Don't you find it ironic that some fans will use "your" toyline as an excuse that an actual JP film employs a similiar premise?
At least the Chaos Effect designs were inspired.
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At least the Chaos Effect designs were inspired.
Shogmaster
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Hybrid ideas existed before Chaos Effect I'm sure, but I'm talking purely on esthetic design right now. The Chaos Effect approach was simplistic Chimera like hybrids, so perhaps it's easier to make for more visually interesting designs, but the JW hybrid just rubs me the wrong way.
More_Badass
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What renders? From the site? I thought only the Rex, Triceratops, and one other was unlocks
Demoncarnotaur
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About the Hybrids look:
So, I totally get the lack of enthusiasm.
Also, shogmaster, check your PMs
You know the Primeval Giganotosaurus, and then Rudy from ice age 3? Mix them together.
So, I totally get the lack of enthusiasm.
Also, shogmaster, check your PMs
Shogmaster
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My job allows me to see more. That's all I'll say. I don't want to get fired.
Cow Mengde
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Dumb and lazy, sounds like Jurassic World.
Its real
brandonh83
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You really shouldn't.
I'm pretty sure the insurance company won't let Pratt anywhere near a real raptor.
Hope I can see it in the movie too!
Calcium
Banned
Same here. I was apprehensive about the raptor taming initially, but now I'm on board. That picture is awesome.
Gambit 1138
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Made up creatures and domesticated raptors totally killed my hype for this film.
Anton Sugar
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Raptors ain't tamed, y'all. They're more like wolves, not dogs. Wolves and humans can get along/be trained, but that doesn't mean they're dogs.
If anything, this makes them more like real animals vs predators whose sole goal is killing humans.
If anything, this makes them more like real animals vs predators whose sole goal is killing humans.
This needs to happen.
HP_Wuvcraft
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That actually sounds like a great look. Not the same old thing, but still resembles what it was cooked up with.
I'm wondering if people even bothered to read the synopsis. You know it's about Jurassic Park as a working theme park, and yet you expect the dinosaurs to be untamed? And you expect there to be no new Disneyfied dinosaurs?
They've said it again that the Raptors are not tamed/domesticated. They're pretty much like Crocodiles/Alligators and Chris Pratt is the Croc Hunter.
Anyway, after rewatching the JP Trilogy recently, I've decided to rethink my ordering of the films in terms of enjoyability.
Obviously it goes without saying that JP1 sits at a level far faaaar above the sequels, so much so that it feels out of place.
However, in retrospect I actually think that JP3 was much much more enjoyable a film than JP2.
JP2 just does not feel like a cohesive film. Its structure and pacing is all over the place, from the lackluster beginning with the nonchalant way they introduce the second island out of nowhere, to the cast of characters that feel as if they're playing parodies or are so out of place. Jeff Goldblum is also a terrible actor in this film. In the first he was fine as the goofy guy, and here he tries to be serious and goofy and it just really doesn't work.
Like I said earlier, I think someone else put it best that this film feels like a bunch of ideas people came up with on a whiteboard of Dino's attacking people in various situations and trying to tie them all together with sloppy duct-tape. Compared to the original especially, it just feels like such an empty and shallow viewing experience. I mean, some of the deaths are just so mind-numblingly dumb I suppose it is meant to be hilarious, like that one guy i mentioned earlier who is hiding with everyone from a T-Rex, but gets spooked by a snake and runs right into the T-Rex's mouth.
I'll even go as far as to say that Dr. Sarah is a worse character in this film than the mother Amanda in JP3. She's supposed to be a freaking scientist and expert yet she does so many stupid things it's not even funny (where as Amanda is just a witless mom).
JP3, while having as stupid a scenario as you can come up with, at least feels like it's moving towards some discernible goals (Get to the Island, Find/Rescue the kid, escape). It also has a leaner cast, Sam Neil is just a much better character than Goldblum even though he's obviously not giving it his all given the film's circumstances, and short runtime so it doesn't overstay its welcome, although it has an ending that sort of fizzles out. I think JP3 actually works because it makes no effort to hide the fact that you want Tea Leoni to get eaten due to her stupidity, and if she had been, I think people would have remembered the film more fondly.
I remember someone comparing the Plane sequence in JP3 to the Trailer sequence in JP2, and I don't think that works. The Trailer sequence in JP2 over the cliff just went ON and ON and ON, I mean, how many times did they climb up only to fall back down again? The Plane sequence in JP3 was over pretty quickly in comparison.
But yeah, the Spinosaurus "teleporting" everywhere in the film and pursuing them like a deranged psycho was quite out there.
I just so hope that Trevorrow really identified just what went so obviously wrong with JP2 and 3 and doesn't repeat things.
Demoncarnotaur
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I'm still trying to figure out of this is one of the JW raptors.
In all the stuff I have seen so far, Pratt always looks super serious. I hope that isn't the case in the actual movie.
Anton Sugar
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I'm still trying to figure out of this is one of the JW raptors.
Looks kinda like this one (LEGO leak): https://raptordash.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/lego-jurassic-world-2015-11.jpg
The Driver
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Yoooooo tell me why I just looked up the Jurassic World book (collected edition of JP & TLW) and this shit is going for $100+ used.
I was just thinking, "why does Jurassic World sound so natural?" , then I remembered the book. I used to rent it all the time from the library growing up.
I was just thinking, "why does Jurassic World sound so natural?" , then I remembered the book. I used to rent it all the time from the library growing up.
Haven't heard of it, but then again I get most of my JP news from GAF :/
Demoncarnotaur
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That's just referring to what leaked on Instagram before the real thing. Which I suspect the Super Bowl trailer will be based upon.
Btw, after the Super Bowl I believe the next big footage drop will be the Kids Choice Awards.
Demoncarnotaur
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New footage!
I'm loving the more mysterious vibe.
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Jurassic World trailer recreated with Legos!
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Better look at the Velociraptors:
I'm loving the more mysterious vibe.
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Jurassic World trailer recreated with Legos!
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Better look at the Velociraptors:
a secret-boss
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raptor size?
so Raptor vs this new dino. Like JP3
so Raptor vs this new dino. Like JP3
No. It's big. Like the Rex.
jesus christ those eyes on the t-rex tho
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
This is fantastic.
Delta Assault
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Looks like an Allosaurus with some spikes on his back.
Razgriz-Specter
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Has Rex's eye area always been that sunken in?
WordAssassin
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I'm about 99.9% sure that those are spines coming out of its arms, not feathers. Or quills. Something, but not feathers.
They look a bit too thick and fuzzy to be spines.
WordAssassin
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I think they look fuzzy because of the low image quality. I mean, I don't have a problem with feathers VS no feathers, if they're feathers than whatever I don't have a dog in that fight, I just really don't think they're feathers. Even on the leaked toy they're spikes with no printing on them. Plus none of the animals the dinosaur was created with have feathers so I don't know why it would when none of the other dinosaurs do.
HP_Wuvcraft
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To make it look like an actual thing that could actually exist.
Now are we going to start complaining that it looks too good?
looks fantastic!
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