10 Movies That Aren't About What You Think
6. It's About Hollywood's Relationship With Audiences - Jurassic World
Much as the fourth Jurassic Park movie is in many respects emblematic of Hollywood's tireless need to keep creatively bankrupt IP going, a subversive throughline is nevertheless suffused within its script.
The film's most interesting idea is that the titular theme park is now successful enough that "mere" cloned dinosaurs have become something of a bore to the general public, prompting park bigwigs to create the Indominus Rex - a genetic hybrid dinosaur which predictably turns out to be incredibly volatile.
This "need" for the park to keep one-upping itself holds a mirror up to Hollywood itself, where in an era of blockbuster excess, the thrills made possible by CGI-soaked $200 million tentpoles have become ordinary, even expected - and in turn, actually less thrilling.
It's fitting to insert this commentary into a movie franchise which itself toyed with the notion of introducing gun-wielding dinosaurs at one point, surmising that few spectacles are ever grand enough to truly satiate audiences. And almost a decade later, where tentpole budgets are skyrocketing wildly out of control and regularly struggling to turn a profit, this thematic has aged exceptionally well.