What Happened To The Jurassic World Trilogy? 

To me, aside from the writing, the biggest issue for me is the lack of threat and danger. Raptors and many other dinos, even herbivores, would kill you in an instant. Now theyre like a major characters and completely tame. These are wild animals but now theyre like pets.

For me it's pretty simple, in the Jurassic Park movies the dinosaurs were the stars, in the Jurassic World movies, they tried to make them action movies with action heroes being the stars. They forgot what made them Jurassic movies.

For me Dominion failed cause the plot didn’t have anything to do with the dinosaurs, they were just there.

Fun Fact: Zara’s death and the reaction to it made the writers promise only to kill off the bad guys. So when you wonder why the characters are never in any real danger that’s why.

Ended up with too many cooks in the kitchen by the sound of it.

Turning the velociraptors into pets was the worst idea in a long list of bad ideas ....

I didn't mind JW 1 and 2. But I feel like they were setting up this Arc with Henry Wu as the main villain (even in Camp Cretaceous he was one of the main villains), and all of a sudden he's good in Dominion? Very unsatisfying. We didn't even get a redemption Arc.

Dominion committed the biggest sin in the franchise - it teased a premise that fans have wanted to see for decades, and then just…didn’t do it, for some inexplicable reason. I think fans could have forgiven a messy, imperfect execution of the dinosaurs-in-the-world story far more easily than they could forgive such an egregious bait-and-switch. I’m saying this as someone who actually liked the locust storyline more than the dinosaur storyline, too. Dominion made maybe the most baffling story decision I’ve seen in a blockbuster by not being about what the entire franchise set it up to be about.

I believe the reason the Jurassic world trilogy ended up the way it did is all universal’s fault I guarantee universal put a ton of restrictions on the filmmakers and made them “play it safe”. Like how only villians can die not “good guy” characters I think if universal didn’t interfere with the creative process the trilogy would’ve been better

Issues with Dominion: * Plot conveniences. People just happen to bump into the only other person on the planet that can help them. * Retconning Maisy. The big reveal that she is a clone is suddenly revealed to be false, and instead she is the virgin birth of a super genius. Who one of the characters conveniently met once. (If course a paleobotonist is going to know geneticists because... reasons) * The failure to get off the island. The Biosyn Valley is effectively an island. * Giant locusts that are simultaneously inflammable AND fireproof. And can't die. Because reasons. * Let's bring all the dinosaurs into this tight space. Even though much of the valley is depicted as damp and therefore unlikely to burn. * The need to have an even bigger theropod. Just to beat up the T-rex. * Only baddies die by dinosaur. * A villain who poses no threat. * Kidnapping Maisy because reasons. * Blue the pet. * No major human vs dinosaur conflict. (Where are various military forces?) * No weight or consequences. * Probably half a dozen other points I missed.

Glad David Koepp is doing the next one. Hollywood is severely lacking in talented screenwriters

If you remove the locust storyline and the retconning of Maisie being cloned by Lockwood after his daughter died, it would have been a much better movie. Not perfect, but watchable. The clone storyline was the most intriguing plot thread from Fallen Kingdom and I was disappointed that they backpedaled on it.

The funny thing is, I don’t like horror movies and yet, the original Jurassic Park was filmed and structured much more in the vein of a horror/thriller movie whereas the Jurassic World films are action/spectacle movies, even Fallen Kingdom which is closer to JP, but still misses the mark. That’s one of the things that made JP special, the awe, thrill and suspense all working together, not to mention the terror of the raptors and the build up until they’re revealed. They tried to do that with the Indominus, but it just didn’t work as well. The other thing I miss is the thought provoking moments from JP. The entire conversation at lunch is one of my favorite scenes in any film. We have each character getting to express themselves and share their perspective, giving us a clear view of who each of them is and why they are even there to begin with. In JW, we don’t really get that. Why does Owen, as someone who worked in the Navy, train animals? Why is he justifying his work with the raptors? If he didn’t agree with Hoskins and their possible military applications, what was motivating him? There’s also Claire. Why does she even work at JW? What does she believe about these animals? Did she care for them at one time? If so, when did she stop seeing them as animals and start seeing them as assets? Then in the subsequent films, why does she become an activist saving them? I didn’t mind JW and Fallen Kingdom has some interesting moments, but Dominion was such a disappointment.

