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[Jobbs]

A little premature I think.

cartoony CG, pet raptors... not entirely premature.

Sweet. Which scenes was it used in? I'm guessing head close-ups.

probably closeups or specific shots where characters are close to it, such as the glass roof of the jeep scene.

 

[bananafactory]

It's not like there was ever a previous catastrophic dinosaur escape to learn from./s

Sweet. Which scenes was it used in? I'm guessing head close-ups.

This amazing shot for sure

And of course lambchops

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

I'm still a little disappointed that we never got the raptors with guns JP4.

 

[Green Mamba]

I think the main thing that bugs me about the mutant dinosaur is that Jurassic Park did make some efforts to depict dinosaurs as animals, not just monsters. It did step over the line into making some of them into ridiculous super animals, but barring some of the stupider moments of JPIII, I think they did a pretty good job in comparison to what you would expect from Hollywood.

This mutant thing shifts it entirely in the other direction. It's the focal point of the movie and it's an actual ridiculous super animal and is portrayed as such. The mere idea is enough to put me off to the point that I don't think any amount of execution could sell me on it. It's a literal monster movie now.

 

[GameAddict411]

looks like shit, or the trailer was made by a bunch of monkeys.

 

[LaserBuddha]

I think the main thing that bugs me about the mutant dinosaur is that Jurassic Park did make some efforts to depict dinosaurs as animals, not just monsters. It did step over the line into making some of them into ridiculous super animals, but barring some of the stupider moments of JPIII, I think they did a pretty good job in comparison to what you would expect from Hollywood.

This mutant thing shifts it entirely in the other direction. It's the focal point of the movie and it's an actual ridiculous super animal and is portrayed as such. The mere idea is enough to put me off to the point that I don't think any amount of execution could sell me on it. It's a literal monster movie now.

You havent seen the animal nor how it behaves.

 

[sn00zer]

The craziest part of this image is how little rigging their was in the CG model

 

[Green Mamba]

You havent seen the animal nor how it behaves.

That has little to do with what I said. I have issue with what it is, conceptually, flat out.

 

[Surface of Me]

I think the main thing that bugs me about the mutant dinosaur is that Jurassic Park did make some efforts to depict dinosaurs as animals, not just monsters. It did step over the line into making some of them into ridiculous super animals, but barring some of the stupider moments of JPIII, I think they did a pretty good job in comparison to what you would expect from Hollywood.

This mutant thing shifts it entirely in the other direction. It's the focal point of the movie and it's an actual ridiculous super animal and is portrayed as such. The mere idea is enough to put me off to the point that I don't think any amount of execution could sell me on it. It's a literal monster movie now.

Reading the interviews, it seems the natural Dinos will be seen as normal animals like you want, and Disables Rex is just a monster.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Won't happen but that trailer has me really hoping Hasbro attempts a Vintage Collection style toyline for Jurassic World.

New figures of all the characters from JP1 on the old JP1 cardbacks all with a baby dinosaur and a trading card like the originals all had.

 

[rottingcore]

Am i the only person here who is completely unimpressed with the CGI on some of the dinosaurs? I'm struggling to find any good qualities of this movie from the trailer..

 

[Toxi]

You havent seen the animal nor how it behaves.

"She's a highly intelligent animal. She'll kill anything that moves."

So basically, the D-Rex is a slasher movie villain.

Am i the only person here who is completely unimpressed with the CGI on some of the dinosaurs? I'm struggling to find any good qualities of this movie from the trailer..

The CGI was really bad. It didn't help that a lot of the scenes were daytime ones with the sun shining; the raptor scene is still pretty ugly, but at least the darkness helps.

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

cartoony CG, pet raptors... not entirely premature.

How in the hell is the CG cartoony? Do you understand what cartoony means?

And you seriously don't see how declaring the movie shit when all we've seen is a two minute trailer is a bit premature?

 

[LaserBuddha]

That has little to do with what I said. I have issue with what it is, conceptually, flat out.

It sounds just like the carnotaurus in Crichton's Lost World. Conceptually it is a mixture of different animals' DNA like every dinosaur in every JP movie.

 

[Jarmel]

Some interesting excerpts from the director:

Two things came to the surface.

One was that money has been the gasoline in the engine of our biggest mistakes. If there are billions to be made, no one can resist them, even if they know things could end horribly.

The other was that our relationship with technology has become so woven into our daily lives, we’ve become numb to the scientific miracles around us. We take so much for granted.

Those two ideas felt like they could work together. What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves.

