Jurassic World Dominion | The Lost Art of Blocking and Editing

[@nickhouse9591]

Having all the characters stand so close together makes the movie look like an episode of Scooby-Doo.

[@katie7748]

LOL like, zoinks!

[@blackfootedferret]

​@@katie7748came here to say the same thing

[@dialecticsjunkie7653]

The whole thing was ill-conceived. They needed to think of creative ways to split the cast up into smaller groups of 2s and 3s for *extended* periods of time, maybe have them reunite only at the end of the action sequence.

[@Noaher256]

During the final battle I was getting ready for Giga to say “Humans don’t deserve to live” and for Rexy to reply with “They deserve to choose for themselves!”

[@skaterlad1234]

‘Then you will die with them!’

[@kuhanblock9380]

WHAAAT IVE DOOOOOONE!!!

[@kyle21843]

Giga: the humans are evil! Rex: from my point of view the dinosaurs are evil!

[@sadchild9478]

@@kyle21843 Giga: Then you are lost!

[@andyroughcut4521]

"Finally, a good oponent, our battle will be legendary!" Rexy and Therizinosaurus: "Not even close"

[@alicewright3439]

“As long as there’s 2 or 3 good Dino scenes I’m ok with that”.. is a perfect example of how low our expectations have become 😢

[@georgesikorski9891]

Yeah, when people start complimenting JP3, you know something is up

[@robertjacques4117]

It's sad really, so many films are too quick with too much flash and little to know substance or anything memorable attached, I miss how it used to be, especially with older summer blockbusters, great characters and story and fantastic action and suspense Thank God for Top Gun Maverick this year, the true summer blockbuster and one of the best I've seen in a long time, it did everything it had to do right and then some, I think a lot of people, including me, hoped for a lot with the film but expected possible disappointed and it blew all of us away and exceeded all of our expectations

[@jongon0848]

@@georgesikorski9891 How can u not love a raptor on a plane saying "Alan?" That shit is hysterical😂😂😂

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

@@georgesikorski9891ok but JP3 got a bad rap even when movies were better. As a kid its serviceable because the movie knows its nog good so it just hits every narrative beat. It was efficient, but the action was good and lots of practical. I mean ofc nothing is gonna compare to the original, but at least JP3 wasn’t as pretentious and condescending as Jurassic World, it didn’t pretend like we were that invested in the family so it had a good brisk pace and the dialogue was over with in a second, whereas Jurassic World drags its goddamn feet with annoying ass characters

[@machexx1494]

Because that’s what these movies are about. Everyone watches Jurassic Park for dino action. Easy as that

[@louisbogli1804]

You know the worst ? Colin said the Giganotosaurus is like the Joker, despite the fact that other than a big locust, he doesn’t kill anything in the movie. ANYTHING.

[@Nick64266]

Yeah I honestly felt bad for him. The franchise has a habit of making the dinosaurs more of monsters then animals. Ironically he actually felt like a innocent dinosaur just doing it’s thing!

[@hunormagyar1843]

@@Nick64266 For real, dinosaurs have 2 states: 1. insanely humanoid, to the point where they could basically fly the airplane and run their own "dinosyn" lab, also they seamlessly cooperate despite being a totally different species just to kill the one thing Rexy was boutta lose to (cuz the kids cried when the Spino - tho rather bullshittily - won) 2. mindless monsters, often for no real reason (the Theri killing the deer just for the sake of it was legit shockingly hilarious, you could almost hear the animator say "yeet!" while animating that scene lol), sometimes accompanied by temporary invincibility Oh and a bonus 3rd: intercontinental ballistic *laser-guided* high-explosive armor piercing fin-stabilized discarding *raptors*

[@YodaOnABender]

Tfw the “heroic” T.Rex has killed more innocent people than the supposedly evil Giga who didn’t even eat one of the villains

[@samfish2550]

@@hunormagyar1843 I agree but I actually appreciated the theri, herbivores can be honestly more dangerous than predators because they need to offer enough threat to deter the predators from even considering attacking. So a near sighted/blind Theri slashing first and asking questions never actually fits really well.

[@Nick64266]

@@YodaOnABender haha that’s funny. Even the veloraptors once considered some of the most dangerous villains of all time are now heroes!

[@TheeShaggySniper]

You hit my biggest complaint (out of several, extremely large complaints) regarding Dominion at 12:08. Maisie is stuck because it's currently trying to eat her, then rips the cage away, tosses it and... in the span of that 5 seconds, you're telling me 4 characters, 2 of which are in their 40's, one in their 50's, and one in their 70's, managed to all climb up a 30ft ladder in 5 seconds. Or, did it really take longer and the dinosaur... just waited for the next cutscene to start?

[@jpandrew-zq7pq]

That was (big/huge) plot armor, with the Giga looking at his human-prey for 15 seconds before attacking. And that happened every time he was about to attack the humans.

[@kyle21843]

yeah this movie had waaay too much plot armor and yeah anyone whos climbed a ladder will tell you that scene is some bullshit. but what i cant get over is how convenient everything in the movie is. the critical drinker went over that pretty thoroughly

[@MrSserpent]

Yes, the editing is shit and made the film look goofier and worse than it's actually is

[@joshgorsky5224]

you hit the nail on the head! The little gorey details like laura dern finding sam jackson’s decapitated arm or the opening scene raptor victim, amped up the suspense tenfold. In the new movies literally only bad guys die. The last innocent victim was the babysitter in the first World movie

[@juliancaraveo5700]

Benjamin Lockwood : Am I a joke to you ?

[@thunderclanwarrior1253]

@@juliancaraveo5700 Who? The fact that I can't remember says a lot-

[@AtrociCollector]

@@thunderclanwarrior1253 it’s the old man who owns the Lockwood mansion in fallen kingdom. He died by Mills, who wanted to sell the dinosaurs instead of releasing them on an island in the mainland

[@thunderclanwarrior1253]

@@AtrociCollector oo gotcha, thank you!

[@AtrociCollector]

@@thunderclanwarrior1253 no problem bro

[@KinoBrava]

Spielberg telling Trevorrow that he effectively blocked 15 actors in a scene in West Side Story must've burned Trevorrow badly.

[@UmbrellaGent]

I'm pretty sure that didn't happen and is just a witty way of comparing the approach of the two directors that the video's author came up with.

