yes, there was a hurricane in hawaii at the time, also in the book (and movie) a hurricane was heading for the jurassic park island, a goodly portion of the park crew was heading off the island for that reason; including newman.
they did not have to use fake rain. from an interview with the crew speilberg is a good person to have in your hurricane bunker.
Yeah I’ve never understood the physical properties of that pen. The first time I saw it I was confused why what was ground suddenly turned into a huge cliff! It seems like such a big change to be just an error…
Yeah. I know people have debated it ad nauseam and come up with theories explaining it but it still makes no sense to me.
But the thing I HATE the most is why when Lex was geeking out on the computer, and Alan and Ellie are trying to close the door and reach the gun to shoot the raptor why the fuck Tim, who’s doing nothing but cheering on Lex, can’t go hand them the gun!
It’s a long time since I’ve seen the movie, but couldn’t the cliff have been on the other side of the road from the T-Rex pen?
Isn’t being useless the default state for annoying little kids?
You’d think one of the grown ups could be all, “Tim, hand us the FECKING GUN!”
Yes, the filming was all done but for a single day’s worth left when the hurricane hit. It destroyed all the sets, and the cast & crew was isolated there for a few days.
The last bit of filming was done later (and elsewhere, I think). That is the scene with them running across the field with the velicioraptors (sp?) chasing after them.
That’s in JP2.
Probably done later than principal shooting for the original then. 
Right. It was actually the scent where the flock of Gallimimus is fleeing across the field from the T. Rex.
Here’s the thing: I understand ‘simple continuity errors’ in terms of “Hey, he had two fingers extended in the long shot and three in the medium!”, but in video 1, things like the towel? Who misses a towel changing colour completely, even if it is a pick-up shot many weeks later? Wouldn’t the prints have been developed by then, and wouldn’t someone have gone back and checked these things?
Try making a movie sometime.
Again, I fully understand that you can’t catch everything, especially when it comes to tiny little things. But a door that suddenly hinges the other way? A towel that changes colour? Hell, a huge cliff that appears out of nowhere? There are people working on films whose sole job is to keep track of continuity. Surely it’s not too much to ask those people to, you know, keep track of continuity.
But if you catch it and it’s already filmed, what’s the point of re filming it for something so small?
No, the way I understand it (and anyone is free to correct me on this) is that there is a person (or people) on set, specifically there to make sure that the towels are the same colour and the doors hinge the right way prior to filming.
I’m also not saying that this in any way takes away my enjoyment of a film, btw. It just seems to me that if someone’s getting paid for it, they might as well do their job.
It’s just WAY more difficult than you think it is.
While continuity people keep track of continuity, it’s not their call to do something about it if there’s a problem. Directors all have different ideas about what matters to audiences in that kind of thing. If it was a long day shooting and for whatever reason no one noticed the towel at the time, and then the continuity person brought it up when reviewing the day’s film, the director may well have said “Fuck it, no one’s going to notice.” Or the producer may have said “Fuck it, almost no one’s going to notice, and I’m not authorizing another day of pickup shooting which would cost us $X00,000. This movie’s about dinosaurs, not towels.”
For the cliff, I got nuthin’.
Right, and the amount of things they do catch is substantially more than the amount they don’t. How many of the items in the video did you, or anyone here, actually catch before having seen it? I’d wager not many, if any.
Thank you, that answers my question beautifully, and without the snark that I (evidently) had coming to me after what I thought was a legitimate remark. You are my hero 
There usually are such people, as well as all the props and set people being charged to look out for this sort of thing (before digital cameras, they went through piles of packs of Polaroid film every day, documenting everything they could think of that might possibly matter). But I don’t think you’ve got a handle on the scale of the task. If a film crew popped into your living room right now, filmed their hearts out, and then needed to re-film a few minutes of something a month from now in a re-creation of your living room on a sound stage, how many details would they have to re-create to get it perfect?
More than keeping track of towels, continuity people are in charge of keeping track of things that will draw the audience out of the story, and they’re supposed to use their professional judgement to winnow it down to just those things. A truly stunning amount of money is involved, and few producers can afford perfection that doesn’t even show (or doesn’t show until someone on the internet slows it down, circles it, and points it out to you).
Awww… :o This may be the first time on the Dope my congenital lack of snark has been thanked. Thank you for your thanking.