Post by Supersaurus on Oct 16, 2009 18:05:32 GMT -5
Even though I still very much enjoyed the film, there's some things that bugged me and thought I'd point them out here and find out what others think? 
Here we go...
1. Little Rich Girl wanders off in the beginning of the movie and comes across some chicken sized dino-predators. (This, by the way, was roughly the actual size of the Velociraptor. They were unscientifically embiggened to make them scarier in Jurassic Park.) She ends up being beset by dozens of these beasties for what I assume is meant to be several minutes. We are soon informed that she survived relatively unscathed. Later, though, a full grown man is completely devoured by the same wee dinos in fairly short order
2. This flick’s island, Site B (different from the island in the first movie), is supposedly Top Secret. Yet the yacht bringing the Rich Girl’s family had no problems landing there for a picnic. Not even a "Private Property" sign to be seen. So much for security.
3. "The carnivores are isolated in the Interior," Hammond explains. Oh. Then the dinos that chewed up the little girl near the beach must have been vegetarians.
4. Later we learn why the dinosaurs survived without being given lysine. The herbivores ate plants containing lysine. The carnivores ate the herbivores. Man, that was some brilliant failsafe.
5. When attacked by the stegosaurs, Sarah, who has had extensive field experience in Africa, runs into the middle of the stampeding dinos, rather than away from them.
6. Sarah lectures everyone on how they mustn’t disturb the island’s ecology in even the most minute fashion, not even "bend a blade of grass." This is after she walked up to a baby dinosaur and rubbed her hands all over it and caused a dino stampede that presumably bent many a blade of grass.
7. A car that explodes in camp will fly into the air and land directly on a tree holding Peter the Evil Capitalist and Roland the Great White Hunter. (Yes, they escape.) This and more indicates that Roland was luring enraged T-Rexes real close to his base camp. (They’d be enraged because he’s using their pup as bait.) Yet Roland earlier chewed out Peter the Evil Capitalist about his proposed location for the camp, because it was in predator territory.
8. A well-equipped expedition will bring along gauze bandages, but no tape or clamps to affix them. However, chewing gum will work just as well, holding a splint together long enough for a broken leg to heal.
9. An experienced field team will park their fortress-like vehicles, designed to protect them from attack by multi-ton predators, next to the edge of a cliff.
10. When a window is beginning to shatter beneath your weight (because it’s made of glass), a really brilliant person will raise themselves on their hands, thus centering much of their body weight on two small points. This is much better, I guess, than wiggling slowly to the side.
11. A SUV on mud can, for a surprising amount of time, hold up the weight of a massive, segmented double truck as it slips over a cliff. Plus, if you put it in gear, although it’s hydroplaning around on mud, it’ll actually begin to pull the much, much larger truck back up over the cliff edge.
12. Malcolm then righteously makes fun of Peter, The Evil Capitalist, for thinking that bringing mercenaries would keep him safe and enable him to complete his capture of the dinosaurs. Uh, actually, Peter’s plan was working fine, thank you, until it was sabotaged by intentional human intervention. So much for the ‘moral’ here.
13. Roland, the Great White Hunter, carries his elephant gun with the barrels pointing skyward. You’d never do this. First, crap could fall out of trees and clog up the barrels, perhaps even causing the gun to explode when fired. Second, it’s pouring rain at this point, and you don’t want your barrels full of water if you can avoid it.
14. Sarah, after warning people time and again that T-Rexes can follow scents for miles, continues to wear a jacket that is soaked in the blood of the baby T-Rex. This despite the fact that the blood "isn’t drying in this humidity." (By the way, wouldn’t walking all night in drenching rains have washed the blood out of the jacket? Guess not.)
15. Roland leaves his gun unattended, despite the fact that Earth First Guy, you now, the one who sabotaged his encampment, has already attempted to mess with it.
16. Dieter, due for a gory death scene, leaves the camp to use the facilities. From all appearances, rather than going behind a nearby tree, he travels about half a mile away. (The guy he tells doesn’t hear him because he’s wearing a walk-man. Good mercenary.) Oh, Dieter goes so far afield that he gets lost and can’t find the camp. This, again, is Roland’s second-in-command.
