8 Bad Movie Franchises And How To Fix Them
5. Jurassic Park - Stop With The Human Villains
What's The Problem? Despite meeting huge financial successes, the Jurassic World movies haven't sat well with critics or fans of the original Spielberg classic.
The film delivers on what it promises with dinosaurs in the present day chasing down bewildered humans, but the last two films have missed the step by making the dinosaurs secondary threats.
The new "baddies" on screen have ultimately been shady human groups whose motive and logic borders on G.I Joe villainy. Imagine the absurdity of making the T-Rex, Raptors and baby Triceratops' background characters in their own films - because that's what Jurassic World does.
What's The Solution? The first three films in the franchise were all set around humans getting way in over their heads, and getting stranded in the wilderness of Isla islands.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's first act could have been that too - and that would have been perfect for audiences. New films don't need genetically enhanced monsters to up the stakes, they just need to put characters we enjoy in a room with one unpredictable Raptor. Simple enough.
If a human antagonist is needed to create drama amongst the survivors, why not have one of the humans a selfish survivalist looking to throw anyone in front of the T-Rex at any time?
Think of how tense the alliance between Ian Malcom's crew and the InGen mercenaries was on The Lost World - they had to band together because they had a common threat chasing them.