I actually thought about this earlier tonight. The writing in the film seems to mirror the actual writing process in Hollywood. Producers who don't know better, try to dictate all these crazy things to drive sales up.

"Add in more destruction!"
"Where is the romance?"
"Why isn't this male character topless in this scene?"

It doesn't matter about the quality of the work or the consequences, as long as their profit margins keep improving. Producers feel like they have to come up with gimmicks in order to draw people into theaters, while attendance keeps dropping.

 

[Superflat]

looks like shit, or the trailer was made by a bunch of monkeys.

My head hurts

cartoony CG, pet raptors... not entirely premature.

Unfinished CG, reportedly not domesticated raptors. I dunno man.

I think the main thing that bugs me about the mutant dinosaur is that Jurassic Park did make some efforts to depict dinosaurs as animals, not just monsters. It did step over the line into making some of them into ridiculous super animals, but barring some of the stupider moments of JPIII, I think they did a pretty good job in comparison to what you would expect from Hollywood.

This mutant thing shifts it entirely in the other direction. It's the focal point of the movie and it's an actual ridiculous super animal and is portrayed as such. The mere idea is enough to put me off to the point that I don't think any amount of execution could sell me on it. It's a literal monster movie now.

From the director when asked about "good" and "bad" dinos:

There’s no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in Jurassic Park took human lives, and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad. This film is about our relationship with animals, how we react to the threat they pose to our dominance on earth as a species. We hunt them, we cage them in zoos, we admire them from afar and we try to assert control over them.

I know the idea of a modified dinosaur put a lot of fans on red alert, and I understand it. But we aren’t doing anything here that Crichton didn’t suggest in his novels. This animal is not a mutant freak. It doesn’t have a snake’s head or octopus tentacles. It’s a dinosaur, created in the same way the others were, but now the genetics have gone to the next level.

It could be lip service, but it would be idiotic to know this is what people want but not do it. Cautiously optimistic.

 

[Deleted member 10571]

WAT at that last scene......

SO fucking amazing I loved it! This will be a stupid fun amazing movie feat. Star-Lord and dinosaur fight.

Gimme now!

Edit: Also FINALLY Stegosaurus

 

[BravesCountry]

Does anyone else think it would take way longer than 10 years for people to get bored of the fact that there is a park for freaking dinosaurs!?? I mean come on, people still regularly go to the zoo and those are just regular animals, and only 10 years in a huge amount of the world would never have even gotten to visit this park yet and see creatures no other generation has ever seen before. Also, the unprecedented access to the animals and the fact that they have some monstrous aquatic creature would draw extraordinarily well.

 

[LaserBuddha]

"She's a highly intelligent animal. She'll kill anything that moves."

So basically, the D-Rex is a slasher movie villain.

Or it thinks like a velociraptor since it has velociraptor DNA to make it smarter, and that quote also perfectly describes the velociraptors in all of these films.

I dont get it. A big dangerous predator is loose and people are running from it. What we've seen is what is in every JP movie. You guys are reaching to see something different in it that this teaser hasnt shown you.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

I think the main thing that bugs me about the mutant dinosaur is that Jurassic Park did make some efforts to depict dinosaurs as animals, not just monsters. It did step over the line into making some of them into ridiculous super animals, but barring some of the stupider moments of JPIII, I think they did a pretty good job in comparison to what you would expect from Hollywood.

This mutant thing shifts it entirely in the other direction. It's the focal point of the movie and it's an actual ridiculous super animal and is portrayed as such. The mere idea is enough to put me off to the point that I don't think any amount of execution could sell me on it. It's a literal monster movie now.

Something tells me she will more of a man made mutant, that acts like an animal. As opposed to the JP3 Spino which was an abomination which acted like a monster.

 

[Toxi]

It sounds just like the carnotaurus in Crichton's Lost World. Conceptually it is a mixture of different animals' DNA like every dinosaur in every JP movie.

The carnotaurus weren't super-predators that killed everything. They were skittish ambush hunters who could be deterred just by shining lights at them.

Or it thinks like a velociraptor since it has velociraptor DNA to make it smarter, and that quote also perfectly describes the velociraptors in all of these films.

That was one of the things I liked least about the original Jurassic Park, though at least that film made them work pretty damn well as monsters.

My issue is more about a shift in focus from a widespread catastrophe (all the dinosaurs are loose!) to a single superpowered villain sneaking around and picking people off. It feels like a regression of sorts.

 

[Superflat]

Something tells me she will more of a man made mutant, that acts like an animal. As opposed to the JP3 Spino which was an abomination which acted like a monster.

