# Watching Jurassic World on cable and have questions. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044 "2016-04-24T23:01:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/1 "2016-04-24T23:01:23Z")
I didn’t have these questions when I saw the movie in theaters. Something about watching it at home brings out the stupid, I think. I am much more forgiving in the theater. 1. What was the nephew’s parents plan? Send them to an amusement park, get a quick divorce and act as if everything was normal when the kids got back? 2. What happened to the pterodactyls? They were flying around attacking people and then they weren’t. 3. Why didn’t T-Rex eat Chris Pratt, the nephews and Ron Howard’s daughter at the end? I say it’s Mighty Joe Young Syndrome. 4. Did Ron Howard’s daughter’s assistant deserve her terrible death? I’m wondering why the movie punished her so. I won’t get into the very dumb part about the gang hanging around to watch the showdown between T-Rex, the little raptors and Ultronasaur. They obviously knew that T-Rex was cool and shit. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/2 "2016-04-24T23:37:11Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I didn’t have these questions when I saw the movie in theaters. Something about watching it at home brings out the stupid, I think. I am much more forgiving in the theater. > > 1. What was the nephew’s parents plan? Send them to an amusement park, get a quick divorce and act as if everything was normal when the kids got back? > > 2. What happened to the pterodactyls? They were flying around attacking people and then they weren’t. > > 3. Why didn’t T-Rex eat Chris Pratt, the nephews and Ron Howard’s daughter at the end? I say it’s Mighty Joe Young Syndrome. > > 4. Did Ron Howard’s daughter’s assistant deserve her terrible death? I’m wondering why the movie punished her so. > > I won’t get into the very dumb part about the gang hanging around to watch the showdown between T-Rex, the little raptors and Ultronasaur. They obviously knew that T-Rex was cool and shit. 1. I had a problem with this one too. Don’t the kids go to school? They can’t go to divorce mediation during the day or something? Also, why not just… You know…talk to your children? Clearly this movie thinks children are best if they are ignored. 2. They got full. No need to keep attacking. 3. The t-rex reached a state of enlightenment. It no longer wanted to eat people and was getting ready to go join the Guardians of the Galaxy. 4. She lost children because she was talking to her boyfriend. Everyone knows that losing teenagers who are terrible and trying to ditch you because you are talking to a boy is a crime worthy of death. Also, she’s British. One the whole, I think it is a great fun stupid movie that makes exactly as much sense as it wants to. You mentioned Mighty Joe Young syndrome. I really think they were trying to capture that feel and succeed. My evidence that this was not a serious movie is that it was cast almost entirely with people who make their primary living acting in comedies. They set out to make campy schlock that doesn’t quite make sense and succeeded! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/3 "2016-04-25T00:03:29Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > 1. Did Ron Howard’s daughter’s assistant deserve her terrible death? I’m wondering why the movie punished her so. I found that a bit jarring myself. She was a little obnoxious but not so bad to deserve getting eaten alive. Surely they could have had Jimmy Buffet get eaten instead. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/4 "2016-04-25T00:21:03Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > 1. I had a problem with this one too. Don’t the kids go to school? They can’t go to divorce mediation during the day or something? Also, why not just… You know…talk to your children? Clearly this movie thinks children are best if they are ignored… The movie took place just after Christmas while the kids were still on winter vacation; the parents wanted to give them one last family vacation (& a vacation of a lifetime at that) before breaking the news about the divorce to them. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/5 "2016-04-25T00:23:41Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I found that a bit jarring myself. She was a little obnoxious but not so bad to deserve getting eaten alive. Surely they could have had Jimmy Buffet get eaten instead. Yeah, us too. 1. She didn’t deserve it. 2. I figure they told the actress to relax and that, “the death will look awesome in the final film. The effects will be amazing.” It was lubriciously bad special effects. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/6 "2016-04-25T00:56:06Z")
