There Are Only TWO Jurassic Park Films!

This might be controversial, but Jurassic Park is the best movie of all time, and it only has one legitimate sequel. I can explain why Jurassic Park is better than Jurassic World using only two movie clips. So let's see if you agree or disagree.
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[@hellomate639]

CLINT! You HAVE to see this guy's remake of Deinonychus in Jurassic Park's famous kitchen scene! "Jurassic Park With SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE Raptors" by CoolioArt: /watch?v=WbCQxBTcyRk&ab_channel=CoolioArt It's literally the best dinosaur depiction I've ever seen. It really is the most I've ever seen a depiction of a dinosaur and felt like I was watching a real animal.

[@ldmtag]

The best movie ever made is Jurassic Park, but not the first part. It's the second. No movie trickery can get close to pure awesomeness of those Mercedes-Benz MLs!😮 Out of all the automakers and their tough offroaders they chose bloody Mercedes-Benz with independent suspensions and luxurious interior!😍 And the trailer pulling on the cliff scene is the best scene in history of movie industry! As a kid I kept replaying it with my RC toys and couldn't have enough of it!

[@JusticeFranklin-j1i]

Jurassic World trilogy is just as good as the Jurassic Park Trilogy

[@CraigGibbons-p4d]

​@@ldmtagjurassic park 2 was rubbish and contrived.

[@PP7Silenced]

Right. Only two movies were Jurassic Park. They tried hard to brand The Lost World as Jurassic Park but that's not what us kids called it. Lol. JP and JP3.

[@augustgremaud2738]

What annoys me most about that Dominion scene is the raptor not keeping up with a running human, then easily keeping up with a car, and not giving up after literal parkour and easier targets on the street.

[@dyamonde9555]

also being a bumbling buffoon in the roof chase and then turning into an indestructible terminator when they get into the car.

[@kudosbudo]

You are both forgetting the areas they run through in both section of the chase. Its why its a good chase sequence. Dinosaurs like raptors are fast in straight lines but they have weight and mass. IN a narrow corridor with lots of turns they would be at a mild disadvantage compared to a human. We can actually maintain incredibly high speeds in narrow corridors with twists and turns over most other real life predators. We use our arms like apes to keep upright and avoid running into walls, redirecting our momentum without losing much speed. a small cat for example could keep up with a human but it has to literally run on the walls to make 90 degree turns while maintining speed and can do it cos its TINY. A much larger animal with more mass that prioritises leg power and straight line speed isn't built for that. Looks at cheetahs chasing its prey. The prey weave adn change directiosn to throw the cat off. This is animal that can track its prey at 60+ MPH over a quarter mile but if you look at the arcs of those direction changes at its fastest they are long curves. The Raptors would move in a similar fashion. When the scene moves to the car chase section roads and lanes they are moving along get a lot WIDER. This allows them to corner properly while maintaining speed and also they have time and distance to get up to their full speeds. This is why they seem to keep up with the cars better than the people on foot. The whole chase sequence is probably the best bit in the film and actually has some really good story telling in terms of physical actions and escalates well to keep the tension through out.

[@dyamonde9555]

@@kudosbudo i'd maybe give you the point about straight line speed, but that doesnt change the fact that in the foot chase she miraculously gains distance in every cut while it was on top of her right before, and the massive amount of damage that raptor just tanks without flinching during the chase.

[@thoughtfulwatcher]

She must have slipped on a pair of heels...

[@ander1345]

The laser pointer designates the target. It was created to attack specific targets.

[@eriathdien]

I know Clint is not a movie critic, but we need a series of him reviewing animal movies. If we are into that kind of thing.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

He's very wrong that stories about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances are the best.

[@justusb.plorer8773]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 You can't be wrong about opinions. So please, feel free to share yours, but try to avoid such accusations.

[@BiTurbo228]

Ace Ventura please! 😂

[@andersenkalle]

⁠@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Interesting. What do you consider to be the best?

[@PossumMagic99]

Start with Milo and Ottis.

[@paranoidiomatic]

what annoyed me personally the most is how clean the world movies looked. i mean her "messy" hair was something i can only achieve with a curler iron and i do have natural waves. everyone looks so polished at all times, even when dirty, the makeup still is on point. in the park movies everyone looked a lot more real and behaved more real too like you already mentioned. if they're in pain they look like they're in pain instead of like they're endlessly posing for the next GQ cover. messy har is actually messy and muddy faces are actually muddy. i miss movies being gritty and grimey

[@GothPaoki]

I gave up on the newer films when Chris Pratt treated literal raptors like domestic cats and it worked...

[@debonreepdas2265]

Other than blue, every other raptor would have killed Owen the moment they got the chance.

[@AubreyCasler-c3p]

But why do I feel like paleo-accurate velociraptors would make great pets. They’re small and probably still had birdlike intelligence

[@furiouskaiser9914]

As a 38 year old adult, that scene where the t.rex breaks out, that roar still gives me the exact same goosebumps i had as a kid watching it for the first time. Still my #1 fav movie of all time.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

The original JP is probably around a 7/10

[@jacquelinekenknight9280]

I have that t-Rex roar as a text tone on my phone but I only used it for one day. I would jump every every time I got a text 😂 Of course I haven’t taken my phone off vibrate since 2018 anyways so doesn’t much matter now.

[@CraigGibbons-p4d]

​@@neo-filthyfrank1347It was a masterpiece

[@ericdodd1209]

Give your head a good wobble, 10/10​@@neo-filthyfrank1347

[@kylerowley8248]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Yeah, it has it's problems like any flick, but its a true classic.

[@stadic5311]

There’s nothing like watching a un athletic human outrun a two legged apex predator well adapted to chase and hunt prey.

[@scarecroww7]

and two mentally handicap kids in a ball drive off course as they watch Jimmy Fallon, into 20 ft tall death machine predators .

[@1987Liono]

Especially in heels

[@rdsyafriyar]

“Jurassic Park is not the real world. It is intended to be a controlled world that only imitates the natural world.” - Dr. Ian Malcolm

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

“Life finds a way” -Dr Ian Malcolm.

[@AndrewMcColl]

And that's even more true in the World trilogy. They've gone from dinos in a relatively 'natural' environment to being in more of a theme park with external controls on their behaviour. The Atrociraptors in Dominion, for instance, are never seen exhibiting normal behaviour, they're always under the control of someone who uses the as "a pair of snapping jaws".

[@jwr6796]

@@pieter-bashoogsteen2283 correction: "Life, uh... finds a way."

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

"boo-hoo this is why the dinosaurs don't need to be accurate and why I don't need to learn, see it actually makes sense dude!!"

[@pandapounce]

I liked Ian Malcolm when I first watched the movie, but that was because I was a teenage girl and he was a very sexy man.

[@stax6092]

"Just money grabs benefiting from their legacy" This is how I have felt about Hollywood for a great many years now.

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

The irony that this is the same criticism that "generic fanboy nerd stereotype" on the control room makes about the park itself does not scapes me... Was it self criticism, or did they just tried a cheap jab against the public that allowed them to make the movie? I sure do not know, they are hollywood, self awareness is in short supply there...

[@dondragmer2412]

True, in large part; but every once in a while, despite its money-grubbing, Hollywood does on occasion still make a great film.

[@jake1776]

nailed it

[@tofuteh2348]

Jurassic Park is just so good because you can just FEEL the enthusiasm about dinosaurs throughout the entire movie. The way they reacted to the Brachiosaurus is how a real paleontologist would probably react, maybe with more tears The uncontrolled ramblings of paleo facts and questions by Alan To an extent, the scientific accuracy for its time How the dinosaurs manage to steal the show while still acting like animals (by hollywood blockbuster standards). The raptors were abused and kept in cages so their hostility makes sense, the Trex was initially just curious about the jeep and was more so playing with it before it discovered there was food inside, and in the car chase scene it gave up eventually as opposed to many Jurassic World dinosaurs which were killing machines when the plot wanted them to be On another note, Clint I hope you do some videos on reviewing paleo documentaries like Walking with Dinosaurs one day!

