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Oops! That'll teach me to not read the actual OP!
Maybe they'll have another actress record new lines, and CGI her mouth to fit them?
"You came in THAT thing? You're braver than I thought!"
Are you sure? Is this information straight from the horse's month?
Harry's wasn't the only invisibility cloak in the world.
They go into more detail in the book, but there are others which could be either made from the fur of a creature which could turn invisible, or were cloaks with spells put on them. So they probably didn't think about it while Hermione was reading because they were common, or at least they weren't rare.
But then they go on to say such cloaks usually fade, or stop working over time. Harry's was pretty old, and still worked, so they later decided it must be special, and might even be Death's.
Kids get things wrong sometimes:O
Usually I roll my eyes a bit when people talk about "Racist Hollywood", but in the case of this movie, it really does feel like racism on the part of the filmmakers.
Shortsighted too - Mike hanging around Derry and looking into its history gave him more information for when they're adults. Sure, people's interests change as they grow up - it'd be just as realistic for Ben to stop caring about history and Mike to start, as it would for Mike to continue to love it and Ben to remain indifferent; but the latter makes for a better and more cohesive narrative.
In both the miniseries and the book, the adult sections were pretty much leaning on the kid sections. But as this is a full length movie devoted to the adults, I would imagine it will be written and dramatised in a way which makes it stand on its own, it will be given its own stakes and storyline.
[quote] So they're being conservative by sticking to what works, i.e. the main series and new characters...[/quote]
Because of how beloved the Last Jedi was? And how popular all the characters are? So much working.
[quote]I thought the Pythons "assembled " themselves?[/quote]
You expect someone with a title like "Controller, Comedy Commissioning, Television" to know anything about comedy history?
[quote]I think an article said (as one theory goes) Hammond and Lockwood had a falling out because of the cloning of the daughter -- just as you said, OP. Apparently she died in a car accident many years ago and they've attempted many clones before the one we see in Fallen Kingdom.
The idea is that the earlier clones always had problems down the line and didn't live long or had other unfortunate complications. There's a line of dialogue in Fallen Kingdom where the villain says to James Cromwell "Don't think you're free from guilt either/don't think you're completely innocent in all of this." (something like that). I guess the implication is that Lockwood may have gone too far with making multiple human clones (and possibly discarding faulty ones?), and Hammond was deeply disturbed by this.[/quote]
That makes sense.
I think it would be creepier if Lockwood killed the clones when they reached the age his daughter died at, and that led the Hammond cutting off ties with him, but then Lockwood isn't meant to be evil.
Yup, if i'm remembering correctly, the snouted-chicken embryo was successfully created and frozen, but they haven't (yet) got ethical approval to hatch it.
[quote] Does this explanation also work for the film. I recall some elements being different between the two sources. [/quote]
Nedry's background isn't really explained in the movie, so I guess it's up to each viewer if they want to apply the book's backstory to the movie character.
In the movie, Hammond says "I don't blame people for their mistakes - but I do ask they pay for them." This could fit the book's backstory if we let it, as Nedry's mistake could have been not making an effective system, and his paying for it could be working unpaid overtime to fix it!
Hmm. In the book Nedry was just as sloppy and gross as the movie, but extra details were filled in, and he was definitely the top of his field. He wasn't a disgruntled employee due to being underpaid, but because he was mistreated.
At first, he was effectively working blind, he had to programme the systems remotely, with very little details as to what they were actually for, he didn't know they were for a dinosaur zoo. As the systems he developed (from his office) weren't quite right for the Park, there were lots of bugs, and he was forced to fix them without being paid extra, with Ingen claiming it was inline with him original contract, and threatening to sue.
This could be seen as "sparing expense", but not in the same way as hiring someone for cheap.
... have you seen Disney Star Wars? Do you really think they'd make the prequels BETTER?!
I bet they have some kind of protection - "don't save from exploding island" isn't mutually exclusive to "don't kill or capture". Anyway, who says there was only one of each? I saw a few Compies during the dino escape, and possibly two of the Styracosaurs?
I see your point, but the purpose of having the scene in the room it was in was so they could say "Lando has lots of capes lol". it needed to be immediately obvious with no explanation that it's a closet, so they could laugh at his capes, and then carry on with the rest of the scene.
If we first saw the cape closet while Lando was giving them a tour of the Falcon, then yeah I agree it should have been more scifi, because the scene would be intending to show off a spaceship. But it was really just a dialogue scene in an amusing setting, with a cape joke thrown in.
in the book, the island was officiallly owned by a mining company. InGen bought the mining company, and carried out their actions under the mining company's name.
haha in the Discworld books the housing around the Unseen University (think Hogwarts, but more dangerous) is really cheap because the spells cast by student wizards made the area unstable, and "broken down spells" made strange things happen, like garbage coming to life.
VERY cool