Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-73.195.4.48-20150626163853/@comment-73.210.53.176-20151108101031

LOL @ mixing up stats for the spino animatronic with the canon animal.

I can't imagine that Indominus is fully grown. I watched the final battle a few more times today, and even side-by-side with Rexy I don't see much, if any, of a size difference. Pretty much the number one bulletpoint one was "bigger than T. rex!" so I can't imagine they thought they were going to sell many tickets to see "bigger than T. rex!" if it's hard to see a difference when they're standing next to each other.

Anyway, a few thoughts. First, spinosaurus' sail. One of the main theories on it is that it was to cool the animal. If this is indeed the case, then that sail was chock full of major blood vessels. And Indominus really, really likes her hand-claws. I'm not saying the skin on spinosaurus' sail is weak, but it doesn't have to be. Those claws killed massive sauropods and did significant damage to the canon's biggest tyrannosaurus. They're clearly razor sharp and Indominus clearly has great strength in her arms. If she targets the sail with those claws, spinosaurus will be gushing blood. Then it's just a waiting game. Every second the battle goes on, spinosaurus will be getting weaker.

Second, Indominus' damage resistance is absolutely incredible. Most of the guns she was shot with wouldn't have done anything to something her size, but that helicopter-mounted minigun was a different matter. That should have done major damage, but while she's obviously running for cover from it we don't see any damage on her later. Also, the rocket launcher that she took a glancing blow from. It seemed to go off near her hip. Hips are a mechanism that can be easily broken with firearms to incapacitate a biped. It doesn't matter if you can grit through the pain because the mechanism by which you move is simply non-functional. That glancing blow with a rocket should have, IMO, been the end of it. I think on a normal t.rex it would have. But Indominus barely staggered from it. Then there's when ACU went after her with non-lethals. Yeah, that was dumb, but their attacks did nothing. They recaptured Rexy so obviously their tranquillizers and stuff works on stuff her size. Her damage resistance is just staggering. She's like a 10 ton honey badger (an analogy I found myself going to a lot in the movie, as the raptor squad seemed to possess the same level of fearlessness and tenacity). The raptors barely made a dent in her. The only thing that did significant damage was Rexy's bite. And we're talking about 12.8k pounds of force going into teeth the size of bananas. She'd have to be magic not to take damage from that.

While I firmly believe Indominus the more dangerous creature, I do think spinosaurus got a raw deal in JW. The only acknowledgement it even exists was a skeleton designed to be sacrificed for a moment of cool. It was pretty insulting to spinosaurus that Indominus' bulletpoint was comparing its size to a T. rex when T. rex isn't the biggest. It should have been more along the lines of "Indominus Rex: the ground-shaking size of spinosaurus with the car-crushing bite of tyrannosaurus!"

We definitely didn't get a full list of all the significant animals that went into Indominus. Remember all the radio interference during the movie? There's no way that was just a technical malfunction, especially on so many different devices. But it only happened when one of the devices was very near Indominus. Indominus was, somehow, scrambling radio waves. What the hell animal is that from?! So we still never know when Indominus can pull another super power out of her ass. This is why I think it's unfair to compare an animal to a monster.