[@klbriceno1]

yes, good points

[@Red-px1fr]

Your point about how in the original you can feel the enthusiasm for dinosaurs really nails it. And importantly it's not just enthusiasm for having them as 2-dimensional movie monsters to chase people around, but as real animals. Also, hell yeah, I'd love to see Clint do an in-depth review of Walking With Dinosaurs.

[@mattm7798]

Well said.

[@jonathanwingate1901]

38 years old and I still cry every time I see the Brachiosaurus reveal scene in JP. It's just so good.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

@@jonathanwingate1901 I really, really hope you're joking

[@justindiotalevi1884]

Whenever I talk about Jurassic Park I always mention the raptors in the kitchen. Can always feel how tense the moment is and get goosebumps. And when there in the ceiling and the raptor falls back and lunges back up pure adrenaline as he comes inches from the leg

[@MrChickennugget360]

the single biggest problem with modern films is they do not understand tension. More is not better- humans at a subconscious level know what is reasonable and what is not reasonable to survive. The sequences in Jurassic park were toned down enough that a human could survive those situations. Later films such as the clip shown think they need to dial up the treat level to the point where people can no longer be invested in reality of what they are seeing. We can put ourselves in Eli Sattler's position- we cannot put ourselves in Clairs.

[@jwr6796]

IMO, Jurassic Park is a dinosaur movie and Jurassic World is a monster movie. Which is weird, because even JP had the whole, "these aren't real dinosaurs, they're man-made approximations," which has always been the (effective) hand-wave when scientific accuracy gets fudged or fumbled. It makes sense. But they're TREATED like animals in JP, which gives not just them but the human characters more pathos. There isn't the sense of awe in the World movies that there is in Park.

[@theangrysuchomimus5163]

Well, JP also tried to makes it's dinosaurs somewhat accurate for the time while adding a bit of speculation. The frog DNA was used as a way to explain why the dinosaurs managed to reproduce but in the movie it's never implied to have had other effects.

[@jwr6796]

@theangrysuchomimus5163 That's a good point. World is working at a disadvantage in that regard in that it has to make dinosaurs that feel like the dinosaurs that were in the original, but we know more about dinosaurs now.

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

@@jwr6796In all fairness they shouldn’t have remastered Jurassic Park at all like they did with Jurassic World. In the end all they was creating a cheap “bigger and bad-er” ripoff of the far superior Jurassic Park movie, complete with nostalgia baiting. I was 11 when the first Jurassic World was released in 2015 and this is how I felt. I absolutely hated it (one of the first movies ever that I genuinely didn’t like). I never watched the sequels. If they wanted to make a dinosaur zoo movie they could have put a more realistic and modern spin on it, like the great Prehistoric Park with Nigel Marven. There’s no heart at all in Jurassic World.

[@jwr6796]

@pieter-bashoogsteen2283 I actually thought World was mostly interesting and a neat concept for a nostalgic call-back movie that came at things from a different angle. But then, as Clint said, it became more about action heros and set pieces, and a lot of choices were made from a "wouldn't it be cool if..." perspective at the expense of authenticity. (The raptor motorcycle gang, for instance.) Honestly, making Indominus a villain rather than just a predator really killed it for me (and it's nebulous genetic power to... control raptors? What???). And it was beyond redemption at the end when they brought in the T Rex to smash action figures together like it's Godzilla vs Kong. Honestly, that end fight was terrible from a storytelling perspective, too. It was like they were trying to make some point about nature prevailing over man-made tinkering, but the T Rex is no less man-made so it all falls flat. If anything, it ends up feeling like a statement of, "Yeah, we know the original was better; always will be."

[@42ZaphodB42]

Exactly. Watch any Godzilla movie and you see a striking resemblence to Jurassic World. They use the same techniques and styles to portrait the "animals". The Indominus is basically the antagonistic Kaiju, while T-Rex is the underdog anti-hero Godzilla.

[@conlon4332]

The thing that stood out to me about the Jurassic World clip you showed, other than all the jumping from buildings, is how illogically the dinosaur was behaving. Obviously I haven't seen what came before, but I don't understand what would make it so willing to risk its life just to get to her. It's certainly not normal predatory behaviour. I mean why would it run after the car when there were so many pedestrians that would have been so much easier targets?

[@stevenmonster]

The bad guys in the films were training/engineering dinosaurs to be weapons to be sold for military applications or something. The laser pointer that was shown briefly sort of 'tags' the target. This stuff comes to the front of the 2nd and 3rd 'world' movies. The first one was fun though.

[@nonyabusiness4151]

Hollywood took a great plot of earth being overrun by dinosaurs, never done before. And turned it into trained attack raptors... aka HOT GARBAGE.

[@MrChickennugget360]

@@nonyabusiness4151 Dinosaurs overrunning the earth would have been extremely stupid and silly. at least it would have been more entertaining for the current fan base of Jurassic park.

[@Olivia_Circe]

Clint getting into film criticism was not on my bingo card for 2025 but I'd subscribe to a second channel for it ASAP

[@MysticMindAnalysis]

^This. All of This.

[@thenaiam]

I was going to say exactly this. We are seeing the genesis of the Clint's Movies YT channel.

[@Shwalamazula]

ClintFlix?

[@thewillow3457]

Well it’s 2024, so.

[@johnschwalb]

It’s still 2024 so was it on your 2024 bingo card

[@TheSteFanden]

You are correct: Jurassic Park is the single greatest in-colour movie of all time. And Lost World is a solid follow-up, but the rest seems to be from an entirely different universe. Which is so sad. When you have such big budget movies with dinosaurs in them, why not actually make fantastic movies out of it? But, alas...

[@capnmoby13]

A compelling story and characters are the reasons that Godzilla Minus One is the best Gojira movie.

[@frogman3017]

Did you ever see the original?

[@260Torrent]

'54, Return, and Shin blow it out of the water, IMO. The emotional beats of Minus One get a lot soapy, which is a shame because that is one gorgeous Goji.

[@ClintsReptiles]

It's unbelievably great!!!

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

​@@260TorrentThose are great movies but I agree with the OP that Minus One is the best Godzilla movie. That's my subjective opinion, not an objective fact.

[@atomicvinylreviews3420]

Personally I still feel the original is better. But damn! Minus One is a phenomenal film ! Im so glad it exists !

[@jurassicpark1fan920]

I love the first Jurassic Park movie, but I also enjoy the whole Jurassic Park/World franchise. Each of the sequels are guilty pleasures of mine.

[@dallenbaldwin3484]

My favorite observation, pretty sure from Corridor Crew, concerning Jurassic Park and why it has such staying power compared to the rest of the franchise is it's the only one where the characters live in a world where Dinosaurs are extinct, and then suddenly aren't. The terror, the awe, is all genuine narratively

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

Nah that's just overfitting the data. You aren't going to learn anything by seeing what happened to last then applying retroactive principles to it. That's not how creativity or progress works, that's how people get stuck.

[@shigeminotoge4514]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Right, so observing the results from previous experiments, comparing those results to other, similar experiments, then drawing conclusions based on the differences between those experiments and the results is _NOT_ part of the scientific method. Understood. Have a nice day.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

@@shigeminotoge4514 If you're going to LARP like a science guy you should at least know what overfitting the data is and why it's a big deal. This is not a good look for someone who wants to seem smart. Come back in 5 years when you've gained more experience.

[@shorewall]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Being acerbic like you are is a defense mechanism. I'm not saying you are stupid, but that you are very insecure, and belittle others to make yourself feel better.

[@shigeminotoge4514]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 👍

[@BagelLoxCapersCC]

Clint's Movie Theory: Dinosaurs make nothing *𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦* PRIDE & PREJUDICE x DINOSAURS Wow! It actually holds up

[@AubreyCasler-c3p]

There’s a legitimate, no joke, movie called “Bikini Girls vs. Dinosaurs” and it’s basically an 80s thirst trap

[@ymir6286]

Nice to see Lost World getting love. Personally is my favorite of all the movies. The rexes, the raptors, the ingen mercs getting gradually picked off, the entire main cast being interesting characters. It may not be the "perfect" movie, but it is still an amazingly good movie. Also rather fond of the third movie too, not as much as the first two, but it has its moments.

