Jurassic Park movie corrections

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In the scene at the badlands when Hammond's chopper has landed and Grant goes to the trailer and opens the door, if you watch the hinges of the door, they're on one side then it cuts to the inside of the trailer and the hinges are on the other side. See more...

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In the scene where the grandchildren and Grant are crawling above the drop-down ceiling to flee from the raptors, the raptors at one point have "squares" of light shining on them. If you look closely at this light, these "squares" of light are not really squares, but the letters A T C G, the DNA sequence abbreviations. See more...

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Jurassic Park (1993) - 129 corrections

Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough, Sam Neill, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller

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In the scene where Hammond is sitting at the long table and eating ice cream, Ellie comes in and sits at the opposite end. All of the ice cream barrels are near him. When a scene cuts to Ellie, there is an ice cream container near her and towards the end of the scene she gets some ice cream. At the end of the scene, the shot shows both of them and the table and there is no ice cream within Ellie's reach. [There is never a container near Ellie. The closest one is a small container sitting about halfway down the table from her. She simply reaches across the table for the spoon when it comes time for her to eat some.]

Corrected by JC Fernandez Time

When the tour trucks enter the T-Rex paddock, the electrified fence is missing an entire section, from the tunnel they exit to the first section of fence. [The fence is only needed in the areas where the animals might escape its paddock. But this end of the paddock also has a huge concrete wall (the one we see Grant and the kids climb down to escape the T-Rex) that the T-Rex could never scale, so the fencing is unnecessary.]

Corrected by JC Fernandez

The dilophosaurus is far too small; in reality they stood at about two metres tall. [Ax explained before, discrepancies between real-world dinosaurs and their JP counterpart can be due to genetic engineering (or faults therein), or that the current knowledge on dinosaurs is faulty. In addition, the dilophosaurs in the movie might not be fully grown, the environment or diet might have stunted their growth, or any other explanation.]

Corrected by Twotall

When Dennis gets back in the car after the dilophosaurus spat at him, he turns to see the dinosaur in the car with him. But how did it get in? The door was closed. [The dilophosaurus entered through the back of the jeep which was just covered by a loose fitting tarp.]

Corrected by SoylentPurple

Ellie finds the upturned car that Timmy had been stuck in, but how did she get down there? It's down an almost vertical ledge. Not only that but she got from the bottom to the top incredibly quickly. [Dr. Grant, Tim and Lex only went over the ledge beacuse they were forced to. They never show Ellie descending to the bottom; we don't know how long it took her or how she did it. For all we know there was a staircase off camera.]

Corrected by BocaDavie

The brachiosaurus is shown to be chewing, but they didn't chew, they swallowed food whole. Also when Dr. Grant and the kids are in the tree, the brachiosaur's head is larger than it should be. [There are lots of discrepancies between the JP dinosaurs and modern paleontological studies of dinosaurs. Part of it can be attributed to genetic manipulation, and part of it is attributed to a possibly false understanding of dinosaurs (since it's entirely based on an ever-changing interpretation of the limited fossil record). For instance, according to the film, no one knew dilophosauruses were venomous until JP bred them. Since there are no actual living dinosaurs to dispute the movie's portrayal of their behavior and appearance, it's not a mistake, so long as it remains consistent within the fictional world the movie creates.]

Corrected by JC Fernandez

At the beginning of the film we are shown an amber mine in the Dominican Republic. This amber is only 45 million years old, Hammond would never bother buying the amber from there as dinosaurs disappeared from the fossil record 65 million years ago. [Unless there is some evidence to back up your claim there is nothing to say he wouldn't buy the mine.]

Corrected by Lummie

When the insurance man runs into the bathroom, and is eaten by the T-Rex, why would they have bathrooms on an automated car tour where you're not supposed to open the doors anyway? Even if it were an emergency staff bathroom, it probably wouldn't have multiple stalls. [Remember, "probably" dosen't qualify as a movie mistake. It must have taken dozens of workers to construct the paddock; a double-stall toilet would be logical. Since they decided to make it a permanent toilet (instead of a porta-potty) it would make sense to leave it there for maintenance workers and park employees.]

Corrected by BocaDavie

Doctor Malcolm never gets out of the helicopter when it first lands on the island. [We see Malcolm throughout the rest of the movie, so clearly he got off the helicopter. Lots of things happen offscreen, including the characters getting *in* the helicopter in the first place.]

Corrected by JC Fernandez

In the beginning, the subtitles say "Isla Nublar. 120 miles off the coast of Costa Rica." However, the correct spelling of the island is Isla Nubar. [Nope, it's the (fictional) island Isla Nublar, both in the book and film. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_Nublar.]

