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Question: He, so the thing that kind of like I had an epiphany about was He never died, the part about Jesus, you know, вЂњI never died.вЂќ I had that experience with Jesus, when He said, вЂњI never died.вЂќ Could you say a little bit more about somebody who never died, and that whole idea? TheyвЂ™re waving goodbye with a laugh.Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Stitcher | Email | RSSД¬all and Response Ep.

And there is just no competition when the originals are there being charming.ДЄt one point, GoldbumвЂ™s chaotician Ian Malcolm quips вЂњJurassic World? Not a fan.вЂќ HeвЂ™s talking about the failed amusement park that kickstarted the new trilogy, but itвЂ™s also so on-the-nose you have to applaud everyone behind it, from the filmmakers to the studio.

Pratt and Howard have some good moments here too, but their characters got flattened somewhere along the way. But their big meeting with the вЂњJurassic WorldвЂќ cast has the unintended effect of reminding how little we have come to care about the new cast. It was a Hail Mary to bring back the вЂњJurassic ParkвЂќ originals. There was nowhere to grow, except at the box office. But it doesn't course correct enough to redeem this franchise or bring it back to Earth. ItвЂ™s more like watching a tour group at an experiential amusement park exhibit, which might have something to do with the lingering problem that it may not be fun to watch the dinosaurs run amok anymore, no matter how big theyвЂ™ve gotten.Д¬olin Trevorrow is back in the directorвЂ™s chair and shares a writing credit with Emily Carmichael, who adds value and wit to the proceedings, but itвЂ™s hard to say what it all adds up to. Oddly, this doesnвЂ™t have the effect of upping the stakes. At some points, there are eight running from dinosaurs together. There is a lot of elaborate wheel-spinning and globetrotting to get everyone to the Biosin headquarters in the Dolomites, a Bond villian complex that's surrounded by a dino sanctuary. SheвЂ™s been in hiding with Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) for the past few years. And theyвЂ™re also looking for the clone girl, Maisie (Isabella Sermon), from the last film. Conveniently, Biosin is also where GoldblumвЂ™s Ian Malcolm is an in-house public intellectual. DernвЂ™s Ellie Sattler suspects that theyвЂ™re behind a locust epidemic thatвЂ™s destroying all the food that isnвЂ™t grown with Biosin seed and decides to use it as an excuse to team up with NeillвЂ™s Alan Grant again for the first time in years. ItвЂ™s about locusts and tech giants.ДЄ company called Biosin is the big bad here and itвЂ™s run by a man named Lewis Dodgson (now played by Campbell Scott) who, you might recall, was the guy looking to buy the embryos in the first film.Дodgson has morphed from a sweaty Gordon Gekko-type on vacation into a Steve Jobs-ian visionary who is still up to no good and after profits. But, again, вЂњDominionвЂќ isnвЂ™t really about the dinosaurs. ThereвЂ™s even a black-market operation in Taos that is so elaborate, youвЂ™d think we were 30 years into a post-dino dystopia and not just several years after dinos escaped into the wild. After the events of вЂњJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,вЂќ dinosaurs are just.around. вЂњJurassic World: DominionвЂќ is a chaotic mishmash on an epic scale and, believe it or not, the dinosaurs (who look great) are almost beside the point. But I also canвЂ™t say that I didnвЂ™t burst out laughing several times at parts that were not designed to be funny. And there is wall-to-wall action that makes the almost two and a half hour runtime go by swiftly.

I canвЂ™t say I didnвЂ™t have some real fun with вЂњDominion.вЂќ There is an exceedingly well-done motorcycle chase through the streets of Taos, immense pleasure in watching Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum together again and the fun addition of a hotshot pilot played by DeWanda Wise. But now, somehow, weвЂ™re six movies and three decades in and about as far as one could get from the spark that made that first one so special as we supposedly bid farewell to the вЂњJurassic WorldвЂќ era with вЂњ Jurassic World: Dominion.' ItвЂ™s hard to fault anyone for trying to recapture that magic - a filmmaker, a studio, or an audience looking for a fun time at the movies. It doesnвЂ™t even matter how many times you watch it, or how much better special effects get: вЂњJurassic ParkвЂќ never tarnishes, it just remains perfectly preserved in amber.

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Most everyone, it seems, including those who were adults at the time and those who wouldnвЂ™t be born for another decade or more, has a story about just how much that movie means to them.

And it wasnвЂ™t just the 10-year-olds having a formative experience at the movie theater. Steven SpielbergвЂ™s 1993 film implanted itself into our cultural consciousness as a kind of platonic ideal of a blockbuster. The enduring, collective love for вЂњJurassic ParkвЂќ is immensely hard to explain.

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