[@KinoBrava]

@@UmbrellaGent Colin Trevorrow talked about it in The Hollywood Reporter.

[@BeazerProductions]

Spielberg's West Side Story is such a gorgeous-looking movie.

[@jongon0848]

@@BeazerProductions Literally one of the best looking films I've ever seen!

[@blokey8]

I feel like Trevorrow direly needed to do at least a couple of low-budget films which required him to really work on the kind of craft which allowed Bayona to elevate Fallen Kingdom. He's maybe the blandest of the "one indie movie and now you make blockbusters" crowd.

[@kailashbtw9103]

That intro couldn't have said it better. As a huge jurassic fan, ive watched the first three movies atleast a dozen times. It really is the entertainment factor that keeps me interested.

[@prathapkutty7407]

In my mind only the first three movies are canon in the franchise. Colin Trevorrow ruined this franchise.

[@ICE_IS_NICE]

@@prathapkutty7407 just enjoy life. Theres no need to spread drama when you hate a movie

[@SecretRaginMan]

@@ICE_IS_NICE They are enjoying life. There is no need to instigate drama because someone doesn't like a movie or series.

[@destroyerzilla7634]

@@prathapkutty7407 it didn't ruin anything

[@whyamihere54972]

Just enjoy life. Turn off social media and have a good time with popcorn and a movie.

[@logansymmes2193]

I would absolutely adore a stand-alone horror film taking place at Jurassic Park or World. That would be amazing

[@JosephQuillen]

This should be getting more upvotes. Lots of non main-line characters that have had to escape the dinos.

[@mikerosoft1009]

A prequel where all hell breaks loose. The movie ends with Hammond covering it up and hiring all new people except for a few key people. 100 people die. The credits roll as he's going to get approval from Dr Grant and Ellie.

[@gergopiroska5749]

Soooo...a novel accurate movie?

[@BK-uy9nj]

No shit we all would. JP started out as a HORROR piece. Nedry felt his own intestines in his hands for christssake

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Jurassic Park is as close as you'll get to horror. And Spielberg did it wonderfully

[@katherinealvarez9216]

Going to be honest, I would have liked more scenes of dinos out in the world causing chaos or just seeing how they successfully adapted and integrated themselves into their new environments. Like the Mosasaurus adopting the whales, or the dinosaurs joining other animal herds and flocks. How did it happen? Or even Rexy reuniting with the other T-rexes, which I am convince are her grandkids. What will happen going forward?

[@mortman200]

The other Tyrannosaurs are the Buck and Doe from Lost World. So they're Rexy's siblings.

[@katherinealvarez9216]

@@mortman200 oh that is cool! How sweet! Wait, what happened to the kid? I'm guessing she's all grown up now. Maybe dead even.

[@hatboxghost735]

I believe that was the original intention, hence Battle at Big Rock. Covid screwed a lot up, but they could have still made this final installment of the trilogy so much better. It was horrid

[@katherinealvarez9216]

@@hatboxghost735 I didn't hate it, Grant and Ellie getting together probably had a lot do with it, but yeah. Battle at Big Rock is probably still the best sequel.

[@hatboxghost735]

@@katherinealvarez9216 yes, that part was great. But they also made Grant a bumbling idiot in this movie which was kind of pathetic… Honestly I was pretty saddened by the movie being such a hardcore fan.

[@charlesman8722]

The ending of Dominion really shows they wanted to have their cake and eat it too. All the new characters survive along with the old ones.

[@damonlongstreet8630]

"Only characters that deserve it will die" Colin Treverow 2016 Everyone ether didn't take it seriously or thought he was kidding. Fallen Kingdom is rated G in Canada for crying out loud.

[@beerosaurusrex]

@@damonlongstreet8630 Only G in Quebec, it was 14A in Ontario (which is like a more strict PG-13 essentially, as parents are required for under 14, not just suggested). It was PG in western provinces, and even that is surprising as FK was probably the most violent JP.

[@damonlongstreet8630]

@@beerosaurusrex TWL had the highest rating a 14A, considering its the bloodiest in the series no suprise. If you truly believe FK was darker and more violent the TLW your delusional. I did double check and yes your correct its G In Quebec but in BC its still only PG, considering FK only had 1 "dark" moments and the character basically let themselves die came off more as a bad parody then a horror scene.

[@joevictor53]

I was so disappointed with this film. It didn't feel like a continuation of Fallen Kingdom, it didn't feel like a conclusion to the Jurassic World trilogy and it definitely didn't feel like a conclusion to the Jurassic franchise as a whole. People can criticise Fallen Kingdom all they want but at least it was entertaining and it continued the story and moved it forward. This was not the film we were promised by the marketing and it was worse because none of the characters feel like they're at risk of any harm

[@lhb82]

"People can criticise Fallen Kingdom all they want but at least it was entertaining" I wasn't entertainment by it for a single minute. That it wasn't entertaining was one of the main criticism of the movie...

[@LarrySwishamane]

conclusion? it barely had an introduction. Even if it did, what was it? who requested this quest? what question was ask? and do we still care about these characters?

[@AtrociCollector]

@@lhb82 well I was VERY entertained by fallen kingdom when I watched it in the cinema. I literally don’t get how ppl hate it. It brought us more species of dinos, gave us a good soundtrack and also, hyped us up for dominion

[@gregoryhill1639]

It was crap

[@Unformedbreak]

@@AtrociCollector hyped us up for dominion... or what we thought it was supposed to be

[@barron204]

So many high action films in recent years are copies of each other that JWD is more of a genre movie than a franchise movie. Swap out the dinosaurs for secret agents, CIA, aliens, zombies, evil super villains etc and they are mostly the same movies with the same stories and scenes.

[@itsamechrispratt380]

EXACTLY!!! And not only do they have the same plots and characters, they're also shot the same way...the camera's constantly flying around during the action scenes while the dialogue scenes are the dullest short-reverse shot setup you could possibly imagine, the colors are the same, just the way the scenes play out visually is identical....while I was watching this trainwreck for the first time I kept expecting Dwayne Johnson or some other generic Hollywood action hack to show up and start jumping around dodging velociraptors. We are SO far removed from what Jurassic Park originally was. Just compare this movie to the first one, or hell, even Jurassic Park III, which was pretty much a very basic jungle adventure movie with dinosaurs, feels more like a continuation of the first one than Dominion. The original had Spielberg's style all over it and was a clever and extremely well put together sci-fi-action blockbuster, this one is just an Asylum movie with a budget. And you're absolutely right about every movie feeling the same. Like you've said, all action blockbusters are the same, the only difference is the context of the story, but that doesn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things.