So many missed opportunities in Dominion. I was hoping to see a scene where Dodson told grant, Ellie, and Malcom that he orchestrated the fall of the original park. Wu should’ve died doing something heroic. And rexy should have had a shining moment, like completely demolishing the giga on her own.

The Dominion preview of the T-Rex at the drive in mislead me. I really wanted to see dinosaurs interacting with unsuspecting and unprepared society

I honestly wouldn’t mind if J A Bayona returned to direct a new Jurassic movie with a better script, if he wants to.

I know it's important for story purposes but having to say good bye to Isla Nublar was rough for me as a believer of Hammond's Dream.❤😂

Wow, I totally forgot Ellie said "He slid into my DMs"

13:53 still might be the most bizarre reaction to being about to die in a film I've seen recently.

Pretty straight forward. Dinosaurs are the villains in JP and JP2. They have over complicated the story lines since.

Jurassic World was good, very promising. Fallen Kingdom was the Lost world of the trilogy personally. I think it actually was very fun and was the last time I felt a note of Jurassic Park. And then…. Dominion. Just….. it tried to be- as you’ve put it- too Transformers, or as I’ve called it, The Fast and the Furious with dinosaurs. It lost its magic and wonder. They took “we want to be thrilled” way too far. Just full throttle go with no stopping to digest. I want wonder- the haunting pauses and mystery that dinosaurs embody. The more I see people crying out for “realism” the more I feel like they try and turn it into a circus to make it more interesting. The shipping, the needless meme implications, and just trying to make it a money maker backfired spectacularly… I want someone in the protag seat that may be WONDERED by these animals- someone with that childlike amazement by these animals. It’s the fact that these animals are treated like walking dollar signs or common zoo animals is just… it makes me as the audience feel like I should care less. This series needs new life breathed into it.

It was making the film a playful adventure, like Indiana Jones randomly traveling to exotic locations for Maguffins, that caused the series downfall.

I honestly couldn't agree more. When I watched Dominion I was honestly shocked at how bad the dialog was between the characters and the overall plot design. And of course we can't forget the terrible pacing of the movie, with the movie tossing back and forth of trying to be a spy movie, a fast and furious movie, then then trying to be a jurassic Park movie again, and repeating that cycle. Meanwhile if you compare the dialog and story points from the first movie, it's completely timeless. Whether you watched it back in 93 to now, it's completely timeless. The dialog doesn't try to fit it's current era, and the story overall holds up really well even to this day. Sure the tech and art design of everything may be from it's time, but its overall message and goal still holds up. Especially now with seeing all the crazy stuff coming from genetics now, it makes the whole plot of Jurassic Park hold up even more. I think too what the newer movies have lost is Crichton's way of story telling, set pieces and horror. The new movies aren't scary at all, meanwhile the older movies makes the dinosaurs an actual threat. Something the first movie did that none of the sequels have been able to do is capture that magical wonder, and they honestly never will, nor could they ever really. Instead what they need to do is, is bring back that horror element to the movies like the first and second ones did. Make the dinosaurs scary, give us an interesting plot we can get behind, and make it consistent with the story and setting. Once they can do that, then they can give us a good movie.

Iv'e actually got nothing to say for once. Thats how good this video is. Klayton, you are so under appreciated as a youtuber and I think you may actually be my favorite amongst both Swrve and Beaver. And I think that because my view of the franchise is almost directly in line with yours. Just the way you are able to clearly analyse everything and explain why you like something, why you don't like something. Why it's decent, why it's not decent, how they can improve. Heck, they let you write one for crying outload. And along with that, you haven't gotten carried away with all the throwbacks and the cannonical law of the franchise like Swrve has. And you also haven't fallen prey to the blindness of being 'A RU-vidR' like Beaver. Don't get me wrong, I like both of them but, It's almost like you're the chosen one in a way. I guess i'm just trying to say, Thankyou for this channel and all the effort you have put into it. If anything, as fans, this has really been the bridge thats connecting us to jurassic park.

I probably wouldn't have been so disappointed in Dominion if we hadn't been set up for what looked to be the 'Jurassic' movie I was hoping for...Battle at Big Rock and the end of Fallen Kingdom really got my hopes up.