17. The group, with about two dozens guys at their disposal, who are presumably all professional mercenaries (what else would they be?), and who are in a locale containing man-eating predators, all go to sleep that night without establishing a watch!
18. A guy will watch a T-Rex stick its head into the tent of his girlfriend and his daughter, but not rouse any of the armed men in his camp, or grab a gun himself.
19. People can outrun T-Rexes, who in the first movie almost outran a moving car.
20. Scared by a snake, a professional field scientist will rush into the jaws of the T-Rex he was just trying to avoid.
21. The maintenance buildings are utterly overrun with foliage and mildew, but the circuits of all the lights, the radio, etc., function perfectly once a transformer switch is thrown.
22. Sarah and Ian plot to capture the T-Rex is such a fashion so as to enable them to return it to the island. To achieve this, they plan to trap it when it comes to get the T-Rex pup, which has been flown directly to the zoo facility where the T-Rex was to be displayed. My problem is why no one else seems to be doing anything to stop the T-Rex. Why don’t the police shoot it down? (You’d think that this thing would draw police attention pretty quickly. Especially given all the reporters on hand when it escaped.) Also, since the T-Rex is likely headed for the zoo, why don’t Peter’s men kick Sarah and Ian off the grounds and just contain it there when it arrives? This is where they meant to keep it, so they must have plenty of equipment on hand.
23. Maybe thirty feet from the T-Rex, Malcolm notes that it will never notice Jr., if it doesn’t start making some noise (Jr.’s tranquilized). What about that omnipotent sense of smell we’ve heard about throughout the picture? For heaven’s sake, the pup is right under its nose, practically.
24. When five or six police cars show up and spot the T-Rex, they all turn around and drive off. I really have to believe that if multiple officers (at least 10, assuming two to a car) jump out and open fire with pistols and riot shotguns, the T-Rex would go down right quick.
25. We also see an ‘interview’ with John Hammond, noting that he hopes that all nations will allow the dinosaurs to remain isolated on their island. Yeah, right! Yes, I’m sure that everyone’s pretty much going to say, "Let’s forget that the dinosaurs are even there, and just leave them alone." Uh-huh. Sure.
Here we go...
1. Little Rich Girl wanders off in the beginning of the movie and comes across some chicken sized dino-predators. (This, by the way, was roughly the actual size of the Velociraptor. They were unscientifically embiggened to make them scarier in Jurassic Park.) She ends up being beset by dozens of these beasties for what I assume is meant to be several minutes. We are soon informed that she survived relatively unscathed. Later, though, a full grown man is completely devoured by the same wee dinos in fairly short order
2. This flick’s island, Site B (different from the island in the first movie), is supposedly Top Secret. Yet the yacht bringing the Rich Girl’s family had no problems landing there for a picnic. Not even a "Private Property" sign to be seen. So much for security.
3. "The carnivores are isolated in the Interior," Hammond explains. Oh. Then the dinos that chewed up the little girl near the beach must have been vegetarians.
4. Later we learn why the dinosaurs survived without being given lysine. The herbivores ate plants containing lysine. The carnivores ate the herbivores. Man, that was some brilliant failsafe.
5. When attacked by the stegosaurs, Sarah, who has had extensive field experience in Africa, runs into the middle of the stampeding dinos, rather than away from them.
6. Sarah lectures everyone on how they mustn’t disturb the island’s ecology in even the most minute fashion, not even "bend a blade of grass." This is after she walked up to a baby dinosaur and rubbed her hands all over it and caused a dino stampede that presumably bent many a blade of grass.
7. A car that explodes in camp will fly into the air and land directly on a tree holding Peter the Evil Capitalist and Roland the Great White Hunter. (Yes, they escape.) This and more indicates that Roland was luring enraged T-Rexes real close to his base camp. (They’d be enraged because he’s using their pup as bait.) Yet Roland earlier chewed out Peter the Evil Capitalist about his proposed location for the camp, because it was in predator territory.
8. A well-equipped expedition will bring along gauze bandages, but no tape or clamps to affix them. However, chewing gum will work just as well, holding a splint together long enough for a broken leg to heal.
