# Jurassic World - The Seen It Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367 "2015-06-12T17:09:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/121 "2015-07-07T16:13:01Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Complaints about sexism. First, I think it’s kind of becoming a bit of a trope these days that every female character has to turn out to be a badass. Yes, the “damsel in distress who needs a big strong man to save her” is archaic but turning it around and wanting every female lead to be another Ripley from Aliens or Sarah Connor from Terminator 2 or whatever is no more realistic, either. Normal people thrust into extreme situations probably do not suddenly become super-competent and confident larger than life heroes, and Claire seems to handle herself quite well, considering that nothing in her life or lifestyle would really prepare her for the situation. She saves Owen from a dimorphodon or whatever that was supposed to be and comes off as a little bit badass there, and of course she throws herself into the path of danger luring Rexy into the fight. Then again… The high heels thing. OK, that’s a bit tougher. I get that the high heels are a symbol and reminder of what kind of mindset, what kind of lifestyle she represents, and of Claire’s need for control and order. But it’s a bit too much of a stretch for me that she’s able to run all over the place, including the jungle, and not at least trip or break her heels or lose a shoe or just take the damn things off at some point. Hard to buy that part. I don’t think that every female character needs to be a badass Ripley type. But they showed her being a badass and shooting the dinosaur that was attacking Chris Pratt, but the nephews didn’t care about that, they were impressed by Chris Pratt looking manly and driving a jeep backward a few feet. Why undercut her badass moment like that? And it might also be realistic for a woman to bugged about having kids, or told that she needs to relax for no good reason, but I don’t know why it needed to be included in the movie. > [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Also that I want Claires shoes in every colour. They stayed on, she was comfortable enough to run away from a raptor after a full day on her feet and they survived the whole experience in better shape than some of mine have been after a walk across a lawn. Yeah, I would wear high heels a lot more often if I had some that were apparently as comfortable and stayed on as well as hers. > [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Dr.Wu was being paid/bribed by Hoskins to create these dino’s to fill his requirements by using the Jurassic World lab and resources. > > Hoskins took over after the CEO died because he had the men and weapons to do so. No one could really stop him. But Hoskins wasn’t there secretly, he must have had some official business on the island. Was there some official military contract that was the reason that he was there, but he was also bribing Wu on the side? Since it’s been a few weeks now since I’ve seen it I don’t remember the details. > [@Moonlitherial](#): > > And the babysitter got killed for the same cinematic reason Bambi’s mother did - to leave the kids on their own. But the kids were already on their own, they’d been on their own for most of the movie. She could have died off screen, or she could have been carried away to her presumed death. To have the extended death that seemed fit for a villain was strange to me. > [@amaguri](#): > > Really, I don’t think I expect too much out of a movie, but the script was just super sloppy. I understand the point is HEY BIG DANGEROUS DINOSAUR! and not a tight script, but come on! Things were brought up and dropped with no relevance to the story… the parent’s impending divorce, the older bro’s girlfriend and subsequent proto-flirting with some rando at the park, etc. Who cares? It doesn’t add anything to the movie because it’s not developed at all and I found it just plain distracting. I think the frustrating thing is that it’s so close to so good. Some movies you would just have to throw the script away and start again from scratch, but I don’t think that would have been needed here. It wouldn’t have taken a complete and drastic rewrite, just a few changes like I listed in my previous post, and it wouldn’t have been perfect, but I think it would have been a lot better. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/122 "2015-07-07T23:18:46Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Right, but they were clearly 0% effective. Non-lethal would be fine if any of them actually worked. Even an Indomitus Rex should be tranquilizable given a proper dose. Yeah, they should’ve brought that super tranq gun from the Lost World. That took down the T-Rex easily. Anyway, one thing that they implied and I was hoping to hear more of was that Jurrasic World wasn’t the sole purveyor of extinct animals anymore. That would’ve made more sense as far as the older kid being bored by dinosaurs and the push to create the I-Rex. If there was a Cretaceous Land and Ice Age Park out there to compete with, being the only one to create a whole new creature would’ve cemented you as the Disney World of dinos. Maybe something they could bring up in the sequels. