Awesome / Jurassic World

Owen Grady, Raptor-Lord and his Raptors of the Galaxy.

"We're going after it with everything we've got."

— Owen Grady

The Film:

• The fact that Jurassic World exists is in itself awesome! A well-oiled crew providing enjoyment and safety for the 20,000 visitors they welcome everyday, having made the concept of a theme park whose attractions are dinosaurs viable for ten years! Too bad I. rex breaks that record.
  • When Gray throws open the door to the hotel room balcony, the shot that moves through the door and overlooks the entire park as the classic Jurassic Park theme reaches its crescendo before cutting to Claire in the elevator. It does an excellent job of capturing the sense of wonder and awe that would be inherent in seeing a place like this for the first time. Especially for long-time JP fans, as this is the first time it really hits home: The park is open. And it is glorious.
    • When Claire says, "Welcome to Jurassic World," almost immediately thereafter, she's looking right into the camera. She's not just talking to the people with whom she's later shown walking through the genetics room. She's talking directly to you, the audience.
  • The mechanics of Jurassic World as a park are pretty epic too. For example, the Mosasaurus Feeding Show ends with the entire stadium being lowered into the Underwater Observatory to get a closer look at the Mosasaurus as she eats.
  • Masrani implies that they've gotten so good at all this that any animal escapes are usually dealt with fairly swiftly. He even says that the park owes its success to how well they can solve such problems. Sadly, the I. rex turned out to be too smart for them this time around...
  • Additionally, despite the fact that the pterosaur attack was devastating, the fact remains that the vast majority of the guests (read: pretty much everyone who was still alive) were successfully evacuated and herded to safety before anything else could go wrong.
• Zach and Gray opening the Innovation Center doors and being greeted by a huge Apatosaurus hologram. If there was any scene that really captures the "Jurassic Park" feeling, this would be it. It almost feels like an updated version of the first film's "Welcome to Jurassic Park" scene.
• Owen stopping the raptors from attacking the feeder that fell into their compound. This is a species that has been shown to have an insanely high prey-drive, so the fact that Owen was able to hold his girls off for even a minute serves as an early sign of just how strong their imprinted bond with him is. Anyone else would've been shredded meat within a few short seconds.
• On the subject of Owen and his raptors, this line is sheer badass:
  Gray: (after hearing the raptor names) "Who's the alpha?"
  Owen: "You're looking at him, kid."
• The fact that Claire's Character Development culminates in outrunning a Tyrannosaurus, the same specimen Hammond himself clocked at 32 miles per hour (this was twenty years ago, granted, but what follows shows that she hasn't lost it one bit). Not impressive enough? She does this, among many other things, in heels!
  • Heck, the fact Claire was able to wear heels throughout the whole fiasco is impressive in itself.
  • Earlier than that, when Owen's trying to fend off a Dimorphodon after the I. rex wrecks the Aviary, Claire grabs Owen's dropped tranquilizer gun, butts the Dimorphodon off of him and promptly puts a full magazine of tranq darts into it. Even Owen is surprised.
• Owen's a quick thinker when it comes to animals. While hiding under a truck, he quickly cuts the brake line and soaks himself in the brake fluid, ensuring that when I. Rex gets a wiff of him, she wouldn't find him appetizing and walk off.
• Indominus rex has a lot...
  • Her perfectly executed escape from her paddock: Evading the thermal scanners, she scratches ascending claw marks into the wall of her paddock to make it look like she climbed out. The humans open the paddock and go in, giving her the chance to kill them and ram her way through the closing gate.
  • She's smart enough to realize that she's been fitted with a tracker and claws it out, then uses her camouflage to ambush the first team sent to take her down.
  • Her magnificent bit of Xanatos Speed Chess when confronted with a helicopter-mounted machine gun: She outruns the machine gun, smashes her way into the Pteranodon Aviary, and gets them to attack the helicopter for her. Her Unflinching Walk as the chopper crashes is the icing on the cake.
    • Also, the Pteranodons, who are quite aggressive and territorial themselves, are scared enough of her to flee from their home in panic.
  • "That thing's part-raptor." Cue I. rex and Velociraptors efficiently decimating Hoskins' men.
  • During this, the I. rex gets shot by one of Hoskins' men, and judging by her cry of pain and the fact that she's knocked to the ground, it genuinely injured her... only for her to shrug it off and get back to her feet within seconds.
  • She gets one last moment just prior to her death: Despite being horrendously injured by the T. rex and Owen's raptors, she manages to rise back to her feet, dripping in blood, and give one last roar of defiance before the Mosasaurus delivers the fatal blow.
• I. rex is shown fighting six individual dinosaurs^note technically five dinosaurs and a Mosasaurus onscreen: an Ankylosaurus, Owen's raptors, the Tyrannosaurus, and the Mosasaurus. Even though she goes down in the end, she still puts up quite a fight, doubly so when you factor in that this is after getting shot earlier by Hoskins' men.
• Owen using his relationship with the raptors to break them from Indominus' command. What's more impressive is that Indominus is standing right behind them, but the pack immediately turns on her without question.
  • Owen is very protective of his raptors; when he hears that Hoskins is planning to use them as field weapons, his answer is a pissed-off "'Sonuvabitch!" And then, when he next walks up to the man, glaring, Owen straight up socks him on the jaw. Zach and Gray recognize it as awesome, too.
    • And if you listen to the background sound, you can hear Owen's raptors screech in satisfaction. Alpha's taking care of business.
