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Re: Lost World -SPOILER-



>Here's some thoughts on The Lost World
 My only real beef with the movie was that Sarah
>Harding, the only paleontologist among the major characters, was a
>complete idiot (come to think of it, Burke was none too sharp, either).
>Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but outside of the La Femme
>Lindstradt bit at the end, the only things she did in the movie were
>
>1)  Preach about noninterference right after a disastrous
>interference (perhaps she was a sudden convert).
>
>2)  Quote statistics about olfactory capacity while wearing a
>blood-stained jacket.
>
>3)  Describe at length the mother T. rex's intentions about five
>minutes after Malcolm summed it all up with "Momma's very angry."

I think that these really egregious errors were intentional.  They were
Spielberg's way of paying cinematic homage to all the stupid humans in
monster movies of yore.  Some less obvious errors, like carrying rifles
muzzle end up in a driving rainstorm, may have been genuine slipups.

bruce



        "Dammit, Philbert; what kind of a lepidopterist are you?  For god's 
sake,
man; stand up to them!"