Jurassic Park The One With Scarlett Johansson -
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31036941/reference/
IMDb->Parent Guide->Sex and Nudity->None
there's some things in this film that leave me absolutely perplexed. dumbfounded.
Like, all the technobabble; i'm ok with technobabble. What kind of a world would it be where you're not allowed to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
But, "there's more oxygen at the equator" ? Buddy, schoolchildren know that this is not true. You don't even need this as a plot setup point, why is this line in the dialogues?
And, it's like this for just about every line of science-based filler, all stuff that is in no way plot-relevant, but wrong enough that anyone would know.
They got these weird suits with diving-bell-like helmets on, and the helmet has a oxygen tube running from the bottom of the helmet to the top of the helmet, but, externally. You could, not, build, the, tube, INSIDE?
"we need to shoot the dinosaurs with the science-probe-thing while they are alive" because "haemoglobin oxygenates within seconds".
Ok so. First. haemoglobin .. exists for the purpose of carrying oxygen. All hemoglobin in the arteries would be oxygenated. In the veins, it would have lost the oxygen.
And, you know, it's haemoglobin, we know what it does. Capturing DNA makes more sense, but remember that this is the world where they made. dinosaurs. from. DNA. (caughtinsidethegutofamosquitothatdiedahundredmillionyearsago) Any form of tissue would be viable, and there is noticeable change in the blood for study purposes if caught after the animal has died, AND there is further no difference if you capture it while alive BUT THEN you have to carry it in a vial, and
NONE OF THIS IS NECESSARY. This is the opposite of good technobabble. Just fucking say "we need tissue samples - we're gonna go get them".
They do a scene on a boat where they eject a capsule like a firework, and Scarlett stretches out her hand and catches it as it falls back, right back straight down. On a boat. that is moving. But Guy Who Has Never Been On A Boat thinks the scene is perfect.
The rest of the film i can only describe as We Wish We Were Alien. Complete with Newt, and random family that was vacationing in the DEATH ZONE with tiny boat, allegedly "600 miles from Barbados" - which would be the middle of the atlantic ocean, where waves are 10+m high. It tries to manufacture urgency and danger in horribly artificial ways, it's full of tropes, it's .. bad. I would take a Romulus any day of the week over this shit.
5/10
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