Well, I’m going to give my opinions on this, because I think the movie handled much of this brilliantly. _Jurassic World_ had lots of subtle commentary on common plots and tropes without feeling preachy. But your mileage may vary. > [@Biggirl](#): > > 1. What was the nephew’s parents plan? Send them to an amusement park, get a quick divorce and act as if everything was normal when the kids got back? We don’t know. Neither do the kids. This is explicitly left open and unstated. In the end, it doesn’t matter to the events of the film, though it informs the personalities of the characters. We don’t know whether this will end in divorce, whether the couple is trying to work out their problems, or what. So why is it there? Well, it does tell us a great deal about the two kids, and implicitly informs their story. They aren’t just nuisance plot devices. They have a plot of their own, about bonding, possibly for the first time in their lives, and overcoming a threat that might separate them. In my opinion, the older boy, though he had the self-absorbed disdain common to teenagers, probably knew more than he let on. You’ll note he didn’t react with surprise or shock, but as though he was facing something very unpleasant that he’d rather not acknowledge. This isn’t something they can fix, so they’ve both retreated inward. And as far as it goes, a giant rampaging monster that tears apart your world and chases you down with the intent on devouring your family is a painfully apt metaphor for divorce. In a way, the dinosaur is something they can face together, and overcoming that gives them the strength to potentially overcome another, less physical, challenge. > [@](#): > > 1. What happened to the pterodactyls? They were flying around attacking people and then they weren’t. They were driven off. They weren’t all killed, and some probably scattered but aren’t going to be a major threat to anyone. > [@](#): > > 1. Why didn’t T-Rex eat Chris Pratt, the nephews and Ron Howard’s daughter at the end? I say it’s Mighty Joe Young Syndrome. Probably because it was exhausted and not in the mood to chow down, having just had the fight of its life. Also, humans are a pretty small dinner for a multi-ton dinosaur. > [@](#): > > 1. Did Ron Howard’s daughter’s assistant deserve her terrible death? I’m wondering why the movie punished her so. Actually, this was brilliant. The scene is both random and flawless, because the movie isn’t trying to show this as some kind of just punishment. She didn’t die because of some terrible misdeed. She died because other people made foolish, ill-considered decisions. OK, sure you might say, but why is it there at all? Because it shows the cost of those choices to someone the audience sympathized with, and because it tells the audience that _nobody_ is safe. Before that, I figured, yeah, everybody named is gonna live. After that scene, thought anybody could die. This also partly goes towards the movie’s unconventional characterization. Masrani is a billionaire showman, but he’s also courageous and freaked out when he realizes what’s going on. Another movie might easily have made him conniving and stupid; he has decent ideas, but simply doesn’t comprehend the danger until too late. Wu is creepily insane, yet he also gives a surprisingly clear explanation of exactly what he created. The capture team is elite, intelligent, and utterly unprepared; the mercenaries in another movie would have been idiot thugs. But they actually go in with heavy firepower and a good plan, and show surprising courage and coolness under fire, even trying to save civilians. > [@](#): > > I won’t get into the very dumb part about the gang hanging around to watch the showdown between T-Rex, the little raptors and Ultronasaur. They obviously knew that T-Rex was cool and shit. OK, sure. But where else are you going to get a front-row seat to Dino Rampage 2016?! Also, they were in serious trouble if things didn’t go well, anyway, as they were fast running out of places they could flee towards. Plus, everyone loves Rexy! And shes been cool in the past. She totally ate Velocirapters to save the people in the first _Jurassic Park_. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/7 "2016-04-26T13:53:15Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > 1. Why didn’t T-Rex eat Chris Pratt, the nephews and Ron Howard’s daughter at the end? I say it’s Mighty Joe Young Syndrome. I’m glad I did a search because I was going to start a thread about this. Just watched it over the weekend on HBO. I had a huge WTF moment about the T-Rex. What on earth was that lady thinking when she decided to let that animal loose? Were we supposed to understand that it had some especial training to follow flares? Is there any reason that T-Rex would beat _Indominus_? Why would having TWO giant dinosaurs on the loose be better than having just ONE? Why did T-Rex just saunter off at the end? I have to assume that this was just very bad writing by writers who had painted themselves into a corner and needed a miracle to get out. Or, was there some info earlier on the movie that hinted at this be at least somewhat plausible? Now, don’t get me wrong… I enjoyed this as a popcorn movie. The action was somewhat overdone, but I’m not expecting some deep movie, so that’s OK. I’m even OK with Assistant Lady getting chowed down. I even laughed a little at how she kept getting dropped back into the tank by the Pterodactyls. But that ending was beyond ridiculous. Especially since the plot was pretty much the same as the original movie up to that point. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/8 "2016-04-26T15:13:03Z")
When British Assistant Lady met her well-deserved end, I realized they intended _Jurassic World_ to be cartoonish. I almost expected them to score it with Loony Tunes music, or maybe Yakkity Sax. At that point, I no longer rolled my eyes at the dumb, so when she unleashed Acme Instant Tyrannosaur, it made as much sense as any other Wily Coyote plot. Rather sad that they killed the Roadrunner, though; I’d been rooting for him. Anyway, by that point I was busy obsessing about Chris Pratt’s ridiculously thick and stubby fingers. After he patted one of the dinos, it was all I could think about. Seriously, those things would creep Trump out, and I’ve no idea how the OP missed such an obvious and disturbing thing in this movie. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/9 "2016-04-26T15:19:39Z")