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/123 "2015-07-08T23:26:33Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > I think the frustrating thing is that it’s so close to so good. Some movies you would just have to throw the script away and start again from scratch, but I don’t think that would have been needed here. It wouldn’t have taken a complete and drastic rewrite, just a few changes like I listed in my previous post, and it wouldn’t have been perfect, but I think it would have been a lot better. …your previous post has A LOT of changes. You WANT it to be good… but it isn’t… it’s pretty far from good. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/124 "2015-07-09T01:22:48Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > But they showed her being a badass and shooting the dinosaur that was attacking Chris Pratt, but the nephews didn’t care about that, they were impressed by Chris Pratt looking manly and driving a jeep backward a few feet. Why undercut her badass moment like that? Because it’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/125 "2015-07-13T02:48:02Z")
Just saw it. I’m stunned that it was only OK. Not good, not bad, definitely not terrible, but also definitely not great. I thought it would be much better. I was bored a lot and very distracted by how bad the special effects looked. The dinosaurs looked very fake. I’m surprised it looked so bad. This was a disappointment to me. I had higher hopes. ---
**Author:** ![Maenads\_dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Maenads\_dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maenads_dance)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/126 "2015-07-14T07:08:25Z")
I registered an account with this forum (after lurking) just to reply to this thread – apologies if I make any accidental mistakes in netiquette. I hated Jurassic World. I don’t think I got a moment’s pleasure from the film. I grew up with Jurassic Park - I think I saw it for the first time at the age of four years old, and I spent most of my childhood rewatching it with friends. I remained fervent in my desire to be a paleontologist well into adolescence, and while I’m not currently on a digging-up-dinosaurs career path, I am doing evolutionary biology work. Jurassic Park was the first film I ever saw that showed scientists experiencing a sense of raw wonder at the beauty of the natural (and man-made) world - the characters of Dr Grant and Dr Satler were the first "scientists’ I ever encountered as movie heroes, and are actually quite rare still in Hollywood depictions of scientists - the evil BD Wong type (I can’t even remember the character’s name - the type is so boring, and the character so forgettable) is more common. Lost World and JPIII were forgettable sequels, although Lost World had, to my mind, the best velociraptor scene (the aerial shot of them walking through the field at night, being taken down one by one - spooky!). What I hated about Jurassic World: 1.) No characters are anything more, or less, than a “type”. BDH’s character is the icy corporate woman who needs a strong man to teach her about love (and needy children to teach her about the importance of motherhood). There’s the obnoxious teenager and the whiny child; the mercenary is an evil mercenary, the CEO is an arrogant corporate type, the geneticist is a hubristic scientist turned mad after years of playing god, etc. Chris Pratt, who is as likeable a movie star as I’ve ever seen, couldn’t salvage his character, who was arguably the most ridiculous figure in the entire movie. Actually, the only character who intrigued me at all was the CEO, because I thought it would be refreshing to have the big businessman turn out to be the dashing hero of the film, and he was genuinely funny. And then they blew him up. 2.) Every scene contains a reference to a previous film, and every scene attempts to make us feel what we felt when watching that earlier film. There are references to all three previous films in the franchise; to Jaws, to Alien, to Aliens; to screwball comedies and battle-of-the-sexes Katharine Hepburn films; to Indiana Jones; etc etc etc. The film never tries to innovate, to make you feel something genuine that comes out of its own plot, its own characters. 3.) The film fails to recapture what was magical about the first film, and overdoes what was boring about the two sequels. What made Jurassic Park /work/ for me as a child was the depiction of the dinosaurs as fascinating, dangerous, unpredictable animals - as forces of nature that human beings thought they understood, in their hubris, but in fact neither understood nor controlled. Yet the dinosaurs always remained, fundamentally, animal. Even the velociraptors, in their wily intelligence, seemed more animal than monster; the T-Rex scenes are so fabulous because you can see the dinosaur _trying to figure out_ what the jeeps are, and so on. My favorite scene in Jurassic Park is probably the scene where the scientists see the brachiosaurus for the first time and are blown away by the animal’s beauty; or Dr Grant hugging the sick triceratops. The dinosaurs are dangerous, but they’re not trying to kill every human on the face of the earth for no reason. The dinosaurs in Jurassic World do not act