by Jason Adams
If I've said it once I've said it a million times (I've definitely said it a million times) -- Jurassic Park is my Star Wars. Lil' Jason saw the original film in the theater thirteen times when it hit in 1993, a record that stood tall until Call Me By Your Name struck fancy twenty-five years later. I was obsessed, and locked myself in for life on seeing all of the sequels no matter what.
Which has become a lot of "no matter what" since every single sequel's been more of a disappointment than the one before. Well, I maybe liked Fallen Kingdom a smidge more than the first Jurassic World, but we're splitting dino-hairs here...
The beautiful simplicity of Spielberg's first film keeps getting bogged down in great big heaps of steaming Triceratops dung. There's a bigger meaner genetically-enhanced Rapture-o-Rex every time out, and not a one's left as big a footprint as our dear old friend Tyrannosaur yet.
And yet today director Colin Trevorrow tweeted out the clapboard from the new film (see below) revealing its subtitle -- Jurassic World: Dominion -- and I can't help it, the boy can't help it, I'm excited despite myself. It sure doesn't hurt that our beloved original trio, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum AND MOST IMPORTANTLY LAURA DERN AS THE SCIENTIST AND LEGEND ELLIE SATTLER are all back... although given how they played us with Goldblum's appearance in the last film -- a minute of screentime in a courtroom??? -- we're allowed to be suspicious. Still. I can't help it. I'm gonna go put on my cargo shorts and run around the yard making roar sounds, I just know it. Anybody with me?
