john hammond
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Man Eaten by Dinosaur While on Toilet Commemorated With Toy
Although there have been six high-grossing (if not always beloved) Jurassic Park/World movies, it’s never enjoyed the robust action figure series that accompanied other major film franchises like Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s probably because the real stars of the movies are dinosaurs and not the various scientists, kids, and rich old…
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Makes Some Very Smart Choices, But They Don’t Add Up
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the best sequel in the Jurassic franchise. That doesn’t mean it’s the best movie of the bunch; in fact, it might be the opposite. But purely as a continuation of the previous film, Fallen Kingdom does what neither The Lost World nor Jurassic Park III did particularly well: continue the…
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The Lost World Forgets Why Jurassic Park Is So Great
Twenty-five years ago this week, I had a very specific, very disappointing thought: “I can’t believe he didn’t use the music more.” It was my first thought as I walked out of a screening of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the highly anticipated sequel to the 1993 smash Jurassic Park. Four years later, director Steven…
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Jurassic World Dominion’s Giga Dinosaur is “Like the Joker,” Gonna Lose to Blue the Raptor
The Jurassic World movies love to bringing in new dinosaurs to terrorize civilians and potentially eat lead characters Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard). 2015’s Jurassic World introduced us to the aquatic Mosasaur and genetically engineered Indominus Rex (or iRex, get it?), which was made from the spliced DNA of other dinosaurs to…