Jurassic World was a bad movie and your confusion stems from the fact that they seemed to merged a bunch of scripts together. Lots of things don’t make sense and plot lines that start go nowhere. I had started a thread about my dislike for it back in the Fall [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=774091). I also complained about it in the original Seen it thread. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some clouds to go yell at 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/10 "2016-04-26T16:24:52Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I didn’t have these questions when I saw the movie in theaters. Something about watching it at home brings out the stupid, I think. I am much more forgiving in the theater. > > 1. What was the nephew’s parents plan? Send them to an amusement park, get a quick divorce and act as if everything was normal when the kids got back? > > 2. What happened to the pterodactyls? They were flying around attacking people and then they weren’t. > > 3. Why didn’t T-Rex eat Chris Pratt, the nephews and Ron Howard’s daughter at the end? I say it’s Mighty Joe Young Syndrome. > > 4. Did Ron Howard’s daughter’s assistant deserve her terrible death? I’m wondering why the movie punished her so. > > I won’t get into the very dumb part about the gang hanging around to watch the showdown between T-Rex, the little raptors and Ultronasaur. They obviously knew that T-Rex was cool and shit. Reading through your questions now, I think the filmmakers had key points that they wanted in the movie, then backtracked how they would get those things in, although they didn’t work terribly hard. They wanted two kids to be visiting, but not with their parents so that they could explore past safe boundaries, and so they thought of the kids’ parents are getting a divorce. Someone thought of an awesome death where a character is scooped up by a flying dinosaur, then tossed around, then lands in the water and is eaten by the giant swimming dinosaur. Then once they had that awesome death thought of, the screenwriter had to work in where it would be in the movie and what character it would happen to. They wanted an awesome showdown between the T-Rex and I Rex and backtracked to how they would get that in the movie. It’s just speculation, but it would make sense to me why a lot of the connective tissue of the script doesn’t exactly make sense. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/11 "2016-04-26T17:22:07Z")
Turning the baddie from the first movie into a hero in the sequel is a standard Hollywood move. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/12 "2016-04-26T17:55:23Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Turning the baddie from the first movie into a hero in the sequel is a standard Hollywood move. That practice needs to be terminated. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/13 "2016-04-26T20:26:27Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Turning the baddie from the first movie into a hero in the sequel is a standard Hollywood move. The first Jurassic Park does this within the same movie. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/14 "2016-04-27T01:28:51Z")
what got me is it totally killed off chrichtons message in the first 2 films on what a stupid idea this would be and just because we (ie science) can do something dosent mean we need to As my cousin pointed out when we watched all 4 back to back one weekend : remember in the lost world when the slimeball nephew was discussing attractions in the park in the tent and it made you cringe ? They had everyone of those in Jurassic world in the exact way he described them … ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/15 "2016-04-27T02:14:16Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > Reading through your questions now, I think the filmmakers had key points that they wanted in the movie, then backtracked how they would get those things in, although they didn’t work terribly hard. They wanted two kids to be visiting, but not with their parents so that they could explore past safe boundaries, and so they thought of the kids’ parents are getting a divorce. Someone thought of an awesome death where a character is scooped up by a flying dinosaur, then tossed around, then lands in the water and is eaten by the giant swimming dinosaur. Then once they had that awesome death thought of, the screenwriter had to work in where it would be in the movie and what character it would happen to. They wanted an awesome showdown between the T-Rex and I Rex and backtracked to how they would get that in the movie. It’s just speculation, but it would make sense to me why a lot of the connective tissue of the script doesn’t exactly make sense. Yes, this. They started with their “Coming Soon” preview of the movie and then filled in the gaps to make it a feature film. That said, I don’t think the divorcing parents plot is a particularly weak one, but we’re not given the specifics that would explain. For example, maybe the parents want to use the time to move out and make sure the second household is ready for kids to live in it. Or they’re giving counseling one last intensive try. Or fighting over the property settlement and wanting to do it at a time that their personal conflict won’t be carried home to the kids. When you think that the movie is really about the children, it even makes a little sense that they’re vaguely aware of the divorce but don’t understand exactly what’s going on. OK, that’s as far as I’m going to go to defend the movie. