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Originally Posted by Toupee
Seriously, I was in first grade when that movie came out and dinosaurs were AWESOME. Teachers were really into it and we had units on them and watched this movie in school a lot. I had posters of dinos on my wall and books about them. I just don't see this movie's "genetically modified" dinosaurs creating that effect at all.
Any kid who wasn't complaining that about the deinonychus being mislabeled as a velociraptor wasn't up on their game, IMO.
Movie's still amazing, but educational? Get out.
You're giving the general public's knowledge of dinosaur too much credit, and how little attention to detail it takes to be educated. At the time of the first JP, I think the godzilla'esque design for bipeds and sort of scaly elephant design for quadrapeds was the dominant understanding. The counter-balance tail and supporting anatomy was pretty fresh (to the public). Also, picturing dinosaurs as functional and evolved (albeit terrifying) animals instead of just monsters despite audience expectations was pretty good.
Plus there was that whole exposition cartoon the actors, and the audience, had to sit through. Like the average movie-goer has any idea what DNA is, even today.
I'll grant that it popularized a lot of concepts, but any kid who was up on dinosaur stuff was already on top of it.
Dinosaur knowledge is just about the most useless thing that kids are taught at school.
They can't name three songbirds that live in their own yards, or a single edible plant, but let's make sure we bestow upon them the sparse and speculative knowledge we have about this tiny subset of extinct animals.
Well songbirds aren't violent enough so that's on them.
Dino bones were placed by the devil to deceive humankind.
I liked Jurassic World a lot. It was a worthy sequel (20 yrs later) to JP. It was a fun film, and I can't remember any groan-worthy scenes as bad as Kelly-raptor-gymnastics-kick from TLW. The blending of genes to create the I.Rex fits right in with the books - these aren't real dinos after all. I enjoyed the line from Henry Wu which referred to using frog dna before .
Just think if they'd have used Hedgehog DNA, and also BLUE WHALE DNA.