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I Just Wanted to Watch People Get Eaten By Dinosaurs

The cynical logic of <em>Jurassic World: Dominion</em> doesn’t leave much room for what made the original a classic: a sheer sense of wonder.
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In , a fate worse than extinction has cruelly visited the cloned dinosaurs that have been roaming on silver screens since 1993: They’ve become mundane. A nuisance. The kind of pests you might call your local wildlife department about, as you peek out your window onto the backyard and say with a sigh, “Honey, there’s another pack of trampling the daffodils.” Anyone heroic enough to remember the last movie, , might recall that it ended with herds of dinosaurs finally escaping their island

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