Jurassic Park Series

[Blacklabel]

The look of the Raptor and the Rex in the original film is pretty damn iconic. Dont mess with it in these films.

[Vertigo]

But the creators haven't chosen that route so we have the original designs back. And there's nothing wrong with that.

There is everything wrong with that. It's against the ethos of the original film, and the book. Jurassic Park was responsible for overturning nearly a century of complete bullshit that had stubbornly refused to leave the public consciousness, despite being over twenty years into the dinosaur revolution.
It's now around twenty years since Jurassic Park and the first Chinese protofeather discoveries, and this time the new film is part of the problem, not the solution.

[DoomRulz]

But the creators haven't chosen that route so we have the original designs back. And there's nothing wrong with that.

There is everything wrong with that. It's against the ethos of the original film, and the book. Jurassic Park was responsible for overturning nearly a century of complete bullshit that had stubbornly refused to leave the public consciousness, despite being over twenty years into the dinosaur revolution.
It's now around twenty years since Jurassic Park and the first Chinese protofeather discoveries, and this time the new film is part of the problem, not the solution.

[BANE]

Yeah but they look stupid though

[DoomRulz]

That's purely a matter of opinion. I think the featherless ones look stupid, so here we are.

[BANE]

Really?

[DoomRulz]

I'd rather see something more accurate, as we've already established.

[Alien³]

It's now around twenty years since Jurassic Park and the first Chinese protofeather discoveries, and this time the new film is part of the problem, not the solution.

Again Jurassic Park was never about portraying the dinosaurs to 100% accuracy. It's a story about our relationship with control. The recreated dinosaurs are not, and never were, dinosaurs to our complete understanding of them; whether its our knowledge from the 80's, 90's or 00's.

It'll get a lot of children and adults fascinated with dinosaurs again. It's those people who will be dedicated enough to research dinosaurs and discover what they're really like. But that is not the job of JW.

It's a work of fiction not a documentary.

[Cvalda]

Again Jurassic Park was never about portraying the dinosaurs to 100% accuracy. It's a story about our relationship with control.

Step aside Michael Haneke, Jurassic Park is some deep shit

[Alien³]

[Vertigo]

[Feather stuff]

Thing is, most proto-feathers looked more like hair than the flight feathers we're familiar with. Some might've been short and sleek like a lionness, others shaggy like a mammoth, others fluffy like an ostrich or cassowary. Pennaceous (quilled) feathers were only present in a handful of families, and even then, just on the arms and tail in the flightless species.

Utahraptor, in Crash McCreery style.
Shaggy therizinosaur.

It's a work of fiction not a documentary.

Featuring a twenty-year-old dromaeosaurid is like if Jurassic Park had featured a tail/stomach dragging Brontosaurus which couldn't survive out of water, just because it's what people were familiar with.

It's a dinosaur movie. If you're not going to show dinosaurs in your dinosaur movie, then you might as well just tap on the camera and talk to yourself.

[DoomRulz]

It's now around twenty years since Jurassic Park and the first Chinese protofeather discoveries, and this time the new film is part of the problem, not the solution.

Again Jurassic Park was never about portraying the dinosaurs to 100% accuracy. It's a story about our relationship with control. The recreated dinosaurs are not, and never were, dinosaurs to our complete understanding of them; whether its our knowledge from the 80's, 90's or 00's.

It'll get a lot of children and adults fascinated with dinosaurs again. It's those people who will be dedicated enough to research dinosaurs and discover what they're really like. But that is not the job of JW.

It's a work of fiction not a documentary.

What if I told you that paleoartists and paleontologists are starting to come out and saying that telling others that JP got them into their respective fields is an embarrassment? That's literally the reaction I'm seeing on Facebook in regards to the raptor picture.

It's a dinosaur movie. If you're not going to show dinosaurs in your dinosaur movie, then you might as well just tap on the camera and talk to yourself.

That should've been Malcolm's line after knocking on the jeep cam, lol.

[Alien³]

Featuring a twenty-year-old dromaeosaurid is like if Jurassic Park had featured a tail/stomach dragging Brontosaurus which couldn't survive out of water, just because it's what people were familiar with.

It's nothing like that and you know it.

It's a dinosaur movie. If you're not going to show dinosaurs in your dinosaur movie, then you might as well just tap on the camera and talk to yourself.

It's a cloned dinosaur movie.

When did the fiction become reality to you?

What if I told you that paleoartists and paleontologists are starting to come out and saying that telling others that JP got them into their respective fields is an embarrassment? That's literally the reaction I'm seeing on Facebook in regards to the raptor picture.

I'd reply saying: They're human and they make mistakes. paleoartists and paleontologists were awesome to get into the field because of Jurassic Park but Jurassic World is not that movie.

[Vertigo]

It's nothing like that and you know it.

Please, enlighten us on the difference.

[DoomRulz]

Featuring a twenty-year-old dromaeosaurid is like if Jurassic Park had featured a tail/stomach dragging Brontosaurus which couldn't survive out of water, just because it's what people were familiar with.

It's nothing like that and you know it.

How? At one point, that was familiar and normal, but the films evolved with the science. That's why Brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park is on land, with its tail off the ground.

What if I told you that paleoartists and paleontologists are starting to come out and saying that telling others that JP got them into their respective fields is an embarrassment? That's literally the reaction I'm seeing on Facebook in regards to the raptor picture.

I'd reply saying: They're human and they make mistakes. paleoartists and paleontologists were awesome to get into the field because of Jurassic Park but Jurassic World is not that movie.

It'll get a lot of children and adults fascinated with dinosaurs again.

You just implied that JW will generate people's interest in dinosaurs and dino science. If anything, that's only going to cause more irritation (to say the least) with inaccurate dinos onscreen.