    • What Owen says to Hoskins after punching him is awesome too, especially if you often work around wild animals at a zoo and have developed a Human-Animal Bond to them.
      Owen: (to Hoskins) Get the hell out of here and stay away from my animals.
  • In Owen's absence, Barry is the one looking after the raptors and is none too happy when Smug Snake Hoskins starts showing an uncomfortable level of interest in them. So what does Barry do in response to this? He tracks Hoskins and his men around the island, which also allows him to spot the InGen mercenaries on a beach and then do everything in his power to buy Owen time and slow down Hoskins' removal of the raptors.
• Jurassic Park's new owner Simon Masrani. After seeing the I. rex for himself, Masrani insists on getting Owen Grady to check its security, and when it escapes he storms the genetics lab himself to find out why the I. rex could camouflage itself (both from the human eye and the thermal cameras) and why it's genetic composition is a secret, basically telling Dr. Wu that he'll see him fired. Then, after the first ill-fated attempt to contain the I. rex non-lethally, he tells Hoskins where he can shove his idea to use the raptors, informs him that he'll be investigating Hoskins' projects closely, and goes with Owen's plan to attach a minigun to a helicopter and kill the thing. And when all of the helicopter pilots are too busy evacuating the park's guests, Masrani volunteers to fly the helicopter himself despite being only half-trained, ready to be on the front lines defending his park from a monster like no one's ever seen before. Sure, it doesn't work out so well, but the flames from the explosion burn the I. rex badly.
• On the whole, the entire discovery and visit to the original Jurassic Park is this. With the movie resurrecting the original visitor center set, believably abandoned-looking, without resorting to any obvious Lampshading in case the audience doesn't get where we are, plus the shot that makes the old raptor painting look like an ancient cave painting, and the original gray and white jeeps from the first movie. Plus the fact that Zach manages to restart one of them that's been dead for possibly 20 years, and it's their lifeboat that takes them to (relative) safety after all this time.
  • Seems that when Hammond said he spared no expense, he really wasn't fucking kidding!
• Hell, the brothers in general for managing to keep their heads—both literally and figuratively—without being terribly bad loads for Claire and Owen.
• When the Pterosaurs escape their aviary and threaten the main park, the emergency alarm that blares is an old fashioned air-raid siren, which makes perfect practical sense to use, and not only for any danger coming from the sky. Regardless of country, society, or culture, people from every corner of the world would easily recognize the sound of air-raid sirens as an alarm for emergency or danger.
• Speaking of the Main Street attack, the whole attack itself qualifies as one for the pterosaurs, the I. rex, the ACU, Claire and the filmmakers.
  • For the pterosaurs: It's not often that pterosaurs are depicted as formidable in Dinosaur Media; at best they're usually obstacles that are bested by larger more robust carnivores. Here they have perhaps the highest body count of any creature in the entire film series so far. Additionally, the Pteranodons didn't have to be made into Toothy Birds to be threatening like their predeccessors in Jurassic Park III, being capable killers by stabbing people with their beaks, as well as being partly responsible for the most shocking and memorable death in the film.
  • For the I. rex: She's the entire reason they escaped, and likely orchestrated their escape to keep Masrani off her tail.
  • For the ACU: Despite being previously depicted as a Redshirt Army, they managed to tranquilize most of the pterosaurs and in turn save several of the park's patrons in the process.
  • For Claire: Gunning down an angry Dimorphodon to save Owen's life, earning herself a kiss in the process.
  • For the filmmakers: The scene has masterful cinematography, with special mention going to the various pan shots and Zara's fall. Not to mention that they're probably the first dinosaur movie filmmakers to remember that Pteranodons can swim.
• The T. rex smashing a Spinosaurus skeleton on its way to show the I. rex who the REAL king of the jungle is. What third movie?
• Hoskins' Karmic Death is both this and actually really darkly funny. Especially since he has called Delta a boy twice, even after being informed by Barry that she's very much a girl.
  • What really sells it is the look on Delta's face. The raptors were made more expressive than ever for this film, and Delta gives Hoskins a look that says, "That's it. This annoying prick who's been bullying me all day dies NOW."
  • Also the fact that this guy who's been talking big about "survival of the fittest" and being bred for war the whole movie turns into a giant wimp when actually face-to-face with a raptor who's not being restrained.
    • Delta doesn't give a raptor's butt when Owen and the others run past her; she knows they're there and there's respect between them, as seen mere minutes later—if Owen is going to die at their hand, he's going to die well at their hands; Hoskins can die a cruel and painful death while Owen gets a nicer, if no less painful, one.
• Gray distracting the raptor with the Dilophosaurus hologram, which required fast thinking on his part while being absolutely terrified.
• Barry is seen alive and well at the film's end, meaning that he escaped the dino-infested jungle all on his own. And although it's small, his voice calling Blue's name is enough to make her pause and curiously look in the log's hole at him during the firefight. No one besides Owen has anywhere near that level of mutual respect with her.
• Believe it or not, the ACU (Asset Containment Unit) soldiers. They're armed with cutting-edge technology and is all-business about doing their jobs. There are reasons why Jurassic World remained safe for many successful years, and the ACU's competence might be one of them. Granted, in the movie they aren't doing well against the ''I. rex'' at all, but it's something they have never seen and never prepared for. In any other situation, they might have been able to solve the problem and visitors wouldn't even know there is anything wrong. Later in the movie, they are even capable enough to handle the pterosaurs' breakout on the Main Street with almost no casualties.
