Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Response to new Jurassic World Trailer: Too Much or About Time?







            The movie trailer for the highly anticipated Jurassic World dropped early today, showing something that was always wanted from but never achieved by INGEN. A fully functioning Jurassic Park, renamed Jurassic World.
            It’s on an island, as was the dream, with kayaking down rivers of stegosaurus and riding through glass balls to watch walking Apatosaurus – it seems like a dream come true of all the original ideas with new upgrades (and not touring through carnivores, about time they stopped that mistake). With even more ideas than before, such as an outside amphitheater to watch a Svalbard Pliosaur jump out of the water? That’s insane. How in-depth is this island in its immersion of dinosaurs? It is more than a park, it seems like this is, indeed, an actual world you are being flung back into.
            This “world” doesn’t look like it was on its “grand opening,” either, or its pretesting like in the initial Jurassic Park: it is up and running. Swarms of people are seen throughout the trailer, with sun hats and taking pictures and videos with their iPhones. I mean, the parents of the two unnamed kids are totally fine with letting their sons (who can’t be of legal age) go to the park alone. Although, the for the Jurassic Park franchise, the parents have always seemed okay with putting their kids in questionable danger. “Hey, why don’t you go ride in this tour car with complete strangers by a king of the dinosaur’s exhibit when a tropical storm is coming.” Or my favorite, “go ahead and para-glide with my weird boyfriend by a condemned island known for years for murdering people that come near it.” So the question of how long and how safe the island is from the trailer from the kids going alone is only so sound, considering the franchises track record, and can only be speculated on so much from the trailer.
Genetics is the new theme, or the advancement of genetics is, with “a whole new frontier.” In the trailer, it is announced proudly that the “first genetically modified hybrid,” was created, with a questioning Chris Pratt. Of course things would go wrong, and they have to hire a known, skeptic badass to come save the day. That plot point seems a bit overdone, from Splice to the creation of MewTwo, but there is something that is different in each of them: how do they stop it. And that’s what I want to know.
From the trailer alone, I can tell that the soundtrack is already fantastic and the cinematography is superb. The money and talent is definitely behind the movie, bring even Steven Spielberg back to produce it. I mean look at how many extras there are. Even if the movie has a disappointing plot, from the CGI and imagination put into it, it’s going to be a hell of a summer movie. 

Here is just my reaction to the trailer:
Hearing the original theme brought back on piano brought me straight back to my five year old self watching Jurassic Park on repeat while squeezing the life out of my triceratops toy. I grew up on this movie more than any other (besides maybe Alien) and just the fan service from the trailer its making me get goose bumps. I mean, motorcycle with raptors? My heart is pounding from this trailer, I want to know what happens so bad. Yes, I want to know what that dinosaur that they made is, but what I really want from that movie that even the trailer gave me a taste of is that nostalgia. Going back to this impossible dream that even though everything goes wrong, there is a serene magic there among the blood and ruin. From one nerd to another, if you liked the first Jurassic Park, I feel like this movie is going to deliver that heart flutter of the original more so than any of the previous sequels. I have a good feeling about this movie.  

The Park Opens June 12

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