The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Just WHAT the hell were they thinking?

OK, I've seen the flick once, so if I'm not recalling something correctly, I'm sure someone will fill me in.

In the meantime, someone explain the following to me:

  • As mentioned before, the birthing facilities were supposedly on the second island. Since we saw facilities on the first island, then why the second? (Other than the typical Hollywood convenience.)
  • The whole trip to the island and not once did the whiny brat make herself known to the group and dear old dad. How?
  • The research motor home has an utterly convenient full sheet of glass covering the caboose end of the last home. Why?
  • How on Earth is it possible for the two motor homes to fall around the three "heroes" without scraping anybody off the rope as it plummets?
  • While trapped under the waterfall, a paleotologist has a snake go into his clothing which promptly causes him to run out to the gaping jaws of a T Rex. What? Stripping off his clothes right then and there was too humiliating versus death by chomping?
  • The original island is some distance from Costa Rica and this second island is close to the first. That puts them in the Atlantic Ocean. And yet they go to San Diego, which is on the Pacific Ocean. Huh? Did the boat take the Panama Canal or go round the Horn? (The movie implied it was one quick quick trip.)
  • Why was everyone dead on the boat? Many passages and rooms would be too small for the big T-Rex to reach. Many people handled the baby T with no prob, so it couldn't've done all the carnage--like the severed hand found at the wheel on the ship's bridge. Huh? How could that have happened? (Other than the miracle of sloppy script writing.)
  • How can a T Rex go thru neighborhoods without a cadre of cops and SWATs hot on its (considerable) tail?
  • How can the Imgen Guy be so stupid as to not hear the 5-ton T Rex behind him as he's attempting to capture the baby T Rex?

    But hey, other than these points, the screenplay is perfect.

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