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In Jurassic World (2015), the theme park’s scientists were able to clone
a mosasaur because 65 million years ago, a mosquito managed to suck the
blood of this underwater marine dinosaur and preserve its DNA
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|u/admiralargon - 6 hours
|
|The only good scene in this movie was the scientist basically admitting
|the park was bullshit and they gene spliced whatever they needed/ wanted
|to fill the gaps to generate better appeal.


  |u/evilamnesiac - 6 hours
  |
  | “if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite
  |different. But you didn’t ask for reality, you asked for more teeth “


    |u/Keyboardpaladin - 5 hours
    |
    |Thank you World's Biggest Jurassic World Fan


      |u/seoulsoup - 3 hours
      |
      |Ngl whether you’re a fan of JP/JW or not you gotta admit this was
      |a cold line.


        |u/zxxQQz - 2 hours
        |
        |Absolutely, yeah🧊❄️ Icecold


          |u/Helfette - 2 hours
          |
          |Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright,
          |alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright


            |u/lambofgun - 2 hours
            |
            |now ladies!


              |u/Fair_Buyer_9991 - 2 hours
              |
              |"Yeah?"


                |u/610158305 - 1 hour
                |
                |Now we didn't break this thing just for 2 seconds


                  |u/Daggmaskar - 57 minutes
                  |
                  |Now, don't have me break this thing down for nothing


            |u/BlyatUKurac - 1 hour
            |
            |![gif](giphy|g5zvwUa9720pO)


        |u/Flawedsuccess - 2 hours
        |
        |The right amount of teeth


      |u/Excellent_Routine589 - 2 hours
      |
      |The first one was damn good IMO…. And then the sequels happened
      |lol


        |u/HelpMaleficent5604 - 1 hour
        |
        |Jurassic world was least an attempt to revisit the concept with
        |updated ideals. Love the films but yeah JP1/JW1 then the rest
        |really wouldn’t watch again unless nothing else was on


          |u/DalbyWombay - 13 minutes
          |
          |I think for the most part Jurassic World succeed in that. The
          |weakest part honestly was the Raptor sub-plot.


        |u/volcanologistirl - 2 hours
        |
        |Honestly I’m both a cinephile and have a bit of a paleo
        |background and I’d rather chug bleach than watch another
        |Jurassic World movie, and that includes the first.   I genuinely
        |don’t know what sober people see in those films.


          |u/EpicAura99 - 2 hours
          |
          |beeg dinos


            |u/DummyDumDragon - 1 hour
            |
            |Big lizard, chomp chomp


          |u/SendStoreMeloner - 1 hour
          |
          |You can't enjoy a movie unless it's 100% accurate? The visuals
          |were amazing for its time. The story was ok.


            |u/volcanologistirl - 1 hour
            |
            |I can’t enjoy a movie unless it’s good, or so bad it’s good.
            |You latched onto the wrong thing to focus on for the
            |critique, there. :)


              |u/SendStoreMeloner - 1 hour
              |
              |How can you say I latched on to something wrong? You don't
              |get to decide that.   >I can’t enjoy a movie unless it’s
              |good  Most people considered it amazing for its time. The
              |first one was a huge hit. It's something about you then
              |and your taste if you don't like it.


            |u/bondsmatthew - 1 hour
            |
            |If you're really into something it can hard to suspend
            |disbelief. I've read that *some* animators or prop masters
            |have a hard time watching movies because they're always
            |looking out yknow


              |u/volcanologistirl - 1 hour
              |
              |I can suspend disbelief infinitely if the underlying movie
              |is fun. See: The Core.  JW was just an unbelievably
              |terrible film. The critique is more from the cinephile
              |side than the dino side.


            |u/Top-Round-2359 - 1 hour
            |
            |Jurassic Park or Jurassic World? Jurassic Park - 100%
            |agreed, Jurassic World (which op mentioned) was 9yrs ago,
            |and it has good visuals but nothing groundbreaking.


          |u/orru - 1 hour
          |
          |Jurassic World was fun as hell to watch. Zero depth but that's
          |not what they were going for.


          |u/fyrdude58 - 1 hour
          |
          |An escape from reality?   Like every other science fiction
          |film?  I mean, I don't want to spoil it for you, but Captain
          |Kirk isn't going to slingshot around a black hole to go to a
          |Galaxy Far Far Away and use the Force to defeat the face
          |sucking Alien before John Connor destroys Skynet.


            |u/volcanologistirl - 1 hour
            |
            |I think holding up JW next to The Terminator, Star Wars, and
            |Star Trek is an interesting choice. I’d probably compare it
            |more to a made-for-TV disaster flick trying to cash in on
            |the late 90s craze, but with a bigger budget and worse
            |writing.   If the cinema equivalent of getting violently
            |concussed by a marketing department is your escape from
            |reality, than who am I to judge?


              |u/fyrdude58 - 1 hour
              |
              |Don't forget Alien.


          |u/Real-Mouse-554 - 1 hour
          |
          |Paleo background is the answer. Whenever a movie is made by
          |something you know a lot about, it will usually suck for you.
          |Movies take so many liberties with reality for entertainment,
          |that it’s usually better not to be aware of them.


            |u/volcanologistirl - 1 hour
            |
            |Nope, The Core absolutely slaps and that’s far more my
            |specialization than any dino stuff. It’s not the paleo
            |background that’s an issue (and most paleo folks I know
            |actively like the liberties taken by the Jurassic Park
            |series for Reasons™️). I think it’s bad storytelling, bad
            |direction, an abuse of their VFX house, and a blatant cash
            |grab that was afraid to be its own thing apart from the
            |potential franchise money that they sought by casting as
            |wide a net as possible.


              |u/2stepsfromglory - 2 minutes
              |
              |I completely agree with you. It's just another lazy reboot
              |trying to use nostalgia to draw audiences back to a
              |popular IP without bringing any new or interesting ideas,
              |with a bad cast, lame dialogues and an excess of digital
              |effects which makes the dinosaurs look faker than in a
              |movie from three decades ago. The worst thing is the
              |people that act as if it was some kind of meta-commentary
              |to try to make it seem like it's a deeper film than it
              |really is.


          |u/Acrobatic_Ocelot_461 - 1 hour
          |
          |It's just a mindless movie with dinosaurs, enjoy your bleach.


            |u/volcanologistirl - 1 hour
            |
            |The problem is that “mindless” extended to the entire
            |filmmaking process. Jurassic Park was a cinematic
            |masterpiece of the disaster film genre and Jurassic World
            |was “What if we MCU’d that franchise and milked it dry?”


              |u/Acrobatic_Ocelot_461 - 1 hour
              |
              |I agree, most hit movies milk that cash cow to death and
              |in the process ruin the entire franchise, like Indiana
              |Jones. Sometimes you just need to leave well enough alone.
              |On the other hand, everybody likes big dinosaurs.


                |u/volcanologistirl - 1 hour
                |
                |The big dinosaurs are great on screen and are a unique
                |and interesting storytelling device which, in GW, were
                |wasted by not doing any unique, interesting storytelling
                |with. They took the existential horror of Jurassic Park
                |and made it a sub-par MCU film, complete with Starlord
                |and the Guardians of the Raptorcy.


      |u/InnocentTailor - 2 hours
      |
      |I like the film too.  If nothing else, it made a plausible
      |dinosaur park I would’ve loved to visit in real life.


      |u/AwarenessNo4986 - 3 hours
      |
      |Lol


    |u/Ccaves0127 - 3 hours
    |
    |I don't think this movie gets nearly enough credit for being a meta
    |commentary on itself and commercialism. They're bringing back an old
    |park and adding a bunch of fake shit to the dinosaurs because kids
    |don't think dinos are cool enough anymore...Jimmy Buffet carrying
    |margaritas...I think this movie is definitely pretty smart about
    |what it's doing


      |u/mikebrownhurtsme - 3 hours
      |
      |Than it has the terrorist-fighting dinosaurs subplot with the
      |Kingpin, and you wonder what the fuck were they thinking 


        |u/Battleraizer - 3 hours
        |
        |Diversifying from just running a theme park zoo business


          |u/Skuzbagg - 2 hours
          |
          |Velociraptors on motorcycles didn't pan out so good.


            |u/Battleraizer - 2 hours
            |
            |Should have done card games on motorcycles instead


              |u/space_keeper - 1 hour
              |
              |Children's card games on motorcycles!


                |u/Raeziel59 - 1 hour
                |
                |Yuseiiiii


            |u/Featureless_Bug - 1 hour
            |
            |You've gotta weaponize the raptors


        |u/totalcrazytalk - 2 hours
        |
        |I think that's the most believable part. If we were able to
        |clone a dino that was remotely like the raptors in the jp
        |franchise. We would try to weaponise them 1000%


          |u/mikebrownhurtsme - 2 hours
          |
          |But they play it so straight in a rather light-hearted summer
          |blockbuster where there are jokes all throughout and it's not
          |nitty and gritty at all. No one comments on how absurd it is,
          |and to make it even worse they bring it back in the second one
          |where again no one comments on how ridiculous it is having
          |T-Rexes fight Al Qaeda  It's fkn insane lol


            |u/mothguide - 2 hours
            |
            |T-Rexes fighting Al Qaeda was a great idea. What was a bad
            |idea was Ishtar


              |u/Singedallalong - 2 hours
              |
              |These men are pawns!


              |u/shaunika - 2 hours
              |
              |One two three four, two two three four


            |u/totalcrazytalk - 2 hours
            |
            |I'll give u that it is definitely a tone shift for those
            |parts.


            |u/midnight_riddle - 2 hours
            |
            |I made a mistake and watched the movie with my cousin, who
            |knows a lot about guns and he got pissed at all the scenes
            |the guns are just *nerfed* because if guns worked like
            |actual guns then the dinosaurs would be dead and it would be
            |obvious how incredibly stupid it is to think you're going to
            |make a fortune selling these expensive, hard to care for,
            |will ditch you at the drop of a hat despite imprinting,
            |animals that will make about two seconds before they get
            |turned into prehistoric swiss cheese by cheap and reliable
            |bullets.


              |u/Theslamstar - 1 hour
              |
              |Your cousin is wrong for this reason alone.  The gene
              |edited the dinosaurs. We are told this directly.  They can
              |just use a dumb sci-fi gene editing explanation to say
              |they made their skin tougher than a bullet can penetrate


            |u/MetalJunkie101 - 10 minutes
            |
            |Wait, what? A T-Rex fights Al Qaeda?


          |u/Homem_da_Carrinha - 1 hour
          |
          |But why would you try to weaponize dinosaurs in the age of
          |drones?  I mean, there’s a reason no military in the world
          |tries to mount machineguns in leopards or orcas or Komodo
          |dragons.


            |u/igncom1 - 1 hour
            |
            |> there’s a reason no military in the world tries to mount
            |machineguns in leopards or orcas or Komodo dragons.  Because
            |they are lame!  Also don't militaries already try to
            |weaponise Orcas and other marine mammals?