[@lucaskennington9101]

This movie sounds like good proof that having your characters make smart decisions every time can actually hurt the film. I'll remember that next time a nitpicker says everyone acts dumb.

[@sofija642]

They made idiotic decisions, but plot armor protects them

[@cideofsacae]

the worst part about the Quetzalcoatlus scene is that it makes the things terrifying in the AIR, when azhdarchid pterosaurs (not dinosaurs btw) are infinitely scarier on the GROUND. Imagine a stork as tall as a giraffe stalking you through the trees, waiting to spear you with a beak longer than you are tall. It would've been way more effective for the Claire forest scene than using the Therizinosaurus.

[@hunormagyar1843]

Mf quetz has a beak stronger than the cast iron engine block

[@calebclendenin7073]

Thats actually a cool thought

[@pcenero]

The air part can be made effective if carefully arranged. Imagine being in the underbrush seeing a lone quetz, a dot in the sky, proceeding through the growth and looking up again only to notice it isn't there, the forest is silent until you hear rustling of leaves and branches

[@pinksamm]

Omg I had the same idea!! Literally like the plane crashes into the forest (would’ve been a smaller plane too) and as they are trying to get out they hear these low honks and beaks clicking. And turns out their in a Quetzal nesting area and now have to avoid these giant stork giraffes without getting speared

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

What's the difference? When you make all your characters invincible there is no element of danger.

[@ruffr4bb1t]

The Giga scene pissed me off so much when I watched it. Like this is what we waited for? A lifeless Dino walking around a car when the very first one had both cars get completely destroyed in the process of the t-Rex getting a couple snacks

[@finscontingencyplan7005]

The overuse of CGI shattering the sense of realism is really pronounced in the parts where you were cutting between the Rex breakout and the Giga attack. In any given part of the Giga scene I almost feel like I'm watching a videogame - I can see that there's many, many layers of compositing, the trees are CGI, the characters are on a sound stage and have been dropped in, there's that awful orange-grey colour over everything, and it does not feel like a "place". In direct contrast, the rex paddock is unified. Alan is standing on a road next to a fence, and there's a crashed car and a big dinosaur. So simple. You really do buy that, even if the dinosaur isn't real, we really are on a road, in the pouring rain, with smashed up equipment everywhere.

[@singularityraptor4022]

Lol the giga scene was practical and fimed in the set.

[@finscontingencyplan7005]

@@singularityraptor4022 And it’s been painted over with so much CGI that you wouldn’t be able to tell

[@MitchellMiranda]

@@finscontingencyplan7005 actually my complaint with jurassic world dominion is that the dinosaurs are practical effects when they shouldnt be, resulting in the dinosaurs feeling sluggish and really fake. Like, the entire sequence with the Giganotosaurus sucks because its limited to being a giant practical effect while having to chase around characters and feel menacing. The Giga would’ve been better off being CGI with the practical effect being used at the right time instead of the entire time. It was so obvious when it was practical vs cgi lol

[@cacoethes1366]

I don’t think its the overuse of CGI, it’s the overuse of BAD CGI. We have the ability to make it near impossible to tell if it’s CGI, especially in the low light scenes. Yet you either have a director who doesn’t understand how to set up a shot to help the digital artists or they’re given no time to finish it properly (looking at you, marvel). It’s insane that there is genuinely some examples of worse CGI in JWD than in the first Jurassic Park in 1993!

[@jpandrew-zq7pq]

@@cacoethes1366 it was all a rush (as my theory) because remember that the movie ended post-production 7 months (seven long months, imagine that) before releasing, hence why most of the effects look flawed. Whatever the reason (probably so they can save costs), they didn't have proper time to finish it, just like with Marvel these days.

[@thanujadamithangani7265]

Colin Trevorrow: "Don't worry. I'm not making the same mistakes again." Films&Stuff: "No, you're making all new ones." Jurassic World Dominion in a nutshell.

[@shaggytheshaman]

Wait -- there was blocking in these movies?? I keep telling people. Everybody is misidentifying the problem with this movie. It's not the ideas. It's not the lack of dinosaurs (there's *too* *many* if anything). It's Colin Trevorrow's utter inability to do anything even remotely close to interesting with his direction. He has great ideas but he is just a bad director. He does practically nothing as a director. He's just like "Here's my idea. Let's point a camera at it. That's a wrap! Next idea!"

[@blokey8]

It's all the more startling because while arguably almost all the "did one indie movie and then they did franchise blockbusters" crowd have struggled to some degree or another (barring those who went into the MCU and are cushioned by the machinery, albeit with lots of stuff outsourced to pre-vis and second units), at least the likes of Gareth Edwards and Jordan Vogt-Roberts demonstrated real visual chops off the bat.

[@Pyroraptor16]

My favorite part about the Atrociraptor chase is that these “perfect hunters” repeatedly fail to catch their quarry because they can’t stop tripping over themselves. If only these DROMAEOSAURS had some kind of body structure, perhaps wings, that could stabilize their movement while running!

[@crumblebee6728]

How exactly do they work?? The laser gets pointed but it doesn’t stay on the target lol - they just hone in and are then able to carry out a chase relentlessly over the course of 20 miles? That makes zero sense

[@cryoboy]

Also, I got a million dollar idea to sell to the villains. What if you take that laser pointer thingy that commands the raptors to attack ... and attach it to a gun! So you know, if you have it pointed at someone you can just like squeeze your finger a bit and the target instantly dies and you don't have to go through the trouble of transporting a dinosaur everywhere you go and release it near your target etc. And the bullets would be much harder to outrun too.

[@AtrociCollector]

@@crumblebee6728 they know what to attack. They will chase it to the ends of the earth if they have to. It’s js santos giving them instructions

[@AtrociCollector]

@@cryoboy ok this laser thing for the indoraptor has caused a lot of arguments and controversies. Let my js share my simple thoughts: the laser pointer should be used specially for assassinations. Let the Dino do ur dirty work for u without anyone knowing that u were responsible for the kill. If only they used that idea in fallen kingdom

[@cryoboy]

@@AtrociCollector Yes, because this way of killing someone is definitely drawing attention away from you since everyone has a device to sick raptors on people. Very inconspicuous.