JP3's Spinosaur was hilariously persistent. Followed the tiny band of humans across the whole island and they didn't even try to mask it as coincidence.

 

[Toxi]

Edit: Also FINALLY Stegosaurus

Oooh, forgot those were never in the movies before. Well that's something interesting.

 

[LaserBuddha]

The carnotaurus weren't super-predators that killed everything. They were skittish ambush hunters who could be deterred just by shining lights at them.

we have 6ft tall velociraptors and not a feather in sight, but a creature sharing the imagined "abilities" of the carnotaurus per Michael Crichton while being more aggressive than a carnotaurus is a problem. Mind you the dinosaurs it is made of (trex and raptor) are also aggressive hunters.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

This does not look very good.

 

[Caddywompus]

Or it thinks like a velociraptor since it has velociraptor DNA to make it smarter, and that quote also perfectly describes the velociraptors in all of these films.

I dont get it. A big dangerous predator is loose and people are running from it. What we've seen is what is in every JP movie. You guys are reaching to see something different in it that this teaser hasnt shown you.

People are connecting the dots between making a dinosaur attraction more entertaining by creating a hybrid that will rip apart anything at a moments notice instead of watching a chained goat not being eaten by a T-Rex to now this extreme carnivore in action is loose and it doesn't kill only to feed.

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

"She's a highly intelligent animal. She'll kill anything that moves."

So basically, the D-Rex is a slasher movie villain.

The raptors in Jurassic Park were highly intelligent animals that killed anything that moved.

OH MY GOD JURASSIC PARK IS SUCH A HORRIBLE MOVIE, DINOSAURS ARE JUST GENERIC SLASHER MOVIE VILLAINS.

I mean the only movie where dinosaurs were portrayed as anything except crazy killing machines was, get this, Jurassic Park 3. So by your logic, that must be the only JP movie that isn't shit.

Furthermore, I think it's worth pointing out that you're all complaining about the D-Rex being nothing more than a crazy killing machine while also complaining about the raptors being tamed instead of being the crazy killing machines you loved in the original movie. So which is it? Do you want the dinosaurs to be treated like real animals, or do you want them to just be crazy killing machines? Or is it just one of those situations where if you get A you want B and vice versa, and there's absolutely no chance that you'll ever be happy?

 

[TheSadRanger]

Oooh, forgot those were never in the movies before. Well that's something interesting.

Stego's were in TLW, remember Julianne Moore tried to pet a baby one and the parents got pissed and attacked her.

 

[Jarmel]

None of the genetic splicing for D-Rex makes a fucking lick of sense unless the D-Rex is a bio-weapon.

Why the fuck would you make your attraction have the ability to become invisible? People paid money to see the damn animal in the first place.

How does being intelligent help grab an audience's attention? Are they planning on the D-Rex sitting down and having a conversation on the meaning of life?

I can understand stuff like making the D-Rex faster and bigger. That makes sense. Hell, throw in gimmicks like being able to swallow prey like a snake and more teeth. Those make sense for a new attraction. What the scientists are doing in JW flat out doesn't make sense unless it's a bioweapon.

 

[LaserBuddha]

My issue is more about a shift in focus from a widespread catastrophe (all the dinosaurs are loose!) to a single superpowered villain sneaking around and picking people off. It feels like a regression of sorts.

Well we have no idea how many dinosaurs get loose, but considering the hundreds of civilians we see running for their lives, its arguably a bigger catatrosphe than any of the previous films so far. I mean either this is a rehash of the first film, or a rehash of 2/3, or they try something different than the dinosaurs all overrunning the island. Ill take door #3

 

[antonz]

JP3's Spinosaur was hilariously persistent. Followed the tiny band of humans across the whole island and they didn't even try to mask it as coincidence.

That thing was an abomination. They go out of their way to establish the dinosaurs established their own territories etc. How all the various animals basically respected the T-Rex territory and stayed away but oh no not the Spinosaur. It loved T-Rex smell and actively came around when it detected a T-rex.

Horner is garbage sometimes. He admits he pushed the whole scavenger thing just to be different for the sake of being different then takes what was more then likely little more than a fish/ tiny dinosaur eater into some Serial Killer Monster who relishes the chance for fights with T-Rex and stalks people around an entire ecosystem

 

[orochi91]

we have 6ft tall velociraptors and not a feather in sight, but a creature sharing the imagined "abilities" of the carnotaurus per Michael Crichton while being more aggressive than a carnotaurus is a problem. Mind you the dinosaurs it is made of (trex and raptor) are also aggressive hunters.

