the book just drags on in general, and loses a lot of the scientific rationale and tension from the first half. Grant injecting eggs with a syringe and rolling them down the hall for raptors to eat (and then die) is another strange moment that would have felt really silly had it been adapted to the screen.
yeah, this is why I didn't give a crap after the 2nd Jurrasic world movie. Me and my brother were kinda disappointed and stopped caring after that. They've milked it too much that now it's become a mess. Honestly, nothing's going to beat the OG. Great vid btw
Jurassic Park and The Lost World, I love. I obviously love Jurassic Park the Best! Jurassic Park 3's really dumb, but a Guilty pleasure. As some of the Effects are legit really cool to look at. Jurassic World, while just being action and Nonesense is slowly becoming a Guilty Pleasure of mine too. Seeing as how my Nostalgia from nearly ten years ago is slowly fading away. Everything after has just no redeeming Qualities. And I could not agre with you more. Jurassic Park Sequels need to stop. EDIT: This at 53:39 Made me gag in real life...
In my opinion what made JP1 so memorable was the park itself. The visitors center, the gates , the raptor pen, t rex paddock , they were all so iconic. Even the vehicles. The sequels had none of this. Well world did, just done worse. The park was the heart of the film. Take it away and you have ' generic action film with dinosaurs."
I really don’t agree with some of your takes. Jurassic Park 3 is a solid movie and the dinosaurs look absolutely phenomenal in it. I recently watched the 4k and the Velociraptors especially just look incredible, such great designs and animatronics. Outside of the visuals. Jurassic Park 3 is a better film than The Lost World. The dinosaurs are consistently treated as genuine threats, not silly set-piece encounters like they are towards the end of a The Lost World. The characterisation is so much stronger in JP3 than The Lost World, which has mostly dreadful characters and almost no character development whatsoever. JP3 is the second best JP film after the original in my opinion.
It is incredible that a story made by an internet user such as "the mystery flesh pit national park" resembles more like the first movie and novel of jurassic park than any of the JW stuff
@@scifyry I guess "did not meet expectations" means that Universal expected it to make far more than its box-office which was already a success. A better term would be that Jurassic Park needs an Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny-level failure to finally end.
I think it’s important to acknowledge how movies used to be meant for a full family. Today with so many tvs and other devices in a house, children are expected to find their own entertainment and our generations have become isolated in entertainment.
@@knoxville8222 this is true, but I find it just as stupid in the book, too. The second half kinda goes off the rails compared to how much more grounded it feels at the beginning. I like the book, I appreciate its commitment to the "science" of it all, but I like the movie infinitely more.
3 things. 1. I STILL don't get how the only other legitimate dinosaur movie franchise is Godzilla. (Before people argue it's not, let me ask: What other choice do you have?) And while Godzilla is my favorite franchise, we got to have more then that as an alternative. I mean, how did Universal suddenly become the end-all, be-all of big budget dinosaur movies? 2. It's ironic how Spielberg bashes himself and bashed The Lost World even though, with its flaws, it's actually a solid movie and the only sequel worth watching. Does he actually LIKE JP3 and the JW movies? 3. I'm of the belief that of they kept most of the 'old guard' dinosaurs the exact same as the first two movies WITHOUT reverting backwards (drooping tails) via continuality and made the new ones as accurate as possible, then most fans and paleotologists would have been happy since both sides would have got what they wanted.
@SPEENOSAURUS JP3 was only made for the sake of Universal having a JP trilogy, reguardless of quality. It made $369 million and only it's brand name saved it from being a flop. JW is a better movie, but it has NOT aged well. That and the last two movies were dumb, disposable crap made for mass consumption for the mindless masses.
i feel like there was an idea for Jurassic World, the indominous rex as a stand in for corporate greed is a clever metaphor, but the problem is there is no time to relfect on her. she is treated as nothing but a monster, when in reality, she has no idea what she is and why she is. She is the most deadly creature in the park and only because the higher ups at the park needed to boost profits. That idea is really cool, I just wish it was in a better movie
One of these days I really want some Jurrassic Park media that is moreso inspired by the books than the movies. While I love the first movie and parts of TLW, I have always loved/preferred the 2 books for their heavy lean into horror and the specific details of the science behind how everything went down in the park, as well as the overall darker tone. I always felt as if the horror aspect of JP was crucial to displaying the core message about humanity's hubris and how it can backfire. I have some hope for the new game coming out, but I doubt it will fall into this niche.
This video really spoke to me especially the ending. we need to save filmmaking from dying. not only will i try to do it after college, but when schools start teaching it in 9th grade and above.
Calling back from the conclusion, endpoint of your video and the title, and how BTTF ended on a good note and never made any sequels. It reminded me of an anime studio that was widely known for their sparkling creativity, called Studio Trigger Back when Gainax was still thriving and most of their talents were still working over there(until those who made Eva moved to Khara and those who worked on TTGL and PSG to Trigger), one of their greatest modern hits was Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, a love letter to the mecha genre that took inspiration from various animes from 2 decades ago. All it got after it's premiere and finale were movie recaps that were like NG+ and merch. It never got a sequel because the show ended on a perfect and satisfying note that will never be touched ever again. Recently, to celebrate it's 15th anniversary, now thanks to Studio Trigger or rather Hiroyuki Imaishi(director of the show) who owes and holds its rights decided to rerelease the movie recaps in 4K HD in theaters around the world and to give the movies eng dubs that were nonexistent before. No new sequel or standalone that took place in the same universe. All it had were maybe some callbacks, references, and such. This even applies to Studio Trigger's other works for not releasing another season or a sequel like Kill La Kill, Little Witch Academia, and Promare, except for Panty & Stockings(the director even had this plan for another season) which they felt they have some creative juices to add reasonably What I'm getting that, is that most of their works do one original anime(doesn't apply to adaptations of mangas outside of their original stuff) that ends on a good note, nothing more after that and the merch can call home until the cows come home If someone wants to make a sequel or a trilogy, they would've been done so for ART like Shrek(not the 3rd film), Kung Fu Panda, or How to Train your Dragon which had stories to tell, universes to expand, and more themes and lessons for our characters and audience
This was well made video on this franchise. Even though, I do disagree on the fact that Universal should stop making JP films - I will agree these sequels aren't maintain well at all. Lack of identity, lack of good themes/messages, HORRIBLE dinosaur designs, bad writing, abusing nostalgia angle, lack of direction in-between the sequels and misunderstanding entire point of Jurassic Park regarding consequences of genetic power. Furthermore, I hate the recent trend in Hollywood especially in JP franchise where Tyrannosaurus Rex gets its ass kicked by another bigger dinosaur. Please stop. Also, the comments about The Lost World being Steven worst directed film aren't held in high regard.
