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What I Learned From This Movie


1) A senator goes missing and nobody bats an eyelid until his head rolls up on shore.
2) Tree stumps look like monsters when you've had half a gallon of home-made hooch. At all other times, they just look like tree stumps.
3) Cavemen had access to Crayola crayons which allow your crude drawings to survive the test of time in a wet cave.
4) If you fall in the water and you're confronted by a dinosaur, it's a good idea to swim into its mouth.
5) Dinosaurs are best dealt with by way of a bulldozer. Just think how many deaths could have been prevented in Jurassic Park.
6) Should you opt to deal with a dinosaur with a bulldozer, it's an even better idea to ride shotgun outside the control cab.
7) People frequently walk into grocery stores carrying full bags of groceries.
8) Should you want a bottle of hooch worth less than $5, it's worth committing double murder for it rather than simply hide it in your jacket and steal it.
9) Hulk Hogan tried that and ended up being eaten.
10) Calling in the army to deal with a rampaging monster is bad for tourism, having a rampaging monster in town isn't really the problem.
11) The local one-man sheriff's department has more than adequate resources to deal with said rampaging monster.
12) A meteor slamming into a lake produces no side-effects other than rampaging monsters.

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Haha a brilliant 12 point list. I haven't seen this film in about 15 years but your notes do bring back memories. Good shiiiiaaaaaaat....!

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1) Why would they? They didn't know he was a senator. In any case, they were alarmed as soon as they found his empty boat. And his head turned up the same day that he went missing.

2) What's crazy about that? They're morons. How many tree stumps floating in Loch Ness have been misidentified over the years?

3) They weren't cavemen, they were Native Americans from a few hundred years ago. And why would the drawings need to be in crayon to survive? Actual cave paintings in Europe are tens of thousands of years old. Also, the cave wasn't wet.

4) The guy went in feet first. Nobody swims feet first. Also, what part of the scene seemed to suggest the guy thought it was a good idea?

5) It wasn't a bulldozer, it was a snowplow.

6) The movie makes it VERY clear that even Arnie knew it was a stupid idea.

7) It wasn't a grocery store, it was a liquor store. The woman could have been walking home from the grocery store and decided to pick up a bottle of wine. Also, how does walking in once equate to "frequently"?

8) Kind of hard to hard for the clerk not to see you shoplift when you're the only customer in the store. In any case he only killed them because the clerk pulled a gun. Otherwise he would have shot the clerk as soon as he walked up to the counter.

9) Tried what? And what does Hulk Hogan have to do with this movie?

10) The movie never says anything remotely like that.

11) Same as #10.

12) Actually meteors hit the Earth all the time without causing any damage. Very rarely is a meteor big enough not to be slowed by the atmosphere and cause any destruction.


Yes, this is a very stupid, bad movie. But if you’re going to make fun of it, at least do so for legitimate reasons. It’s not like the movie doesn’t give us plenty of those...

How about how, even after the senator is identified, not one news reporter or federal agent shows up to investigate what happened?

How about the senator’s boat being filled with blood, even though he was killed in the water?

How about paleontologists proclaiming it will take SIX MONTHS for a meteor to cool down?

How about the guy robbing the liquor store and killing two people, but not bothering to take the cash in the register?

How about the magician’s wife marveling at how many stars she can see, even though it’s the middle of the day, in bright sunlight?




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Do you really not understand that the OP was being facetious with his post?

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Hey Hambregan, if you're looking to be a stick in the mud, go to "Remains of the Day" or the "Joy Luck Club". The thread poster was just having fun. WTF is your problem?

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Buddy,

Take a pill and relax. As the two above me have said, it was a bit of fun and not to be taken seriously.

I don't really think any of us actually watch these kinds of movies for accuracy, continuity, amazing special effects and a cast of Hollywood A-listers. No, we watch them because they are fun to watch for a number of reasons.

The spirit of the post is meant to be the same as why we watch the films. Fun and not to be taken seriously.

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Ummm... the dude was just joking.

Asbergers much?

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I thought these responses were almost as funny as the original points. And if they are serious responses, then that just makes it all the more humorous.

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13) If you are the sheriff, you will have a uniform that has a patch saying "County Sheriff" without mentioning which county you are from. Appaently Oregon only has one county.

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I think this guy can be sheriff of wherever he wants to.

He killed a dinosaur with a bulldozer (yeah, I'm calling it that!) after all ;)

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14. The Doc hasn't "seen" the Sheriff "out" of uniform in a long time. Seems that must have been a very progressive county. (In fact, the Doc seems to routinely "caress" the Sheriff throughout the film.)

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15) Our boats, Arnie. Our boats!
16) If you're out on the lake with your girlfriend and you get attacked by a dinosaur, the best way to fend it off is by setting fire to your boat.