I love the first two Jurassic World films. The third one was enjoyable to me, but I felt it was not focused on the dinosaurs.

It burned up like the Hindenburg sunk like the Titanic

Hey Klatyon, Don't know if you'll read this or not but wanted to say first and foremost that I love your channel. I love Jurassic Park. I absolutely love all of your content. I was watching a video from "Shadows" on youtube about what could have possibly killed the men on the boat in the opening scene of JP3. I know you had touched on this before and the possibility of it being the pteranodons. The rips in the cloth of the ship, the blood streaks, etc. I don't remember if you touched on this or not but while watching that video the scene of Eric in the pteranodon's nest popped into my head. I remember seeing the bones and skulls of people in the nest. I haven't gone back to look how aged the bones looked, but if you haven't considered this before, I thought there is a strong case to be made that the men on the boat were taken to the nest. The only plot hole is that how did they get into the cage? We know from the end of Jurassic Park 2 that the pteranodons were already loose as they flew and landed on the branch of a tree to end the film. I am unsure of the ones trapped in the cage. When Amanda forgets to secure the gate in JP3 it's implied this is how they escape the cage and fly into the sunset to end JP3 but again, other pteranodons were already loose to end JP2. Anyways, possibly the men were flown to the cage and dropped through and the ones in the cage picked them off the ground and put their dead bodies into the nests. If the time between the parasailing accident and when Eric is in the nest is 8 weeks, then timewise it aligns with how big the baby pteranodons are when we see them. They would have been considerably smaller but may have picked at the corpses of the men. Anyways, I wanted to throw that theory out there if perhaps you think it's worthy of a video for your channel. Have a great day. Christ is King. (Thanks, by the way for continuing to put that positive energy out there for us) Curtis Madrid

Totally agree with you on this, because every movie has its problems but this is a major one for these JW movies. Also, I don’t know if anyone remembers, but there was this featurette/behind the scenes video for Fallen Kingdom where Colin actually said “I really like the scenes in Jurassic movies that don’t have dinosaurs”. I thought it was a pretty ridiculous thing to say, especially when he is directing movies for the biggest dinosaur franchise there is (and pretty much the only one!), and it totally reflected 4 years later when Dominion was about locusts and wasted the dinosaur plot.

Here's my grand take. Hollywood as an industry has lost touch with script writing, especially dialog writing and character development, that convinces us to love and care about the characters. Think about it. You can have a PREPOSTEROUS movie plot and unrealistic out of left field NONSENSE that happens in your movie but if the CHARACTERS are well written, fun, lovable, inspiring, cool, etc. audiences won't give AF about loose ends, skipped plot points or whatever. We want well directed scenes that capture our attention and unforgettable characters.

Out of all the things I can't forgive about the JW trilogy, the Indoraptor getting wasted instead becoming Blue's potential pack mate in a case of nature vs nurtur concept she was raised on. And don't get me started on Dominion 😂

They need a prequel to the first film. Make it about the process of developing the animals. Making it heavily dark, scientific, and mysterious. Plenty of late-80's early 90's nostalgia. Nedry, Wu, Hammond. Correspondence with Malcolm and the other consultants. Escape of animals to the mainland. Girl on the beach. Sample sent to New York. Etc. There is so much gold for a solid prequel. It would end with the investors mandating bringing experts to the park. A solid plot can be made from this material.

I actually like the Jurassic World trilogy I don’t care what people say it was better than Disney Star Wars trilogy

Something I couldn’t stand about JW3 is that Ian Malcolm is a completely different character than he was in the Lost world. All of his character development was just erased back to the first Jurassic Park.

I think that the direction where Jurassic franchise was taken during the whole "World saga" as it is trying to convince us that treating and using animals and adding "more teeth" just for money is bad and always ends up disasteously is now perfectly mirroring the recent "efforts" of it's creators and unfortunatelly the whole qualitatively decresing franchise itself...

hopefully colin trevorrow is not coming back. there's a reason he was canceled for Star Wars. and screewriters also were bad

The fact that fallen kingdom has such low sales shows what a failure world was. IMO - they should never try to make “friends” with the raptors. No real danger. The whole JW series was just a failure

Dominion was what screwed everything up.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Perfectly sums up the entire JW trilogy.