Fun fact about every jurassic park/world film: 1-) the reason why in jurassic park, mr. arnold died off-screen is because he left the set too early, so they decided to just make a arm prop for him 2-) in the lost workd, there is a deleted scene where Ajay dies in the tallgrass from the raptors, but was eliminated from screen and all that is left is just his screams in the lost world 3-) Jurassic Park three had a VERY rough development cycle 4-) Jurassic world was supposed to answer the following question: What would happen if jurassic Park Succesfully opened after 2005 (which is explained in a rondom jurassic park book/website) 5-)In Jurassic world Fallen Kingdom, There was supposed to be Two indoraptor’s, one white and another black, but only the black one was ultimately choosen 6-) In Dominion, The was Dodgson dies is a reference to how dennis Nedry died in Jurassic park, They were both bussiness asociates and both died by the same dinosaur! (also best thing about dominion is dilophosauru’s)
Another thing the movies get wrong about Dilophosaurus is that it was much larger than we see in the films. It was about 20 feet long and 6 feet tall fully-grown. When it was just the first three movies, the size of Dilophosaurus could be explained as being just a baby. But then they put it in the World trilogy at the same size. A human could not choke out a fully-grown dilophosaurus
In the novel Nedry died when the Diloplosaur bit his head off because it was big enough to do so (after it blinded him with the venom and slashed his stomach so his insides came out). Movie Dilo is iconic in its own way with the frill and shrieking (and miraculous car-door opening ability) but Novel Dilo would have been terrifying!
@@LadyLeomonthe door was already open from when Nedry got out to tie the winch around the tree. But I agree: the movie did its own thing, and doesn’t detract from it in any way. But the scene would be seriously chilling if it played out in the move the way it did in the novel
@@KolozII Nedry got out the *driver’s side door,* and he got back in the same way, no point does he open the passenger door because he never moves to that side of the Jeep (and just for an extra funny from when Nedry sees the Dilo inside the Jeep to the outside view of the attack, to the camera pan down to the Barbosol Can we never see the _passenger door open._ Unless the little bugger was polite enough to shut the door after itself I have to call this one pretty major CinemaSin 🤣🤣🤣
@@KolozII Nedry got out the *driver’s side door,* and he got back in the same way, at no point does he open the passenger door because he never moves to that side of the Jeep (and just for an extra funny from when Nedry sees the Dilo inside the Jeep to the outside view of the attack, to the camera pan down to the Barbosol Can we never see the _passenger door open_ and the entire time we see the Jeep from outside the passenger door remains firmly shut, Unless the little bugger was a) quick enough to dodge past Nedry and dive in through the passenger’s side and b) polite enough to shut the door after itself, I have to call this one pretty major CinemaSin 🤣🤣🤣
@@LadyLeomon Well, we honestly don’t know how much time has passed between the time Nedry gets blinded and hits his head, and when he gets up to get back in the Jeep. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that the Dilo hopped into the open driver’s side door of the Jeep and got into the passenger side from there before Nedry recovered and went in himself
Maybe John Hammond or InGen should've used their intelligence and resources to bring back animals that have gone extinct in the past 100,000 years at least partially as a result of human activity, especially animals that have gone extinct in the past 300 years more directly due to human action, instead of bringing back animals that Earth hasn't seen in 66,000,000 years and whose resurrection would destroy the ecosystem which has fully recovered and drastically changed since their extinction.
There are real life groups with this goal in mind such as Colossal Biosciences, Revive & Restore, and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. They plan to or have revived recently extinct species such as the woolly mammoth, Judean date palm, tsori, dodo, passenger pigeon, and northern white rhino to better the environment and combat climate change or save critically endangered species such as the ivory-billed woodpecker, vaquita, black-footed ferret, and Sumatran rhino. Ironically, some fans of Jurassic Park have boycotted or held hate campaigns against these groups
This is an amazing video. I so glad I discovered this channel. Honestly, I think I could forgivre these Jurrasic Park sequels if they were at least fun films. I'd argue Fallen Kingdom is the best World movie due to it having the best direction. But Collin's movies feel shoddy in their direction, as if he isn't really trying at all. I also think if the films took themselves less seriously my enjoykent of them would increase tenfold. I'm a Godzilla fan. While I love the more serious and thought-provoking films like the original, Shin and Minus One, I also love the sillier cheesy WWE like movies that the franchise has like the late showa era and monsterverse movies. Those movies know exactly what they are and don't try to hide it. The Jurrasic Park sequels on the other hand always try to act deeper than they really are.
What a compelling analysis for each of the sequel films. Earned a subscription from me. It's a great articulation of feelings I've had as I watched the World movies that I couldn't organize into explicit thoughts.
Jurassic Park: trying to reverse the course of evolution and nature is dangerous; taking advantage of life for the sake of ego and profit is deadly Jurassic World: what if the buff christian guy rode a dirt bike
This was a fantastic video! You nailed right on the head my feelings about the newer films and I've only seen World with theaters for a laugh, but it really just felt cruel and so far-removed from the core of the first film. It's depressing. Hard agree: Not every movie needs a sequel. Sometimes something can be one and done or a set of episodes with a definite beginning and end (Over the Garden Wall comes to mind). Again, great video!
Already 6 films, and only one masterpiece + a good sequel. Since JP III the series has become the worst trash. Does the dinosaur franchise really need to be milked even more? I don't think they'll put all productions on ice until there's a massive box office flop... I have enough. I love your video, you have such good arguments!
I have a huge crush on Ariana Richards and would love to see her return as Lex Murphy. But after seeing this video, I’ve realized that maybe the best version of Lex is in the first movie. Knowing Hollywood, they’d screw it up. And I’d hate to see Ariana involved in that.
7:50 " . . . it's undeniable that nothing has--or can--dethrone the original Jurassic Park." JP absolutely can and should be dethroned--but not by a JP sequel. Prehistoric Planet, anyone? Paleontology didn't grind to a screeching halt in 1993 any more than it did in 1853 when the Crystal Palace Park dinosaur sculptures were first put on display. The works of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins were dethroned as the definitive image of dinosaurs, and so has all of the work that Michael Crichton used for the basis of his 1990 novel. We just need a new movie that has nothing to do with this franchise step up to the challenge.
@@Thagomizer I agree with you, I don't think I was referring to all dinosaur-related media when I said that. I was talking about the first film in relation to all of its inferior sequels.
This was your best video yet. This really speaks to the soul of the original Jurassic Park fans who have to deal with this corporate shlock. Exactly as you said, BTTF has remained relevant and popular despite only having a trilogy that ended in 1990. Here's hoping we get a big budget Jurassic PARK game for the 30th!
i agree with that sentiment
I agree to. But I have to ask. What are you doing here?