[@AndrewMcColl]

You could think of JP and TLW as the Alien and Aliens of the franchise.

[@codiehaleyt]

@@AndrewMcColl I personally couldn't put TLW on the same level as Aliens, but I do see what you mean. The first two are the highpoint of the franchise for sure.

[@AndrewMcColl]

​@@codiehaleyt I wasn't directly equating the movies, but commenting on their similar escalation of scenario and scale.

[@TehMorbidAtheist]

I just love how dark and mature the Lost World is.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

The Lost World is horrible, it's really a blueprint for the atrocious JW trilogy (some of the worst movies ever made). Only the superior practical effects and aesthetic save it from being bottom of the barrel, basically everything else is terrible.

[@LittleCheebs]

I think that JP3 having Dr Grant not change his stance on kids is actually more realistic, even though its less thematically satisfying. People don't just change their opinions on big issues like having kids that quickly.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

I agree, relapsing is common and realistic, and him having kids and getting married makes him less cool of an individual

[@LesterBrunt]

True, but surviving JP is not 'just' something, those kind of huge events can be transformative.

[@TheDalisama]

Grant is one of those people that can be a good "uncle", but could never be a full time parent. Unlike a lot of people, he's just mature enough to know it.

[@Tareltonlives]

Frankly it's no more "realistic" than Luke Skywalker attacking his nephew and abandoning his friends.

[@the_newt_nest]

Well, idk about the kids thing. Sometimes you end up realizing that you like kids more than you think you did, but you also don't want them yourself. Like a number of teachers I know - kids are great when you can return them at the end of the day.

[@ellyelly7235]

You make an excellent point. I decided long ago that I watch Jurassic World for the dinosaurs, not for the plot. My only nitpick about your video is that in the novel, knowing the T Rex can't see them if they aren't moving is still a lucky guess on Alan's part. It's just an educated guess based on his knowledge that amphibian DNA was used.

[@mattlawson714]

I’ve never clicked on a video so fast. I’m saw this walking my dog while wearing my Jurassic Park shirt.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

damn bro maybe rethink your life??

[@mattlawson714]

@ Ha! Keep your misery to yourself little boy.

[@CraigGibbons-p4d]

​@@neo-filthyfrank1347How about you grow up

[@scottb3034]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 your dog was wearing your jurassic park shirt? Awesome!

[@AubreyCasler-c3p]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 rethink your life, walking your dog while wearing a Jurassic Park shirt is the meaning of life

[@thecrimsonreigner1517]

Dear Clint, every Saturday my family plays videogames online together, and I watch your videos while I game. During holidays I have gone to KZbin checking for the new video to watch (because holidays are like Saturdays), only to be disappointed, BUT NOT TODAY!

[@horribledrawer9043]

The reason they split in JP3 wasn't because of kids but because of trauma. He wanted to forget about the island and keep researching like nothing happened. She couldn't forget and didn't want to keep researching the animals that almost killed them. He even plays with her kids when she needs someone to look after them. They both had different means of coping, so they split, and both are valid in the way they cope.

[@Oboechick4]

They weren’t together though, besides maybe crushing on each other.

[@N.Sniper]

@@Oboechick4 Its a good thing Fallen Kingdom got them back together.

[@vando6679]

​​@@Oboechick4what do you mean weren't together? Do you think they weren't together in JP1?

[@vando6679]

I don't remember this explanation in the film. Where are you getting this from?

[@Oboechick4]

@ They weren’t? It’s more explicitly stated in the book, but while they flirted they had a student-teacher relationship. Grant only told Malcolm they were together so Malcolm wouldn’t be a creep to Ellie.

[@amunraja]

Clint, I DEFINITELY want to hear more about your opinion on the Star Wars franchise!!! Loved your insight into Jurassic Park.

[@mandamercury]

I would argue that Dr. Grant refraining from having children in the future is not actually indicative of his lack of character development. He really disliked kids and didn't see the point in having a family in the first movie, and by the end he had more respect for parenthood AND childhood. Then in the third movie one of the first scenes is him playing with Ellie's son. He is explaining to him the difference between carnivores and herbivores. So he still likes children, and that character development hasn't disappeared imo. You can like children and still decide to not be a parent.

[@Brion57042]

I don't want kids. I can have fun with my friend's and my nephew, but I'm always glad when they leave. They're exhausting.

[@gracesiegel7849]

Thank you!! I commented similarly

[@obiwanshinobi87]

Grant and Ellie should have stayed together though.. I feel why people think there is a lack of development because of how the first movie ended.. it ended on a note that the one thing that could break them up was resolved.. There was no real reason to break them up other then perhaps to have Ellie out of the picture for most of the movie.. There is no actualy reason for the story for them to break up.. Think about it.. They broke up because Grant didn't want kids... ok. what does that do for the movie?.. nothing... so a plottwist like that thrown in at the beginning of the movie with nothing to pay for.. That's just bad story telling... even if it happens real life.. a story needs to have reason behind the chaos

[@livewire2759]

Sure... but the point of the ending of the original movie was that Dr. Grant had enjoyed the kids so much that he was reconsidering having children WITH Ellie, not just that he was ok with kids in general. The third movie would have been FAR better if Ellie's child was also Grant's child... if they had gotten married, had a child, then divorced. In that case, one sub plot of that movie could have been the two of them rekindling their romance after surviving on an island of dinosaurs again. Since they were separated through most of the first movie, they could have spent more time together in the third, and after having saved another couple's child and that couple's relationship, they'd have realized that they should reconcile their own differences for the benefit of their own child.

[@Fairyfink]

Totally agree: he cared for those children, not all children, or his mythical children. Dr Grant and Ellie definitely developed as a result of that experience. They learned Ellie wanted children more than she wanted to be with Dr Grant. He learned why children are all-consuming humans-in-progress who have to be looked after and that he didn't want that. He preferred to be with adult (less smelly) humans. That's character development.

[@danielgallant4986]

This video covers 2 of my favorite things to learn about: dinosaurs and film study. Gotta love it Clint. On an unrelated note, can anyone point me to a good source of information regarding caring for specific reptiles? My daughter wants one (she still can't decide between a few of them but the corn snake and emerald tree skink are in the lead), and we want to be responsible pet owners. We have found a lot of basic information regarding care and maintenance, but nothing in depth (or local library was less helpful than KZbin has been). The more I look into the topic the less confident I am that I know what I need to. Knowing specific diets, enclosure requirements, life span, cost, feeding methods, seems to be sparse, at least as far as we have looked. Also how to find a reputable vendor would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[@calopsitossaurus]

Someone needs to make a "carboniferous park", Imagine how terrifying would be an arthropleura rising up in your leg.

[@historiadejacupiranga]

"Advertise: This product can contain (pan)crustaceans"

[@AtlasRandGaming]

You must have some long legs!

[@bkjeong4302]

Try Miocene Park. There are megalodon and Livyatan in the ocean exhibit, Purussaurus in the river, and the land exhibits have everything from huge terror birds like Devincenzia to tiger-sized hyenas (Dinocrocuta) to bone-crushing dogs the size of jaguars (Epicyon) to sabretooths with raptor claws (Lokotunjailurus) to gigantic carnivorous honey badgers the size of wolves (Eomellivora). Topped off by a Barinasuchus breaking out. For the herbivores I'd imagine some enraged Gomphotherium or Deinotherium would be quite the hazard.

[@dr.archaeopteryx5512]

@@bkjeong4302 Megalodon and Livyatan lmao. That's not an ocean exhibit, that's an inland sea

[@MarineTeen]

@@bkjeong4302 I wander what Hadean Park would be like with it being the beginning of Earth's history.

[@tommychapman714]

Jurassic Park (Slow paced horror) Alien (Slow paced horror) JP Lost World (fast-paced Action) Aliens (Fast-paced Action) I agree with you, JP and JPLW Personally think the reason we both have such a fond memory of the second film with all its issues with my critical mind these days, is every Dinosaur scene is amazing! ALL new JW are Marvel movies, with dinosaurs slapped on Lost its identity.