[@jordmanbatgod]

This movie feels like it had a huge amount of studio influence and editing. There’s various novice mistakes made for sure, but stuff like the Malta chase scene just feels like Universal had a huge hand in hacking that to bits

[@MegaZeta]

Though it’s not like you could ever make Jurassic Park 6 as some sort of art collective or auteur

[@kiryuthedragonwarrior2746]

@@MegaZeta sure you can

[@jpandrew-zq7pq]

Maybe the pandemic complicated thing more?

[@robertjacques4117]

I can sort of agree but in all honesty, I rewatched the other two films in the Jurassic World series and the first especially is way more ridiculous and overly complicated then I remember, nothing needs to be said for Fallen Kingdom, everyone knows how bad it is apart from the fact that it's filmed better but my point is that Collin directed two of them and was a screenwriter and producer for all three, this series is mostly his doing and I never like to trash directors or actors but he had so much control with this series and this is what he gave us and it is a colossal misfire and disappointment

[@shinndig1293]

@@robertjacques4117 He's an inept hack who just got lucky.

[@donovancapet8924]

The editing and shot composition in Jurassic World: Dominion was easily one of the main reasons I disliked the film the most. It made scenes that were meant to feel intense feel rushed and sloppy. I'm sorry, but Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom may have had a poor script, but it at least knew how to look pretty

[@jonathanquigley1001]

I am a Jurassic park fanboy at heart, have been ever since I saw the first film at a slumber party at my friends house when I was 10 years old, gave me a deep love for the franchise and dinosaurs in general… and man I still have not seen this movie 😂 when everyone on earth is saying it’s garbage, it makes it really hard to feel any desire to watch it

[@damonlongstreet8630]

Agree to the highest level, as someone who experienced the horror of the t rex break out scene at 4 it would be a disservice.

[@olleselin]

Basically a mix between "Fast & Furious" and "The Lost World"

[@LarrySwishamane]

who uGet that from?

[@lunathekuduruk1311]

Lost world is better than this shit

[@olleselin]

@@LarrySwishamane the 1925 one

[@LarrySwishamane]

@@lunathekuduruk1311 of course it was! easily! too easy! how easy? lights. camera. action. (Ian yawns)

[@penguinsrbirds2]

@@LarrySwishamane Is this some kind of fucking code?

[@thatgreenfur6584]

The climactic jokersaurus scene feels more like someone filmed a family going through a Universal Studios theme park ride. Like some kind of animatronics filled haunted house type thing. Maybe the setup would work there, where nobody has to to anything too stressful or physically impactful, which is fine in an amusement park, but boring as hell in a movie.

[@CabezasDePescado]

Good to see someone mention that the direction of Fallen Kingdom is great. A good example of direction elevating a bad script, Alien Resurrection is another.

[@MrSnaztastic]

I'll have to take your word on that. Resurrection is one of the worst franchise films ever made, even as a guilty pleasure it can be painful to sit through. The script must have been eye gougingly bad to read in comparison.

[@blokey8]

Bayona is good at elevating iffy scripts - his work on Rings of Power was pretty good

[@CabezasDePescado]

I like Resurrection or what it is but i certainly wont defend it, but i am strictly talking about the direction, the script is by whedon so what did you expect

[@squalay3601]

The closest ive felt to the type of tension AND adventurous entertainment found in jurassic park is Jordan Peele's Nope. The blood house scene feels RIPPED from the t rex escape in the first film, all while having its own individual style and stakes as well. And the climaxl gives the sense that these character are in real danger, and that there must be a creative way to stop their threat.

[@Strogman25]

"No series is more notorious for losing its magic than Jurassic Park." > Star Wars entered the chat

[@cormacmurrihy6192]

>Mcu entered the chat

[@Strogman25]

@@cormacmurrihy6192 SO TRUE. You know they're seconds away from having Thanos come back using "secrets only the sith knew" 😂

[@cormacmurrihy6192]

@@Strogman25 yea lol

[@sadchild9478]

@@Strogman25 he’s probably gonna be back in their whole “secret wars” thing, so you’re not far off lol

[@SoundlabStudios63]

Don’t forget about the Marvel/Star Wars crossover

[@Vent69420]

You said everything needed to be said. When I went for this movie in the theatres I felt ashamed for being a fan of the franchise and for dragging my friends along what was a trash movie banking on. my childhood nostalgia

[@beerosaurusrex]

It took that long? I'm amazed anyone was still on board after JW, especially after Fallen Kingdom.

[@João-u8b]

DUDE, that's EXACTLY what happened to me I invited a friend of mine to go to the movies with me, but the movie was extremely disappointing and I've never felt so ashamed. It was the first time she had been to the movies, and she told me that the movie was awful, and that she wasted her time going with me to see it. And It was me who had invited her

[@theminecraft2516]

I honestly think Lostworld has great themes

[@fr33dom_s4int]

Remember the excellent short film Trevorrow made of that family at the camp site? That’s not the movie we got with JWD.

[@Kerrogann]

"Just watch another Spielberg classic" Funny, I watched War of the Worlds yesterday, and I was glued to my sofa during the basement scene where they try to avoid being seen by the "tentacle", then by the aliens coming down, there's so much tension in this scene, and it's perfectly made, like at the moment where this guy wants to shoot them and Tom Cruise tries to prevent him, they have that almost fight scene but in perfect silence, while the kid is looking at the aliens. In a sense, that scene really reminded me of the kitchen scene from Jurassic Park, a scene that still gives me goosebumps and stresses me almost 30 years later, even if I know perfectly how it ends. That's how you make a good suspense.

[@Sawrattan]

JP1: Ellie limps after jumping a fence. JW3: Claire leaps off rooftops and keeps running.

[@cryptodino3roberts712]

Claire has had prior experience

[@GREYFLWRMUSIC]

That is exactly my problem with JWD. The dinosaurs are not a threat, they do not matter at all. They are merely a minor inconvenience.

[@kylechappell3007]

Every movie after The Lost World feels too bombastic and grand, while the first two films kept their action sequeces more grounded. It's like eating a diet of only sugar, there isn't enough balance to keep you truly satisfied.

