Top 10 Dumbest Decisions in the Jurassic Park Franchise 

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6:37 the reason why Jurassic Park and Jurassic World were built on Isla Nublar was because at the time, the Volcano was dormant and the Park could run on geothermal power, meaning the park can run on lava found under the island, we know that there’s a geothermal plant on Isla Sorna as well because Peter Loudlow says so himself, meaning Isla Sorna has a volcano as well, meaning that The Five Deaths Archipelago (El archipiélago de las cinco muertes) is a volcanic area, which makes sense because Las Cinco Muertes falls into the Pacific Ring of Fire. Another reason is simple, Islands with volcanos are surprisingly cheep because no one wants an island with a dormant volcano that can become active again at any minute

How could you completely miss bringing the injured T.rex infant into the trailer in TLW:JP? Attracts the rexes, gets Eddie killed, gets blood on Sarah's shirt which keeps the rex on the group's tails... It was a well-meaning act, but it looked to a WHOLE lotta death.

When it comes to the hybrids, none of them seem as unstable as the Scorpius Rex. For those who haven't seen the Netflix series "Camp Cretaceous", the Scorpius Rex was revealed to have been Dr. Wu's first genetic hybrid, existing before the Indominus Rex. However, it was also shown to be extremely aggressive and even more unstable attacking and poisoning Dr. Wu in his lab. And the fact that he didn't immediately kill it shows how determined as well as detached he's become through his years of work.

You definitely missed bringing the infant T-Rex back to the trailer in The Lost World.

To be honest I liked Dr. Wu's lines from the Jurassic World movies. It deals with the dangers of messing with nature. It's very reminiscent of the first movie.

What annoyed the hell out of me was Amanda Kirby using a damn megaphone on an island inhabited by carnivorous dinosaurs. Whereas Claire of Jurassic World was just as dense on survival situations. She went into Hilly Holbrook-mode with her condescending tone by not following Owen’s words of advice. But most of all, I think who ties with worst decisions was Ludlow from The Lost World with his San Diego park idea and Mills from Fallen Kingdom by auctioning off live dinosaurs to the wealthy. Both villainous characters who want to strike it rich, but consequently their own respective plots became their own demise at the jaws of a T-Rex!

You know, the problems we had in JP 1 probably wouldn't have happened if John Hammond had just paid Nedry how much he wanted. The irony of his signature phrase "We spared no expense" when he was underpaying arguably his most important employee cost way too many lives.

John Hammond: "Don't worry, I'm not making the same mistakes again..." Dr. Ian Malcolm: "No, you're making all new ones..." If everyone made the right decisions in movies, no one would watch them 🦖👀

The Butterfly Effect is most prominent in the Jurassic Canon without a doubt From Jurassic Park to Camp Cretaceous. Little decisions have big implications in this Universe

Alan Grant and Billy talk about the best intentions in Jurassic Park 3. "Some of the worst things imaginable were done with the best intentions." Something to exactly that effect.

#1 pick should have been Peter Ludlow following the baby T Rex to an inescapable cargo hold while it was audibly crying out for its parent.

Not putting the t-Rex last on the tour. It’s the “star attraction” it should have been last on the tour track

I don’t think creating dinosaurs was such a bad idea but Hammond should have chosen carefully.

To quote Ian Malcolm. “You know at times like this, one feels ‘well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.’”

The dumbest decision in the last 2 movies was hiring the architect who decided to make dinosaur sized doors for them to easily escape from with someone pressing a button! Especially the mosasaur’s door which leads to THE OPEN OCEAN!

Honestly, first time I watched Fallen Kingdom and that scene when they released the dinosaurs came up, I was confused about one little thing. If the button to open the cages was different from the button to open the massive door leading outside (at least, I think they are different and hope they are or that is just poor planning), why not just leave them in their cages but open the big doors? That way, the dinos are contained but the gas can be vented out via massive door. Maybe not fresh air, but some ventilation.

Jurassic Park wouldn't be a movie franchise without dumb decisions, the people that opened Jurassic Park while their hearts were in the right place it's clear their brains weren't, they were so focused on seeing if they could they never stopped to ask themselves if they should

For Fallen Kingdom, even if Maisie hadn't released those dinosaurs, they would still have to deal with those other dinos that were sold to the highest bidder along with the scientists that still contain some dino embryos.