            |u/Rexpelliarmus - 1 hour
            |
            |I mean that’s not done in real life because we don’t have a
            |mechanism to make these animals follow our commands like
            |they managed in the second movie.


            |u/djnw - 48 minutes
            |
            |Because a weapon that’s good for killing people and a weapon
            |that scares the hell out of people are two different things.


        |u/InnocentTailor - 2 hours
        |
        |To be fair, he was mostly postulating throughout the film before
        |he bit the dust.  The films got stupid when they actually cashed
        |on that ridiculous subplot.


        |u/thedankening - 2 hours
        |
        |It was absolutely stupid yes, but tactical combat velociraptors
        |is a fucking dope idea and I will die on that hill lol


        |u/swargin - 14 minutes
        |
        |That was the plot of the original Jurassic Park 4.
        |http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/58969  The military was going
        |to create dinosaur hybrids. There's more concept art out there
        |if you look up Jurassic Park 4 Concept Art.


      |u/WillFuckForFijiWater - 2 hours
      |
      |I will defend Jurassic World both as a turn-your-brain-off action
      |movie and as an under-the-surface movie. If you want to see cool
      |dinosaurs do dinosaur things, it's there. If you're looking for a
      |meta-commentary on reboots, remakes, and the theme park industry,
      |it's also there.


        |u/Lazy-Emergency-4018 - 9 minutes
        |
        |I dont like the Meta stuff at all. So many movies doing
        |commentary on how bad reboots/endless sequels are ... yeah we
        |know, so just stop it and dont pretend like you are above it
        |just because you make fun of yourselfs. 


      |u/JoelyRavioli - 2 hours
      |
      |Jurassic World is the best sequel outside of the Lost World imo.


        |u/MartiniPolice21 - 2 hours
        |
        |I'd say it's better than that to be fair; I don't think it'd a
        |coincidence that the two best films in the series are ones where
        |dinosaurs are in a park, something goes wrong, and they all get
        |out


        |u/lambofgun - 2 hours
        |
        |agreed.  its a significant, exponential drop in quality after
        |the original movie, but it would definitely be jurassic park >
        |lost world > jurassic world.  where we are now... i... dinosaur
        |auctions... clones... the locusts... chris pratt keeping the
        |dinosaurs at bay with the palm of his hand... its so terribe


          |u/igncom1 - 1 hour
          |
          |> dinosaur auctions  Isn't that basically the extension of
          |what the hunt was about in Lost World? Selling the dinosaurs
          |off for profit to the next buyer?


          |u/JeremyEComans - 32 minutes
          |
          |I don't think anything after JP tops the Lockwood Manor
          |sequence in Lost Kingdom. So that's my 2nd spot. Then JW. And
          |the other three are also dinosaur movies, which, that's good
          |enough sometimes. 


        |u/orru - 1 hour
        |
        |Imo it's better than LW simply because it doesn't have a random
        |half hour 2nd movie tacked onto the end.


      |u/ailof-daun - 1 hour
      |
      |That’s literally the same as the original just modernized. It’d
      |have to provide something new, a movie with more teeth to be a
      |worthwhile watch


      |u/TheScarletCravat - 52 minutes
      |
      |It's a theme from the original book, that's why. A nod towards how
      |meta it is doesn't really excuse its sins though.


      |u/GnRgr2 - 47 minutes
      |
      |The original already said they used other dna to fill gaps, hence
      |the asexual egg laying


      |u/yetisnowmane - 2 hours
      |
      |Hard lampshading doesn't make it a good watch though unfortunately


      |u/_lemon_suplex_ - 2 hours
      |
      |They brought Jimmy Buffet back to life?


      |u/isthenameofauser - 2 hours
      |
      |Came here to say this. OP's criticising Jurassic World like it's
      |Jurassic Park. No, the premise of the film is that they need to
      |make bigger monsters to get people's interest. And yes, it's a
      |cool meta-commentary.


    |u/Fresh-Army-6737 - 4 hours
    |
    |Dr Wong!


      |u/Minmax-the-Barbarian - 3 hours
      |
      |That's *Dr. Wu,* played by B.D. Wong.


        |u/Fresh-Army-6737 - 3 hours
        |
        |That's what he wants us to think. But he's been working for
        |InGen since the 80s


          |u/ImminentDebacle - 2 hours
          |
          |He always reminded me of Val Kilmer, at least when Val was
          |Batman.  They talk very similarly and I'd be lying if I said
          |Wong didn't look like an Asian Val.


      |u/domino_squad1 - 3 hours
      |
      |More like dr wrong am I right. hahaha….am I right? What even is
      |“right”  😔🔫 was I right god was I? FUCKING TELL ME I need to know
      |🩸😣🔫


        |u/ReallyBadRedditName - 3 hours
        |
        |lol


      |u/_lemon_suplex_ - 2 hours
      |
      |That dude didn’t age at all


        |u/Fresh-Army-6737 - 2 hours
        |
        |Bd Wong?!


      |u/careless_swiggin - 51 minutes
      |
      |if anything dr wong is the most genus modifier of hox genes and
      |bio-engineer the world has ever seen, and is way ahead of everyone
      |else  give me some junk dna, i will just pretend to use it and be
      |god


    |u/CooperDaChance - 3 hours
    |
    |Funny because in the book it was the complete opposite.   The
    |scientists proposed changing the genome to make them more appealing
    |to visitors but Hammond insisted on keeping them as unaltered as
    |possible.


      |u/JManKit - 3 hours
      |
      |The book is such a different experience. Dr. Wu had a much bigger
      |role and was less likeable bc of the careless way he had
      |approached the re-creation of extinct creatures. At one point,
      |Malcolm takes him to task for forgetting the names of some of the
      |dinosaurs they've created and Wu's defence is 'There are so many
      |of them and I have more important things to do.' But Hammond's
      |change was the most drastic as he was a real piece of shit who
      |eventually got eaten by a bunch of compies near the end. Probably
      |for the best that they made him a nice, albeit kind of naive,
      |grandpa character for the movie  Edit: also, the realization that
      |the dinos are breeding is such a cool moment in the book but is
      |barely anything in the movie


        |u/BawdyBadger - 2 hours
        |
        |I think as well, Henry Wu was a failed research scientist.
        |That's why Hammond got him so cheap. He's talented, but he's
        |nowhere near the best.   Hammond cheaped out on all his staff,
        |except Muldoon strangely.  Edit: Sorry, that was Howard King in
        |The Lost World. Wu was a graduate student who took over from his
        |professor who died.


          |u/midnight_riddle - 1 hour
          |
          |It cannot be understated how STUPID it was for Dr. Wu to
          |choose to use male zygotes and alter them so the dinosaurs
          |would develop a female phenotype.  Picture this: You got
          |tasked with making spaghetti for dinner when company is coming
          |over. So you concoct this elaborate setup to straighten out
          |ramen noodles and alter their texture and flavor so they will
          |taste more like spaghetti noodles. You go through packet after
          |packet of ramen noodles experimenting with how to turn them
          |into spaghetti noodles. Someone finally asks what the hell are
          |you doing and why don't you *just use cook with spaghetti
          |noodles from the start* and you reply, "Because I'm Dr. Henry
          |Wu."  Just use female zygotes from the start.


            |u/Theslamstar - 1 hour
            |
            |Girls are gay


          |u/JManKit - 2 hours
          |
          |Was he? I thought it was that Hammond got to Wu early in his
          |career, before he'd really gotten his feet set, and then
          |offered him control over a huge project that someone his age
          |would have needed to wait years to get to head up


            |u/BawdyBadger - 1 hour
            |
            |I haven't read the book in a few years.  I got him mixed up
            |with Howard King from Lost World.   He's a graduate student
            |who takes over after his menor dies.     Howard King was the
            |failed researcher.


              |u/JManKit - 1 hour
              |
              |An interesting part of JP is when Wu realizes that the
              |dino making process that he created was now so streamlined
              |and smooth, that he was essentially not needed anymore.
              |They could do it without him entirely which is why Hammond
              |doesn't care to listen to his ideas about putting in the
              |new versions of the dinos to make them match visitor
              |expectations and be more manageable


        |u/MegaGrimer - 2 hours
        |
        |And it would be rated R if kept true to the book. Could you
        |imagine the uproar if they showed the baby getting eaten by a
        |dino at the beginning?


          |u/JManKit - 2 hours
          |
          |Woof, I always forget about that scene. The eating of the face
          |and the tearing little strips of flesh off would have set the
          |tone of the movie as much more of a horror film than an
          |adventure/thriller.


        |u/lambofgun - 2 hours
        |
        |if i remember correctly he has to listen to his grandkids play
        |around on some intercom system while he gets eaten and it pissed
        |him off.  such a miserable fuck in the book haha


          |u/JManKit - 1 hour
          |
          |Yeah, they found the PA system for the island and played the
          |T-Rex roar over it to scare everyone. That caused him to slip
          |and twist his ankle when he tried to run away. He even tries
          |to lay the blame for the island's failure on them bc he's so
          |pissed at that moment. Then gets got by the compys and good
          |riddance


        |u/mok000 - 2 hours
        |
        |I agree, the book is next level, I always felt Spielberg's
        |script let it down.


          |u/JManKit - 2 hours
          |
          |I personally wouldn't say that one is better than the other.
          |The movie came in at 127 minutes which was pretty dang long
          |for the time so I can see why they simplified some of the
          |parts. Like I liked the changes they made to Malcolm bc in the
          |book, he's more on the annoying side. I do think that the
          |realization of the flaws in the counting program would have
          |made for a good movie scene but maybe they didn't feel like
          |that was too exciting


            |u/Tight_Future_2105 - 55 minutes
            |
            |The lawyer was a much more likable character in the book as
            |well.


          |u/lambofgun - 2 hours
          |
          |i read the book saw the movie.  thats a crazy as hell, but
          |true sentence, considering how incredible the movie still is


        |u/jew_jitsu - 2 hours
        |
        |The Dino’s are breeding in the books *because* of gene splicing
        |with species that could change gender.


          |u/5Hjsdnujhdfu8nubi - 2 hours
          |
          |Yeah, but they figure it out after finding too many dinosaurs
          |because of the reveal that JP's Dino counting system was only
          |ever programmed to count up to the *amount they made* and no
          |one had ever conducted an in-person survey. When 20 Gallimimus
          |are in the paddock it counts 20, even if there's actually 40
          |in the paddock and 15 are loose in the park.   As opposed to
          |the movie where they just stumbled across a wild nest with
          |eggs in it.


            |u/Silly_Manner_3449 - 2 hours
            |
            |>Dino counting system was only ever programmed to count up
            |to the amount they made and no one had ever conducted an in-
            |person survey  This is my favourite scene in the entire
            |book. The buildup to it is great, and then when it's finally
            |revealed... I mean you kind of know it's about to happen,
            |but that's what makes a book great. When things are
            |forshadowed in a way that you know it's going to happen and
            |you just sit there, turning pages, waiting for the payoff.


