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2015/04/21 10:57:30
Subject: New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
thatw ould be cool - one of the more suprising things about AVP2 was there willingness to do that or worse
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I remember reading something a while back that gave a list of the dinosaurs/animals used to make the hybrid. It was pretty silly. Now the official list is available, having dropped most of the animals, with more dinosaurs, but none of which have the killer characteristics that the Indominus Rex has.
The thing I love the most about Jurassic Park is that Crichton tried to make it as accurate as possible based on the information available. Jurassic World seems to want to do that, but the premise is too far out there. I think the trick here is to watch it not as the fourth Jurassic Park film, but as a standalone monster movie, inspired by Crichton's Jurassic Park
2015/04/22 03:13:49
Subject: New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
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Tim the Biovore wrote: I remember reading something a while back that gave a list of the dinosaurs/animals used to make the hybrid. It was pretty silly. Now the official list is available, having dropped most of the animals, with more dinosaurs, but none of which have the killer characteristics that the Indominus Rex has.
The thing I love the most about Jurassic Park is that Crichton tried to make it as accurate as possible based on the information available. Jurassic World seems to want to do that, but the premise is too far out there. I think the trick here is to watch it not as the fourth Jurassic Park film, but as a standalone monster movie, inspired by Crichton's Jurassic Park
Indeed, I'm approaching this thing entirely as a reboot.
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Tim the Biovore wrote: I remember reading something a while back that gave a list of the dinosaurs/animals used to make the hybrid. It was pretty silly. Now the official list is available, having dropped most of the animals, with more dinosaurs, but none of which have the killer characteristics that the Indominus Rex has.
The thing I love the most about Jurassic Park is that Crichton tried to make it as accurate as possible based on the information available. Jurassic World seems to want to do that, but the premise is too far out there. I think the trick here is to watch it not as the fourth Jurassic Park film, but as a standalone monster movie, inspired by Crichton's Jurassic Park
Where is the list?
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2015/04/23 04:48:27
Subject: New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
Tim the Biovore wrote: I remember reading something a while back that gave a list of the dinosaurs/animals used to make the hybrid. It was pretty silly. Now the official list is available, having dropped most of the animals, with more dinosaurs, but none of which have the killer characteristics that the Indominus Rex has.
The thing I love the most about Jurassic Park is that Crichton tried to make it as accurate as possible based on the information available. Jurassic World seems to want to do that, but the premise is too far out there. I think the trick here is to watch it not as the fourth Jurassic Park film, but as a standalone monster movie, inspired by Crichton's Jurassic Park
Where is the list?
I appear to have jumped the gun when I said it was a complete list (it's not). Found it on the Jurassic Park Wiki.
(I mention my thoughts regarding the list, tagged it in case anyone wants it to remain a mystery)
Spoiler:
The original list I saw claimed it to be a combination of Tyrannosaurus (size), Velociraptor (intelligence), cuttlefish (camouflage, presumably), and a venomous snake.
The new, semi-confirmed list is incomplete and so far consists of Gigantosaurus (for the size, I'd wager), Carnotaurus & Majungasaurus (for the bony crests you can see on its head and back), and Rugops (only thing we really know about this species is that it also had bony ridges and crests on its skull, but they don't know what function they could have served). The list definitely explains the bony crests and protrusions (Carnotaurus and Majungasaurus were VERY closely related, so that's probably the only reason they wanted them) but nothing as of yet explains why it seems to have aposable thumbs, hyper-intelligence, and a supposedly incredible ability to stalk despite its size.
I can forgive the snake still being a part of it, on the grounds that they had to use an extant species of reptile to host the dinosaur DNA, but I really, really hope that the cuttlefish was just made up. That's not the recipe for a theme park attraction; that's asking for something to go horribly wrong.
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2015/05/27 18:19:13
Subject: Re:New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
Chris Pratt goes on Facebook to apologize in advance for 'Jurassic World' press tour Knowing that he might very well spout nonsense as hundreds of journalists ask him inane questions, the actor gives advance warning.
So tell me, what was your character's motivation in running away from that vast dinosaur?
It's questions such as that which drive actors demented. Well, more demented than they already are.
When they're in a blockbuster movie, they must tour the world and answer the same questions time and again. Being American, they are unlikely to answer them in a foreign language, which makes the experience all the more numbing -- both for them and for readers.
Why, Robert Downey Jr. found himself out of iron when a British journalist tried to be creative and asked him, during an "Avengers: Age Of Ultron" interview, about his relationship with his father. He walked out.
All hail, then, Chris Pratt.
He's in the new "Jurassic World" movie. He knows that on his press tour he might say silly, politically incorrect, marginally nauseating things.
So he took to his Facebook page to apologize in advance. He said: "I want to make a heartfelt apology for whatever it is I end up accidentally saying during the forthcoming #JurassicWorld press tour."
It's moving that he thinks saying something untoward would be an accident. Couldn't it be a heartfelt, genuine expression of complete frustration?
However, his extreme self-knowledge actually brought tears to my eyes and a skip to my heart.
