John Hammond is so unrealistic

"My theme park is not just for the super rich. Everyone in the world will be able to see these attractions."

Yeah, not likely John. You're going to make it economically feasible for the average Joe to come to an island 53 miles off the coast of Costa Rica that is accessible by helicopter only? Good luck making that trip affordable.

Not to mention sheer capacity issues of the park. A average theme park can turn a healthy profit with a admission of $50 or so because they see an average of 1,000+ customers PER DAY. How are you going to get all those people out to the island? Using helicopters that only carry about 6 people, that would take nearly 200 daily flights back and forth between the mainland. Hell, even if you charged $100 a day it wouldn't begin to cover the helicopter service costs alone. Not to mention the general upkeep and research costs of the park.

Of course, even if the park did have a large capacity, there's very little for the guests to do when they aren't on the tour. The museum and tour of the main facility is about the only other attraction, and guests will likely get restless waiting for their turn to take the main jeep ride (of which the flaws Malcom pointed out flawlessly. What happens when you get a bunch of angry tourists demanding their hundreds of dollars back because they didn't see a T-Rex?)

Face it John, given the extreme isolation of the park and it's likely enormous operating costs, the only economic feasible option is Gennaro's plan of "$10,000 per day." Sure, you were planning on opening the second park in San Diego, but that didn't really pan out, did it?

Face it, your original plan sucked and its no wonder InGen booted you from the head of the company.

He's a big asshole in the book who hates Tim and Lex. Though I can't really blame him, seeing as they inadvertantly are the cause of his demise.

The best thing I remember about the book is it had a whole lot more death than the film.

Better than the movie.

"Oh hey, guess what everyone? Dinosaurs exist! But we're going to leave them on a island and not bother them or study them at all because they should be left in peace and everyone is absolutely okay with that."

"Hey, Nick, what are those?"
"The bullets from that hunter guy's gun."
"The ones he was going to shoot the T-Rex with?"
"Yep."
"The T-Rex that destroyed the camp, killed about 8 guys, and drove the rest into the raptor field to their grisly deaths?"
"Yep."
"Wow! You're a hero because you place the life of an artificially engineered creature over 2 dozen of your fellow man, most of whom likely have families who will now become destitute."
"I'm a man of peace."

No, it pretty much had Tim and Lex clones. I forget the girl's name, but the boy's name was Arby and he was a computer wiz (geewillikers, what a novel idea.)

Chricton also reversed several decisions from the first book. Malcom, who died in the JP novel, is revived for TLW and the T-Rex's vision is no longer based on movement for reasons I don't quite remember.

I think it was just Spielberg showing his disdain for anyone who wasn't an eco-terrorist, which, lets face it, the heroes of TLW are.

Every single death in TLW (with the exception of the San Diego stuff) is the result of Sarah and Nick's bungling and interference - they free the dinosaurs at the hunter's camp, they bring the baby T-rex to the trailer which gets Eddie eaten, and Nick swipes Tembo's elephant gun bullets allowing dinosaurs to yet again destroy the hunter's camp.

They're actually pretty cold-blooded assholes when you think about it.

I think the books probably make mention of a second park, but not anything specific.

Speaking of the San Diego attack scene, it makes no fucking sense. How did the T-Rex, a fucking HUGE dinosaur manage to kill all of the hands on the boat, including the captain and others secure in the pilothouse? They show a hand hanging off the throttle but it's IMPOSSIBLE that the Rex could have eaten that person because it was INDOORS and there seemed to be no damage to the building at all.

There are enough errors between the first two films alone to fill up two whole trilogies of movies.

Boat crews seem to suffer mysteriously brutal, yet physically impossible deaths in the JP movie world.

Like the parasail boat crew at the beginning of JP3. They go the the cloud bank, the boat shakes a little bit, and suddenly the crew is totally gone. No screaming, no roaring, no copious amounts of blood and organs.

And made moreso mysterious by the fact that they were about 25 feet away from the shore.

Quoth Hermes "That just raises further questions!"

Heh. Coupon day.

"I have a coupon for $9,941 off admission. Does that include the helicopter ride too?"

Not to mention an equally impossible physical displacement at the same Rex paddock later in the film.

Malcom: "Oh shit, I can feel a T-Rex coming UP THE ROAD. I am in the jeep UP ON THE ROAD and I am alarmed because that means the Rex is getting closer to where I am ON THE ROAD."

*jump cut to shot of Malcom waving Ellie and Muldoon to hurry up*

Malcom: "WHOOP! Holy shit we gotta go! Good thing I used my mind powers to teleport myself and the jeep down to the bottom of the cliff where Ellie and Muldoon were! Now we'll drive back to the visitors center, but beats me how we get there, seeing as how we are now INSIDE the T-Rex paddock and not on the main road."