Amanda “WHAT’S A BAD IDEA?!!” Kirby was possibly the most insufferable character in the whole franchise

As preachy as Dr. Malcom was in the franchise, he was right all along

10. How would be any different if he did stay in the car? The T-Rex would still have attacked the car. Besides, it would be a loss of characterization if he wasn't so cowardice. 9. Teens will always be dumb teens. But the blame has to go more on the park monitors as they didn't detect a broken gate. Besides, going off road wouldn't have been dangerous as all the dinosaurs enclosed in the field are herbivores and their relatively bullet-resistant gyrospheres would've kept them safe if the herbivores we're riled. It just so happened that time a highly dangerous carnivore was on the loose. 8. It was a clever plan by the Indominus as she was underestimated by even her creators. She made those claw marks as a distraction and then hid her body temperature from the monitors that she would have obviously been able to observe from the unbreakable glass (human DNA was also added to her genome adding to her intelligence) 7. Ludlow shipped the T-Rex to San Diego to prove he was better than Hammond. Unfortunately, all it took was one mishap on the boat to screw it all up. But even so, it wasn't really his initial idea to bring a T-Rex on their first trip to bring dinos to Jurassic Park San Diego. They had intended on herbivores exclusively, but Nick (the Earth First bastard) threw a literal wrench in that plan. And Mills had to bring them over for the auction since it's all in his plot to get rich. 6. Nedrys' goal was to make a beeline for the boat and come back. Remember the only paddock he didn't shut down was the raptor pen because that wasn't in his path, but also knows better to let them have the opportunity to escape. A single T-Rex can be handled easier than a pack of Raptors and he knew that. He just didn't consider other carnivores like the Dilophosaurus. 5. The novel made it clear was to why a dormant volcano was chosen; it was to provide the presumed atmosphere the dinos once lived long ago. Also it provided both islands with geothermal power source since they are built to be independent havens from the rest of the world. 4. 100%. But it is still within Critchons original vision. 3. Billy admitted he took them on an impulse. At least the Raptors we're reasonable enough to leave them alone once they recovered their eggs. 2. Oh sure, blame the traumatized child instead of Dr. Wu and the people who bought the dinosaurs who will "Make some more", and "so will they". Maisie was also prompted by Lockwood's words about how her "mother" would've saved them all. The dinosaurs would've been released to the world regardless if Maisie didn't push that button as Dr. Wu still has DNA supply and the capability and intention to produce more dinosaurs. HM - Opening the Park. Um... Why not? It was John Hammond's dream and it had enjoyed a good ten year run. JPOperation Genesis and JWEvolution also demonstrated that running a dino park responsibly is possible. Just... don't make intelligent hybrids. 1. Well... this IS the entire hinge this franchise is going towards. Plus, it illustrates how scientists can go in their arrogance as Michael Crichton wrote. My personal dumbest decision was from the Telltale game where Dr. Laura Sorkin decided to release the cure for the dinosaurs lycine deficiency to the water supply and was intentionally going to release the Tylosaurus into the ocean.

I’m very happy that the dumb decision for Claire Dearing to wear heels during the events of “Jurassic World” got an honorable mention. Also, all of these dumb decisions are just one of the many reasons why I love this franchise.

" Just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should!" So True Dr. Malcolm!!!

One other dumbest thing in the Jurassic movies I can think of: 1. Jurassic Park 2. What were the wealthy parents thinking when they let their little girl wonder off on an unknown island by herself, especially not knowing what sort of creatures are on it? The worst thing a parent could do. By doing that so, their daughter got gravelly injured by the small meat-eating dinosaurs and traumatised. Even if there hadn't been dinosaurs, there's still other predators and dangers on the island, too.

You certainly missed the bringing the baby Tyrannosaurus Rex into the trailers while the thing had a broken leg, and when the mama and papa T. Rex got their baby back, they thought Sarah and Nick hurt the baby which is why they T. Rexes pushed the trailers over the cliff almost killing them, and cost Eddie his life. During this Sarah got the baby's blood on her jacket, and she even said that the T. Rex had a great sense of smell, and yet she still wore that jacket which allowed the T. Rexes to track the group through the jungle, (what a dummy!).

