JP2 really lost me when the T-Rex was loose and ate the dog. It can eat as many people as it wants but not the poor doggies!
By the way, how did the T-Rex eat all the people on the deck of the boat and in the tiny cabin and then lock itself back in the hold?
Oh wait, the thread is for picking on JP3. Didn’t it seem like all the expendable characters were eaten rather early in the movie?
Holy hell. That’s some fucked up shit right there.
Holy flurking shnit!
That is the stupidest, most asinine, ludicrous idea I’ve ever heard! Spielberg is dreaming if he thinks even he could pull this off.
I mean come on- “A bad-ass heavily-armed [color=blue]United Nations task force…”[/color]
Yeah right! That’s a good one! 
What bothered me even more was how blantly politically correct that scene was. In the script it was a German Shepard. But for the film they changed it to a less sympathetic (read oh so evil) Pit Bull.
To me, it really would only be worthwhile to do another sequel if it goes off the deep end like that. I’ll admit to liking the 1st three, but if they do another it would have to be really different to be worth making, IMO. Better a spectacular failure than a boring rehash.
Well, UN jokes aside, I think a dino/human hybrid is a terrible idea and would fail miserably. Human/creature hybrids in movies are almost always laughably stupid. Think:
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[li]Isle of Dr Moreau (any version)[/li][li]Alien Resurrection[/li][li]The Fly[/li][li]Species[/li][li]Sabretooth & Toad in X-Men[/li][li]Gremlins 2[/li][/ul]
Even when other aspects of the film work, the half-human half-animal thing doesn’t.
Sorry, but The Fly (Goldblum/Davis) is one of the greatest horror films of all time. At no time in this movie is the human/creature hybrid laughably stupid.
I think angels, mermaids and werewolves work pretty well in most movies, as do the man-apes of the recent Planet of The Apes remake, thanks to Rick Baker’s make-up.
My biggest beef with JPIII was with the Spinosaurus. While it is true that it was, perhaps, larger on average than was T. rex, it was also much more lightly built. An adult tyrannosaur would have had about 2 tons on an adult spinosaur. Plus, spinosaur teeth were more conical in shape, and were not serrated, indicating a probable diet of fish (and sometimes pterosaurs). It was, in no way, the biggest, baddest kid on the block. The “big fight” between the tyrannosaur and the spinosaur was thus probably the lamest dino-fight I’ve ever seen put to film. Well, OK, maybe not. But it was definitely a :rolleyes: moment.
And you’d think Grant would have at least tried to cash his check before the trip.
Just how reliable is AICN for this stuff anyway? First there was the claim of Jack Black being cast for a Green Lantern movie (which, as far I know, still hasn’t been verified), and now this proposed script that would make AvP and Catwoman look like cinematic gems. Is there any reason we should take this story as real?
Just remember, any colors or lack of them is pretty much up to human imagination. I am not aware of any dinosauric skin coloration that has survived, fossilized, for 65 million years.
Since they resemble lizards, and modern lizards are green, they might have been green also. Or red. Or whatever. Who knows?
Me, too. I wouldn’t mind eating her, myself. Although a wig with a bit more hair on top would increase her feminine appeal a little while I was munching her mound.
They got their degrees from the University of Notre Dame.
[sub] I grew up in South Bend, IN, and have had many opportunities to observe the behavior of Domers[/sub]
Talk about an appropriate Dopername!
JP2 is one of the most frustrating movies I’ve ever seen, to the point that I suspect Spielberg directed it as a experiment in morality-free filmmaking. Not since Natural Born Killers have I completely failed to empathize, sympathize of identify with the characters designated by the director as being the “protagonists”. The fact that we were supposed to do so indicates a level of nihilism completely alien to Spielberg’s previous and following ouvre.
The moment Pete Posthelwaithe discovered that Vince Vaughn disabled his elephant gun, he should have clubbed him to death with the buttstock. The fact that that little eco-Taliban got away in the end makes absolutely no sense.
Or your attempt at humor?
Because the fans whined about how dull they were.
No. The fans whined about how dumb they were. Dinosors rulz!
Well, the Stupid White People had to survive somehow…
No. See above re: SWP.
No. She’s a paleobotanist in a movie about dinosaurs, which obviously carries much more clout. :rolleyes:
About as insulting as not having Uncle Walt and the Mathematician (sorry, Chaotician :rolleyes:) die at the end of JP1.
Why, yes. Yes, they did.
And my own personal pet peeve: That phone call to Dr. Ellie, early in the movie, when Ellie asked, “Say, remember all those weird sounds they made?”
Was it just me, or did everybody in Christendom say to themselves “No… no, actually, I don’t remember all those weird sounds they made, because it wasn’t in the freaking movie, you morons!”
Sorry, you lost me when you said Bring It On sucked.
A (apparently) low-level employee of the State Department has the cloat to launch a sizable military campaign just because his wife’s ex-boyfriend is stuck on an island with dinosaurs.
I’m sure that this happens all the time…
It depends on whether not the information is based on a spy report received by the site’s staff via email, which can be hard to verify, or if it’s an article written by the site staff, which generally means they talked to somebody and know the material is legit. In this case, the article is the work of “Moriarty” based on a script he had in his hands and for which he knew the provenance. Thus it is solid information that the script for Jurassic Park IV, at this stage of development, is about Teenage Mutant Ninja Raptors. (I just love that phrase.)
You’re right to take the site’s reports with a grain of salt, but it helps to know how they get their information and how to distinguish between sources.
You, sir, disgust me. I hope I shall never meet you.
I hope you remain lost for a very long time.
I thought the movie was OK as long as you didn’t listen to the characters talk. Wasn’t there a line stating that the State Department guy worked in the “import/export” business? That sounds like code for CIA to me. I could be totally wrong about that line, though.