# "Jurassic World" premise (spoilers, if you consider the basic premise of a movie a spoiler) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487 "2014-07-06T18:35:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/1 "2014-07-06T18:35:32Z")
> **[Exclusive: 'Jurassic World' Director Colin Trevorrow Talks Plot Details And...](https://www.slashfilm.com/532034/jurassic-world-plot-details-colin-treverrow/)** > > Director Colin Trevorrow talks about recent leaks, clarifies misconceptions and addresses some of the fan concerns over Jurassic World plot details. > [@](#): > > Jurassic World takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. Real ones. You can get closer to them than you ever imagined possible. It’s the realization of John Hammond’s dream, and I think you’ll want to go there. This seems to violate the basic point of the previous movies, that such a thing is impossible. You know, because of movie-version chaos theory (MVCT). Not that I’m saying that in reality MVCT or something like it would made such a thing impossible. But in the universe of Jurassic Park, MVCT has been, in my opinion, established. Denying MVCT in a Jurassic Park movie would be like admitting, in a JP movie, that DNA could not survive in amber until today (like in our reality). Anybody agree with me? ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/2 "2014-07-06T18:41:18Z")
Presumably the movie is not a rom com at the park. Things will go wrong, it just took longer. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/3 "2014-07-06T18:42:47Z")
Ugh, now you’ve got me even more worried. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/4 "2014-07-06T19:06:54Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Anybody agree with me? No, after how many times I’ve seen idiots conflate any advancement in robotics with Skynet, I cannot say I would miss it if we saw a bit less fear of science in our science fiction. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/5 "2014-07-06T20:15:53Z")
I like the sound of that better than it being a reboot. I hate reboots. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/6 "2014-07-06T21:48:01Z")
How the heck can Jurassic Park accommodate 20000 people a day They’re gonna need a lot more jeeps ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/7 "2014-07-06T23:04:40Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > I like the sound of that better than it being a reboot. I hate reboots. I agree. And despite my complaints about the concepts of previous movies seemingly being violated, I kinda like the functioning theme park idea too. I want another JP movie, and another that follows the same pattern as the previous three would be kinda pointless. I value entertainment over internal consistency. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/8 "2014-07-07T00:07:28Z")
Despite all the talk about Chaos Theory, the problems with the dinosaurs in the original movie were really just plain old Murphy’s Law. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/9 "2014-07-07T00:37:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Despite all the talk about Chaos Theory, the problems with the dinosaurs in the original movie were really just plain old Murphy’s Law. Thats what I thought Murphy’s Law was - simply “Chaos Theory” for the masses. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/10 "2014-07-07T00:39:10Z")
There are things man was not meant to genetically engineer! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/11 "2014-07-07T01:06:00Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Despite all the talk about Chaos Theory, the problems with the dinosaurs in the original movie were really just plain old Murphy’s Law. One paleontologist interviewed said the problems at Jurassic Park had more to do with bad zookeeping than chaos theory, and I think he had a point. One could easily imagine a badly designed zoo that allowed tigers or chimpanzees or crocodiles to injure visitors. That wouldn’t prove that building zoos is inherently arrogant or dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/12 "2014-07-07T01:14:32Z")
And really, that’s all Jurassic Park is: A zoo. We know how to build functional zoos, and the same designs used for any other zoo would work for Jurassic Park (with some scaling, of course). But that wouldn’t let Crichton rail against the shortsightedness of arrogant scientists, so of course that’s not what we got. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/13 "2014-07-07T02:31:13Z")
Well, SOMEone had to. The rest of us were going, “Awesome! Fucking DINOSAURS!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/14 "2014-07-07T13:28:18Z")
Impossible, they were all female. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/15 "2014-07-07T13:31:28Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Impossible, they were all female. Dinosaurs = Awesome. Lesbians = Awesome. Lesbian Dinosaurs = Not Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/16 "2014-07-07T14:00:33Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Dinosaurs = Awesome. > Lesbians = Awesome. > Lesbian Dinosaurs = Not Awesome. Queue the old “Lickalottapuss” joke… ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/17 "2014-07-07T15:05:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And really, that’s all Jurassic Park is: A zoo. We know how to build functional zoos, and the same designs used for any other zoo would work for Jurassic Park (with some scaling, of course). > > But that wouldn’t let Crichton rail against the shortsightedness of arrogant scientists, so of course that’s not what we got. And he had to throw in a criminal programmer and a huge storm to get his disaster scenario. The novel went quite a bit more into the chaos theory and screw ups the creators had made, but even then there were plot holes. Plus an out for the new movie - the chief geneticist presented a plan to Hammond to destroy most or all the existing dinosaurs, and start over by engineering less aggressive, non-poisonous, and above all, slower dinosaurs so they’d be less dangerous and easier to handle. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/18 "2014-07-08T17:19:20Z")
Plus, how hard would it be to put a fail-safe device in the head of T-Rex (or any creature)? It could simply disrupts the brain with electrical signals, or worst (or coolest) case, blow up the head. I guess we might see that if Michael bay directs JW2 or JW3. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/19 "2014-07-08T17:27:11Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Plus, how hard would it be to put a fail-safe device in the head of T-Rex (or any creature)? It could simply disrupts the brain with electrical signals, or worst (or coolest) case, blow up the head. I guess we might see that if Michael bay directs JW2 or JW3. Probably extremely hard. How do you safely sedate your unbelievably expensive, nearly irreplaceable, park centerpiece T-Rex? Oops, too much ketamine, it died. Oops, not enough ketamine, it’s eaten the entire veterinary staff. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487/20 "2014-07-08T17:39:14Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > How the heck can Jurassic Park accommodate 20000 people a day > > They’re gonna need a lot more jeeps 20000 people does not necessarily mean 20000 tourists. Dinos gotta eat, y’know. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-premise-spoilers-if-you-consider-the-basic-premise-of-a-movie-a-spoiler/692487.md?page=2)