          |u/JManKit - 2 hours
          |
          |Oh I know what I meant was the way they got confirmation in
          |the book was cool. In the book, they talk about how the island
          |has a camera system that has near round the clock eyes on the
          |dinos and a computer program uses that data to count the
          |number of animals every few minutes to ensure that none of
          |them could ever escape. Then they realize that the program
          |stops counting once the expected number of dinos is reached,
          |meaning there could be more dinos but they never get counted.
          |They were so worried about losing dinos that they completely
          |disregarded the possibility of more dinos than they released,
          |partly bc they trusted their sterilization process and partly
          |bc they didn't realize some of the genes they spliced in were
          |from creatures that could change gender


          |u/LurkerNoMore-TF - 2 hours
          |
          |”Growing a dick ain’t no big deal. You just activate a froggy
          |gene in your DNA and…pow!”


            |u/lambofgun - 2 hours
            |
            |is that a line straight from the book, i cant remember.
            |sounds like michael chriton hired stephen king as a ghost
            |writer.


          |u/ApocalyptoSoldier - 13 minutes
          |
          |Trans dinosaurs


      |u/5Hjsdnujhdfu8nubi - 2 hours
      |
      |Not true though, there's a part of the book where they explain the
      |dinosaurs have been made to look more appealing over what's
      |realistic, to move slower if people are expecting them to be slow
      |and so on.  The frog DNA was in the book as well as the film.
      |Nothing in Jurassic Park *or* World is natural.


      |u/daversa - 2 hours
      |
      |Well he spared no expense.


      |u/MossyPyrite - 1 hour
      |
      |Isn’t Hammond dead by that point in the series though?


    |u/Tis_CaptainDeadpool - 4 hours
    |
    |Why did Jim Halpert do that


      |u/qwertyrave - 3 hours
      |
      |[wrong guy](https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/B._D._Wong)
      |though. Randall Park wasn't in the Jurassic series.


        |u/Sea_Tooth_7416 - 3 hours
        |
        |He got the wrong guy when it was the Wong guy all along.


          |u/qwertyrave - 3 hours
          |
          |two Wongs don't make a right though


        |u/CooperDaChance - 3 hours
        |
        |Identity theft is a serious crime, Jim.


          |u/MegaGrimer - 2 hours
          |
          |It happens to millions of families every year!


        |u/Tis_CaptainDeadpool - 1 hour
        |
        |oh, maybe I am a little racist


      |u/Courwes - 31 minutes
      |
      |You people are so desperate to make the same old tired stale jokes
      |you can’t even get them right anymore.


    |u/silverclovd - 59 minutes
    |
    |Yeah, don't care if it was in a mediocre movie that's a dope-ass
    |line.


    |u/Livid_Bet6665 - 3 hours
    |
    |That's not very amnesiac of you


    |u/PradaWestCoast - 2 hours
    |
    |That’s the handwave to explain the lack of feathers


    |u/datbackup - 2 hours
    |
    |Sir if I made a Jurassic world sub would you post quotes in there
    |every day? Or at least weekly?  I mean… i lack your deep knowledge
    |of this film.. is it quotable enough to make the juice worth the
    |squeeze?


    |u/Hattix - 2 hours
    |
    |I laughed out loud at that openly retconning statement. It was like
    |the writers were all "People know our 1990s shrink-wrapped leather
    |lizards aren't really how dinosaurs looked. We gotta do something
    |but preserve our monsters' brand identity"


    |u/Might-960 - 2 hours
    |
    |I love how this explains why many of them don't have feathers, when
    |scientifically they should have.


    |u/OriginalName13246 - 2 hours
    |
    |"I never asked for a monster !"


    |u/Pixelplanet5 - 1 hour
    |
    |yea this movie really made the entire problem of such a park being
    |in private hands very obvious.


    |u/ghosttaco8484 - 1 hour
    |
    |"Look, all I want is some sharks with some frickn' laser beams
    |attached to their heads."


    |u/001235 - 15 minutes
    |
    |That was one of the biggest points in the original book. Dr. Wu
    |literally tells Hammond that since the have mastered the art of gene
    |splicing, they could make the dinosaurs as docile as sheep. "You
    |could have a dinosaur petting zoo, complete with triceratops rides."
    |John Hammond didn't want that, either. He wanted them to be scary.
    |The later movies, including Jurassic World get into more of that,
    |but the OG JP missed it.


    |u/houVanHaring - 2 minutes
    |
    |What, you remember this, but not to bring the requested milk?


  |u/Nightingdale099 - 6 hours
  |
  |They would never replicate the first book which is a group of
  |scientists roasting the shit out of Hammond.


    |u/raspberryharbour - 4 hours
    |
    |Tonight on Jurassic Gear....


      |u/101375 - 4 hours
      |
      |Hammond splices DNA, James rides a dinosaur and I get devoured by
      |Tyrannosaurus Rex.


        |u/hailtheprince10 - 3 hours
        |
        |Can Jeff Goldblum be the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car?


          |u/101375 - 3 hours
          |
          |TV production, uh….finds a way.


          |u/InnocentTailor - 2 hours
          |
          |As long as he can get past Gambon Corner.


      |u/Nightingdale099 - 4 hours
      |
      |Hammond : It's perfectly safe , we have a computer system that
      |tracks the number of dinos on the island so not a single one gets
      |loose  Malcolm : Guess again dipshit


        |u/Gentlemanvaultboy - 3 hours
        |
        |The computer tracking system worked perfectly, it found all the
        |dinosaurs they asked it to find. It's not the softwares' fault
        |that they told it to only count up to the amount of dinosaurs
        |they thought they had.


          |u/Select-Ad7146 - 1 hour
          |
          |I do really like that part, because you can so clearly see why
          |they would have made that mistake, but also the mistake is
          |obvious when it is pointed out.  They were thinking of the
          |problem from the wrong direction, they were worried about
          |dinos dying off, not being born. So they programmed the system
          |with that bias in mind.


      |u/BossNassOfficial - 4 hours
      |
      |HAMMOND YOU IDIOT YOU'VE REVERSED INTO THE SPORTS DIPLODOCUS!


        |u/-boo-- - 3 hours
        |
        |I don't have to outrun the dino, I only have to outrun you,
        |Captain Slow.


        |u/shokolokobangoshey - 3 hours
        |
        |r/BottomGear


      |u/we_are_all_devo - 1 hour
      |
      |\*womp\*  Jurassic cheese.


      |u/jeanclaudebrowncloud - 31 minutes
      |
      |All we know is, he's called the Steg


    |u/Rufus--T--Firefly - 4 hours
    |
    |It would have been a much different movie if they had included the
    |bit of them hunting raptors with a rocket launcher.


      |u/CrownOfPosies - 4 hours
      |
      |Or included one of the opening chapters where one of those smaller
      |dinosaurs eats a baby’s face in a maternity ward on the mainland
      |showing that dinosaurs were getting off the island without them
      |even noticing


        |u/ninthtale - 3 hours
        |
        |Wasn't the prologue of JP the book the intro to JP2 the movie?


          |u/CurtisLeow - 2 hours
          |
          |Yeah there were multiple scenes in the Lost World film that
          |were taken from the first book. The waterfall/river stuff was
          |from the Jurassic Park book. The small dinosaurs eating the
          |bad guy, that scene was based on how Hammond died in the first
          |book.


            |u/XF10 - 2 hours
            |
            |The "bird cage" scene from 3 was based on the first book too


              |u/GreyouTT - 51 minutes
              |
              |It’s the best part of the movie from a horror perspective
              |too.


        |u/Gen_Ripper - 3 hours
        |
        |I thought that was a other island, but either way the rest is
        |true


    |u/Temnodontosaurus - 3 hours
    |
    |"Rumors of my dinosaurs breeding and escaping to the mainland are
    |FAKE NEWS!"  "I know more about dinosaurs, genetic engineering and
    |theme parks better than, I think, almost anybody."


      |u/Effective_Bee_2005 - 2 hours
      |
      |damn I almost made it 5 minutes on reddit without one of you
      |obsessively needing to reference him


      |u/LurkerNoMore-TF - 2 hours
      |
      |I mean…he is very likely to make this a side project in his quest
      |for genetically engineered catgirls…


  |u/The_Good_Hunter_ - 5 hours
  |
  |Which was part of the point of the original novels anyway, the
  |dinosaurs have always been bullshit


    |u/clearfox777 - 4 hours
    |
    |Yep even in the first movie they had to fill the gaps with frog dna


      |u/InnocentTailor - 2 hours
      |
      |…which is what led to the breeding issue - a facet in the overall
      |collapse of the park.


  |u/not2dragon - 4 hours
  |
  |Eh, the earlier movies had a point about how the dinosaurs weren’t
  |sluggish or cold blooded like the general public thought. The
  |Dilophosaurus was just speculative paleotonology.


    |u/CooperDaChance - 3 hours
    |
    |Also the Dilophosaurus in the movie was tiny. IRL they’re like, 2-3x
    |the size easily.


      |u/Exotic-Strawberry667 - 2 hours
      |
      |The velociraptor is about turkey sized, but being chased by
      |turkeys, just doesnt make for a good plot, so they based them on
      |Utah raptors.


        |u/Auran82 - 2 hours
        |
        |I think it was after the Deinonychus, certainly not as catchy of
        |a name, the Utahraptor was even bigger.  Source: I was a
        |dinosaur tragic as a child


        |u/PackOk1473 - 1 hour
        |
        |Ackshually Utahraptor ostrommaysi was discovered during Jurassic
        |Park's post-production.    The raptors are meant to be
        |Velociraptor antirrhopus, more commonly known as Deinonychus
        |antirrhopus


  |u/OofOuchMyTesticles - 4 hours
  |
  |Don’t forget the scenes with Bryce Dallas Howard’s absolutely
  |ridiculous badonk in them


    |u/Unlikely-Werewolf304 - 3 hours
    |
    |Why would I do that


    |u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT - 3 hours
    |
    |Didn't they edit it down for the posters lol


      |u/JohnWoosDoveGuy - 1 hour
      |
      |Do you have any,  erm, evidence for my,.... research,  yes that's
      |it. Pictures perhaps?


        |u/effa94 - 28 minutes
        |
        |[they toned it down for the poster](https://www.reddit.com/media
        |?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F7m257vppy1a91.jpg)


    |u/_lemon_suplex_ - 2 hours
    |
    |I feel like she’s underrated, she’s one of the hottest women I’ve
    |ever seen in my opinion. Massive crush since seeing her in a
    |SpiderMan 3


  |u/FaronTheHero - 4 hours
  |
  |I don't have a problem with that being part of the lore at all. Real
  |world science is increasingly proving that these classic images we
  |have of dinosaurs are more like mythical creatures akin to dragons
  |rather than what any of the species actually looked like.  So there's
  |an additional appeal to the idea the scientists of Jurassic Park/World
  |were never recreating the past, but pushing the boundaries of what
  |kind of living creatures science and nature were capable of creating.