He said: "I am not in the business of making excuses. I am just dumb. Plain and simple. I try. I REALLY try! When I do (potentially) commit the offensive act for which I am now (pre) apologizing you must understand I (will likely have been) tired and exhausted when I (potentially) said that thing I (will have had) said that (will have had) crossed the line."
He explained that he has sympathy for those who set up the stuffy rooms, so sometimes he will say things to entertain them. These things might come out wrong for the sanctimonious others who will not understand.
His final thoughts were truly twisted poetry: "To those I (will have) offended please understand how truly sorry I already am. I am fully aware that the subject matter of my imminent forthcoming mistake, a blunder (possibly to be) dubbed "JurassicGate" is (most likely) in no way a laughing matter. To those I (will likely have had) offended rest assured I will do everything in my power to make sure this doesn't happen (again)."
I have never (consciously) seen a Chris Pratt movie. I did see both "Moneyball" and "Her," both of which he apparently adorned.
However (for today) Chris Pratt is my favorite actor.
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2015/05/27 18:48:47
Subject: New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
I am one such bad person. I am planning on renting it some time soon.
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I liked Man of Steel.
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That'll just let me be the big hero when I preemptively defeat the dinosaur riding nazis that have a secret base there.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
As a Marvelite through and through, I honestly think Man of Steel is as good as any MCU solo film, expect possibly TWS. All my interest in Suicide Squad has been killed, and I could go either way on DoJ (although I have high hopes), but MoS is just great.
I'm still in two minds about Jurassic World. On one hand, it has dinosaurs, Chris Pratt, and will undoubtedly be quite fun, but on the other, "it's killing for sport' and "it remembered where we put the tracker" don't fill me with confidence...
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2015/05/28 03:39:43
Subject: New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
Vermis wrote: The problem with this is that the first movie was movie monsters + up-to-date-science (the general public's first real hint that the dinosaur renaissance was a thing, twenty-four years after it started) + groundbreaking effects + whatever of his usual 'magic' Spielberg could wring out of the thing. Now, Spielberg left after the first movie; we've been bombarded with CGI for over twenty years, to the point there's a minor backlash against it; and Colin Treverrow has gone on record, performing a one-fingered salute to the idea that palaeontology didn't stop in 1993. That just leaves us with movie monsters, which places Jurassic Park 4 about on par with Critters 4 or Leprechaun 6.
Yeah, this really gets at the core of my disinterest in this film.
Jurassic Park was amazing, because we had a new technology that gave us something we'd never seen before - completely real looking dinosaurs. But once you get past that wow factor, you've basically got b-movie nonsense classed up with some fun actors and some Spielberg skill. The sequels kept rotating in good acting talent, but there was no more wow factor, and no Spielberg, so they were all pretty forgettable bits of movie monster nonsense.
It seems like when they were planning this new movie, they realised that showing us amazing detail CGI dinosaurs wasn't enough anymore. But instead of accepting that meant they shouldn't make another Jurassic Park, they decided the answer was to invent some kind of super dinosaur nonsense. They have dismissed the premise of their own franchise, now all we've got is the same gakky monster story you can watch on sci-fi every night.
Tell me if I'm wrong - there'll be some scientific hubris and some evil corporate decision making, the hero will warn against this, in a massive twist the monster gets out and lots of random people get eaten, then a supposedly elite team of extras is sent in and shockingly they get massacred, the hero gets either some children or a woman out of danger, and in a big climax the monster eats something that makes it explode, or it falls off a cliff or really who gives a gak.
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2015/05/28 04:09:05
Subject: New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
hotsauceman1 wrote: The preview i saw before madmax said "This isnt about Dinosaurs, its about our relationship to animals today, with dinosaurs being those animals"
So does this mean David Attenborough will be making an appearence?
2015/05/30 21:15:01
Subject: New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
hotsauceman1 wrote: The preview i saw before madmax said "This isnt about Dinosaurs, its about our relationship to animals today, with dinosaurs being those animals"
So does this mean David Attenborough will be making an appearence?
It would be funny to have him be a cameo in some educational display.
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hotsauceman1 wrote: The preview i saw before madmax said "This isnt about Dinosaurs, its about our relationship to animals today, with dinosaurs being those animals"
So does this mean David Attenborough will be making an appearence?
It would be funny to have him be a cameo in some educational display.
And get promptly eaten.
2015/05/30 22:05:25
Subject: New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
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No, he's still alive.
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I actually thought we were talking about the guy who played Hammond, who was Richard Attenbourough. And he is dead. Passed away last year at 90 years old. According to Wikipedia, David is his younger brother.
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2015/05/31 13:27:22
Subject: New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
They should make a JP movie with the premise that Robert Muldoon actually beat that raptor in melee and proceeded to clean up the island in an epic act of revenge against the dinosaurs.
That guy is badass.
Of course we'd need a new actor, sadly Bob Peck died.
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2015/05/31 14:33:43
Subject: New Jurassic World trailer shows big bad dino
Alex C wrote: They should make a JP movie with the premise that Robert Muldoon actually beat that raptor in melee and proceeded to clean up the island in an epic act of revenge against the dinosaurs.
That guy is badass.
Of course we'd need a new actor, sadly Bob Peck died.
I liked the hunter in the 2nd movie (which is also my fav )
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