[@Anshelm77]

One thing that peeved me in Jurassic World was when they said they tampered with the DNA to modify the dinosaurs looks to match people's expectations, effectively explaining the outdated models to the audience at the same time... when they could've just as well used up-to-date models, and explain the differences to previous films by saying they've since obtained more complete DNA samples. And so, in stead of dinosaurs we got 90's movie monsters.

[@mattx449]

They also could have used the frog DNA from the first movie as an “excuse” for incorrect dinosaur biology attributes 😂

[@steakinbacon8593]

That’s the biggest problem I have with Jurassic World it portrays Dino’s as blood thirsty monsters. Dinosaurs are animals and the OG films did an obviously better job at portraying them as animals. Really wish modern Hollywood and media in general would do a better job at portraying dinosaurs as animals like they should be.

[@Anshelm77]

@@mattx449 Especially the "its vision's based on movement" part. (typo edit)

[@Red-px1fr]

Great point. While the original film did have its inaccuracies and use of artistic license, it did do a lot to advance the general public's perception of dinosaurs as real animals and not just movie monsters. It's very sad that the Jurassic World films chose to go backwards in that regard.

[@0pyrophosphate0]

@@mattx449 I always thought it was strange that in a movie that makes such a point about how bird-like dinosaurs actually were, they use frog DNA to fill in the gaps, instead of bird DNA. If you go in with the mindset of "they made all kinds of questionable decisions because Hammond actually spared plenty of expense and was basically running a con", it kinda makes sense, but the movie itself never really makes that point.

[@guavanectarforever]

Happy New Year, Clint and family! I've been watching your videos with my son since he was born, and he's now 10m and gets the biggest smile on his face when your video intro begins. He lets us know what he DOESN'T like, so it goes without saying how much he enjoys watching. Just thought it was so adorable and had to share. Cheers to the new year!

[@sofamiller7133]

Yeah, Jurassic Park is the best movie ever. What other horror film leaves you thinking that the killers are beautiful, wonderful, incredible beings and it’s so great they once lived on the earth?

[@ClintsReptiles]

Boy, that's a fun point.

[@and-bending]

tbf most good creature features would apply

[@sofamiller7133]

@@and-bending I can only think of a couple that maybe even attempt such a message. They fail miserably.

[@rainbowkrampus]

Fast forward a couple thousand years after our species is gone and you can say that about basically any slasher movie.

[@theangrysuchomimus5163]

I'd argue Alien is a better horror movie but Jurassic Park is pretty good. Jurassic Park doesn't have as much suspense because it's not first and foremost a horror movie. It has a lot of horror elements, but I'd say it's more of a family trip.

[@PJ818]

Have you ever seen Tremors? Do you have an opinion of it? I realize it only has fake monsters, but it's one of my favorite monster movies ever.

[@timothygrulke1308]

I love Tremors. They are stupid good. and the last movie, with no expectations, was a good send off for it i think

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

No way something that big could live beneath sand. Sand gets exponentially harder to move through the deeper and bigger you get. It's impossible. Even something like the mongolian deathworm is probably impossible. Sand is brutal

[@johnnym3071]

​@@neo-filthyfrank1347also sand is famously course and rough

[@rickylafleur1446]

A movie made in 1993 looks better than movies made in 2024.

[@ClintsReptiles]

Aren't practical effects and strategic use of CGI wonderful???

[@JoboGamezzz]

@@ClintsReptilesog and lost world still have amazing looking parts

[@greatBLT]

Jurassic Park has the huge advantage of having been directed by Steven Spielberg, plus another big one in the form of an effects team led by Stan Winston

[@killingrang]

What I find so interesting about the chase scene in Jurassic world, is how much of a monster rather than an animal the raptor is. Once it got outside and lost her, or sustained in some injuries, any animal would have immediately pulled back or search for easier prey. But in Jurassic world it was hunting her and her in particular, like it was a villain. The wonderful thing about the dinosaurs in Jurassic park is that they all behaved realistically like animals.

[@MiloTheDumb]

What happened in the movie is pretty much the opposite of what you just said

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

Well you have to be careful with that too. SJWs infest the paleo community because they want to see animals as weak and incapable, a reflection of themselves.

[@MrBigNoodle]

I think the most obvious answer is because the first two were based off of the books by Michael Crichton who invented Jurassic Park and the rest were not.

[@sauron6977]

The second movie has nothing to do to the second novel, only in name are they similar.

[@MrBigNoodle]

@@sauron6977 oh

[@GeeVanderplas]

​@@sauron6977 yeah they wrote their own sequel and then incorporated 2 or 3 ideas from the novel in the script.

[@TrueEcologyNerd]

@@sauron6977I wouldn’t say nothing, the main plots are similar and they share characters. They are definitely very different from each other, but you can tell they are related.

[@susannebaum219]

I disagree. I think it's because of exactly the reason Clint states (im different words). The first two are horror movies with weak characters surviving. Jurassic world are action movies. The third movie does a weird genre switch from horror to action with Shia and the kid being overly action competent.

[@theterribleclaw4285]

The Jurassic World Trilogy made me want to go Extinct with the Dinosaurs.

[@Marijn-]

I couldn't agree more about the first 2 jurrasic park movies and the points you made about the jurrasic world ones, tho I don't really get ypur point on the 3rd jurrasic park. As someone who does not want kids myself I even found it very realistic. In the first movie he learns to see positive sides of kids and to like them. It does not mean that you will want kids yourself after that. In the third movie we do see that his relationship with kids has gotten significantly better than in the beginning of the first movie, he just does not want them himself.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

Character development is sort of overrated in movies. It's good if it's there and done well but people retroactively decide it's absolutely necessary for a character to be compelling when that isn't the case at all. Additionally in real life people's behavior and preferences do not change easily or quickly, relapsing is extremely common and realistic. Furthermore Grant marrying Satler and having children adds absolutely nothing to his personality. He's the one one of the main three characters who's worth a damn anyway.

[@jed1nat]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Character development absolutely cannot be an overrated element of any storytelling, lol. It's what gives all the other storytelling elements meaning. If you don't care about the persons doing the actions on the screen, you're just watching flashing colors and shapes.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

@@jed1nat Incorrect definition of character development. Character development implies change or an arc. It is very different from just saying the characters should be good in general. Many people who don't know what they're talking about love to harp on character development as an indicator of quality when it isn't at all. It's a cheap shortcut to pretending like they know what they're talking about.

[@jed1nat]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 You're the one with an incorrect definition. This isn't your 10th grade English class. Character development is the fleshing out of a character in a story, be it revealing background, motivations, personality, etc..

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

@@jed1nat It would be pointless to get into a debate over the meaning of the word as that's just goalpost shifting away from the actual point. The reality is that term is often used that way by people who are trying to develop creatively and it hurts them greatly and gives them false parameters for what's good.

[@mcash82]

Totally agree, also the velociraptor one minute before is not able to catch her running on foot and immediately after it's faster than a car!

[@caroletwi9851]

I never saw Grant warning Malcolm off of Ellie as him having a prior claim, but being protective of her. She calls him Dr. Grant even in some private moments, like when they are discussing kids.

[@Brion57042]

Same.

[@vando6679]

When Malcolm asks grant if she is available grant defensively asks why. Then Malcolm asks if they are together and Grant says ya..then the power shuts down. So ya they are a couple and it's always been pretty obvious and clear. Mutual friends don't tell each other that they want a child with the other

[@TheRealRodent]

I'm kinda stuck between Jurassic Park and RoboCop as my fave :D One question I do have though... what did Dinosaur tongues look like? Bird tongues are weird. Some borbs like Geese have teeth on them, and some borbs like Budgies have like a stick with a ball on the end.

[@AdDewaard-hu3xk]

I was once chased by a goose. I remember the sound, not hissing exactly, but something weirder. And I remember the tongue.

