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Jurassic Park III (2001) - 44 corrections

Directed by Joe Johnston, starring Alessandro Nivola, Bruce A. Young, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Téa Leoni, Trevor Morgan (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller

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Entry At the beginning of the film, when the boat crew is killed, why isn't the boat itself destroyed? Yes, the top is a bit damaged but the main body of the boat is fine. A creature that could kill the whole crew in that short space of time would surely damage the rest of the boat as well. Even a modern day crocodile can easily smash a hole in the side of a small boat just using its tail. [The Pterosaurs only attack the humans for invading their territory (and in the process, they damage the flimsy roof of the boat that was sheltering a human). They were not out to destroy a boat.]
Corrected by SoylentPurple
Entry How was Ben killed? He was stuck in a tree, so the smaller dinosaurs couldn't reach him. You can see that the skeleton's legs are missing, which makes you think of a t-rex or spinosaurus, but surely that would have torn the whole body down from the tree. [He could easily have died in the tree from exposure, hunger, disease or any reason. He would start to decompose, scavengers would get to him, and this would cause his legs to drop to the ground, where they would be carried away by other animals. For instance.]
Corrected by Twotall
Entry The guys in the movie start searching giant poo for the satellite phone. Shouldn't it have been digested, even just a bit on the corners? Plus in later scenes, before it rains, the phone is perfectly clean. [If something is indigestible, it's not going to be digested, even a little bit on the corners. Sharks have been caught with intact licence plates, bottles, even scuba tanks, with no wear on them other than maybe teeth marks.]
Entry The parachute they use at the beginning of the movie says DINO-SOAR on the top, but in various scenes the lettering is gone. [The words DINO-SOAR are written on the bottom of the parachute, so that the guys from the boat can see it, but an airplane from above not. In all the shots from above there is no writing, but from the boat, when seeing the two guys or when the parachute is hanging from the tree, you can see the writing as you see the chute from below.]
Entry When the giant pterodactyl grabs Eric, it should start to lose altitude. Even a creature with a wingspan that big cannot carry 80-90 pounds or more. Also, the baby pterodactyls cannot seem to do anything but wiggle their wings feebly when Eric is dropped to them, but afterwards, they are fluttering around him. [All scientists can do is guessing how the dinosaurs might have looked like or how their muscular structure was, only the bones reflect a true image. So nobody knows how strong the petrodactyl would be. You can't tell that he couldn't have had the strength to carry Eric.]
Entry After the Kirbys reunite, the Spinosaurus comes and chases Alan and Eric until they crawl through a hole in the fence. They think they are safe until the Spino crashes through the fence. When watched in slo-mo the metal bar with spikes breaks off, before the Spino's sail hits it. [The rules of the site are clear. If you have to use slow motion or freeze frame to see it, it's not a mistake.]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
Entry When the pteranodon is in the bridge, it opens its beak to reveal teeth. 'Pteranodon Sternbergi' or 'Pteranodon Ingens' had no teeth. [Since the researchers added various DNA to the creatures, it is not unreasonable to think that it ended up with teeth.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
Entry In the scene where the boy, Eric and Dr. Grant get reunited at the large fence, over Tea Leoni's shoulder you can see something moving. At first I thought it was the Spinosaurus but the Spinosaurus comes from the opposite direction. After reviewing it a couple of times on VHS it appears to be a truck driving by. [There is no truck, it is just Billy's body swaying back and forth.]
Entry After the Spinosaurus kills the T-Rex, we see an ascending angle from the T-Rex's lifeless head up to the triumphant Spino. However, that is the ONLY part of the T-Rex there. There is no body connected to it, it's just a head lying on the ground. [It only appears to be just a head because the rest of the body is just out of frame.]
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Entry The very first scene of the movie is a plane flying by. The next shot is a guy looking at it with binoculars, and we see the reflection of the plane is right-side-up. Binoculars reflect things up-side-down. [Binoculars are made of a series of convex lens. The front lenses are the larger pair of convex lenses. A convex lens reflects objects the correct way up. It is concave lenses that reflect things up-side-down.]
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Entry The velociraptor resonating chamber that Billy shows Dr. Grant is actually a dog's resonating chamber. [The machine used to fabricate the resonating chamber of the Velociraptor is completely fictitious. No-one really knows what the resonating chamber would look like. Therefore, who is to say that the resonating chamber of a dog and Velociraptor are not similar? Seeing how both animals are capable of making loud barking and squawking noises, it makes sense that they could be similar in shape and size.]
