Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-13359-20160319091507

In both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, it seemed the visitors didn't bring much of anything in the way of luggage. Out of the experts taking the shakedown tour in the first film, I only remember Gennaro having any carry-ons, and even then, it was just a briefcase; no second set of clothes. I suppose this can be excused if we assume the visitors were only going to be staying overnight, but even so, most people travelling bring more than one set of clothes in case something happens to them. Even a small duffel bag or something being carried by a character would've sufficed.

Then in Jurassic World, Gray and Zach had surprisingly little between them, despite the fact we know they were going to stay longer than just one weekend, presumably. Zach had a backpack, I think, but Gray had zilch. We see their mother loading some suitcases into their van at the beginning, but these things disappear from the story afterwards. I get they wouldn't have them at the airport, but they should've had them on the ferry and on the island, but they have nothing with them but the backpack and fanny pack when Zara shows them to their hotel room.

I know it's a dumb thing to get hung up on, but it always bugged me in Jurassic Park, and I find, on rewatching it, that it sticks out like a sore thumb. Since it's a movie and has places to go and things to do, it can't waste time on extraneous details. I get that. But in being so ruthlessly economical for the sake of pacing, the movie reminds me that it's exactly that; a movie with everything that "isn't needed" excised, which hurts the believability a little. If I don't believe that the characters are real people (i.e., if they don't carry the things almost anyone would take with them), then I don't care much about them. 