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JURASSIC PARK - A Thread 65 Million Years In The Making

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Here they are:



Black: Stegosaurus
Beige: Carnotaurus
Brown: Pachyrhinosaurus
Turquoise: Allosaurus

Would be too bad if they were never released.

Heh, check the source of those pics on the JPtoys forums.

That said, Im hoping they will be released, and am working on a few leads trying to figure out what the deal is. Luckily I know a few people who have some ins.. But man would I kill for one of those prototypes. Too bad the owners aren't sharing pics at the least.
 
Recently watched JP on Blu Ray and man did it look and sound great! I was really impressed. Also, the new making of features that spans across all 3 discs was pretty awesome. Now to watch TLW and eventually JP///..

So with recent news about Spielberg not directing JP4 Im wondering what the future of the series will be. I really hope they can get a decent story and director to helm the new film, if it ever happens. I mean, heck in 2004 Hasbro had artists working on a JP4 toy line. It wouldn't be the first time this movie almost happens and then falls apart.

Also, speaking of JP toys.. New pics of the canceled 2011 dinosaurs have surfaced.

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They may be highly stylized, but they are the best effort Hasbro has ever put into JP. Too bad they likely wont see release. =/
 
Being bored out of my mind last night I decided to watch Jurassic Park 3 on Blu-ray.

Nope, while the picture and sound were both great the movie still sucked.

The way they ruined the movie by using Stan Winstons beautiful creatures as a backdrop for their stupid family drama, and they had the nerves to kill the T-rex, stupid director choice.

Most of the CGI looked really weird compared to the first two movies, like a step down or something.

I so wanted to like this movie but I just can't, it's impossible.

And that both Sam Neil and Laura Dern signed on is beyond me.

This isn't a real Jurassic Park movie, it should be killed with fire.

For the fourth one to be watched by me the following needs to be in it.

  • Night
  • Rain
  • A Ford Explorer
  • Ripples in water
  • T-rex
  • The use of Stan Winstons creatures.

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dat Stan Winston
 
Being bored out of my mind last night I decided to watch Jurassic Park 3 on Blu-ray.

Nope, while the picture and sound were both great the movie still sucked.

The way they ruined the movie by using Stan Winstons beautiful creatures as a backdrop for their stupid family drama, and they had the nerves to kill the T-rex, stupid director choice.

Most of the CGI looked really weird compared to the first two movies, like a step down or something.

I so wanted to like this movie but I just can't, it's impossible.

And that both Sam Neil and Laura Dern signed on is beyond me.

This isn't a real Jurassic Park movie, it should be killed with fire.

For the fourth one to be watched by me the following needs to be in it.

  • Night
  • Rain
  • A Ford Explorer
  • Ripples in water
  • T-rex
  • The use of Stan Winstons creatures.

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dat Stan Winston

+1

i totally approve this post. especially the night time part.
 
It's astonishing how well have aged the FX from the original JP.
Seriously, that T-Rex is still so fucking believable.
 
It's astonishing how well have aged the FX from the original JP.
Seriously, that T-Rex is still so fucking believable.

People should stop doing cg and go back to that method. Now a days creature look like a plastic puppet or something walking on air.
 
I actually just saw this movie on bluray last night for the first time in a decade and I must say it still holds up extremely well even today. Very few of the special effects look dated and the dinosaurs look just as real today as they did back in 1993. It's amazing how poorly special effects went downhill after this movie. Too bad the sequels are garbage but I will watch them tonight just for fun.
 
I actually just saw this movie on bluray last night for the first time in a decade and I must say it still holds up extremely well even today. Very few of the special effects look dated and the dinosaurs look just as real today as they did back in 1993. It's amazing how poorly special effects went downhill after this movie. Too bad the sequels are garbage but I will watch them tonight just for fun.

same here, watched it last night and i have to say it truly holds up well. i felt the only time the special effects looks dated is the first time Grant and friends see the brachiosaurus.
everything else feels as believable today as 19 years ago in the theater when i was 10 :°°°

:)
 
I had so many Jurassic Park toys growing up. The 'soft' feeling on some of the larger dinosaurs like the T-Rex was great.