    |u/deathbylasersss - 4 hours
    |
    |They are getting pretty good at guessing how the skeletal systems
    |would be arranged and oriented. There are only so many body plans
    |that would make sense/be feasible. Fossils are sometimes found that
    |are almost perfectly preserved with all the bones arrayed exactly as
    |they were when the animal died. You can tell how muscles would have
    |attached to bones by how robust they are in certain places and make
    |comparisons to modern creatures as well.   Soft tissue is another
    |story though, because muscle and especially skin is not preserved.
    |We really have no idea what the coloration of skin, scales, and
    |feathers would have been like. Stuff like a Spinosaurus' signature
    |sail is even debated. It could have been a large fleshy hump for all
    |we know.


      |u/suxatjugg - 1 hour
      |
      |I heard they did figure out feather colour from the DNA?


        |u/deathbylasersss - 1 hour
        |
        |There is no non-avian dinosaur DNA. It would have degraded
        |millions of years ago and you can't get it from mosquitoes
        |trapped in amber, even if it is a rad narrative device.


  |u/LeonSigmaKennedy - 3 hours
  |
  |"Yeah for some reason all the dinosaurs had genes for growing feathers
  |which made them look lame as shit so we scrubbed them out. Also we
  |gave the Dilophosaurus the ability to spit acid which is sick as fuck"


  |u/Themetalenock - 4 hours
  |
  |It's pretty much a scene ripped out of the book. Pretty sure that wu
  |Makes the same point to John in the novel version of Jurassic Park.
  |Prof Wu has much more of a prominent position in that book than he
  |does in the movie


    |u/IAmWeary - 3 hours
    |
    |Don't the raptors tear his guts out in the book?


      |u/Themetalenock - 3 hours
      |
      |you're referring to john, who ironically enough meets his en at
      |the compys


        |u/IAmWeary - 3 hours
        |
        |No, I mean Wu. I seem to remember he dies with his intestines in
        |a velociraptor's mouth and his hand gets chomped too. I think it
        |was on the roof of the building that Malcolm and the others were
        |hiding in? It was so long ago that I read that book...


          |u/Themetalenock - 2 hours
          |
          |Honestly I have no clue, I remember for some bizarre reason
          |that the movie an the book just Kinda Forgets the scientist
          |outside some dialog that they were evacuated prior to the
          |storm


          |u/highdefrex - 1 hour
          |
          |Yeah. When all the characters were trapped in the lodge with
          |the raptors trying to get in through the roof, Wu opened the
          |door to let Ellie in, got ambushed, and shredded alive.


      |u/JManKit - 2 hours
      |
      |They rip into him from the back. They managed to lure him out of a
      |building and then leap onto him from above to start tearing into
      |him


  |u/Player_yek - 4 hours
  |
  |when the dinosaurs look like bird


  |u/DinkleDonkerAAA - 4 hours
  |
  |They had to add that, now that we know that dinosaurs didn't look like
  |the ones in the old movies


  |u/Momochichi - 4 hours
  |
  |Stupidest part of the movie for me was how they lamented how kids
  |nowadays reduced dinosaurs into "monsters", and always wanted more
  |teeth and claws.. and then they reduced a dinosaur movie series into a
  |monster movie series with more teeth and claws.


    |u/fearless-fossa - 2 hours
    |
    |Tbh, in the first JW movie I saw it as the intentional message of
    |the movie: "We're just here making a movie with bigger teeth and
    |bigger stakes and bigger everything because the studio and the
    |casual audience love that stuff, not because we consider this actual
    |art"


    |u/CheatsySnoops - 3 hours
    |
    |At the rate of the franchise, they may as well go big and have a
    |genetically engineered dragon made from various DNAs.


    |u/MathPlus1468 - 2 hours
    |
    |Next trilogy: ''Jurassic Teeth''


  |u/bilgobabbinsa - 3 hours
  |
  |And the dude running away from dinosaurs, but only after grabbing
  |three martinis


  |u/omega-boykisser - 4 hours
  |
  |Oh come on, now. There's a difference between minor modifications and
  |entirely different species. If they can do that, they might as well
  |start bioengineering superhuman soldiers or some shit. Surely that
  |would make more money.


  |u/lovebus - 3 hours
  |
  |The original idea was that they found a mosquito with Dino DNA. From
  |that one sample, I guess they were able to extrapolate EVERY dinosaur.


  |u/Manofalltrade - 3 hours
  |
  |Which follows the prior fan theory that also fixes the bad science in
  |the first movie. Hammond faked it all. DNA can’t last that long, and
  |the JP dinosaurs didn’t have feathers but did look like what people
  |thought at the time. He just invested in genetics and breeding till it
  |looked good. World basically just bought all the tech, research, and
  |scientists to continue the work.


  |u/KS-RawDog69 - 3 hours
  |
  |"We Franken-fucked every last one of these abominations together so
  |they look cool."


  |u/New-Interaction1893 - 2 hours
  |
  |That is a point that get established already in Jurassic Park 3, and
  |suggest a bit even in the first movie when they said that those
  |dinosaurs aren't cold blooded.  They said that they aren't real
  |dinosaurs, but a bunch of genetic codes of normal animals put together
  |with a "dinosaurs shape code" put on it. What they get doesn't have
  |both the physiology or the behaviour of the original dinosaur.


  |u/_lemon_suplex_ - 2 hours
  |
  |That scientist dude had barely aged from 1994, it was nuts.


  |u/Courage-Rude - 2 hours
  |
  |If only Hitler got his hands on those experiments!


  |u/InnocentTailor - 2 hours
  |
  |That was even mentioned on the tie-in website that was crafted for the
  |film.  In-universe guests mentioned how these dinosaurs weren’t
  |accurate to the science and were just cooked up for the theme park
  |experience.


  |u/dino_drawings - 2 hours
  |
  |Then proceeded to give that scene the middle finger with a “flashback”
  |to the Cretaceous in the last movie.


  |u/sabett - 2 hours
  |
  |I believe that's book accurate


  |u/Hatpar - 1 hour
  |
  |The first novel has this idea by the geneticist that the dinos are
  |essentially boring and he is working on more spectacular animals.


  |u/flintlock0 - 1 hour
  |
  |BD Wong? He needs to be in more stuff. Favorite was him as Hugo
  |Strange on Gotham.


  |u/crozone - 1 hour
  |
  |Yeah they filled some gaps... They didn't make an entire dinosaur from
  |scratch.


  |u/kmoonster - 1 hour
  |
  |Michael Crichton had a subtext running through the first book that
  |followed this line of thought, I was always disappointed it took
  |however many movies for that pretense to show up in any meaningful
  |way.


  |u/Pradfanne - 10 minutes
  |
  |To be fair, that's literally a plot point in the first Jurassic Park.
  |It get's explained at the start of the park by a cute cartoon DNA
  |string.  And later the all Female Dinosaurs are laying eggs ~~because
  |the water made the frogs gay~~ because of the Frog DNA that made some
  |of them male.  LITERALLY plot relevant!  Heck right at the very start
  |of the first movie, the MC tells you Dinosaurs are ancestors of birds
  |and had feathers. Yet no feathers to be seen, because Gene splicing!


  |u/WaterNo9480 - 5 minutes
  |
  |This was probably a meta commentary.  "this movie is bullshit, we
  |scene splice whatever we need / want to generate more advertising
  |revenue"


|u/MisterBadGuy159 - 4 hours
|
|Technically, mosasaurs aren't dinosaurs, they're most closely related to
|monitor lizards (or possibly snakes, it's somewhat debated).  https://pr
|eview.redd.it/b5i02oc2he1e1.jpeg?width=225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=437ea
|5637d4c289ac9bc6fb9f21669a0b82f857f


  |u/giga___hertz - 3 hours
  |
  |https://preview.redd.it/zvo5cuxdze1e1.png?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=w
  |ebp&s=c6e4ffbe50614002a9fa5ddd295d34a36a64b59b


  |u/Your_Asthma - 3 hours
  |
  |They were also only about 1/3rd the size shown in the movie.


    |u/VP007clips - 1 hour
    |
    |They addressed that in the movie.  After the death of Hammond, the
    |ownership of InGen and  the park was transferred to a new company.
    |They no longer cared about accuracy and authenticity and instead
    |focused entirely on profits. And with the idea of dinosaurs existing
    |becoming more commonplace and boring, they began to want more scary
    |dinosaurs.  They stopped producing pure dinosaurs and started making
    |heavily modified chimeras, combining amd modifying whatever DNA they
    |could find to make bigger, scarier, and more dangerous dinosaurs
    |with more teeth and more aggression.


  |u/Arilyn24 - 4 hours
  |
  |I call posting this post on r/shittyshittymoviedetails


  |u/xandry123 - 1 hour
  |
  |AkScHuAlLy


  |u/TheHumanPickleRick - 24 minutes
  |
  |![gif](giphy|Cz6TlrRVVyv9S)


|u/RockettRaccoon - 5 hours
|
|/uj all of the Dinos are genetically modified from living creatures.
|They aren’t clones of ancient creatures, that’s kind of the whole point
|of the Jurassic World trilogy


  |u/DollarReDoos - 37 minutes
  |
  |I feel like people always forget/ miss spectacularly that there are no
  |real dinosaurs in the first movie or the original book. They're all
  |genetically engineered monsters in a theme park from the very
  |beginning.


|u/ExtremlyFastLinoone - 5 hours
|
|Dude the scientist admitted the dna from mosquitos were basically
|useless, they literally just Frankensteined a bunch of animals and
|called them dinosaurs


  |u/thisismypornaccountg - 3 hours
  |
  |Technically they got A LITTLE dinosaur DNA and then used a computer to
  |fill in the rest with modern animal DNA.  The series has repeatedly
  |said that these are “theme park monsters” and the scientist said that
  |these “aren’t real dinosaurs” and “they might not even look like
  |this.”  In reality the dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Parks in
  |1993 were our best approximation THEN.  Now that we know more, we can
  |see these depictions are wrong, but people are already used to seeing
  |them this way soooo…


    |u/Mesarthim1349 - 3 hours
    |
    |Are you sayin in-canon from the 1993 film, the park knew the dinos
    |were inaccurate and only gave their best approximation?   Or IRL
    |this was our best guess in 1993, and in 2024 we now know they look
    |different?


      |u/thisismypornaccountg - 3 hours
      |
      |It was the best IRL guess in 1993.  The fact that most of the ones
      |from the late Cretaceous period like the T-Rex had feathers wasn’t
      |widely theorized until the mid-1990s.


        |u/J0E_Blow - 2 hours
        |
        |Thanks but I saw Jurassic Park and know the T-Rex didn't have
        |feather. I know that T-Rex doesn't want to be FED he wants to
        |*HUNT.*. Plus his vision is movement based so if I'm ever being
        |chased all I gotta do is stay **very** still.


          |u/fatdadder - 1 hour
          |
          |Cant find gif cause drinking. #insert drax meme


          |u/integrate_2xdx_10_13 - 1 hour
          |
          |Gotta keep that knowledge handy in case a _A Sound of Thunder_
          |situation emerges.   I didn’t and now we got some dumbs dumbs
          |voting a facist in, my bad guys.