  • On a subtle note for the ACU. It's a non-lethal takedown mission, something the ACU is exceptionally skilled and experienced in. Doesn't stop them from packing shotguns and live-round sidearms in an emergency. They are not stupid.
  • Also, a big one for ACU Trooper Miller, who essentially flips off the I. rex by calmly striding toward the damn thing and firing his shotgun repeatedly at it. He gets eaten, but by doing so, the last three troopers—one of them severely injured—survive the attack and escape I. rex's pursuit, thanks to his badassery.
• The worker who nearly got eaten by the raptor pack at the beginning gets to signal the start of the I. rex hunt later on.
• A minor one with Lowery, one of Jurassic World's operators and a Jurassic Park fanboy, who was willing to stay behind and help Claire and co. contain the situation despite seeing how bad things have turned out. He knows what happened to the old Jurassic Park, and he's sure as hell won't let the new park ended up the same way, at least not any worse than it already is. Due to this, he's there to help when Claire orders him to release the T. rex from her paddock to defeat the I. rex and save the day.
• Those who have seen the third film (and kept their ears sharp during the first two) know that the raptor "bark" is their way of calling for help, or getting other raptors to pay attention. When Blue barks at Indominus as she runs at it, she's essentially shouting "Hey! YOU!"
  • Indominus killed Blue's pack. This round, it's personal. She's basically shouting "This is for my sisters, YOU BITCH!"
• The whole hunt before things go south is just epic. Owen on his bike, speeding through the forest while surrounded by his Raptor Squad. After three films of being dreaded for their viciousness and intelligence, they work together with a human—with their freakin' Alpha—as a team. And it's just amazing.
• Owen's way of handling his girls after they turned to the I. rex is pretty amazing, too. He doesn't fire a single shot at any of them, instead using various methods to distract and lure them away from Barry and the remaining InGen mercenaries. His connection to them is so strong that none of them directly attack him either, instead going for the other humans and in Charlie's case, literally pausing right in the middle of battle because she's too hesitant to hurt her life-long alpha and Parental Substitute. The fact that Owen was able to establish such a strong connection with Velociraptors, who are the most dreaded and cruel dinosaurs in the series, is the highest level of awesome.
• The Raptor Pack running all-out in search of I. rex. After three films telling us how fast JP Velociraptors can run, this is the first time we see them going full-on over long distances.
  • In spite of their reputation as agile, nimble hunters, the raptors in the previous movies were restricted to either ambushing their prey or being confined indoors (mostly to give the human characters a fighting chance). This time, we get to see just how fast, nimble, and surgically lethal a healthy raptor can be while it's on the hunt.
    • And what a glorious hunt it is. They take down a dozen armed and trained humans, arguably the most dangerous creatures on the planet, in the span of two minutes, using speed, stealth, surprise, and panic to pick them off one-by-one until the survivors flee in terror. No wonder Muldoon respected the raptors; they're goddamn deadly.
    • Bear in mind that these raptors have never experienced firearms first-hand before, yet they decide on a plan of attack and then execute it with flawless coordination, all within the span of a minute. That we get to see the speed and precision of their assault from a first-hand perspective is just icing on the cake.
    • Their first kill is dead in a fraction of a second. We see a shadow flash by, hear a barely audible *crack*, and then silence. After three films of being outwitted and eluded by human protagonists, the raptors re-assert their reputation as deadly predators within the span of a heartbeat.
  • From the trailers, it appeared that the Velociraptors were reduced to merely trained animals, compared to the fierce predators we've known for three films. However, the film makes it clear these girls are not tamed, and even in their so-called trained state, are still highly dangerous creatures that can and will kill you if you make a wrong move. Their meeting with the I. rex and the InGen men's itchy-trigger fingers turn the raptors against the humans, and the raptors absolutely dominate them, in true predator fashion.
    • The raptors run right alongside Owen's motorcycle without once attempting to attack him. They could've turned as soon as they were released, but the girls instead race through the jungle with a human at their side, and even glance at Owen several times as if looking for approval. Blue and her sisters almost seem to be happy that they're finally able to run all-out and hunt with their alpha, his species be damned.
• The entirety of the final battle. Claire using herself as T. rex bait, the Tyrannosaurus herself barreling through a Spinosaurus skeleton into Main Street, and staring down the Indominus as they roar at each other, as if to say, "There can be only one!" When Indominus has T. rex down, Blue runs in and distracts it long enough for Tyrannosaurus to get back up and keep fighting. They then begin attacking together, with Blue leaping from Rexy's back to attack Indominus head-on while Rexy uses her powerful jaws and brute strength to bite and smash Indominus around. Indominus is eventually forced into a corner, at which point the Mosasaurus leaps out of the water and delivers the fatal blow, dragging Indominus into its tank. Blue and the T. rex regard each other, T. rex stalks off, and Owen and Blue say a wordless farewell before Blue does the same.
  • This is the first time the series has an extended fight sequence between two kaiju-sized dinosaurs, after the disappointingly short one in III. It goes exactly as you'd expect.
