THB #168: Jurassic World: Dominion

When there is a lot to say, sometimes it is best to start at the beginning.

Michael Giacchino, a truly great composer, told me many years ago that when a movie is scored wall-to-wall, it is almost always because the movie is not good.

Cut To: The first 5 minutes of Jurassic World: Dominion, scored to within an inch of its life. (Score by Giacchino… which is good… except that his scoring is relentlessly overused in the film.)

I’m not really interested in getting into the nitty gritty of the film, spoilers included. But I am going to write about the broad structural flaws, so if you are hyper-spoiler-sensitive, put this aside until after you’ve seen the film.

me trying to get through this film

From the very start of the film, it is a mess.

All I’ll say is… fishermen understand how baits works… right?

Right.

They use fake news footage as the Basil Exposition, setting up the realities of dinos becoming part of life in the world in which we all live. In this footage is the movie they hinted that J…