The Lost World as a followup to Jurassic Park

[Madner Kami]

Thanks for both the link and the write-up. What I find funny is, that you just clearified a few things I noticed back in the day and never thought again about until now. For one, the action figures to the movie had descriptions on their packaging and I still vividly remember the write-up of Malcolm's: "Legs maimed by raptors.", as well as some happenings in the original Jurassic Park game from Ocean that felt completely random and entirely disconnected from the movie (the aviary, as well as dungeon crawling in an FPS mode through tunnels in order to restore control).

Fuck this brings back some nice memories about how hard it was to get that game running at all on my first computer, a 386SX with 2MB of RAM and a 100MB HDD and how I learned through that experience, to tailor fit autoexec.bat and config.sys in order to get the maximum amount of free memory to run some games. I also only beat it once. I should go back and replay it... somehow.

Thank you!

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Yeah everything mentioned in that first paragraph was in the game. The raptors nest was what I wondered about the most.

[abki]

Fancy that, up to now I hadn't even been aware of the Ocean video game.

Oddly enough though, if my memory serves although Malcolm did hurt his leg in the book I am pretty certain that it was during the T-Rex attack on the electric touring cars; the raptors had nothing to do with it. I guess some things will remain mysteries ?

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Fancy that, up to now I hadn't even been aware of the Ocean video game.

It was a pretty low-key game. The Genesis version was more well received, I know that.

[ORCACommander]

to put it simply, Chriton is a massive technophobe, Ian Malcom is an author insert character and the Book is his soap box

[Meushell]

So far so good, but the movie also now invents Jon Hammond's involvement, that the evil corp wants to actually abduct dinosaurs to create a zoo, the absurd hunting safari and the TRex getting to the mainland. In essence I'd say, that almost all the more stupid moments of the movie are completely based off things not happening in the book.

It’s been a long time since I read the book, so I don’t remember what was different. I have to admit though, the great hunter guy is the only character in the movie that I don’t find annoying. (Aside from the T-Rexes, of course.) He’s not normally a character I would like. Everyone else just becomes more annoying every time I watch the movie. Even the raptors because they suddenly become the three stooges when fighting the main characters.