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Jurassic Park

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Jurassic Park The Rewatchables

Questions address whether dinosaur cloning is plausible, whether another director could improve the film, and whether its CGI breakthrough ultimately diminished Spielberg’s distinctiveness.

In the discussion (3)
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  • A reported 2005 discovery of DNA-like material on a T. rex fossil prompts the question of whether any version of the cloning premise is plausible.
  • The hosts ask whether Burton, Dante, Donner, or another director could make a more interesting genre-specific version, while doubting any would improve this film.
  • They ask whether Jurassic Park’s CGI breakthrough gave all filmmakers Spielberg’s visual toolkit and thereby made his later action work less special.