          |u/Agifem - 57 minutes
          |
          |Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2090/


        |u/Sguigg - 2 hours
        |
        |Do we know t rex had feathers? My understanding of the current
        |state of research (thanks Dave Hone) was that none of its
        |preserved skin/imprints do and larger creatures tend to shed
        |layers due to internal heat - look at elephants and rhino's. On
        |the other hand, we have evidence that other Tyrannosaurs did
        |have feathers so there's definitely the possibility.


          |u/VikingRages - 2 hours
          |
          |Current understanding is that the trex *may* have had
          |feathers, but was definitely a chonky boy. Think hippo chubby,
          |but more teeth.


          |u/jaegren - 1 hour
          |
          |It's up for debate. I think I've seen reports changed on that
          |stance 2-3 times.


          |u/NotWet_Water - 1 hour
          |
          |There’s a very high possibility that T. Rex had feathers but
          |every skin impression we’ve found so far has pointed to scaly
          |skin so general consensus is that newborns and juveniles had
          |light proto-feathers which they lost as they grew up to
          |adulthood.


          |u/gothmog149 - 1 hour
          |
          |Woolly Mammoths and Woolly Rhinos were a real thing.  I’d
          |suggest they had even more insulation than if they had
          |feathers.


            |u/Sguigg - 54 minutes
            |
            |> Woolly Mammoths and Woolly Rhinos were a real thing  They
            |were, in an ice age, with conditions very different to those
            |we believe t rex experienced...


          |u/misho8723 - 1 hour
          |
          |If they had feathers, it is believed that it was mostly
          |through their juvenile stages


          |u/deezee72 - 1 hour
          |
          |I think the best guess is that the T. Rex likely had feathers
          |as a juvenile and lost them as it grew larger due to internal
          |heat. That said, it's also fairly likely that it still had
          |some residual feathers on part of its body (just like how
          |elephants still have residual hair) - perhaps something like a
          |feathered crest.


        |u/misho8723 - 1 hour
        |
        |Yeah, but it is believed that they had mostly feathers in their
        |juvenile stages, not so much as adults


        |u/Resolution-Honest - 1 hour
        |
        |T-Rex most probably didn't have feathers. We have some skin
        |prints of T-Rex and it's big northen american ancestors. It
        |doesn't make sense for animal in subtropical climate that moves
        |a lot and is so bigto have feather like covering. Earlier
        |ancestor of T-Rex like Yutyrannus defibetly had feathers and
        |Prehustoric Planet depict them accirding to what we know now.
        |T-Rex and Tarbosaurus, big predators in warm climates have no
        |feathers (T-Rex has some on top of his head and backs but not
        |much), while smaller qianzhosaur and polar nanuqsaur have a lot
        |of them. After discovery of Microraptor it was speculated that
        |theropods closely related to birds (T-Rex included but more
        |likely Trodon, Ornitomimus, Velociraptor) had feathers. However,
        |they found simmilar skin covering on dinosaurus on completly
        |opposite side of family tree, meaning that all group of dinosaur
        |might have some feathers or something like that, even though we
        |have concrete evidence some had scales or smooth skin.


      |u/IndigoFenix - 1 hour
      |
      |I don't think it was ever mentioned in the movie, but in the
      |original book the fact that a lot of their DNA was filled in by
      |modern animals was a major plot point. I don't think they mention
      |anything about them *looking* inaccurate, but the seeds for later
      |retcons were there from the beginning.


      |u/annuidhir - 3 hours
      |
      |They're wrong anyway, because scientists knew those were wrong
      |before the book was even written, and it's talked about in the
      |book. It's just that popular culture didn't really catch up until
      |recently.


      |u/CitizenPremier - 1 hour
      |
      |Dinos are a lot furrier than you imagined.


      |u/GenericAccount13579 - 1 hour
      |
      |Interestingly enough that’s in-canon from the OG book


      |u/TheManWhoWasNotShort - 1 hour
      |
      |In-canon, they filled the gaps in their DNA with frog DNA which is
      |what allowed them to shift genders and reproduce


      |u/DoctorApprehensive34 - 57 minutes
      |
      |It's kinda both. Henry Wu explicitly says it in Jurassic world and
      |then there's the whole flea circus metaphor/allegory. It's
      |mentioned in the movie but expanded on in the book. It's also
      |heavily hinted in the book that he's a PT Barnum style character
      |But it could have also very much been based on what we assume the
      |dinosaur looked like at the time. A great example of that is
      |spinosaurus, spinosaurus that we see in Jurassic Park 3 looks
      |nothing like what it actually looked like. Because we didn't
      |really know. Hammond and wu wouldn't have known either. And they
      |would have made it look how they would have expected it to look
      |based on both their knowledge and our knowledge of the time


    |u/annuidhir - 3 hours
    |
    |>were our best approximation THEN  No they weren't. Scientists knew
    |those were wrong before the book was even written, and it's talked
    |about in the book.  Popular culture just took a much longer time to
    |catch up (partly because of things like these movies and other media
    |propagating outdated depictions).


      |u/Ovr132728 - 2 hours
      |
      |Em no  The og designs were supervised by actual paleontologists,
      |and A LOT of efort was put in by the designers to have them as
      |acurate for the time ass posible  The main exeption being dilo
      |tho, but besides him all designs represent their animals like they
      |were understood as at the time


        |u/McBaah - 1 hour
        |
        |If that's the case, why on earth did they give the go-ahead to
        |all the broken wrists? In the movies, all the theropods have
        |their palms facing down when the actual joints wouldn't have
        |allowed it.  What probably happened was that they brought
        |paleontologists in, got told a bunch of stuff they didn't want
        |to hear (feathers, non grasping hands, etc) and then ignored
        |them while still being able to say they had experts to consult
        |with.


        |u/annuidhir - 32 minutes
        |
        |Em no...  Have you even read the book? Or know what the author
        |said about it and his purpose?   Besides, scientists have known
        |since like the 70s that dinos weren't like this. But keep on
        |believing whatever bullshit you want LMAO


    |u/Spacedodo42 - 2 hours
    |
    |I’m like 90% sure the book flat out mentions dinosaurs having
    |feathers too - I feel like I remember that being Grant’s
    |controversial research. They 100% knew they weren’t accurate


    |u/koeshout - 7 minutes
    |
    |Huh. Well, that makes me think that someone at some point would
    |actually try making a monster park IRL.


    |u/Pradfanne - 32 seconds
    |
    |The original Jurassic Park in 1993 starts the movie with telling a
    |group of people (Including the audience of the movie), that
    |dinosaurs are actually related to birds, so I think we had a vague
    |idea even back then.


  |u/crozone - 1 hour
  |
  |No. They got like 95% of the DNA and filled the gaps with frog DNA.
  |Then they started spicing them up with some other DNA in the later
  |movies.  But they never invented a dinosaur from scratch.


|u/noctalla - 6 hours
|
|It was a mosqu-sea-to.


  |u/RedCaio - 5 hours
  |
  |Op has clearly never witnessed mosquitos standing on top of the water.


    |u/helikesart - 4 hours
    |
    |I just saw that Prehistoric Planet clip of the mosasaur coming up to
    |breath air.  It could happen.


      |u/Jeremiah_Gottwal - 3 hours
      |
      |Yo Prehistoric Peak mentioned


      |u/Czar_Petrovich - 4 hours
      |
      |Or beached


  |u/Embarrassed_Use6918 - 5 hours
  |
  |Quiero chupar tu cuello mosqu-sea-to


|u/Apart-Maize-5949 - 6 hours
|
|Dead carcass on shore hard to believe? (as much as the dino DNA bullshit
|we take as the gospel)


  |u/Ok-disaster2022 - 5 hours
  |
  |Now that's and interesting question. Do mosquitos feed in dead
  |animals?


    |u/Correct_Bottle1686 - 5 hours
    |
    |Depends on how fresh they are I think. Although I don't think
    |corpses found on the shore are usually fresh, then again who knows
    |what prehistoric mosquitoes fed on


    |u/not2dragon - 4 hours
    |
    |I think Dominion’s prologue showed us it was possible.


      |u/Homem_da_Carrinha - 1 hour
      |
      |But Mr. Odo doesn’t have blood


    |u/Garchompisbestboi - 4 hours
    |
    |They are attracted to our heat signature and since a dead animal
    |wouldn't have one the answer is probably no.


      |u/Espumma - 3 hours
      |
      |How does that work in coldblooded animals anyway.


        |u/B_Fee - 2 hours
        |
        |Mosquitoes use way more than just body heat. Male's don't even
        |eat blood, they drink nectar. Most plants don't have heat
        |signatures, but do emit odors


        |u/MISSISSIPPIPPISSISSI - 2 hours
        |
        |Mosquitos feed on poikilotherms, heterotherms, ectotherms no
        |problem. They are sensitive to CO2 and odors as well as heat.


      |u/Apart-Maize-5949 - 3 hours
      |
      |That's now, not then. Big brain time.


    |u/thekingofbeans42 - 3 hours
    |
    |They might, but amber wouldn't preserve DNA anyway


  |u/ElZaydo - 4 hours
  |
  |Lmao the chance of finding that one in a trillion mosquito who
  |happened to suck on a beached mosasaur


    |u/Ziyen - 2 hours
    |
    |It’s explained in the book. Hammond basically just bought all the
    |amber for sale all over the world looking for dna. Obviously the
    |science is guess work of how they learned what species exactly the
    |amber contained. I like to think they were able to generate a little
    |3d model or something. They were probably just as surprised to get
    |such a large creature.


|u/Vis-hoka - 6 hours
|
|The way that woman died to this monster was so needlessly cruel.


  |u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year - 6 hours
  |
  |I heard the actress had a ton of fun filming the scene though,
  |especially the scenes in the acrobatic rig which they then
  |greenscreened the backgrounds in etc.


    |u/helikesart - 4 hours
    |
    |Imagine this: you’ve been grinding in Hollywood for 10 years,
    |bussing tables, landing small parts, and waiting for your big break.
    |Then your agent comes to you with the news: You’ve got a role in the
    |new Jurassic Park movie. You’ll look stunning, play a character with
    |a British accent who’s engaged and genuinely likable. Amazing,
    |right? You’ll get to perform a wire rig stunt. Awesome. You’ll do a
    |water stunt in a dunk tank. Eat your heart out Tom Cruise. And your
    |character’s death? It’ll be so iconic, people will still be
    |passionately debating and discussing it a decade later. Whats not to
    |love?


      |u/IDontKnowHowToPM - 4 hours
      |
      |> a decade later  How dare you do that math


      |u/syrianfries - 4 hours
      |
      |I think the actress also wanted her death to be as violent as
      |possible


        |u/helikesart - 4 hours
        |
        |She sounds fun.


      |u/annaftw - 3 hours
      |
      |She was already big to me 😔 she’s a bbc actress, she was in Merlin
      |as a main character.


        |u/Enough-Ad-2960 - 3 hours
        |
        |Ah I thought she looked familiar


        |u/helikesart - 3 hours
        |
        |Oh darn. I had always meant to check out that show. No offense
        |intended.


          |u/annaftw - 3 hours
          |
          |Oh haha it’s all good!