[@LimeyLassen]

Dinos wouldn't need teeth on their tongues, they had normal teeth for that.

[@Corvus31]

Jurassic Park is also firmly in the horror genre, which JP3 and Jurassic World movies are just action. The same is true for the Alien movies. The first one is horror and a great film, then sequels are action movies.

[@QveenRex]

Precisely. I couldn’t get over how goofy it felt to humanize the dinosaurs in the Jurassic World franchise too.

[@casp512]

If we're purely going with the horror aspect, then Fallen Kingdom is the best JP movie by far.

[@QveenRex]

@@casp512 definitely purely your opinion on that

[@casp512]

​@@QveenRex I'm not saying Fallen Kingdom is the best movie in the franchise. But it definitely has the most horror aspects, with the Indoraptor and all.

[@Bagelgeuse]

I wouldn't call Jurassic Park a horror movie. Maybe a sci-fi thriller, but it's about as scary as Jaws. Though that might be because I watched Jurassic Park well after I became interested in dinosaurs. The "new alpha" scene in Jurassic World 1 is arguably the closest the franchise has gotten to true horror (the raptors hunting the ACU team, not the Indominus).

[@gaf407]

Hey Clint! I think you would enjoy Mike Hill’s video essays on Jurassic Park vs Jurassic World. “Spielberg’s Subtext” and “Jurassic World, Jurassic Values”. I think they’ll resonate a lot with you! I think what you stated is also one of the reasons Camp Cretaceous worked.

[@andrewhardman3216]

I think the first film ends with Grant appreciating kids more, but still not wanting his own as i watched all 3 on DVD when i was about 4-6 ish quite close together. Then end of 3 is when he realised that he wanted a kid but it was too late at that point

[@Eidings-Mc]

a bit off topic, but ... your desk with backdrop looks absolutely magnificent! I love it so so much how you've decorated that gorgeous bookcase of yours :) Oh and that lovely raptor tie, great xD

[@CanisLupus1987]

To be fair They allegedly scrapped the idea of Human-Dinosaur Hybrids so I am grateful for what we got instead . Indominus Rex still better than "Human dinosaurs "

[@CurrypkatRamonlab]

Really ?? Omg that's so dumb...

[@GriffonSpade]

Doesn't the indominus have thumbs? 🤔 Maybe not as scrapped as you think!

[@theangrysuchomimus5163]

I mean, depending how it would have been handled it could have been better. But realistically it probably wouldn't have been better.

[@Aya-Aya-Aya-Aya]

​@@GriffonSpadeit's not unreasonable for a dinosaur too potentially gain an aposable thumb. Especially when it's meant to be a hybrid and has four fingers.

[@borttorbbq2556]

I mean utilizing the genes that control for the extreme development of the frontal lobe in humans would be an interesting thing to stick in another animal and see what happens. Wait we did and it does exactly what you think it makes their brain significantly . Something like 20 to 40%

[@gracesiegel7849]

10:07 I disagree there. Him being more comfortable, loving and appreciative of kids, but still not wanting them is a very human and legitimate reaction. It doesn't mean that his character didn't grow. His character did grow, he is still allowed to not want kids. That is one hell of a relationship difference and it's absolutely a dealbreaker the fact that they still maintain a friendship and a relationship is a testament to their characters. When I first met my month old niece (who is about 5 to 6 months old) I absolutely fell under her spell and love babies more than I ever thought I could. That being said, I still have no desire to have children.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

The valid point others have made that Grant not ending up with Satler is not a negative thing is sadly overshadowed by the obvious venting those people are doing about not wanting kids and being greatly insecure in it.

[@ImVeryOriginal]

THANK YOU. Just because he didn't suddenly do a complete 180 on his life plans after one intense experience doesn't mean he had no character growth.

[@alexm4994]

Hi Clint! Happy New Year! I love Jurassic Park as well. Loving your videos. Thanks for getting me back into snake keeping!

[@nathanaelrivera193]

Clint being a legitimately good fiction analyst is something I didn’t know I needed. Happy new year Clint and team!🎉🎉🎉

[@JClarkeCT1334]

I'd love to see your reaction to "Camp Cretaceous", the animated series placed in the Jurassic Park universe. Unrelated but seeing a laser sight depicted in one of the clips led me to wondering if a Deinonychus could be distracted with a laser pointer. Seems that penguins and chickens will chase one and at least some big cats show interest. Might be an interesting research topic for somebody--what critters will chase a laser pointer.

[@ruthbowen2530]

My stepdaughter will not watch the "real" Jurassic movies, but she is obsessed with that show! We watched it all the way through twice now, and she's asked to watch it again.

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@ruthbowen2530 I keep wanting the last two seasons of the show to be released on DvD...same with Chaos Theory

[@terrancat]

Okay it's a bit rude to stare at me while saying "what critters will chase a laser pointer" just because I happen to chase them.

[@zakarymcleod1850]

I'm pretty sure the Malta raptor chase scene came from Dominion, not Fallen Kingdom.

[@MrJameslupien]

I never wanted kids. Then I became an uncle and got to hang out with my niece all day. I now want kids even less. Grants character arc isnt unrealistic.

[@windowsVD]

It’s not unrealistic, but that’s not the criticism. The issue is the ending of the original film clearly implies that Grant had grown fond of Tim and Lex, and the look he gives to Ellie makes it clear that he had become open to the idea of having children with her. Jurassic Park 3 just scraps the wholesome ending of the original for no reason and is in contradiction with Grant’s journey in the first film.

[@jeffreytan2948]

Yeah but Grant actually liked kids after he spent time with them. You didn't seem to like your niece after spending a day with her. There's a difference there.

[@Ghostrander]

You can love kids and other people while still not wanting any of your own. Though I agree with Clint that the departure of the build-up without explanation does leave me headscratching a bit

[@0pyrophosphate0]

It definitely isn't unrealistic. He came to like those specific kids during a shared traumatic event, and maybe for a while after, he thought maybe having kids wouldn't be so bad. Then he goes back to "real life", where raising kids probably wouldn't be compatible with his career, and he remembers all the reasons he didn't want them in the first place. Not unrealistic at all. That being said, when a character finishes one movie thinking one thing, and the next time you see them, they think something else, realistic or not, an audience can't help but feel like they've missed something. Especially when that change runs exactly counter to the central character development of the previous movie.

[@MrJameslupien]

@@jeffreytan2948 I love my niece spoil the sh*t out of her. But seeing everything people give up when they have a kid is a hard pass. I like my freedom and money.

[@andytrujillo8287]

I love this video format from you. Have a Happy New Year!

[@novoiperkele]

8:38 dry wood might not be the best for testing electrical conductivity..

[@ClintsReptiles]

He's a paleontologist, not a physicist... 😅

[@Pastor.Dragon]

​@@ClintsReptilesthe sad part is it took me decades to figure that one out.

[@scourgeface]

tbh i always thought that was the point, the kids might not know wood isnt conductive and thus he can pretend to get shocked because nothing happened to the wood

[@Ghostrander]

The fences were charged quite highly, so it's possible a spark and pushback could have produced from the wood touching it

[@cerickNY]

@@ClintsReptiles I know, right? Not much of a physiologist either by the looks of how his follow-up test/prank is death gripping the wire.

[@gapjunction11]

First of all: I've never seen this channel, YT recommended it for reasons that escape me. But: Great video and exactly my thoughts! I always was a fan of JP3. Now the big question for me is: What is shown on that picture right next to your head in the background? Looks like a fish oder a bird? I don't know why, but I'm totally fixated on it.

[@unabletoreply9362]

Hey Clint, do you like videogames at all? Jurassic Park Operation Genesis might be a game you're interested in, it's an older game where you open a park and take care of dinosaurs. I loved playing it!

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

Some of the modern modding of that is pretty surreal with how far they've managed to take it.

[@criert135]

Haven’t you played the new versions of that game? Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the latest one and is incredible. You can build parks with much more detail and many more dinosaur species than in Operation Genesis (which I also used to love playing).

