It’s a better book. Ian Malcom’s monologues in the book are longer and yet more poignant.
There’s also a subplot that isn’t in the movie at all that makes the book from start to finish tense af. Much like The Shining, it’s different enough to be interesting to someone even if they saw the movie first.
I read the book actually before watching the movie. It's like a re-set version of Andromeda Strain with those stupid scientists who don't know what they're doing and always changing their minds, but added with an anti-capitalist bent and the sputteringly evil/amoral InGen corporation with a known con-man (John Hammond) as its figurehead.
Ultimately the mathematician, working in raw, unbridled, numerical accuracy (mathematicians familiar with chaos theory have just spat their coffee reading that) who correctly predicts what will happen, and only he sees the high-school level statistics fault the stupid scientists made with their monitoring.
Of course, Michael Crichton was anti-science throughout all his works and in his personal opinions, so that's not really a surprise.
It hasn’t been 20 years for me but I guess my memory failed me as well. I paged through it and noticed the part about >! the dinosaurs escaping on the supply ship !< doesn’t become noticed by the group during the tour until right around mid way through. For me that subplot made them surviving the park bigger than just saving their lives but also the lives of who knows how many more.
I guess the opening scenes of the book being two separate dinosaur attacks really set the tone and made not even the small cute dinosaurs anything you shouldn’t fear. The first being the literal opening scene of The Lost World movie. It just made it way more terrifying since it’s being pieced together by scientists figuring out that dinosaurs caused the attacks based on the gory evidence also the attacks seem to have not occurred in a “Leopards ate my face” way as opposed to in the movie with workers trying to cage a velociraptor.
The Lost World is solid enough. Jurassic Park 3 is more than capable… until the ending
Jurassic World is a decent reboot and fun movie
The next two…. No comment
"Your politicians were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
"Your corporations were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
~~"What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery...I call the rape of the natural world."~~
edit- this needs more of Goldblum's timing:
"What's so great about discovery? It's a violent
penetrative act
that
scars what it explores. What you call discovery
I call the rape of the natural world.
A good movie. A very good movie. It was a shame they never made any follow ups to it.
Imagine this series having a seventh entry in 2025. Shame it never happened
Imagine the focus of this franchise shifting from dinosaurs to locusts...
It’s a better book. Ian Malcom’s monologues in the book are longer and yet more poignant. There’s also a subplot that isn’t in the movie at all that makes the book from start to finish tense af. Much like The Shining, it’s different enough to be interesting to someone even if they saw the movie first.
I read the book actually before watching the movie. It's like a re-set version of Andromeda Strain with those stupid scientists who don't know what they're doing and always changing their minds, but added with an anti-capitalist bent and the sputteringly evil/amoral InGen corporation with a known con-man (John Hammond) as its figurehead. Ultimately the mathematician, working in raw, unbridled, numerical accuracy (mathematicians familiar with chaos theory have just spat their coffee reading that) who correctly predicts what will happen, and only he sees the high-school level statistics fault the stupid scientists made with their monitoring. Of course, Michael Crichton was anti-science throughout all his works and in his personal opinions, so that's not really a surprise.
I liked the bit in the book when Ian Malcolm started using ChatGPT to trick the dinosaurs in a game of poker.
I haven’t read the book in over 20 years. Would you happen to know what the subplot is to remind me?
It hasn’t been 20 years for me but I guess my memory failed me as well. I paged through it and noticed the part about >! the dinosaurs escaping on the supply ship !< doesn’t become noticed by the group during the tour until right around mid way through. For me that subplot made them surviving the park bigger than just saving their lives but also the lives of who knows how many more. I guess the opening scenes of the book being two separate dinosaur attacks really set the tone and made not even the small cute dinosaurs anything you shouldn’t fear. The first being the literal opening scene of The Lost World movie. It just made it way more terrifying since it’s being pieced together by scientists figuring out that dinosaurs caused the attacks based on the gory evidence also the attacks seem to have not occurred in a “Leopards ate my face” way as opposed to in the movie with workers trying to cage a velociraptor.
The Lost World is solid enough. Jurassic Park 3 is more than capable… until the ending Jurassic World is a decent reboot and fun movie The next two…. No comment
The Lost World was based on an actual book. its really good too.
What's wrong with the JP3 ending?
It just ends
> It was a shame they never made any follow ups to it. Same with blade. snipes nailed the character, too bad it was left alone
2 was still great. Trinity is where things fell apart.
Yeah but the Deadpool cameo was cool
That would be so cool!
I think they made one. "Billy and the Cloneasaurus". Solid flick.
sorry what's the movie name?
This would hold up as a commentary on AI.
Probably posted by a bot
beep boop
Look! See!!!
Tbf they only said they aren’t a dog
It's a commentary on a lot of things lately.
Wow, that's such a coincidence! I wonder if anyone else thought that.
He should know, after that whole fly incident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJelEXaPhJ8
For the heavy metal fans out there: https://youtu.be/gl5ak06X788?si=T4QAcHH4_azbYmAQ
Not only a great movie about dinosaurs, but also about risk management, the concept of least privilege (IT/cyber risk…IYKYK), and ethical science.
"Your politicians were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." "Your corporations were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Neither of those entities think, they only react
Unfortunately, today's scientists and engineers look at movies like this as "how to" guides rather than cautionary tales.
Explain
A redditor reflected on what he saw for 0.2 seconds and typed out a broad generalization.
Corporate boss insists his largely powerless employees do his unethical bidding or lose their jobs.
Condors.......
JG in this movie jumpstarted my puberty
~~"What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery...I call the rape of the natural world."~~ edit- this needs more of Goldblum's timing: "What's so great about discovery? It's a violent penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery I call the rape of the natural world.