Jurassic Park

The correct spelling of stegosaurus is steg"o"saurus yet when Nedry steals the embryos, the freezer says steg"a"saurus.

When Nedry is trying to escape, and his jeep gets stuck on the mud bank, the camera shows the road below him, and there's an arrow pointing straight ahead. A bit later, the camera shows it again, and the arrow's pointing left.

In the scenes where there's a video link to the docks shown on computer, there's a bar moving along the bottom of the screen, showing us that it's actually a video that's just playing on the computer.

When the group is crawling into the ceiling to avoid the angry Velociraptors, Adrianna Richard falls through a loose panel, but is able to catch herself. If you watch her arms, they suddenly get incredibly muscular.

In the scene where the kids and Dr. Grant are walking through a field, they are then followed by a "flock" of dinosaurs. They then duck under the log and turn round to find a T-Rex attacking the dinosaurs. At one point one of the flocking dinos is seen jumping through the neck of the dinosaur. His top half disappears for a moment, then reappears after he has landed from jumping through the T-Rex.

When the helicopter is flying around, they show two cars and a big rock behind them. In another scene they show the cars backing up, but they couldn't because of the rock!

In the scene where the lawyer jumps out of the jeep (just before the T Rex approaches) he leaves the jeep door open. In the next 2 shots the jeep door is closed, but when the T Rex shows up, the boy moves to the door and closes it.

In the scene right before we meet the T-rex, outside of the cage, the jeeps are wet before it starts to rain.

When the caged raptor has ahold of the black guy, another guy is trying to pull him away from the raptor. While he's trying to pull him away some other people are shocking the raptor with cattle prods. Everybody would be shocked since all the people are touching each other.

When they are referring to when Disney Land had some troubles when they first opened, they say it opened in a certain year. This is wrong. It actually opened in a different year.

When the T-Rex has a raptor in his mouth at the end, on the laserdisc in one of the frames, the raptor disappears completely from the T-Rex's mouth then reappears in the next frame.

The beginning supposedly takes place in San Jose, Costa Rica. Through the trees, you can see the ocean. San Jose is at 3000 feet and more than 150 miles from the Pacific. Even the book makes this error.

In an early scene, Samuel L Jackson's character is struggling to get the computers up, and he is smoking away. A full cigarette, then half, then full, all without lighting a new smoke.

In the scene where the tour trucks are stopped outside the Tyrannosaur paddock, we are shown a goat in a cage (inside the paddock) that appears to be at the same level as the road (outside). However, when Dr. Grant and Lex go over the wall, the ground is several stories down.

The average 'Raptor' was only about three feet high, and about six feet long. The dinosaur in the film more closely matches the dinosaur known as "Deinonychus", which was 6-7 feet high and 12-13 feet long. However, this is not entirely incorrect, because, just a few months before the film was released, scientists discovered a Velociraptor that was almost 10 feet long and about 5 feet high, so there are 'raptors' that big, they are just rare.

Take note when the vehicle starts chasing Sam Neill and the kid down the tree. When it first starts to fall, it smashes a headlight. Then in the nest scene the headlight is on, with no damage.

In the scene where the baby dinosaur is born, one minute the robotic hand is there laying the egg down and the next scene it is gone.

When Dern is eating ice-cream with the professor, she reaches for the ice-cream and takes a spoonful with no problem. Then the camera shoots a scene where we can see both him and Dern and the rectangular table. The ice-cream bin is at least 6 feet away. There is no way she could have just reached that far.

When Dern turns the power back on and is running out of the building from the Velociraptor, she opens the gate and goes through. To the right, you can see a sign on the gate that says 10,000 volts (or something like that) If the power was turned on, wouldn't she be electrocuted?

When John Hammond and Dern are eating the ice cream when the power is off, the ceiling fans are rotating.

In the scene where Hammond arrives at the dig site in the badlands inside the trailer you can see the shadow of the boom microphone on the ceiling.

In one scene where the T-rex is trying to grab the kids through the top of the truck it breaks a big chunk off the corner of the window. In the next shot it's back together.

During the scene when Laura Dern is running away from the Velociraptors towards the main door, you can see that she's dragging along a torch attached to her waist. However, in the next scene as she steps outside, the torch is gone.

In the end you see a Pteranodon. This is a flying dinosaur and that would be impossible to contain because it could simply fly to other islands. [Someone's said that Pteranodons glided, they didn't fly. Fine, but the principle holds].

In the scene where Sam Neill and the little boy are climbing down the tree, the car keeps crashing down a few branches at a time behind them. Why are they in such a hurry? If the car is falling in such a straight line, wouldn't it be easier to climb around to the other side of the tree, where they would be safely out of danger?

A live bull is lowered in a sling to feed the raptors in the pen, but when the shredded sling is brought back up, there's no blood on it. How could they have shredded the sling without drawing blood on the bull?

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

When they're in the shack, and the raptors are making the walls shake, something like an animal's muzzle falls off the wall and lands in front of the door. We then see a closeup of the raptors then starting to dig under the door, and there's no sign of the muzzle. We then cut back to a wider shot of the door, and the muzzle's back there again.

In a middle scene, you can clearly see a mess up on filming, accidentally filming a cameraman's leg.

How did the men on the ship get killed? The bridge was intact and the T-Rex was still inside the cargo hold.

In the end on the ship there is the button in the dead guy's hand that opens the cargo hold and closes it. That is what they pushed to release the T-Rex but when putting it back they used the one on the panel. How could they have know off the top of their head which one to press?

At the very beginning, when you see the English family on the beach, the little girl wanders off and you then see a shot of her on her own. However, she must have walked a pretty long way because the beach she is on is definitely not the beach that her parents were on; the rocks in the ocean are gone and the waves are smaller.

When the trailer type thing is hanging over a muddy cliff, about to fall off, a guy drives up in a sporty little jeep, ties the trailer to it, and manages to pull the trailer back to safety. Well, at first glance this may seem okay, but that trailer was at least twice the weight of the jeep. And, if the jeep spun its wheels on the mud like that, it would lose any traction it had
on the ground, thus going over the edge of the cliff with the trailer.

The professional hunter is carrying a heavy, dangerous game double rifle. The ecologist manages to pull both rounds from the chamber, pull the bullets, empty the powder, replace the bullets in the now empty case and put them back in the rifle. Quite a
feat to pull bullets in the field without damaging the cases. When the hunter tries to fire the rounds nothing happens. When the cases are pulled the primers are untouched from the firing pins - humm. Even more unlikely - I don't know of any professional dangerous game guide that wouldn't carry a dozen or more extra rounds - yet he doesn't have any.

In the beginning of the movie, when the rescue group arrived on Isla Sorna, the actress grabs the Nikon F5 of the photographer and makes her way to the nest of the Stegosaurus. After several shots of the small Stegosaurus there is no more film left in the cassette, so the camera begins to rewind it automatically. The thing is, you never see the rewind knob moving although you hear the camera's motor rewinding (The Nikon F5 has a manual rewind knob to be able to rewind the film when the batteries are dead). There was obviously no film at all in the camera.

After the hunter bags the T-Rex with the dart gun they go to another scene then return, and the T-Rex is in a huge cage. Earlier on the hunters' entire camp, equipment and vehicles were destroyed, this is why they were walking in the first place, so where did this cage come from, and even if the cage did appear out of nowhere who lifted the T-Rex into it?

Updated 29/5/98 by JWES