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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.