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Entry When the Spinosaurus is chasing the characters on the boat, it emerges from the river. The Spinosaurus was supposed to be 18 feet high and it was completely underwater. Then when it attacks the boat, the Spino stands up and the river is only about 3-5 feet deep. Don't tell me the river was that much shallower a little bit further away. [That is possible, believe it or not. In some rivers, there are points where it is really shallow, then there is a vertical drop off and it's really deep. The Spino could be swimming in the deep part, then stood up in the shallow end.]
Entry Spinosaurus was supposed to have straight teeth, yet in the plane sequence when there is a close up of the Spino grabbing Nash's leg, his teeth are curved back. [The fossilized teeth of a real Spinosaurus may indeed be straight, but the dinosaurs in the film have been created through research and DNA gene-splicing. Between the supercomputers, Dr. Wu and the research team at International Genetics Technologies they manage to replicate dinosaur DNA. However, they still are not precisely the same as the originals.]
Corrected by Rikki
Entry In the scenes where they are flying over the herd, to the left of the screen you can see tracks made by continuous driving of vehicles. There was no recent vehicle traffic on the island so it should have regrown by now. [The tracks could also be animal tracks. Herds of animals could still be using the tracks made previously by vehicles.]
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Entry How did the pteranodons survive without lysine? According to Sarah's theory in the second film, the herbivores ate lysine rich plants and the carnivores ate the herbivores. However the pteranodons were in an enclosure so they could not get out to the herbivores and the herbivores could not get in to them. And the fish in the river did not carry lysine. [Yes, they did. In fact lysine was a rubbish choice for a control device as it is very common in our diet. Foods rich in lysine include beef, turkey, cheese, vegetables, fruits, beans, mung bean sprouts, brewer's yeast, legumes, chicken, lamb... and fish.]
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Entry Amanda, Ben, and Eric were vacationing on the Costa Rican mainland, which, according to maps by JP experts, is 200+ miles away from Isla Sorna. So how is it possible that the speedboat in the first scene was able to make the trip by midday? [Without being too presumptuous, they could have left early.]
Entry All of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park III are radically different than the ones in the previous movies, most notably the Velociraptors, who have gone from being grayish brown to having wild color patterns of blue, red, green black and white, as well as having grown mohawks of feathers on their heads. It couldn't be evolution. [Between making the first Jurassic Park and making the third one, paleontologists made discoveries about Raptors (and possibly the other dinosaurs), so the looks were changed in order to portray them more accurately. Still a "movie mistake", but there's the explanation.] [There is a reason for that which doesn't even make it a mistake at all. This takes place on a different island, as Eric (I believe, the younger paleontologist) says once they crash. As we saw in the labs, the people weren't just breeding and hatching dinosaurs. They were playing god. The fetuses were in special fluid containers, so they could be "edited". Whose to say one of the scientists didn't colorize them and add feathers?]
Entry In the scenes with the pteranodons, they actually lift up beating their wings. In reality, these dinosaurs are designed to float with the wind, having very small and fragile bones on their wings which do not allow them to beat them. As a matter of fact, to lift from the ground, they extended their wings and hoped that the wind itself would be strong enough to carry them, thus making it impossible for them to lift from the bridge in the giant birdcage or to beat their wings next to the plane. [All the bones in all modern flying birds are small and fragile when compared to the bones of non-flying creatures. Birds manage to beat their wings quite vigorously without damaging the bone structure so it's possible a pteradon could/would too. As no one has ever seen a live pteradon taking flight, the statement "they extended their wings and hoped that the wind itself would be strong enough to carry them," is mere speculation and as such can't really be called a mistake.]
Entry Spinosaurus wasn't actually as deadly in real life as it was in the film. It is believed that its diet may have only been fish, and according to Dinosaur A to Z by Don Lesser, the spinosaurus' size was greatly exaggerated in the movie to make him seem deadlier. [Actually, this was done deliberately by InGen (Hammond's dino-making company.) Grant tells us this himself: Eric says, "I didn't think they came that big." Grant replies, "They don't." InGen had been messing with the dino's DNA.]
Entry In the "making of" documentary on the DVD, the famous and apparently learned paleontologist Jack Horner says that Spinosaurus was the largest meat-eating dinosaur that ever walked the earth. This is completely false. In 1991, ten years before Jurassic Park 3 was made, fossils of a dinosaur named Giganotosaurus was discovered. It is larger that T-Rex and Spinosaurus, and to this day is still the largest known meat-eating dinosaur that ever lived. [The Carcharodontosaurus was also larger than the T-rex and Spinosaurus.]

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