Jurassic World Dominion

This week's movie rental was Jurassic World Dominion ...

a 2022 American science fiction action film .... it is a sequel to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), the third and final film in the Jurassic World trilogy, and the sixth installment overall in the Jurassic Park franchise .... The film stars an ensemble cast including Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, BD Wong, and Omar Sy. Dern, Goldblum, and Neill reprise their roles from the Jurassic Park trilogy, appearing together for the first time since the 1993 film.

I am a big fan of the two Michael Crichton books from which the first two Jurassic Park movies were made: Jurassic Park: A Novel and The Lost World: A Novel.

And I did like all the movies, some being better than others. This one was fun because it united the stars of the Jurassic Park movies with the stars of the Jurassic World movies ... nice to see Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, and BD Wong again.

- Dern and Neill from Jurassic Park III

- Goldblum from Jurassic Park

Also fun to see the many dinosaurs. Aimost all of the creatures in the movies are real dinosaurs from the past, and you can check Wikipedia and other places to see which dinosaurs showed up in each film. Here's an article in Wired: The Real Story Behind Jurassic World Dominion’s Dino Feathers

Having mentioned all that, the reviews have not been very good, but if you are like me, it will still be worth a watch.

One thing I like about the movies is the underlying feeling that all creatures matter and have worth beyond just being useful to people. As one of the characters says near the end of the film ...

Life on earth has existed for hundreds of millions of years and dinosaurs were only a part of that. And we are an even smaller part of that. They really put us in perspective. The idea that life on earth existed 65 million years ago. It's humbling. We act like we're alone here but we're not. We're part of a fragile system made up of all living things. If we're going to survive, we'll have to trust each other, depend on each other. Coexist.