I like the idea of a hybrid monster.

Though I'd love to see it with some human DNA tossed in.

Some of the concept arts posted here are phenomenal.

 

[Surface of Me]

The raptors in Jurassic Park were highly intelligent animals that killed anything that moved.

OH MY GOD JURASSIC PARK IS SUCH A HORRIBLE MOVIE, DINOSAURS ARE JUST GENERIC SLASHER MOVIE VILLAINS.

I mean the only movie where dinosaurs were portrayed as anything except crazy killing machines was, get this, Jurassic Park 3. So by your logic, that must be the only JP movie that isn't shit.

Furthermore, I think it's worth pointing out that you're all complaining about the D-Rex being nothing more than a crazy killing machine while also complaining about the raptors being tamed instead of being the crazy killing machines you loved in the original movie. So which is it? Do you want the dinosaurs to be treated like real animals, or do you want them to just be crazy killing machines? Or is it just one of those situations where if you get A you want B and vice versa, and there's absolutely no chance that you'll ever be happy?

JP2 had the whole baby T-Rex thing going on

 

[Toxi]

People are connecting the dots between making a dinosaur attraction more entertaining by creating a hybrid that will rip apart anything at a moments notice instead of watching a chained goat not being eaten by a T-Rex to now this extreme carnivore in action is loose and it doesn't kill only to feed.

"She'll kill anything that moves."

And it's already loose in the trailer.

 

[RE_Player]

Listen I understand peoples love for Jurassic Park and their desire for another film that will capture the majesty that the original did the first time you watched it but c'mon. How can anyone in their right mind watch that trailer and think this will be a legitimately good movie?

That being said it looks better than 3 which is not saying much.

 

[Toxi]

The raptors in Jurassic Park were highly intelligent animals that killed anything that moved.

OH MY GOD JURASSIC PARK IS SUCH A HORRIBLE MOVIE, DINOSAURS ARE JUST GENERIC SLASHER MOVIE VILLAINS.

I mean the only movie where dinosaurs were portrayed as anything except crazy killing machines was, get this, Jurassic Park 3. So by your logic, that must be the only JP movie that isn't shit.

Furthermore, I think it's worth pointing out that you're all complaining about the D-Rex being nothing more than a crazy killing machine while also complaining about the raptors being tamed instead of being the crazy killing machines you loved in the original movie. So which is it? Do you want the dinosaurs to be treated like real animals, or do you want them to just be crazy killing machines? Or is it just one of those situations where if you get A you want B and vice versa, and there's absolutely no chance that you'll ever be happy?

It's almost like different people have different complaints about the movie.

Honestly, this is the least of the problems with the trailer. The JP raptors are animals, and it's nice to see them treated as animals instead of unstoppable super monsters.

Of course, all that goes out the window when they look like bipedal iguanas and run as fast as cheetahs and are as smart as chimpanzees.

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

JP2 had the whole baby T-Rex thing going on

After which, the T-Rexes proceeded to try to kill everyone anyway.

 

[Green Mamba]

It sounds just like the carnotaurus in Crichton's Lost World. Conceptually it is a mixture of different animals' DNA like every dinosaur in every JP movie.

The Carnotaurus in TLW were absurd and not something to be emulated. But beyond that, the other animals of Jurassic Park are modified in minor ways that affect things like sexual reproduction and diet and are, ostensibly, animals that once existed. They're not completely accurate, of course not, but they are actual animals. It's a good starting point at the very least.

Indominus or whatever its name is is a wholly original monster with the combined abilities of many different animals of Jurassic Park. I don't think it's necessarily comparable to what's come before--the Spinosaurus was a monster with the pretensions of being an animal, but the mutant is a monster with no pretensions. A step in the other direction would have been preferable.

 

[The Driver]

SO fucking amazing I loved it! This will be a stupid fun amazing movie feat. Star-Lord and dinosaur fight.

Gimme now!

Edit: Also FINALLY Stegosaurus

Did you not watch The Lost World? lol they even got a little setpiece with Sarah.

Honestly, I'm really optimistic for this, the director is taking the criticisms head on, I just hope that the movie delivers on the thrills and feels instead of just boring "run from dinosaurs". I want more stuff like

T.Rex feeding in the rain
the kitchen scene
the dinosaur skeleton/raptor scene
Double T.Rex/Trailer/Cliff
the rundown village and raptor scene (barring the silly gymnastic bit)

Stuff with tangible weight and a good use of the environment it's set in. Fuck Jurassic Park 3.

 

[Loakum]

The premise is very b-movie worthy.