For me personally, I still very much enjoy both Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom. Dominion is honestly where I feel things *REALLY* went downhill. Fallen Kingdom may have it's issues, but there's enough enjoyability in the film that I can look past most of the flaws. But Dominion doesn't get that luxury. There are things I do like about Dominion, I won't lie, but the movie has way too many problems that are hard to ignore. Poor pacing (Especially the theatrical version), less than stellar dialogue, and a lack of stakes make the film feel too messy. Overall, I think they definitely need to ground the franchise more and bring back that flare the original films had, which it seems like they're trying to do. As a bonus talk, the first three Camp Cretaceous seasons are still really good. And then they decided robots were a good idea.

While I don't hate any of the six Jurassic films, I love Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom is good too I do think Dominion has enjoyable moments but with the franchise the directors should've taken their time between movies and worked as a team to understand the stories between each film. The Jurassic World trilogy is far better than the Star Wars sequel trilogy though because those movies have far more problems than the Jurassic World movies, Because even though JP3 is my least favorite I can still have a good time with it. i can't stand The Last Jedi at all that movie ruined the Star Wars sequel triogy.

Fallen Kingdom needed some small tweaks to make it 100x better. 3 things come to mind, move the capture of Owen and Claire to as soon as they make it to the ship, everything can continue to play out the same. Rather than Maisie opening the doors the main bad guy does unknowingly from the outside. Franklin and/or Zia die.

Imo the only really good parts of the JW trilogy would be Jurassic World (2015), BaBR and Camp Cretaceous seasons 1-3.

The plot armor for every single character was too much for me. It made everything completely unrealistic. Every character who died was just a random person or a bad guy. Also, LOCUST?!?!? Who asked for that?!?!

In my opinion as someone that loves dinosaurs… Jurassic Park was about seeing dinosaurs brought back to life and interacting with humans. Despite some inconsistencies the dinosaurs felt real, and the world built felt very realistic. The Jurassic world movies leaned far more into the sci-fi genre and went in many directions that I didn’t enjoy: 1. Hybrid dinosaurs. I hate this concept, it feels like something from a cartoon or video game. As a dinosaur lover I want to see real dinosaurs, not a hybrid of 2. And the idea that dinosaurs were boring after 15 years of creation just doesn’t work for me, especially when most normal people probably couldn’t afford to go across the ocean to the park lol. 2. Training dinosaurs for military. This is just goofy and dumb. 3. Dinosaurs become characters and feel less like wild animals. 4. The cloned girl, that’s completely out of this world and I can’t believe they did that. Overall the Jurassic world feels more like fast and the furious or marvel but with dinosaurs. The Jurassic Park films are much better. I like all 3 park films better than even the first Jurassic World. Just my opinion though.

Great video on this subject that a lot of us are big fans of. One thing i've always said about why i like Jurassic Park AND the Lost World is that those movies made the dinosaurs NOT monsters. JP3 started that trend. Jurassic World went kinda back to that time when the dinosaurs weren't monsters and just were animals. Even though i didn't like the Indominus Rex....it was still just an animal trying to figure out it's place in nature. The two subsequent movies, must like JP3, turned the dinosaurs into monsters and it was a lot less "real".

Its good to know that I am not the only one who personally really enjoys The Lost World JP(2). I watched it more than the first or third growing up.

I think the next movie should take place in the far future where dinosaurs are almost fully integrated into modern society and the antagonist of the film wants to wipe them all out because he feels that their revival isn't ethical.

JWD sucks balls because it disrespects the dinosaurs They’re hardly relevant at all and everything we see of them can already be seen in the trailer. Any time a predator dinosaur showed up they behaved so strange and violently, it made me laugh in bewilderment and anger

Honestly, I think Owen should have been killed by Blue in the first Jurassic World film. To showcase that while Owen did have respect for the raptors the raptors didn't share the same respect for Owen regardless if he imprinted on them.

