Jurassic World

So apparently Blue is a Momma now. Good for her, I guess? Could go either way for her survivability.

Pagetopper: SPOILER from the new trailer.

Edited by jakobitis on Feb 10th 2022 at 8:30:15 AM

I'm still confused how this premise works?

I get the idea the dinos are all around the world through the auction.

But why would they pose an actual threat to mankind? We are very good at killing off large predators and that was before we had high tech weapons.

You just know in this universe, there is a dumb dinosaur-hunting reality show.

I am guessing the trailers and previews will be misleading as to what the threat actually is. And it's possible that rich assholes being stupid and risking it all on dinosaurs and their repercussions of the genetics is the threat. Think Rise of the Planet of the Apes where the real threat is the arrogance and mishandling of science from rich people

Many of these dinosaurs were not from Isla Nublar. Which means that they were made by other genetic companies in what appears to be some kind of arms race.

Also, Dilophosaurus is back for real this time!

The threat of the dinosaurs being off the island was never that they'd go around eating/killing people (well, except for the raptors), it was introducing the ultimate in invasive species into a climate/ecosystem that was absolutely in no way suitable.

One single triceratops is going to be competing with whole herds of cattle in terms of food, existent apex predators are no longer top of the food chain, it will be completely out of balance.

Well developed countries can probably survive it (except because of the criminal element to it there're limits to knowing what they are tracking and how many) but poorer countries are absolutely boned.

It's a shame that the Jurassic Park movies have to be action movies. Because I'd watch the hell out of a series that just dealt with the day to day practical issues with dinosaurs as an invasive species, and the effect they have on agriculture, the food chain, people's everyday lives (especially those living in more rural areas), the economy, and global politics. XD

Edited by GNinja on Feb 10th 2022 at 9:35:52 AM

The original novel's message was always more along those lines. Malcolm wasn't necessarily predicting that dinosaurs would break out and start eating people, his point was that you couldn't recreate an animal from what was essentially a completely different planet and just put it in a modern environment.

Also the trailer has dinosaurs in snow. Will we get polar dinos?

Dinosaurs in snow is an aesthetic I can get behind.

Reminds me a bit of how Raptor Red had a scene where the raptors discover snow for the first time and start playing around in it.

What I'm curious about is the "locust swarm" in the trailer. I saw one supposed plot leak claiming that they are mutant locusts released by BioSyn to destroy the world's crops, giving BioSyn a monopoly on the food supply. But another one claimed that they are actually Meganeura.

I think the swarm being bio-engineered locusts is likelier. Meganeura would be cool, but it'll be really weird to not use some ancient locust/grasshopper for swarming stuff. And it would give relevance to how the real danger is mishandled genetic engineering.

Seems a bit weird to me, if the world's governments knows it was them who released the locusts then what's to stop them from taking the food by force rather than paying?

Aren't locusts/swarming insects relatively new to the scene?

Grasshoppers first arrived in the fossil record around the beginning of the Triassic period, 250 million years ago. Now, modern-day families didn't evolve until around the Cretaceous period, so I don't know if modern "locusts" where around during the dinosaur period. It's possible, but that type of behaviour wouldn't be easily recorded in the fossil record.

Weird to hear the Earth had grasshoppers before it had grass.

They were treehoppers, alright

Edited by VengefulBale on Feb 11th 2022 at 3:42:07 AM

I'm going to be so pissed if they kill Grant and Ellie for cheap drama. Kill Chris Pratt's character instead.

Goldblum is clearly immortal so he's obviously not on the potential death list (plus, the dude has already survived a Rex attack, so it would lack impact doing that again.)

Never Forget....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kw6TdB7hSo

An indepth vid on the 'Isla Nublar Insident' The Comments are GOLD!

Feathered dinosaurs!! Finally!

Edited by nightwyrm_zero on Apr 28th 2022 at 3:55:53 AM

for context the second trailer dropped:

God, that looks amazing. Can't wait. I really hope this isn't the end of the Jurassic franchise. I could watch these things forever.

I saw the movie at cinema, and I thought it was ok. It isn't bad, but they really lost a lot of opportunities in regard to showing dinosaurs and the modern biosphere coexisting. In the end, it is the plot of the protagonists going to an isolated dinosaur-infested location all over again, which will make the movie much less memorable. My overall experience was positive, I think, but considering the legacy of what the first movie achieved with much less budget and opportunities, it should've been much more remarkable.

I found strange they also didn't show the prologue released a few months ago, why that? They must have spent a lot of the budget in the special effects in that scene.

Edited by good-morning on Jun 8th 2022 at 11:19:53 AM

Lines up with other early reactions. A mix of "fun spectacle" to "bloated and hollow."