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Jurassic Park (film)

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Fri Jun 09, 2023 11:49 pm

Have you watched Jurassic Park?
Which are your favourite dinosaurs?
Which dinosaurs would you have liked to have seen that weren't in the film?

Industrialist John Hammond has created Jurassic Park, a theme park of cloned dinosaurs, on the tropical Isla Nublar. After a dinosaur handler is killed by a Velociraptor, the park's investors, represented by lawyer Donald Gennaro, demand a safety certification. Gennaro invites chaotician Ian Malcolm, while Hammond invites paleontologist Alan Grant and paleobotanist Ellie Sattler. Upon arrival, the group is shocked to see a live Brachiosaurus and a whole herd of other dinosaurs.

At the park's visitor center, the group learns that the cloning was accomplished by extracting dinosaur DNA from prehistoric mosquitoes preserved in amber. DNA from frogs, among other animals, was used to fill in gaps in the genome of the dinosaurs. To prevent breeding, all the dinosaurs were made female by direct chromosome manipulation. The group witnesses the hatching of a baby Velociraptor and visits the raptor enclosure. During lunch, the group debates the ethics of cloning and the creation of the park. Malcolm warns about the implications of genetic engineering and scoffs at the park's conceptualization, saying that it will inevitably break down.

Hammond's grandchildren, Lex and Tim, join for a tour of the park, while Hammond oversees from the control room. The tour does not go as planned, with most of the dinosaurs failing to appear and the group encountering a sick Triceratops. The tour is cut short as a tropical storm approaches. Most of the park employees leave for the mainland on a boat, while the visitors return to their electric tour vehicles, except Sattler, who stays behind with the park's veterinarian, Dr. Harding, to study the sick Triceratops.

Jurassic Park's disgruntled lead computer programmer, Dennis Nedry, has been bribed by Dodgson, a man working for Hammond's corporate rival, to steal fertilized dinosaur embryos. Nedry deactivates the park's security system to gain access to the embryo storage room, and stores the embryos inside a container disguised as a Barbasol shaving cream can. Nedry's sabotage also cuts power to the tour vehicles, stranding them just as they near the park's Tyrannosaurus rex paddock. Most of the park's electric fences have also been deactivated, allowing the Tyrannosaurus to escape and attack the group. After the Tyrannosaurus overturns a tour vehicle, it injures Malcolm and devours Gennaro, while Grant, Lex and Tim escape. On his way to deliver the embryos to the island's docks, Nedry gets lost in the rain, crashes his Jeep Wrangler, and is killed by a venom spitting Dilophosaurus.
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Post by Booyakasha » Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:56 am

Great film.

Mom took us to see it when we were kids, and we had to leave about a third of the way through because mom started having a...minor panic attack (during the t-rex attack, natch). In her defense, that scene's pretty intense.

My favourite dinosaur was probably the dilophosaur. They were weird and kooky, and out of all the dinosaurs that killed people, they were the only ones who only menaced and ate a bad guy. Dennis Nedry deserved his fate because he was a jerkface-----------compare and contrast to everyone got eaten up by raptors or the t-rex.

...it would have been cool to see an archaeopteryx. I know, it isn't strictly a dinosaur, but hey, they had pterodactyls in the book, and they weren't dinosaurs either.
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Post by CaptHayfever » Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:02 am

The first one is fantastic, then the sequels...aren't.

I'd have loved to see a stegosaur featured.

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Sat Jun 10, 2023 9:45 am

^ I think Jurassic Park 2 is pretty good overall. The only really bad part is the kid beating up dinosaurs with gymnastics, if they could just snip that out it'd be a lot better.

Anyway, I loved the first one. It was very intense as a little kid, especially on the big screen, but I was still really into it. The T-Rex was ny favorite, still probably is.

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