 

[Superflat]

Does anyone else think it would take way longer than 10 years for people to get bored of the fact that there is a park for freaking dinosaurs!?? I mean come on, people still regularly go to the zoo and those are just regular animals, and only 10 years in a huge amount of the world would never have even gotten to visit this park yet and see creatures no other generation has ever seen before. Also, the unprecedented access to the animals and the fact that they have some monstrous aquatic creature would draw extraordinarily well.

A few factors could create it. One would be that it's difficult to get to. You have to fly to Costa Rica, and take another boat trip to get there. Costa Rica is nowhere near as accessible as say, Southern CA.

I feel like children drive zoo attendances. They are often primary audience and the reason parents take them is because they are safe and educational. I can see how many parents would think twice about taking their toddlers and kids, even if there were no reported incidents because of the stigma that they are dangerous monsters. Another reason would be the inevitable faction of people who are avidly against Jurassic World and their playing God by bringing back dinosaurs.

There's plenty of baggage to discourage the average family from spending thousands simply to visit when all is said and done.

And in this day and age where everything is instagram'ed and youtube'd it's kinda plausible that they could be seen as simply a novelty zoo.

 

[Lakershead22]

I am definitely going to watch Jurassic World. I think it looks like a fun movie and I don't care if people say it's not.

 

[ElTopo]

Looks better than the last 2 sequels.

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

Listen I understand peoples love for Jurassic Park and their desire for another film that will capture the majesty that the original did the first time you watched it but c'mon. How can anyone in their right mind watch that trailer and think this will be a legitimately good movie?

That being said it looks better than 3 which is not saying much.

I honestly don't understand what people hate about this trailer so much.

I think the CGI looks perfectly fine, and I'm sure it'll look even better in the final movie.

I think the writing sounds pretty much like what you'd expect from any movie trailer.

I think the giant water dino looks awesome and terrifying and I can't wait to see what they do with it.

And I think that Chris Pratt hunting down the D-Rex with raptors at his side sounds awesome.

I feel like I watched a completely different trailer than you guys.

 

[neorej]

SO fucking amazing I loved it! This will be a stupid fun amazing movie feat. Star-Lord and dinosaur fight.

Gimme now!

Edit: Also FINALLY Stegosaurus

 

[The Driver]

I know we are all still hung up on the whole D. Rex thing, is it stupid or not, but THINK ABOUT THE MUSIC Y'ALL.

This shit needs to live up to Williams's amazing scores for the first two movies. God damn, can you think of more hummable and memorable shit I DOUBT IT.

Michael Giacchino has a fucking MOUNTAIN to climb and I seriously doubt he'll make it. Nothing in anything I've seen from him has really impressed me or stuck with me but I really hope he can prove me wrong.

 

[More_Badass]

Listen I understand peoples love for Jurassic Park and their desire for another film that will capture the majesty that the original did the first time you watched it but c'mon. How can anyone in their right mind watch that trailer and think this will be a legitimately good movie?

That being said it looks better than 3 which is not saying much.

Nothing is ever going to capture that sense of awe and majesty. A lot of that came from the then-unknown tech creating something that has never been seen before. That technology is commonplace today.

But I do think this looks like a good movie. I love the premise, it sounds true to the books and orignal movie, and it looks like it'll be a fun entertaining film

And really that's what it comes down to, right? Being entertained and having an enjoyable experience? The other stuff is icing on the cake.

 

[Delta Assault]

I know we are all still hung up on the whole D. Rex thing, is it stupid or not, but THINK ABOUT THE MUSIC Y'ALL.

This shit needs to live up to Williams's amazing scores for the first two movies. God damn, can you think of more hummable and memorable shit I DOUBT IT.

Michael Giacchino has a fucking MOUNTAIN to climb and I seriously doubt he'll make it. Nothing in anything I've seen from him has really impressed me or stuck with me but I really hope he can prove me wrong.

I liked his work in Lost. I mean, that music really fit Lost and gave it its own identity.

But outside of that, yeah I'm with you. Never really been impressed with his film work. Definitely didn't care for his Star Trek theme.

 

[Allforce]

Why is this thread referring to this new genetically-crafted dinosaur as the "D-Rex"? Fairly confident it has been established the name was changed to "Indominus Rex"

I mean we have a Gaffer here on this very page (Demoncarnotaur) who is an insider and has been feeding us info on this project for months and months, all this info about the new dino isn't suddenly coming to light thanks to this trailer.

 

[Zoned]

Man that CGI looks really bad. Not to say same cliche dialogues. Not impressed at all.