@@sammyt7981 Caelum is a good friend of mine, and Jurassic Park is the closest thing I have to religion.
Oh OK that makes sense considering the fact that he is labeled as friends on your channels list
One question about your next live stream: when is the next one coming up and what can we expect you to be making on their?
Guess they didn't watch the video. Here we go again.
We don’t have to for new ideas
That’s not a personal rebuddle that is an actual quote someone in charge of green lighting this new movie said
We gotta have some spice, can’t re use the same old company is bad trope instead I wish their was a Jurassic park movie where the military was planning to kill all dinosaurs with a virus, we can get a money heist thrill theme where a team or 8 land on the island infultrating it, we get guns blazing and in the end they end up in the room with the virus and take a sample. They get captured and the military wants to kill them until they find out the entire team is broadcasting to the world. Due to the criticism they are let free just like the end of money heist.
I feel like this is a cool idea I made up
@@BalenaProductions yeah but this new movie is gonna hit different
@SPEENOSAURUS How would you know that when the movie isn't out? We don't even have a trailer.
@telekinesticman the plot was revealed as well as critics and people who saw stuff behind the scenes
What's really interesting is that, despite Michael Crichton saying he never wanted to write another "dinosaur book" after Lost World, his last book titled "Next" is basically just another exploration of genetic testing gone too far without dinosaurs. The company in that book is called BioGen lol.
I also really liked the decision to not make Ellie and Alan get together in JP3. They were clearly still friends, Ellie's husband seemed to like Grant and vice versa. Sometimes it can just be nice seeing healthy adult relationships without it being romantic.
Some mushy tropes are there for a reason, because the human spirit craves them. Ellie and grant were my favorite movie couple, I hated jp 3 for breaking them up, "realism" be damned. Sometimes fantasy has to be better than reality
@DutchDread Unhinged response lol. The human spirit craves sexual encounters LMAO. I just said they don't get together romantically but they remain close friends. That's a really cool and refreshing on-screen relationship that still caters to the human spirit or whatever you just said. Like they still like each other. She saves him at the end of JP3 by calling in the military. Saying Ellie and Grant were you favorite onscreen couple in JP1 is admitting to enjoying off-screen interpretation of the two characters.
yes and no
like... I feel that while we do need more healthy friendships between grownups of the opposite sex shown on the big screen, Ellie and Grant not getting together in JP3 was a big mistake. The reason stated why they split apart -in universe- is because they disagreed on having kids. This to me spits in the face of the first movie as the whole point of it was Grant learning to appreciate, care and protecting kids and understanding what becoming a parent is like... so for him to have undone all the development for 3 is my one biggest gripw with that movie.
Again, I do agree with your statement, seeing healthy adult relationships is nive and we need more of that. I just feel in this case it wasn't quite the right choice, or rather it was done wrong.
11:38 “ugly dinosaur redesigns”…. The Jp 3 raptor has such a unique design and many of the Dino’s have completely fresh coloration and pattern. Jp3 has some of the most colorful dinos in the franchise. The killing off of the only trex in the movie was because trex got tons of screen time in the last 2. If the trex was used more, everyone would complain that the trex was overused.
Yeah idk what this dudecwas yappin about it wasnt until jw where the dinos got watered down
He meant the herbivore dinosaur designs were awful.
This has nothing to do with the rex being killed
@sohamshetty09 the herbivore designs were actually more colorful, such as green and yellow rather than brown and black like before
@sohamshetty09 I mentioned that because he said something about it sometime during the video
Over a year later and this is still one of the best Jurassic Park related videos on TH-cam
He’s completely wrong about JP3
No. Hes a pathetic hack elitist fanboy.
as someone who’s dad loves the first two movies, i never really got why he hated world so much, as i thought it was ok when it first came out.
but then i saw this video, and i thought to myself, “maybe i should watch the first two movies…”
so i sat down with my dad and watch the first two movies, and i can see why they’re so beloved. this video not only made me realize how marvel is ruining modern cinema, but it helped me discover why people love the first two movies so much.
i also got to spend some time with my dad, so thanks for that as well.
I only ever saw the first movie and the first World, and despite seeing both once, I still remember loving the first JP and I have never once thought about JW besides remembering that I saw it when it came out, and not being able to recall a single thing about it. Great video! Learned a lot from this, and agree with the conclusion. I saw it said in a tweet almost exactly the way you described it, was something like "The generation that made Star Wars and Jaws type movies were inspired by a variety of things they saw in their youth, and the generation that grew up with Star Wars and Jaws just made more of them."
Oh, I never knew you were a fan!
“and agree with the conclusion” Well you’re speaking from a position of complete ignorance if you’ve only watched one of the sequels and can’t even remember it.
Shoving Chris Pratt down our throats didn't help
@@dark_antihero Honeslty? I much prefer Chris Pratt the Raptor Guy over Redhead who can _somehow_ outrun a T-Rex in heels or, worse still, the God. Damned. Clone Girl! Like you’ve been cloning *living breathing Dinosaurs* for over 20 years, who cares if someone cloned a human?
… Oh yeah, her mother was a super-special mega-genius who was not only at the original park but also wanted to have a child so one virgin science birth later (the lady birthed herself, @;£ nothing can convince me this wasn’t an “no woman should have to depend on a man!” thing) we have the single most annoying kid in the film franchise to date 😤😤😤
Oh wow, this was great.
Now, some backstory here, ever since you said on Discord that you were making this video, I never exactly cared, since I not a huge fan of JP, felt like it would be something to put on the background while I do something else, but I was impressed and couldn't not focus on the video, even if I'm not really familiar with the topic at hand, you still did a great job explaining it from Point A to Point Z with good narration skills, and using JP as a buildup for what's happening in the current movie landscape was genius because I too am sick of current movie trends, you could say this video was just like the first JP, had a perfect ending with the comparison of the opposite end, Back To The Future.
Ngl, I think I prefer this over the Sonic videos, and I hope this blows up/does good for you because I really want you to have an incentive to make more non-Sonic videos, hoping for more, even if editing is a pain in the ass, trust me, I know, but we all have to go through hard shit.
Anyway, great video, keep it up.
The fact that the first one is the best one is just sad, it’s literally been 30 YEARS
This video Is very rewatchable
47:35 This was one of the graces of Camp Cretaceous, where even if they were chased by a carnivore, if said dinosaur got stuck or was in helpless distress the protags would make an effort to genuinely try to help it cause, yknow, end of the day its just an animal doing its thing. And I suspect that only happened in the cartoon cause a kid-focused audience has way more empathy for animals than an adult audience would.