I really think that matt reeves would be a perfect director for a jurassic film. His work on the planet of the apes films shows it

Great video explaining of what Happened to the Jurassic World Trilogy and I pretty much agree with your points on the Jurassic World Trilogy and how things could’ve been different and a lot more and great work analyzing of how the Jurassic World Franchise could’ve been a lot more and Life Definitely Finds A Way with this. I’ve been a huge Jurassic World Fan ever since 2015 with the first Jurassic World movie and 2018 with Fallen Kingdom and I love both Jurassic World and Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom which those are my personal favorites in the Jurassic World Franchise and Jurassic World Dominion was a huge disappointment and a disgrace to the franchise in my opinion and I respect those who love Jurassic World Dominion more than me. Hopefully, the new Jurassic Movie and the new franchise would probably do a lot better than Jurassic World Dominion because we need more dinosaur action and more dinosaur appearances. Great Job on this Klayton Fioriti and as always, Take It Easy and Life Finds A Way.

“He slid into my dm’s” ironically relates to 90% of the audience watching as 90% of the audience watching would use that exact sentence too describe they’re significant others first encounter with them

I am just glad the franchise is still here and there will be more. I don’t hate any of them, the biggest reason Dominion disappointed me was because whilst FK had flaws it clearly set up an interesting premise and as a middle film setting that up it was fine. Then they didn’t go into that scenario if dinosaurs living amongst us, it was back to an enclosed setting. Watching the extended cut knowing what I am getting I found more enjoyable whilst it’s not perfect by any means. I’ve always loved the Lost World and even JP3, there are elements in each film I get something out of. Hopefully they mix things up a bit with the next one, but I’d rather have some mixed feelings about the franchise and it continues to be added to than it go back into stasis again. If all it achieves is it brings new generations into the series then that’s great, more the merrier.

I enjoyed Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom for what they were, but Dominion really hit home on how problematic the trilogy is as a whole. Nonsensical writing and plot-lines, humor and one-liners straight out of the MCU, characters either having too much plot armor or not being interesting at all, no sense of wonder with the dinosaurs, and of course, blatant fan service, enough to make Disney Star Wars jealous. To be fair, none of this was all that bad in Jurassic World. I can still enjoy that one as a fun tribute to the original film (plus it did maintain some of that sense of wonder). These problems became much more apparent in Fallen Kingdom, but I was willing to look past most of them because of the different direction the film took, the heartbreaking Brachiosaurus scene, some genuinely intense, horror-esque moments with the Indoraptor, and the cliffhanger ending with the dinosaurs escaping onto the main-land. That ending made my imagination run wild, there was all sorts of story potential right there. Then Dominion happened, playing everything safe and throwing all of that potential out the window. All the build up from Fallen Kingdom meant nothing, and all of the previously established problems were made even worse and taken too far. I enjoyed parts of Dominion at first, but the more I thought about it overtime, the more I disliked it, and I have no desire to ever watch it again. It left a big stain on the previous two films, like what's the point of all that potential if it goes nowhere? I sincerely hope this next Jurassic film will go in a different direction. If it turns out to be anything like Dominion, then it might be the first Jurassic film I'll be skipping (I mean absolutely no offense to those who love Dominion).

I basically think the thing that made Jurassic world so popular was the hybrid itself, the Indominus Rex and the indoraptor as I think that’s what made the franchise more popular as both of those hybrids got added into games and stuff like that but Jurassic world dominion was the worst of them maybe because it didn’t have like a hybrid dinosaur rampaging killing for sport like Indominus rex

How the F did Dr. Wu survive this trilogy?????? That was the most obvious death in the history of Jurassic and they spent so long building it up. Also a good guy should have died.

I think my biggest issue with people not wanting to talk about the issues with these movies are the ones that just kind of turn their brain off because it's a fictional action movie and just shut out any kind of conversation because it's about running from giant lizards. Those aren't people I wanna have any conversations with, let alone about movies.

I actually liked JW/FK (don't get me started on Dominion 🤢) BUT I think you're right that the writing is off compared to the originals. Another thing is that really JW/FK are really just modern versions of JP/TLW, not that it was the worst thing to do but could have been way better. I'm really hoping they can get it right with the next installment and get closer to the originals but I won't hold my breath.

