it's almost more annoying that this movie isn't COMPLETELY juiceless. It's MOSTLY juiceless, and every once in awhile there's a sequence that makes you think about what might've been.

The number of her lines that she just kinda "says" is wild.
Also, I'm noticing SO much ADR. She shares a whole scene on the boat, early on, with Mahershala that seems like it was probably 80% written in post.

Let's re-do the triumphant brachiosaur scene from the first movie, but also we have to shoot one of them with a gadget. That won't take any the shine off, right?

"All of the tropics are Jurassic Park now"
Yes. I'm in.
"All of our characters suck, though."
Seems dumb, but dinosaurs have been cool for millions of years, right?
"Well, we're still doing mutant dinosaurs."
What? Why.

Also WHAT IS THIS SCORE. Like startlingly bad.

Over here sighing a sigh of relief just to see another person say that LNIS is bad.

Does this dish have a hot dog cut up in it, or does this dish NEED a hot dog cut up in it?

For the folks here recommending Erik Larson's In The Garden of Beasts, I have to recommend Our Man In Charleston by Christopher Dickey. It's the story of a British diplomat living in the antebellum South on the eve of war.

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