Worse thing about Dominion? I saw them introduce and explain the smuggler pilot lady and just drifted off thinkin "yknow a story about a pilot smuggler who goes to exotic locations we could see dinosaurs be wild in? And having a change of heart from assisting in the exploitation of a controversial exotic species in what's basically a metaphor for the illegal poaching animal trade? And having people directly abusing dinosaurs being easymode in garnering sympatheize with them and be happy when they break out and fuck humans up? Why am I not watching THAT movie??"
Fun Fact: Sam Neill has gone on record saying his favorite JP movie is actually JP3, citing he enjoyed filming it. And while I agree it’s the weakest of the original trilogy, 3 is still a better movie that all the World movies. More effort ironically was put into its production, it doesn’t overstay its welcome with a short runtime, and it’s got overall good pacing with the Spinosaurus being an effective menacing and terrifying antagonist.
You maybe right if we're ranking the movies in terms of absolute quality. But in some ways I feel JP3 is the worst out of all 6 movies and here's why. The JW movies came out at a time when Hollywood had already declined, and honestly it wasn't very surprising that they were so terrible. The MCU and the Transformers franchises were in full swing and they had already shown how to make big bucks with movies of horrible quality. But JP3 came out at a time when good movies were still the norm not the exception in Hollywood. And to make a movie that bad at that point in time was a cardinal sin.
yay another JP3 fan!
I agree, after the fiasco fo fallen kingdom and the absolute chore that was dominion, I have a much greater respect and admiration for JP3. Its probably compounded by the fact it was the only DVD of the film my family had growing up so I watched it religiously, along with a bunch of paleo documentaries
@@animatedink2529 I like it more than a 2nd.
Thanks for digging up all these old videos and interviews. I feel so transported back to the 90s.
the jurrasic world trilogy reminds me a lot of the Resident evil movies...such as
1. High dose of CGI
2.Plot that makes no sense
3.Evil company
4.Action deluxe
5. Human Cloning,
6.Creatures as Background items rather then the big highlight
7.Bad guy repeating the same mistakes that previus bad guys did.
8.Repeat use of former plots or events from previus movies.
9.At the end of each Re movie, they build up to something big for the next movie, which never happens when the next movie starts.
I came across this video awhile ago, & I’m shocked that it doesn’t have like 500k views. This was an amazingly made video
Thank you! If I'm lucky it could get sucked into the algorithm this year for Jurassic Park's 30th anniversary, but probably not.
This actually left me a bit depressed and certainly frustrated.. why? Because it's reality, thats why.
As a former Star Wars fan, I can feel the pain of having a once beloved franchise of movies tarnished by unnecessary sequels. But as long as people keep buying tickets for this regurgitated slop, these problems with modern cinema aren’t going away any time soon.
Quit being a whiner, you weren't a real fan. You can still watch the original 6 movies and ignore Disney's trash.
@@millabasset1710 there are not 6 original Star Wars movies. There are three original Star Wars movies, there are three Special Editions that made fans wonder if George Lucas had ruined their childhood, three prequels that made it clear for fans that George Lucas ruined their childhood and Disney made three sequels that made the people who positively knew George Lucas ruined their childhood and wrote hateful letters to Jake LLoyd and Ahmed Best think the prequels are good films.
Speaking of trilogies that end on a high note
I gotta give respect to Dreamworks from CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg for deciding Shrek Forever After to not only be the last Shrek film of the franchise (FOR NOW) but to also cancel the planned 5th film and to decide that the 4th film will be the end of it all. The best thing about the 4th film what that it not only fixed the damage that the 3rd film made but to end the franchise on a high note
Because Shrek is a work of art that should be left alone and only be touched
The 5th film is coming out in 2026.
@@Daralexen I heard and I'm a little worried, tho they are releasing it on the 25th anniversary of the franchise
so it's like they better give some kind of worthy entry of the Shrek franchise
seeing the studio's duality between TLW team and the KFP4 team makes me worry about what team will be behind Shrek 5
@@minty6623 I have faith because they still have quality at Dreamworks, as shown by The Last Wish and Wild Robot. However, I don't really know what could be done besides Shrek's kids growing up or a prequel.
The only Jurassic movie I've seen is World, which I thought was very dull and boring. And I don't really care about dinosaurs at all. But this was a good watch.
I almost feel like I didn't need to watch it, though. Even just glancing the series from a distance, I could tell what's happened to it. Because it's the exact same thing that's happened to nearly every long running franchise. You could make this exact same video about Star Wars, Ghostbusters, etc. Mainstream Hollywood movies are mostly a joke.
However, the unfortunate reality is that people will buy-in to something simply for having the logo of the thing they like. And since entertainment is a business, of course companies are going to capitalize on that fact. It is unavoidable. So at the very least, I would like to see that taken advantage of in a positive way, rather than just cynically to make money. The way I see it there are 3 ways to do unnecessary sequels.
1: Make something true to the original vision. The best and rarest form. But there are some examples in recent years. Creed and Shin Godzilla are great movies that are in line with their originals, while also being quality movies in their own right.
2: Use the IP to get interest in something people would not watch otherwise. A great alternative if wanting to take a series in a new direction. The recent Planet of the Apes trilogy is a great example. Very different than the thing they are based on, getting interest because of the connection to something so famous, but then being movies that stand up on the fact that they are really good movies that are actually about something. Their quality has nothing to do with the IP. They are just good movies that would have gone unseen had they not had the Planet of the Apes name. Essentially tricking people into watching a good movie they would have no interest in otherwise.
3: Make some soulless cash grab garbage to exploit nostalgiac drones who will like anything that with familiar imagery. Exactly what this video describes.
This is the best thing you've done, it's even better than Best and Worst Games of 2021
The love, the passion, the care, this is your Magnum Opus
Yeah, I agree, no more Jurassic park movies. I mean I love this franchise and all, but it does not need to last this long.
Great video. Well written, well narrated, terrifically edited, super engaging and relevant, just great all around. Excellent work, a lot of hard work was put into this and it shows.
For the video game industry specifically, the point was made that new IPs (especially indies) can thrive alongside legacy ones, but I feel like that's becoming less true over time.
Every single one of the GOTY nominees for The Game Awards this year is either a sequel or a remake.
This is absolutely true, I wouldn't say the game industry is some kind of gold standard. However, my point was mostly that the methods of distribution allow for indie titles to be just as accessible as AAA, which is part of their success. You don't need to go to some small indie game store to buy Hollow Knight, Celeste or Outer Wilds, you just go on the same store page that also hosts Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty and everything else. It sucks to see indies not receive their recognition at events like The Game Awards, but that doesn't mean they aren't still doing well on their own terms for their own studios, which is extremely important. More funding for them means more weird, original, creative indie titles in the future, and that's what I want.
