Topic: Jurassic Park Fans

Any Jurassic Park fans here?

I like JP. I'm not a big fan, but I do like the movies.

I like the movies too!Both 3 are great!

{MW}DMC

Both 3?

Also... I didn't like LOst World....

Everyone has his choices,I guess.

{MW}DMC

but "Both 3" doesn't make sense....

What happened here?Sorry Humorbot5,I left my cousin for 1 second and he messed up...LOL.What he meant was ALL 3 movies.Sorry about that!

{MW}DMC

I'm a major fan of Jurassic Park, JP and TLW are the best.

I know someone who thinks JP is the best movie ever :P The only thing I still really like about it is the soundtrack <3

The original was great, but the sequels sucked. 2 was so-so, but 3 was just plain horrible. They really didn't need to continue it (nor did they have a reason cept for the monies). The original will always be the best.

I agree,

The first one is an all out Classic :)

It's funny you should ask this. I just recently (today, in fact) finished the original novel, by Michael Crichton. I'd always loved the original movie (and ESPECIALLY the music- John Williams cannot possibly be mortal), but never quite got around to reading the book. When the English department at my school was selling books for $.25, I leapt at the opportunity.

What I found was this: while the book was undeniably cool, and exactly what science fiction should be (there was so much science it was dubbed a "techno-thriller"), Crichton isn't exactly an amazing writer. The idea was awesome, don't get me wrong, and his work on the plot was really really good, but the actual quality of his writing was...sub-par. Maybe I'm just used to more modern writers (though does 10 years really make that much difference?), but he was seriously lacking in the imagery department. Just my opinion.

I definitely suggest reading the book, though. He goes a lot deeper into the actual science behind it all: the genetics, the paleontology, the computer system, Ian Malcolm's beloved Chaos Theory- it's all boiled down in lay-terms so the average reader can tell what he's talking about. Made me feel smart :D

Also, additional adventures. Lots more happens in the book, obviously. Some of those scenes (and dinosaurs) that they left out of the first movie were incorporated into the later ones, which I found pretty interesting, but here they are, all strung together with the same characters (including a few cool ones given only minor roles in the movie). In addition, if you need more incentive, the life/death situation at the end of the book is totally different than the movie: some who died in the movie lived in the book, etc. You need to read it :D

This is my advertisement for the day. Thank you for sitting through it.

I kinda liked the book better the movie, it was way more in depth as to what happened, and explained things. In the movie it was bizzare that they showed the sick Triceratops, but never explained WHY it was sick, whereas in the book it went in depth to show why and how the Stegosaurus' were sick.

They also totally changed Hammonds character in the movie.

Goodbye sweet old man, hello egotistical aristocrat with no regard for human life.

Also, they changed the lawyer a ton. Gennaro wasn't such a bad guy in the book...but they had to incorporate Ed Regis in him in the movie. Oh well.

I think Jeff Goldblum was the perfect guy to play Malcolm :D

I hated him more in the book then in the movie. Although he was a jerk in the movie, in the book he was a cowardly jerk.

I think those kids should've died. No way in HELL they could've lived.

I love Jurassic Park!  It's my favorite movie ever! {equal to star wars, that is.)  I can't wait for number four, which comes in 2008.  I would really like to see T rex kill Spinosaurus.

SF

Everyone wants to see that, I also want to see the rex get his vengance.

I love the part in the book where Hammond dies...ironically because of the stupid kids he insisted on bringing along.  :P
Who here has read the Lost World novel Crichton wrote?  I didn't think it was anywhere near as good as the first book...

I've only seen the movies,    i liked em....but i don't consider myself a fan of them. I really liked the part in the first one where the guy gets eaten off the toilet....hehehe     anyways,   i also think that number 2 and 3 of the movies, weren't as good as the first...but they were still good.

                                                             BB (spy*) :cool:

I LOVE the first one, am okay with the second, and hate the third.  I was 8 when the first one came out and I had the art box, the backpack, the action figures, everything.

I like the book a lot better.  I hate how they kill off Gennaro (the lawyer) and Muldoon (my favorite character) in the movie.  Muldoon so did not deserve to die, since he was the only person in the film or movie who had a lick of sense.

Hey hey! What about Malcolm?

I thought Malcolm was one of the greatest characters I've ever experienced. He was so wonderfully bizarre, and the whole time he kept showing, mathematically, exactly what would happen, and of course Hammond wouldn't understand a thing he said and just kept on pressing forward. Of course, the whole thing happened exactly how he predicted it would.

Seriously, in what other book are the protagonists a paleontologist and a mathematician? Even though Malcolm didn't do as much as grant, he did, in my opinion, make the most sense out of everybody. He gave Crichton the opportunity to explain chaos theory, which I thought was just fascinating.

And those iterations between parts of the book, the things with Malcolm's quotes, were an interesting addition, too.

I dunno about Malcolm.  Frankly I'm agnostic about it.  At times I like him, and at other times I find him irritating.  I would rather they had saved the lawyer or Muldoon in the movie.

Oh, yeah, you're right about Malcolm having sense in the movie.  That was an unfair statement on my part.

Malcolm always seemed a bit to preachy about mother nature and natural selection and such.

SF

Gotta give him credit though - he was right. And besides, natural selection - Darwinism - is perhaps the greatest theory in existence. I believe it, I live by it, and I hate how modern society kills it. In today's world, the weak and unfit humans are no longer killed off, and the more fit ones don't get to reproduce any more than the ones who haven't adapted. Society killed Darwinism.

Wow.  Quite a bit of hostlility built up in there.  Anyway, remember that the only reason malcom was right was because that idiot Dennis Nedry shut down the electric fences.  If not for that all probably would have ran smoothly.

SF

But it didn't. Nature finds a way. It's like in video games, when you lose because of a lag, or a sucky team, or a map you hate. In life, the circumstances are what you have to work with, losing is losing. Whether it was some idiot's mistake or something else, the man was right, and nature proved its superiority.

he,he,he....nice post DoD. ;) Your completely right!

TW

But...Dennis Nedry is not a force of nature.  Oh, well, you've got your opinion and I've got mine.

SF

Sure, for now.

The way I see it, Nedry just sped the process along. Had it not been for him, the park may have launched, and very successfully, but somewhere along the line something would have gone wrong, and it all would have spiralled out of control similar to the way it did in the book.

I don't think even Malcolm expected the crisis to occur so quickly. Nedry was just a catalyst for the accident waiting to happen.

I suppose you are right, but I still think Malcolm was just a little to preachy, complaining about the arrogance Hammond was displaying to mother nature and all that.

SF

Um, yes he is.  As long as you're on this earth and a product of it, you're a force of nature.  I'm a force of nature, and you're a force of nature.  Houses are products of nature, and the sounds of cars and jackhammers are the sounds of nature.  At least as far as I'm concerned.  (Not to say that I enjoy hearing jackhammers in the morning, or anything.)

Okay, fine.  But that also means electric fences are a force of nature.  And there are many sounds of nature that I don't enjoy hearing, one of which is a dog barking in the early morning when I'm trying to sleep.

SF