It is not sci-fi or fantasy to ignore human nature it’s stupid and lazy. No joke, I swear on my Blu-ray collection, it is easier for me to buy the idea we could clone dinosaurs, easier for me to believe vampires exist, easier for me to believe there is a Matrix, easier for me to believe Earth will eventually be ruled by apes, than it is for me to believe hundreds of very smart, very rich, very powerful, very capable people would delude themselves into believing they could control dinosaurs.Īt the risk of belaboring the point, this premise completely ignores, not only human nature, but human nature’s essence - our desire and will to survive. This is a large group of sophisticated people living in the Jurassic Universe, a universe where there have already been four incidents involving rampaging, out-of-control dinosaurs and we are supposed to believe they believe they can control them. Keep in mind, we are not talking about some lone psychotic here, some James Bond villain. The entire premise of Fallen Kingdom, though - the movie’s entire reason for being, is based on that irrational premise. Vincent D’Onofrio in Jurassic World (Chuck Zlotnick/Universal Pictures, 2015) Okay, you need a bad guy, whatever, I’ll forgive one dumb idea in a movie full of cool dinosaurs - you know, cuz dinosaurs. But…īeing the easiest lay in the theater, I was willing to suspend enough disbelief that through some genetic freak occurrence, a D’Onofrio character could exist that one whacko could slip through the Darwinian Elimination Game whose judgment was so suicidal, he actually thought it a good idea to share a battlefield with a herd of freakin’ raptors on the loose. Anyone who suggested such a thing would be laughed out of the room. The idea of weaponizing a gorilla, cougar, or shark is beyond absurd. Where does an idea so gobsmackingly dumb come from? In the real world, in our world, are there lunatics running around looking to weaponize gorillas, cougars, and sharks? No. Remember all that nonsense with Vincent D’Onofrio’s character? The stupidest part of Jurassic World, though, was that whole The-Military-Wants-To-Weaponize-Dinosaurs thing. In 2015, Jurassic World was an effort to reboot a 22-year-old franchise, basically by remaking 2003’s Jurassic Park - a couple of adults with romantic issues desperate to save kids trapped in a dinosaur theme park.
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