          |u/BroItsJesus - 32 minutes
          |
          |Don't do that to yourself. The ending. I'll never get those
          |years back


        |u/Albacurious - 3 hours
        |
        |A what actress?


          |u/jrbriggs89 - 2 hours
          |
          |That’s enough internet for you today


    |u/South-by-north - 3 hours
    |
    |She not only had fun, but she specifically requested to be killed
    |that way.


  |u/RedCaio - 5 hours
  |
  |Perhaps a little but people overreacted to her death scene so the next
  |films overcompensated and only had cartoonish villains die. Which is
  |less fun. Nothing wrong with dinosaurs eating innocent extras. That’s
  |kinda why we’re here.


    |u/warbastard - 2 hours
    |
    |IMO a good monster/disaster movie shows innocent extras getting
    |murked. It makes fear of the monsters/disaster more real if ordinary
    |people are getting slammed as those people could be any one of us.


    |u/spooderfbi - 46 minutes
    |
    |It’s weird how the kids show on Netflix, camp Cretaceous, had more
    |innocent ppl dying and deaths in general than the movies after JW1.
    |And honestly the show is better than those 2 movies


  |u/StreetReporter - 5 hours
  |
  |I’m pretty sure the actress learned her character was going to die, so
  |she asked for it to be extremely over the top


    |u/misho8723 - 1 hour
    |
    |Shame that the JP-JW movies needed to be PG so apart from the first
    |movies there was very little blood and gore, if any


  |u/Fallowman09 - 5 hours
  |
  |It was because she was the first named female death in a Jurassic park
  |movie, so she actually requested that it was over the top and violent.


  |u/admiralargon - 6 hours
  |
  |I was so excited for this movie but it literally can't watch it
  |without shit talking every scene.   For instance the flying dinosaur
  |that attacked her had a beak likely adapted for scooping fish would
  |likely have no reason to attack her because she was almost the same
  |size as her. literally wouldn't be able to fly with her and why the
  |fuck did it try to dunk her like a fucking donut. As the flying
  |dinosaur is probably flying for freedom after escaping that way
  |overcrowded enclosure.   And I know they were going for the SeaWorld
  |but there is not nearly enough space to prevent that big swimming
  |bastard from breaching and crushing the entire crowd in like 5
  |seconds.


    |u/LapisW - 5 hours
    |
    |Didn't it dunk her because she was just too heavy for it, assuming i
    |know what scene you're talking about the bird was barely able to
    |stay in the air with her


      |u/dummypod - 4 hours
      |
      |All the more reason for them to just ignore her. If the small
      |flying dinos have to attack humans they'd probably go for children
      |first.


        |u/LapisW - 4 hours
        |
        |Well, obviously, but idk maybe they never felt the thrill of the
        |hunt before?


          |u/an-existing-being - 4 hours
          |
          |Yeah thats it. They make a big deal about the Indominus
          |finding its place on the food chain when it escaped. The
          |flying fucks are no different.


    |u/Fallowman09 - 5 hours
    |
    |Because she was the first named female death in a Jurassic park
    |film. So to celebrate that they made it super violent and cruel. The
    |actress even asked for it to be like that.


      |u/littlebloodmage - 5 hours
      |
      |She was named?


        |u/Fallowman09 - 5 hours
        |
        |Yeah but I forgor 💀


          |u/Dr-McLuvin - 5 hours
          |
          |Her name was Janet


        |u/GoGoGyroZeppeli - 5 hours
        |
        |Her name was Zara.


          |u/Desperate_Passage_35 - 4 hours
          |
          |Her name was Zara Paulson


          |u/valdebenitose - 3 hours
          |
          |and now her watch has ended


        |u/Mirapple - 2 hours
        |
        |Zara Young was the character, Katie McGrath was the actress also
        |know for her roles as Lena Luthor is the CW Supergirl show and
        |Morgana in BBC's Merlin.


      |u/not2dragon - 4 hours
      |
      |Where was the first unnamed? Lost world?


        |u/Broken_CerealBox - 1 hour
        |
        |Yep, the kid


          |u/not2dragon - 1 hour
          |
          |Oh, the raptor gymnastics? Dinosaurs die in JP1 so...  Also,
          |human kid? I think they lived. There was info about this...


    |u/extraboredinary - 5 hours
    |
    |The carnivorous dinosaurs always act like slasher movie villains.
    |Regardless of how much food is available or how recently they have
    |eaten, they will hunt and kill nonstop.


      |u/SurlyBuddha - 4 hours
      |
      |This has always bothered me. Trex already chewing down on a steggo
      |carcass when a human wanders by? Let’s run and chase and kill the
      |human!


      |u/wanna_be_green8 - 2 hours
      |
      |Have you ever observed chickens? Because they prove your second
      |sentence true.


    |u/K3egan - 4 hours
    |
    |I mean the Dino that scooped her also had no need to be 20 feet from
    |a Starbucks


    |u/fish_petter - 3 hours
    |
    |Animals aren't always experts at everything they do.  I've been a
    |park ranger for about 10 years now and can't begin to tell you the
    |amount of dipshittery I've seen in the animal kingdom.  I saw a
    |snake dead from trying to eat a fish that was way too big.  Bison
    |falling into lethal hot springs--or possibly more accurately in this
    |case-- juvenile animals learning to hunt and not being that great at
    |it.  Once I witnessed a small weasel trying to take down a
    |California ground squirrel twice it's size, shredding it to ribbons
    |while it screeched bloody murder.  The pterodactyl probably just
    |wasn't a genius.


    |u/Reverse_Necromancer - 4 hours
    |
    |I think you're forgetting that animals are fucking stupid. The
    |dunking is literally the consequence of its stupidity, not being
    |able to lift it's prey


    |u/Umicil - 4 hours
    |
    |> the flying dinosaur that attacked her had a beak likely adapted
    |for scooping fish  You really undercut your supposedly scientific
    |sounding argument when you describe a pterosaur as a "dinosaur" when
    |they famously were not dinosaurs.  It shows right off the bat that
    |you don't know what you are talking about.  For the record,
    |Quetzalcoatlus was **the size of a giraffe**, was fully capable
    |flight, and was a predator that probably stalked and ate terrestrial
    |animals.  It was large enough that it's plausible it could still fly
    |with the additional weight of a small human.  Quetzalcoatlus is
    |basically a small plane that eats.


      |u/ClosetDouche - 3 hours
      |
      |>Quetzalcoatlus was the size of a giraffe, was fully capable
      |flight  You mean to tell me dinosaurs weighed one ton and could
      |still fly


        |u/Umicil - 3 hours
        |
        |Again, they were **not dinosaurs**.  Flying animals tend to be
        |much lighter than terrestrial animals of similar height and
        |length.  Quetzalcoatlus is believed to have stood as tall as a
        |giraffe, but likely had hollow bones and a leaner build that
        |made it lighter to assist in flight.  Even so, they may have
        |weighed over 500 pounds.


    |u/Zorafin - 4 hours
    |
    |It really annoyed me all the times the dinosaurs were running for
    |their lives, but just had to risk their lives for a little snack
    |while they did


    |u/AdministrationShot62 - 4 hours
    |
    |Youd be no fun at partys


    |u/Megneous - 2 hours
    |
    |> For instance the flying dinosaur  ... Pterosaurs were not
    |dinosaurs. They were flying reptiles.


    |u/rhysdog1 - 34 minutes
    |
    |easily explainable. it never intended to eat her it was only
    |interested in causing her pain.


  |u/Invincible-Nuke - 5 hours
  |
  |If I remember correctly, they specifically did this because it was the
  |first female death in the series so they wanted to make it special


  |u/ShredMyMeatball - 5 hours
  |
  |That scene honestly made me feel panic for a moment.   Kudos to it
  |being effective, but, like, why her?  She was just watching some rich
  |fuckers children.


    |u/the_crepuscular_one - 5 hours
    |
    |Well, I doubt the dinosaurs care if she *deserved* it.


      |u/ShredMyMeatball - 5 hours
      |
      |Yeah, but the dinosaurs aren't the directors.


        |u/Germane_Corsair - 5 hours
        |
        |Do characters always need to be evil to die?


          |u/ShredMyMeatball - 5 hours
          |
          |No, not at all, but she literally got the most gruesome death
          |in the film.   Everything after that was fucking nothing.


            |u/Germane_Corsair - 4 hours
            |
            |Don’t quote me on it but I heard it was over the top like
            |that because she’s supposed to be the first female named
            |character death.    That and Katie McGrath loved the idea
            |and specifically requested to go all in.


            |u/Zoren-Tradico - 3 hours
            |
            |Well... Technically... First Jurassic park movie, first 5
            |minutes with the raptor cage, is a scene usually forgotten,
            |but a very innocent poor extra is brutally mauled by a
            |raptor for the single purpose to give us the chills


  |u/TheLukeHines - 4 hours
  |
  |I thought that was so weird when I first watched it but in hindsight I
  |actually really like that scene. It’s a story about dinosaurs escaping
  |and causing havoc, it’s realistic that innocent bystanders would get
  |killed in horrific ways and not just the villains who “deserve it”.
  |Watching that final shot of her trying to climb out of its mouth as it
  |closes and swallows her gives me chills from how terrifying the
  |situation is to think about. I’m a fan of a scene that can evoke
  |emotion from me like that.


  |u/_meaty_ochre_ - 5 hours
  |
  |It’s the only part of the movie I remember.


  |u/AardvarkIll6079 - 4 hours
  |
  |The actress requested it.


  |u/misho8723 - 1 hour
  |
  |So the other characters that died to dinos in previous movies weren't
  |cruel? Why are people so pissed at this death but not about the
  |previous ones, where even good guys got eating by them? Eddie in JP2
  |was helping the main characters to save their lives and what did he
  |get for all that ? Violently torn in half by two T-Rexs .. but yeah,
  |let's get pissed at a nameless character death in another JP-JW
  |movie.. so stupid


|u/IPlayMidLane - 4 hours
|
|this subreddit frequently reminds me how many people don't actually
|listen to the movie before complaining.   The entire plot of the movie
|was that they were making shit up for public appeal and that realistic
|dinosaurs are not what people want, so they hand crafted an omega god
|dinosaur which got loose. No, the movie is not trying to imply that a
|mosquito obtained blood from a mosasaur


  |u/Plastic_Impression54 - 4 hours
  |
  |Well it is shitty movie details, that’s kinda the whole point… missing
  |the point


  |u/Ozzie_Dragon97 - 2 hours
  |
  |The promotional website for the film even said explicitly that in-
  |universe, InGen had to invent a new method of extending DNA from
  |fossils of marine reptiles because they couldn’t use mosquitoes.


  |u/MyLittleDashie7 - 2 hours
  |
  |In fairness, it came out almost a decade ago now. If you watched the
  |film once, and didn't enjoy it you probably aren't going to remember
  |it in enough detail to see what's wrong with this post.


|u/spinosaurs70 - 6 hours
|
|It had to surface to breathe, so not that stupid?


