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DAMN NATURE! You scary!
Edit: advance apologies to all.
11/24/09
I once watched two of those giant-assed scary lizards in Iraq duke it out. I'm pretty sure those were real lizards in that video clip; scariest part of the whole thing was that the ones I saw in Iraq were about that size...
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Im pretty sure one of the top ones is a dwarf Caiman.
I remember this movie because once I saw it, I immediately glued some cardboard to my do to make it a Triceratops. Brianna was NOT amused.
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Several of the scenes in JP were directly influenced by several of my bath-time, action figure plot lines, if not just blatantly lifted. Not to mention the nightmare T-Rex sequences I used to rant and rave about to my mother all the time. How else would they know to have a T-Rex stare into a bedroom window with your dog's house hanging from its mouth. Of course, had they fully adapted my ideas, the T-Rex would be able to talk AND see through walls.
Give credit where credit is due.
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Not to mention the whole scene was influenced by the T-Rex scene, when he was chasing Ian, Ellie and Robert on the Jeep.
"Go faster, faster faster FASTER"
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Oh dear...
But in all seriousness I love the movie and the characters (except the children).
Really made an impact on me as a kid.
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older scifi has some great entertainment and good to watch as it was done so many years back.
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The one version of off-the-island I can see being successful would be a return to the end of the first book, when the increasing breeding population of raptors migrates to the mainland and they start getting odd reports of attacks on farms and the like- do "The Ghost and the Darkness" (the story of the Tsovo lions) with raptors in Costa Rica. Keep it out of urban areas, unless we have some jungle-skirting favela scenes somewhere, because it goes straight from homage to absurdity. So long as some attention is paid to what these escapes mean for the survival of the island- whether it should be preserved given the escapes or exterminated, whether these creatures are endangered species or a bioengineered infection, it could be neat.
What it needs back, though, is a double dose of the awe at both technology and nature that such creatures exist, ala "welcome to Jurrasic Park," and the brachiosaurs in the trees, and to get the dinosaurs back in their slow, stalking, jeep-and-kitchen-scene element, because they are seriously suffering from overexposure. Less running, more being trapped. Less daylight, more dinosaurs being patient, creepy, and birdlike.
What it definitely doesn't need is more characters carrying idiot balls. No sudden parasailing episodes. No building parks without redundant power. No destroying equipment vital to the safety of the bad guys to save dinos. No half-assed rescue missions by dentists or plumbers or whatever the hell William H. Macy was. The kids had a good part in the first one, but please, please, keep them away. No gymnastic fighting followed by quips. No one wandering off anywhere by themselves, or stealing (likely illegal-to-possess) eggs. No more new dinosaurs, and pretend that spinosaurus didn't happen- they got him wrong and the tyrannosaurs were better in any case. And sweet Jesus, can we flesh out some characters?
And please, can it adopt a different tone of discussion than "doing science=playing God=death by teeth?" It's tired. Give us a character defending the creation of the creatures that isn't an asshole or naive beyond belief. Mention how things could have gone better- it's almost a better moral about the dangers of corporate secrecy and corner-cutting than it is about the evils of genetic engineering. Maybe have someone that's using their knowledge of the creatures to hunt down the creatures on the mainland be simultaneously fighting to stop an overzealous government from napalming the island. After all, they are just animals, and at some point the existential terror of recreating a miniscule population of creatures isolated on an island that aren't immune to gunfire gets a little old. #jurassicpark
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And just wandering around San Diego causing havoc!! That was awesome! #jurassicpark
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Zombie Humans eat all Humans,
Zombie Humans eat Dinosaurs,
Zombie Dinosaurs eat Zombie Humans,
Zombie Dinosaurs eat all Zombie Humans,
Zombie Dinosaurs go off-island,
Zombie Dinosaurs eat Zombie Jaws. #jurassicpark
11/09/09
Zombie dinosaurs. That's genius.
Let's do lunch. #jurassicpark
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If they really want to make another Jurassic Park movie then they need to make it more awesome.
I suggest the addition of dinosaurs that are equipped with lasers and jet packs because if there is anything that is totally effin' badass it's dinosaurs with lasers and jet packs.
They should also include a kung-fu battle on top of a dinosaur's back as well as robots, ninjas, monkeys, and pirates.
There should be a totally freaking sweet heavy metal soundtrack too in order to ensure the movie's overall intrinsic awesomeness. #jurassicpark
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