The babysitter for the boys In the first Jurassic World was in fact the first woman in the entire Jurassic Park franchise to die on screen. And her death was so horrific you have to wonder if the writers we're trying to make up for the fact that in the three prior Jurassic Park movies not a single female character died on screen. Not even when the T-Rex was going on a rampage in San Diego

Malcom’s decision to get the Rex’s attention wasn’t stupid. He sacrificed himself to let Grant get the kids and divert the Rex’s attention from them and on to him. I know he survived but the word still fits because that’s what he was essentially doing

6:43 To be fair, when they built the parks, the volcano was dormant.

In my opinion all of the Jurassic Park movies are good in their own unique ways, even the more weaker installments had some glory to it. Feel free to disagree with me, but please be respectful of my opinion, ok good.

4:53 InGen didn’t want to capture the Tyrannosaur, they *KNEW* it was a bad idea! No, they originally wanted to capture the *herbivores* and send *them* to Jurassic Park: San Diego. Roland Timbo also knew that capturing the T-Rex alive was a horrible idea which is why he felt guilty for letting it happen (Timbo was at the InGen hunting party to help capture the herbivores and to kill a male Tyrannosaur for his big game trophy wall)

Running into the Outhouse/Restroom to hide was basically a one-way ticket to death.

To be fair, in the novels, the volcano is relevant (albeit in a totally different way, but no spoilers in case someone goes 'Hey I wanna read those books').

What about parking a long truck near a cliff in The lost world?

How about essentially *kidnapping* Dr. Grant into helping you rescue your missing son who's stranded on a dinosaur-infested island?

You forgot going after the Indominus Rex with non-lethal weapons

Wouldn't call Ian Malcolm getting the Rex's attention a dumb idea. If you listen carefully, he shouts "Get the kids!" twice to Grant. He's willingly placing himself in danger so Grant can help the children. Sure in hindsight, he didn't know the Rex was smart enough to not fall for the flare trick twice, or that the Rex would headbutt him through a wall, and he certainly didn't know that Tim's legs were stuck meaning they were basically stuck there for the Rex to come back... but he was still willing to place himself in a deadly situation to save the lives of children.

Gennaro running away isn't a dumb decision. It's a natural response to danger (Rexy). Also, by getting Rexy's attention, Malcolm gave Grant a chance to save the kids.

0:42 Even being eaten by the T-Rex, I say the Lawyer is so Fired.

It’s satisfying when the “crazy” person is proven right

Building Jurassic World despite knowing full well what happened with Jurassic Park

1. Going back to Isla Sorna (JP3) 2. Using raptors to track I-Rex (JW) 3. Going to pee in the woods alone (Lost World) 4. Running in front of a plane (JP3) 5. Trying to steal the Indoraptor's tooth (FK)

Lesson: If you wanna bring dinosaurs back, make sure you only bring back the herbivores. T-Rexes and raptors may look cool, but it's not worth the risk!

Moments that should've been acknowledged: Jurassic Park: Arnold going alone after the raptors got loose, Tim not getting the gun to Allen in the lab, Lex getting Rexy's attention AGAIN with her annoying scream Lost World: The Bowman family vacationing on Isla Sorna, the scenes with the baby T-Rex (because several dumb decisions revolve around the poor guy), the "Hey, you!" moment at the raptor, JP3: Amanda (just everything about her), the Kirby's lying to Allen about their situation, not doing proper research, and not hiring trained bodyguards, the kid forgetting to get the phone to his mom Jurassic World: Trying to weaponize dinosaurs Fallen Kingdom: The whole story arc of Maisie being a clone, Maisie hiding under her bed sheets from a dinosaur, going back to the wrecked park for the Indoraptor bones, going into the Mosasaur enclosure and letting it escape, the woman screaming in the elevator (Lex flashbacks...), Ken trying to get the Indoraptor tooth

I knew cloning the dinos in the first place would be #1. If U ask me Ian Malcolm is the smartest character of the franchise.

1:53 Kids like Zach's Age always Make Bad Choice, I can't blame him he's a Teenager.

How is taking the baby T-Rex to the trailer from "The Lost World" NOT on this list??!!