Using Rotten Tomatoes to prove a point really? Star Wars Last Jedi has 91... so yeah, that's not wrong at all... They also had to change some ratings they play with to confuse people who based their opinions on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes in to thinking they were good films. How about the carbon copy of story structures and complete sequences and composition for Jurassic World? That takes away a lot, but you don't see that part in the critics. Isn´t originality important? A cool video would be comparing the scenes they copy. Jurassic World is a copycat as Star Wars Force awakens.

I think the best thing for the franchise would be a tv series based on the CIA group Franklin is working for in Dominion. It doesn't necessarily have to have any characters from Dominion in it, it could be an entirely new cast. But I think that they have to show how the world adapts to the prehistoric animals after Dominion, especially since so many people wanted that to be the main plot of Dominion.

As stupid as it may sound, if you want some more Jurassic World check out the fanfic 'It's not the Raptor DNA'. Goes down a different rabbit hole of it being human dna that made the indominus so intelligent, and the park being able to reopen with the indominus. It's much larger than the original Jrassic Park books combined, and will last you a while. Though I fear the writer has passed away with their sudden disappearance years ago.

4:21 V Rex ? Is that you ?

i need Klayton's Christcast

I think a few of the issues with the trilogy is as follows 1. Fallen Kingdom should have been split into two films the first half and second half of Fallen Kingdom was so different from one another that they feel like 2 films mashed together. 2. Before dominion throw in another film that brings back the OG cast that covers what the world is like with Humans and Dinosaurs living together the main characters would be Just the OG Park cast and they could just be brought back together by Biosyn to help wrangle some of the dinosaurs for the US government. 3. Then do a film where the Jurassic World cast is trying to keep Maisie from Biosyn who are trying to kidnap her. With the film ending in Maisie getting taken from Owen and Claire. 4. Then have dominion bring all those plot threads together in a "Avengers" style movie like the studio wanted. With the plot of the last film being essentially save Maisie from Biosyn who the Jurassic Park cast has figured out is doing shady stuff with the Dinos. I may have gotten a bit ambitious there adding a few extra films but really I think the way to fix the trilogy would have been split Fallen Kingdom and have a movie that is dedicated to having Dinosaurs living with humans and the repercussions of that.

Jurassic Park (the book) was originally a horror story about unintended consequences of playing god with genetic engineering, the arrogance of man, and corporate cost cutting costing lives. Sequels were set up by having dinosaurs escape to the mainland, leaving things open for sequels even though the island was destroyed. Basically the consequences stretched beyond the containment of the island. There was so much you could do there, but both Crichton and Spielberg yanked the steering wheel in opposite directions even by the time of the second book. The story was basically ruined from that point. The JW movies are just nostalgia cash grabs and that’s why they suck.

Personally, I think this video was a wake-up call for me to start looking into the writers of a movie. When it comes to telling a story, the people involved are the key resource, even over the premise or IP.

My only problem with the series is they keep putting all the good moments in the trailer, so they kind of spoil their own movies.

In my opinion as a big dinosaur fan and JP fan, the reason the first films worked and the last didn’t was the concept of being isolated and trapped. Followed by the suspense. Which is why Camp Cretaceous worked.

My issue with Jurassic World is that all of the movies turn into crazy action movies like almost every other franchise today, instead to sticking to the grounded thrill that the first 3 movies were.

the maisie and beta eyes on me scene gave me such a viseral, deep, horrifying and sickening reaction of cringing, i wanted to walk out of dominion based off of that alone. you aint your daddy fam that raptor is not trained!!! and when they all started doing it oh my god im gonna kill someone you do not GET to have that cheesey after ive sat through scene after scene of boring locusts and "scary" dinosaurs. also OWEN ASKING IF THE GIGA WAS AN ALOSAUR? HOMIE YOUVE WORKED WITH DINOSAURS FOR YEARS AT THIS POINT AND THE PILOT KNOWS MORE THAN YOU !!! ian was literally the saving grace of that movie because i got one small giggle during the keypad scene. i want a movie where im actually worried for the main cast, not one where im chilling because iN THE END THE STUPID RAPTOR IS GONNA COME RESCUE THEM BECAUSE THEY DID STUPID HAND SIGNALS TO IT. OH MY GOD. the best part of dominion was the 30 seconds of seeing dinosaurs and animals live side by side towards the end

Ironic that it followed the quality of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Good opening, then the downfall began.

