Probably Unanswerable Questions
Whether dinosaur cloning is plausible, whether another director could improve the film, and whether its CGI breakthrough ultimately diminished Spielberg’s distinctiveness
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- A claimed later DNA discovery is introduced as possibly apocryphal, leading to a question about any plausible dinosaur revival. — Sean Fennessey
- A hypothetical lab creates dinosaurs and kills them at one day old repeatedly until the process works.
- Different directors and deliberately varied genres might make interesting alternatives, even if a particular version might be worse.
- Making the CGI toolkit widely available is proposed as weakening Spielberg’s distinctive spectacle and encouraging similar-looking blockbusters.
- Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can are defended as later rewatchable counterexamples, qualifying the claim that this was the last such Spielberg film.