Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Stupidity: During the auction, we see the dinosaurs are brought into the room and placed in the middle. Thus blocking half of the bidders from the auctioneer's view. (01:16:40)

Ssiscool

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Suggested correction: He couldn't hear someone calling out?

Maybe so, but an auction house requires you to have a number assigned so that auctioneer can write it on his log so the house knows who won and who has entered into a contract to buy. Thus they need to see the bidder.

Ssiscool

Stupidity: This film reveals that the theme park was built upon a dormant volcano. This means that John Hammond either neglected to do a geological survey when picking a location for his park, or simply ignored it and foolishly gambled that the volcano would never erupt.

Phaneron

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Suggested correction: Lots of people live right next to dormant volcanos. It can be thousands of years before a dormant volcano erupts. Might be a risk, but not as much as lets say living on a tectonic boundary or in tornado alley.

lionhead

There's a difference between assuming the risk of living in an area prone to a natural disaster versus building a theme park that's completely reliant on tourism revenue in an area prone to a natural disaster. If a person's home is destroyed by a volcano, they can eventually get a new home, even if it takes a year or two. If a multi-billion dollar theme park is destroyed by a volcano, it's not something that can be replaced so easily, especially since no insurance company in their right mind would cover any of it. Additionally, the island in this film is fictional, which means the writers deliberately chose for a volcanic eruption to be the reason for the evacuation, when they could have just as easily made it so that the military decides to carpet-bomb the island or send in ground troops to gun down all the dinosaurs.

Phaneron

A dormant volcano is a dormant volcano, no reason to think it will erupt only years after you build a theme park on it. The area is not "prone" to a natural disaster. The eruption is a total surprise. Vesuvius erupts once every 2 decades or something and a lot more than a simple theme park is inside its destruction zone (red zone), including 800,000 people. And that is an active volcano. Take a look at Carney Park, a military recreational facility on top of a dormant volcano. Stupid?

lionhead

Yes, it is stupid. If you put a multi-billion dollar investment into an area where it could be destroyed by a volcanic eruption, it is a stupid decision, regardless of whether it's real life or fiction.

Phaneron

Also, the examples you gave are areas with civilian populations that rely on those types of attractions to help stimulate the local economy. Isla Nublar is a privately owned island with no civilian population to speak of, other than park employees, meaning it is 100% reliant on tourism for its revenue.

Phaneron

How many theme parks are built in California, which is severely prone to earthquakes?

LorgSkyegon

That's not an apples to apples comparison. California has a heavy civilian population and theme parks help contribute to their economy. Jurassic World is located on an isolated island with no civilian population and has to rely completely on tourism to stay in business.

Phaneron

Stupidity: Why did no guards come before/after the hard-headed dinosaur knocked through the wall between the cages? From later in the movie we could see the cages being monitored on a screen. Surely there would be someone keeping watch to make sure the dinosaurs were OK prior to their auctioning?

Stupidity: Being trapped in the control room, Claire and Franklin opened a gate to the old park allowing a dinosaur to enter (as seen on a screen). Rather than making their escape they waited for the carnivorous dinosaur to show up.

Plot hole: Being transported from the west of Costa Rica all the way to Northern California by ship would take about a week. Are we to assume that Owen, Claire and Franklin were staying put in the back of the truck the whole time undetected? They would have to eat and use the restroom, at least.

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Suggested correction: Maybe they did have to sneak around but the director thought making us watch Owen sneaking away at night to take a whiz wasn't really important to the plot.

It was established in the plot's timeline that the ship travelled overnight. A ship like this travels at about 12 knots and would take for them about 9 days to complete that voyage.

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Trivia: According to Director J.A. Bayona the opening scene is inspired by James Bond films which always open with an action sequence.

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Question: How exactly did Zia become a paleoveterinarian if she had never even seen a dinosaur beforehand? Wouldn't she need some practical experience on a living subject?

Phaneron

Answer: Would add to the other answer that while "paleo-veterinarian" is not a formally recognized degree or specialization in veterinary medicine, it is a field of study and practice that involves applying veterinary knowledge to the study of extinct animals, especially dinosaurs. This includes understanding and theorizing how their anatomy, physiology, and diseases might have been, and applying this knowledge to modern animals. Though Zia apparently had no hands-on experience with living dinosaurs, she would have studied fossils and also birds and reptiles that had some relationship to extinct dinosaurs. She may also have had some access to InGen's scientific research, read their scientific publications, etc.

raywest

Answer: I think you could make a compelling argument that paleoveterinarians are probably held to a different standard than normal veterinarians because it's an extremely niche study. Being a paleoveterinarian is wildly specific, and having the chance for practical hands-on experience with dinosaurs would be rare and difficult to the point of being borderline impossible. Dinosaurs are only in a few specific locations, and there have been repeated incidents basically necessitating that people keep away outside of very rare exceptions. But you can't just not have them, so getting licensed is probably based more on study than experience.

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