Jurassic Park Fans (Page 1 of 2)

I like the movies too!Both 3 are great!

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Everyone has his choices,I guess.

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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!

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

I agree,

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

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

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

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

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.

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I love the part in the book where Hammond dies...ironically because of the stupid kids he insisted on bringing along. 
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 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.

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.