Vodstok
04-20-2004, 07:47 AM
Cheeba mentioned JP4 in another thread (in tv) so i figured i would open this up
Anyone else read both books AND see the movies?
I liked JP 1, and i can tolerate Lost world, but i have some major gripes about it.
#1, Julianne Moore could not have possibly been a worse choice for Sarah Harding. that character was my favorite in the book. She was short, stocky, brown haired, muscular, and most of all, SMART. In the movie she is "Independant", whiah, as usual in movies, means she is an idiot who takes stupid risks for no other reason than to show the audience she is "strong" and doesnt have to listen to a man....
I like strong women, REAL strong women. Not pig-headed morons.
Plus, I hated how they condensed both kids from the book into one little black girl, and guess what? She is malcom's kid! Yay!
Blech. That character was the absolute WORST case of flagrant pc-ism i have seen in a movie.
"Awww, dont we have a cute little family, a white woman, a jewish dad and a black girl". Why didnt they have a hispanic granpa and asian grandma? Dont take this as racism, it very much isnt. Had they been more subtle about it, i would have been okay with it. What they did was just pathetic.
The book was AWESOME, the movie just so-so. I realise they had to basically live with changes made in the first movie (like dodgeson, who was the antagonist inn the second book, but such a minor part of the first movie, noone who know who the hell he was), but they went a tad too far.
At any rate, I always loved these movies, because i have been a dinosaur obsessed freak since i was a kid. i even contemplated going to school to become a paleontologist, but decided i wanted a job i could make money with.
Anyone else read both books AND see the movies?
I liked JP 1, and i can tolerate Lost world, but i have some major gripes about it.
#1, Julianne Moore could not have possibly been a worse choice for Sarah Harding. that character was my favorite in the book. She was short, stocky, brown haired, muscular, and most of all, SMART. In the movie she is "Independant", whiah, as usual in movies, means she is an idiot who takes stupid risks for no other reason than to show the audience she is "strong" and doesnt have to listen to a man....
I like strong women, REAL strong women. Not pig-headed morons.
Plus, I hated how they condensed both kids from the book into one little black girl, and guess what? She is malcom's kid! Yay!
Blech. That character was the absolute WORST case of flagrant pc-ism i have seen in a movie.
"Awww, dont we have a cute little family, a white woman, a jewish dad and a black girl". Why didnt they have a hispanic granpa and asian grandma? Dont take this as racism, it very much isnt. Had they been more subtle about it, i would have been okay with it. What they did was just pathetic.
The book was AWESOME, the movie just so-so. I realise they had to basically live with changes made in the first movie (like dodgeson, who was the antagonist inn the second book, but such a minor part of the first movie, noone who know who the hell he was), but they went a tad too far.
At any rate, I always loved these movies, because i have been a dinosaur obsessed freak since i was a kid. i even contemplated going to school to become a paleontologist, but decided i wanted a job i could make money with.