Understand that not only CGI ruins itself.
The actor performance has this mystical power too.
And sometimes the actor's performance is not only enough and can be ruined by the very root of the script.
JPWorld has more actions scene that shows the character being badass than revealing their personalities.
And in that moment you can't build in your mind what kind of character he is:
-A Real Badass.
-A dinosaur care-taker.
Great thing in the first thing was that no one was a badass beside Robert Muldoon. And even him was explicitly explaining that despite his skill, he is afraid of the raptors.
You got scene in the first film were Malcom would do something stupid to attract the T-Rex with a flare and ends up with a broken leg. He isn't a super hero. He can be broken like every human. You end up believing that the T-Rex IS a real threat.
That way you feel connected to the character because the film allow you to think that it could be you at that very moment and not some ideal character that is totally perfect who manages everything perfectly fine and when he can't anymore a simple lucky thing happens for him that sounds more like a joke.
When you have a badass character it never allows you to feel fear, joy, anxiety...
You can't feel it is real, you feel it is funny and badass but at no moment you feel in danger.
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So yeah, when Chris Pratt character is petting raptors you don't feel it's the dinosaur care-taker doing it but the badass who gonna unleash hell to the indominus and that kind connection between the two characters is pointless because the raptor ends up as tool and "cool figures" for hunting rather than a living breathing animal. CGI or animatronic, it ends up the same way.
