The parents completely ruined it - Jurassic Park III (2001) Discussion

[–] redrumgurrl 11 years ago

Totally agree! I was watching JP3 on AMC last night and I just kept on wishing the parents would die. They were so clichéd. The whole subplot of divorced parents reuniting to find their son was not interesting at all.

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[–] boxerrebellion 10 years ago

lol... about the time the woman started yelling the child's name I decided she needed to get eaten.

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[–] alisotom 10 years ago

i had never bothered to see this before tonight, but since nothing else was on, and it followed the original JP on syfy, i thought, why not?
now, i see why not? this is more than tragic; it's just stupid. tea leoni's screaming is making me pray to God that she gets chewed to pieces by any combination of dinosaurs, but i know that won't happen - the leads never get munched, darn it!

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[–] alisotom 10 years ago

whew - a half hour into this movie, i thankfully discovered that reruns of Raising Hope are on WGN, so now at least there's something better on TV...

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[–] Fawkes_Rocks 10 years ago

While I don't disagree it's really the writers who ruin this.

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[–] Moonlighty 10 years ago

Ned Flanders and willie Scott? 

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[–] afsana_bahar 10 years ago

They were the most obnoxious characters in the trilogy, in my opinion. I kept waiting for them to die.

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[–] jackgriffin1-1 10 years ago

Who the hell are you talking about? The Kirby's?

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[–] Li-1 10 years ago

Leoni was annoying, but I thought Macy brought the film enough laughs to make his character worth it.

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[–] nakedgirl 10 years ago

he's always funny

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[–] EpsilonX 10 years ago

I never really had a problem with the dad, but the mom was TERRIBLE

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[–] alisotom 10 years ago

PLEASE!!!!! would something eat the mom ASAP???

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[–] FourthYear 10 years ago

I think the concept of a guy and his ex devising a way to get to the island under fake guise was good enough - if your kid ended up missing, you'd do whatever you could to get the help to find him.

That being said, their behavior was very distracting. The utter stupidity of shouting constantly when you know there are apex predators around is fairly idiotic, and the "let's go home bit" was pretty dumb. I mean... she just saw her boyfriend dead in a tree like 48 hours ago. There's an aphrodysiac...

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[–] germanPerez2 10 years ago

Tea Leoni character was one of the worst annoying character in movie history, everytime she was on screen, i was praying to hammond for some almighty raptor to do some justice and slaught that bitch up!

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[–] Sweet_Serial_Killer 10 years ago

Her character is THE WORST! I would have loved for her to have gotten eaten around the time she's using the megaphone to scream her son's name. Instead, someone else had to die for her stupidity. The whole movie is based around stupid people making stupid, selfish decisions.

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[–] Petals121 10 years ago

How is that any different from Malcolm and his team yelling sarah's name in The Lost World?

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[–] WhoopsieThree-D 10 years ago

How is that any different from Malcolm and his team yelling sarah's name in The Lost World?

They did. However, when Malcolm and company heard and saw the Stegosauruses, they had the good sense to stop moving and quiet down. Amanda Kirby constantly pressed her luck by shouting every ten seconds and blowing off everything Dr. Grant said.

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[–] Petals121 10 years ago

No she didn't. She yelled in the beginning (which brought the spino) and then again a little later on but stopped as soon as Grant (and her husband) told her to.

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[–] Tsavo 9 years ago

Then both she and her husband started yelling again later, on no less than three occasions in this film do they tell obnoxiously.

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[–] seapoppyca 10 years ago

Almost too kind for them. The Kirbys were nothing but a pair of Darwin Awards waiting to happen.

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[–] Fletcherj119 10 years ago

At least Grant belted Kirby, but too bad he didn't follow up on the Mrs.

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