[@okcoconuts]

JW Dominion could be a good example of what’s wrong with some modern action movies

[@hbm7350]

Spielberg knew that the movie should be left alone, that’s why he didn’t direct the other Jurassic park/world movie

[@MisterPeanut10]

When I saw this movie in late June/early July, I was super excited to go see it! But I was seriously underwhelmed after I had exited the theater. This video perfectly sums up most of my issues with it. 3/10

[@245Carol]

Get the extended version.

[@coffee2luv]

Li MMB

[@shinndig1293]

@@245Carol It's still shit, just longer shit.

[@ThePudgeGaming]

I’ve never walked out of a movie. I walked out of Dominion.

[@shinndig1293]

I almost walked out of Fallen Kingdom.

[@mallninja9805]

Filmmakers seem to be under the impression that the majority of people want self-insert characters that are badass, invincible, and unstoppable. They are always the smartest and most charismatic person in the room and the top of the food chain. And that those audiences don't have the recall of a goldfish, so it doesn't matter what happened or was said in the scenes prior as long as the self-inserts come out on top in _this_ scene. And box office returns suggest those filmmakers are not wrong.

[@RobertoSanchez-ew1ce]

that chasing scene felt like an eternity

[@raulflores1019]

The movie is SAFE because they turned an adult movie about the dangers of genetic engineering and humans playing God, into a movie about simply dinosaurs being kinda cool. The studios, producers, and directors of these new batch of JP movies, think that adult audiences are too stupid to want a thoughtful movie that uses Dinosaurs as a means to tell a larger story/critique of human nature/society so they aim these movies at prepubescent kids. I know this because I showed the original Jurassic Park to some 6 year old kids and they got scared. But they saw this movie no problem.

[@lonellfletcher]

Thank you for that shoutout to West Side Story (2021), a modern day masterpiece.

[@giorgiopalmas7934]

Huh?

[@kentslocum]

The best way to improve this film is to make a completely different movie altogether.

[@beerosaurusrex]

That could be said, unfortunately, for nearly any sequel/reboot of the last 10 years.

[@SoundlabStudios63]

Other than Top Gun Maverick. A perfect sequel

[@NextToToddliness]

Fun Fact: Quetzalcoatlus, Dimetrodon & Lystrosaurus weren't dinosaurs.

[@practicalpisces]

@@onerandomguy4832 I did.

[@lola-to9om]

@@onerandomguy4832 no one asks in the comment we just want to express ourselves dumbass

[@gergopiroska5749]

Thats like common knowledge

[@GaiusIntrepidus]

@@onerandomguy4832 are you that pathetic to simply slap all your insecurities onto someone who knows more than you?

[@kiryuthedragonwarrior2746]

@@onerandomguy4832 fun fact: its a common fact and calling them dinosaurs shows that you don't know what you're talking about

[@MrTurole]

I feel like "Love and Monsters" does the horror portions of Jurassic Park very well. It has some minor flaws, but is a much better spiritual successor than the Dominion.

[@Neurodivergent-j1f]

Now that was a film that balanced suspense and heart beautifully.

[@juanyusee8197]

The Atrociraptors really feel like The Driller from Transformers: Dark of the Moon in that they're just there to fill up an action scene that only pads up the runtime and serves no plot significance.

[@themanwhowouldbebrick]

Yes exactly

[@R1ck_Ryder]

Wow it's almost like that's what action movies do or something 🤔 maybe put down the screenplay for dummies book and enjoy a film once in a while

[@themanwhowouldbebrick]

@@R1ck_Ryder Lol

[@cryptodino3roberts712]

The atrociraptors also show the advancements in dinosaur related technology. What was a prototype in fallen kingdom is now an available product

[@jpandrew-zq7pq]

You can say that to the Giga scenes, the Nasutoceratops rescue, maybe the Parasaur chase, the Pyroraptor encounter and (out of the action) the dialogue & exposition scenes that prolonged unnecessary.

[@Macrochenia]

The thing that the JP sequels have increasingly gotten wrong was that the dinosaurs are not generic monster movie monsters. In the original they were animals that were a threat not because they were evil but just because they had instincts and behaviors that humans who were trying to keep them did not understand and had not bothered to understand and it was human arrogance that was the real threat. Every sequel has moved away from that portrayal of the dinosaurs.

[@prehistoricpictures_official]

This is literally the best review and analysis of Dominion yet! Fantastic video that points out so many things wrong with this movie that I’ve seen no one talk about at all! Thank you for making it!

[@bigt7706]

Omg Films & Stuff got a cameo from nicholas cage at 1:53 that's so cool

[@redrox3312]

I was just thinking that 🤣🤣🤣

[@sinclairrex4045]

collin trevorrow: but i bring back the saga! fans: and we salute you for it. Now dont come back!

[@benjaminskylerhill8276]

This is one of the best video essays I’ve seen all year. Bravo

[@brycespencer6732]

Great video, my dude. When I walked out the theater, I was having trouble comprehending that what we just got was real. If it wasn't the big finale movie to the franchise, things might have be different.

[@beerosaurusrex]

It's just the finale to the JW trilogy. Nothing is ever done, JP won't be an exception.

[@kade-qt1zu]

@@beerosaurusrex Well, some things are not meant to last forever.

[@venomnbk3326]

I noticed In each Jurassic World film they go up against a Dinosaur version of a classic slasher villain. The Indominus Rex is Jason Voorhees The Indo Raptor is Freddy Krueger The Giganotosaurus is the Chatterer Cenobite

[@TheRealRodent]

JP: Masterpiece JP2: Decent JP3: Watchable, but amateur JW: Remake of JP, JP2 and JP3 all in one, similar to Force Awakens. Takes the best bits of the original trilogy and crams it into 2 hours. JW2: Poor remake of JP2 JW3: Boring, and similar to the Emmerich movie 2012. An endless series of close encounters, but nothing happens.

[@thereyofwater]

It's almost shocking that Jurassic World and Dominion are directed by the same person. Colin Trevorrow's direction had much more energy the first time around.

[@shinndig1293]

I’m convinced he just got lucky with the first film.

[@geomfilms]

Very good edit and info about why Dominion dropped the ball.

[@rocketpunchgo1]

The lost art of making a good movie.

[@superduperjew]

I am a huge JP fan. It was difficult to finish the last two JW movies.