like animals. The Indominus Rex at least has an excuse for being nothing more than a movie monster, because it was created to be a movie monster, but the pterodactyls/dimorphodons were beyond plausibility to me. They’re described as being territorial - and yet they abandon their territory, fly long distances in pursuit of fleeing humans, and then attack everything in sight without regard for predation. It’s violence without motive, and it makes the dinosaurs animals no longer, which takes away the magic and the awe. 4.) The Chris Pratt character is a huge missed opportunity. I knew I was going to hate at least 75% of the film before I saw it based on advance reviews, but I went anyway because I find Chris Pratt charming and because I love velociraptors (or, anyway, I love the large raptor-type dinosaurs that might more accurately be called deinonychus or utahraptor - you know what I mean). Then, too, I’m fascinated by large animal training and I know a little bit about it. I am here to tell you that the film got nearly everything WRONG about large animal training. There were obvious, shameful mistakes - Chris Pratt uses a clicker, for instance, but instead of using it as it is used by people who train lions or orcas or other large animals in the real world, as a marker that’s paired with a reward during operant conditioning-based training, he uses it as an attention grabber. Then, too, Chris Pratt acts in a way that is contrary to all animal handling I’ve ever been taught while working with dogs or horses - he is noisy. He shouts. He is tense, nervous, jumpy. His posture is stiff. He radiates nervous aggression in all his interactions with the raptors. The people I know with the best rapport with dogs and horses (and I am not among these people - I have only observed) are still. They are sparing in their motion, their use of their voice. They command attention because every gesture and sound is worth listening to, and their presence brings calm. 5.) The film is joyless. None of the characters are likeable. None of them. What’s the fun of watching a movie if you don’t like any of the characters? Watching them all get eaten. They don’t all get eaten. They kill off most of the raptors. I was rooting for the raptors at the end, and I didn’t even get to watch Blue eat Bryce Dallas Howard. * * * The only complaint I don’t have is about the stupid high heels. I went to college with a woman who used to wear high heels on the treadmill because she’d shortened her achilles tendon by never wearing flats; after seeing that, I didn’t even need to suspend disbelief about BDH outrunning the 'Rex in stilettos. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/127 "2015-07-23T01:49:15Z")
It’s been almost two weeks and I now realize something. It was a total crap movie and not even OK. I’m totally shocked. I thought it would be way better. It comes down to the below points, many of which a lot of you have made. 1. The special effects are terrible. From the first dinosaur all the way through, they looked so bad to me. I’m not a special effect nut. I just want things to look pretty good. I figured 22 years after the original, it would look great. It didn’t. 2. The characters are boring. No depth. 3. The plot is boring and unengaging. I did not care what happened and I was not surprised or thrilled at all. I can’t believe it is a hit. What I saw was a total disappointment and just a crappy movie. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/128 "2015-07-23T19:55:39Z")
My biggest problem with the movie is there were like dozen nuggets of plot threads that all went unexplored. The divorce stuff, the brother blowing off his girlfriend in the beginning, the out of the blue violent death of a character who didn’t deserve it etc. It was clear that like different scripts were all combined into one and pieces that probably paid off in those originals got lost in the final one. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/129 "2015-07-23T20:24:11Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > But Hoskins wasn’t there secretly, he must have had some official business on the island. Was there some official military contract that was the reason that he was there, but he was also bribing Wu on the side? Since it’s been a few weeks now since I’ve seen it I don’t remember the details. Hoskins was there to oversee Chris Pratt’s Magical Raptor Show. The Raptors were stage one of the program to weaponize Dinos. That is why Pratt was trying to get them to follow commands. What Pratt and the management did not know was that Hoskins was also working with Wu to create I. Rex and use that as the base for a new generation of Dino Soldiers. The soldier sized I.Rex was what was on the screen in Wu’s lab when the main characters came looking for him. That is also why the I. Rex had the ability to camouflage and hide from thermal imaging, as well as its high intelligence. Those were intentional features for its life as a soldier and not the genetic afterthought that Wu was claiming to the park owner. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/130 "2015-10-09T13:06:52Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > Hoskins was there to oversee Chris Pratt’s Magical Raptor Show. I just saw Jurassic World yesterday (I know, I know) and Hoskins’s place in everything is ridiculously complex. At various times, he’s implied to be… 1. A member of InGen’s board 2. An InGen liaison to the US Military on the Raptor project. 