Jurassic Park
An adventure 65 million years in the making.
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
Wokeness: 20%
Overall Score: 100%
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Jean
Created: 01-30-2023
DuskCreature4335
Subtle Feminism
After a lead male character mentions that "God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, God creates man, man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs," the lead female character outright states that "dinosaurs eat man… woman inherits the earth." This quote implies that she believes that women are superior to men, and while it's one line in the movie, it still has feminist undertones in it.
Also, the male character is implying that God created dinosaurs millions of years ago, then wiped them out and created mankind, who became gods themselves by creating dinosaurs through genetic engineering. It's like when people try to converge evolutionism and creationism together even though the two concepts cannot work together because they're based on two completely separate doctrines.
If you don't believe in a creator God who is the final authority, you might as well believe you're free to commit whatever sin you want, no matter how heinous it truly is. I wonder if that's the reason why Camp Cretaceous added an explicit homosexual relationship in two members of the main cast of that series because the Bible explicitly describes it as a sin.
Created: 05-24-2024
Michaels
Hold onto yer butts!
"Jurassic Park" is a wild roller coaster ride. Mild feminist moments and some bad acting are insufficient to derail the experience.
The previous review picks on one feminist moment. I was prepared to ignore it, but there is also the time when the lead woman says, "Look, we can discuss sexism in survival situations when I get back." And there is the little hacker girl, who has the infamous cringe line, "It's a UNIX system! I know this!" There are even pseudo-academic papers written on the feminist aspects of Jurassic Park. So I award 1 woke point.
Bad acting starts with the fat boy at the dig site, but some of the adults, such as one who played the lawyer, also evoke cringes. Some blame probably falls on the director, who clumsily tried to provide comic relief to lighten the tone of a movie in which people are definitely going to die. The film might also be starting to show its age, utilizing a style that subsequently went extinct.
Still, the visual effects are great and have stood the test of time. And who doesn't love dinosaurs? It seems like more characters should have died, though, as some kept getting lucky to escape repeatedly. Four people were saved from certain death by a "Dino ex machina".
If you somehow haven't seen this movie, then you should. The feminist bits won't bother most, and I rationalize by just pinning most of it on the lead female. It's more palatable if this one character was a feminist rather than the entire writing and production staff.
Created: 05-26-2024