[@kaijupredator4063]

I remember fighting with my family while playing a JP boardgame over whether Alan and Ellie were a couple, with me insisting they were. Glad to see someone else agrees with my past self.

[@jakehixon1073]

I feel this applies to all franchises regardless of genre

[@madisonjacques8507]

Eh, Thor: Ragnarok is better than the first two, though it doesn't necessarily follow Clint's rule of making you like the first two more

[@metal_pipe9764]

Shrek

[@jackalope07]

Alien aliens

[@999apeman]

Not necessarily. Deadpool and Wolverine is my favorite of the Deadpools. Also Fury Road is better than the first Mad Max (can't decide whther I prefer it to Mad Max 2 or not). Jurassic Park is just a case where the direction of the first film was vastly superior to anything Trevorrow did.

[@strawberrylotlizard]

I agree Ragnarok was the best. I didn't even see. Love and thunder​@@madisonjacques8507

[@orenji196]

Clint please pleeeaase do more film analysis content, I genuinely love hearing you talk about this topic. I think you have a really good way of explaining why certain elements work in films and why some don’t. And yes I do want to hear you talk about the Star Wars prequels 😂😂😂

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

As kids we admire Dr. Grant. As adults we fully relate with Alan Grant.

[@darhaha3391]

I have only ever watched Jurassic Park. So in that JW scene, Claire was able to outline that raptor dinosaur for a good couple of minutes and then the dinosaur was able to keep up very well with a car...? Are the characters supposed to have supernatural speed? Claire was running as fast as that car?

[@kittyoffreedom408]

Just because Dr. Grant learned to appreciate children doesn’t mean he wants one full-time in his house. His character development is still there but wasn’t large enough to impact his relationship with Ellie. I love ya, Clint, but I disagree with this opinion on Dr. Grant in JP3

[@Reboytoe6]

Honestly glad they kept that character trait. I am tired of the trope that the character that doesn't want kids is in the wrong and needs to have that trait 'developed' out of them. As someone that never wants kids I never understood this gripe with his character.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

You people need to stop aggressively begging for validation about your no-kids life choices

[@kittyoffreedom408]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 wow, projecting much? Where is there begging and especially where is it “aggressively begging”? I had a different interpretation of Dr. Grants character development and that’s just how art works. Sorry you need to feel validated for your choice to contribute to our overpopulation, hope this helps.

[@onioncontrol]

6:06 that was one of my favorite parts of your interview of searchable reptiles and that was an all around fun, interesting, and informative podcast episode.

[@emperortethysusdacertified8175]

There's this one thing about Jurassic World that's always irked me, and I feel it's what really set the trilogy down it's path. Throughout the first half of the movie, the dinosaurs (and non-dinosaur extinct species) are treated more like _animals,_ more akin to how they were in the JP trilogy (for the most part). This is also reflected in the views of the public, as ridiculous as this notion is, seeing them in pretty much the same light as typical zoo animals. They weren't big scary monsters for the spotlight or some sort of whimsical circus attraction... they were just normal animals, doing what animals do. And this is where the Indominus comes in. The Indom _was_ an unnatural creation made for the spotlight, an attraction... a monster, rather than an animal. In a way history repeated itself: They were too caught up on whether or not they could to ever consider if they should, and as a result the monster that would cause everything to come toppling down was created. But this also led to a really interesting dynamic. The dinosaurs were what those of us nowadays understand them to be, animals. They may have been brought back from the dead millions of years after their extinction, but no amount of time could ever change that fact. The fact they are animals, and not monsters, is something that is common knowledge nowadays compared to when the first movie came out. The Indominus, on the other hand, *WAS* exactly what dinosaurs had long been represented as in film and other media... a monster. It was created to be a terrible monster to draw in the thrill seekers, and everything that could've been done to make it such was done. It was a chimeric kitbash of some of the most feared specimens of dinosaurs and other creatures, purpose tailored to be as big and scary as it possibly could be. And that was a genuinely really interesting plot point. The dinosaurs being animals like how the majority of people nowadays understand them to be being contrasted by the Indom being this unnatural bloodthirsty movie monster because it was _quite literally made to be that, a literal ticket-selling attraction like King Kong or Godzilla._ And the Indom did its job way better than anyone ever wanted it to, and the dinosaurs ultimately suffered as a result... ... _But then the pterosaur break-out happens, and it all falls apart from there._ Now, all of a sudden, these animals are behaving just like the fabricated movie monster and attacking everything in sight. From here we also see both Blue and Rexy become more anthropomorphized and the Mosa become the giant killer ocean mouth that it'll be used as throughout the rest of the trilogy. And rather sadly the other two movies ultimately take more from this second half than they do the first. From this point onwards the trilogy constantly uses the dinosaurs either as characters as much as the humans are (sometimes overshadowing them), comedic gags, or a gnashing set of teeth that vaguely resembles whatever it's supposed to be while the "animals" are reduced to nothing more than background scenery or a "wow dinosaur cool woah" moment in between scenes of generic theropod A and B getting a twenty man killstreak in COD. The only scene that really breaks that mold being the Therizino's introduction in Dominion, which is the genuine highlight of that movie for me.

[@dyamonde9555]

yeah, you're right on the money with that. look at that raptor in the chase scene... that's not an animal in an animal attack scene, that's a horror monster in a slasher movie, completely unbound from logic and physics. first a bumbling buffoon she can outrun on foot, gaining meters of lead on every camera cut... then the second they get into the car it runs faster than the car and is indestructible...

[@mycatwilleatyou7569]

This. Those movies are just a cheap basterdized copy of the first two. It's Hollywood crap. If they wanted to make monster dinosaurs so bad, they could have just made new movies and not attached themselves to JP

[@sandwich4763]

I'l never understand why they set up the T. rex to be some kind of protagonist as the series went on. It's just an animal. With Blue you could at least make the argument that Owen raised it.

[@Andrewbert109]

I am so so so so happy to hear all of this because these are my EXACT thoughts on JP and JP2. I agree 100% with almost every single thing you said in the first third of this video and most of the rest. JP is the greatest movie ever made, without exception. I was 4 when it came out in theaters so i couldn't go see if and had to sneak behind the couch and watch it when my parents rented it on VHS and said they would watch it first to see if it was okay for me to watch. Which it was, because it was awesome. And i told them as such. And then yes to everything you said about TLW. I even got those same comics at my neighborhood Weigels where i used to get my weekly sonic and Batman comics. I am so overjoyed to hear just how stinking rad your take was, but I always knew what you were saying when you said there was only two. That being said, I was disappointed by Jurassic World for very similar but slightly different reasons. It seems like, like you said, the writers knew what they were doing with the fake dinosaurs and all that. It was in part meant to be a commentary not just on the difference in cinema between then and now, being that today's audiences don't really go to the movies for anything less than "a spectacle" or "something big and impressive" - IE the Avatar-ification of film(or in this case the Transformer-ation of film). But then that's exactly what they made. They completely undercut their own undercut by making it a sincere attempt at this big budget CGI schlock-fest filled with corporate sponsors in a movie that was written to be a critique on big budget CGI schlock-fests filled with corporate sponsors. Which is why I agree that it's a fun movie, a good movie even, but it's not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination. Edit - just to be clear it kinda reads like I'm disagreeing with you but I'm not, just expanding on your points with my own takeaways.

[@Wallace_Horsey]

idk how unpopular of an opinion this will be, but Fallen Kingdom is my favorite in the series. Maybe it's because I first got into Jurassic way past the era of Jurassic Park but right when Jurassic World came out, but in franchises like Jurassic or Godzilla I really don't care about human plot development (for the most part, it still needs a decent story obviously) but I mostly just want to see cool creature designs and dinosaurs fighting each other and stuff. It's why Fallen Kingdom specifically is my favorite, the Indoraptor is probably the coolest hybrid in the series, I love it's slender build and cunning intelligence, I also really like Blue's character.

[@xfilesalien]

I love Fallen Kingdom!!

