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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Feb 26, 2012 4:40:36 GMT -5
I think the dilophosaurus that was shown was really young. Dennis even says " I thought you were one of your big brothers." Of course he could have been referring to a T. rex. Here's another problem with the velociraptors, their fossils are not found in the United States. So? Jurassic Park was off Costa Rica. No one ever said where the amber came from. i think he was talking about the dig in Montana at the start of the movie
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Feb 26, 2012 5:10:50 GMT -5
I think the dilophosaurus that was shown was really young. Dennis even says " I thought you were one of your big brothers." Of course he could have been referring to a T. rex. Here's another problem with the velociraptors, their fossils are not found in the United States. So? Jurassic Park was off Costa Rica. No one ever said where the amber came from. A dinosaur doesn't spit venom either. As stated, Grant's dig was for Raptors in the US. And really,dinosaurs didn't have feathers until a few years back, so saying they didn't have venom is short sighted, we have no idea.
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Post by Sephiroth on Feb 26, 2012 7:19:39 GMT -5
To this day it remains the movie I saw the most times in the theater, and it started a lifelong fascination with genetics. Now, from a science standpoint it was hardly an accurate film, but to get all picky about that just ruins the fun of it. I will never forget the audiences laughter during so many of Jeff Goldblum's scenes.
And I also remember the Super Nintendo Jurassic park game, which did not have a save option so you had to do the whole thing at a shot. My brother left the game system running for days on end working his way through it and had just made it to the last few things you had to do in it when there was a storm that knocked out the power to our neighborhood and erased his progress. I still have yet to see him that pissed off again.
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Post by BHB on Feb 26, 2012 7:30:32 GMT -5
I was an 11 year old dinosaur fanatic when this came out. From the day I found out about it til the day I saw it (and afterwards) this film was my life. It was almost as if the film, and the marketing, was tailor made for me. Still love it to this day. I feel the same way, I was 6 when I saw it in the cinema and it changed my life. I've been pretty obsessed with it my whole life, definately my favourite film ever. I'd LOVE to see it again in the cinema, I can't believe I missed out on it last year.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Feb 26, 2012 7:55:51 GMT -5
Excellent film all round plus the greatness of Jeff Goldblum.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Feb 26, 2012 9:21:57 GMT -5
And we have numerous films today with CGI somehow crappier than a move that came out in 1993.
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 26, 2012 10:13:12 GMT -5
My favourite movie.
The book expands on this but the dinosaurs that InGen creates are only partial reconstructions. Their DNA is completed with that from other animals. At most they are just hybrids, which can account for any diversions from real dinosaurs.
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Post by BHB on Feb 26, 2012 10:41:57 GMT -5
And we have numerous films today with CGI somehow crappier than a move that came out in 1993. Incredible isn't it? I guess there was so much more pressure for it to work back then that they really went all out on making it perfect.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Feb 26, 2012 10:57:25 GMT -5
The single greatest line in film history:
"Now, that is one big pile of s***."
One thing I'll always remember about this movie is that when it was first released I remember my mother saying something along the lines of "I can't believe Steven Spielberg would make a movie where children are put in so much danger and treated so badly."
To which my 16 year old self replied "Mom....Jaws?.......Temple of Doom?"
To which mom replied "Good point."
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Feb 26, 2012 14:45:43 GMT -5
My favourite movie. The book expands on this but the dinosaurs that InGen creates are only partial reconstructions. Their DNA is completed with that from other animals. At most they are just hybrids, which can account for any diversions from real dinosaurs. Also accounts for how T-Rex's vision is based on movement, since there are frogs whose vision is set up that way. Because if that was actually the case, T-Rex would be f***ed since the first instinct of most prey animals is to freeze. Also the book is better with this because there Grant finds this out by accident instead of just pulling it out of his ass. Seriously, how the hell would you know how Rex's eyesight worked based on fossil records?
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 26, 2012 14:46:17 GMT -5
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Feb 26, 2012 14:49:07 GMT -5
PLEASE!!! GOD DAMNIT!!!!