3. The head of InGen’s PMC (Private Military Contractor) division For all we know, he’s all of these things. That said, god damn is Jurassic World a good movie! I loved it. Most of the complaints made in this thread were explained on screen. I don’t get the problem some had with the plot. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/131 "2015-10-09T15:12:34Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > For all we know, he’s all of these things. That said, god damn is Jurassic World a good movie! I loved it. Most of the complaints made in this thread were explained on screen. I don’t get the problem some had with the plot. People don’t pay attention and then complain it’s the movie’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/132 "2015-10-10T05:29:36Z")
Saw the movie tonight. Overall, I enjoyed the adventure, but there was a lot of stupid and a lot of unexplained hanging chads. I agree the characters came off more as caricatures. The really awkward interaction of the duo at first was unnecessary. So they went on one date and didn’t hit it off. Sounds like a mutual moved on thing. Then they’re both odd interacting later. She over formalizes when they clearly have talked before, and he acts like he’s still trying to get her in bed, when clearly he didn’t like her. Still, I enjoyed it as a whole. > [@Oakminster](#): > > Loved the movie, but I thought the “twist” mentioned above was blatantly obvious as soon as they showed the I. Rex exhibiting hyper-intelligence and the scientists refusing to reveal the “secret”. Of course it had raptor blood. What else could it possibly be? Yep. > [@](#): > > 1. Since they have such amazing control over genetics, why not make all the dinos, especially the dangerous ones, vegetarians? Because guests want to see the dinosaurs eat meat. Hunting would go over really well if they could swing it as a spectator event. > [@](#): > > 1. Why not have some serious weaponry readily available? I’m talking tanks. Armored vehicles. Artillery. Maybe some A-10s and/or attack choppers. They had some rocket launchers, but there was still a great mess in that scene in their tactics. > [@](#): > > 1. Think I caught a mistake. There were four raptors. One got blown up with a bazooka-like weapon. Then there are four raptors in the final confrontation with I. Rex. No, there are 3 raptors circling the humans. Then Chris Pratt does his thing with Blue, then the IRex shows up. Blue gets knocked silly, the other two raptors engage. IRex takes them both out just in time for Blue to come running back around the corner, and then the T Rex engages. > [@](#): > > 1. So is Star Lord hooking up with Not-Black Widow? (I had to check the credits, thought it looked a lot like her). I thought she looked like a young Sandra Bullock. > [@Stephe96](#): > > Was it ever explained how that big dinosaur managed to evade infrared thermal imaging detection? BD Wong’s character said that some tree frogs have been shown to be able to reduce their infrared output, and they used tree frog DNA to help it adapt to the tropical environment. Which doesn’t make sense, and is scientifically implausible. > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Anyhoo, the jeep’s tires would certainly be flat, but no matter. A far bigger contrivance is the D’Onofrio character’s determined stupidity in wanting to use the raptors in a combat role, even after he’s seen with his own eyes how they almost ate their “alpha”, who barely saved himself by barrel-rolling under a descending cage door. > > What if you took some of that DNA-magic stuff and bred, I dunno, super _dogs_ that could and would charge into tunnels and mangle the terroristy goodness within? If you’re going to breed war-animals, maybe consider a version a little more cuddly and a little less boomerang-grenade-like. Yes, those Raptors were clearly not well trained enough to keep them from turning on their handler, they’re nowhere near deployable in the field as an asset that won’t eat your own troops. Stupid. Maybe with a couple hundred years of controlled breeding for domestication. I could see making smarter dogs making more sense than using dinosaurs. > [@marshmallow](#): > > The I. Rex was bred to be hyper aggressive. Which opens up some fridge logic, like: how would the military control it? Even if you dumped it in a war zone I’m not sure it would be that great. Terrorists have plenty of RPGs, which would presumably wreck it. Yes, they’re actually trying to train and control the raptors, that IRex would be a bigger hazard to you trying to get it to the conflict zone to deploy. Ridiculous. But testing out features to back engineer into smaller raptors? > [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > And the hamster balls really bothered me. They weren’t on a track. There seemed to be no way for them to stay as clean as they did. There was no way for the worker to call them back to the docking station when that was needed (although for some reason all the other people apparently went back when called other than the two kids, because as we