Raptor's Nest

Palaeontologists have commented a lot on the inaccuracies in Jurassic World , so I'm not gonna repeat that here. What I want to do instead is to provide my ideas on how the concept of Indominus rex could have been better, in my eyes. I actually don't really like the idea of genetically engineering a hybrid dinosaur - that kind of goes against what made the original Jurassic Park  (both novel and film) so "magical" (for want of a better word). As a kid enthusiastic about dinosaurs, the idea of bringing dinosaurs back to life from fossilised DNA was really breathtaking and exciting (yeah, yeah - they weren't real dinosaurs because their genome were augmented with amphibian DNA, blah, blah), but the core concept was that resurrecting past life may have unpredictable and undesirable consequences - like  JP  staff not being able to control their dinosaur population despite their genetic engineering - "life finds a way". So in that vein, I would have made...

The title says it all... But to reiterate: Why did Jurassic World, supposedly the world's biggest theme park, hire a former Navy Seal to train their velociraptors? Could they not attract the top expertise in animal training? Or any of the surviving Jurassic Park veterans? Or was Owen Grady THE top raptor trainer in the world? I am confused. I liked Owen Grady as a character; he was funny and charismatic. And I enjoyed Chris Pratt's portrayal of Grady. But suspension of disbelief went flying out the window as soon as he was revealed to be a former Navy Seal and not Steve Irwin...

I finally saw Jurassic World. It was pure entertainment. An action flick or a monster movie. Lots and lots of carnage. ...but not really in league with the original Jurassic Park. There is no sense of awe, like the first time I saw the Brachiosaurus rear up. Definitely not sci-fi. There is a ton of articles written by prominent palaeontologists on the internet already about the scientific inaccuracies of JW, so I'll keep that brief, and maybe touch a bit more on the sci-fi and plot aspects that JW missed. Obviously, SPOILERS! But first, the obligatory palaeo-sins (like  cinema sins ): The dinosaurs all look rubbery and early 20th century like. Never mind the featherless-ness, these dinos looked worse than how they looked in the original 1993 JP. You can really see what I mean in the skin texture of the herbivores like Triceratops  or any of the sauropods, especially in the scenes with the gyrosphere. The JP Triceratops and Brachiosaurus didn't l...