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[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Wasn’t that the joke? Iirc Hammond cut a fuck ton of corners.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Noo it's just a movie about dinosaurs you can't just point out that it critiques science and capitalism, we love science and capitalism!!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

I do rather like science.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with the science in Jurassic Park? All of the problems in the park originate from underfunding security.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bioengineering is inherently dangerous with a high likelihood of disrupting Earth's ecosystems, killing millions of people, etc. if you do something wrong. A key safety step, as they discuss in one of the movies, is making their organisms unable to reproduce so they can't increase their populations unchecked. Which they failed to do. In real life there are people creating new viruses and there is no amount of security that makes that kind of work completely safe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It criticises science for profit. They literally invite various scientists who know their stuff and they all tell Hammond he's a fucking idiot. It's much clearer in the books, though, where you get to read where they notice all the enclosure mistakes that were made by Hammond's team.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's a book thing more than a movie thing, IIRC. Hammond was more of an asshole cheapskate in the book.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

The book is better than the movie, and Jurassic Park is one of my favourite movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Books always seem to be better than the movie, however, movies can be fun. Books give you more information and lets you hear what people are thinking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hammond definitely works better as an unrepentant asshole in the book.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So the real monsters were the humans all along. Ugh so cliche. /s