know people always follow the rules at theme parks). And they are the perfect shape and size for dinosaurs to kick around for fun, or just accidentally squash. Even if this had been a normal day, the hamster balls are just a terrible idea. Yes. How do you control how long someone uses it? When they come back? There at least should have been an emergency override return. They seemed intended for a paddock/large sector of only herbivores, which would at least keep them safe from deliberate attacks and most squishings. But there were still problems with the concept. > [@](#): > > - Yeah, I would have thought there would be a bunch of cameras everywhere in the Indominus Rex cage. I don’t remember them looking at cameras, just the heat signature. They could have had the cameras and still not seen it and then go in, it would make it marginally less stupid. The cameras were on screen, they had the red X’s for the missing heat signatures. Remember, we didn’t know the I Rex could camouflage at that point. > [@](#): > > But also, there is no way for human workers to get in and out of the cage? There was no way to do any maintenance inside? And people fall in or stupidly climb in to bear enclosures and other dangerous animal pits in the real world, I guess in Jurassic World if you accidentally end up in a dino cage it’s just assumed to be a death sentence and they are okay with it. It would have made a lot more sense to have the big giant gate and it’s closed, and a smaller human sized door or gate that Chris Pratt runs out of. You could still have the dinosaur break out somehow, and it would better serve the theme of hubris causing man’s destruction, instead of stupidity causing the destruction. There was a human sized door from the building. We see Pratt enter that door. The three turn for that building, and then the fat guard sees the dinosaur is between them and that door, and that’s when he turns around and runs to the big gate. And the other two do as well, but one of them is too close to the dinosaur. > [@](#): > > And if I’m remembering correctly, after a lot of dino mayhem, the first time that the nephews see her again is that she shoots a dinosaur that is attacking Chris Pratt, then she and Pratt kiss, then the four of them run to a jeep, and Pratt swings it around to get it out of the way of the running people. Then the kids say “can we stay with you?!” and she says “I won’t leave you again” and they say “no, we meant him!” That would make more sense if originally Pratt saved Howard, and then the scene was reshot but that conversation was left in. But as it is, I don’t see why they are more impressed by Pratt other than he’s a man wearing a leather vest. Yes, that was odd. > [@marshmallow](#): > > I think it might be due to the fact she was the first woman to die in the JP series. They also wanted to shoe horn the Mosasaur in there so the audience didn’t forget about it before the finale. More than that, we saw the Mosasaur early on. Plot rules mean we have to see the Mosasaur again. Seeing the Mosasaur eat someone who accidentally got knocked in checks that off, which leaves the surprise ending more so. My problem is they have this big promenade jutting out next to the tank, and the Mosasaur is show leaping out of the water. Seems rather precarious. Yes, I know there was an internal tank barrier, but it still felt too exposed. > [@Rigamarole](#): > > And the biggest thing was at the end even though they killed the Indomitus, they now had a wild T. Rex and at least 1 velociraptor on the loose. They might not be quite as rampage-y, but it still was not at all safe for the guests still on the island to be having their touching reunion scene. I don’t think any guests were left, they had all been extracted in the ferries. The hangar at the end is on Costa Rica. > [@outlierrn](#): > > I can’t quite remember, but was it definitive that D’onofio’s character is dead? I have this vision of him coming back for the sequel as some mad, one-armed Ahab. Well, we didn’t actually see him completely munched, though the raptor is on top of him and chewing. > [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > I think the frustrating thing is that it’s so close to so good. Some movies you would just have to throw the script away and start again from scratch, but I don’t think that would have been needed here. It wouldn’t have taken a complete and drastic rewrite, just a few changes like I listed in my previous post, and it wouldn’t have been perfect, but I think it would have been a lot better. Lots of stuff doesn’t really make sense. Several things seem shoehorned in and not connected. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/133 "2015-10-17T19:35:38Z")
The Jurassic World trailer, imagined circa 1978: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cbRzESlc12M/maxresdefault.jpg "Jurassic World Trailer (1978)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbRzESlc12M) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367/134 "2015-10-17T23:33:08Z")
Something ironic that was pointed out to me: Pratt’s issue was the idea of weaponizing the Raptors and the Heroes end up winning by Weaponizing two other dinosaurs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-the-seen-it-thread/722367.md?page=6)