I caught that, and it's a good explanation. It's similar to Grant's line in JP3 about the creatures being "genetically modified theme park monsters and not dinosaurs".Dominic wrote: There is explication about how none of the dinos are pure-strain.
She probably was, but her death was so drawn out and horrible that it makes her sympathetic.However, I get the feeling that the woman killed by flying dinos was meant to be less sympathetic in early drafts.
Agreed on both.Good self-commentary on the franchise, and action movies in general, with the discussions about upping the wow factor.
The subtle call-backs to the original movie's locations were a nice touch.
Chris Pratt's character points out how poorly the Indominus has been raised and what's wrong with its cage. I think the problem lies with the secrecy under which the Indominus was developed and raised. Had Owen been in on it from the beginning, a lot of his socialization concerns and the cage design might well have been different. Let's give InGen and management credit for hiring Owen to keep the raptors under control, meaning they've learned a lot from the mistakes that Hammond made. Masrani didn't even know about the Indominus, and the first thing he did when he found out was call in the expert to evaluate.So much action/summer movie stupid.
-The park had been running smoothly for how many years and everybody gets stupid on the weekend that the kids show up? Really? The handlers cannot manage to cage a baby pig, and they are in charge of apex predators? The mcguffisaur's cage was that poorly designed, not even accounting for things the animal should have been predictably able to do?
Of course, the next thing I'd have done was to fire and prosecute the people who'd raised the dinosaur behind my back, if I was in charge. Maybe that was coming, if disaster hadn't struck. And of course he ought to have kept a closer eye on how his park was being run. And maybe there's where I might agree with you about Claire, who surely ought to have kept him apprised about the new dinosaur in the enclosure far away from the rest of the park. Business owners do delegate, and it's the responsibility of those under them to keep them in the picture, especially as a business gets larger and larger. So in that respect, she didn't do her job right. But she seems to have enjoyed being a number cruncher and little else, so that's where her mind was, and she did that well.
With regard to the disaster at the park, there's plenty of dialogue and on screen evidence that the staff and owners do a good job keeping things under control, and have done so for the decade that the park has been open. There's dialogue about a Pachy that's escaped, and the team moves in to subdue and capture it. Under normal circumstances, they've learned to run a safe park. The team that moves in to capture and subdue the Indominus are clearly organized and trained... they just don't understand what they're dealing with. The problem is the new, completely unknown killer dinosaur that has been bred that no one knows about or understands that throws the whole situation into chaos.
The "feral, unsocialized dinosaur" plotline was a part of the novel "Lost World" where Malcolm or whoever notes that the raptors have no parents to teach them, and so they run wild and don't act like normal predators. It's good to see that they're still finding ways to mine Crichton's books for ideas.
Some of the reasoning is easy to miss since it goes by in dialogue, but the Indominus was deliberately designed to be a killer. Claire belives it was all about the wow factor, but she didn't know about the behind the scenes military applications. Wu wasn't just designing it for Masrani. He was on Hoskins' payroll, and Hoskins was all about military applications. The implication being that Masrani would have shut down the project if he'd known about it, so they kept it secret from him.-Why exactly is the mcguffisaur's composition so classified that the park cannot even tells its game warden (the guy training the raptors) what it is made out of? Who the hell thought it was a good idea to mix the specific species that they did? (Oh, that composition explains everything about the monstrous dino. But, why would anybody make one, even when trying to up the "wow" factor?)