DonMigs85
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Don't forget the hand that pulls down the raptor's tail before it enters the kitchen.
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JURASSIC PARK - A Thread 65 Million Years In The Making
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Don't forget the hand that pulls down the raptor's tail before it enters the kitchen.
I think I found a new favorite thread. JP is my favorite movie of all time. LW is ok... and I don't even consider 3 canon.
I remember watching a review of the movie by Siskel & Ebert, and they said the chase/horror aspect of the movie doesn't allow it to live up to its potential. I wonder if they were aware of the source material, and overall message.
I hope they make a JP4, with some great actors, and screenwriters who don't turn the movie into a slapstick comedy
I remember watching a review of the movie by Siskel & Ebert, and they said the chase/horror aspect of the movie doesn't allow it to live up to its potential. I wonder if they were aware of the source material, and overall message.
I hope they make a JP4, with some great actors, and screenwriters who don't turn the movie into a slapstick comedy
FantasticMrFoxdie
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What you guys think, JP4 or a reboot?
crazy monkey
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None of the above. If jp4 please be like 1.
Dinosaurs resurrected by meteor from space.
No, never. JP4... but only if it takes place on Isla Nublar
The first rule of Jurassic Park?
I agree.
HP_Wuvcraft
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I remember reading on AICN years ago how JP4 was going to have an army of intelligent dinosaurs with rocket launchers and shit.
Such a funny concept.
Such a funny concept.
I think the "ruined" look of Isla Nublar what have a bigger impact than the ruined Isla Sorna because fans would have the contrast in their mind already... seeing familiar things would spark stronger feelings.
Freeza Under The Shower
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there are not enough magazine racks in the world to express my feelings right now.
SlipperySlope
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I still find it funny they were considering claymation. CLAYMATION. Baffles the mind.
HP_Wuvcraft
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It really puts time into perspective, doesn't it? We take for granted that special effects have always existed in some form or another.
It's a bit sad that they built this huge amazing animatronic but in the film you mostly see only half of it in the T-Rex paddock scene.
MarkMclovin
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Has anyone posted the slowed down theme tune yet? That's awesome.
Gamer @ Heart
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I finally got around to reading the books a couple months ago and was surprised at how different they were.
The second books setting would make such an amazing fucking video game. Open worldish, dino territories you have to learn and be aware about, nature encroached facilities dotted all over the island. It would be terrifying and awesome to get around anywhere.
The second books setting would make such an amazing fucking video game. Open worldish, dino territories you have to learn and be aware about, nature encroached facilities dotted all over the island. It would be terrifying and awesome to get around anywhere.
SentientStone
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How would you guys react if they were to do a reboot of the franchise, but now with dinosaurs... with feathers for accuracy!? ;p
I'd be outraged.
I would be forced to kill someone.
SentientStone
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JP3 already did that.
Are those feathers (looks more like hair)? I actually don't really remember if I watched Jurassic Park 3 or not, that had Stegosaurus in it, right?
Actually if they do it right, maybe it won't be so bad:
But then again... my iconic T-rex.
:'(
But then again... my iconic T-rex.
:'(
That one's too fat.. this one is good:
There are doubts about the larger beasts and feathers, though.
Fix The Scientist
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Feel sorry for today's kids having to grow up with feathered dinosaurs.
All kidding aside, yes I do. I go to dinosaur movies to see real creatures, not sci-fi. I don't want them to use cell phones and I don't want them to look different from what recent scientific discoveries suggest. Part of the fun of reading and watching JP were the included real-life discussions about how dinosaurs acted and looked, debates that were going on in scientific circles at the time. It brings a whole other level of immersion and glee because it's unbelievable but believable.
Dinosaurs have feathers, any movie that is at all attempting any sort of realism and not be a cartoon should have dinos with feathers. There is no reason they shouldn't have feathers. If you want a realistic looking dinosaur they need to have feathers since well they had them.
You shouldn't let nostalgia trump facts.
Find a science textbook produced for schools that mention dinosaurs. None of them in print lack feathers now. It makes no sense to keep up that charade when kids are being taught that dinos had feathers. Why confuse people?
You shouldn't let nostalgia trump facts.
Find a science textbook produced for schools that mention dinosaurs. None of them in print lack feathers now. It makes no sense to keep up that charade when kids are being taught that dinos had feathers. Why confuse people?
You are forgetting one important fact: the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are not dinosaurs. They were designer recreations continuously updated in software iterations by Henry Wu to more closely resemble the public's preconceived expectations of how dinosaurs looked and acted. He did so under the orders of John Hammond himself. When Grant called them genetically designed monsters in JP3 he wasn't far off.
I wonder why the sign is covered up in that one picture.
Perhaps to shield it from rain or something?
Anton Sugar
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Spielberg should just release JP "enhanced" editions with feathers CGI'ed on all the dinos.
Green Mamba
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Which is funny, because a big part of what made Jurassic Park what it was was the bringing the new, modern image of dinosaurs into the public light--active, bird like animals instead of swamp bound tail dragging lizards. Strange that so many Jurassic Park fans are so against what a big part of the original movie was about. It's like they completely ignored Alan Grant at the beginning.
"No wonder these guys learned how to fly."
Even the ones like Brachiosaurus, which most assuredly did not have feathers?
The Lamonster
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And walkie talkies in their clawed hands.
Anton Sugar
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The real reason Muldoon died. He wasn't carrying a shotgun at all!
Have feathers been found on any large herbivores yet?
Green Mamba
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No. We know Sauropods (long necked dinosaurs) were covered in scales, even as infants. Thyreophorans (armored dinosaurs like Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus) were scale covered too, as were Hadrosaurs (duck bills).
Well, recent evidence suggests Triceratops may have had quills on its tail similar to its early relative Psittacosaurus, but they're probably not analogous to feathers. Probably. Most of its body was covered in scales though.
In fact, the "only" dinosaurs that there is direct evidence of feathers for are the Coeulurosaurs, a rather large group of Theropods.
What this all means for Jurassic Park as a series would be that Tyrannosaurus may have had feathers (fluffy downy stuff if any), Velociraptor absolutely did (full blown bird feathers there), Gallimimus probably did (though what kind remains to be seen, not likely fully bird feathers), and Compsognathus should (again, fluffy proto-feathers). And Triceratops may have had quills on its tail (not really feathers probably). The rest in the series (Spinosaurus, Dilophosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, etc.) are "in the clear" so to speak.
Freewheelin'
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One of my favourite films ever. Everything about it is amazing; the music, the atmosphere, the sense of awe and wonder. THIS is how you make a summer blockbuster.
Second one is alright, but I don't even consider the third one to be a true Jurassic Park film. I remember being so hyped for the third one
Second one is alright, but I don't even consider the third one to be a true Jurassic Park film. I remember being so hyped for the third one
I don't think the dinosaurs need to have feathers considering the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park aren't 'true' dinosaurs. The way it was handled in J3 was interesting, as the more the dinosaurs bred the chance of a mutation or inherited trait could show up. Regardless, there is no way to recreate an 100% authentic dinosaur... so why not keep the iconic appearances from the original movie.
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