9. An experienced field team will park their fortress-like vehicles, designed to protect them from attack by multi-ton predators, next to the edge of a cliff.
10. When a window is beginning to shatter beneath your weight (because it’s made of glass), a really brilliant person will raise themselves on their hands, thus centering much of their body weight on two small points. This is much better, I guess, than wiggling slowly to the side.
11. A SUV on mud can, for a surprising amount of time, hold up the weight of a massive, segmented double truck as it slips over a cliff. Plus, if you put it in gear, although it’s hydroplaning around on mud, it’ll actually begin to pull the much, much larger truck back up over the cliff edge.
12. Malcolm then righteously makes fun of Peter, The Evil Capitalist, for thinking that bringing mercenaries would keep him safe and enable him to complete his capture of the dinosaurs. Uh, actually, Peter’s plan was working fine, thank you, until it was sabotaged by intentional human intervention. So much for the ‘moral’ here.
13. Roland, the Great White Hunter, carries his elephant gun with the barrels pointing skyward. You’d never do this. First, crap could fall out of trees and clog up the barrels, perhaps even causing the gun to explode when fired. Second, it’s pouring rain at this point, and you don’t want your barrels full of water if you can avoid it.
14. Sarah, after warning people time and again that T-Rexes can follow scents for miles, continues to wear a jacket that is soaked in the blood of the baby T-Rex. This despite the fact that the blood "isn’t drying in this humidity." (By the way, wouldn’t walking all night in drenching rains have washed the blood out of the jacket? Guess not.)
15. Roland leaves his gun unattended, despite the fact that Earth First Guy, you now, the one who sabotaged his encampment, has already attempted to mess with it.
16. Dieter, due for a gory death scene, leaves the camp to use the facilities. From all appearances, rather than going behind a nearby tree, he travels about half a mile away. (The guy he tells doesn’t hear him because he’s wearing a walk-man. Good mercenary.) Oh, Dieter goes so far afield that he gets lost and can’t find the camp. This, again, is Roland’s second-in-command.
17. The group, with about two dozens guys at their disposal, who are presumably all professional mercenaries (what else would they be?), and who are in a locale containing man-eating predators, all go to sleep that night without establishing a watch!
18. A guy will watch a T-Rex stick its head into the tent of his girlfriend and his daughter, but not rouse any of the armed men in his camp, or grab a gun himself.
19. People can outrun T-Rexes, who in the first movie almost outran a moving car.
20. Scared by a snake, a professional field scientist will rush into the jaws of the T-Rex he was just trying to avoid.
21. The maintenance buildings are utterly overrun with foliage and mildew, but the circuits of all the lights, the radio, etc., function perfectly once a transformer switch is thrown.
22. Sarah and Ian plot to capture the T-Rex is such a fashion so as to enable them to return it to the island. To achieve this, they plan to trap it when it comes to get the T-Rex pup, which has been flown directly to the zoo facility where the T-Rex was to be displayed. My problem is why no one else seems to be doing anything to stop the T-Rex. Why don’t the police shoot it down? (You’d think that this thing would draw police attention pretty quickly. Especially given all the reporters on hand when it escaped.) Also, since the T-Rex is likely headed for the zoo, why don’t Peter’s men kick Sarah and Ian off the grounds and just contain it there when it arrives? This is where they meant to keep it, so they must have plenty of equipment on hand.
23. Maybe thirty feet from the T-Rex, Malcolm notes that it will never notice Jr., if it doesn’t start making some noise (Jr.’s tranquilized). What about that omnipotent sense of smell we’ve heard about throughout the picture? For heaven’s sake, the pup is right under its nose, practically.
24. When five or six police cars show up and spot the T-Rex, they all turn around and drive off. I really have to believe that if multiple officers (at least 10, assuming two to a car) jump out and open fire with pistols and riot shotguns, the T-Rex would go down right quick.
25. We also see an ‘interview’ with John Hammond, noting that he hopes that all nations will allow the dinosaurs to remain isolated on their island. Yeah, right! Yes, I’m sure that everyone’s pretty much going to say, "Let’s forget that the dinosaurs are even there, and just leave them alone." Uh-huh. Sure.