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Feb 26, 2012 15:02:38 GMT -5
And I also remember the Super Nintendo Jurassic park game, which did not have a save option so you had to do the whole thing at a shot. on the plus side, it did have awesome music
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Feb 26, 2012 15:25:35 GMT -5
If they tried to film the book, the damn thing would be 5 hours long and cost 8 times as much too. Cutting stuff was never my problem with the adaptation, it was changing the characters so freaking much. Well let's see. Grant and Sattler were pretty much the same, they were just made more comparable in age. Ellie is, what, 23 in the book while Grant is supposed to be late forties? If I remember right Grant is a widower while Sattler is engaged to some doctor. The major difference is that Grant actually loves kids in the book because of their enthusiasm for dinosaurs. Malcolm is exactly the same in the novel. There can be no complaints there. Arnold is pretty close, though I think they made him a bit younger. Same with Muldoon. Interesting note, Malcolm actually dies from the injuries inflicted by the Rex but this is retconned in The Lost World. Muldoon actually survives the book. Hammond in the book is more like Ludlow in the Lost World movie, bit more of a money grabbing capatalist. Gennero's line about how Jurassic Park would be open to the kids of the world "the rich ones anyway" is actually spoken by Hammond. He's killed by Compys near the near of the novel, his death being kinda similar to that of Jeter, I think his name was, in the Lost World movie. Gennero is kind tough because at the beginning his character is like in the movie. He's mainly interesting in protecting InGen's interests. He wary of the park until he's shown the contingency systems at which point he's satisifed the park is workable. The when everything goes to hell he's among the first who wants to burn it to the ground. Interestingly enough there's a part in the book where he and Muldoon head out to capture the Rex after it escapes and Arnold warns them to be careful since the Rex is their main draw, to which Muldoon expresses disbelief that he's still talking about tourists. I dunno, that seems like something Gennero might have said if he'd lived long enough. Like Muldoon, he also survives to the end of the book while being killed off in the movie. Nedry is sort of the same except they took out his motivation which made him a bit more sympathetic. Basically InGen were so secrective and vague about what the systems he was designing were to be used for that naturally they were full of bugs. InGen then blamed Nedry for this, demanding he fix the system but not paying him any extra for his time to do so. When Nedry refused to just drop everything and fly to Isla Nublar, InGen badmouthed him to his other clients and essentially blackmailed him into doing the work. Lex and Tim are pretty much the same only their ages are reversed. Tim is also the one who is into computers in the book. Also in the novel Hammond only brings them along as a way to convince Gennero not to shut the park down. The other characters hardly appear enough to judge. Harding has a bigger role in the book but only appears in one scene in the movie. The character of Ed Regis is dropped entirely. Henry Wu, Jurassic Park's head genecist who appear briefly at the beginning, has a bigger role in the book. He ends up getting killed by raptors. He gets disbowled in rather gruesome detail. And remeber that chilling line in the movie from Grant about how you're still alive when they start to eat you? Yeah, they do that to Wu. There are also more dinosaurs. I think there are eight raptors in the book as opposed to three in the film. There are also two Rex's, a fully grown adult and a juvenile. And that not counting the subplot, briefly touched on in the film, of most of the dinosaurs breeding like rabbits.
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 26, 2012 15:27:39 GMT -5
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Feb 26, 2012 16:02:07 GMT -5
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Post by Glitch on Feb 26, 2012 16:24:09 GMT -5
That movie will always make think of dinosaurs when it rains. Especially in grassy area with lots of trees.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Feb 26, 2012 16:55:19 GMT -5
ok, knowing there is a 65-70% chance you'd die, if given the chance would you go to either island?
i probably would
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Post by Sc on Feb 26, 2012 17:10:24 GMT -5
And I also remember the Super Nintendo Jurassic park game, which did not have a save option so you had to do the whole thing at a shot. My brother left the game system running for days on end working his way through it and had just made it to the last few things you had to do in it when there was a storm that knocked out the power to our neighborhood and erased his progress. I still have yet to see him that pissed off again. I played the Sega Jurassic Park game. It was probably my favorite game on that system especially once I figured out the codes for the different levels.
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Post by Bravo Echo November on Feb 26, 2012 17:24:50 GMT -5
Without hyperbole: my favorite film.
Just, everything about it is incredible. The action, acting, set pieces, story, the CGI (which still holds up to this day), and of course... the score.
(For real, you can put this song to any bit of scenery and *boom* instant beauty. Goosebumps every time at 2:33.)
Also it's one of three movies where I've owned each home video format it's been released on (along with The Matrix and Back to the Future).
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