What was the last movie you've seen?

[Xeogred]

You should totally watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZu69OB2KM

I'm sold. Hopefully I can catch it this weekend.

So this is where Kung Fury stems from?

[Fragems]

I'm a pretty big Jurassic Park fan I've watched the movies a few dozen times and read both books, and I've really grown to like Chris Pratt so this movie should be right up my alley.

Jurassic Park was pretty crazy as usually the source material, in this case a book, is better. Jurassic Park summed up around a hundred pages of how the cloning was done with a cartoon.

The only part of the book that would have been great for the movie was when Grant & Girl were trapped in a lab with Raptors while rolling a dino egg to each other. For me that was the most exciting part of the book.

And please people, do tell others "Do you know someone made Jurassic Park into a book?" and wait for their reaction.

I liked Hammond so much better in the book. Really glad I watched the movies before I read the book though I would have been so disappointed with some of the changes. Man the different between JP the book and movie is nothing compared to how different The Lost World is compared to the final movie. Although I will say MC got a little crazy with the predator style camo dinos near the end and having people chasing a T-Rex on a bicycle . Really would have been interesting if the Lost World had gone with a two kid setup like the book had as opposed to just giving Malcom a kid.

[Luke]

I liked Hammond so much better in the book.

It's been a while since I have read the book, but didn't both Malcolm and Hammond die? I forget how Malcolm died, but I'm pretty sure Hammond slipped into a ditch with shallow water and was eaten alive by tiny dinos.

[Ack]

I liked Hammond so much better in the book.

It's been a while since I have read the book, but didn't both Malcolm and Hammond die? I forget how Malcolm died, but I'm pretty sure Hammond slipped into a ditch with shallow water and was eaten alive by tiny dinos.

Malcolm is believed to die but actually survives and is the protagonist for The Lost World.

Hammond slips while walking around from hearing a T-rex roar and breaks his ankle. A group of compys(procompsognathus) then eat him. His character is radically different in the book from the film version.

[Sload Soap]

Miami Connection is an awesome movie.

Agreed. I own it on Blu-Ray.

Also, if I recall correctly, the film received an incredibly limited release (i.e., only in Florida), and it was rediscovered when someone from Alamo Drafthouse purchased some film reels on eBay. It also nearly bankrupted its creator, Y.K. Kim, who hoped to use it as a marketing tool for his Tae Kwan Do dojos. Finally, parts of its glorious soundtrack appear in UbiSoft's Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.

In sum, everything about that movie is awesome.

Yeah, you can tell it was made to promote Tae Kwan Do as there is a very long and very awkward section of the film dedicated to showing off some moves that comes out of the blue. I think Mr Kim was earnestly trying to make movie with a message until some douchey executive type guy turned up and went "more tits and violence". But that's the story of Hollywood.

[Ack]

Yeah, you can tell it was made to promote Tae Kwan Do as there is a very long and very awkward section of the film dedicated to showing off some moves that comes out of the blue. I think Mr Kim was earnestly trying to make movie with a message until some douchey executive type guy turned up and went "more tits and violence". But that's the story of Hollywood.

...except they didn't. Miami Connection was entirely an independent production. The only "connection" to Hollywood was director Woo-sang Park, and he was much more a part of the South Korean low-budget action film community. His films are much more influenced by the Shaw Brothers than anything else. There was no "douchey executive type guy" involved.

[Sload Soap]

I know it's not a Hollywood movie you doof, it just feels like that when half the film is Saved by the Bell and the other half is the Warriors. Someone obviously said that this dry martial arts movie needed an extended and wholly unnecessary scene in a biker bar where chicks randomly get their boobs out. That someone, was probably kind of a douche.

[Fragems]

I liked Hammond so much better in the book.

It's been a while since I have read the book, but didn't both Malcolm and Hammond die? I forget how Malcolm died, but I'm pretty sure Hammond slipped into a ditch with shallow water and was eaten alive by tiny dinos.

Malcolm is believed to die but actually survives and is the protagonist for The Lost World.

Hammond slips while walking around from hearing a T-rex roar and breaks his ankle. A group of compys(procompsognathus) then eat him. His character is radically different in the book from the film version.

Hammond is pretty much a rich asshole in the book who is only using his grandkids to promote the park. He really is just an all around shitty person in the book as opposed to the santa clause like character they portray in the movie .

In the book after the shit has kind of settled down and everyone is grouped at the compound waiting to be picked up he gets killed in the most fitting way. His grandchildren who he couldn't give less of a shit about are playing with the intercom and they accidentally play a Roar sound over it. Hammond who is in front of the compound freaks out and while running falls over a hill breaking his legs. Basically the kids then come over the intercom after the roar apologizing or giggling or something he cusses them then the compies show up paralyze him the the nuerotoxin in their bites so he is unable to scream for help, and then they slowly eat him alive .

As for Malcom he makes it off the island, but he dies while being flown off the island in the book. However they pull bullshit so that he can come back in Lost World and say oh no that was a false report he died but they revived him.

I also like how in the the first book the island is firebombed to kill all the dinos off at the end.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I know it's not a Hollywood movie you doof, it just feels like that when half the film is Saved by the Bell and the other half is the Warriors. Someone obviously said that this dry martial arts movie needed an extended and wholly unnecessary scene in a biker bar where chicks randomly get their boobs out. That someone, was probably kind of a douche.

Nope. Y.K. Kim made the whole thing, and the contrast between the film's "Saved By The Bell" sections and the sleazy biker scenes is part of what makes it so great.

Also, I would like to note that, despite its title, The Miami Connection take place almost entirely in land-locked Orlando (former home to our legendary member REPO).

[MrPopo]

Hammond is pretty much a rich asshole in the book who is only using his grandkids to promote the park. He really is just an all around shitty person in the book as opposed to the santa clause like character they portray in the movie .

Well, he was played by Santa Claus.

As for Malcom he makes it off the island, but he dies while being flown off the island in the book. However they pull bullshit so that he can come back in Lost World and say oh no that was a false report he died but they revived him.

He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was then transferred to a better hospital where his condition was upgraded to alive.