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How 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' is essentially a Repeat of 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'

Hollywood really can't come up with anything new.

By Joseph PecherPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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Life will find a way... for the fifth time in row. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is set to release in theaters everywhere on June 22, 2018. It says it right there on the bottom of the Fallen Kingdom poster above this article. Look up.

Now I've been excited for a sequel to Jurassic World since 2015 and frankly, I don't hate prequels or sequels, I'm a huge fan of the new Planet of the Apes series with Andy Serkis's character, Caesar. However I do hate when Hollywood just does the same theme over and over again. We saw this in Jurassic World which was really just a modern day remake of Jurassic Park with a twist. This film appears to be no different; a copy of an older film with a twist.

Fallen Kingdom takes elements from the Lost World and places them in this film but only adds a twist to it.

The Same Plot Idea again.

Fallen Kingdom is about how Owen Brady and Claire Dearing travel back to Isla Nublar to transport the dinosaurs off the island and back to a major city to be put on display to a bunch of rich business moguls and tourists for their amusement. Their goal is bury the old park into history and produce a new way of life for the dinosaurs. That is until the dinosaurs break and run amok and Rexy, the T-Rex runs wild around London, England. Wow what an original idea, oh wait, no it's not.

In The Lost World, InGen sends an evacuation team to Isla Sorna to transport the dinosaurs off the park and back to San Diego, a major city, to be put on display before a bunch of rich business moguls and tourists for their amusement. The people of this new system are trying to make people forget all about Jurassic Park and focus on this new idea for the dinosaurs. Until things go wrong and the dinosaurs break out and Rexy, the T-Rex runs amok in San Diego.

Now this is all speculation and opinion. I could and hope to be wrong. I'm judging from what I see in the trailers.

Oh yeah, I forgot. In both films, a dinosaurs makes an appearance to a little kid in their bedroom. While the dinosaur in the Lost World was the T-Rex looking in through the window, this time it's the Indoraptor actually breaking into the little kid's bedroom.

Not to mention in both films, a dinosaurs have some form of medical work done on them as seen with what appears to be Blue the the raptor having a blood transfusion. In Lost World, A baby T-Rex is being operated on.

Now to me, a good movie doesn't always have to be original, there are plenty of great films that were based on a book or are prequels/sequels to something. However there has been something that has been bothering me lately. What strikes me is how, and I'm not saying I'm against developing a film adaption from a novel or monograph, but when Hollywood makes a movie out of New York Times Bestseller and turns it into a movie. Isn't it interesting how that author who wrote the best seller had the creativity or the genius within to write popular original story that everyone loves, but the screenwriters in Hollywood can't anymore? I don't think most best-sellers were written by screenwriters. No, they were probably normal people like you and I. A "nobody" out in the middle of the United States can write an original masterpiece while Hollywood writes the ninth installment of the Star Wars franchise.

Perhaps Hollywood is afraid to try something new. Maybe they're so in wrapped up in their political agenda that they reject any original idea that leans right. Maybe.

Still, if you want to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, be my guest. Don't let my review do the thinking for you. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom hits theaters June 22, 2018.

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Joseph Pecher

I'm a Creative Writer, I LOVE writing about, Movies, Television, Sci-Fi, History, Media, or every day things! I write content regarding education, entertainment, and fun!

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