[@nebulous6660]

This movie was vomit-inducingly horrible. The writers and director should be ashamed of themselves for all the money and artistic production talent they wasted.

[@juliancaraveo5700]

If J.A Bayona directed Dominion he would have given us more dinos encounter scenes.

[@robertjacques4117]

He would've made a better shot and framed film that's for sure

[@shinndig1293]

Bayona really should've directed the first Jurassic World, not Colin.

[@MrOverHeels]

I haven't watch this movie yet, but the giganotosaurus scene reminds me a bit of Missile Silo mission in Dino Crisis 2.

[@saxon3547]

The final line of this video will stick with me forever. No truer words have been said.

[@SCHeartless]

When I thought the series couldn’t get worse after fallen kingdom, dominion happened. Sad to see how my most cherished franchise, was literally dragged through the mud and killed. There have been moments, although microscopic, that kind of seemed like the JP of old, but nope. The last 2 entries easily should kill off the franchise as a whole.

[@hummingfrog]

The atrociraptors are my all time favorite dinosaurs. I just _love_ the way they can chase a freaking motorcycle at full speed for miles and miles *without* *ever* *getting* *tired!*

[@cryptodino3roberts712]

They are said in the movie to be bred for speed. Think like old school money horses only trained to stop for a secret word.

[@hummingfrog]

@@cryptodino3roberts712 They've been breeding race horses for many many years, but no horse can even come close to keeping up with a motorcycle. And I'm pretty sure no animal on Earth has ever been able to sprint at full speed for as long as the atrociraptors did in that scene -- vertebrate metabolism just doesn't allow it. The movie makers have basically crossed the line into supervillain territory here, only with superpowered dinosaurs rather than people. 😄

[@cryptodino3roberts712]

@@hummingfrog this why the atrociraptors need thier own origin movie or game. A suicide squad esque story exploring the practicality and consequenses of biological warfare(animals count in that area rifht?)

[@ParisDylan1]

Love all the mini-reference clips... spot on my dude.

[@AscentArt]

I found the entire World series to be abysmal. My wife and I just finished dominion (took us 3 sittings) and it was one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever sat through. I'd take more JP3 than any of the World movies easily.

[@danielramsey6141]

Sounds like they never should’ve lead into it after JW2! Fallen Kingdom was dreadful for me and I just said F@ck it. Cause if that film was bad, the third one was probably gonna be even worst. And you know what (even though I called it). I hate being right! Cause I do love the franchise, this movie was just awful.

[@vashsunglasses]

Dimetrodon isn't a dinosaur, it's a synapsid. Which is a fancy way to say that it's a proto-mammal. Also pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus were lizards.

[@allthelittleworms]

you're mostly right- pterosaurs were not lizards. there is only one researcher who supports that AFAICT, and he has been debunked probably dozens of times

[@chrismartin3197]

Pterosaurs were archosaurs (like dinosaurs) - not lizards (sorry). I think Lystrosaurus was also a synapsid (but could be wrong)

[@msscott22]

No one cares, they were in the movie about dinosaurs so they'll be talked about like dinosaurs.

[@vashsunglasses]

@@msscott22 I just think it's cool that our proto-mammal ancestors looked like that. Synapsids are amazing but most people don't know about them.

[@shinndig1293]

This film manages to make The Rise of Skywalker look like The Return of the King and just proves that Colin Trevorrow's Duel of the Fates film would've been infinitely worse.

[@stevenecarrier]

This was a fantastic breakdown! I do think it should be noted that this was entirely shot during the pandemic- being the first film back in production during the hight of it. You can clearly see, from all your great examples , that simple things like blocking were sublimated due to the protocols. For me it’s interesting seeing the film try to create continuity when they clearly don’t have the footage necessary, or the characters have to be staged in a way that complies with the protocols and works for the story. It’s a mess. But from a film making standpoint I can’t help but watch and learn from these “mistakes”/circumstances. Staging this many actors, in a single shot, at the height of the pandemic, seems like a fools errand.

[@MegaZeta]

It’s funny how the market model for Hollywood meant that they couldn’t stop making crowded movies even when a disaster meant they couldn’t actually make crowded movies

[@robertjacques4117]

I can understand what you're saying but plenty of other great films where made during covid like The Batman and that movie turned out great, I can't entirely blame the pandemic, especially since the other two Jurassic World films aren't really good either

[@stevenecarrier]

@@robertjacques4117 but The Batman had 2, maybe 3, main characters.

[@robertjacques4117]

@@stevenecarrier from what I remember I recount way more then that and in numerous scenes they were interacting among others, like the club scenes, police crime scenes, funeral scene, many had groups of people so I give absolutely no leeway for Jurassic World Dominion, pandemic or not, it's just a poorly done movie but considering most of the Jurassic World series is mediocre, it kinda makes sense, rewatching the first I really realized how bad it kind of is, the second one worse and Collin has his fingerprints all over them, I just think that he's not a great writer or director

[@stevenecarrier]

I absolutely agree! I mean, The Batman is literally a masterpiece and Jurassic World: Dominion is what it is - I quite liked it as it worked more like a Michael Crichton novel than any of the previous films, but I’m alone on that. I also understand how fucking hard it is to get any movie made so I usually air on the nicer more forgiving side cause Hollywood is a fucking bitch after all haha

[@d3l3tes00n]

That was my biggest issue with the JW movies.. they made the dinosaurs into monsters when the JP movies constantly stressed how they were animals that can't be controlled.. knowing they're hunting you like a wild animal was what made them so scary & added tension. None of the new movies feel grounded because they're written like monster movies. Someone also brought up how the intelligence of the dinosaurs is very inconsistent in the JW series. In one scene, they'll be clever & strategic, while in another scene, the same dinosaur is bursting through walls to chase people without any logic. Wouldn't they know to go around objects instead of through them? The raptors literally used doors in JP. Thank god for the locusts....

[@MegaZeta]

Jurassic Park was ABSOLUTELY about making dinosaurs into movie-style monsters, even in the novel. Monsters roar before they pounce on prey; carnivorous animals don’t; “velociraptors” are called that because the name sounds scary, and so on. Jurassic Park was just a BETTER monster movie.

[@d3l3tes00n]

@@MegaZeta It feels way more grounded to me. There's even a line about how they're not monsters.

