# Jurassic World looks dumb (New Trailer) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 25, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622 "2014-11-25T19:27:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/21 "2014-11-25T21:05:05Z")
> [@bup](#): > > We know that \*some \*dinosaurs had feathers. Lots of them (especially the really big ones) probably didn’t, or, if they did, were just a couple of tufts for decoration. > > Maybe there will be a scene in the movie where they explain that they pluck them from time to time because it’s so damned hot on that island. > > Or maybe it’s because they used frogs for the missing DNA sequences, instead of chickens. > > It’d be cool if there’s a 5th movie that they give some dinosaur hair just to dick with us. They missed some opportunities with the frog DNA. You know what would be cool?! Dinosaurs that hop or have long tongues. OHMYGODS! Can you imagine a T-rex with a frog tongue? Or a T-Rex with a frog tongue that also hops!!! Run all you want, he’ll still get you!!! Um … now, if you’ll excuse me I need to call someone in Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/22 "2014-11-25T21:07:41Z")
At last! A movie with the courage to expose us scientists for the foolish irresponsible tinkerers we are! Why, it would never even OCCUR to any of us to think about things like “danger” or “intelligence” or “strength”, let alone “ethics” or “morals”, before we dive into dinosaur genomes and start fiddling with them like kids with a new Erector set! Good thing we always have the uneducated - but full of folksy “common sense” - public to set us straight after we unleash some hideous hellbeast on humanity! PHEW!! ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/23 "2014-11-25T21:14:14Z")
Jurassic Park was entirely a product of it’s time. It was the first truly great CGI success, the moment those first dinosaurs showed up you were as impressed as Sam Neill because we really had never seen anything like that before. At this point CGI is at the “anything is possible therefore nothing is impressive” stage, which makes this just a generic monster movie. I think focusing on that giant shark eating sea monster instead of a genetically modified super smart dino would have been cooler. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/24 "2014-11-25T21:17:37Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > At last! A movie with the courage to expose us scientists for the foolish irresponsible tinkerers we are! Why, it would never even OCCUR to any of us to think about things like “danger” or “intelligence” or “strength”, let alone “ethics” or “morals”, before we dive into dinosaur genomes and start fiddling with them like kids with a new Erector set! Good thing we always have the uneducated - but full of folksy “common sense” - public to set us straight after we unleash some hideous hellbeast on humanity! PHEW!! Eh? From the plot synopsis it sounds like the good guy (Pratt) is a scientist, and the bad guys are the evil corporate types who set up the park. More or less like the original. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/25 "2014-11-25T21:19:16Z")
From the comments on the video: Andy O’Mahoney Chris Pratt riding a motorcycle hunting a genetically modified dinosaur with his pack of friendly raptors APPROVED. This echoes my thoughts on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/26 "2014-11-25T21:35:04Z")
I give credit to the writers for coming up with a new angle on the movie that isn’t “We made dinosaurs, they escaped!” By the looks of the trailer the park is up and running and perfectly safe and fine, its when they made the NEW dinosaur that things went wrong. Still essentially the same problem, but a different angle and that’s neat ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/27 "2014-11-25T22:04:37Z")
I will see it but the plot seems to be essentially the plot of Jaws 3. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/28 "2014-11-25T22:10:30Z")
Wow, who woulda thought the 4th one would be a piece of crap? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/29 "2014-11-25T22:23:42Z")
I’m totally down, though JP3 was complete shit. I love the idea of seeing the theme park actually coming to fruition. Is Chris Pratt’s character supposed to be park security, sort of like a more hip Muldoon? I also like the melancholy piano, plunking out the theme song in the trailer, note by note. ---
