9. Um, What About The Pteranodon? - Jurassic Park III (2001)
Jurassic Park III is a movie not directed by Steven Spielberg and with music not composed by John Williams, though it does star Sam Neill, who reprises his role as Dr. Alan Grant, 'cause what else was Sam Neill doing in 2001? The plot concerns a middle-aged couple who conjure up an elaborate plan to rescue their child, who has crash-landed on that island from
The Lost World, and somehow manage to convince Dr. Grant to go along. Over the course of the relatively short 90 minute flick, they crash, escape from a bunch of new dinosaurs, find the kid, and get rescued by the army. The movie ends, true
Jurassic Park style, with the survivors escaping in a helicopter, and Dr. Grant staring poignantly out of the window at some pteranodon (those flying dinosaurs) as they soar away from their island and head towards the real world. The
Jurassic Park theme swells. Everything is back to normal. Wait,
what?! Why is nobody freaking out that some fully-fledged dinosaurs (the same terrifying fully-fledged dinosaurs who just tried to kill them, mind) are flying away from the island? Dr. Grant, especially, who has spent much of his life trying not to get eaten by dinosaurs, should be going nuts. The fact that he sits back and just, like, enjoys the flight home is bordering on the insane. These things are going to
breed, Dr. Grant! And then we've got pteranodon swooping down in suburbia, trying to snatch our kids and knocking over mail boxes on a regular basis. I mean, sure, Dr. Grant is probably exhausted after what just happened, but c'mon, you're the
dinosaur man - at least inform somebody who can shoot the winged monsters out of the sky.