Is it just me, or did everyone take the Pterodactlys flying off the island a little too lightly? I mean, the things damn near killed them and when the things are leaving the island, the best that they can do is say things like "Its a whole new World for them" or "They better not build a nest near Okalhoma". Its like, these things are dangerous and they're not the least bit worried about it. Anyone else think the same thing?
shareWhy are people saying 'what could they have done?' Well obv they couldn't do anything at the time but they shouldn't just not give a *beep* Its a big problem.
shareExactly! And that more than anything is what bothered me about the ending to this. They could have at least tried to look a little more concerned than they did.
shareI suppose them alerting the military or authorities that a flock of Pterodactyls have escaped the island is too much for people to comprehend...
sharemere hours ago they were almost killed by them, and in the chopper Grant is like: "they made it out the island, good for them"
come on. the army should be shooting at those things
But try telling it to the army: "There are pterodactyls flying around. Could you please do something about it"?
The army would likely just ignore them as mad-men or something. It is hard to believe to quite frankly. So it wouldn't do anything.
Also it doesn't mean that the pterodactyls would come so far. maybe they just fly around the island and back?
Why would they think they were mad? The army knew about the dinos on the island.
shareThe army would likely just ignore them as mad-men or something.
Might as well shoot lions too.
shareFirst movie:
The lysine contingency is intended to prevent the spread of the animals in case they ever get off the island. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism. The animals can't manufacture the amino acid lysine. Unless they're continually supplied with lysine by us, they'll slip into a coma and die.share
I just finished watching and was thinking the same thing. I don't know if it was lazy writing, or if it will at least be addressed in the new one. I would certainly hope that they'll at least address why the place is now a park, with hundreds of visitors, why this was allowed and why anyone would actually go there on purpose!
shareYeah ofcourse these bird seemingly have survived since the second film without anyone to monitor them so they couldn`t have got lysine either way and yet they still live. Nature finds a way.
sharethat was pretty much my take at the ending as well ... everyone is just flying off into the sunset happy as can be ... including the Pterodactlys??!! why not just let the raptors and trex' onto the mainland too? i think Enid, Oklahoma would be a good home for the raptors frankly ... the warhips should be shooting them down over the open ocean and leaving them for chum imho ...
that speciaies is gonna wreak havoc wherever their 'new home' might be ... and dr.grant saying such a lame thing after all he's gone thru (and the implications of his being a stout anti-dio-island protestor in the tim in between then movies), being the dino-ecpert and all, he should be the first one yelling up to the pilots to blast those things out of the air ... it was an okay movie until then but that was just a real jack-a-mo of an ending
aside from the need for sequels, why didn't they go in an kill all the dinosaurs after the first failed experiment? if they could reproduce without males, then they could evolve into prehistoric aquatic or semi-aquatic dinos too and the next thing ya know, Tokyo's got one more giant lizard stompin the hell out of it on a regular basis .....
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cormac
"One star in the sky
so I named it Otis Redding"
-- John Hiatt
There were dozens of military personnel also leaving the island. There's no way only Grant and co. witnessed the flying reptiles; that would be a big reason for a lack of immediate concern.
shareFirst movie:
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The lysine contingency is intended to prevent the spread of the animals in case they ever get off the island. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism. The animals can't manufacture the amino acid lysine. Unless they're continually supplied with lysine by us, they'll slip into a coma and die.
On the second movie, they surmised that the herbivores consumed plant life that contained the substance, then the carnivores absorbed it through eating those herbivores.
shareIn one of the spin off books Dr Grant and the kid went and caught them all.
shareI thought the same thing! The Pterodactyls just tried to eat the people on the island and then they think it is a good thing when the Pterodactyls fly away?
shareYou know, I just love the fact that for some reason, almost every time I see someone whom either claims to be, or is supposed to be a serious fan of dinosaurs and these movies, keeps calling Pteranodon Pterodactyl, when they are not even close to the same thing, aside from being Pterosaurs.
shareAnd who in this thread claimed such expertise exactly??
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