Still not online for some reason, and I've been watching Succession and football, so I missed the live broadcast. Didn't think I needed to record it. Hopefully it's up soon, as reactions seem to be super positive.

So they're apparently waiting until the true west coast airing, which is another hour and twenty minutes. DIRECTV, which is what I have, broadcasts the east coast FX feed. But I guess other providers hold off...

Kind of shocked it took them two+ movies to come up with this Universal Pictures/"Jurassic World" logo, but it *is* pretty cool...

It's finally up. Watching now...

Jurassic World 2 was one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen so I've tried to forget about it, so help me remember...

Didn't only like 30 dinosaurs escape into the wild at the end? And they were differing species for the most part right? So now the whole point is they're starting to take over the planet? So how exactly did that happen? And in this short film, people went camping in an area that they know probably has dinosaurs including a T-Rex or whatever that was, but they still went out into the woods? And the U.S. government is just gonna let gigantic carnivorous lizards walk around?

The concept of a Jurassic World is definitely pretty fun so maybe I'm being too critical, but the way they arrived at it is so stupid, it's hard to get past it.

Eh, that was decent. I don't really understand the point, especially being almost two years out from JP3, but I do admit, dinosaurs attacking people in the wild - all across America - has a TON of potentially for the next movie, and this serves as a nice proof of concept, I guess. Loved the little end credit glimpses in that regard. That said, if there was even a 5% chance of being attacked by a dinosaur while camping, I can't imagine I'd ever go camping as nonchalantly as the people in this short. It's going to be interesting to see how they paint this new reality. Are there private/government groups hunting dinosaurs now? Is the public paranoid? Or is this just the new norm? Again, tons of potential for a lot of new drama/action we haven't seen in this franchise before, which is exciting, I just seriously doubt Trevorrow is the one to capitalize on that. But we'll see.

Was typing as you posted this, but I have a lot of the same questions/issues. On its face, just the bare bones premise could be amazing; dinosaurs in the wild, roaming America, attacking the sh*t out of people. But yeah, all of the set up to get here in the last movie was just completely asinine, and you're right, there couldn't have been more than 30 dinosaurs that escaped from that mansion. Seems like the government could have tracked them all down and killed them in a matter of weeks if not days.

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It's finally up. Watching now...

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I feel like an enterprising Viz Arts team at most major universities could have replicated that or exceeded it, since they wouldn't be bound to Hollywood tropes.

Look if there's ever a dinosaur rampage, just hire an army of tween black girls (Kelly from JP2, this chick) and we're safe.

That seemed like a big waste of time for no discernible purpose. Cut it down to 2 minutes and make it the teaser trailer for JW3.

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Seems like the government could have tracked them all down and killed them in a matter of weeks if not days.

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This is my problem with basically every "whole population gets wiped out book/TV show/movie - like in every monster movie when our first response includes single troops with rifles on their shoulders against the 300-foot tall monster. If that's how our military operates, every country in the world should attack us.

One of my favorite books of the last 10 years or so is "The Passage" which involves infected people that take on vampire-esque qualities of strength and blood craving. But through newspapers and documents, the author shows the military with an actual strategy that includes a "scorched earth" sequence of the midwest with bombers, basically one step short of detonating a nuclear warhead on our own soil. It works, but not enough to keep the resulting plague from happening.

Every fighter pilot in the world would line up to shoot down a Pterodactyl or drop a payload on a T-rex. We wouldn't just let them wander around killing people.

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And in this short film, people went camping in an area that they know probably has dinosaurs including a T-Rex or whatever that was, but they still went out into the woods? And the U.S. government is just gonna let gigantic carnivorous lizards walk around?

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People get killed by animals now. But we still venture out into the wild.

MuckRaker96 said:

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Look if there's ever a dinosaur rampage, just hire an army of tween black girls (Kelly from JP2, this chick) and we're safe.

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This was my biggest issue with the short. The neighboring trailer guy, owner of the crossbow, should have been the one shooting the dinosaur, not the little girl.

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One of my favorite books of the last 10 years or so is "The Passage" which involves infected people that take on vampire-esque qualities of strength and blood craving. But through newspapers and documents, the author shows the military with an actual strategy that includes a "scorched earth" sequence of the midwest with bombers, basically one step short of detonating a nuclear warhead on our own soil. It works, but not enough to keep the resulting plague from happening.

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World War Z has a good excerpt about military strategy too. The book, not the movie.

Exactly. Leave it to Trevorrow to take the ONE thing most despised in The Lost World (young black girl taking on a dinosaur with gymnastics) and basically double down on it. (Not a race thing, obviously, just the dumb trope of kids saving the day by ridiculous means.)

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World War Z... The book, not the movie.

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That should be the movie's tagline. Such a waste.

Sorry, meant to reply to Muck's post, not yours.

Because it was a double cross bow

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Jurassic World 2 was one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen so I've tried to forget about it, so help me remember...

Didn't only like 30 dinosaurs escape into the wild at the end? And they were differing species for the most part right? So now the whole point is they're starting to take over the planet? So how exactly did that happen? And in this short film, people went camping in an area that they know probably has dinosaurs including a T-Rex or whatever that was, but they still went out into the woods? And the U.S. government is just gonna let gigantic carnivorous lizards walk around?

The concept of a Jurassic World is definitely pretty fun so maybe I'm being too critical, but the way they arrived at it is so stupid, it's hard to get past it.

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There was a mention of "how did they get up here?" so it seems like they went camping in an area they assumed was dino-free.

The bigger picture issue of "how are we just sort of letting this happen" is a fair one though.

I've never understood the reasoning behind replacing one of the most iconic/recognizable movie themes of all time with a generic, bland theme that nobody could pick out of a lineup.

Sex Panther said:

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Jurassic World 2 was one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen so I've tried to forget about it, so help me remember...

Didn't only like 30 dinosaurs escape into the wild at the end? And they were differing species for the most part right? So now the whole point is they're starting to take over the planet? So how exactly did that happen? And in this short film, people went camping in an area that they know probably has dinosaurs including a T-Rex or whatever that was, but they still went out into the woods? And the U.S. government is just gonna let gigantic carnivorous lizards walk around?

The concept of a Jurassic World is definitely pretty fun so maybe I'm being too critical, but the way they arrived at it is so stupid, it's hard to get past it.

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It was an Allosaurus, not a T-Rex. And they are Archosaurs, like birds (who are now considered avian dinosaurs by modern science), crocs and Pterosaurs, not lizards. Now Mosasaurus is actually most likely related to monitor lizards, and not a dinosaur. There you go. Dropped some knowledge on ya. Hey, my 3 year old is crazy about dinosaurs so we read about them A LOT. And I mean A LOT.

The rest of your points are 100% spot on. Though, could it be that the government has made dinosaurs a protected species and forbids people from hunting and killing them? If an 8 year old with a crossbow can easily wound one of those, what could a .30 cal or .50 cal do to one? They seem relatively easy to kill with a powerful weapon.

https://amblin.com/press/neill-dern-and-goldblum-return-to-jurassic-franchise-for-jurassic-world-3/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/09/25/jurassic-world-jurassic-park-x-men-fast-and-furious-jeff-goldblum-laura-dern-chris-pratt-vin-diesel-paul-walker-hugh-jackman-patrick-stewart-universal-box-office/#10302a36f65a