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  1. Watching JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM and it feels inappropriately portentous to say that these dinosaur films used to mean things but, damn it, these films did use to mean things. This is so far from JURASSIC PARK.
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      Imagine if JURASSIC PARK had started with a diegetic news report laying out the plot. Ugh.
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        "It was John Hammond's dream to let these creatures live in peace." Er, no, it wasn't, my dude. He built a whole theme park with quite the opposite goal in mind.
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          At least JURASSIC PARK III had the talking raptor on a plane. youtube.com/watch?v=6s9sjPzyQjk
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            Ugh, why did they even make the big house CGI? The filmmakers know there are real houses you can film, right?
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                It's a shame the poignant shot of a Brachiosaurus mournfully dying against the backdrop of a volcanic eruption is followed immediately by a shot of some weird product placement for John Deere.
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                  What a dreadful waste of Toby Jones. In fact, why are there so many villains in this who are British actors doing American accents?