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[Ogdibus]

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[Loud Whispers]

That was what I was more butthurt about than anything else. Why the hell should I not ressurect dinosaurs and put them on a private island if I'm rich enough to do it? 'Man should not mess with the way of things?' 'It is not our place?' Fuck your morals, I have science!

Because you should be wary of the repercussions. I find the idea of 'playing God' being an affably poor argument against scientific progress, but releasing animals that have been extinct for millions of years onto the world's ecosystems merely because you have money?
No.

[Rose]

I agree with a lot of people that much of the movie didn't make sense because they changed the personality of the CEO entirely. In the book, he was a corrupt corperate executive that was cutting projects everywhere, and the security systems barely worked at all even before sabotage because of a bunch of reasons.

[SalmonGod]

I just thought it was a great adventure movie.  Could be my nostalgia speaking, since I saw first saw it in the theater when I was a kid.  I just think it was very well paced and has some of the most tense movie scenes ever.  The scene with the T-Rex attacking the car or the raptors hunting the kids in the kitchen are both amazing pieces of cinematography.  The sound work especially.  The visuals may have been groundbreaking, but a well engineered sound effect with the right timing has such an impact and Jurassic Park used that so well.

[Descan]

I get to see him again today!

* Descan lets out a squeak of joy

[Siquo]

I just thought it was a great adventure movie.  Could be my nostalgia speaking, since I saw first saw it in the theater when I was a kid.  I just think it was very well paced and has some of the most tense movie scenes ever.  The scene with the T-Rex attacking the car or the raptors hunting the kids in the kitchen are both amazing pieces of cinematography.  The sound work especially.  The visuals may have been groundbreaking, but a well engineered sound effect with the right timing has such an impact and Jurassic Park used that so well.

Oh I agree it was a good movie in those respects. They even visualised their sound effects.

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[Loud Whispers]

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BOOM!

_{[Explosions are in vast supply on the internets].}

[ChairmanPoo]

I've always disliked Michael Crichton's neo-luddism and fearmongering about new technologies&discoveries (not just biotech, he also railed against DBS, and global warming). With Jurassic Park the joke's on him, though. People ignored his "genetic engineering is evul!" message in favor of the more obvious,  "Dinosaurs fuck yeah!" message.

[misko27]

Watching the Godfather at home today.

[penguinofhonor]

Although now I'm drawn back to my rage about how that movie's message goes contrary to science by saying 'it was only a matter of time until they escaped so we shouldn't clone dinosaurs hurr' when it took an inside man high up in the organization shutting down every security measure and the biologists in charge of recontructing the DNA not knowing that the frog DNA they used could change from female to male to cause the dinos to pose any kind of threat.

I believe the point was supposed to be that if none of that had gone wrong, something else would have.

I've always disliked Michael Crichton's neo-luddism and fearmongering about new technologies&discoveries (not just biotech, he also railed against DBS, and global warming). With Jurassic Park the joke's on him, though. People ignored his "genetic engineering is evul!" message in favor of the more obvious,  "Dinosaurs fuck yeah!" message.

The moral of The Lost World is that the internet is evil. Why? Because the velociraptors are crueler than the other dinosaurs.

There was some pretty badass dinosaur stuff in it, though.

[Fniff]

Mmmm.

Banana milk is so goooood.

[Remuthra]

Europa Barbarorum. It is quite possibly more complex than vanilla DF.

[MonkeyHead]

Europa Barbarorum. It is quite possibly more complex than vanilla DF.

Linky?

[Remuthra]

http://www.europabarbarorum.com/

It's a mod for Rome: Total War.

[Sirus]

I've always disliked Michael Crichton's neo-luddism and fearmongering about new technologies&discoveries (not just biotech, he also railed against DBS, and global warming). With Jurassic Park the joke's on him, though. People ignored his "genetic engineering is evul!" message in favor of the more obvious,  "Dinosaurs fuck yeah!" message.

That really was Crichton's schtick. Sphere was the first of his books that I read, and I rather enjoyed it, prompting me to go out and buy his other books from used book stores. Fast forward about twelve more books, sans ten dollars, and I'm left wondering why the hell I bought them all. I soldiered through the one on global warming (urgh, wasn't even a great novel) and then gave up on the one about abortion. Honestly, I'd be happy just to own Sphere, Andromeda Strain, and Jurassic Park. The rest are probably going to go sit in a box somewhere.

In happier news, I shoveled out the money to nab a prepaid card and pre-ordered Starbound with it. I can't wait for the beta.

I enjoyed Crichton's books. Yeah, they were a little anti-science, but I was more fascinated by the (pseudo)science than the intended message.