What are You Watching?

[Springer]

Switching from TV to Movies, like so many others I saw JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH (2025) this weekend. . . . . did not care for it. It did not feel like a Jurassic Park film to me. It felt like a dinosaur Science Fiction film that tried to force itself to fit into a Jurassic Park mold.

I saw it this weekend too and like you I did not care for it. It committed the cardinal sin of making a dinosaur film boring. The previous film, Dominion, wasn't very good, but at least it was fun and there was a lot of charisma from both the old and new cast. I didn't care about any of the characters in Rebirth one bit, and adding that random family felt like I was watching two films mashed together into one. And enough with the genetically enhanced dinosaurs – despite what the films keep trying to insist, ordinary dinosaurs are not boring and we don't need the made-up monsters, but it feels like that's all the last few films have done.

Is it just me, or is all the really strong storytelling in TV these days as opposed to film? I've seen a handful of good films of late, but it seems like TV is now the long form medium that allows for more creative freedom.

I don't know, I've seen very little on film or TV that piques my interest. Stuff at the movies seems terribly derivative. Stuff on the TV seems too far up its own backside for its own good – I stopped watching The Expanse, for example, as it became too self-important.

Plus I find there's too much dystopia in both film and TV. Reflects our modern times, I suppose, but I could do without it.