As much as I love Jurassic Park, and as much as I have to suspend my disbelief watching a movie with DINOSAURS WALKING AROUND, I have one big problem with a particular scene, and its lapse in logic is so bad that it takes me right out of the movie, so here goes:
In the scene where the characters are in the ride contraption learning about DINO DNA (please read with a ridiculous accent), they swing over to where the eggs are hatching, and everyone wants to go down and look. Hammond says they can't get out until the ride thing is over, but they do so anyways and go down to where the Velociraptors are hatching. THIS IS THE PART THAT KILLS ME: Hammond says that the dinosaur bonds with the first person they see, and that he has been there FOR EVERY FUCKING HATCHING. There are literally dozens of eggs in the area, clearly hatching all the time. If they had stayed in the ride, Hammond would have missed it. They try to cover it up with the line aimed at the technician ("Why didn't you tell me they were about to hatch?"), but that still doesn't solve the problem that this is a 70 YEAR OLD MAN WHO WALKS WITH A CANE. There is no way in hell he would be there for every hatching, even if he slept in the room. They could have easily left that line out, but their insistence on keeping an impossible line in ruined the entire experience for me.
Rant over. Carry on.
Good to see "All Hands and the Cook" make the list. Originally, it wasn't one of my favorites, but after seeing it played live, it really has an amazing energy to it. It's clear that it's one of the band's favorite songs to play live.
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