Something that is a plot hole, however, is the size of the raptors. While real velociraptors were deadly, they were small enough so that you could put up a fight as long as they didn't slash any of your arteries. Making them 200 pounds and 6 feet tall gives them a huge melee advantage that real velociraptors didn't have.
And in case you want to say the raptors were mutated by gene sequence patches, you're forgetting the over-sized velociraptor fossil that Alan's dig team uncovers at the beginning of the movie. He calls it a velociraptor and its size is consistent with the living raptors on the island.
I think it's understood that the name Velociraptor, or Raptor, sounds much more menacing and catchy. That's the only reason why they used it. For the same reason the film could have been more appropriately called, Cretaceous Park (era of T-Rexes and Triceratops), but it doesn't sound as good as Jurassic Park.Also not a plot hole as the size of a real velociraptor vs. the ones in the movie has no bearing on the plot what so ever. You could call them deinonychus or Utahraptor or a baby allasauras if you wanted and it still wouldn't have made a single difference to the plot because the whole purpose of them was to menace the heroes. It only becomes a plot hole if they had the raptors do something that a raptor shouldn't be physically capable of or if they were last shown on the far side of the island then all of a sudden on the same side as our heroes. or were knocked with tranqs and we were specifically told that they would be out for days, or something like that.
Also not a plot hole as the size of a real velociraptor vs. the ones in the movie has no bearing on the plot what so ever. You could call them deinonychus or Utahraptor or a baby allasauras if you wanted and it still wouldn't have made a single difference to the plot because the whole purpose of them was to menace the heroes. It only becomes a plot hole if they had the raptors do something that a raptor shouldn't be physically capable of or if they were last shown on the far side of the island then all of a sudden on the same side as our heroes. or were knocked with tranqs and we were specifically told that they would be out for days, or something like that.
well I don't believe we ever found a Velociraptor fossil in Montana, nor anywhere else on this continent, did we??
From the filmmakers perspective, that's true; but within the context of the universe of the movie, it is a plot hole. They were velociraptors, but their size was wrong. Dr. Wu didn't accidentally misname them. It would be like putting dragon wings on the t-rex, with none of the characters ever mentioning how strange that is. It gives the t-rex the ability of flight, which a real t-rex didn't have. It would be a plot hole, because real t-rexes didn't have wings. By the same token, the raptors in the movie were velociraptors, but they were given more size (ie, made bigger), without any characters ever mentioning how strange that is. It's a plot hole.
Doing something for the sake of drama doesn't absolve it from being a plot hole.
Still doesn't make it a plot hole since the fact that they're larger than a real life velociraptor has no bearing on the plot what so ever, the plot would work the same even if they were the correct size, just less menacing.
You could kill a real velociraptor by hitting it with a chair. If they were accurately sized in the movie, it would have completely changed the plot.
A single one yes, multiple raptors, less likely. True, a real raptor isn't all that big but to the kids it would have been big enough, add to that sharp claws and teeth I'd be a little leery of taking on more than one lion tamer style. Besides, their size didn't play an real measure in the plot except to make them seem more menacing, I don't recall one scene where their larger size had an impact on the plot. If you had the kids hiding inside a small air duct or something like then all of a sudden the raptors were in it then you'd have a plot hole caused by their size.
Empire strikes back. How is long did it take them to get to bespin? Is long enough to go through Jedi training?