Corrected by Twotall

In the last scene, the helicopter is shown out at sea, yet the intercuts of the interior show a mountainous green background close by. [The exterior shot of the helicopter leads straight to the end credits of the film and fade to black; there are no intercuts to the interior. The previous shots of the interior show trees on the right side of the helicopter while Grant sees the birds flying over the ocean from the leftside windows, indicating that the helicopter is flying along the coast of the island. We cannot see the island in the exterior shot because the shot is from the perspective of the island (from the helicopter's right side).]

Corrected by JC Fernandez

During the T-rex attack scene, it comes through the now non-electrified fence to get to the Ford Explorers. However when the T-Rex is pushing the Explorer over the wall, there is now a 50+ foot dropoff it would have had to climb. [Submitted and listed. Its currently ranked as the second highest mistake for the movie.]

Corrected by Lummie

In the scene at the badlands, when Hammond's chopper has landed and Grant goes to the trailer and opens the door, the trailer looks to be around 8 feet (three meters) wide. But switch to an interior shot and it is suddenly more like 30 feet (ten meters) wide. [The width of the inside of the trailer is hardly the length of the brachiosaur's neck (30 ft).]

Corrected by JC Fernandez

In the scene where they are "rebooting" the computer system, Lex states "I know this, it's a UNIX system." The scene then cuts to a shot of the interface which is a 3D "flyover" interface. There are, at this time, no commercial UNIX systems that employ such an interface, so there was nothing on the screen to let her know what operating system that goofy interface (probably written by Nedry) was attached to. [We can't see the screen when she delivers the line, so there may have been something on the screen that identified it for her. In any case, Lex is a self-professed hacker; it's not beyond the realm of possibility that she had at some point encountered this exact system (or a similar system) during a previous visit to her grandfather.]

Corrected by JC Fernandez

If you listen carefully, you can hear some common Costa Rican birds, including a keel-billed toucan and a three-wattled bellbird. Since it was filmed in Hawaii, they must have taken the time to add a soundtrack of Costa Rican birds. Unfortunately, these birds would not likely be found on an island that far off the coast. The bellbird in particular occurs only at mid-elevations in the Costa Rican mountains. These birds are not on Cocos Island, 340 miles off the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Cocos is considered the inspiration for the fictitious island in the movie. Since Cocos is uninhabited, and visits are strictly restricted, a soundtrack from there would have been extremely difficult to get. The fact that they went so far as to add a Costa Rican soundtrack is pretty impressive. ["Not likely" doesn't preclude the possibility that it occured naturally. In any case, Hammond may have shipped birds to the island.]

Corrected by JC Fernandez

Early in the movie, in the scene where the goat is presented to try and attract the T-Rex, Lex claims to be a vegetarian. Yet later in the movie, Lex is eating jelly, which contains geletin, an animal derived product, which is unsuitable for vegetarians and vegans. [Character mistake or decision - she either didn't know, or was hungry enough not to care.]

Corrected by Twotall

During the "Introduction Ride" when the group sees the scientists working inside the lab (right after the animated film is shown) Martin Ferrero, the ill-fated lawyer who later gets eaten, asks if the scientists are "Auto-Erotica". John Hammond replies that they are real people, that no animatronics are used. "Auto-Erotica" actually means to solo-masturbate. [How is that trivia? There is no connection to that statement to anything else in the film and observations are not trivia.]

Corrected by Lummie

The Dilophosaurus spits on Nedry's chest and he slaps it with his hand. Why does his hand not get burned like his chest supposedly was? [Watch the scene again. Nedry's chest was not burned. He reacts in disgust to being spit on the chest and body, not pain. The dilophosaurus saliva burns the eyes, not the skin, and Nedry is physically fine until he is hit in the face.]

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In the helicopter when they are leaving the island, Timmy is sleeping on Dr. Grant. In the first shot we see that Grant's hand is underneath Timmy's head. The camera moves to Ellie and then back to Grant where we see that Grant's arm is around Timmy. He would not have been able to move it so quickly without waking Timmy up. [At no point is Dr. Grant's hand under Timmy's head, he does not move his arm.]

Corrected by Oliver Hunter Time

Near the end, as Ellie falls off the dinosaur's bones, she is all covered with dirt, but when she is in the helicopter, she is clean. [Ellie's shirt is not clean: it is stained with dirt and blood in both scenes.]

Corrected by Oliver Hunter Time

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