Jurassic World

Maybe he grows a mate for her but the new guy recoils in horror at Indy and starts breaking things

And has a black and white beehive hairdo

I'm not sure if that's part of the joke, but I think I should point out Dennis Hopper is dead anyway.

And the theme for the next one will be played on harmonica.

Just have Donald Trump play King Koopa and nobody will know the difference.

I was thinking about incorporating Dennis Hooper as a CGI character. With MC Skat Kat as a sidekick.

edited 26th Aug '15 11:49:01 AM by AnotherGuy

So is Bob Hoskins.

..... my goodness I just realized how old the movie is.

Say, anyone remember the Cyclops raptor from the LW toy-line? Assuming the trueness of the fan speculation that the large number of scars may indicate it's an elder/alpha who was challenged by other raptors for his/her position, would you say that this means Dueling Scar is applicable?

John Leguizamo is alive and stalking the Earth.

... Huh? What does he have to do with the JP franchise?

He's walking the dinosaur?

Is that a Super Mario Bros reference or an Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs reference? That song and John Leguizamo were in both films.

Super Mario Bros. Someone mentioned Bob Hoskins had passed away.

Hoskins... How ironic.

Anyway... While I await feedback on this question, I have another one that pertains to the franchise in general.

We all know that Lex and Tim Murphy are John Hammond's grandchildren. That necessarily means that Hammond had at least one child, who got married and had Lex and Tim. However, the fact that Tim and Lex's surname is different from their grandfather's strongly implies to me (via the reasonable assumption that their parents are following the most common trend in the US regarding married and children's names) that Hammond had a daughter who married Lex and Tim's father. Whether or not she changed her maiden name, her children would still be very likely to bear the father's name, especially if he was of similar social status to herself (i.e. scion of a wealthy family).

Anything wrong in my reasoning so far?

edited 1st Sep '15 5:15:59 AM by MarqFJA

As I recall, there's a line in the first movie where someone says hammond "wants to be with his daughter, she's getting a divorce". The scene with Gennaro visiting the amber mine, I think.

... The wiki confirms it (to my surprise; maybe they should start adding a "known relatives" field to the character infoboxes), and I just looked up the scene in the movie, where the line is indeed as you say. I guess having been a mere child who hadn't exactly attain full fluency in English yet (I've been well ahead of my peers since elementary school nevertheless) when I first watched it and not having done a rewatch since then, I hadn't understood what was being said. Perhaps being distracted by the exotic locale's visuals had also been a factor.

Anyway, with that established, I've been thinking... Hammond's daughter has been working her ass off-screen trying to maintain her father's legacy in the wake of InGen becoming more and more antithetical to his dreams, first by being a political/grassroots activist, then by ascending the ladder in Masrani Global Corporation after it bought out InGen until she reached a high-ranking position on the senior management. So high, in fact, that she's quite likely to succeed the late Simon Masrani after the events of Jurassic World, putting her in a prime position to realize her goals (and probably playing the role of Big Good to Owen and Claire in the upcoming JW2).

This is partially inspired by a comic-book spinoff of JP where the grown-up Lex Murphy became a "mega-celebrity" and CEO of a organic food-making company as well as an activist working in concert with the frigging United Nations for protecting Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna from poachers and other kinds of trespassers. Thoughts?

edited 1st Sep '15 7:29:30 AM by MarqFJA

@chasemaddigan: Why not both?

Someone near the end of this series of comments debunks the belief that the movie was highly unrealistic in depicting the I. rex as capable of communicating with the raptors just because it has raptor DNA in its genome. Specifically:

Forget motorcycles. I want to see the raptors in monster trucks.

On a different note... Anyone have ideas what could have happened to the Human Hunter from The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the PSX game, not the arcade rail shooter)? Could he have been the unfortunate guy who died in the Velociraptor's intro, since it comes straight after the final Hunter level in which said Hunter has to escape swarming hordes of vicious Velociraptors (as opposed to the smaller and not-so-extremely-dangerous Deinonychus packs from earlier levels)? It would certainly preserve the status quo regarding InGen's desire to re-obtain the fruits of their genetics research... although it's not clear what the Hunter was supposed to be after. Genomic data on the computers? Frozen embryos?

edited 8th Sep '15 12:28:09 PM by MarqFJA

Random thought.

I still don't see the point of developing raptors as weapons in today's warfare.

Now, if America had completely trained and obedient raptors back in Vietnam, that stuff would have changed the outcome of warfare (although even then not exactly for the best), but now? Come on, it's not like they can even hide anywhere because they stick out too much.

It is the time for honesty.

Man, this guy is awesome.

If Cave Johnson ran Jurassic Park.

... Is this Cave Johnson actually like that? Because damn, that is one obviously horrible CEO material there.

Very yes.