I thought it was clever when they foreshadowed the “life will find a way” thing with Grant tying two female seatbelt connectors together.
Small bump to add this link:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/04/live-chat-what-have-we-learned-a.html
There will be a live chat with a paleontologist on the topic “What have learned about dinosaurs since Jurassic Park” sponsored by AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
I’m not affiliated with it, except as a AAAS member I got the email.
“Womb?”
Wombosaur?
Wombosaurus?
Almost as bad as Star Wars where no stars go to war at all, just people.
Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing were stars when the movie was made and they were at war with each other.
I saw the movie when I was 6, and while I loved it, I was disappointed there weren’t additional wars. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the first war, and the title “Star Wars” suggested there would be more. But after the Death Star blew up, there was a medal ceremony and the credits rolled. I actually asked my Dad why there weren’t more star wars. It wasn’t called Star War, dammit. It was called Star WARS. I wanted more star wars.
“Don’t worry, son,” he said, “They’ll make another one.” Dad knew the power of money.
But still, the first movie should have been titled “Star War” or maybe “Star War 1”.
Y’know, none of these are big enough problems to keep you from enjoying the movie… if you want to.
My kids can give you an even longer laundry list of inconsistencies, but they’ve been chomping at the bit to see it. Because when they saw it in the theater, it was magical. That’s where they first saw dinosaurs. As one paleontologist said when it came out: “We’ve been doing everything we can to make dinosaurs real to people, and along comes Mr. Spielberg, and now they are!”
I expected to read this thread and go “Aha! There’s the straw that broke the dromedarisaurus’s back!” But I keep rereading this and thinking “None of these are deal-breakers.”
I want to see it again and remember that sense of wonder I had the first time I heard “Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler… Welcome… to Jurassic Park.”
Yeah, I totally wanted to pitch the whinny girl to the Rex so me and her brother could make our escape.
He may not have hit on her directly after that, but later, while sitting in the car with Alan during the power outage, he asks if Ellie is available (leading Alan to get a bit huffy with him). So one might say that when it came to poop, Malcolm ultimately didn’t give a . . . well, you know.
We also see him (maybe) feel up her leg during the jeep chase scene. I guess he’s thinking, “Hey, we’re moments from death, why not?”
Does anyone know the “mistake” being referenced in this Ellie quote?
That line bugs me more than any other in this movie, because I have no idea what she could possibly feel at fault for.
Those lines always struck me as little more than an Acting Moment Word Salad[sup]TM[/sup]. I have no idea what she meant by it; it wasn’t a “mistake” to be overwhelmed by the park - that was kind of it’s whole point, really. Nor did she show any indication of not respecting “that power”.
And, of course, the only “people” who had died by that point, as far as she knew, was Gennaro.
They are wars among the stars, in the opening crawl of Star Wars we are told there is currently a civil war going on. Then in the film Obi Wan mentions the clone wars, even a farm boy like Luke has heard of those.
So there are multiple wars…
When she said “that power,” I thought that she was talking about the park’s electricity, and how everyone took for granted the fact that it was pretty much the park’s sole safeguard (electric fences). I agree that the statement is a little over the top, and the idea of someone respecting a power grid is indeed strange, but I at least thought that she was referring to something specific, rather than some vague “power.”
Another possibility is that she didn’t have enough respect for Hammond’s effort to run Jurassic Park as a completely controlled experience: she was the one who split up the tour group by deciding to stay with the Triceratops. Not that Ellie sticking with the tour would have prevented anything that went wrong with it, but she might have regrets about not being with Alan to help him survive.
I think her mistake was her failure to immediately say “No way, this is far too dangerous”, and shut it down right from the outset. Which isn’t really much of a mistake, but at this point everyone’s probably feeling a bit guilty.