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I watched Hook and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as a send-off to Bob Hoskins. It's a tradition whenever an actor I really liked dies.

I watched Jurassic Park 1 and 2 again. Verdict: Wow I didn't remember these films are so stupid. And I don't mean "roffle dey think science bad", but everyone is acting like in a dumb scary movie. Especially the second. Are you kidding me that the Swedish guy gets killed by basically twenty cackling green mice, with long, snappable necks?? And how did the T-rex on the boat manage to eat all of the crew, but somehow leave their limbs still holding on stuff? Like did he, a huge fucking monster, sneak up on the guy at the helm, stick his huge scaly head through the window and slowly put his open mouth around the guy, then quickly snap it shut, leaving only his hand cleanly cut off on wheel? And the hand holding the cargo door closing button. Like, the rex was in the cargo hold, did he eat the guy trying to close the hatch then quickly went down there? Then why did the guy try to close the door before the T-rex was down? Seems more likely to me they took a whole bunch of drugs, then cut off their limbs and jumped off the ship.
And why are the velociraptors always standing around smirking for a while before they slowly prepare to lunge at the people anyway? Is it because they are not hungry animals, but actually psychos in a scary movie? Also despite everyone having lots of guns all the time, not a single dinosaur is ever actually shot. Excuse me Sam Neill, but why did you throw the shotgun on the floor and climbed a ladder, instead of shooting the velociraptor as it came through the door in the computer room?

Also I don't know if it's just the dumb soap-opera-o-vision TV, but the CG is actually way better than the puppetry, which moves in a really obvious robotic way all the time. Like that scene when the T-rex is sniffing Sam Neill's hat. You can totally see it bounce when it stops, like a crane.

omg jurassic park 1 is on my re-watch list for later this month too

I've only ever seen the first two and I only ever re-watch the first one.

it would be awesome to play tag in a big room with no gravity

kicking off the walls to intercept someone, tagging someone in the middle and pushing off to tag someone else

it'd be total chaos

OMG THE NEW VERSION OF FIREFOX IS ABSOLUTELY ABYSMAL

i strongly recommend you immediately write-protect all your files so they don't accidentally get updated

@mozilla if i wanted to be a chrome user i'd dl chrome kthxbye

go to wikipedia and search for: the one with the whales

amazing

You have to go through a disambiguation page, but The Motionless Picture also works

Dooey Jo wrote: Especially the second. Are you kidding me that the Swedish guy gets killed by basically twenty cackling green mice, with long, snappable necks??

Can you or a lot of other people stop a swarm of vicious foot long rats crawling over you? I was always creeped out by that scene. Also I nearly forgot what a mass man slaughtering, sanctimonious prickhead Vince Vaughn's character was.

And how did the T-rex on the boat manage to eat all of the crew, but somehow leave their limbs still holding on stuff? Like did he, a huge fucking monster, sneak up on the guy at the helm, stick his huge scaly head through the window and slowly put his open mouth around the guy, then quickly snap it shut, leaving only his hand cleanly cut off on wheel? And the hand holding the cargo door closing button. Like, the rex was in the cargo hold, did he eat the guy trying to close the hatch then quickly went down there? Then why did the guy try to close the door before the T-rex was down? Seems more likely to me they took a whole bunch of drugs, then cut off their limbs and jumped off the ship.

That huge, huuuge plot hole was created because there was a deleted segment where the boat crew gotten devoured by raptor like dinosaurs which could blend into the scenery, but the dinosaur effects (in a very heavily effects laden movie for the 1990s) were not to the production crew's liking and so they were dropped.

uraniun235 wrote:I've only ever seen the first two and I only ever re-watch the first one.

I saw the third one on TV several years ago. Within the first few minutes, Grant had a dream that included a talking velociraptor. It went downhill from there.

My family spent the entire movie rooting for the dinosaurs. We cheered when the most annoying character was carried off by a pteranodon. We booed when in the end he was just injured and somehow showed up with a battalion of the nearest country's armed forces.

Me and my dad mildly enjoyed The Lost World in the cinema, but dad got really pissed at me for renting Jurassic Park III on VHS.

I saw Jurassic Park like five times as a kid. Those were the days when going to the cinema wasn't the bullshit kind of expense it is now.

But I have no real desire to rewatch it. I'm almost certain that if I were to do so, I'd not enjoy the experience.

I saw The Lost World once at the cinema. Afterwards I vowed Never Again

Big Orangutan wrote:Me and my dad mildly enjoyed The Lost World in the cinema, but dad got really pissed at me for renting Jurassic Park III on VHS.

Was he pissed that you rented it, or pissed that it was on VHS?

Stofsk wrote:I saw Jurassic Park like five times as a kid. Those were the days when going to the cinema wasn't the bullshit kind of expense it is now.

But I have no real desire to rewatch it. I'm almost certain that if I were to do so, I'd not enjoy the experience.

I saw The Lost World once at the cinema. Afterwards I vowed Never Again

I saw it in the theater as a kid.

At the time I thought that it was a docudrama and that it had all really happened.

Pissed at the stupidity of the movie on how the damn kid survived and how the movie fell apart completely in the last ten minutes (we rented the VHS many years ago when Jurassic Park III was newish and VHS hadn't quite died as a main home viewing medium yet).

me re the shields on star wars fighters:


The shields on the xwings didn't do a whole lot of good anyway, I think they were meant more to keep you from dying instantly from your dead wingmate's debris hitting you than to actually survive hits from enemy weapons fire.



Or maybe they messed up targetting sensors, like a radar scrambler.

That's actually a more interesting idea IMO... the deflector shields deflect radar beams, scattering them like the paint on stealth fighters today, rather than being the traditional SF shields.

So if they went double front, it would mess up the targetting sensors on the turbolasers they are approaching, so they couldn't get a good lock until the ship was closer, which was too close to actually track at their speeds.

Of course, this doesn't help much vs Darth Vader cuz he wasn't relying on radar computers to hit his targets anyway!

well TIE's tended to fire long bursts that caused X-Wings to to turn to wreckage.

A short burst from an X-Wing disintegrated TIEs entirely.


So there seemed to be an effect but as you say not a huge amount of good ultimately. a difference between 'dead' and 'really really dead'. Interesting theory.

Yeah, I think the canon support isn't very strong (tho we do often assume shields/armor are meant to make you invincible but they often are more help in just upping the odds of surviving a glancing hit or mean miss than actually stopping direct hits) but it is still a somewhat novel spin on the old concept of deflector shields so i threw it out there to have some fun.

that's a cool idea that I'm interested in.

adr wrote:That's actually a more interesting idea IMO... the deflector shields deflect radar beams, scattering them like the paint on stealth fighters today, rather than being the traditional SF shields.

It could be neat in another story but it seems to me that Star Wars of all settings should have your standard issue corny deflector shields.

Oh boy. Guess what's back on the air today.

masterchef

Crazedwraith wrote:well TIE's tended to fire long bursts that caused X-Wings to to turn to wreckage.

A short burst from an X-Wing disintegrated TIEs entirely.

Yeah, enough to survive an occasional hit or glancing blow (like Wedge did) but they weren't going to be tanking shots from TIE Fighters like the video games did.

Although the Falcon held up pretty well, so they obviously can work if you're big enough.