Don't think I ever did such a thing buddy.
Shit i've never even seen Avatar.
Don't think I ever did such a thing buddy.
Shit i've never even seen Avatar.
@Thousand:
Just sayin' you shouldn't talk when you poke fun at people for liking Avatar because obviously all they're interested in is aliens and shooting.
Rollls eyes
This is great. Really great. You are stuck in corner and this is all you have left? Great idea. Let's talk about Avatar and their fanbase. While we are at it, let's talk about the people like Transformer movies. They are all relevant and quite important.
Grrrr! Grrrrr! Why do people like these movies!! Grrrr!
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/09/23/jurassic-park-limited-edition-blu-ray-unboxing
Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy Blue Ray limited edition box
Which movie was it that Gutenberg let those people help him get off the island and as a token of gratitude he took away all their bullets, leaving them to die a gruesome, bloody death ?
The second one. Critic did a review of it specifically focusing on that. Really the people saved you from plummeting of a cliff and showed you where the radio tower was and you take away their only means of protection? This is a classic example of Hollywood forcing a generic theme like Man is Evil and Nature is good without any sort of forethought.
How can anyone hate Jurassic Park (Well, the first one.)
It had everything: Dinosaurs. Pseudoscience that makes real science look like crap. Utahraptors wrecking shit. Jeff Goldblum.
The T-Rex's closest living relative is claimed to be the chicken due to recent protein analysis on amber preserved therapod collagen…
...and we get confirmation JP4 is on its way soon.
Coincidence? You decide!
Sorry JP, i'm just…. well.... not a kid anymore.
I saw this show called Animal Armageddon on AP which described ecological diversity in the Ordovician and Devonian periods of the Paleozoic. Even as a boring and cynical adult, it managed to capture my imagination and enthusiasm in the same way JP did as a child.
Dinosaurs are boring in comparison to the crazy insane diversity you see in those periods. Monsters like Dunkleosteus and the straight-shelled Nautiloid almost give the impression primitive aliens ruled the world before humans did.
You also look at non-dinosaur contemporaries…like the Icthyosaur. It's a reptile that looks like a dolphin. A dolphin is a mammal that looks like a fish!
@Cyan:
Jeff Goldblum.
We're gonna need a bigger boat!
This thread is about dinosaurs, not petty vendettas and panty shots as applied to Japanese foreign policy or whatever other nonsense went on here.
Just a reminder.
All the Jurassic Park movies are terrible. Yes, even the first one. Which had revolutionary effects going for it, and at age 10 I saw it in theaters twice. Caught it a couple years later and just… wow the plot holes and lack of logic and... ick. (We're supposed to hate the lawyer, the one guy talking sense... because he's a lawyer. Got it.) I reviewed it at length at some other point on here, possibly in the Avatar thread. I don't feel like hunting for it at the moment.
2 and 3 are acknowledged as bad, part 1 tends to get the nostalgia goggles pass. We really don't need a part 4.
I'll take Dragonheart for my bad giant lizard movie that I remember without flaws and having perfect cgi.
I'd rather have a masters of the universe 2.
Skeletor is still alive you know!
@Cyan:
How can anyone hate Jurassic Park (Well, the first one.)
It had everything: Dinosaurs. Pseudoscience that makes real science look like crap. Utahraptors wrecking shit. Jeff Goldblum.
It's greatest sin as far as I'm concerned.
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@RobbyBevard:
All the Jurassic Park movies are terrible. Yes, even the first one. Which had revolutionary effects going for it, and at age 10 I saw it in theaters twice. Caught it a couple years later and just… wow the plot holes and lack of logic and... ick. (We're supposed to hate the lawyer, the one guy talking sense... because he's a lawyer. Got it.) I reviewed it at length at some other point on here, possibly in the Avatar thread. I don't feel like hunting for it at the moment.
2 and 3 are acknowledged as bad, part 1 tends to get the nostalgia goggles pass. We really don't need a part 4.
I'll take Dragonheart for my bad giant lizard movie that I remember without flaws and having perfect cgi.
Coincidentally bumped into it recently
Originally Posted by robbybevard
E.T. I thought this was also manipulative crap. I originally saw it was 5, and I believe I even had a halloween costume of it, but then I didn't see it again for 20 years until I was in college. I was stunned by how cold a movie it seemed to me, underneath all the sentimentality. Eliot and E.T. are linked until E.T. "dies" at which point the threat to Eliot goes away, because of course the alien E.T. can be shamelessly ressurected later, but Eliot can't. So we have to remove the threat to this boy which has been of primary dramatic importance for the last hour. I just thought there was no there there.
Jurassic Park was just a mess. The story didn't cohere. The characters all acted like idiots. Guys don't even fire their guns when they have a chance. I actually thought the editing was lousy. The lawyer is scapegoated because he's a "LAWYER" and we all know emblematically how evil being a lawyer is. We're supposed to cheer when he buys it in the toilet. But earlier, we were hissing him when he exerted common sense and suggested (quite rightly) that Jurassic Park might not be ready for business yet. I was appalled. Angered. The second one was arguably worse, but (a) I was prepared for that and (b) I didn't pay for it, so I had a better time enjoying it as a truly BAD movie.
ID4 - Please. Don't make me go there.
Good or bad, Jurassic Park has too many things that I like for me to see it as a bad movie. Then again, if you have any element of horror, you already have my interest.
You could be the most horrible movie in existence. Claim to be a horror movie? I'll give you a try. I would even consider watching through all of Birdemic rather than the Room.
I don't care about plot, plotholes, the lack of plot, obnoxious characters, horrible acting and all that other crap. Just give me my dinosaurs, damnit.
