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That's because Spielberg's movie has summarized Crichton's book, so it had plenty of material from which to draw details. While I have greatly enjoyed the visu
by adrian_b 1y ago
That's because Spielberg's movie has summarized Crichton's book, so it had plenty of material from which to draw details.
While I have greatly enjoyed the visual effects of Jurassic Park, seeing it for the first time has also greatly disappointed me, because in my opinion the movie script has been much, much worse than the book that I had read some years before that.
In the book, the catastrophe that happened at Jurassic Park had been convincingly presented as an unavoidable consequence of the complexity of the project, arguing thus that there are limits for what humans can create and control.
On the other hand, in the movie the main idea of the book has vanished. There was some mumbo jumbo about "chaos theory", but that was just ridiculous. Instead of that, the catastrophe of Jurassic Park was presented as a consequence of stupidity, incompetence and bad luck.
Perhaps those are more realistic reasons for causing the failure of something like Jurassic Park, but this change has separated completely the movie from the book that inspired it, because it has made the catastrophe look like an accident that should have been easy to avoid, dismissing silently the intended warning message of the book.
- jfengel 1y agoSadly, that is often a consequence of trying to turn a novel into a three hour (or less) film. Since then we're seeing a lot more studios willing to take a chance on a TV series of perhaps a dozen hours, which seems to map better into a novel. Roughly that's a chapter or two per hour. Perhaps a Jurassic Park TV show reboot would do better than an increasingly hokey set of sequels.
- Loughla 1y agoWe also have the mix of both where they make an amazing show based on novels then ruin the entire world with terrible writing when the source material runs dry. Glares at Game of Thrones
- jmb99 1y agoGoT still blows me away. You had about as close to an infinite budget as you can get in television, access to some of the best writers on the planet, as well as general guidance from Martin, and yet somehow you end up with season 8 (and 7, and to a lesser extent 6). It wouldn’t surprise me if Winds of Winter never gets published due in part to the TV series’ writing, which is to me the biggest loss.
- iamsaitam 1y agoI think the hate that the last seasons get are mainly due to people's expectations of how the several arcs should "wrap up". I have yet to read any compelling argument or point of view why the last seasons were terrible. They were rushed, but that doesn't equate to bad.
- rkomorn 1y agoFor me, it was the appearance of plot armor (starting with the end of season 5) that ruined the show. Up to that point, you had a sense that anyone could die, no matter how important. Seasons 6+ are full of meh tropes like last-second reversals, people popping out of water when they evidently should've drowned, the impossibly bullshit "blind girl kills trained assassin" moment, the WWE style end of the walkers, etc. To me, that's just bad. Not rushed.
- auntienomen 1y agoYeah, it was bad. And then they really betrayed the story by trying to graft a happy ending on. The only ending that makes any sense is "Everyone dies, the bad guys win, the end". It's right there in the story's motto: Winter is coming.
- aredox 1y ago>I have yet to read any compelling argument or point of view why the last seasons were terrible. https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/the-rea... https://archive.ph/KLoAq https://archive.ph/KLoAq https://archive.ph/g2mZJ https://archive.ph/g2mZJ The worst, I think, is how they treated the secondary characters like Grey Worm and Missandei. Or Jon Snow calmly taking his boat to exile in the middle of Unsullied and Dothraki - he just killed their Queen and Liberation figure. https://www.cbr.com/game-of-thrones-failed-unsullied-explained/ https://www.cbr.com/game-of-thrones-failed-unsullied-explain...
- triceratops 1y ago> mainly due to people's expectations of how the several arcs should "wrap up". Well...yeah? The "how" is the very essence of good writing. "Frodo walked to Mount Doom and destroyed the ring" is one way to write Lord of the Rings. But no one would call it good writing. The journey is just as important as the destination. > I have yet to read any compelling argument or point of view why the last seasons were terrible. Logic, timing, characterization, pacing, tone, faithfulness to the source material or to earlier seasons. Characters doing dumb shit just because the story needs to get to a certain place. I didn't need to read anyone's arguments to know the last seasons were terrible. I have eyes and ears.
- mavhc 1y agoStill the best ending that's ever going to be written
- IAmBroom 1y agoI see what you did there.
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- crooked-v 1y agoIt's a result of greed and arrogance in the book. It's even called out with the framing that has Hammond claiming he's 'spared no expense' to the investors, even as Nedry's whole subplot kicks off because Nedry's already the low bidder and Hammond's threatened to sue him into bankruptcy if he doesn't do extra work for free.