RE: So I was watching Jurassic Park III last night... (SPOILER ALERT!)

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

I saw JP3 at the first showing today, with only about a dozen other people in
the theater!  (PS to Dan Varner--it was dark in there.)

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Some of the things that I thought after seeing the movie:
In the initial boat incident, a mosasaur attacking the boat would have been
cool.  That _Spinosaurus_ certainly got around, day and night, and had
boundless energy for an ectotherm. Perhaps it was training for the triathlon.


Did anyone else think that "Billy" looked a lot like a much younger Paul
Sereno?

Considering how fast governments work, how was Ellie able to get the military
to the island within a day or so?  Who foots the bill for that--grant
(Grant?) money?

The courtesy of always calling Dr. Grant "Dr. Grant" might have been
suspended by those on an island trying to save themselves from creatures
without formal degrees.

Did Tea Leoni's character have to ignore every basic rule of wilderness
survival?  Her child had been missing for 8 weeks on an island teeming with
ravenous creatures, so her role in finding him was going to be?  Calling for
him to come home for dinner?

Good thing that they Goodyear-blimped the message that William H. Macy's
character had taken swimming lessons in the last year.

In the  _T. rex_ vs. _Spinosaurus_ fight, the tyrannosaur did have a clamp on
the spinosaur's neck and was shaking him.  I wondered too why these "super
predators" hadn't killed each other previously or come to an uneasy truce,
since they must have grown up in the same territory.  (There's enough
hadrosaur for everyone.)

The movie was much too short, and I agree that the ending was chopped.  I
generally enjoyed the movie, but using a finished and polished script before
filming would have put more flesh on the bone.

Claws sunk far enough into a person's back to lift him don't result in
massive bleeding or muscle injury?

I stayed for the credits, and no paleo was listed except for Jack
Horner--considering the dozens of names on Disney's "Dinosaur," I was
surprised not to see some familiar paleo artist names.  The JP movies would
benefit in the future from consulting with other prominent people in
paleontology, if only to get some fresh perspectives and theories.

Mary
mkirkaldy@aol.com