  • The very entry of the T. rex is a Moment of Awesome itself. Three words: "Open paddock 9!" Cue awesome music as Claire lights a flare, building up the more the gate opens, before going silent as a THUD is heard. The heavy footsteps continue as two red eyes stare down at Claire, a familiar shape appearing from the shadows as the Queen of Isla Nublar returns to claim her throne and kick all of the arse. The "No way, nowaynowaynoway-Hell yes!!!" from many old Jurassic Park fans could be heard in cinemas around the world.
    • And you have to remember, this isn't just any rex. This isn't one of the ones from The Lost World, or the pansy who got mauled by III's Spinosaurus. This is Rexy. This is the OG monster of John Hammond's Jurassic Park, this is the rex the logo was centered after. This is the beast that made us fear the Tyrannosaurus, with thudding steps rippling the waters and making us all hold our breath. She might be old and worn after twenty years since the first film, but as she's been in an exhibit, well fed and healthy for twenty years, she hasn't lost an ounce of her edge, and is set to show this little upstart who the ruler of Jurassic Park really is.
    • When she attacks, she smashes through a Spinosaurus skeleton, as if taking revenge on it for the death of her predecessor in the third film.
    • What makes it even better is that this is a Tyrannosaurus, an actual dinosaur, challenging a genetically modified one that was entirely made up by man. You feel like screaming, "This is what a real dinosaur looks like. DIE, YOU HYBRID MONSTER BITCH!"
    • How Rexy recovers in seconds after Blue rushes back into battle is also impressive. She's been savagely mauled and slammed onto the ground by Indominus, and what did that do when she gets back up? Nothing except make her angrier, and she proceeds to throw Indominus around like a ragdoll.
    • It actually really works that Rexy loses the initial bout against her opponent. She might be old, but she's been a zoo exhibit for the last decade, which means she's well-fed, in good shape, and it's been a long time since she's had to cope with the stresses that dinosaurs in the wild would've had to deal with. She's just out of practice. But the savagery of the I. rex surprises her, and she's up against one of the few animals in the park who wouldn't be intimidated by her. So when Blue distracts the I. rex, Rexy takes a second to get up, dust herself off, and recognise the true threat of her opponent, at which point the fight becomes a one-sided beatdown.
  • Blue charging back into battle is awesome in and of itself since she'd been brutally thrown into a concrete pillar several minutes prior, which would've killed any lesser animal. She has to be hurting quite a bit at this point, but that doesn't stop her from charging right back into the fray to protect the only pack member she has left.
    • Blue and Rexy doing an Enemy Mine: They're natural enemies, but the two of them have come to the realization that they can kill one another later—if they don't team up now, then they won't be alive to actually kill one another later on.
    • In a Blink-and-You-Miss-It moment, at one point, Blue jumps off of Indominous in order to avoid getting crushed as the I. Rex crashes into a building. She jumps onto Rexy's back, rides her for a while, and then uses her as a platform to jump right back on the I. Rex, and Rexy is either too busy to notice or totally fine with it.
  • The original Jurassic Park theme just completes the moment.
  • The cinematography of the battle is incredible. The time from Blue leaping onto Indominus to the haunting echo of Mosasaurus after dragging Indominus underwater is a single continuous uninterrupted shot, and the camera ducks and pans and zooms with the action, flawlessly capturing the power and ferocity of four mighty predators locked in deadly combat.
  • Owen’s contribution to the final fight. When Delta and Echo attack the I. rex, does Owen, a simple human, run and hide with the others? No. He unholsters his big game rifle, the only firearm short of a bazooka seen to be able to punch a hole in the I. rex, and starts calmly walking in a semicircle around the beast towards tactical cover, firing shot after shot as he does.
  • A subtle addendum to the final fight. After Rexy and Blue beat the I. rex into a corner, and Rexy tosses her in front of the Mosasaurus tank, Rexy takes two deliberate steps back. She knew exactly what she was doing; she tossed the Indominus in front of the Mosasaurus tank on purpose!
    • Hell, that entire fight showcased Rexy's intelligence. Right after the I. rex stuns her by throwing her into a booth, her first move upon recovering is to smash her through several buildings, severely burning and wounding her with the debris. And when the I. rex tries the same trick as before (raking her face to force her down), Rexy's response is to slam forward and take her off her feet. She's not as smart as the I. rex or the raptors, but she didn't survive a decade in the wild by being a slow learner.
    • And she and Blue come to some kind of arrangement. Sure, they're enemies, but for the first time in the entirety of sixty five million years of dinosaur history, A Tyrannosaurus and a Velociraptor, some of the most dangerous killing machines on land, have come to an understanding; they're equals in this situation, so they can go their separate ways after this fight and, if necessary, they can kill each other later on, when they haven't got anything else to actually get in the way of them killing one another.
  • After the fight's over, the look between Rexy and Blue conveys that, yeah, they COULD attack each other, but they're both wounded, tired, and common enemies, before they both walk off. And this is conveyed with animals without facial expressions!
• Just the death of the Indominus-rex in general. After all the deaths that sadistic, insane, murderous monster caused for fun you will find more satisfying than Hoskins death when she is very killed very deservingly so.
• The final shot of the movie, panning over the abandoned park and culminating in the T. rex standing on the research building, looking out over Isla Nublar, and letting out her iconic roar before the cut to black. It's her way of saying: "I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!"