I'm a totally bitchin' bio writer from Mars!

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17) If your car is dying, tap the dash board a couple of times to revive it. There is a 50/50 chance that it will work. This film only shows you the 50% chance when it doesn't.

18) Arnie is one mighty fine sign painter!

19) Bait is spelled B-A-T-E.

20) When there's not much going on in a place like that, it'll take a few hours for the mechanic to get to your car.

21) Giant sea monsters make neither ripples nor splashes when rising out of the surface or plunging back down into fresh water lakes. They can also climb onto rowboats without displacing them in the water in order to throw unwary fishermen overboard.

22) Tonight's the night I'm gonna' ask Dora to dance.

23) Ignorant rednecks unable to start outboard motors makes for gripping cinema, and it's even funnier after you add humorous music to the soundtrack.

24) Arnie is a handsome, handsome man. Try to add a few extreme close-ups of Arnie in your movie just for the ladies. Oh, yeah...

25) If you Kick someone in the butt, it sounds just like a kettle drum!

26) When other mountainous law enforcement agencies were being mislead by slick shysters dealing with the GMC Jimmy, One County, Oregon was the envy of all with their Family Truckster.

27) You have to sneak up on your car in order to place a disembodied head into the back seat. If the car notices you with the head, it could become startled and bolt.

28) When you step out of a mountain lake, you need only put on your hat and pick up your jacket in order to become perfectly dry.

29) The stars really shine brightly in the noonday sun at Crater Lake. In fact, it may appear as though the stars have gone nova.

30) The best way to escape a sea monster is to go full-throttle in your boat, drive onto the beach, and then take a nap.

31) Before the invention of the 80's montage, editors simply added 4 seconds of calm lake footage between one scene and the next to imply that someone has been out for the longest time.

32) Just because you're wearing J.C. Penny Action Wear doesn't guaranty that you'll be able to do actual action scenes while wearing it.

33) Hungry monsters will stand around and wait patiently while you torch your ride in hopes that you'll fall into the fire so that they can have their first hot meal.

34) Sea Monsters will crawl over logs, trees and rocks to get to a camper 100 yards from the shoreline, but won't budge an inch across soft sandy beach if there's a burning boat nearby.

35) When filming your movie, always try to clean your camera lenses before the director says "Action". He or she may not ask for a second take, or be able to green-light one from the producer and you'll be stuck with what you got the first time.

36) Gray hair = wisdom. The more gray hair, the wiser you are. Since Marvel Comics owns Reed Richard's "graying temples" design, try to have your gray laid out in a different pattern. We recommend "skunk stripe down the middle." It may not make you any smarter, but everyone else around you will think you're brilliant and ask for your advice.

39) The best way to show suspense is by playing romantic music at dramatic times.

40) Tennis shoes 'pop!' when you put them on.

41) Things always look hopeless when you're sober.

42) The fastest way to get drunk is off of the backwash from your lazy friend.

43) When a law enforcement agent says "Hold it!", what he really means is "Please stick your weapon out the window and fire at me!"

44) Drivers are generally courteous in Oregon with car chases occurring well within the confines of the posted speed limits.

45) Abandoned rock quarries are Meccas for car crashes.

46) Sea monsters are ninja masters and can sneak up on anyone!

47) In order to attack, sea monsters must complete a series of Stevie Wonder-like head lulls.


Don't ask me what I think of you,
I might not give the answer that you want me to.
- Fleetwood Mac, "Oh Well"

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48) Sea monsters can only travel a short distance from the lake.

49) Sea monsters are experts at hay tossing and can drop a bale of hay directly in front of a moving vehicle with precision from a couple of hundred feet.

50) Arnie's a damned fool and he's gonna' get hurt!

51) Sea monsters are pretty good at Arnie tossing, too.

52) Jurassic Park should've had a Snow Cat. The dinosaurs wouldn't have stood a chance against a Snow Cat.

53) Sea monsters are so buoyant that they don't even knock up dirt and rocks when they collapse on dry land.

54) Mayors and governors shouldn't waste time and tax dollars calling out S.W.A.T. teams or National Guard units to handle giant monster attacks if someone has access to a snowplow.

55) Sea monsters won't eat white trash.

56) Arnie's corpse is much more interesting to look at than a recently killed dinosaur.


Don't ask me what I think of you,
I might not give the answer that you want me to.
- Fleetwood Mac, "Oh Well"

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57) Bias-ply tires from a '72 Buick station wagon, will squeal on a dirt road.

***Does anyone know if the music score from this masterpiece was performed by the Crown International Orchestra ? It almost reminded me of something by Rachmaninoff. Move over, John Williams !

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58) From the ending I learned that life can really suck for people and dinosaurs.

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