Post by Daniel on Jun 16, 2015 10:53:00 GMT -5
June 14, 2015 by C.T. Rex
So this weekend the park finally opened for real, with Jurassic World looking to make itself a stellar attraction in a franchise whose sequels to date have been less than amusing. It’s also been accused of sexism and dinoism for its portrayal of all these female dinosaurs as mindless killing machines.
For starters, as usual the accusations of sexism are just ridiculous. Unfortunately so too is the why and how of everything going completely awry this time. Whereas the original film has the park undergoing a test run with a tiny staff such that a little malfeasance combined with having unpredictable giant creatures around could easily lead to the nightmare scenario it presented, Jurassic World has state-of-the-art everything, tons of employees, and tens of thousands of attendees. This new park has gotten so safe that they’ll let two kids get in a plastic bubble and drive it anywhere they want without any direct supervision or apparent ability to override the thing and bring it back.
Now that still could work if, like the first film, the park went into some kind of increasingly terrifying cascade failure, but that doesn’t really happen here. Rather than nature finding a way, the humans have to make increasingly stupid and irrational decisions in order to ensure things keep going downhill, which is of course what the token greedy military industrialist wants so he can justify his own stupid new weapon idea. Not only is that trope unbelievably boring to see again, but it wastes screen time that could have been better spent fleshing out the main characters or checking in with all these tourists that are promptly ignored whenever it’s convenient to forget about them.
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So this weekend the park finally opened for real, with Jurassic World looking to make itself a stellar attraction in a franchise whose sequels to date have been less than amusing. It’s also been accused of sexism and dinoism for its portrayal of all these female dinosaurs as mindless killing machines.
For starters, as usual the accusations of sexism are just ridiculous. Unfortunately so too is the why and how of everything going completely awry this time. Whereas the original film has the park undergoing a test run with a tiny staff such that a little malfeasance combined with having unpredictable giant creatures around could easily lead to the nightmare scenario it presented, Jurassic World has state-of-the-art everything, tons of employees, and tens of thousands of attendees. This new park has gotten so safe that they’ll let two kids get in a plastic bubble and drive it anywhere they want without any direct supervision or apparent ability to override the thing and bring it back.
Now that still could work if, like the first film, the park went into some kind of increasingly terrifying cascade failure, but that doesn’t really happen here. Rather than nature finding a way, the humans have to make increasingly stupid and irrational decisions in order to ensure things keep going downhill, which is of course what the token greedy military industrialist wants so he can justify his own stupid new weapon idea. Not only is that trope unbelievably boring to see again, but it wastes screen time that could have been better spent fleshing out the main characters or checking in with all these tourists that are promptly ignored whenever it’s convenient to forget about them.
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