I just “read” (listened to) Jurassic Park and I’m almost finished with Lost World. Great fuckin books. Dude, yeah I liked the Lost World movie but why the fuck did they fuckin change the damn plot so much? it would have been SO much better if they followed the plot of the book. spielberg sucks for doing that.
i’m not even just talking about him turning Malcolm into a anxiety-ridden little bitch, or how he completely leaves out Biosyn and Dogdson, or how he completely sanitized every character…
it’s the little things like… he took the concept of 2 kids stowing away to the island (Arby and Kelly) and just included Kelly then decides, oh she’s Ian Malcolm’s daughter plus she’s not an academic, instead she’s a gymnist. A plot twist only built so she could do dumb gymnist shit to confuse a velociraptor (what?!) then kick it through a wall (…!!!)
little things like Spielberg couldn’t even be arsed to make the dinosaurs the much more descriptive colors Crichton described.
and… San Diego!!! wtf.
what happened in the first two Jurassic Park movies is they took events from both books, stripped them of all their “believability” (i know), then randomly scattered them into the movies while also assigning roles to the completely wrong characters for said events.
john hammond not dying a death by dinosaurs in the first movie was screenwriting SIN.
anyway, the books are awesome. way fuckin better than the movies. i get how it works but honestly i don’t really understand why they decided to just go in a completely different direction than Crichton’s work. and yeah i know he dgaf because they dumped a shitload of money on him and signed the rights to Lost World before he even wrote it. but still. the fuck, man
