Sci-Fi Gareth Edwards's Jurassic World Rebirth

[Sithborg]

I'm down for a ScarJo & Ali trilogy.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Well they didn’t

Spoiler

reverse kill him

for nothing.

Then again, we never saw Billy again after the same thing lol

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Don't really know where the story can go, this one was stretching credibility as it was.

 

[Zantera]

The Xenomorph Rex was actually bred on another island much more secret and hush hush, where the real dangerous hybrids are kept and being studied. A worker slips on a banana peel causing a Rube Goldberg/Final Destination series of events that unleashes all these creatures to freedom. ScarJo is offered a truck of money to go in and obtain <insert macguffin> that will help solve world hunger (or something to that effect).

Teaser trailer shows a rundown facility on an island where something has broken loose, insert voiceover about how "the monsters didn't just escape, they bred and created.. something new", insert classic Jurassic Park theme, "Life will find a way" and cameo by someone from the original (maybe one of the kids as we've touched most of the other iconic characters by now).

"Jurassic Park: Bloodlines" coming in 2027

 

[DarkKnight88]

Don't really know where the story can go, this one was stretching credibility as it was.

To be fair, they’ve been saying that since the second film.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

To be fair, they’ve been saying that since the second film.

Well that's why, as bad as Dominion was, I didn't mind the previous 3 movies as they at least tried to introduce a new status quo by having the dinosaurs in the wild. Rebirth wrecked that premise in the first few mins and went back to the more than tired old island setting.

 

[Drizzle]

Well they didn’t

Spoiler

reverse kill him

for nothing.

Then again, we never saw Billy again after the same thing lol

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Billy somehow surviving that in JP3 isn't as dumb as Tom Cruise's son surviving in War of the Worlds but it's up there. He was originally supposed to have died and I really don't know why they reversed that decision.

 

[Zantera]

Well that's why, as bad as Dominion was, I didn't mind the previous 3 movies as they at least tried to introduce a new status quo by having the dinosaurs in the wild. Rebirth wrecked that premise in the first few mins and went back to the more than tired old island setting.

It is weird having 2 movies build up to "dinosaurs are now living in the human world among us" only to have the 3rd movie reverse that decision 15 minutes in and go "nah just kidding, they're now in a nature preserve, far removed from civilization". And on top of that make the main focus big bugs.

Was it a financial decision? I know people had these big ideas of dinosaurs attacking the subway or a T-Rex attacking a skyscraper or something but what we got was a bloated 265 (?) million dollar movie and you would expect that number to go up even more if they had more 'demanding' CGI like dinosaurs in city environments attacking more people.

 

[Lily Adler]

Billy somehow surviving that in JP3 isn't as dumb as Tom Cruise's son surviving in War of the Worlds but it's up there. He was originally supposed to have died and I really don't know why they reversed that decision.

I always wondered if Billy was intended to be the kid in the first film.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

It is weird having 2 movies build up to "dinosaurs are now living in the human world among us" only to have the 3rd movie reverse that decision 15 minutes in and go "nah just kidding, they're now in a nature preserve, far removed from civilization". And on top of that make the main focus big bugs.

Was it a financial decision? I know people had these big ideas of dinosaurs attacking the subway or a T-Rex attacking a skyscraper or something but what we got was a bloated 265 (?) million dollar movie and you would expect that number to go up even more if they had more 'demanding' CGI like dinosaurs in city environments attacking more people.

Even at the end of Dominion though, Dinosaurs were living in the wild and not just a nature reserve. It at least tried something new even if it fumbled it but it set up something different for the next few movies.

Rebirth just pooh-poohed all that in an instant.

 

[DarkKnight88]

There’s gotta be a studio willing to bankroll a big budget Dinosaurs Attack! movie.

It can even be a thoughtful commentary on current day politics.

 

[Sawyer]

If Universal DARES greenlight a sequel without Jonathan Bailey’s hot nerd being in the mix, I will make Donna Langley rue the day she was ever born.

