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May 28, 2006

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They could also play off the Seaworld angle where it came out maybe giant animals need more room to move around. If there's a public shift in opinion like that, it could start to tank your business, especially if your animals cost a huge amount to maintain.

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PriorMarcus posted:

Be fair. Diablosaurus Rex is blue and white with glowing red eyes and also goes invisible.

It's got thumbs too.

You've gone too far, science!

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McSpanky posted:

If I recall correctly, it's followed by a raptor bursting through a wall of cabling like a spring-loaded mummy out of a sarcophagus so, quite possibly?

The raptors had a fine appreciation for the works of Laurel and Hardy, it's why they propped up Mr Arnold's arm in that cubby for Elly to find.

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Party Boat posted:

Laura Dern was 25 during the filming of Jurassic Park.

Also I don't get the notion that the dinosaurs were super-threatening specifically because everyone was weedy scientists - they make a big thing out of Grant being a rugged outdoors type who could happily dig for bones in Montana for the rest of his days. He's no M16-toting special ops badass, but he's tough, smart and resourceful and is repeatedly shown as such before and after poo poo goes down.

I seem to remember a lot of people in the book being buff. Ellie was buff and toned from digging all day, the lawyer was buff for some reason, and Grant was a regular Biff Hardchest who once walked back two days to his campsite with a broken leg.

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Yeah, that's how they did the Hobbit and LOtR cut scenes too. They're fun little games, I'll definitely be getting this one.

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My impression of that scene was always Wu being pretty blase about making a killing machine, not that he didn't remember the name. Grant knew they'd be incredibly dangerous to have around and he's shocked that they're hatching them. Also that they keep making more of them, even after seeing how violent they were. They could have stuck with a T-rex and padded out the rest of the tour with herds of herbivores to start with, but they went bigger.

It fits into the theme of Jurassic Park where Hammond and co. just make dinos because they can, but they don't really think through what it means to have to try and contain a 200 pound intelligent land shark.

"Oh, what's this in the corner here?"

"That? Oh it's just some velociraptor we whipped up. Yeah, their jaws are strong enough to twist up steel and they're good at pattern recognition and problem solving. Yeah, no big deal, got a big pile of 'em."

*brushes eraser crumbs all over disinfected state of the art hatching facility*

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PriorMarcus posted:

"She's killing for sport."

There's no way she doesn't have some human DNA mixed in.

I hope they go full B movie evil scientist with this where Wu added his own DNA to make himself more like the dinos he created and to leave a lasting impact on the world.

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Yeah, but Nedry hosed everything up because InGen was loving him over from the start (in the book).
  • They hired his team to build a huge computer network without telling him even a little bit what it was supposed to do. He'd signed a Non-disclosure, but he only got vague instructions like "Make a database". Then they got mad at him when there were umpteen bugs in the system.
  • They called for extensive rewrites and 11th hour changes without paying him any more.
  • They then threatened him with lawsuits if he didn't comply and were tarnishing his credibility by writing letters to his other clients that he was unreliable.
Anyway, Nedry wouldn't have even been killed if they'd culled the Dilophosaurs once they found out they were poisonous. The park knew they were dangerous and could spit upwards of 50 feet, but wouldn't let one be killed to find the poison sacs in order to remove them from the others.

Not to mention even Nedry knew better than to mess with the raptor fences ;).

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Xenomrph posted:

It's missing the book's point, perhaps, but it's not exactly the viewer's fault that the movie shows everything going to poo poo very specifically because of one person's greed.

While I love the movie, they really messed up this plot point when they made Hammond a lovable grandpa instead of a guy obsessed with a dream. The movie shows Hammond as someone who dreamed too big and forces outside his control brought it down, but in the book it's all on his head.

For instance, in the book Wu wants to modify the dinos to make them more domestic: slower, easier to handle, easier to see on a tour. Hammond vetoes the idea because he doesn't want that: he wanted "real" dinos, he got them, and he's going to keep them.

He's the head honcho and it's because of him the dangerous dinos aren't culled, he's why they don't have the equipment needed to contain the animals, he cheaped out on the parts he didn't deem essential, etc.

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achillesforever6 posted:

Which leads to Michael Crichton Ian Malcolm leaving some :smug: sick burns about he is write, thank god for Jeff Goldblum because in the novel Ian is loving unbearable

At least in the book he dies.

Until he gets better for the sequel.

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