Jurassic Park Series

[Alien³]

And the toys.

[scarhunter92]

Some people are too "mature" to enjoy products designed for a wide range of people. It saddens me.

[DoomRulz]

Aliens, Terminator 2, The Host, The Ring

Something tells me that quite a few parents would challenge you on your notion that those are aimed "squarely" at kids.

[OmegaZilla]

They have child co-leads dude. Totally aimed squarely at kids.

Spoiler

That's the damned point.

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[scarhunter92]

Aliens, Terminator 2, The Host, The Ring

Something tells me that quite a few parents would challenge you on your notion that those are aimed "squarely" at kids.

Someone can't into sarcasm.

[DoomRulz]

Hard to pick up online.

[Cvalda]

Aliens, Terminator 2, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Host, The Ring and Underworld: Awakening are aimed squarely at kids. That's why all of these films feature child co-leads.

You'd almost have a point -- were it not for the fact that ALL the Jurassic Park films (not just one-offs like you listed) are kid-driven. And that most of their existence hinges on the toys they sell. To kids. (And overgrown kids in their 20s).

[Eva]

The biggest disappointment with TLW was IMO how they pretty much ditched the whole 'standing on the shoulders of others achievements and taking the next step for profit, not for science' theme of the first one, in favor of a going-by-the-numbers action adventure. The irony is how they kept Ian Malcolm (the harshest critic of John Hammonds theme park and proponent of the above viewpoint), but reduced him to a generic action hero, repeating how this, uh, will end badly some 57 times. And his daughter is just obnoxious...

It might be faithful to Crichtons book, but it was just underwhelming as a film.

[Cvalda]

It might be faithful to Crichtons book, but it was just underwhelming as a film.

Not at all, actually. They're almost completely different

[KiramidHead]

It wasn't faithful to Crichton's novel. At all. Remember all the preachy animal rights crap? Not in the novel.

[OmegaZilla]

You'd almost have a point -- were it not for the fact that ALL the Jurassic Park films (not just one-offs like you listed) are kid-driven.

The children are co-leads. The kid/s  never, ever overshadow adult characters. There is very little difference between the roles of, say, Lex and John Connor in the second Terminator.

And that most of their existence hinges on the toys they sell. To kids. (And overgrown kids in their 20s).

If we're going there...





(And these are just examples)

[ScardyFox]

It wasn't faithful to Crichton's novel. At all. Remember all the preachy animal rights crap? Not in the novel.

Or the juvenile T Rex tearing that dude apart (slowly) because it was treating him like a kitten practicing it's mousing on a mouse.

[Cvalda]

If we're going there...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vUjPwzuraeo/TxZfd2vQu7I/AAAAAAAAAcI/xp_eJONkt50/s1600/Alien_AlienQueen.jpg

http://di1-2.shoppingshadow.com/images/pi/95/29/61/110677874-260x260-0-0_toy+island+vtg+1995+toy+island+terminator+2+t+1000.jpg

(And these are just examples)

Not very good examples. Aliens toys were made years after the film, and no toys were marketed for Alien 3. The series is not very kid friendly, although Aliens is the most so -- hence, the toys. Terminator 2 was also a one-off. Also, all of those films were rated R and never compromised themselves for a PG-13 rating to appeal to kids. All three Jurassic Park did.

You keep trotting out one-off examples. Jurassic Park, especially after the first one, just became like Star Wars or Transformers -- a marketing machine aimed at selling toys to kids. Denying it only makes you look like a fanboy desperate to position a franchise that obviously panders to kids as something that's mature and grown up, because you yourself were one of those kids and want it to grow up with you. 

[Alien³]

The biggest disappointment with TLW was IMO how they pretty much ditched the whole 'standing on the shoulders of others achievements and taking the next step for profit

Peter Ludlow ring a bell?

Oh and who cares who the films are targeting? Let's just hope the 4th feels and fits into the franchise nicely.

[scarhunter92]

Denying it only makes you look like a fanboy desperate to position a franchise that obviously panders to kids as something that's mature and grown up, because you yourself were one of those kids and want it to grow up with you.

It must be horrible to hate fun and act "mature" all the time.