have realized that most realistic part of jurassic park movie is not the abysmally poor safety and redundancy engineering in the park but the stupidity of the investors
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I finally read the book recently and was shocked how i actually loved it more than the movie i love a lot because theres less action and more focus on rich peoples magical thinking trying to smooth over so so many issues setting up a guaranteed disaster.
you are in awe of the simulation and thus you can not determine when things are safe or not safe, for this is a function of determining what is familiar and unfamiliar, real and not real, etc.
*shrug* love the 90s dino movies, hate the man’s politics, hate the sequels after the second one
yes it is nowhere near as good as the original,
• and that is its charm, everything is more stupid for people did not think things through…
lost in their own personal quests (it is not a group or sociological text anymore)
but you can only do that once, and only as a sequel to something magnificent
It's actually the fact that #Hammond "spares no expense" putting billions of dollars into the park, then only hires 1 IT guy and expects him to oversee and support every system alone
Hammond is a swindling salesman type. Like a Trump or Elon. "Spared no expense" is a distillation of this. He absolutely cut corners for a million different things to save a buck.
I adore the movie, just rewatched it, but Spielberg turning movie-Hammond into, well, loveable Papa Spielberg really makes a lot of the characterizations and actions of book-Hammond not make sense when they get brought into the movie.
the least realistic part was the entire plot since prehistoric creatures existed in a time when oxygen levels were much higher since so many more trees were around back then. so cloned creatures from those times would strangle and suffocate right after birth without a highly oxygenated environment
the starting point of the movie is that the experts are sent on a fact-finding mission to certify the park is safe after a gruesome workplace accident. the investors are scared because suddenly all of their money is at stake. so they want to do due dilligence
even under the best of circumstances there was absolutely NOTHING Hammond could really do to satisfy the investors' safety requirements. but there's this incredibly realistic pettiness to it all, that they suddenly are motivated to do what they ought to have done before when it is comically too late
I think the idea was not to satisfy safety concerns, but to sufficiently wow a handful of respected experts that all safety concerns would be forgotten.
it nails the "just frantically pressing buttons" reactive feedback behavior of stakeholders that have been mostly tuned out and now suddenly have woken up and are afraid of getting taken to the cleaners
That's the most unrealistic part. Outside of US Territory, no applicable OSHA, why would investors give a shit? If they wanted due dilligence, they would have done it before investing or before flipping the switch, but they didn't. :D
Anyone remember Cambrian Genomics? There was literally a tech bro dude trying to bring dinosaurs back to life via 3D printing. Human extinction = peak innovation.
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and that is the point I think. Hyper-Reality is not just Eco and Baudrillard it is also Crichton a man with horrible politics.
If you can not determine a fake from an original, you are able to get con easily…
*shrug* love the 90s dino movies, hate the man’s politics, hate the sequels after the second one
• and that is its charm, everything is more stupid for people did not think things through…
lost in their own personal quests (it is not a group or sociological text anymore)
but you can only do that once, and only as a sequel to something magnificent
Terminator 2, Aliens, Lethal Weapon 2 for example.
Some sequels are just BAD...Lost World, Aladdin 2 for example.
And then you have bad book adaptations, like I Am Legend, Lost World, Hearts in Atlantis.
Who keeps underwriting this thing?
I remember watching an interview with the great, late #MichaelCrichton
Someone asked him what he was writing and he responded "the most expensive movie ever made"
He wasn't wrong for the time.
Like give the same role with the exact same lines to like Jeremy Irons or Christopher Lee and that sympathy vanishes I think
Three guys who are devoted to the cause (resurrect dinosaurs) and willing to let that be written in blood
Two guys who are checked out
A new person who is appalled and panicking