Is Jurassic Park turning into another series holding on too long? Spielberg and Knightley rumored to work on Jurassic Park IV.

My sister's dragged me to see Pride and Prejudice – a movie that I had
no interest in seeing and who's main actress, Knightley, I wasn't a
huge fan of no matter how hot she is. Well, two hours later, I had a
different view on both the movie and on Knightley, as she proved that
she can act and the movie was surprisingly good. Now it looks like
she might be in Jurassic Park IV, which should bless audiences
sometime in 2008. Way to go Kiera.

So they're going to make a Jurassic Park IV. OF COURSE they are.
It's this simple: Dinosaurs on screen make money. Luckily, it seems
that Steven Spielberg has once again opted out of directing it, as he
did with Jurassic Park III, though he will have a role in it most
likely as a producer. So it looks like Spielberg is participating in
a series that could go the way the whole Jaws series ended up. By the
way, did anyone actually see Jaws the Revenge? The last installment
of Jaws based on a man-eating Great White who followed, yes FOLLOWED, the main character from the northeast all the way down to Bahamas to stalk the Brody family. The
worst part – the movie is worse than the plot sounds.

It seems that Jaws and Jurassic Park are practically mirroring each
other. Jaws was a great ground-breaking movie and so was Jurassic
Park. Though Spielberg had little to nothing to do with the Jaws
series after the first one, it turned into one of the worst movie
series' I can think of as both the third and fourth installment were
so bad that accurate adjectives haven't been created yet. Michael
Caine was blackmailed - ok not really – into being a main character in the fourth one and even had to miss the Oscars, in which he won best supporting actor for Hannah and Her Sisters, because of filming
obligations to Jaws The Revenge. Before something like this happens
to someone in the Jurassic Park franchise, I was hoping it would have ended – though I'm not sure if they could make a movie quite as bad as Jaws The Revenge even if they tried, but I've been wrong before.

I like Spielberg. He's made so many great films it's hard to name
them all and he still seems on top of his game with recent releases
like "War of the Worlds," and "Munich." A lot of people panned "War
of the Worlds," but I thought it was as intense a movie experience as
I had seen in a while – that is until the last half hour when
Spielberg went Artificial Intelligence and almost completely ruined
the movie with a horrible ending. It seems the only person that can
stop Spielberg is himself, whether it's drawing out endings ala Peter
Jackson or continuing a series that reached not only it's pinnacle but
what seems like it's ultimate low point - hopefully that is. If
he's going to put any effort in at all to continuing a series, I just
wished he made it the Indiana Jones series – a series that was left
with at least a little graphite left in it's pencil. As for Knightley? Well, after she completes the Pirates trilogy and stars in
Jurassic Park IV, she might get demoted to Denise Richards status. I
don't know, maybe they can save the movie by just making it NC-17, canning Sam Neill and picking up Natalie Portman. Yeah, I'd watch that.