[@cryptodino3roberts712]

The atrociraptors are likely put into a rage state.

[@TheropodHunter]

This film was trying to be Irwin Allen's "The Swarm," but with locusts (featuring dinosaurs.)

[@ZachBobBob]

I'm glad you acknowledged that Fallen Kingdom is really well directed. The worst part of that film is it's atrocious script

[@ryanelliott71698]

I do agree that JW D has a real issue of not wanting to kill any decently tiered good guys. Now that I think of it, that’s a running problem with the JW trilogy. No one significant dies on the good guys. Like at best you get a C- character like Hammond clone or the babysitter. Where in the JP trilogy we had lots deaths. And I don’t want it to seem like o want deaths for the sake of it. I don’t. I just don’t want it to seem like our heroes are invincible and make the dinosaurs an actual threat.

[@kennethsatria6607]

I wanna also say they definitely play favorites in the dinosaur depictions, somehow Rexy is always shown in a heroic light and given special treatment, she never actively hunts, hurts or kill anyone of the main characters she is just always there to save them from other dinosaurs or execute the evil humans despite never being trained to act this way. Blue she was trained so, Rexy should have been depicted more like a crocodile, only out for herself and sure she can be directed at an enemy but she shouldn't be shown this benevolent. Its similar spineless storytelling that the animals can't be wild or dangerous anymore. I like that they use and spend more time with dinosaurs as characters, but they are given way too much fluff and anthropomorphism that it ruins their majesty.

[@ryanelliott71698]

@@kennethsatria6607 the T-Rex in the JP trilogy was never depicted in a heroic light. She doesn’t care if your good or bad, only if your edible and tasty. Jesus, the parents in JP TLW murder Eddie! I also forgot to mention how in the JW films, dinosaurs are basically immune to damage. Like the I-Rex should’ve had it’s leg shattered when the ankylosaurs hit it with its tail. Ya know… cause it’s tail is designed to break f*cking bone! But noooo, he just shrugs it off like it’s nothing.

[@lonelyshark]

great video, helps me understand why, as a huge jurassic park fan, I really disliked this film

[@kendebacker5850]

Camp Cretaceous had plenty of "kills"...for a "kids" show. Just like the classic "Jonny Quest" show.

[@andydepizzalover9670]

I always though it would be cool if a new jurassic park movie was about a bunch of people trapped in an underwater facility that's getting flooded. with aquatic dinosaurs out to get them, and the big main dino would be the mosasaurus. It would be more of a horror film for me cause I'm terrified of the ocean 🤣

[@cryptodino3roberts712]

They ahould do that. Or a film centered around the mosa itself. Out of all the animals in the wild the mosa was the only one i really thought would get killed by some government or police . the fact that it is still alive does make me wonder how it is viewed by the public

[@MrSnaztastic]

Deep Blue Sea exists.

[@cryptodino3roberts712]

@@MrSnaztastic yeah but deep blue sea is just jurassic park but with sharks . it only makes sense for jp to take it back kind off. Or do a movie whare the underwater facility brakesdiwn in secret and a bunch of invasive species are loose

[@MorgoYT]

A spin off like deep blue with a mosa could actually work

[@João-u8b]

"aquatic Dinosaurs" 💀

[@MightyMatt87]

I actually liked the scene where the kid climbs the ladder. Maybe because her reaction is the only "really human" reaction in the whole movie. Terrified she can't help but stay still, knowing she is going to die. Anyway, I agree with you with everything else. I find this movie to be a very baaaaad baaaaad movie, but it's entertaining AF... I watched it twice now and even though I always find it illogical and technically certainly not a good movie, I watched it through the end without getting bored (thing that happened to me with Fallen Kingdom, even though the direction was great). Everyone I talked to has the same thoughts.

[@theunreadcomment9834]

"The Jurassic Park series has always been closer to horror than action." I don't agree. I will agree that the original most definitely a horror movie, more akin to a slasher or Jaws. But ALL the others have relied, and related more with Disaster movies, where things just keep going wrong to drive the plot forward. The only thing that 'goes wrong' in the original is that Nedry doesn't make it back to his desk. Each subsequent film trying to outdo the set pieces of the previous is, as you mention, something out of Fast and Furious. Relying more on the spectacle than the actual story, which is why we get the diminishing returns. For me, if the franchise wants to be good/great again it needs to RETURN to its horror roots that it abandoned a long time ago

[@EdwinvdKaaij]

A really good analysis of garbage. A great learning experience for newbie filmmakers.

[@sjbrooksy45]

When "West Side Story" makes 36 million and "Dominion" makes nearly a billion in sales world wide, the studios know they can crap out whatever giant turd they want, slap a dinosaur to it and idiots will eat it with a smile.

[@travis_mitchell]

It’s frustrating when you as the audience can picture more effective shot composition as you’re seeing it for the first time. The first thing I think of is actually the beginning of Terminator Dark Fate. John and Sarah are at the beach, And the T-800 just abruptly walks up into frame and shoots John. In the theater, I thought of how much more effective and scary it would be, to see over Sarah’s shoulder, as the T-800 slowly and casually emerges from the water, out of focus in the background, Walking away stage left as she narrates what’s happening, Then he walks in from the left now in the foreground. Today’s blockbuster films are missing that technical efficiency, showing us as much story as possible with every aspect of production.

[@ZiKoN22]

ya, I find that before, limitations in technology you had to create creative solutions to problems. Now that CGI is so easy, we just use it and overuse it all the time instead of finding clever or interesting ways to shoot a scene. I especially liked his breakdown of the chase scene.

[@MegaZeta]

Yeah, the power of producers to dictate composition to visual artists in defiance of what was shot is both murder on shot composition and on those artists

[@GBDupree]

What does this video have to do with Blocking and editing though? I went in expecting to learn more about what "blocking" is and how its lacking in the film and would have improved it. But this was mostly just about how bad the film was with a short mention of bad editing in one scene. It's more a review than an analysis. And I was really looking forward to learning more about blocking too. Perhaps the title is misleading and should be fixed.

[@henryflores3602]

I fully expected a video about the movie. He literally says, let's talk about Jurassic World

[@worldsheaviestjamband93]

Same

[@soropodo7918]

Would you talk about Camp Cretaceous? I think it might have what you're looking for.

