• snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 hours ago

    That’s exactly the point. They did spare expenses, on a lot of things.

    John Hammond Jurassic Park book spoilers

    John Hammond is clearly portrayed as a villain in the book. They lightened him up in the movie.

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      52 minutes ago

      Supposedly, that is the whole deal with the Chilean Sea Bass that he gloats about. Spared no expense. Apparently that fish sounds fancy, but is actually super cheap. The whole park needed to have the shine of a top-of-the-line facility, but in the end, Ingen and Hammond had no idea what they were really cooking up.

      The raptors for instance, I always got the feeling that paddock was kind small and rapidly constructed. Those things had killed multiple people in the past, and the park’s response was cram them into a jail cell. You’d think an intelligent, dangerous animal, that was not part of the tour or experience would be euthanized, rather than risk the whole park…but here is Ingen not dealing with the problem, and instead, actively making more raptors.

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      The movie really dumbed Hammond down to “overly optimistic money guy with a vision”. Which was a bit distasteful if you’ve read the books. Just a bit.

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      The book was a million times better than the movie. It was the first time I had read a novel that was turned into a movie and then saw the movie after reading the novel.

      14-year-old me had never been so disappointed. And it taught me to never ever read the book before the movie.