Its hard to believe that this movie is almost 20 years old, however I honestly noticed it throughout. The animatronics and cgi effects were still impressive, however everything else about the movie felt like it was 20 years old.
A curious thing thing occurred to me, but if you took the premise of this story and transported it 20 years to 2013 would the same or a similar outcome have occurred? In looking at the failings of the park in 93, many of the reasons things went wrong would be very unlikely to have happened in a more modern era. The parks electrical fencing system failing would most likely not have happened today. Even so far as to say that only 1 programmer was in charge of debugging and maintaining the backbone of a multi-million dollar investment. There would have been backup systems for the backup systems.
And with the more recent implementation of cloud computing and data storage. Everything could have, in the event of catastrophic system failure, been run remotely from Antarctica if need be. So the premise of one person being the backbone of this entire system seems ridiculous today.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Jurassic Park: Ah, Ah, Ahh.
When I was really young -- either in Kindergarten or First Grade -- we had a day in class devoted to dinosaurs. Everybody had their favorites. Mine was the big scary T. Rex. The tyrant lizard. King of the dinosaurs. Fearer of nothing. Devourer of everything. ROAR.
The guest speaker (or was it a video? Did we even have videos back then?) told us about the different kinds of dinosaurs and what they could do. Brontosauruses had longs necks and could eat the tops of trees. Triceratops ate plants lower to the ground. And the Tyrannosaurus... the TYRANNOSAURUS REX... well, that jerk was just a scavenger, eating up things that were already dead or dying.
This turned my world upside-down. The King, no more ferocious than a lazy vulture. How disappointing.
At the end of it all we were to name our favorite dinosaur and why. To my credit I stuck with the T. Rex. "Even though they were just scavengers?" the teacher asked, daring me to pick something nicer or, at the very least, something more dignified. "Yep," I said. Of course I couldn't give a clear reason why anymore. I guess he was still pretty mean looking. I may have mentioned his teeth. I probably mentioned his wussy forearms. I don't know. I stammered about until they moved on to somebody else.
The guest speaker (or was it a video? Did we even have videos back then?) told us about the different kinds of dinosaurs and what they could do. Brontosauruses had longs necks and could eat the tops of trees. Triceratops ate plants lower to the ground. And the Tyrannosaurus... the TYRANNOSAURUS REX... well, that jerk was just a scavenger, eating up things that were already dead or dying.
This turned my world upside-down. The King, no more ferocious than a lazy vulture. How disappointing.
At the end of it all we were to name our favorite dinosaur and why. To my credit I stuck with the T. Rex. "Even though they were just scavengers?" the teacher asked, daring me to pick something nicer or, at the very least, something more dignified. "Yep," I said. Of course I couldn't give a clear reason why anymore. I guess he was still pretty mean looking. I may have mentioned his teeth. I probably mentioned his wussy forearms. I don't know. I stammered about until they moved on to somebody else.
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