Quote from: DoomRulz on Nov 30, 2014, 06:29:23 PMIn regards to JP 3...I'm going to go with the belief that because Site B had dinos living on their own, they were able to evolve into their natural forms, free of inGen's control.
In the first novel, only the wild-born raptors were able to change colour. Pretty sure Crichton's intention was that the second-generation animals (not lab-born, in other words) were the authentic, natural state, which I think is what you're getting at.
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Quote from: Hellspawn28 on Nov 30, 2014, 10:45:10 PM
I think the whole feathered debate is stupid. We had other movies with Dinosaurs like Disney's Dinosaur (2000), Land of the Lost (2009) and Godzilla (2014, he's a dinosaur in the movie) and no one bitch about them not having feathers.
Disney's Dinosaur is pre-Microraptor, at that point there was still conjecture that the bristly structures we kept finding on coelurosaurs could have just been stacks of collagen fibre.
Land of the Lost was so widely panned that animal plausibility was the least of its problems. It's taken me ten minutes just to find a picture of their dromaeosaur, and I don't think the whole of the internet contains a cap of their Compsognathus.
Godzilla isn't a dinosaur (not in the American and original versions anyway, I can't speak for the rest of the series). The last film had him as a member of a reptile group that evolved to subsist on radiation.
Anyway. The whole reason why there's
any upset about this is that it's Jurassic Park. This follows up a film that changed the way the world envisaged dinosaurs, publicised the latest research, created a huge boom of researchers that's propelled the science forward further in 20 years than the previous hundred, and which (originally) strove for such a degree of scientific accuracy that they brought the world's most famous palaeontologist onto the production. It's held to a higher standard than a comedy or fantasy movie, and is all part of the reason that first film was the highest-grossing non-Cameron production of the 20th century - millions of people across the planet wanted to see authentic dinosaurs.
But yeah, honestly, I'm getting tired of arguing about it. I'll still
see the movie, Jurassic Park's one of my favourite films of all time. Even if JW's universally panned, I'll still be in that cinema. It'll have to be the Godfather of genetically modified bullshittasaur movies to get me in there more than once, though. And I'll probably always look at it as the movie which sold the original's soul down the creek, even if it does open with Chris Pratt taking requests on this, the day of his daughter's wedding.
Not going to bother saying anything else on the subject though, at least until I've seen it.