k re-watched the trailer and... it looks stupid, for multiple reasons.
1) It looks fake.
Obviously. The more
CGI you use, the more you can easily identify what's real and what isn't. Unnatural movements in what your brain is used to predicting based on physics simply make some things impossible. The best movies are usually more makeup than
CGI, or mixing them so you keep your brain guessing what was physically there, and what wasn't.
2) Fast/Slow action differences
Multiple times i've seen humans acting and moving as fast as they can, and yet the monsters they are facing that are the big baddies are 3x faster than them, and yet somehow lose. Or they delay their action while the camera pans rather than taking advantage of the first opening/distraction. Stupid.
Not to mention the
CGI monsters aren't really there so reacting to them no matter how well scripted the scene is, it isn't a proper depiction of how you'd react to something. One scene with 3 raptors in front of the guy makes me wonder why they don't all just jump on him, hold his arms down and start chomping. The original movie described them working in groups for hunting, but if he obviously have only two hands to fight off two with, what's to stop the third (
middle)? Or one of them making a feign attack to expose his back or turn his head before snapping his head/neck off? Geez.
On the other hand martial artists are told by filming crews
to slow down because they can't capture the footage, so
kudos to those guys.
3) Returning Dinosaurs is impossible.
No literally it is.
DNA can be retained for something like 6.8 million years, after that it's too degraded to salvage.
Here's a video on the topic. Not to mention if you somehow succeeded, there might not be enough genetic diversity for them to breed. As awesome as the idea is, when you know stark reality it just doesn't matter...
4) Creating a new dinosaur?
What's the worst that can happen? OH yes: It can get crushed under it's own weight because bone density wouldn't be high enough, the muscle fibers could tear from the bones, couldn't get enough air in it's lungs, it's heart gives out since it's too small, doesn't know how to hunt and ends up either starving or having to be raised by another species so ends up thinking it's something else for at least 1-2 generations...
But seriously, if you got past all those and it could hunt and stuff... Why??? It's like making a new virus that ends up making zombies. It doesn't matter if it's an achievement or if it looks cool, it's just plain stupid. But guessing off hand that half the plot is based on the dinosaurs being hunted for sport, i don't know.
I guess it's a selling point for the movie mostly and they want to try and make something more alien and new to see even if it's probably just a T-Rex with a different coat of paint.
5) Tired horror theme/formula...
Too many horror movies in recent decades, and reusing old plot points, jump scares, music or saying '
you should be scared'. Just not very imaginative. it just...
I don't know. It just looks boring while trying to look thrilling to me. Also
NOT seeing the danger was usually more fear inducing. Much like games, when you stat monsters and gods and stuff, you take away the mystery of what they are and how they work and what they are capable of...
It feels more like Resident Evil films where they are just using the name to sell it more than anything else.