  |u/Educational_Card_219 - 6 hours
  |
  |It has incredibly thick skin


    |u/patrickswayzemullet - 6 hours
    |
    |At this movies point the scientists probably were beyond cloning and
    |just creating based on incomplete DNA and fossils. They mentioned
    |this briefly about how they edited some appearances anyway. I dont
    |know why they didnt talk about which dinos were clones and which
    |ones were created closer to from scratch


    |u/spinosaurs70 - 6 hours
    |
    |Not be equally pedantic but it wasn't a dinosaur either.


    |u/Theta33 - 2 hours
    |
    |counterpoint, incredibly large mosquitoes


    |u/lolweakbro - 12 minutes
    |
    |As opposed to the notoriously thin-skinned Tyrannosaurus Rex?


  |u/Matt_McT - 6 hours
  |
  |Did it surface in shallow fresh water, like a pond or swamp?


    |u/spinosaurs70 - 6 hours
    |
    |It lived nearshore, so it be bitten by a mosquito still isn’t that
    |unlucky. 


      |u/Fallowman09 - 5 hours
      |
      |Yeah and it had multi inch think armour scaly skin


        |u/Germane_Corsair - 4 hours
        |
        |You could probably explain that away by saying it was injured or
        |it’s corpse washed ashore and devoured.


    |u/Fallowman09 - 5 hours
    |
    |Nope they were 17-ish meters long. They lived near the shore, but
    |not that close


|u/Cwardy7 - 5 hours
|
|Maybe the Mosquito got it when it jumped out of the water to eat
|something.  It was flying extra fast


  |u/J0E_Blow - 2 hours
  |
  |Fastest, hardest sucking mosquito during all the Cretaceous.


    |u/fiftyseven - 1 hour
    |
    |but enough about OP's mother


|u/Misragoth - 4 hours
|
|If you go by the book, they also get DNA from fossils. They just prefer
|the amber since its easier and there is less guess work to fill in the
|gaps. So maybe they had some fossils of a mosasaur


  |u/PotatoOnMars - 3 hours
  |
  |Yeah, that’s why Dr. Grant is working on a dig site funded by Hammond.
  |The bones are going to Jurassic Park.


|u/Norwester77 - 4 hours
|
|Underwater marine lizard\*  (No, seriously. Mosasaurs were true lizards,
|not dinosaurs.)


  |u/Megneous - 2 hours
  |
  |Nothing gets under my skin quite like people calling shit dinosaurs
  |when shit wasn't dinosaurs...


|u/Quirky-Produce7994 - 3 hours
|
|Mosasaurs are not dinosaurs. They are marine squamates.   OP, you
|doofus!


  |u/Broken_CerealBox - 1 hour
  |
  |I mean, it is shitty movie details


    |u/Quirky-Produce7994 - 1 hour
    |
    |Look, we all like a sensible guffaw now and again at the expense of
    |famous millionaires, but I will not allow this paleological
    |besmirchment.   There is a line!


      |u/Broken_CerealBox - 1 hour
      |
      |Ah, you see, that post is a subtle detail of the failure of the
      |education system


        |u/Quirky-Produce7994 - 52 minutes
        |
        |How did I not see it?   It's so subversive, so meta!   Absolute
        |cinema detail subreddit post.


|u/dwighticus - 5 hours
|
|Could’ve been a leech or a lamprey


  |u/georgiaraisef - 5 hours
  |
  |A lamprey that got caught in tree sap?


    |u/Dr-McLuvin - 5 hours
    |
    |Underwater tree sap


      |u/Tomas2891 - 3 hours
      |
      |Check mate atheists


    |u/Puntoffeltierchen - 32 minutes
    |
    |https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821292116   Well, we have
    |fossils of marine taxa in amber, it wouldn't be Impossible


|u/Unusual_Hedgehog4748 - 4 hours
|
|Not a dinosaur


|u/Aggravating-Deer1077 - 3 hours
|
|Who else wants to be vored by giant fish?  Give it a big belly that it
|needs to lay on while it gurgles.


  |u/J0E_Blow - 2 hours
  |
  |Have you not heard of sharks..? They live in the ocean.


|u/orangemoon44 - 3 hours
|
|All it takes is a mosasaur getting beached


|u/henriktw - 4 hours
|
|How many calories would this mosasaur need in a day just to maintain
|weight?


  |u/Broken_CerealBox - 1 hour
  |
  |Apparently, enough for it to be starving for years until fallen
  |kingdom


|u/ArmadilloNo9494 - 4 hours
|
|Madlad Mosquito


|u/Clean_Perception_235 - 3 hours
|
|Have you watched the movie? All they wanted was more teeth to make it
|look cool to the visitors so they just took whatever DNA they wanted.
|Even a scientist in one of the scenes said it.


|u/ShiftRepulsive7661 - 3 hours
|
|the moment someone starts to nitpick this type of film it's the end, I
|prefer to turn off my brain and go for the ride, it's just stupid fun.


|u/AardvarkIll6079 - 4 hours
|
|That’s not how they got the mosasaurus DNA. Over the years they found
|other ways of getting prehistoric DNA. Supplemental material to the
|films goes over it


  |u/MrSaturnism - 3 hours
  |
  |Yeah wasn’t it like something like iron scanning?


|u/Veritech-1 - 4 hours
|
|Does anybody else remember the scene where the redhead main character
|(who refused to shut down the park in the interest of shareholder value
|- but is somehow still a protagonist) has her assistant violently
|tortured by pterodactyls and ultimately eaten by this Mososaur?   The
|assistant was diligently watching and protecting the two boys and never
|did anything wrong, but they gave her probably one of the most horrific
|and torturous deaths in Jurassic Park franchise history. It was a worse
|death than any villain that I can recall.  It always disturbed me how
|violently they killed that woman for basically no reason.


  |u/Acrobatic_Ad_8381 - 3 hours
  |
  |Well apparently it was because she was the first Named female
  |character to die in a Jurrassic Park and the Actress also wanted it to
  |be as cruel as possible and had lots of fun


|u/JRS___ - 4 hours
|
|this picture prefectly illustrates how CGI still doesn't cut it. but
|it's cheap so......


|u/Smooth_Store_8693 - 4 hours
|
|So does that mean I can preserve my DNA if I capture and freeze a
|mosquito that just suck my blood 🩸 🦟


|u/piceathespruce - 4 hours
|
|Mosquitos are a major pest of large marine air breathing predators when
|they get confined to a small area.   Conceivably, a Mosasaur could have
|been trapped in a lagoon or beached at some point.
|https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-even-whales-get-
|bitten-mosquitoes


|u/nopalitzin - 4 hours
|
|It was probably a leech, you know the mosquitos of the waterworld


  |u/Misty_Esoterica - 1 hour
  |
  |And then the leech got stuck in tree sap how exactly?


    |u/nopalitzin - 1 hour
    |
    |Umm... Water tree? ┐⁠(⁠´⁠ー⁠`⁠)⁠┌


|u/LikeAnAdamBomb - 3 hours
|
|And while they're at it, create a mosasaur of kaiju proportions, rather
|than the actual size of the animal.


|u/GnollRanger - 3 hours
|
|They got it's size wrong too. Megaladon was bigger than this thing.


  |u/HandsomeGengar - 3 hours
  |
  |Megalodon’s size is highly conjectural, as we only have its teeth to
  |go off of.


    |u/Broken_CerealBox - 1 hour
    |
    |There are some fossilized individual vertebrae


|u/GnollRanger - 3 hours
|
|When will they make a half human/half dinosaur? Or sapient dinosaurs?


|u/frockinbrock - 3 hours
|
|and BINGO… DINO  D N A 🧬👁️👁️


|u/Megalith_TR - 3 hours
|
|A mosa is way smaller than what is portrayed in the movie.


  |u/Broken_CerealBox - 1 hour
  |
  |Shhhhhhhh, the mosasaurus has the ability to change size at will


|u/tlm11110 - 3 hours
|
|Nah, they just did the land saurs and this one is a Darwinian Evolution
|of those.


|u/MrMetraGnome - 3 hours
|
|I forget everything about this movies, except that one woman who got got
|by a Rube Goldbergian sequence of dinosaurs. That actor must've pissed
|someone off, lol.


  |u/HennesseyHennessey - 2 hours
  |
  |Are you talking about Katie McGrath?


  |u/EmperorsLight2503 - 2 hours
  |
  |Nah she seems to be having fun in the bts


    |u/MrMetraGnome - 19 minutes
    |
    |I would be too if I got the same check cut


|u/The_Formuler - 3 hours
|
|##YOU’RE *ALL* REPORTED


|u/frockinbrock - 3 hours
|
|For real though, even with me suspending belief, the frickin SIZE they
|made the Mosasaur just sucked; it’s not only WAY too big for that
|amphitheater, and that tank, but feeding it would be virtually
|impossible. And it clearly could get out and kill everyone there if it
|wanted too.   And then in a sequel I think we see it under water and
|then escape into the ocean; that thing would fuck up the food chain so
|bad, it’s diet for that size of a carnivore in the ocean would just be
|absurd.      I don’t know, I understand they are not going for realism,
|but to have something so absurdly overpowered and oversized, and they
|don’t even address it or treat it as dangerous, it just made much of the
|movie a total joke. Like yes I get it they were trying to beat us over
|the head that the humans were irresponsible and incompetent, but they
|did it in a way that not only seemed unbelievable (it’s more like how
|did these people even tie their shoes and get to work without dying?),
|BUT it also lowers the fear and stakes for the whole film.   In the
|original films, you really didn’t know who all was going to make it, and
|everyone was amazed and scared of nearly all the dinosaurs.      UGH so
|much of JW pisses me off. Like JP3 gave us this awesome preview of a
|Jurassic world park, so it was exciting to finally see that operating;
|and instead it was just cartoon logic, with crappy Physics and CG.


|u/CocoajoeGaming - 3 hours
|
|Well Marine animals can get beached on land.


|u/jasonite - 3 hours
|
|Love it!


|u/sylva748 - 3 hours
|
|Kind of wrong. Rewatch the first Jurassic Park movie. The mosquito bit a
|random dinosaur. Then, like with the Human Genome Project. The
|geneticists at Injen were able to make a Genome for all dinosaurs. Using
|various reptile and amphibian DNA to fill in the gaps. By doing specific
|gene splicing and selection, they can potentially clone any known
|Dinosaur species. Of course, this has many failures in the process.
|Which we can see when in Jurassic Park 3, the Kirbys come across all
|those failed dinosaur clones in the abandoned lab in the large vats. Of
|course this also led the scientists in the new park in Jurassic
|World(Movie 4) to play god and create the Indominous Rex. A dinosaur
|that never existed and was created solely with genetic science. Which
|exactly what Jeff Goldblum's character in the first movie warned the
|original Park would eventually happen. "Well, your scientists were too
|busy thinking if they could that they didn't stop to think if they
|should!"


|u/maroonmenace - 3 hours
|
|NOOO THE BLAHAJ poor baby. Now the boymoders are crying op


|u/HandsomeGengar - 3 hours
|
|In the present day (2024) some people still think that mosasaurs were
|dinosaurs, this is a subtle reference to the failure of our education
|system.


