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A commander of a vessel does not have the power to change the pre-determined course set out for the pre-determined assignment unless an order has been issue from way higher level of the government (in this case the president).
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Um...why do you think ships have commanders?
Anyway, what the heck is the problem? Oh no, some military units performed a rescue operation. My god, such a thing is utterly unprecidented in the history of the world!
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I think there's plenty of precedent for any military to go do a rescue operation if they're in the vicinty, pre-determined destinations or not (to think of it, they'd have to have one though, what else would they be doing, just touring the seas as the currents took them? ;p).
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They shouldn't have been on the island in the first place. They went to save their son. Now all we had to do was send in some troops and Jesse Jackson.
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"to think of it, they'd have to have one though, what else would they be doing, just touring the seas as the currents took them? ;p)."
Uh...its called a patrol...
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But they'd have a perimeter to patrol right? They don't just wander around listlessly.
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if I were in charge of the Navy (and god willing someday I will be ), I would absolutely make sure I had a coupla megatons worth of firepower patrolling the dinosaur islands.
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They should've dropped Robert Duvall on the island! He would've cleaned them out!
Scene from JP III:Redux Duvall(as Colonel Kilgore): I love the smell of napalm in the morning. (Cut to a shot of planes nuking a raptor nest) Duvall: The smell of victory!
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Just saw it, why did Sam Neill call the spinosaur something else, a much longer name? It ended with "aeghyptis" or something...
The "superpredator" duel was the best scene in the movie, IMO. I hate how they PG-13'd all the human-deaths, like Raptors really would snap a fallen humans neck instead of just biting his throat out. In JP-I they bit Samuel L. Jackson's arm off, damnit! And paraded around with it, only to place it on Laura Dern's shoulder, a very neat gesture.
That annoying wife really filled the crybaby role of that previous, flashlight-waving little girl in the first movie, oh how I wanted her devoured!!
And another spineless character by William H. Macy. God he's pathetic!
But explain this to me. Why in the hell did the para-gliding guy, who'd videofilmed both himself and the "MacGyver"-kid hanging in the tree, still hang in the tree after eight weeks, dead? He'd clearly been alive and well when releasing the boy from the parachute-harness, then he should've released himself and gotten underway. Didn't the boy try to help him get down at all?
And I'd really expected the soldiers in the end to mow a bunch of attacking dino's down like WWI trenchfighting, damn pussies for not including that. Those amphibian ships had the coolest twin-barrel cannons on the nose.
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In fact, why was the guy hanging in the tree with all the hungry dinosaurs roaming around in a movie that shouldn't even have been made?
I do hope that the army vs. dinosaurs thing will happen in Jurassic Park 4, because that's the only thing I ever want to see involving dinosaurs in movies again. Dawn of the Dead, but with dinosaurs. Dawn of the Dinos. You know? End of the Sapien Epoch, or what have you.
Especially sense that dragon movie of the summer failed me so horribly. I have this poster with a f-15 attacking a dragon that so needs to be made into a movie scene that it hurts.
Not much, but it does hurt.
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quote: Originally posted by Nimpim: Just saw it, why did Sam Neill call the spinosaur something else, a much longer name? It ended with "aeghyptis" or something...
Full scientific name of the critter, genus and species. Just like Tyrannosaurus rex. I always thought he was testing his student, trying to see what he knew.
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dude! they could make it just like those cards i collected as a kid! dinos killing people brutally, but every once in a while grandma has a rocket launcer! my god these movies have gotten bad.
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my god these movies have gotten bad.
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