Jurassic World: Rebirth (Gareth Edwards, July 2, 2025) Movie • Page 14

Wait wasn’t the main baddie in JW1 also a D Rex?

 

Indominous.

 

Ah I thought it was just Dominous

 

Drop the I. Much better

 

More like Dumbinous, am I right?

 

They had to throw in a “we gotta save this kid” storyline, huh.

 

I’m trying to be positive, or at least somewhat open minded, about the D-Rex. I do feel that, you know, big dinos are cool and interesting enough as it is and wouldn’t mind just sticking with that, but if they at least make this mutant Xenomorph/Rancor engaging and legitimately terrifying than I’m down with watching the big guy run around with the other big guys. My biggest issue with the Indominous Rex in Jurassic World was that it had all the makings of a compelling, scary creation, but suffered such lifeless direction from Trevorrow that it might as well have not even been there. The Indoraptor in Fallen Kingdom at least had some cartoonish, Bugs Bunny charm in that one scene because of Bayona.

I like what Edwards had to say about the D-Rex being frightening but also sympathetic:

“It’s a design that I was really happy with,” says the director. “I’d like to buy the toy of it when it comes out.” And like the greatest movie monsters, it’s meant to inspire pity as well as terror. “It’s as if another animal has been wrapped around the T-Rex,” says ILM’s David Vickery. “Gareth wanted us to feel sorry for it as well as terrified, because its deformities have caused it some pain, and there’s an encumbrance to it.”

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Finally getting through the sequel novel. I really wish this was made into some sort of limited series because the movie adaptation is nothing like it. It’s like Spielberg took the loose idea of a second island and wrote a totally different story for some reason (not sure why Dodgson was absent from the series until Dominion).

I like the movie adaptation enough but it really did cause things to get pretty ridiculous quite quickly lol. But maybe that was the point.

 

tbf that’s in every Jurassic Park film starting with the first one

 

even just that quick blurb from Edwards and that snippet of a discussion with the ILM guy shows more thought than Trevorrow put into any of the shots in Jurassic World

half that fucking movie is quick CGI inserts because they forgot to / didn't bother to shoot it, like the front gate to the park

215 million dollar budget and they couldn't be bothered to make a fucking halfway decent gate

 

I know. It’s time to retire it lol. A team of scientists and rogues on their own was more interesting to me.

 

...why does its head look like that

 

Aaron you cannot just ask that

 

Because there is no God.

It's giving Shin Godzilla vibes.