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Jul 26, 2006 10:21:01 GMT -5
Post by buttonpresser4815 on Jul 26, 2006 10:21:01 GMT -5
Paleontologist Alan Grant is very famous for his work, as well his assistant, a female paleobotanist, and Ian Macolm, not at all related to his work but a famous mathmetician. All three of them are called on an all expense payed trip to a new tourist attraction called Jurassic Park, an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A few days prior to this, several accidents with reptiles occur on the mainland. They go there and realize its eerily zoo-like qualiy, and then it is revealed that the dinosaurs are neing brought back to life and placed in pens there. THey are taken on a tour, but they are help up during s storm, in which the power girds go offline, allowing all the dinosaurs, the T-Rexs, teh Raptors, to roam freely across the island. The story mainly entails Alan Grants journey across the island with two young children, the other two made it two the main building. With elements of suspense, surprise, and sheer brilliance, it is surely one of Michael Crichton's best.
9.75/10
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Jul 27, 2006 22:19:37 GMT -5
Post by Jarlaxle on Jul 27, 2006 22:19:37 GMT -5
I sould see that movie one day, it sounds good.
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Jul 28, 2006 9:39:08 GMT -5
Post by buttonpresser4815 on Jul 28, 2006 9:39:08 GMT -5
I haven't seen the whole movie, only part of the beginning and part of the middle.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Aug 4, 2006 1:58:12 GMT -5
But the book basically filled in the gaps I imagine.
Eight Below I was watching this movie at my friends because there was little else to do despite the fact that it was Disney. Boy did it suck! It was so boring! Half the time all they did was tape a bunch of dogs walk around in Antarctica! And the rest of the time it seemed that the characters were getting really emotional unnaturally fast and when something remotly exciting happens, it just makes a very unnatural transition to the end of the incident. Half the time I was just drifting away from the movie and thinking of something different and I could have fallen asleep if I saw this in theaters! It's worth no more than a 4/10.
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Post by buttonpresser4815 on Aug 4, 2006 9:07:57 GMT -5
I saw previews for that and I saw the dogs facing what looked like a dinosaur and im like wtf! but then my friend saw it and said it was a leapoard seal.
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Aug 4, 2006 23:28:01 GMT -5
Post by Jarlaxle on Aug 4, 2006 23:28:01 GMT -5
Yes it was a seal, and boy was that fight fake! The seal was too obviously animated, and the ending of the fight was so abrupt!!
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Aug 21, 2006 18:23:18 GMT -5
Post by buttonpresser4815 on Aug 21, 2006 18:23:18 GMT -5
Let us get back to the reviews portion of this topic.
Drizzt do you have one of the Vampyre by Mary Shelley's competitor?
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Aug 23, 2006 0:25:44 GMT -5
Post by Jarlaxle on Aug 23, 2006 0:25:44 GMT -5
(We were never off of the reviews topic, I like to go further into depth after a review is made. Just plain reviews wouldn't make much of a topic.)
I don't but I have read the review you gave me. It sounds like a good read to me, but I would rather read it before I give it a review.
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Aug 23, 2006 15:20:22 GMT -5
Post by buttonpresser4815 on Aug 23, 2006 15:20:22 GMT -5
Well then i gues ill review:
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
A stunningly vivid novel, providing a commentary on evolution. It details the arrival of one man on a strange island, filled with grotesque human-animal hybrids, created by Dr. Moreau. They roam the island freely, yet not all of them are obedient to their creator. Most of them obey a code of law, but there are those that defy there master, and who wish to kill him. Full of Well's traditional prophetic nature, in this case of genetic engineering, it has adventure, surprise, and mystique.
8.5/10.
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Aug 24, 2006 21:17:17 GMT -5
Post by Jarlaxle on Aug 24, 2006 21:17:17 GMT -5
Yet another true prediction by H.G. Wells. That too has great applications, for food anyway, animals and humans are still a controversial issue.
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Aug 24, 2006 21:20:42 GMT -5
Post by buttonpresser4815 on Aug 24, 2006 21:20:42 GMT -5
He used vivisection in that though, he removed parts from humans or other animals and attatched them too other animals, and the flesh adjusted. The Food of the Gods and How it came to Earth is very interesting. Its about feeding a food that makes things grow to chickens, but other things eat it too and go around and kill everything.
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Aug 24, 2006 21:27:13 GMT -5
Post by Jarlaxle on Aug 24, 2006 21:27:13 GMT -5
That would a dangerous thing for scientists to look into. So basically in the book the good Dr. is playing God. Attatching forien parts to other animals, an interesting idea, but it's likely that their bodies would reject that part unless it served a purpose.
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Aug 25, 2006 15:39:53 GMT -5
Post by buttonpresser4815 on Aug 25, 2006 15:39:53 GMT -5
Well, what he would so is remove the arm of a chimp and attach the arm of a, let's say ape.
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Aug 25, 2006 20:19:55 GMT -5
Post by evilcrash9 on Aug 25, 2006 20:19:55 GMT -5
creepy idea.....
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Aug 25, 2006 21:32:50 GMT -5
Post by buttonpresser4815 on Aug 25, 2006 21:32:50 GMT -5
Its called vivisection. Wiki it and you'll see the controversy
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