|u/FloppyWoppyPenis - 3 hours
|
|Could have gotten beached.


|u/elbarto359 - 3 hours
|
|Bingo! Dino DNA!


|u/---Keith--- - 3 hours
|
|Didn't they have anomolocaris or something that swam around and would
|bite other animals?  Maybe the blood was from that


  |u/Broken_CerealBox - 1 hour
  |
  |I mean, considering that water trees allow them to get strapped in
  |amber. It's plausible


|u/CheatsySnoops - 3 hours
|
|Ermm ackshually, it is a marine lizard!   In all seriousness, it
|could’ve been argued to be a case of a surfacing mosasaur getting poked.
|Odds are slim, but not impossible.


|u/Westaufel - 3 hours
|
|And that’s the only useful thing done by a mosquito. Little bastards.


|u/EUIVAlexander - 3 hours
|
|Mosasaur isn’t even a dinosaur :(


|u/Shacky_Rustleford - 2 hours
|
|Um actually a mosasaur isn't a dinosaur 


|u/Thorolhugil - 2 hours
|
|Calling it a dinosaur also fits into this fact. Mosasaurs were giant
|marine Komodo dragons. Scent organ on the tongue and all.


|u/mechshark - 2 hours
|
|Bruh lol


|u/Megneous - 2 hours
|
|Mosasaurs were not dinosaurs. They were marine reptiles. Not dinosaurs.


|u/Malewis89 - 2 hours
|
|DNA doesn’t actually last more than 1000 or so years. So the entire
|franchise is pretty much fantasy.


|u/Ry0K3N - 2 hours
|
|If you have read the Jurassic Park book you would know they not just
|used mosqitos to get DNA but grinded down fossils to extract any
|reamaining DNA.


|u/fumphdik - 2 hours
|
|Dang, mosquito larvae sucking blood now?!


|u/fatherthesons - 2 hours
|
|Hey look there was a lot of mosquitos and apparently there was a time
|period where mosasaurs just ruled everything. Odds are a mosquito would
|have been able to bite one when it was on the surface as they did
|breathe air.   Then that mosquito got trapped in sap and turned to amber
|for 500000 years. I just don’t see the logic gap here…


|u/JimJohnman - 2 hours
|
|Beyond all the points others have made here, isn't there a plot point in
|JW2 that shows they can also get DNA from bone?   Yes, yes I know
|fossilisation would have destroyed any DNA but let's say a bone washed
|ashore and got preserved in permafrost, or mud, or coupon day or
|something.   The entire series is built on suspension of disbelief.
|Dislike the movie if you want but don't act like this is incongruous
|with the lore.


|u/nerd_bro_ - 2 hours
|
|hahahaha I never thought about that until now. So funny


|u/Eliseo120 - 2 hours
|
|Did you even watch the movie? They just sorta made whatever they wanted.


|u/LaunchGap - 2 hours
|
|it's bad science but let us have the possibility of dinosaurs among us.
|it's one of the best movies since movie creation.


|u/zoki671 - 2 hours
|
|Why they didnt clone the mosquitos


|u/HAILSTORMBREAD - 2 hours
|
|Maybe they got a prehistoric leech or lamprey frozen in ice that has
|mosasaurus dna. Either that, or prehistoric mosquitoes can swim
|underwater which just makes dinosaur times even horrifying.


|u/Echo__227 - 2 hours
|
|I loved the Jurassic Park book as a kid, studied paleontology and
|medicine in college, and as an adult am grappling with the reality of
|Crichton being a shitty pulp novelist


|u/Independent_Pie_1368 - 2 hours
|
|After 65 million years, the fossil became dust as all relevant DNA is
|gone.


|u/12thshadow - 2 hours
|
|Shitty extra detail: Mosa is latin for Maas, Meuse, a river that runs
|from France to the netherlands. I live near it, and I can garantuee you
|that this mosasaurus would not fit in the Mosa.


|u/dino_drawings - 2 hours
|
|There is a canon different way they got the mosasaurus and some other
|stuff(never said in the movie…). I don’t remember what it was tho.


|u/Resolution-Honest - 2 hours
|
|Mosasaur isn't a dinosaur. It is a big lizard related to modern monitor
|lizards.


|u/FinedIntern - 2 hours
|
|I just constantly feel stupid…. Is it the mosquitoes from Alaska that
|are able to go under water since they live in wet climates? Only thing
|that could actually explains that occurring


|u/Jumpy_Fish333 - 2 hours
|
|Brilliant!


|u/Booze-and-porn - 2 hours
|
|In the scheme of that movie, it’s a believable detail


|u/Adorable_Werewolf_82 - 2 hours
|
|Correction: It was bitten by a Mosa-quito.


|u/ArcticCelt - 2 hours
|
|They should really clone the mosquito which is the real bad ass in this
|story.


|u/asmithmusicofficial - 2 hours
|
|Blockbusters these days are just goofy.


|u/Homem_da_Carrinha - 2 hours
|
|The Mosasaur was a reptile, right? They didn’t breathe underwater. At
|some point it had to come to the surface, thus enabling a passing
|mosquito to draw its blood.


  |u/Broken_CerealBox - 1 hour
  |
  |To be fair, mosasaurus were generally in open waters where mosquitoes
  |were basically nonexistent. Even if there was a mosquito there, it
  |would only have a split second to pierce its scaly skin and blubbler,
  |but the mosasaur would've dived down.


|u/Witty_Ticket_4101 - 2 hours
|
|They basically played god with a blender and called it science.


|u/JosephPorta123 - 1 hour
|
|Not a dinosaur


|u/Helpful_Ground460 - 1 hour
|
|It's likely there was no DNA from the mesozoic because you now it can't
|survive that long anyway, they made up that story to connect their
|assets with the real things, they simply used modern animals and forced
|them to become these monstrosities as attractions suffering like certain
|dog breeds.


|u/SignificantAd1421 - 1 hour
|
|Mosasaurs aren't dinosaur though they are monitor lizards


|u/swiwwcheese - 1 hour
|
|Ancient mosquitos were badasses !


|u/martinaee - 1 hour
|
|![gif](giphy|dIUVH2duirBJPJgwZ3)


|u/Ekfego - 1 hour
|
|Clap


|u/nxh84 - 1 hour
|
|Prehistoric mosquitoes can dive deep enough to suck Mosasaur’s
|blood!!!??? 🤯


|u/Drogalov - 1 hour
|
|I know these films get some shit, Jurassic Park is my favourite film of
|all time and none of them hold a candle. But I still love the new ones
|just for having more dinosaurs on screen


|u/Airportsnacks - 1 hour
|
|Without the mosasaur we wouldn't have gotten the best scene in the best
|Jurassic World, Dr. Wu carrying the baby mosasaur around in a fishbowl
|in Lego Jurassic World. 


|u/fyrdude58 - 1 hour
|
|To be fair, there are a couple of points. 1.  The mosasaur could have
|died and immediately been hit by a mosquito.   Unlikely, though. 2.
|Genetic modification means that you don't need to have a sample of every
|creature.   We could make velociraptors TODAY by modifying chickens.  We
|just need to figure out exactly which genes to turn on and off.


|u/SextonFire - 1 hour
|
|They never learn ! 🤣🤣🤣


|u/fartmanteau - 1 hour
|
|/r/notadinosaur


|u/Eldergrise - 1 hour
|
|That is false information, dna degrades over time and it is impossible
|to get dna from 65million years ago


|u/SergeiYeseiya - 1 hour
|
|It was explained in a website used for promotion of the movie that they
|found traces of DNA inside fossilized bones of the Mosasaur using a new
|iron analyser. ☝️🤓


|u/metalpoetza - 1 hour
|
|Mosasaurs were not "an underwater dinosaur" they were an entirely
|different kingdom with lots of species that existed at the same time as
|dinosaurs but we're not dinosaurs at all.  Other creatures that are
|often lumped in with dinosaurs but we're not:   ichthyosaurs - another
|ancient aquatic group that were dinosaur contemporaries: they included
|the ancestors to modern day turtles  Pterosaurs: most famously
|pterodactyl (who wasn't even the biggest known species). Not dinosaurs.
|Don't have surviving descendants.


|u/DenVosReinaert - 1 hour
|
|Theoretically it wouldn't be impossible. If a dead one (or near dead)
|washed ashore mosquitos could get to it


|u/Appropriate-Divide64 - 1 hour
|
|My biggest problem was the timescale. How long would it take that thing
|to reach adult size? Or a brachiosaurus? Surely decades?


|u/Distinct_Cup_1598 - 1 hour
|
|You know that scientifically this was all bullshit. As admitted by the
|movie itself. However, if you really want to cling to in-verse logic,
|then we can safely assume they used the DNA of mosquitos which stung
|Mosasaurs and ho beached like modern day whales and died there


|u/Wretched_Stoner_9 - 1 hour
|
|Not possible


|u/JaffaSG1 - 1 hour
|
|You‘re so wrong about this! Clearly it was a leech trapped in underwater
|tree sap.


|u/Ray797979 - 58 minutes
|
|Lore-accurate answer: they also use fossils, just not as often. It’s
|mentioned in the first novel that they don’t yield as much DNA as the
|mosquitos. But they can get some from them by grinding them up. The
|websites have mentioned the mososaurus fossils being acquired in their
|timeline of events.


|u/NaaastyButler - 47 minutes
|
|Just say you can't read omg. This is explained in like chapter 3 in a
|book from the 90s.


|u/BukkakeBird - 43 minutes
|
|![gif](giphy|Cr7jhiVMkjCLVJ99FJ|downsized)  Mission accomplished


|u/SkinkaLei - 40 minutes
|
|I'll never forget how completely undeserved that babysitters death was.


|u/rorzri - 39 minutes
|
|In the build up to the movie I read a magazine with a feature on it and
|the director explained how the in universe science has advanced to the
|point they just need the bones to clone the animals and I thought that
|was fair enough and surely they’d mention it in the film but nah


|u/PraetorGold - 30 minutes
|
|Any number of biting insects could have done it if the carcass washed on
|shore.


|u/Ouwerucker - 23 minutes
|
|Here a picture of a skeleton of a Mosasaur in the natural history museum
|in Maastricht where the first one is found top compare the size of it.
|https://preview.redd.it/48nrwxohtf1e1.jpeg?width=552&format=pjpg&auto=we
|bp&s=c13f00379ec3ab9c4c76876e00c53af5f9fb1eff  It is not the size of
|half Texas.


|u/Narrow-Department891 - 20 minutes
|
|DNA never survives after 1 million years , it gets denatured and decays
|, certainly not inside mosquito


|u/Glittering_Bid_469 - 15 minutes
|
|Lol, African mozzies could have achieved this


|u/FreakinGazebo - 13 minutes
|
|We're on to you Janine Teagues! You and Gregory's Halloween costumes
|will NEVER be cool!


|u/Chocolateismy - 7 minutes
|
|The shittiest bit of this fact is that the movie was in 2015, when I
|would’ve sworn it was 5 years ago 😭


|u/J3m477 - 5 minutes
|
|What a shitty movie with boring details