Friday, 9 May 2025

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Film): Critique 2/3

Unfortunately, there were many problems. These were: ship covered in body parts; t-rex escaped the ship; territorial dinosaurs; and legume-eating dinosaurs.

 

*****SPOILERS*****



Ship: Covered in Body Parts

 

There are body parts all over the ship that brought the t-rex to America. What caused this? The t-rex wouldn’t have been able to escape without the deaths on the ships, meaning the film’s finale couldn’t have happened otherwise. Hence, if the cause isn’t sensible, the film’s finale is unfeasible.

            The detached arm pressing the button opening the access hatch looked exactly like the detached arm in the first film. That was done by raptors so maybe this was caused by raptors, too. However, if there were stowaways, why didn’t they have a part during the finale? The raptors would need to feed and they would be seen so they wouldn’t go unnoticed, so why weren’t they mentioned on the news? So this option isn’t feasible.
The adult t-rex couldn’t come out before the hatch was opened, and the guy opening the hatch already had his body eaten before the hatch opened. Thus the t-rex isn’t responsible for the deaths, either.
The fact that the ship hit where it was meant to dock meant that the murder happened very recently to the crash. There wouldn’t have been enough time between the deaths and the crash for the baby t-rex to be unloaded from the ship. (The baby t-rex had been unloaded beforehand because it was in a warehouse which Malcolm/Sarah sped towards.) Hence, if the baby t-rex was unloaded before the deaths, the baby t-rex didn’t cause the deaths, either.
So, it’s clear that the strewn body parts of the crew have no clear perpetrator.


Ship: T-rex Escaped

 

Now, the t-rex was in a steel cage before it was on the ship. When it escaped the ship, it was obviously not in the cage. So what happened in between, and why?

Maybe they let it out of the cage when it was on the ship. Surely no-one would think that was safe? Even if lions and elephants are tranquilised for transport, they’re still caged for safety! For something as dangerous and unknown as a t-rex, security and safety would be an even more important consideration.
The only other possibility was that the t-rex was in the steel cage on the boat and it broke free from the cage. Honestly, this cannot be a feasible possibility. Not only is it a hard metal but the cage was designed to hold the t-rex specifically, meaning they would have accounted for the t-rex’s strength. Not to mention the cage keeps it lying down so it can’t stand up (a necessity for using its full strength).
So, was the t-rex kept in the cage or not? neither option is feasible. As such, this is another major issue concerning the film’s finale.
 
 

Dinosaurs: Territorial

 

Hammond told Malcolm that the dinosaurs were ‘fiercely territorial with different dinosaurs on different parts of the island’. Yet the herbivores all moved together on the game trail: many dinosaurs on one part of the island.

Maybe it’s just the carnivores that a territorial? However, when Malcolm is shown pictures of the territorial dinosaurs by Hammond, one of them was a pachy. Which is a herbivore. It showed no territorial behaviour towards the other dinosaurs on the game trail, so it’s clearly can’t be an exception to the ‘carnivore only’ thought.
Maybe the herbivores are territorial, but as the hunters went through several territories, it drove all the species onwards and hence mixed them together? Yet when the hunters first encounter the dinosaurs, they are already mixed somewhat. Yes, different species are added along the way. However, the distance we see the hunters travel was too short to have gone through several territories (considering the size of the dinosaurs, the size of their territories would be massive). So the hunting doesn’t explain why the herbivores weren’t acting territorially.
 
 

Dinosaurs: Legume-eating

 

Sarah says all the flourishing dinosaurs are the ones eating legumes. How are there enough legumes to feed all these massive dinosaurs? If legumes were that abundant, the audience would have seen at least one legume species. We didn’t. So this was a massive oversight.

 

Legumes grow near the ground. Most sauropods hold their necks in the air. So their main food source being the opposite place they’ve evolved to eat from would be bad for their posture.

Yes, giraffes bend to the ground, but they do it rarely precisely because it’s a problem. Sauropods, being bigger than giraffes, would find it more difficult, especially if they have to do it regularly.
Bad posture causes pain, making an animal a target. A suffering animal can’t be labelled as ‘flourishing’. Despite this, the sauropods seem to be doing just as well as the other dinosaurs. (Yes, there are fewer sauropods than other dinosaurs, but smaller species in all animal groups outnumber large species. Hence the sauropod population isn’t an indication of not-flourishing.)
Something doesn’t add up.

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