[@Anupamprime]

During The Final battle i was expecting Giga to Say "All i ever wanted was The Survival of Our Race! That is why I had to betray You!" And Rexy to Reply With "You Didn't Betrayed Me! You Betrayed Yourself"

[@crumblebee6728]

That underwater scene is the ONLY good set piece in the whole film..

[@cryptodino3roberts712]

I really don't understand his or your criticism. This is one of the first jurassic movies whare we are not just in the woods or in buildings. From the malta streets to the mines , and ice lands. This has the most unique set pieces. The observation thing the giga crashes is a cool thing that i would love to see fully operational

[@GODEYE270115]

In defense of the Giga scene, it didn’t outright attack them to invoke the “animal” like behavior a predator would display. As portrayed in the Trex vs giga scene earlier, they didn’t fight to the death. It was a small scuffle over food, like real animals would do. The giga would be curious of the humans instead of outright attacking them Also the CGI is top notch and some of the giga’s body is out of frame next to the jeep, to invoke its massive size. Sucks the rest of the scene wasn’t good, and for it being the largest theropod in the series; it was sorely underused

[@Bagelgeuse]

Don't predators try to kill their prey as quickly as possible to conserve energy and prevent possible injury? Crocodilians will quickly snap at anything that looks like food. Why would the Giganotosaurus be curious of humans? It was created by them after all.

[@DoomRulz]

​@@Bagelgeuseas silly my forthcoming explanation will sound, it's the most likely... A dinosaur has never seen a human or any kind of primate, literally ever. The only mammals any dinosaur would have ever encountered would have been small rodents. For the same reason a shark circles a human in crystal clear water; it doesn't know what a human is, as there's nothing like it in the water. A two legged creature with a hump on its back, weird eyes, and is farting bubbles (air tank). That shark is gonna be curious. A dinosaur, possibly even a large theropod, could sniff a human and think, "Hm. This thing smells like a rat but it's so much bigger. Weird."

[@Bagelgeuse]

@@DoomRulz The Giganotosaurus was created by humans. It should know what they are.

[@DoomRulz]

@@Bagelgeuse How?

[@Bagelgeuse]

@@DoomRulz It was cloned by Biosyn scientists.

[@darkwoods1954]

Camp Cretaceous makes a far better sequel to Jurassic World than Fallen Kingdom or Dominion. Those last two films go so off the rails of what people would want to see in a Jurassic movie. Modern Hollywood is so out of touch.

[@thynk-unlimited]

It’s so sad to see what’s happening to Steven Spielbergs Baby! 😢 The first one was a masterpiece! 🍾 But the JW movies are getting worse and worse. At least the first and the second one was entertaining and move forward with the story. 🙌

[@S0ulGh0st]

That last/closing line alone deserves a like!

[@joshuaprietophoto]

In Dominion they wrote it that most of the dinosaurs released at the end of Fallen Kingdom had been rounded up and put in a massive reserve so the movie didn't have to go to much effort showing the dinosaurs actually being a threat to the human population, only to have flying dinosaurs attack the plane as they flew over the reserve. That and having a scene with two large dinosaurs attacking hundreds of people in the streets of Malta, and it's never mentioned again. That and the movies making out like the main characters don't or won't harm dinosaurs, only to kill about five during the motorcycle chase scene in Malta. That and the agency tasked with stopping dinosaurs smugglers just standing, staring, with firearms and tranquilisers in their hands as the woman slowly sets the laser onto them for the dinosaur to attack. I can hardly believe how people continue to lap up such plot hole ridden films.

[@margogoralski6294]

It is really frustrating

[@g7lethal]

this shows one of the reasons asian flicks are getting so popular. characters get killed in those, actual sacrifices are seen, they're willing to show consequences, knock off the bad as well as the good guys. hollywood seems scared and unwilling to do that.

[@Mrreebo]

Well of course, how do you merchandise a dead character after everyone has forgotten about what they're from?

[@MrSserpent]

It's the Gravity editor, what'd you expect?

[@MrSserpent]

You know I thought you may be different but you just like everyone else, you see what yoy wnat to see)

[@defiantaichi]

I think prey is also a Good example of jungle horror with a monster

[@blokey8]

I'm surprised I haven't seen a slew of videos about why that film rocks so hard. I've watched it three times already

[@leonhunter1839]

I think your over critical on some…. That Raptor chase was awesome

[@DJ-toblerone]

It was a great idea, but was one of the most boring action scenes ever made. How do you make a raptor chase through city streets so unexciting?

[@rhetiq9989]

I haven’t watched the vid but I gotta say something about the scene in the thumbnail bcs it made me laugh. I’m sure it’s not supposed to be funny but the way the shot was handled, this wideshot of those guys just lumped together on the side of the car hiding from the Giga felt so comedic. It looked like a parody of a Jurassic Park film

[@SecretRaginMan]

Therizinosaurus is thought to be an herbivore, by the way. It also likely didn't use "echolocation" in any way. One could reasonably posit that it might chirp like a bird or cat or make similar noises as many other animals out of curiosity, confusion, or fright. Did that get revealed at all in the film? May watch the new ones one day but not now.

[@dawritersroom01]

It's not directly said in the film, but the Therizinosaurus is blind in the film, so the echolocation was probably added so that it had a way of getting around its day-to-day

[@SecretRaginMan]

@@dawritersroom01 Which is . . . just weird. Echolocation isn't something that pops up because of blindness.

[@dawritersroom01]

@@SecretRaginMan Only other explanation then is that the JW Theri always had echolocation, then.

[@SecretRaginMan]

@@dawritersroom01 Which is as weird as giving dilophosaurus frills and venom spit. And not nearly as exciting or justifiable. They . . . really didn't seem to give much of a crap about the dinosaurs in a dinosaur movie, did they?

[@dawritersroom01]

@@SecretRaginMan Not really. Still, it managed to be one of the better dinos in the film

[@ElleLSings]

It was so awesome to get a couple of recommendations for films/shows that embody the blocking/themes and ideas of Jurassic Park! I thought that was a really nice touch and a great way to wrap up the video!

[@crait]

I think you hit the biggest gripe I had with this movie. The end where they were running from the Giga was so bad. Half should have died.

[@hgwells1899]

They milked this cash cow beyond the point of extinction. I can't even go there for this video. It's all coming back to me my god never speak of this shameful fiasco again