Since I'm nerding out about the book elsewhere, I might as well mention that Book Wu had the idea to make triceratops small and domesticated, to be pets for wealthy kids.

I never understood the idea of scrapping most of the book. As I understand it, Crichton didn't even want to write the damn thing. Spielberg kept pushing him for a sequel. Then, the poor bastard sits down and actually writes a pretty compelling novel with some great ideas and Spielberg looks at and says, "All…

Exactly. That was why I loved Book Wu's cold pragmatism. He essentially tells Hammond, "Listen. These creatures have been dead for millions of years. No one knows for sure what they look like, and we own their gene sequences. People will believe our dinosaurs are the real deal because what else are they going to…

I…I guess I didn't. I was too busy trying to reach the shotgun strap with my work boots while Laura Dern tried to stop the raptor from getting in

I remain convinced Mr. DNA is where Gary Oldman got the voice for Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg

I do the same. (Well, not quite the same, but I've definitely read "The Lost World" more than a few times.) But I really like "The Lost World's" plot, I like Thorne as a character, and I like that it doubles down on the grimness of "Jurassic Park's" view of humanity meddling with nature and the inevitable failure of…

Yep, which is actually a pretty great plot point taken from the books. In "Version 4.4" (oh, that's right, I read the novel so often in elementary school I still remember the chapter titles) Wu and Hammond are eating ginger ice cream in Hammond's bungalow (told you) and Hammond starts complaining about the dinosaurs…

Oof. Yeah, understood. I saw it in college, so my hopes were already low. (Also saw Cry Uncle! which, if you used to watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force, is essentially a real-life version of "Bruno Sardine, Private Inbreastigator"

That's nobody's business but the Turks

I'll be damned. I had no idea

Fisher Stevens IS Coach Gordon Mumbai

I DISAGREE. Also, possibly my favorite trailer of all time.

It's a Unix system! I KNOW THIS

Give me A Nymphoid Barbarian in a Dinosaur Hell or GIVE ME DEATH.

Yeah, but they totally blew it on the adventure plot, even. Boil it down and you have Dodgson and the Biosyn Boyz hunting for dinosaur eggs and our heroes trying to stop them from fucking up. Had the movie followed that plot (and kept it to the island) it would have been at least a little better.

Jeff Goldblum: Our most fuckable dinosaur

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs or Denver the Dinosaur?

The book sequel did a pretty interesting job of exploring new ideas and changing the tone of the story from it's very Westworld-esque "Oh fuck! Dinosaurs!" to a Jules Verne-style (or Conan Doyle-style, I guess, given the title) adventure narrative. The story wasn't as tight, but the philosophy and science fiction were…

Bro, do you even murder and eviscerate?

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