i don't know if it's lack of creativity, contempt for the audience's intelligence, or maybe just that movies can't criticize capitalism now
but the antagonists in the new Jurassic movies are bad because they want to turn dinos into explicit weapons, right? Something very straightforward and overt that any basic audience could understand. Cool dino park is good, weapon dino kill people and that bad.
In Jurassic Park the antagonist wasn't even a person, it wasn't the dinos either, it was trying make as much money as possible by commodifying life itself. Fucking up things bad because of corporate business mentality was the main conflict. And without consideration of the further implications, instead only focusing on the technical details of how to make as much money as possible, which fucked up because oops life doesn't subscribe to the laws of economics.
yeah, that's how I mean. Corporate dipshits trying to make an infinite money machine out of biology they barely understand and then nature seizes its DNA back from them. Also it's muddled a little from the Crichton novel, where the John Hammond park owner character is completely evil and only concerned with making money and fulfilling his life's goal of making dinosaurs. The film portrays him more of a well-meaning eccentric who makes all of the same mistakes, which is a little more honest in my opinion. Because it doesn't matter how nice your grandpa is, if he's a massively wealthy corporate business owner, he's evil and will do something that kills a bunch of people in the search for more money.
i don't know if it's lack of creativity, contempt for the audience's intelligence, or maybe just that movies can't criticize capitalism now
but the antagonists in the new Jurassic movies are bad because they want to turn dinos into explicit weapons, right? Something very straightforward and overt that any basic audience could understand. Cool dino park is good, weapon dino kill people and that bad.
In Jurassic Park the antagonist wasn't even a person, it wasn't the dinos either, it was trying make as much money as possible by commodifying life itself. Fucking up things bad because of corporate business mentality was the main conflict. And without consideration of the further implications, instead only focusing on the technical details of how to make as much money as possible, which fucked up because oops life doesn't subscribe to the laws of economics.
Pretty sure the antagonist of Jurassic Park was the chaos theory itself
I dont know I watch it when I was 7 and the dinos looked cool
yeah, that's how I mean. Corporate dipshits trying to make an infinite money machine out of biology they barely understand and then nature seizes its DNA back from them. Also it's muddled a little from the Crichton novel, where the John Hammond park owner character is completely evil and only concerned with making money and fulfilling his life's goal of making dinosaurs. The film portrays him more of a well-meaning eccentric who makes all of the same mistakes, which is a little more honest in my opinion. Because it doesn't matter how nice your grandpa is, if he's a massively wealthy corporate business owner, he's evil and will do something that kills a bunch of people in the search for more money.
That's what makes the first movie good and impossible to repeat to an extent.