Jurassic Park is 25
April 6, 2018 at 6:58 am
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2018 at 7:01 am by Fake Messiah.)
OK I'm not obsessed with anniversaries it just coincides with me recently watching JP after many, many years (if not since 90s) and that people are talking about JP again, like James Cameron saying that he wanted to do it but Steve beat him to the rights in matter of hours.
Anyway what I wanted to say that watching it now I find it kind of "cheap".
Like one of the first scenes is that dig site:
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I mean WTF!! They're digging dinos like kids in the sand box! If you know anything about paleontology you'll know that dinosaurs bones are actually stuck in the stone.
Or the dinos! I mean T-Rex needed 20 years to grow full size, let alone other even bigger dinos.
Then the security issue. "We didn't spare any expenses." the owner keeps repeating - yeah except there is literally zero security guards, watchtowers, cameras.
Then they go too far on Dr. Grant phobia of technology when he doesn't even know how to tie a seat belt - I mean there are people that are not tech savvy but this is fucking retarded.
Also as I watched it in high quality I get to see the articles those paleontologists have on their fridge and all articles are like "Aliens Stole My Face" - yeah right. What kind of serious scientists would read that hogwash let alone put it on the fridge.
Then Hammond (owner) character is very unbelievable with his stupid background or in one scene Ellie is supposed to go into dangerous situation and Hammond says "Shouldn't I go?" and I thought "OK he's the owner it's his responsibility, considering he didn't hire any staff" but no it turns out that he said it because of "sexist" prejudices: he is a man and therefore braver, stronger whatever and therefore go.
And so on. There are some major flaws but the movie is still somewhat enjoyable. And there is of course the merchandise around this movie which, for me, was an experience on it's own. I mean I remember just seeing JP logo on anything and being mesmerized.
Anyway what I wanted to say that watching it now I find it kind of "cheap".
Like one of the first scenes is that dig site:
I mean WTF!! They're digging dinos like kids in the sand box! If you know anything about paleontology you'll know that dinosaurs bones are actually stuck in the stone.
Or the dinos! I mean T-Rex needed 20 years to grow full size, let alone other even bigger dinos.
Then the security issue. "We didn't spare any expenses." the owner keeps repeating - yeah except there is literally zero security guards, watchtowers, cameras.
Then they go too far on Dr. Grant phobia of technology when he doesn't even know how to tie a seat belt - I mean there are people that are not tech savvy but this is fucking retarded.
Also as I watched it in high quality I get to see the articles those paleontologists have on their fridge and all articles are like "Aliens Stole My Face" - yeah right. What kind of serious scientists would read that hogwash let alone put it on the fridge.
Then Hammond (owner) character is very unbelievable with his stupid background or in one scene Ellie is supposed to go into dangerous situation and Hammond says "Shouldn't I go?" and I thought "OK he's the owner it's his responsibility, considering he didn't hire any staff" but no it turns out that he said it because of "sexist" prejudices: he is a man and therefore braver, stronger whatever and therefore go.
And so on. There are some major flaws but the movie is still somewhat enjoyable. And there is of course the merchandise around this movie which, for me, was an experience on it's own. I mean I remember just seeing JP logo on anything and being mesmerized.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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