Why set up all the guns and then almost never use them?

Sounds good.

You ARE dense, and I do understand the Crichton's material better than you.
Muldoon had been dealing with the raptors and the other animals at the park for years. He DID have some idea of what he was doing even if he was learning these creatures from the ground up. The book does a much better job of showing that than the film does. In fact, the book handled the whole "life will find a way" angle much better than the film did. a lot of crucial information about why the park would fail was lost in the adaptation from page to celluloid. Of course, I've actually read the book instead of just looking it up on Wikipedia like you did.
Oh, for crying out loud. That's not what I was saying at all.
No, they failed because of Hollywood-Induced Character Stupidity. I never said Arnold should have taken a gun, for crying out loud. Stop being an idiot. However, I will say he shouldn't have gone alone.
No, I know which character should have taken down a dinosaur with a gun: Muldoon, and he should have done it just like he did in the book. Of course, the entire film could have stood to be closer to the book.

You never graduated high school. You flip burgers at a McDonald's, at best.

No, I know that. I did not miss the point of the film. I am aware that the whole reason the things broke because they under-estimated the animals they spawned and didn't respect the power they wielded. I understand it better than you. In fact, having a few dinosaurs get shot and still have the situation turn just as dire for the characters would actually further reinforce how out of their depth these people were. You know, just like the book.
No, Muldoon died because Speilberg wanted to show that these raptors were for serious. Muldoon went up against the same odds in the book and came back in one piece.
What do you think real people who have dealt with dinosaurs for years while working at a park that engineers them would do when confronted by them? They'd have learned a thing or two about them in that time. Muldoon in particular took the time to do that, and that puts his chances several leaps above an average joe who stumbles across one. And when the chips are done, he's one of the few people to survived an encounter with the raptors, even if it was by the skin of his teeth. The point was that man tends to meddle where he shouldn't and will always reap the consequences when he does.
Your blind devotion to this film certainly seems to suggest that you do think it is perfect. The only thing the film's popularity suggests is that Spielberg knows people like dinosaurs. The only uneducated hick here is you.
The only one who can't understand difficult concepts here is you.



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