 

[Lily Adler]

If Universal DARES greenlight a sequel without Jonathan Bailey’s hot nerd being in the mix, I will make Donna Langley rue the day she was ever born.

The Velocipastor series could use a reboot.

 

[J.Drangal]

Jurassic 8 imminent.

And I'll probably 8 it.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Peyton Westlake]

I enjoyed it, but let’s be honest—it’s jumped the shark. It plays more like a generic monster movie than a true Jurassic Park sequel. Once they ditched real dinosaurs in favor of mutant beasts, the franchise lost its identity. At that point, they either should have let it end or dropped the Jurassic Park name altogether.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Lily Adler]

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For the sequel:

 

[Drizzle]

For the sequel:

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The lower left pic is basically in the same neighborhood as the D-Rex so we're already there.

 

[J.Drangal]

Well, I finally went to see the movie.

Firstly, I'll say that despite my love for the book and the originals movies, since the first Jurassic World, I firmly believe that continuing the saga on the foundations laid by Spielberg no longer makes sense. While the shift toward a B-movie style may be a logical one, it seems so far removed from the original intentions that I still have a hard time adjusting to it. But that's how it is.
And so, it's with the idea of watching a "deluxe B-movie" that I went to the theater to see Jurassic World Rebirth.

And the first scene is certainly the most “pulpy” of the entire saga - a laboratory full of mutants, the red atmosphere and that sinister D-Rex silhouette - while also being the most idiotic one, with that Snickers wrapper that somehow could bring down an entire security system. And that mix sums up the whole film for me.

I get that these kinds of movies don't need complex plots and that the point is just to enjoy the ride. But even though I thought the art direction and action scenes were pretty good—and succesful in recapturing the sense of adventure I felt when I played Jurassic Park in the backyard as a kid—the moments in between really didn't need to be that BAD.
The awkward end of the scene with the scientist being recruited in the museum, the intimate conversation between Scarlette and Ali's characters about their past that felt straight outta ChatGPT, the family taking 150 years to figure out where they ended up, and whose dad has a leg that's more or less broken depending on the scene, the guy in charge of defending the group who apparently can't aim and gets eaten immediately, Scarlett cutting a fence when she could just crawl under it, the boyfriend character who is unnecessarily stupid (that gag when he goes to urinate, seriously...)... There's more, and it's just a lot. We couldn't help but to look to each others in the theater every 10 minutes or so.
Again, this kind of flick doesn't need deep writing, but there are so many things here that objectively don't work and pull you out of the movie that it wouldn't have cost much to ask for changes, even under a tight schedule. The solutions don't even need to be original, just to work... But no. At a certain point, it's just annoying and it's hard to have fun when you feel like you're being treated like an idiot.

Anyway... I'm happy Scarlett Johansson got her dinosaur movie —she's a great lead and clearly committed— but she, like the rest of the cast and many people behind the scenes, deserved a much better film.
I've never been a fan of Gareth Edwards' work. I've always thought he was a good director visually, but flawed with pacing and storytelling. However, with this film, I now believe he simply doesn't care.


Some random observations :
- In my opinion, the D-Rex (Dumb-Rex?) isn't very well designed, in the sense that it seems to come from another franchise.
- Its size in the film seemed to fluctuate quite a bit, much like the T-Rex during the river scene.
- I enjoyed Desplat's new musical compositions, but I found the use of familiar themes within the edit very strange, sometimes applied to some of the film's worst dialogue.
- Did I already mention how bad I thought the dialogue were?

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Lily Adler]

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Theatrical windows are so strange.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Really good box office run that should see it around 850m WW. Crazy after Dominion seemed to destroy all goodwill. Folks really seem to dig it. I'm thinking the secret screenings skewed the Cinemascore.

 

[Lily Adler]

Really good box office run that should see it around 850m WW. Crazy after Dominion seemed to destroy all goodwill. Folks really seemed to dig it. I'm thinking the secret screenings skewed the Cinemascore.

Imagine what they could accomplish with good writers and directors.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Imagine what they could accomplish with good writers and directors.

Had them this time!