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

Only a 12 year old is capable of such an opinion

[@Wallace_Horsey]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 damn okay who hurt you? it’s not like i said the others were bad or anything i just have my favorite sorry it ain’t the same as yours. Sometimes a guy just wants to watch screwed up genetic abomination dinosaurs fighting each other and that’s exactly what I got in fallen kingdom

[@hampterland]

You can’t evolve out of a franchise

[@petermorrissey8497]

I always liked Dr Grant, I did go on to study Geology, Biology and Palaeontology at university...

[@-cosmicrogue-]

Dominion was so bad my brain deleted most of the film immediately after leaving the theater 🧠🚫 I went with my cousin despite never seeing the other Jurassic World films, now I have ZERO interest in watching them after the brain-numbing slog that Dominion was.

[@Tareltonlives]

They're actually WORSE than Dominion.

[@criert135]

Personally I think Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom were much better than Dominion, especially Jurassic World.

[@Tareltonlives]

@@criert135 Honestly I think Jurassic World is the worst of the three and Dominion is the least bad, but they're all bad IMO.

[@criert135]

@@Tareltonlives I like Jurassic World much more than Dominion, personally. I especially like it because one of my favourite things about the franchise is seeing a dinosaur park actually set up and working before it all falls apart. The only films that show you that are Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, so JW gets extra points from me because I love seeing the park with all its exhibits and stuff.

[@Tareltonlives]

@@criert135 Valid. Personally I prefer Dominion because there's a greater variety of dinosaurs, I don't like the hybrid dinosaurs, and I'm glad to see the original characters and I just like them more than Owen and Claire.

[@Herbit-k4j]

13:23 Jesus Christ, it's Jason Bourne

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Something I noticed in the Dominion scene is that it very much overstayed its welcome. The chase scene should have ended when she landed in the truck and they drove off not continued on some more. Just felt excessive

[@BoringWyrm]

Exactly! It got BORING. Do you realize how hard it is to make dinosaurs boring?

[@XxLeafCatxX]

Wrong. There are 3. The 3rd while mediocre, is leagues better than the new trilogy. Ive come to appreciate it more after what we've been getting fed lately.

[@acrophobe]

Spot on observation about the sequels being plagued with invincible action heroes. They're Olympic athletes and world class sprinters whenever the script needs them to be, they never succumb to fear, they never even bleed or sweat and Chris Pratt is literally *instantaneously dry* and doesn't even pretend to shiver or be cold at all even 10 seconds after being pulled out of an iced-over lake. These characters aren't real. They're ridiculous even by movie standards. The great irony of JP1 is that Muldoon, projected as the movie's fearless big bad gamekeeper who knows more about the dinosaurs than anyone in the park and sports a huge hulking SPAS-12 combat shotgun, is instantly outsmarted and eaten just when the gang needs him the most. Meanwhile back at the ranch, the children and nerdy scientists end up surviving through sheer determination, perseverance, intelligence, courage, and teamwork (and let's be honest, a little movie luck and blessings from the angels on high😉). JP1's script is unsurpassed in action adventure filmmaking.

[@ForbesMX2023]

As a 32 year old I love them all. But there all wrong in some way on the Dino’s so as far as I’m concerned your wrong on there only being 2 movies. Most of the rest I agree with. I think what most people miss Dr Woo speech to Messroni nothings natural about the Dino’s at the park. The new movie could have started pushing a story about that going back to a natural state. This being why some big dinosaurs are dying. I also keep Jurassic park and Star Wars separate so both series can be in my favourites along with Harry Potter .

[@mr.dr.kaiser4912]

It always amuses me when people bring up the paddock wall at 5:33 as if it's some sort of plothole or gotcha. The car gets pushed over the wall somewhere between 50 and 100 feet further down the fence than where the Rex broke out, leaving plenty of room for a significant elevation change, or, y'know, a moat. Kinda like the ones mentioned earlier in the film, I believe by Hammond.

[@joevaccaro6655]

Wayne Knight’s dialogue was great “Don’t get cheap on me Dodson, that was Hammond’s problem.”

[@casp512]

Honestly I disagree with you. I liked them all and I'd consider more than the first two as great movies. Jurassic World especially has a very special place in my heart. Maybe that comes down to the fact that I view movies differently than you do, or it's just a generational difference. I view the Jurassic World movies less as sequels to the original and more as a spin-off trilogy. Though while I enjoyed the three Jurassic World Movies, I think the best Jurassic-related content to have come out in recent years are the two animated Netflix spin-off shows "Camp Cretaceous" and "Chaos Theory". Those actually did what you said: They made me like the movies more, and not just the first one. I still enjoyed your review though and I would not dislike seeing you review more movies, especially when said movies have dinosaurs or other prehistoric creatures in them.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

No Jurassic Park film is great. The JW trilogy were some of the worst movies ever made. TLW is easily the worst of the original three. Don't know why everyone obsesses with camp cretaceous but I am concerned. Seems targeted at children so it's very worrisome if an adult is into that for what it might indicate about their other behavior.

[@davidhurcombe6505]

I remember the first thing I said to my friends when we went to see Jurassic World was that I wasn't impressed because you don't need fake dinosaurs then made the argument that lions and elephants can be seen in zoos after over 100 years but the argument for fake dinosaurs was it's 30 years since the park opened. Like no more babies would ever grow up in that time and want to see the dinosaur zoo!

[@E.M.25]

Clint, before you go hating on the prequels, you need to watch Star Wars clone wars. It is 7 seasons of perfection, and it elaborates on the period between episodes 2 and 3. I strongly recommend watching it first, you will not regret it.

[@ClintsReptiles]

If you need 7 seasons of cartoons to fill in the holes in your three movies, then you really messed up those movies...

[@E.M.25]

@ClintsReptiles i understand your point of view. There are some plot holes in the prequels, and Gorge Lucus wrote dialog like a two year old. But you also probably grew up watching the originals like a lot of people. And you now think that the prequels were just poorly written and full of bad decisions that don't make sense to the viewer. But there not, there a tragedy told in three movies that were not long enough to encapsulate the truly awesome and beautiful moments thru out the the era, like how deviously cunning and evil Palpatine was to overthrow not only the republic but the jedi order. Or how tragic Yoda's character was in not being able to stop the surrounding conflict or to have even seen it coming in the first place. My point is that the movies did NOT do the prequel era justice, and they were never supposed to. They were meant to show the ket moments that led to the creation of the empire and the original trilogy. Anyway, i would love to debate this further with you sometime, and if you read this whole reply, then thank you.

[@ClintsReptiles]

I can appreciate that they helped fix a terrible plot, but saying that three movies was not enough time to tell one good story is absurd. There are many stand-alone movies that manage to tell a story better than that trilogy, and Up did it better in less than five minutes.

[@theangrysuchomimus5163]

@@ClintsReptiles Tbh Clone Wars is still great even if you dislike the prequels. The characters are interesting, have depth and the show is suprisingly mature even if it was marketed for a younger audience. Sure there are a few Jar Jar episodes here and there and Grievious is incompetent 90% of the time, but some like Yoda's quest about life and death are quite good

[@ClintsReptiles]

The Clone Wars is not the problem. The movies are the problem.

[@Tungdil_01]

The comparison of Ellie's and Claire's actions is fantastic. Ellie's reaction in that scene was perfect, especially at the end when she felt safe, simply sitting and crying of fear. The scene had less dialogue, less actions, less visual effects, but much more depth and feeling, like her life was really in danger all the time.

[@Mjmannella]

I disagree with labelling Claire as an "action hero" in Jurassic World, primarily because she goes through a similar arc as Dr. Grant but a bit more subtly. She starts of largely dismissing her nephews and alienating herself from her family, but ultimately grows to genuinely care for them when she's put in a similar survival situation. *Unlike* with JP3, this actually continues on with the relationship she has with Maisie Lockwood in Fallen Kingdom and Dominion.

[@ClintsReptiles]

Her interaction with kids isn't what makes her an action hero. It's her interaction with dinosaurs.

