How bad this movie is?? So an apex predator's vision is based on movement? Gotta suck running into all those trees and off those cliffs. I would go on but everything else has been pointed out literally hundreds of times. Worst continuity in a movie ever. Btw
shareDNA has a half life of about 500 years so.... there's that too
shareThe thing that gets me about Jurassic Park is the dinosaurs actual DNA is only fragments that they've managed to extract out of the fossilized amber. the rest is made up of frog DNA. so these dinosaurs aren't really natural at all in a sense because the DNA that made them up isn't entirely natural. They're made from manipulated DNA
shareRight! And that's kind of the point. They're not truly "real" dinosaurs. Like Ellie said, "It's still the flea circus." It's all an illusion.
shareThey actually touch on that fact later in Jurassic Park 3. Astir Grant is giving his lecture, he notes that John Hammond "created theme park monsters, nothing more and nothing less".
shareBtwBtw...what? share
It's a movie and that's the point. It's entertainment, no one said it was real.
shareI like the movie but I actually like the book better. The premise of the beginning of the book of Compies escaping the island and coming on the mainland of South America would make an interesting mini series.
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The idea for Rex's bad vision came from the writer of the book and carried on to the movie. Chrichton actually retracted this in his sequel novel, The Lost World:
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Originally Posted by The Lost World (Michael Crichton version)
Sara Harding said, "Why did Dodgson just stand around like that? That's not the way to act around predators. You get caught around lion, you make a lot of noise, wave your hands, throw things at them. Try to scare them off. You don't just stand there."
"He probably read the wrong research paper, "Malcolm said, shaking his head. "There's been a theory going around that tyrannosaurs can only see movement. A guy named Roxton made casts of rex braincases, and concluded that tyrannosaurs had the brain of a frog."
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"Roxton," Levin said, "believed that tyrannosaurs had a visual system like an amphibian: like a frog. A frog sees motion but doesn't see stillness. But it is quite impossible that a predator such as a tyrannosaur would have a visual system that worked that way. Quite impossible. Because the most common defence of prey animals is to freeze. A deer or something like that, it senses danger, and it freezes. A predator has to be able to see them anyway. And of course a tyrannosaur could."
Over the radio, Levine snorted with disgust. "It's just like the other idiotic theory put forth by Grant a few years back that a tyrannosaur could be confused by a driving rainstorm, because it was not adapted to wet climates. That's equally absurd.[...]I'm quite sure tyrannosaurs saw plenty of rain, and the evolved to deal with it."
"So is there any reason why a tyrannosaur might not attack somebody?" Malcolm said.
"Yes, of course. The most obvious one," Levine said.
"Which is?"
"If it wasn't hungry. If it had just eaten another animal. Anything larger than a goat would take care of its hunger for hours to come. No, no. The tyrannosaur sees fine, moving or still."