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News Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum all return for Jurassic World 3!

I never bothered with Part II, and while this is cool news for people who care I don't think I'll bother with III. The "returning classic cast" novelty is starting to wear off for me, I think.
 
I rather liked Jurassic World, but JW2 was dreadful. :/ Michael Crichton must be spinning in his grave.
 
The second one basically gave up on any pretense of high brow cinema and went with a pure action movie direction instead. And I think it worked better than whatever they tried to do with the first.
Jurassic World is an obvious self-parody of franchise filmmaking aiming for bigger and louder thrills at the expense of any common sense. Did you not see the scene where Jake Johnson talked about how "legit" the "first park" was? Did you really think Vincent D'Onofrio's character and his militarized raptor plans were meant to be taken at all seriously?

Reasonable people can disagree over whether Jurassic World got away with both satirizing runaway franchise ridiculousness while simultaneously being a prime example of the same, but it in no way had any pretensions of being "high brow cinema."
 
Crichton became an insane climate change denier who responded to a book critic's takedown of one of his books by writing him into a book as a pedophile, so I don't really think we need to care about him in his grave.

...this I did not know. D:
 
I'm happy they're coming back, I've been hoping we'd see them again some time.
I thought Fallen Kingdom was OK, and the end opened up some very interesting possibilities for the series future.

Those possibilities had already been there for years. According to the books, they should have been there before the original story even took place, but even in the movies they were already referenced in JP2 and 3. JW should've started with that development already fully in place rather than taking two full movies to badly ape JP1 and 2 in order to 'set the story up'.

JW2 is not at all a good JP movie, but it is a good action/monster movie :)

At best, it was unintentionally funny, not good.
 
Jurassic World is an obvious self-parody of franchise filmmaking aiming for bigger and louder thrills at the expense of any common sense. Did you not see the scene where Jake Johnson talked about how "legit" the "first park" was? Did you really think Vincent D'Onofrio's character and his militarized raptor plans were meant to be taken at all seriously?

Reasonable people can disagree over whether Jurassic World got away with both satirizing runaway franchise ridiculousness while simultaneously being a prime example of the same, but it in no way had any pretensions of being "high brow cinema."

You are absolutely right - I used a very wrong term. What I was trying to say is that the first had SOMETHING behind it other than the dino carnage - namely the intentionally over the top franchise shenanigans. The second one was just your traditional monster thriller - even featuring evil Russians.
 
It's FIVE movies about dinosaurs as giant monsters. And people keep coming back for the same old thing.

Even the first PARK was telegraphed and dull. Coming in cold you could instantly tell who would live or die. A ''suspense thriller.'' Other than the OBJECTS IN MIRROR MAY BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR moment, what was genuinely interesting or exciting about it?
I'll have to say that the giant leap in effects and the extremely high production values and cinematography is what actually made it both exciting and interesting. And the awe and wonder of seeing dinosaurs on the big screen, with brilliant music adding to those feelings.

Why people are STILL coming back for worse versions of the same thing? I can't answer that.
 
Supposedly Goldblum was to have a more major role in the completely unwatchable JW2, but the higher ups vetoed it for who knows what reason.
 
They need to quit with all these sequels and do a movie version of "West of Eden". Now that dinos can be done well on the big screen, it's time.

There is a movie called West of Eden, but it's not Harry Harrison's scifi novel.
 
Supposedly Goldblum was to have a more major role in the completely unwatchable JW2, but the higher ups vetoed it for who knows what reason.

Gonna ask for a source, here. Goldblum himself said that he only wanted to do a brief gig.
 
Ian our in residence future paleontologist and huge Jurassic Park/World fan literally jumped up and down when I told him the news last night. Alan Grant is his favorite character, even thought he was named after Ian Malcolm.
 
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