The Trailer:

• The sight of the Mosasaurus leaping out of the water to chomp on a tiny little great white shark.
  • Let that sink in: As AMC Movie Talk's Mark Ellis put it, just the fact that Jaws, legendary quintessential movie monster (famous for making everyone afraid of the water), is now—a snack—for the new monsters on the block!
  • Or, as Tobuscus' literal trailer puts it: "Symbol of watery terror is dangled to symbolize terror now has a new symbol!"
    • NOM, NOM!
• Owen is apparently skilled enough with the raptors to go hunting with them while riding a motorcycle and not worry about them attacking him.
  • The movie reveals this as an even bigger CMOA: His attitude and cautious behaviour shows he is well aware a wrong move could get him killed. And still does it.
  • What are they hunting? The Indominus rex. In every other Jurassic Park movie, unless you're Roland Tembo, the only option when confronted with a predator on the level of the T. rex is to run and hide, or stay absolutely still (T. rex can't see you if you can't move). Not so for Owen Grady—he goes hunting one with a pack of Velociraptors after a super-hybrid.
  • There's a Heartwarming Moment aspect to it—Owen on the motorcycle allows him to keep pace with his raptors for the first time, and the raptors might actually be enjoying having him hunt with them.
• Velociraptors are seen kept in stalls like racehorses.

• The I. rex's Unflinching Walk after the helicopter crashes in the Pterosaur Aviary. As scary as she is, she's still cool.
• The scene featuring the kids being almost helpless when their gyro sphere is caught in the stampede of Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Apatosaurus, and Parasaurolophus.

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