Dennis Nedry looking back at the Dilophosaurus after it already spat venom at him wasn’t too bright

3:50: If the paddock really was empty what was the point of going into it at all?

I Love Jurassic Park/World Franchise Movies So Much.

I can also bring up another one, making the Velociraptors bigger than their natural size, they're supposed to be little under half the size of what they are shown to be in the movie, with how big the Velociraptors are in the movie you can compare their height more to Utahraptors

As much as I love the old movies, I kinda wish they would do a more Book accurate version of the first two movies, but then I guess we wouldn't have Henry Wu as a villain, seeing as how he gets bisected by a raptor trying to warn Satler.

Jurassic Park is my favorite Steven Spielberg film

A co-worker of my dad showed Fallen Kingdom to his 4 or 5 year old kid, and he said "But daddy don't they know if they keep trying to put the dinosaurs in cages they'll keep trying to get out?" Then he replied "Well the movies keep making so..." Then finally, this 4 or 5 year old kid said. "Well I get that but why don't they make the characters smarter?"

Humanity’s obvious and greedy faults at their best, ladies and gentlemen! Give the series a round of applause

Billy Redeemed himself by saving Eric from being TerraDactyl food

1:10 That line will never get old XD

I'm convinced Watch Mojo will NEVER run out of Top 10 ideas.

If Maisei didn't release a dinosaurs in Fallen Kingdom, we couldn't have a sequel coming out next year. Thanks to her for making a sequel.

I fail to see how #8 was a dumb decision when they had every reason to believe the Indominus had escaped at that time.

#1: Reviving dinosaurs in the first place! As Dr. Ian Malcolm said, "You were too busy asking if you could do it, you never asked if you should do it!" (Might've messed up the quote a bit). But seriously, reviving dinosaurs is definitely NOT something that should be done. Sure, I think dinosaurs are cool too, but I DO NOT want them roaming the earth with us. Besides, we already have birds and gators, isn't that enough dinosaurs? Edit: I do still like the first two Jurassic Park movies and don't mind Jurassic World, but reviving dinosaurs was still an unbelievably dumb decision.

You forgot that Claire decide to drive away from the i Rex first then call

The high heels was actually the actress’s choice as a way to say women can be strong and bad ass while wearing heels.

Literally everything that happens in Fallen Kingdom

So you're telling me that no one thought of making a small entrance only for humans beside the dinosaur-sized door? Especially the one with a carnivore?

You forgot the part where Vince Vaughn stoled Pete Papavoit's bullets. I mean those T rexes were eating people. And not just any people but the same people who helped at the cliff earlier and told them where the communication tower is and how do they repay them? That man takes away their only means of defending themselves? In The Lost World movie alone we had a loud mouth scientist who can't count, an idiot scientist who kidnaps baby T rexes, and a not so tough tough guy Vince Vaughn unleashes Dinos on everybody.

I think that the casual port-a-potty ajacent to the enclosed perimeter is hilarious.

“They’re alive. Like me.” Question little girl. Are you going to kill indiscriminately everything around you? Only asking since the dinosaurs aren’t exactly going to share those same morals (something I’m sure we will see quite a bit of with the upcoming film). But like what was said: we needed a plot for the sequel somewhere…

I clicked cause I remember the biggest dumb decision in a Jurassic Park movie, never call for your son with a loudspeaker!!!

Malcolm didn't accidentally regain the tyrannosaurus' attention he did it deliberately, you literally show the scene of him intentionally getting the Rex's attention and clearly shouting "get the kids" right after saying he did it by accident It's obvious what he was doing because let's face it a tiny flare isn't gonna be enough to keep the tyrannosaurus in its enclosure when it can walk right back out once the flare goes out

" The key to a Happy Life is to accept that you are not actually in Control!" Very True!

Damn WatchMojo has an attitude 😂 7:21

Should have at least had an honorable mention, screaming through a bull horn on an island full of dinosaurs. It was even the first scene shown in this video, but no mention of it.

Here's the dumbest decision right off the bat: making dinosaurs in the first place

0:29 imagine having not watched all jurassic park movies

How do you enter the paddock before checking the tracker. You never enter the paddock especially not unarmed. And I'm constantly trying to wonder why they constantly were using non-lethal weapons on the indominus Rex

6:38 That became active because of the explosion made by Darius and Ben, to distract Scorpios Rex from Yasmina.

