I hate the hate BDH gets for running in heels! Yes, she was dressed in businesswoman-wear despite being on a tropical island. Is that her fault or the writers? Let's hate on the writers, please. For writing an uptight neutered woman whose main character flaw is that she doesn't want kids as much as she wants career successes. That trope is played out. Maybe the heels are a parallel for all the dinos being asexual females that walk on their toes, eh? (I don't believe that at all I just wanted to say it)
For what it's worth, I can run in heels. Especially those office-appropriate ones from the movie. And it's not crazy for women to have to wear heels to work. Didn't Cannes require actresses to be in heels on the red carpet? Maybe Jurassic World Corp did, too. As far as appropriate footwear, how easily we forgave and forgot that in Die Hard, John McClane was BAREFOOT on glass and still managed to kill like 6 terrorists. Please. I would be crying over my feet in Die Hard before I would be complaining about the heels in Jurassic World.
FWIW, the heels thing is just an easy synecdoche for all the problems with her terribly written character. And I do very much hate the writers for it! And whoever cast Chris Pratt, because Grumpy Sexy is NOT his bag (he’s classic Goofy Sexy, hello).
Also, I *can* run in heels, but if I’m trying to get a tyrannosaur to run after me, idk. I can go barefoot for 200m 😂
Also, going to recommend listening to Pop Culture Debate Club podcast: John Williams Vs Hans Zimmer because Jonathan Coultan gives us lyrics to the Jurassic Park theme and I sing them to myself every time I hear it.
The only one I think is really worth some time is The Lost World, bc it has some really fantastic horror sequences as well as Vanessa Chester (and Pete Poselthwaite). The rest are utterly blah and have no interesting characters at all.
This was so fun to read, and the perfect ranking! I remember wanting to see The Lost World specifically because of Vanessa (she was in Harriet the Spy too). I still think about specific line readings Lex and Tim did in the original movie today ("he left us, he LEFT US" and "god bless you"), 10/10!
I hate the hate BDH gets for running in heels! Yes, she was dressed in businesswoman-wear despite being on a tropical island. Is that her fault or the writers? Let's hate on the writers, please. For writing an uptight neutered woman whose main character flaw is that she doesn't want kids as much as she wants career successes. That trope is played out. Maybe the heels are a parallel for all the dinos being asexual females that walk on their toes, eh? (I don't believe that at all I just wanted to say it)
For what it's worth, I can run in heels. Especially those office-appropriate ones from the movie. And it's not crazy for women to have to wear heels to work. Didn't Cannes require actresses to be in heels on the red carpet? Maybe Jurassic World Corp did, too. As far as appropriate footwear, how easily we forgave and forgot that in Die Hard, John McClane was BAREFOOT on glass and still managed to kill like 6 terrorists. Please. I would be crying over my feet in Die Hard before I would be complaining about the heels in Jurassic World.
That's the end of my rant. Thank you.
FWIW, the heels thing is just an easy synecdoche for all the problems with her terribly written character. And I do very much hate the writers for it! And whoever cast Chris Pratt, because Grumpy Sexy is NOT his bag (he’s classic Goofy Sexy, hello).
Also, I *can* run in heels, but if I’m trying to get a tyrannosaur to run after me, idk. I can go barefoot for 200m 😂
Also, going to recommend listening to Pop Culture Debate Club podcast: John Williams Vs Hans Zimmer because Jonathan Coultan gives us lyrics to the Jurassic Park theme and I sing them to myself every time I hear it.
I’ve only ever seen the original movie start to finish and bits of the second one. And yet I kinda want to watch all of them now.
The only one I think is really worth some time is The Lost World, bc it has some really fantastic horror sequences as well as Vanessa Chester (and Pete Poselthwaite). The rest are utterly blah and have no interesting characters at all.
That clip of Tea Leoni was so ridiculous 😂
This was so fun to read, and the perfect ranking! I remember wanting to see The Lost World specifically because of Vanessa (she was in Harriet the Spy too). I still think about specific line readings Lex and Tim did in the original movie today ("he left us, he LEFT US" and "god bless you"), 10/10!
Thanks so much for reading! And yeah, when I was a kid, if Vanessa was in a movie, I was absolutely watching that movie.