Stuck culture
I disagree, I think we should have a spinoff series with the Stygimoloch because we all just love the stygimoloch.
Other than that though, excellent video. It's a shame that you're going to get annihilated for daring to say that thing I enjoy should end because you hate me enjoying things.
There should be a 12 season spinoff series about Richard Attenborough's left ass hair and the existential dread it feels from being a sentient ass hair.
Something that bugs me about the Jurassic Park franchise is how they treat herbivorous dinosaurs as puppies, sorry but NO, just because they are herbivorous does not mean they are harmless, check out real life herbivores.
Considering we have few instances of herbivore dinos with healed injuries from predators (including Rex bites in face) they ain't docile helpless creatures.
@@petrfedor1851 bruh ikr. a trex in real life would think twice before messing with triceratops or even edmonotosaurus
What about The Lost World? There was a scene in which Sarah Harding is attacked by a herd of Stegosaurus. Plus the escaped Triceratops rampaging through the camp.
Aren't hippos one of the deadliest land animals despite being herbivores? More hippos caused deaths yearly than lions, sharks, bears, and tigers combined.
the saddest thing is that rewatching this video now, I got hit with an ad for Jurassic World Rebirth just as the section for "what jurassic park should have done"
irony is quite a spiteful and precise hitter.
JPOG music coming in clutch.
This was a wonderful video Caelum. It completely sums up how a majority of us Jurassic Park fans feel.
It's crazy how even I, someone who enjoys JP3 because it's so bad, found no enjoyment in the Jurassic World movies.
Again nice work!
P.S. We all just LOVE the Stygimoloch
And, Jeff Goldblum's back 🫨
I was so p***ed off watching the newest one in theaters. They suckered me in to buying a ticket with the return of the original cast just to give me a movie about F'n locusts. I almost thought it was some kind of elaborate prank on people that grew up watching the original
Man, I was in utter shock at how bad Dominion was. I waited so long to see the original cast return to the big screen once more, and this is the best they can come up with? A movie about Locust, while the Dinosaurs were nothing more than road blocks? How stupid. This was a total bait and switch movement
Don't even get me started on the overuse of Chris Pratt's magic hand thing and the retconning of Maisie's background.
This is so much wrong with this movie, it's unbelievable.
@@dereklopez9060 chris pratts magic hand....OMG....pretty much had me complaining out loud in the theater the entire time, I felt like an a** hole afterwards for possibly ruining anyone elses good time, but geez, I was stunned by how bad the entire thing was. there was literally no redeeming qualities to that film, and I just couldn't believe it
With Jurassic World Dominion, I thought it was going to be about how the modern world and dinosaurs could try to live together with at least in coexistence before the trailers came out. I don't understand why have giant locusts eating up non-Biosyn crops as part of the story and not just follow through with what the end of Fallen Kingdom showed.
I love that Chrichton was like oh all these little kids really want a sequel book, let's make it way more violent and gorey!
I feel like being a video game kid helped me have a lot of new appreciation and respect for new IPs. When Splatoon first came out, I lost my mind over Nintendo trying their hand at a stylish new IP and sticking the landing, especially since it was around the time I was branching out and trying more game franchises that I had previously written off. Also games inspired my young mind to start creating, so I came to value new IP quickly because I had a few of my own rattling around in my head.
Anyway. Never discount the value of fanfiction! If a fandom is hardcore enough, they'll continue the legacy of the series unofficially. No shoddy sequels necessary. Actually, I'd say shoddy sequels sour fans on the whole IP.
I Wholeheartedly agree with you! Thank you so much for this video. I am an animator currently working on my own dinosaur short film and found what you said very inspiring. We really do need more accurate and high quality paleo media in the world. It is indeed time for something completely new and different to take the next step. Celebrating ancient life and educating the general public hopefully also inspiring more future dinosaur lovers who could take the next step after that :)
Thank you! And best of luck on your short film.
I’m watching this after the Rebirth trailer and I share many of the same sentiments about the franchise. I respect the first two because Crichton had a hand in them. Everything since then, doesn’t impact the original story whatsoever. I’m optimistic about Rebirth solely because of Koepps return and the novel parallels (e.i. T.Rex river scene), but I’m not holding my breath. I guess we will see.
The thing is that these are the only big dinosaur movies still made. I think if we had other good dinosaur movies more people would agree. I think as longas they can create a quality story its ok to keep making them, hopefully Rebirth is better than dominion. I understand what your saying completely though. I really hope someday we get a cool new dino franchise, as much as I love jurassic park.
@@Zomgoat16 I agree. It wouldn't be as bad if Jurassic Park/World didn't maintain the monopoly on dinosaur stuff in the mainstream right now.
They haven't made a Jurassic Park movie since 2001
27:46 Excuse me, that _is_ horrifying. Though you're on the money with this video, as much as I love JP3. Good job 👏🏼
"Spider Man left his wallet at home"not gonna lie,that was hilarious.
Greetings from Brazil!
I cannot thank you enough for the existence of this video! As someone who had its life forever changed by the cinematic magic of the first Jurassic Park, it deeply sadness me to witness what they’ve done with the legacy of JP. I agree 100% with all the arguments in this video. You captured and developed the spirit of what many pseudo-fans fails to understand. That Jurassic Park should have never meant to be a franchise.
Jurassic Park history (both in the book and film) wasn’t conceived to be a multi-story franchise. But since it gained a sequel, I believe that the story should have ended with The Lost World. This movie was the sequel that was possible to make, considering the impossible mission of making something that could even get closer to the perfection (yes, I said perfection) of the original.
There is a paradox that affects Jurassic Park as a franchise (which you also developed in the video). To do something new, you will have to bring new and radical (and ridiculous) ideas, but then you completely break with the aesthetic, tone, message and spirit of the original. But if you try to do something to be consistent with these aspects, then you are just creating more of the same.
I like how you pointed out how Jurassic World movies don’t resemble at all the first 2 movies. You can bring the same characters, mention the events, etc, but in the end, as you said, Jurassic Park will look like an independent film compared to the World sequels.
I have so much more to take out of my chest, but only one last thing: it is symptomatic of the decadence how we went from scientists protagonists in JP and TLW, to a protagonist that is an ex-navy soldier that happens to be an expert on animal behavior.
I’m glad you didn’t bash TLW like a lot of other channels I’ve seen. I agree it was completely unnecessary but it was never an inherently bad movie whatsoever, at least to me.
Edit: And yes, I hate Camp Cretaceous with a burning passion and no one can change my mind
Yep, I love The Lost World but can still acknowledge its flaws, and that it didn't really *need* to exist in the first place.