5:23 Hammond is a genius compared to this guy.

Malcolm wasn't being stupid, if he let alan lure the t-rex he knew it would probably come back quickly and decided to lure it away to save them

"Hes says that a bad idea" - husband/ father "WHAT'S A BAD IDEA" - Mom/ Wife ( YOU!! DUH😒 ) Everyone else.

The only reason Ian Malcolm distracting Rexy in JP1 isn't listed here is that it is the BEST decision ever, in that it gave us that magnificent Ian Malcolm meme.

Releasing the dinosaurs wasn't a stupid decision. It was crazy but a right decision!

Also next can you please do “Saddest Jurassic Park Moments”?

I don’t know what is dumber creating the dinosaurs or re opening the park I say re opening the park because this time the dinosaur actually killed people not releated to the park

"Raptor eggs! Did you STEAL raptor eggs?!" That quote always cracks me up! How else did they get in Billy's lucky bag? Did they grow legs and hitch hike?

Making anything beyond Jurassic Park

4:52 It was very, very stupid for the guard to press the button that opens the cage doors and releases the Papa T-Rex onto the mainland, or maybe just bring a T-Rex to the mainland, period.

I honestly dont think that Maise's decison to release the Isa Nublar Dinosaurs from the mansion was a bad idea, seeing as how she was also created using the same technology that was used to make these creatures. on the contrary, she was trying to make sure that they have a chance at life again

I don’t think Hammond is stupid but he shouldn’t breed velociraptors.

actually like some of the sequels though they definitely make the mistake of repeating history for profit(though figured we at some point see dinosaurs in civilization after 3's ending.) but don't really think bringing dinosaurs back is bad(odd they made henry wu a antagonist as he imo feels like he'd be in the monsterverse that'd get killed by big g as karma than jurassic park.) compared to the other picks(especially vacationing on the islands/leaving security to a disgruntled shifty programmer with no one to counter and making hybrids with dangerous potential.),more just DON't bring the meat eaters back(even then most of the plants the plant eaters ate are mostly gone/probably different from the past and they ate a lot so debatable if that would've lasted long.). also no. 5 isn't much different from people living on the slopes of vesuvias(that's pompeii 2 waiting to happen.)/near yellowstone's super volcano.

Actually, Masrani didn't build the park where the old one was. In Jurassic World, the two kids go into the restricted zone. Which is the ENTIRE northern section of the island. We can see this in one of the scenes where the technicians and Claire all sit at computers in front of the giant monitors. That restricted zone is where the kids find the old buildings and jeeps. All of the old park is still there, it's just overgrown with vegetation from the over 20 years of being left alone. The new Jurassic World Park is on the southern half of the island. So technically it isn't Masrani's fault at all, since the volcano is on the norther half of the island in the restricted zone. Just thought I'd help you out there. Hope you read this.

All Islands are volcanoes. It's how they form. Whether they are active or not is different. Now, there should have been someone that checked to see if it was still showing signs of dormancy, which meant it could reactivate at some point.

9:51 is because Billy already redeemed himself by risking his life to save Eric Kirby from Pteranodons. I also don’t blame Maisie for wanting to saved the Dinos especially because of what she said at 11:09

I love those moments when the person who was right has their “I told you so”

Restarting the system in the first film. "Even Nedry knew better than to mess with the raptor fences", so when he shut down security, he left them on. But when the others restarted the system later on in the film, the raptor fences went out too leading to their escape.

I knew that Number 10 would be on this list because if that guy didn’t leave, then he wouldn’t have died. Also I don’t think that Number 2 and 1 should be on this list. And I’m SO surprised that what wasn’t a dumb decision was that when the guy got out the lighter and attracted the dinosaur and made it run after him because of that, another guy died AND he NEARLY died!

Literally climbing into the indoraptor’s cage just to get a tooth was an unbelievably stupid idea

I don’t think that making dinosaurs was that bad of an idea. Look at it like this;If Masrani kept Jurassic World open for 10 years (Spanning from the events of Jurassic World 3 to when Jurassic World opened in 2005) with no major incidents, then there’s a fine line between keeping the park open or not having the park at all.

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1:45 By the Way, You're Fired!