I read Jurassic Park and the Lost World as well as a kid, both were great and really launched me into being a big Crichton fan.

And personally, I think Lost World the movie gets too harsh of a rap. It's not the classic the original movie is, but it's an entertaining movie.. especially for the audience is was seemingly aimed at. The third movie on the other hand (although maybe it was just my age by that time), but I care for nearly as much.
 
Most of the CGI looked really weird compared to the first two movies, like a step down or something.
Jurassic Park 3 is a pretty dumb movie all things considered, and I agree that the CG looks off for most of the creatures, but there's no way you can say the same for the Pteranodons. I think I'm willing to flat out say that they are the most impressive CGI in the three movies by far.


So we are getting JP4?
Maybe. I'm still not 100% convinced. Sounds like the same old beating around the bush we've been getting for the past ten years to me.

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And yuck at that Pachyrhinosaurus prototype. What is with people and giving them horns on their noses?
 
but there's no way you can say the same for the Pteranodons. I think I'm willing to flat out say that they are the most impressive CGI in the three movies by far.

Okay I admit they looked pretty good, especially on Blu-ray.

And something that bothers me about JP3 is that the T-rex is all green when he fights the Spino, what's up with that? :P

As seen here..
 
Okay I admit they looked pretty good, especially on Blu-ray.

And something that bothers me about JP3 is that the T-rex is all green when he fights the Spino, what's up with that? :P

As seen here..
It's hard to compare the T.rex's CG model to its practical counterpart in JP3 as it's not in the movie long enough, but it definitely looked off.

I do not consider jp3 jp movie. It was bad bad knock off by amateurs.

Amateurs like ILM and Stan Winston Studios.

It's not a good movie, but I think it had more to do with the development problems than specifically who was making the movie.
 
I think the idea of the jp3 trex was that it is a different breed of trex then the ones we saw in previous films. At least that's the canon explanation.
 
Just got out of a local re-screening of JP1 again and it held up really well. Feels good seeing it in theater for the first time it came out what, 20 or so years ago?

Brought back memories, had a good time
 
It's not a good movie, but I think it had more to do with the development problems than specifically who was making the movie.

I blame Joe Johnston. Man is a hack. One good movie in The Rocketeer and a passable one in Captain America are the only redeeming aspects of his resume.
 
I heard that theory but it doesn't make too much sense because it couldn't have grown into adulthood and changed its skin color within 4 years. Plus that would be really sad

While not completely accurate in size, a young T.rex came grow to enormous sizes within 4 years. Their crazy growth spur starts around 11 years old.
 
Speaking of Jurassic Park dinosaur inaccuracies, there's one in particular that always kind of bugged me that no one really seems to notice. The Dilophosaurus head:
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Would have taken Crash two seconds to reference the actual skull. I really don't see how you could miss the snaggletooth hook to its upper jaw.

Not anywhere near as egregious as some of the other examples (Velociraptors and Pteranodon in particular), but it just seems like an odd thing to ignore.
 
I actually just saw this movie on bluray last night for the first time in a decade and I must say it still holds up extremely well even today. Very few of the special effects look dated and the dinosaurs look just as real today as they did back in 1993. It's amazing how poorly special effects went downhill after this movie. Too bad the sequels are garbage but I will watch them tonight just for fun.

Its about knowing the limits of what your effects can do and shooting around that. Directors today feel you can film any shot, any angle, any lighting, anything and add cg or totally create a shot in cg. This is what leads to problems.
 
I wish we could get another Jurassic Park novel.

Maybe by that guy who worked with Del Toro on The Strain. He writes like Critchon, plus knows a bit about horror and monsters after working with Del Toro.
 
So, favorite Jurassic Park game? Most people growing up loved the Genesis one; it was a shooter, and you could play as a Raptor. But I had the Super NES original, and it was amazing. A 'large' open world, and plenty to explore. It was also insanely tough, had difficult to manage first person areas in doors, but that made it all the more scary and fun.

I played the Sega CD version of the game, which was basically a point and click adventure. Really entertaining when I was 12, but I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy it now. I also had the Game Boy version of the game, which was a port of the NES version. It shared some of the Super NES graphics, but was broken down into levels.

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