I used to think camp cretaceous was ok but I knew years ago an ongoing jp series is impossible to make. I rolled my eyes at the mention of a series being made and, while it's better than it could've been, it's still stupid and pointless.
@@buster3041 Agreed. I stopped after Season 2 because I knew this series was going on way too long and it was clear that they had no idea how to continue the story when it could’ve just ended with 2 and going home.
The fact that they stretched it out to Season 3, 4 and 5… really tires me
camp cretaceous was clear indication to me that Dominion felt more like a live action adaptation of animated property that never existed. At best! I'll have admit that ive compartmentalize this saga like its the 6th Sense. Because only in your dreams or another planet entirely are going to survive being shot w/ a dino tranq in midst of volcano eruption.....with full capacity? And with EVERYTHING that has transpired after that, sound like someone who has suffered traumatic brain damage , lucid vivid hallucination? Or does this sound familiar "die before he even knew he had accident?"
To me, if there was a possibility to resurrect some integrity for dominion's storyboard, make it animated. and if not, some episodic limited release on streaming. And do your story and your characters, and this trademark u obviously have some passion for, with ample justice & courage of your convictions, instead brand recognition, copy & paste, or any worse, a drag & drop measure of resolve & followed immediately by a back to back to back to back in epic battle of 2 prehistoric bohemians. like original power rangers.
The lost world is the only movie I can consistently rewatch in the Jurassic Park Franchise
Edit: When Camp Cretaceous was revealed I knew I wasn’t going to like its more silly like nature
Fantastic video! I've never seen a video so articulately describe the ongoing murder of beloved franchises by modern Hollywood. Great job to you and all others involved! Keep up the great work!
on an extra side note, this is also a perfect shutdown of "This is what Crichton would've wanted!" "argument". Very satisfying video for a long time JP fan.
@@MattNL thank you! I've gotten very, very sick of Crichton arguments and finally wanted to articulate why it doesn't make any sense.
@@telekinesticman You got the point across beautifully (:
Excellent work! Hope this gets lots of viewership, especially for its final message about Hollywood's bad habits in the modern day. I can really feel your enthusiasm for that first film, here.
Very great video I thought you made a lot of valid points and while I don't necessarily want this franchise to end I did end up agreeing with a lot of things you said. Overall I think we can both agree that this franchise was great and that Spielberg's original vision will always be remembered. Anyways have a good day and take care!
Saying the JP3 dino design wasn't good would get you lynched in the Jurassic groups 😂
The Lost World is a fun dinosaur movie that still takes the animals seriously. It just had a weak story but it’s still the best of the sequels so far.
Jurassic Park should’ve been one movie and that’s it. Even the crew wanted it that way before the studio demanded a sequel. I like the other 5 movies, Jurassic World 1 being my second favourite of the franchise but Jurassic Park should’ve never have been a franchise.
"...now you're John Hammond."
As someone with little to no experience with the Jurassic Park series, this video was a fascinating watch! No doubt I'll have to give the first a watch at some point in the near future. The point about Back to the Future I find especially compelling as someone who loves that series. BTTF is, indeed, a great example on how to keep a property alive without tarnishing its legacy by exploring it in other mediums and steadfastly refusing to tarnish the original vision with unnecessary additions.
Never heard someone breakdown jurassic world so well. The camera work, atmosphere of the film, music, dialogue sound effects and pacing all make so much difference. I remember jurassic park used to scare me so much as a kid but i loved it because of all these films. Specifically when the t rex escapes and the raptors in the kitchen. I think if i watfhed jurassic world as a kid i would find it nowhere near as captivating. The worrying thing is is that alot of young people prefer jurassic world to jurassic park. Im going to assume because of attention spam, lack of depth in understanding the meaning behind jurassic park with the messages in that film. Yes jurassic world apparently was supposed to be presenting another message but it just does not land in any way rhe same
Holy cow what a fantastic video! This deserves all the views and I can’t wait to see what you make next!
47:40 Fun fact : In the Jurassic Park Novel by Michael Crichton , Robert Mulldoon killed a Velciraptor with a rocket launcher.
I know, it's one of the elements of the first novel that I really don't like. The second half of the book just drags on in general, and loses a lot of the scientific rationale and tension from the first half. Grant injecting eggs with a syringe and rolling them down the hall for raptors to eat (and then die) is another strange moment that would have felt really silly had it been adapted to the screen.
Thank you for using the OG score, Operation Genesis
yeah, this is why I didn't give a crap after the 2nd Jurrasic world movie. Me and my brother were kinda disappointed and stopped caring after that. They've milked it too much that now it's become a mess. Honestly, nothing's going to beat the OG. Great vid btw
Me : Stop making movies and gives us some good games
Universal : No.
Jurassic Park and The Lost World, I love.
I obviously love Jurassic Park the Best!
Jurassic Park 3's really dumb, but a Guilty pleasure.
As some of the Effects are legit really cool to look at.
Jurassic World, while just being action and Nonesense is slowly becoming a Guilty Pleasure of mine too.
Seeing as how my Nostalgia from nearly ten years ago is slowly fading away.
Everything after has just no redeeming Qualities.
And I could not agre with you more. Jurassic Park Sequels need to stop.
EDIT: This at 53:39 Made me gag in real life...
The lost world is my guilty pleasure
In my opinion what made JP1 so memorable was the park itself. The visitors center, the gates , the raptor pen, t rex paddock , they were all so iconic. Even the vehicles. The sequels had none of this. Well world did, just done worse. The park was the heart of the film. Take it away and you have ' generic action film with dinosaurs."
I really don’t agree with some of your takes. Jurassic Park 3 is a solid movie and the dinosaurs look absolutely phenomenal in it. I recently watched the 4k and the Velociraptors especially just look incredible, such great designs and animatronics.
Outside of the visuals. Jurassic Park 3 is a better film than The Lost World. The dinosaurs are consistently treated as genuine threats, not silly set-piece encounters like they are towards the end of a The Lost World. The characterisation is so much stronger in JP3 than The Lost World, which has mostly dreadful characters and almost no character development whatsoever.
JP3 is the second best JP film after the original in my opinion.
It is incredible that a story made by an internet user such as "the mystery flesh pit national park" resembles more like the first movie and novel of jurassic park than any of the JW stuff
To be fair some random tree in the woods resembles a Michael Crichton novel more than JW. At least print a MC novel on it if you try hard enough.
Universal is going to have to have a Jaws Revenge level of failure in order to stop
Jaws: The Revenge was a financial success, but it "did not meet expectations."
@@scifyry I guess "did not meet expectations" means that Universal expected it to make far more than its box-office which was already a success. A better term would be that Jurassic Park needs an Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny-level failure to finally end.
