User blog comment:BastionMonk/Jurassic Park is overrated/@comment-27056582-20160116192524

The point of Jurassic Park is that humans are too stupid to ever hope to control such a powerful force of nature, because no matter how much money we spend and how many overblown security measures we set up, there will always be something that we forget, or an element beyond our control will overpower our seemingly perfect plan. Hammond's park seemed A-OK, but there were little problems in every system and security measure within the park, that didn't seem to add up to much else other than minor flaws, but would become serious issues later down the line, such as using frog DNA to fill in holes in the genome (gave the animals the unforeseen ability to change sex) a massive computer system tasked with running nearly everything in the park (a well-timed sabotage could cripple the whole system and plunge the park into pandemonium), various environmental adjustment issues with the dinosaurs (the Triceratops, in a deleted scene, was discovered to be swallowing berries from a toxic plant when it would replace the gastric stones that aided its digestion), poisonous prehistoric plants in the visitor center, lax surveillance of corporate employees (Dennis Nedry easily disabled the security system because nobody was paying any attention to him), and a general lack of effort to actually understand the animals in question (nobody knew the dilos could spit venom till someone almost died, nobody anticipated the raptors being as violent as they were, nobody took into account the triceratops' unique method of digesting food, etc.). In some ways, it's the same with The Lost World: While Malcolm's group is trying to save the animals, it's because of the actions of Nick van Owen (sabotaging the hunters' cages to let the dinosaurs go) that ends up stranding the Hunters on the island due to the resulting carnage destroying their communication equipment. Likewise, Peter Ludlow's arrogance and determination to prove himself better than Hammond is what sets much of the plot into motion, and the InGen workers' inability to sedate the T-rex properly leads to the San Diego Incident. Indeed, most of the movies' conflict comes from people being stupid, but that's the point. We know jack-diddly-squat about dinosaurs and how they would behave when exposed to the modern world, so when we try to act superior to them and control them like any other animal, we pay the price for it.