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/16 "2016-04-27T02:34:57Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > 1. What was the nephew’s parents plan? Send them to an amusement park, get a quick divorce and act as if everything was normal when the kids got back? I don’t remember: were they working on things or actually divorcing? > [@](#): > > 1. Why didn’t T-Rex eat Chris Pratt, the nephews and Ron Howard’s daughter at the end? I say it’s Mighty Joe Young Syndrome. Bus full of preschoolers. Plus something about splicing in Velociraptor DNA that made it listen to Pratt. > [@](#): > > 1. Did Ron Howard’s daughter’s assistant deserve her terrible death? I’m wondering why the movie punished her so. Google it, apparently lots of people were bothered by this scene. E.g. [[1]](http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/15/the-strangely-cruel-and-unusual-death-in-jurassic-world) [[2]](https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/3a2zj1/about_that_horribly_handled_death_scene_in/) I think I was out of the room so don’t remember her speaking, but the actress is actually Irish. 1. Why was Howard covered in shit? [There is an answer to that](http://www.cracked.com/article_23908_6-baffling-movie-moments-with-really-logical-explanations.html). 2. Why does Pratt use a lever-action gun, yet never work the lever? 3. Why do they have dinosaurs from the non-Jurassic era, along with non-dinosaurs (pterodactyls)? I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something? 4. Why are the velociraptors giant, instead of the [large chickens they really were](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Vraptor-scale.png)? > [@nightshade2016](#): > > what got me is it totally killed off chrichtons message in the first 2 films on what a stupid idea this would be and just because we (ie science) can do something dosent mean we need to > > As my cousin pointed out when we watched all 4 back to back one weekend : remember in the lost world when the slimeball nephew was discussing attractions in the park in the tent and it made you cringe ? > They had everyone of those in Jurassic world in the exact way he described them … Isn’t that the point though? People are willing to tolerate sweet-ass dinosaurs despite the danger? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/17 "2016-04-27T02:55:38Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I don’t remember: were they working on things or actually divorcing? At one point I believe they call from the divorce attorney’s office. > [@](#): > > Bus full of preschoolers. Plus something about splicing in Velociraptor DNA that made it listen to Pratt. Confused about the bus full of preschoolers. Is that like Mighty Joe Young Syndrome? > [@](#): > > 1. Why do they have dinosaurs from the non-Jurassic era, along with non-dinosaurs (pterodactyls)? I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something? Once you clone one extinct animal why can’t you clone any other one? > [@](#): > > 1. Why are the velociraptors giant, instead of the [large chickens they really were](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Vraptor-scale.png)? You kinda answered it here: > [@](#): > > People are willing to tolerate sweet-ass dinosaurs despite the danger? And Howard’s character explained all the wrong science also-- You need to keep amping the cool factor. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/18 "2016-04-27T12:51:48Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Bus full of preschoolers. Plus something about splicing in Velociraptor DNA that made it listen to Pratt. The velociraptor DNA was spliced into Indominus Rex, which is what made the velociraptors listen to _her_, instead of to Chris Pratt. There was no mention whatsoever of the Tyranosaurus Rex’ DNA - just open the cage, wave flare, and then it ambled off to chomp on Indominus. And then, afterward, ambled off for its moneyshot on the helipad. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/19 "2016-04-27T14:58:55Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > 1. Why are the velociraptors giant, instead of the [large chickens they really were](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Vraptor-scale.png)? That really goes back to the first movie, and they needed to make them bad-ass, which is hard to do with chicken sized dinos. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044/20 "2016-04-27T15:04:49Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > That really goes back to the first movie, and they needed to make them bad-ass, which is hard to do with chicken sized dinos. They modeled them after _Deinonychus_ for looks (and what we theorize of behavior) and called them velociraptors 'cause it sounded cooler. They don’t have feathers, despite current research, because they weren’t assumed to be feathered in the mid 90s when the original was made and you can’t really go back and feather them now. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-jurassic-world-on-cable-and-have-questions/753044.md?page=2)