That Mosasaur sure is getting a lot of screen time, what with the leaping out of the water and eating shit. $50 says that the Mosasuar will play a key role in the take down of the Indominus Rex.
"It's a highly intelligent animal."
Yeah? Well, it's still just an animal. Maybe the Rex will get lured into the pool and eaten by the Mosasuar.
One of the big appeals of the JP franchise, at least for me, was the fact that these dinosaurs were "real". They are based on real creatures that once existed. This hybrid I.Rex (or whatever they are calling it) is no different from Godzilla or really any other fantasy monster. These can be enjoyable sure, but it loses some of what made Jurassic Park great. I'd much rather they just went with a T.Rex again or, if they wanted a new dino, use something like Allosaurus or Giganotosaurus.
Originally posted by ares834
One of the big appeals of the JP franchise, at least for me, was the fact that these dinosaurs were "real". They are based on real creatures that once existed. This hybrid I.Rex (or whatever they are calling it) is no different from Godzilla or really any other fantasy monster. These can be enjoyable sure, but it loses some of what made Jurassic Park great. I'd much rather they just went with a T.Rex again or, if they wanted a new dino, use something like Allosaurus or Giganotosaurus.
I agree with this sentiment. While JP3 gets a lot of hate, and I do understand it, I personally enjoyed the film, and part of that was due to the realism of adding the Spinosaurus since IRL it was indeed ranked the biggest carnivorous dinosaur and bigger than the T-Rex. The first film was so wonderful because there were massive implications to what Hammond was doing, displacing extinct species of a completely different environment into our modern world. It wasn't just a monster film, it was almost a Lovecraftian tale about defying the laws of nature and nature retaliating in a merciless way. While the next two films did devolve into kaiju territory, it still had some legitimacy as exploratory sci fi. With this new film, it's such a shameless cash grab that it makes the terrible Total Recall remake look dignified.
Also, regarding JP3, at least in that film, they acknowledged that after the events of the first two films, JP was shut the phuck down and quarantined, accessible only to the military (and incredibly stupid hang gliders). Apparently in this film, they've opened it up bigger than ever and they're creating bigger and more dangerous dinosaurs. The blatant stupidity of the JP universe to have allowed the park to reopen really outlines how unnecessary this film is to the JP series and how it is essentially yet another reboot/remake/adaptation/pre- or sequel cash grab, to the point that it actually makes JP3 look intelligent.
i'm sure this film will be better than JP3 and TLW, and have plenty of tense moments, but, to compare to Spielberg himself, it will only be Jaws-level, not Jurassic Park-level.
This seems like it's more and more turning dinosaurs into random horror-monsters. Which... appeals to some I'm sure, but it's not why I love dinosaurs.
I agree with this sentiment. While JP3 gets a lot of hate, and I do understand it, I personally enjoyed the film, and part of that was due to the realism of adding the Spinosaurus since IRL it was indeed ranked the biggest carnivorous dinosaur and bigger than the T-Rex.
It's bigger but not actually any more designed for combat, it's more designed for eating fish. In the movie the T-rex got the first neck bite, which would've won things.
The T-rex isn't the biggest, but it's big enough to stand a good chance against anything.
The film took massive liberties with the behavior and physiology of raptors and other dinosaur species, so that didn't bother me so much. I was just happy that the writers chose to incorporate the IRL then-recent discovery of the Spinosaurus into the film, showing that they were trying at least on some level to have legitimacy.
Originally posted by Impediment
YouTube videoThat Mosasuar sure is getting a lot of screen time, what with the leaping out of the water and eating shit. $50 says that the Mosasuar will play a key role in the take down of the Indominus Rex.
"It's a highly intelligent animal."
Yeah? Well, it's still just an animal. Maybe the Rex will get lured into the pool and eaten by the Mosasuar.
I honestly see this happening. Some kind of callback to the first Jurassic Park film where the highly-intelligent raptors got owned by a stealth-ninja T-Rex.
Originally posted by Lestov16
The film took massive liberties with the behavior and physiology of raptors and other dinosaur species, so that didn't bother me so much. I was just happy that the writers chose to incorporate the IRL then-recent discovery of the Spinosaurus into the film, showing that they were trying at least on some level to have legitimacy.
Yea, including newly discovered dinos is pretty cool.
I do wish they didn't feel the need to present it as some sort of one-upmanship, whether with new dinos or genetically engineered superdinos.
Originally posted by Q99
Yea, including newly discovered dinos is pretty cool.I do wish they didn't feel the need to present it as some sort of one-upmanship, whether with new dinos or genetically engineered superdinos.
I have several problems with the new dino in this film, including as you said the oneupmanship. At least in JP3, the Spinosaurus was somewhat justified due to it's recent ranking as biggest predator. With this, it really does seem like they just had to make a bigger dinosaur, and they couldn't use the Spinosaurus again because in the mind of an artistically-lacking profit-motivated screenwriter, spinosaurus=BO failure, so they just said phuck it and created something straight out of a Syfy movie, simply because the T-Rex and Raptors were the most popular dinosaurs in the prior films. Just a shameless cash grab.
Secondly, in-universe, of all the dinosaurs that they could have created, they chose to created a massive, intelligent carnosaur, even though on 3 occasions, one of which took place in a populated city, carnosaurs ran wild and killed numerous people. Why not create an herbivore? Are carnivores aesthetically prettier? Why even create a new dinosaur when there are some many species that could be brought back? WTF is the logic behind this? I'm having a gigantic problem with the entire concept of this film being that JP was reopened and they're going at it bigger than ever despite the disastrous events of the prior 3 films. This film requires such a massive amount of stupidity on this universe's part that it seems like it takes place in the universe of Sharknado rather than Jurassic Park.
Just watched the latest trailer and this looks pretty epically stupid. Why did they create an enormous carnivore? Did corporate insist upon another deadly catastrophe? That's a beautifully poignant commentary on corporate destruction, but it's just not very believable as a piece of entertainment.
This is probably going to be a retarded B-movie premise with spectacular A quality production.