Also, somehow throw in one marine reptile this time and I will totally flip my shit.
I will be fully behind this movie if a Dimetrodon is in it.
You could be the most horrible movie in existence. Claim to be a horror movie? I'll give you a try. I would even consider watching through all of Birdemic rather than the Room.
But The Room is a horror movie…
@RobbyBevard:
But The Room is a horror movie…
No, it's a comedy.
Anyway, I take it you've seen Manos: Hands of Fate, Insider?
Horror… Never seen it that way, but it does make sense. It's every married woman's nightmare.
Horror… Never seen it that way, but it does make sense. It's every married woman's nightmare.
Which is the nightmare part? Being married to Tommy Wiseau or realizing that you suck so bad that Tommy Wisaeu had to kill himself because of it?
Maybe they'll show Velociraptors the correct size.
Oh Jurassic Park. Before you came along no one had ever heard of raptors before. Now they're one of the big favorites.
And everyone imagines them entirely wrong.
To be fair, I don't think we knew they had feathers until fairly recently… but the movie certainly knew they were exaggerating their size. They should have been about 2 feet tall... not the 6 foot things in the movies. (I understand thats scarier and looks better.)
Well to be fair there are raptors that size, just not velociraptors. The feather stuff didn't really hit till around '97 or so, so I would assume the new movie would have them. I know the book had it so the dinosaurs were designed to be more "impressive" to crowds, so I wonder why the first movie didn't throw that line in there.
@RobbyBevard:
Oh Jurassic Park. Before you came along no one had ever heard of raptors before. Now they're one of the big favorites.
THIS.
I was huge into dinosaurs long before the movie came out, and nobody gave a shit about raptors back then.
But afterwards… Christ. Mention dinosaurs around anyone nowadays and they're the first example that they'll bring up. Bah.
Stupid overrated glorified chickens.
My first coloring book had dinosaurs. I also skimmed animal/dinosaur books in the library. But yeah, I do remember questioning certain dinosaur sizes and behavior when comparing that I saw in the books compared to JP. Either way, it didn't stop me from pestering my mom to rent the first 2 movies.
There was time where they sold these numbered collectable JP stickers that came with some candy, and for 15 dollars we could buy the collection book. It was crazy fun trading and buying different stickers to complete the entire book. I think only one kid collected them all… Rich bastard. My book was stolen sadly.
Uh, the real awesome dinos for me were the Dilophosarus bitches!!! Not only did it eat Wayne Knight! But it also has a dual crest on it's head, along with a deployable frill around it's neck and spits venom!! yeeeah!
Party like a rockstar!!!!
Lol, actually Crichton admitted the frill and venom were creative license… as there is no evidence to the dinosaur having these two traits! Also noted are how they made the Dilophosarus SMALLER in the film than it actually was! So as not to be confused with the raptors... which as was said were LARGER than their two foot real life counter parts!
neato. Well as false as he was... I really liked the little guy. Hoping around and making those owl noises! Cute little thing!
For more JP mistakes visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_issues_in_Jurassic_Park
The frills and venom are fake?!
God dammit! One of my favorite designs is based completely off this dinosaur!
My inspiration is a house of lies. :cwy:
THIS.
I was huge into dinosaurs long before the movie came out, and nobody gave a shit about raptors back then.
But afterwards… Christ. Mention dinosaurs around anyone nowadays and they're the first example that they'll bring up. Bah.
Stupid overrated glorified chickens.
Come to think of it, yeah, that's pretty true. I was huge into dinosaurs back in my toddler years and I knew everything from Brachiosaurus, to Triceratops, Pterodactyl, Stegosaurus, T-rex, Ankylosaurus, Diplodocus, Spinosaurus, Archeopteryx, hell, even Parasaurolophus, but no. Naturally, I was a fan of Land Before Time and there certainly weren't any raptors in that (not the first one anyway).
Actually, the great irony is that I really had no interest in Jurassic Park when it first came out (too much of a scaredy-cat).
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@Cuddles:
The frills and venom are fake?!
God dammit! One of my favorite designs is based completely off this dinosaur!
My inspiration is a house of lies. :cwy:
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down, and short is long
And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter…
Ugh. That shit with the Dilophosaurus nearly took me out of the movie.
Not to mention making me want to throw something every time a later series added the frills/venom when using them.
CRICHTON AND SPIELBERG MADE THAT SHIT UP GAAAAAH
Uh, the real awesome dinos for me were the Dilophosarus bitches!!! Not only did it eat Wayne Knight! But it also has a dual crest on it's head, along with a deployable frill around it's neck and spits venom!! yeeeah!
Party like a rockstar!!!!
Lol, actually Crichton admitted the frill and venom were creative license… as there is no evidence to the dinosaur having these two traits! Also noted are how they made the Dilophosarus SMALLER in the film than it actually was! So as not to be confused with the raptors... which as was said were LARGER than their two foot real life counter parts!
neato. Well as false as he was... I really liked the little guy. Hoping around and making those owl noises! Cute little thing!
For more JP mistakes visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_issues_in_Jurassic_Park
Nooo it was my favourite!
I even had a action figure of it
Dilophosarus had no frills & venom, velociraptors were short and feathered, and there is no Santa Claus.
The foundation of my childhood has been shaken to its very core.
I would not go see a movie about giant chickens.
I would not go see a movie about giant chickens.
I would. Seriously.
But I like to keep my dinosaur and my bird related movies apart from each other.
@Nia:
I would. Seriously.
But I like to keep my dinosaur and my bird related movies apart from each other.
impossibru!
Did you know that the closest living relative to the Tyrannosarus Rex is the common chicken?