Jurassic Park Series

[OmegaZilla]

Hubbs come on, you know you want Dinosaurs. More Dinosaurs. More and more Dinosaurs. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

[Blacklabel]

what hubbs wants is more KAIJU

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kaiju kaiju kaiju

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[OmegaZilla]

Don't do that.

[KiramidHead]

[OmegaZilla]

 


Anyway, I'm pretty glad they found the time to give the Mosasaurus a proper pharyngeal jaw, despite the obvious size inaccuracy. It's a pretty neat detail.

[King Rathalos]

[MudButt]

f**k the haters

hubbs

[Alien³]

f**k the haters

[DoomRulz]

I'm really curious to know. Why do you folks become so uppity when folks like Vertigo and I maintain that the dinosaurs in a movie should be scientifically accurate?

[Alien³]

Because they're not real dinosaurs.

[DoomRulz]

They're dinosaurs, real or otherwise. There's no actual reason why they can't look like what science tells us. And if that's your reasoning, then I guess you really wouldn't mind if they were all tail-draggers, right?

[Alien³]

...or is there?

[BANE]

They're dinosaurs, real or otherwise. There's no actual reason why they can't look like what science tells us. And if that's your reasoning, then I guess you really wouldn't mind if they were all tail-draggers, right?

Feathers look dumb

Slow sucks

[DoomRulz]

There isn't, and don't say it's because of "broken DNA". That's moot. If genetic engineering is what it's all about, they can be engineered to look the part, which they aren't.

They're dinosaurs, real or otherwise. There's no actual reason why they can't look like what science tells us. And if that's your reasoning, then I guess you really wouldn't mind if they were all tail-draggers, right?

Feathers look dumb

No feathers looks dumb.

[OmegaZilla]

I've not seen anyone go really uppity about it, just stating their opinion.

The basic point is that the original film balanced accuracy with 'cool'. So did film two. So did film three. So does this. The Mosasaurus as far as I can see is anatomically accurate -- but is oversized. The original T.Rex had small anatomical inaccuracies regardless of the feathers/non-feathers thing. So on and so forth.

'Tail draggers' wouldn't be minded, no, but audience today likes the new fast Dinosaurs. It's what CGI brought in. Fast lethal things. Tail draggers are associated with old Dinosaur movies only Harryhausen fans such as me remember fondly.

You also have to take into account that the JP Dinosaurs have become imprinted in the public imagination much like the Terminator, or Alien, or Robocop have. They're icons.