I haven't seen the movie but how the hell did Jurassic World do so well? It just seems like an odd choice of movie to hold that placement in both charts.
I'm in the same boat as you.
People expected it to be one of the hits of summer 2015, but no one expected it to do what it did.
Yeah, I think that applied to basically everyone. I certainly had no idea to expect it to be something that'd be mentioned as one of the highest grossing films ever, and all the reports about its box office records seemed basically confused about how it had managed it.
My thought is that a lot of people like Jurassic Park (remember it reigned as the highest grossing film for a few years before Titanic came out) and despite having sequels that weren't as well received, the franchise had been left alone long enough that people were willing to accept it being revived. But also, while nostalgia for the existing film(s) might bring in plenty of people, Jurassic World is something that can be understood and enjoyed by anyone (there are dinosaurs - that's basically all you need to know) whether or not they have seen the previous films, so it is able to appeal to younger kids as much as older fans. And while not many people were saying "This is one of the greatest movies ever", the general consensus seemed to be "It's surprisingly good" or "There's nothing really wrong with it", and personally I suspect that the market was just ready for a big summer blockbuster that wasn't Marvel, so this film that appealed to a wide range of people and was pretty well received was the one to strike success.
The fact that Jurassic World made so much suggests Star Wars has a pretty good chance - like people said no one was talking about Jurassic World's chances of being one of the highest grossing films ever before it came out but it easily reached #3 all time, and you could think that Star Wars could basically have numbers similar to Jurassic World as a base just by being a successful widely appealing blockbuster, plus all the added hype and marketing, plus potentially really good legs over the "dead zone" of January and February next year.