[@Mjmannella]

@@ClintsReptiles I'm aware that was the intention in the video. I'm saying that limiting Claire's character to how she interacts with dinosaurs make it seem like she's less of a character than she really is. It's also worth noting that she ends up going through a similar arc with dinosaurs. At the beginning, she saw them as just numbers on a screen, or like "elephants at the city zoo" in her own words. But eventually she learns that they should be taken seriously when she has to confront them in person. Yeah the T. rex scene in high heels is silly, though I chalk that up to the producers wanting a pander to nostalgia rather than Claire being an "action hero". Personally I would've swapped Owen and Claire in that scene, as it'd make both of their characters stronger.

[@Tareltonlives]

Yes, but the arc is very rushed; she doesn't spent much time with the kids. And in fact, the kids aren't really characters at all, not in the same way lex and tim were. I can't even remember their names; they're there because the original movie had kids. Even then, after she saves Owen, the kids love the Mary sue more than they love her, explicitly dismissing her.

[@theforgereviews4346]

The first 3 movies were literally my childhood. I wanted to be a paleontologist as a kid beceause of the land before time movies, the bbc dinosaur/prehistoric documentaries, and Jurassic park 1 through 3. It still speaks to the inner child in me just talking about all of it.

[@therealalexmullins]

I agree and having read the books, the only way to make a modern JP film would be to make a more book accurate version.

[@jasonpeacock9735]

A prestige mini series on HBO going for the full R rating vibe from the book

[@therongjr]

I agree!

[@Shwalamazula]

​@@jasonpeacock9735that would rock. They have done it enough times for Dune ... I think it can be done for JP.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

There are infinite ways to make a JP movie better than the original. People just lack imagination.

[@lauraholmes2402]

I love Grant’s development with the kids. He doesn’t want kids, but he’d never see them in danger. It’s a real testament to him as a character when compared to Genero, who left the kids in the car

[@ryateo1]

Could you send Disney a memo about your opinion of sequels?

[@ClintsReptiles]

Somebody needs to!

[@ryateo1]

@ClintsReptiles love your work. I have my kids watch, too.

[@runarvollan]

The Lost World is like Scream 2: lacking a point. Jurassic Park's point was that life finds a way as Alan strengthened his weak side and swapped caring for dead, ancient animals with living, young humans. Scream 1's point was that it let the characters break the rules and still survive. The sequels just follow them.

[@criert135]

Meh, Scream 2 is brilliant

[@runarvollan]

@criert135 Meh could've been so much better if they had followed Kevin's screenplay instead of repeating the same amount of killers as 1

[@runarvollan]

@criert135 The beginning is. "I wanna be in a horror too!" *instant regret*

[@ghostcaveman2636]

I recently was thinking about this topic. My conclusion is this: Jurassic Park was a great film. It will probably never be remade because it’s already perfect. But you can’t catch lightning in a bottle twice and we should judge its sequels on their own merits, not on whether they are as good as JP. Having said that, I will now say that I think Jurassic World is an okay sequel. There is no reason one of these films can’t be more action oriented. It makes a lot of sense to me that once humans started cloning dinosaurs they wouldn’t stop there, and would definitely start making new ones. I think JW2’s plot of more man-made dinos is fine, but did they have to blow up the island?

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

Jurassic Park was not a great film, not by a long shot. It was good but nothing more. JW is literally a crime against humanity. And no, sequels should aim to be just as good or better than the original. Less is not acceptable.

[@foxxtitan7028]

​@@neo-filthyfrank1347 You lose credibility when you says JP is just a good movie. A "just good movie" wouldn't have affected and changed the whole world's perception about dinosaurs who are litteraly a whole field of science. What this movie have done is a feat very rarely seen in the cinema world. And this is only one out of it's qualities.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

@@foxxtitan7028 The quality of a movie has nothing to do with its impact. Reality is not a democracy, many people obsessing over a film does not make it good. Thinking like that will only lead to worship of the most lowest-common denominator films out there, which is a disaster for creativity.

[@foxxtitan7028]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Of course the impact a movie have on the public is part of the quality of the said movie, saying otherwise is just bad faith. If a movie is bad it have no impact on people or a very short one and then disepear of people's minds. Jurassic park is one of the best movies ever made, that's not an obssession, that's objectivity. It has all the things that an excellent movie need.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

@@foxxtitan7028 And yet you can't demonstrate these things. The quality of a film depends on its content, not how popular it is. Like I said, only creatively bankrupt people think like this, you seem not to have understood the point since you just repeated your previous claim without addressing the actual consequences of thinking like that.

[@ThatGuy-p2c]

How the heck can she out run a raptor

[@aaronreynolds1504]

I loved JP 1&2 but I would love to see a remake that was more book accurate. Even if they had to do a series instead movies.

[@JRKonungrinn]

Dr. Grant was right about kids though.

[@procow2274]

I honestly don't think the talking raptor scene is a big deal Given what birds are capable of and given jp lore wise raptors are the smartest non human animals them being able to mimic human speech really isn't that crazy.

[@Neseirik]

Also, it's in a dream sequence. I've never understood why people had an issue with this scene.

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

*WEIRD BIRDS*

[@jimslancio]

Talking raptors irresistibly make me think of the second Gremlins movie.

[@fuzzywyverns8561]

I think Clint may have actually been talking about the 3d printed raptor larynx being used to “talk” to the pack at the end of the movie and for whatever reason the editor used a clip of the dream Alan has on the plane because they probably just searched for “Jurassic park Alan talking raptor” or something like that and that’s what came up first.

[@christademarco5602]

During 2020 my husband and I went to our local drive in theater. It was showing old releases of movies. At Halloween it showed the og Jurassic Park. I remember seeing it on our old TV from the 90s as a child and being thoroughly spellbound and horrified. At 30 getting to see it on the big screen was AMAZING!!!! If anyone ever gets the chance to see it like that, do it!!!

[@metriacantho]

Final episode, and its gonna be a banger!

[@SupaKoopaTroopa64]

The point I always bring up is that the films changed genres between Jurassic Park and World. The original is, alongside _Alien,_ one of the defining films in the sci-fi survival thriller genre, but the _World_ trilogy changed the series to a more generic blockbuster action film. Also, it's not just the characters that felt more real in the original, but the world. The color grading was extremely neutral, almost found-footage like. The props were mostly real objects that you could find being used out in the real world at the time. Even that "flight simulator" file browser was a real piece of software used to demonstrate the real-time 3D capabilities of SGI workstations. Contrast this with the _World_ trilogy, where the computers use holograms, and software that would look more at home in Star Trek than the real world.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

JP3 doesn't make JP1 lesser because Elie and Grant didn't work, It doesn't retcon the original or any events in it

[@Tareltonlives]

It does- it invalidates his character arc

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

@Tareltonlives He likes kids now, doesn't mean he wants one

[@rossgraham7649]

Why's every single time that Jurassic Park is stealing the shows, and the credits, Jurassic Park 3 and Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom deserves better because it's stories, dinosaurs, and actions makes this two films the G.O.A.T....i hope you understand, Clint..!!!! And have a great day!!!!!

[@DarthBiomech]

Jurassic Park: \*Tries to portray dinos the best it can, and doesn't do feather only because CGI of that time couldn't do them\* Jurassic World: "Relax, nerd, it's just a movie with monsters"

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

Those are not dinossaurs, they are creatures franken-spliced out from a mostly incomplete DNA sample or another, plus a butload of other animals, explained why they look like that. In the first book they even admit this fact, and debate if they should keep "updating" the dinos to be even closer to real ones or to be closer to more of a "pop-culture" version. Also the feathers were not a fact that 100% of the scientists agreed upon at the time, at least not for the species they had on the movies (they had that leeway).

[@DarthBiomech]

​@@carloshenriquezimmer7543 The first film clearly didn't use the "ackchually its spliced monsters and not dinosaurs" justification, since they decided to portray them as basically in contrast with every other popular piece of media featuring dinosaurs up to that date (not dumb, not slow, not dragging their tails, not living in swamps, ETC), and not in _agreement_ with it. Unlike JW...

[@nmmrg]

I just googled the child actors and was surprised they were actually OLDER than me when I watched it. I swear I remembered them as younger kids.