I think it’s important to acknowledge how movies used to be meant for a full family. Today with so many tvs and other devices in a house, children are expected to find their own entertainment and our generations have become isolated in entertainment.
To be fair, they did blow up a Raptor with a rocket launcher in the original book. It just wasn’t meaningless as they did it in the movie.
@@knoxville8222 this is true, but I find it just as stupid in the book, too. The second half kinda goes off the rails compared to how much more grounded it feels at the beginning. I like the book, I appreciate its commitment to the "science" of it all, but I like the movie infinitely more.
I agree, second half of the book is pretty unhinged. But Muldoon is such a badass in it.
3 things.
1. I STILL don't get how the only other legitimate dinosaur movie franchise is Godzilla. (Before people argue it's not, let me ask: What other choice do you have?) And while Godzilla is my favorite franchise, we got to have more then that as an alternative. I mean, how did Universal suddenly become the end-all, be-all of big budget dinosaur movies?
2. It's ironic how Spielberg bashes himself and bashed The Lost World even though, with its flaws, it's actually a solid movie and the only sequel worth watching. Does he actually LIKE JP3 and the JW movies?
3. I'm of the belief that of they kept most of the 'old guard' dinosaurs the exact same as the first two movies WITHOUT reverting backwards (drooping tails) via continuality and made the new ones as accurate as possible, then most fans and paleotologists would have been happy since both sides would have got what they wanted.
Whats wrong with liking jw and jp3? They were solid movies too, not as good as the first two but theyre not bad by any means
@SPEENOSAURUS JP3 was only made for the sake of Universal having a JP trilogy, reguardless of quality. It made $369 million and only it's brand name saved it from being a flop. JW is a better movie, but it has NOT aged well. That and the last two movies were dumb, disposable crap made for mass consumption for the mindless masses.
@rhedosaurus2251 the last part i agree with only half of fk was actually good wgen they were in the island and dominion was cabbage
i feel like there was an idea for Jurassic World, the indominous rex as a stand in for corporate greed is a clever metaphor, but the problem is there is no time to relfect on her. she is treated as nothing but a monster, when in reality, she has no idea what she is and why she is. She is the most deadly creature in the park and only because the higher ups at the park needed to boost profits. That idea is really cool, I just wish it was in a better movie
One of these days I really want some Jurrassic Park media that is moreso inspired by the books than the movies. While I love the first movie and parts of TLW, I have always loved/preferred the 2 books for their heavy lean into horror and the specific details of the science behind how everything went down in the park, as well as the overall darker tone. I always felt as if the horror aspect of JP was crucial to displaying the core message about humanity's hubris and how it can backfire. I have some hope for the new game coming out, but I doubt it will fall into this niche.
The Lost World is a great sequel
He already explained why it's a good sequel
Gareth Edwards: No, I don't think I will.
This video really spoke to me especially the ending. we need to save filmmaking from dying. not only will i try to do it after college, but when schools start teaching it in 9th grade and above.
Calling back from the conclusion, endpoint of your video and the title, and how BTTF ended on a good note and never made any sequels.
It reminded me of an anime studio that was widely known for their sparkling creativity, called Studio Trigger
Back when Gainax was still thriving and most of their talents were still working over there(until those who made Eva moved to Khara and those who worked on TTGL and PSG to Trigger), one of their greatest modern hits was Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, a love letter to the mecha genre that took inspiration from various animes from 2 decades ago. All it got after it's premiere and finale were movie recaps that were like NG+ and merch. It never got a sequel because the show ended on a perfect and satisfying note that will never be touched ever again.
Recently, to celebrate it's 15th anniversary, now thanks to Studio Trigger or rather Hiroyuki Imaishi(director of the show) who owes and holds its rights decided to rerelease the movie recaps in 4K HD in theaters around the world and to give the movies eng dubs that were nonexistent before. No new sequel or standalone that took place in the same universe. All it had were maybe some callbacks, references, and such.
This even applies to Studio Trigger's other works for not releasing another season or a sequel like Kill La Kill, Little Witch Academia, and Promare, except for Panty & Stockings(the director even had this plan for another season) which they felt they have some creative juices to add reasonably
What I'm getting that, is that most of their works do one original anime(doesn't apply to adaptations of mangas outside of their original stuff) that ends on a good note, nothing more after that and the merch can call home until the cows come home
If someone wants to make a sequel or a trilogy, they would've been done so for ART like Shrek(not the 3rd film), Kung Fu Panda, or How to Train your Dragon which had stories to tell, universes to expand, and more themes and lessons for our characters and audience
JW Fallen Kingdom is a better ending to the series than JW Dominion.
This was well made video on this franchise. Even though, I do disagree on the fact that Universal should stop making JP films - I will agree these sequels aren't maintain well at all. Lack of identity, lack of good themes/messages, HORRIBLE dinosaur designs, bad writing, abusing nostalgia angle, lack of direction in-between the sequels and misunderstanding entire point of Jurassic Park regarding consequences of genetic power. Furthermore, I hate the recent trend in Hollywood especially in JP franchise where Tyrannosaurus Rex gets its ass kicked by another bigger dinosaur. Please stop. Also, the comments about The Lost World being Steven worst directed film aren't held in high regard.
Fun fact about every jurassic park/world film:
1-) the reason why in jurassic park, mr. arnold died off-screen is because he left the set too early, so they decided to just make a arm prop for him
2-) in the lost workd, there is a deleted scene where Ajay dies in the tallgrass from the raptors, but was eliminated from screen and all that is left is just his screams in the lost world
3-) Jurassic Park three had a VERY rough development cycle
4-) Jurassic world was supposed to answer the following question: What would happen if jurassic Park Succesfully opened after 2005 (which is explained in a rondom jurassic park book/website)
5-)In Jurassic world Fallen Kingdom, There was supposed to be Two indoraptor’s, one white and another black, but only the black one was ultimately choosen
6-) In Dominion, The was Dodgson dies is a reference to how dennis Nedry died in Jurassic park, They were both bussiness asociates and both died by the same dinosaur!
(also best thing about dominion is dilophosauru’s)
The Lost World was fine. It’s a shame Spielberg himself dislikes it because it’s a fun movie and far from his worst.
I wish more franchises were like BTTF man
Another thing the movies get wrong about Dilophosaurus is that it was much larger than we see in the films. It was about 20 feet long and 6 feet tall fully-grown. When it was just the first three movies, the size of Dilophosaurus could be explained as being just a baby. But then they put it in the World trilogy at the same size. A human could not choke out a fully-grown dilophosaurus
In the novel Nedry died when the Diloplosaur bit his head off because it was big enough to do so (after it blinded him with the venom and slashed his stomach so his insides came out). Movie Dilo is iconic in its own way with the frill and shrieking (and miraculous car-door opening ability) but Novel Dilo would have been terrifying!