It’s the theme. It’s the horror of putting technology in the wrong hands. It’s not a fun action packed vehicle to sell products which is what this series has become

They took the Jurassic Park formula and made it feel like a combination of the MCU and Transformers. Almost all dramatic tension was lost. Other than the T-Rex showing up in the rain in the opening of Jurassic World 2, I can't think of a single moment that isn't cartoonish.

I think the biggest problem was that the first movie was kind of a stand alone sort of sequel and then Fallen Kingdom went too weird and different than fans wanted "cough cough last Jedi cough" and then you had Dominion which basically pulled a rise of Skywalker esq attempt to right the ship with bringing back nostalgia characters bringing in Dodgson as a sort of "ive been behind everything the whole time and also retcon the Maisie is a clone now suddenly she's not a clone per se she's a natural born girl but mom birthed her without a male or anything......overall kind of disjointed but still a fun trilogy for what it is Cheers!

Man you had a lot to say about JP saga. A very good video my man.

Something I've always noticed is that the World movies don't feature "Experts or Fans" In the first film Grant, Sattler and Malcolm are all experts deeply interested in everything before them, not just from a survival element but also a big picture perspective. Similarly Lex and Tim are very interested in the Dinosaurs and Tech all around them. So the first film has a cast interested and elated to be there, and their enthusiasm spreads to us the audience. It's why horror scenes like the Rex breakout are followed by feeding the Brachiosaurs, the movie wants to sell us on the magic of Jurassic Park, even if in reality our characters should be jaded about it. The franchise never quite did that as well ever again, and that's the first thing I'd address.

I really love how they fleshed out the raptor-human relationship in the first movie, and it is the most realistic progression of the trilogy. They're animals, to put it blunt, but are also highly intelligent animals. They're able to communicate, coordinate, and solve problems, thus having a more complex social structure. They remind me of crows and ravens, which are known to be tremondous at problem solving, and have been witnessed in the wild to create extremely complex tools out of sticks to find food. They're also known to hold grudges against people for years but also imprint on people who interact with them in a positive way. The same can be said with the raptors in the Jurassic Park trilogy who associate humans as a threat due to how they isolated them and treated them poorly vs. the jurassic world raptors, Blue in particular, who had a very positive experience with Owen Grady and imprinted on him from an early age. She still carries all the traits of being a wild animal, but her experience with humans is very different.

This video was needed to be done.

my favourite jw movie was fallen kingdom. i dont know why, it just is.

Its baffling how they decided to create a brand new dinosaur with so many whacky gimmicks. What I liked about the first film was how smart it was and how smart it made me feel. It was full of science and made me feel like I was watching real dinosaurs. Jurassic World is a great study of whats wrong with main stream movies.

Probably one of my biggest problems with the Jurassic World trilogy is that the good guys are basically immortal, with the exception of Zara who got killed in the first JW Whenever they are in ''danger'' you already know that they will not die. When I saw first saw the Giga attacking the main characters, it didn't feel like they were in danger, rather in some sort of play where they are in no danger at all Also in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the women who was taking care of Maisie was supposed to die to the Indoraptor while trying to protect Maisie, but of course we didn't get to see that And since people like Eli Mills and Dodgson were bad guys, you already knew they were going to die because well, they're bad guys

IMO Jurassic world is the only good movie in the trilogy so disappointed in fallen kingdom and dominion

You Know, I Really Love the Jurassic World Trilogy and also Blue is my Favorite Velociraptor. also People are not wrong for Defending or Loving the JW Trilogy

Have you realized that eversince jp3 came out, the spinosaurus has been replaced every single time since, first it was the indominus rex instead of spino, then the carno vs trex scene, and lastly the spino was replaced with a giga, so if I dont see a spino in the next movie i will be really really disappointed.

It's really good to hear a RU-vidr do a deep dive on the power of talent. Yep, "that one little adjustment" truly would have made ALL the difference.

I think that fell off in fallen kingdom I enjoyed it but I noticed towards the end of that film was expecting a dinosaur ruling world that was set up at the end then we get dominion which completely went 180 Jurassic World really boost the franchise again but I say that what ever they have planned for that 7th movie there gonna need a hail Mary pass for people to get back into this franchise.

