Thursday, 12 May 2022

'Probably' everything that Jurassic World ripped off

Colin Trevorrow's blockbuster is set 22 real time years later after Jurassic Park.

But wholly original?

Let's find out.

Aliens

Members of InGen's Asset Containment Unit (ACU) sent to capture the Indominus are promptly killed.

Subsequently, vital signs flat-line on a large monitor.

Jesus Christ Apone, what is going on?

Hoskins (Vincent D'Onofrio) secretly plans to harvest xenomorphs, sorry dinosaurs, as weapons for the Government.

Maybe it's paranoid delusion, but Burke anyone?

Ironically, The Lost World: Jurassic Park features Dr. Robert Burke, with made for film character probably based on real-life palaeontologist Robert Bakker

Indominus

Ruthless killing machine flees the Aviary.
Some distant cousins.

Rudy - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Vastatosaurus rex - King Kong (2005)
A few more.

T. rex - Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Mama Scarface - Turok (2008)
Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games

Five-issue comic series ran between September 2011 and January 2012.

Allosaurus - Issue 1
Cloak

Bitch shows off how she's literally able to blend into surroundings.
Unconfirmed, but ability could be reffing 1995 novel The Lost World, as Carnotaurus are described as 'large theropods that used camouflage to stalk prey."

For shits and giggles.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997 arcade)
Monster didn't appear in Spielberg's disappointing sequel, so Sega decided to expand prehistoric bestiary.  Please note accuracy of chameleon eyes.
Giving chase

Gray (left) and Zach (right) run for their lives.
I've seen this before.

Jurassic Park III
And.

Dinosaur¹
¹Premise is strikingly similar to The Land Before Time.

Just had to get that in there.

Under instruction

Owen Grady is a Raptor wrangler.
Concept isn't new.

Jurassic Park: Raptors Attack - Issue 1 (March 1994)
After weeks of shock treatment, drug Lord Rafael Santos trains Raptors to kill on demand.
Issue 2 reveals their names as Alf, Betty and Ceila.

Back with Dangerous Games.

Undercover agent Espinoza is given 24 hours by drug kingpin Cazeras to escape dinosaur infested island before his men hunt ass down like a dog.

Dr. Frances White has trained Raptors to obey her commands.
Miscellany

Rexy destroying skeleton vs Jurassic Park Arcade²


²ntbcw 1994 Sega arcade Jurassic Park.

Raw Thrills' game is based on the first three films and although devved in 2014, was released a few months before JW in March.

Mosasaurus drowning Indominus vs Mosasaurus drowning Giganotosaurus - Jurassic Park: Redemption - Issue 5 (November 2010)


Really?

Dino Crisis 2 (2000)

Rexy vs Indominus and Giganotosaurus vs T. rex


Yes Blue gets involved, but same principle, yes?

But this is what I wanna show you.

Set piece vs intro

Sequence apparently pays homage to Predator, but my extensive knowledge gives an alternative view.

Run rabbit run


On the precipice


SHHHHIIIITTTTT!!!


After which.

Gray and Zach jump off a waterfall into a river
Regina and Dylan tumble down cliff face.
Does that make any FUCKING difference?

Not really.

Sequel to follow.

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