@@LadyLeomonthe door was already open from when Nedry got out to tie the winch around the tree. But I agree: the movie did its own thing, and doesn’t detract from it in any way. But the scene would be seriously chilling if it played out in the move the way it did in the novel
@@KolozII Nedry got out the *driver’s side door,* and he got back in the same way, no point does he open the passenger door because he never moves to that side of the Jeep (and just for an extra funny from when Nedry sees the Dilo inside the Jeep to the outside view of the attack, to the camera pan down to the Barbosol Can we never see the _passenger door open._ Unless the little bugger was polite enough to shut the door after itself I have to call this one pretty major CinemaSin 🤣🤣🤣
@@KolozII Nedry got out the *driver’s side door,* and he got back in the same way, at no point does he open the passenger door because he never moves to that side of the Jeep (and just for an extra funny from when Nedry sees the Dilo inside the Jeep to the outside view of the attack, to the camera pan down to the Barbosol Can we never see the _passenger door open_ and the entire time we see the Jeep from outside the passenger door remains firmly shut, Unless the little bugger was a) quick enough to dodge past Nedry and dive in through the passenger’s side and b) polite enough to shut the door after itself, I have to call this one pretty major CinemaSin 🤣🤣🤣
@@LadyLeomon Well, we honestly don’t know how much time has passed between the time Nedry gets blinded and hits his head, and when he gets up to get back in the Jeep. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that the Dilo hopped into the open driver’s side door of the Jeep and got into the passenger side from there before Nedry recovered and went in himself
16:40 Man, I couldn't agree more on JW.
We just all love the Stygimoloch
26:36 I completely get it. But in the Carnos defense, it is theorized that the Carnotaurus wasn't very stable when running corners
I’m going to start my own Jurassic Park movies someday and I’m the great fit for the Jurassic Park franchise
Maybe John Hammond or InGen should've used their intelligence and resources to bring back animals that have gone extinct in the past 100,000 years at least partially as a result of human activity, especially animals that have gone extinct in the past 300 years more directly due to human action, instead of bringing back animals that Earth hasn't seen in 66,000,000 years and whose resurrection would destroy the ecosystem which has fully recovered and drastically changed since their extinction.
@@Nova-rd3hi condor!
There are real life groups with this goal in mind such as Colossal Biosciences, Revive & Restore, and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. They plan to or have revived recently extinct species such as the woolly mammoth, Judean date palm, tsori, dodo, passenger pigeon, and northern white rhino to better the environment and combat climate change or save critically endangered species such as the ivory-billed woodpecker, vaquita, black-footed ferret, and Sumatran rhino. Ironically, some fans of Jurassic Park have boycotted or held hate campaigns against these groups
When I heard the Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis soundtrack I already knew I was going to love this video. And, in fact, I did.
JP3 was a bad movie but the pterodactyls were fantastic & still hold up well.
Quite the video essay, which only now arrived at my doorstep! Unfortunately, there's yet another trilogy on the way...as you already know
This is an amazing video. I so glad I discovered this channel.
Honestly, I think I could forgivre these Jurrasic Park sequels if they were at least fun films. I'd argue Fallen Kingdom is the best World movie due to it having the best direction. But Collin's movies feel shoddy in their direction, as if he isn't really trying at all.
I also think if the films took themselves less seriously my enjoykent of them would increase tenfold. I'm a Godzilla fan. While I love the more serious and thought-provoking films like the original, Shin and Minus One, I also love the sillier cheesy WWE like movies that the franchise has like the late showa era and monsterverse movies. Those movies know exactly what they are and don't try to hide it. The Jurrasic Park sequels on the other hand always try to act deeper than they really are.
Yup. Hollywood has ruined every IP they possibly can. Indiana Jones, star wars, JP. all my favorite things have been soiled
What a compelling analysis for each of the sequel films. Earned a subscription from me. It's a great articulation of feelings I've had as I watched the World movies that I couldn't organize into explicit thoughts.
Jurassic Park: trying to reverse the course of evolution and nature is dangerous; taking advantage of life for the sake of ego and profit is deadly
Jurassic World: what if the buff christian guy rode a dirt bike
@ not even remotely the point brother
Jurassic world Rebirth hold my beer
Definitely respect the video and opinions. You made some solid points. But I like them all. Tho ill acknowledge JP1 is untouchable.
This was a fantastic video! You nailed right on the head my feelings about the newer films and I've only seen World with theaters for a laugh, but it really just felt cruel and so far-removed from the core of the first film. It's depressing. Hard agree: Not every movie needs a sequel. Sometimes something can be one and done or a set of episodes with a definite beginning and end (Over the Garden Wall comes to mind). Again, great video!
Already 6 films, and only one masterpiece + a good sequel. Since JP III the series has become the worst trash. Does the dinosaur franchise really need to be milked even more? I don't think they'll put all productions on ice until there's a massive box office flop... I have enough. I love your video, you have such good arguments!
This is so good
I have a huge crush on Ariana Richards and would love to see her return as Lex Murphy. But after seeing this video, I’ve realized that maybe the best version of Lex is in the first movie. Knowing Hollywood, they’d screw it up. And I’d hate to see Ariana involved in that.
Back to the future IV will happen, mark my words, in time everyone who can stop it will be dead, and some idiot will greenlight it
Eventually yes, probably. Or a reboot. But I'm going to enjoy the time we have now before that happens.
I love this ❤️ rest in eternity, Michael 🙏
7:50 " . . . it's undeniable that nothing has--or can--dethrone the original Jurassic Park."
JP absolutely can and should be dethroned--but not by a JP sequel. Prehistoric Planet, anyone? Paleontology didn't grind to a screeching halt in 1993 any more than it did in 1853 when the Crystal Palace Park dinosaur sculptures were first put on display. The works of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins were dethroned as the definitive image of dinosaurs, and so has all of the work that Michael Crichton used for the basis of his 1990 novel. We just need a new movie that has nothing to do with this franchise step up to the challenge.
@@Thagomizer I agree with you, I don't think I was referring to all dinosaur-related media when I said that. I was talking about the first film in relation to all of its inferior sequels.
very good and cool video would reccomend
didnt even realise an hour went past
We need Spielberg to helm again. The series has been missing his magic, ngl.
I will watch Jurassic park till the day i die, my absolute favorite movie ever!
I haven't watched Camp Cretaceous in a few years, but damn, the show is crazier than I remember.
The era of great movies is over...and im glad that i lived on earth in the universe at the right time to experience it. R.I.P. Blockbusters.