For me this is what happens when the rule of cool takes precedence over does this makes sense, for examples wouldn’t it be cool if the dinosaurs came charging through the ash cloud of the volcano? But wouldn’t they be all killed by the ash? Wouldn’t it be cool if the Rex had a rival that settles the score after 65 millions years? In what world would 2 animals have a grudge match? People saying “oh just turn your brain off it’s dumb fun.” No that’s just becoming an excuse for bad writing

I think Fallen Kingdom would have fared better when we look back on it if the third movie stuck the landing. Battle at Little Big rock should have been the preview for what we were getting. They promised no more hybrid dinosaurs, and instead gave us hybrid locusts. They got the dinos off of the island only to put them on another island. Fallen Kingdom, flawed as it was, opened the door and the writers stepped outside and had no clue what to do with the opportunity. And it was an opportunity to break format. Make a Jurassic Pulp Fiction of different dino encounters. Get silly with it. Make the dinosaurs a metaphor for getting old in a changing technological world, where the people who can't adapt to the new ecosystem get eaten. Think plot and characters over sequences and visuals. The writing team just never figured that out.

13:56 Poor Dodgson is exactly asking those dudes that what's their chip problem story.

I have been waiting for this video

Wokism is what happened. They literally took the final movie and made it an analogy about environmentalism, completely going against the original authors beliefs.

I often compare the downfall of Jurassic with that of the Star Wars sequels. There was no gameplan from the get go, it traded hands with directors for every movie, and they brought back beloved OG characters only to waste them in something that was sub-par to the original movies. I remember sitting in the theater after Fallen Kingdom ended and when my friend looked over at me and asked what I thought of it, I told him I hated it. Idk why Hollywood thinks that everything needs to be "Fast & Furious". Just give me good storytelling!

I'll be honest, Jurassic World the first time I saw it seemed "good," nothing amazing. Then Fallen Kingdom I didn't like, and well, Dominion honestly made me furious; it was a lack of respect to the franchise. Hopefully, they won't make a James Bond Jurassic Park. They just don't seem to understand that Jurassic Park is about terror and suspense. There's no need to mix species or make human clones, etc. You don't need a thousand species to make a good movie. Hopefully, they'll make something good after the garbage that was Dominion. Great video, Klayton.

do you think that the lost worlds ingen hunters could have been another case of "spared no expense"? when we first see them they are a fairly well oiled machine capturing many dinos however, after the camp and vehicles get destroyed the facade falls apart. The guy who got mauled by compies "went for a wizz" but trecked quite far away from the group and pulled out a white baggie only telling 1 person (who was too busy listening to music), the 2nd camp (which the t-rex attacks) had no one on watch and despite there being 20ish hunters not a single one tried to fire a shot then every one of them went into the tall grass to get killed by raptors instead of follow malcoms group to the worker village.

They all made over a billion. We're hungry dinosaur junkies and we need our fix. They can make double the money if they make them good.

Honestly, Jurassic World Dominon is my favorite movie. It just is

I agree man, writers are definitely key to a good movie. We need the predators in the new movie to kill people and not just the bad people like the Rex, Raptors and dilo did in the first movie.

I have to say Jurrasic World was so good, when I watched it and the Iconic music hit, the scene where they open the hotel balcony and you see the entire park bought back so much nostalgia. Loved the indominus rex thought it was a really cool looking hybrid. Fallen Kingdom felt a bit rushed to me like one moment we're trying to find Owen, then suddenly we're on the island, now escaping the island and now at the lockwood Manor. To me that felt like it was packed into about 50 minutes of the film and then we get to dominion. All the marketing for that film made out that there was going to be dinosaurs everywhere causing absolute chaos....and we got none of that. What we got was a film about giant bugs featuring dinosaurs, the raptors became pets and rexy is just like the hero who only has like 20 minutes of screen time just so we can have the trex in the film. The whole hand thing was used waaaay to much it became cringe worthy, loved the giga the design, colours sounds just fantastic. But did it really have to die? There could have been a big build up to it's first scene but nope it makes it's grand entrance sleeping. I do believe that rexy should have died in the last film.

What were missing in this franchise is Not More Teeth and Action but there Dinosaur's wow Enough and Awe and Suspense in the stories.❤