**Author:** ![Hbns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hbns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbns)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/30 "2014-11-25T23:02:29Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > At last! A movie with the courage to expose us scientists for the foolish irresponsible tinkerers we are! Why, it would never even OCCUR to any of us to think about things like “danger” or “intelligence” or “strength”, let alone “ethics” or “morals”, before we dive into dinosaur genomes and start fiddling with them like kids with a new Erector set! Good thing we always have the uneducated - but full of folksy “common sense” - public to set us straight after we unleash some hideous hellbeast on humanity! PHEW!! Ring Ring Atom bomb calling for Dr. Smeghead. 😃 Edit: The preview is pretty, but the content appears to be a rehash. Count me as on the fence. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/31 "2014-11-25T23:18:35Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And it’s factually inaccurate in a pretty big way. If I made a movie about, say, the Crimean War, and I had the British riding zebras into battle, “it’s not a documentary” would not be a valid excuse. > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’m on board! Where can I see the trailer for this!? Does it have flying monkeys too?? > [@Smapti](#): > > I’ll have a treatment on your desk by next Wednesday. We’re still storyboarding the climactic scene where Iron Maiden leads a victorious light cavalry charge against the Russian thaumaturges. I like it! Though I hope Judas Priest is an option. And maybe a big-ass spider. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/32 "2014-11-25T23:43:05Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Though I hope Judas Priest is an option. Don’t be silly. Motorcycle cavalry wasn’t introduced until Gettysburg. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/33 "2014-11-25T23:45:57Z")
Muldoon is way cooler than Chris Pratt The movie doesn’t have the scene of him getting drunk and exploding a raptor with a rocket launcher ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/34 "2014-11-25T23:49:26Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And it’s factually inaccurate in a pretty big way. If I made a movie about, say, the Crimean War, and I had the British riding zebras into battle, “it’s not a documentary” would not be a valid excuse. So, “The Charge of the Striped Brigade”, then? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/35 "2014-11-25T23:50:29Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > They missed some opportunities with the frog DNA. You know what would be cool?! Dinosaurs that hop or have long tongues. OHMYGODS! Can you imagine a T-rex with a frog tongue? Or a T-Rex with a frog tongue that also hops!!! Run all you want, he’ll still get you!!! > > Um … now, if you’ll excuse me I need to call someone in Hollywood. Now I want to have the T-Rex sing “Rainbow Connection” while playing a banjo. Wait, are those arms long enough to do that? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/36 "2014-11-26T00:20:09Z")
Add “play the banjo” to “pushups” “touch-type” and “masturbate” on the long list of things tyrannosaurs couldn’t do with their tiny arms. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/37 "2014-11-26T00:21:51Z")
Gee, I hope it’s not gonna be another movie where cute kids and attractive adults are trapped on an island with rampaging dinosaurs. I mean, come on, that would be stupid seeing as how that movie has already been made a few times. No, I’m sure this will be a fresh take full of original ideas and unexpected plot twists that make us feel like it’s the first dinosaur movie ever made. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/38 "2014-11-26T00:25:46Z")
We have skin impressions for lots of different species of dinosaurs, and the only ones we have evidence for feathers are the smaller theropods. So no feathered Stegosaurs, please. We don’t even (yet) have evidence that Tyrannosaurs had feathers, although it is perfectly obvious that they must have been covered in fluffy yellow down like a baby duck. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/39 "2014-11-26T00:40:52Z")
> [@bup](#): > > It’d be cool if there’s a 5th movie that they give some dinosaur hair just to dick with us. 'Cause hair-like feathers aren’t totally a thing that actually exists right now and has for time immemorial. (What’s an emu?) Personally, I’d like to see a _t. rex_ sporting leonian patchwork of pycnofibers. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622/40 "2014-11-26T01:17:24Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > We have skin impressions for lots of different species of dinosaurs, and the only ones we have evidence for feathers are the smaller theropods. So no feathered Stegosaurs, please. We don’t even (yet) have evidence that Tyrannosaurs had feathers, although it is perfectly obvious that they must have been covered in fluffy yellow down like a baby duck. I’m not sure what you mean by ‘small’, but velociraptors have been known to have had feathers for a few years. Also, a non-theropod with feathers was discovered this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-looks-dumb-new-trailer/705622.md?page=3)