Jurassic World

What did the Americans need to do with an elephant?

March it around as a Republican mascot?

It was a "winning hearts and minds" move, at least in the movie. The villagers were helping American soldiers monitor Viet Cong activity in the area, and the elephant was the village's Sacred Cow of a sort. The Viet Cong rolled into the village when the Americans happened to be away, and killed the elephant as punishment for collaborating. So the Americans got the new elephant to keep the villagers on their side.

They should be the premise of the next movie. Just replace the elephant with, like, a stegosaurus.

Probably should blunt those thagomizers first.

Or use a hadrosaur instead.

This is never going to happen but I'd rather all Jurassic Park movies be set in a functioning park.

Me too-I loved the idea of a fully functional park. I would be down for a series-any medium, really-about a functional park and all that goes into it. Having the movies be strictly about things going wrong is kinda stale.

Okay, this amused me.

This is one of the main reasons why I tend to tune out any and all arguments about the plausibility of the Jurassic World park making a comeback from the Indominus incident, whether it's a simple continuation from canon (e.g. The Scaly Raptor) or an AU divergence where the Indominus was actually an Anti-Villain that got convinced to pull a Heel–Face Turn (e.g. It's not the Raptor DNA).

edited 28th Apr '18 7:53:25 AM by MarqFJA

It'd be fun to see a functioning park, but there's no way the franchise is going back there. For us gamers there's an entire genre based on that idea, thankfully.

Apropos of nothing I like the setting idea of Lost Kingdom and Lost World more than Jurassic Park and World

Something about a decayed abandoned facility (or upside down boat) really appeals to me more than one actively going to shit

I'm just saying I think they could have fixed 99% of the franchise's problems making sequels if they just stuck it in a park and had adventures there.

Part of why 2 and 3 sucked was because there was no park.

It was just dinosaur island.

YMMV there. Two didn't suck for being on dinosaur island. To be honest, to me it didn't suck, but I can see the complaints and they really boil down to Van Owen being an eco terrorist and getting the rest of the group on board with killing the hunters' camp. Even that wasn't necessarily bad, considering NOT killing the camp meant a whole bunch more dinos on the mainland. It might have been better if barely anyone had survived the island except Malcolm and his family.

Two had that problem that a lot of bad movies have where they're basically two movies because the script never managed to cohesively gel.

Also not enough time spent in the abandoned facilities.

"Also not enough time spent in the abandoned facilities."

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Or, if dinosaurs do become a normal part◊ of life in the rest of the world.

Mmm thats some good abandonment

Your links are all broken.

They're all working fine for me... after I turned on Psiphon to bypass my country's Media Watchdog's censorship, that is.

No hybrids for JW3.

Well that's a spoiler. It means Indoraptor probably won't make it.

I've said this before, but I really hope they bring back the spinosaurus. That thing is just too cool to be a one-movie dino. When the T. rex crashed through the spino skeleton at the end of Jurassic World, I died a little inside.

I also hope Jeff Goldblum gets more than a cameo.

Well we know from Independence Day Resurgence that he can still pull off more than a cameo.

Supplemental stuff has it there was only ever one Spino. They brought it along with the other dinosaurs but died sometime before the events of the movie. That might've been actually her skeleton in there

The interesting thing is that they also explained its presence as having been one of several hybrids created a splinter group of Masrani's and set loose upon Site B, disrupting the ecosystem there. With how stupid aggressive it was, it might have been a proto-Indominus all along