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The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

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Handyman said:
Yeah I kinda dug the first part of that trailer...but a mutant hybrid dinosaur and trained raptors? No thanks...
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It's perfectly reasonable to think that they're just all just running from crazy-mutant-hybrid dinosaur, but I just really want to believe that it's a trained pack of raptors.

Just imagine the spin-off possibilities with trained raptors. You could do an Ocean's 11 style heist movie, or have them travel the countryside solving mysteries, or... THE GREATEST REBOOT OF SPACE JAM YOU COULD POSSIBLY THINK OF.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
It's perfectly reasonable to think that they're just all just running from crazy-mutant-hybrid dinosaur, but I just really want to believe that it's a trained pack of raptors. Just imagine the spin-off possibilities with trained raptors. You could do an Ocean's 11 style heist movie, or have them travel the countryside solving mysteries, or... THE GREATEST REBOOT OF SPACE JAM YOU COULD POSSIBLY THINK OF.
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No... they were clearly with the dude on the bike. I'm sure they team up to bring down the mutant, ushering a new era of raptor/human cooperation. Maybe us and raptorkind still don't like each other, but a new respect has developed.

Oh yeah and they feed the (WAY-oversized) mosasaur a great white shark? An animal that is nearly on the threatened list?

Should have been an orca for irony's sake.


There's so much dumb in that trailer...
 
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Gurtholfin said:
No... they were clearly with the dude on the bike. I'm sure they team up to bring down the mutant, ushering a new era of raptor/human cooperation. Maybe us and raptorkind still don't like each other, but a new respect has developed.
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I took it as a mating ritual.

I guess we each see what we need to see. :)
 
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Gurtholfin said:
There's so much dumb in that trailer...
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Yeah, but for whatever reason it's a kind of dumb I can get behind.

Until one of the raptors becomes a fat bumbling idiot that takes out 30 dinosaurs after tripping and bumbling around the screen for 20 seconds, it's a kind of stupid that I can handle.

And seriously... a roaming pack of trained raptors. I didn't realize how much I've wanted to see that until yesterday, but now I do.

If I disappear for two months, it's because I'm writing my first draft of Raptor Jam for the studios.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
No... they were clearly with the dude on the bike. I'm sure they team up to bring down the mutant, ushering a new era of raptor/human cooperation. Maybe us and raptorkind still don't like each other, but a new respect has developed.

Oh yeah and they feed the (WAY-oversized) mosasaur a great white shark? An animal that is nearly on the threatened list?

Should have been an orca for irony's sake.


There's so much dumb in that trailer...
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Well I guess it is as believable as the idea that despite the fact that people died making the original park, rich people were attacked on The Lost World Island and people died setting up the park on The Lost World Island...LETS MAKE A SEA WORLD STYLE PARK!! Cause, you know, humans can train dinosaurs and such. (not to mention make up new Dinosaurs cause T-Rex's and Spinosaurs are so 65 million years ago!)

This movie is going to be more laughably stupid than MIB 3...and that movie was pathet-a-sad.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Yeah, but for whatever reason it's a kind of dumb I can get behind.

Until one of the raptors becomes a fat bumbling idiot that takes out 30 dinosaurs after tripping and bumbling around the screen for 20 seconds, it's a kind of stupid that I can handle.

And seriously... a roaming pack of trained raptors. I didn't realize how much I've wanted to see that until yesterday, but now I do.

If I disappear for two months, it's because I'm writing my first draft of Raptor Jam for the studios.
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Well, WELL played. :D
 
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I read the first book a couple of years before the movie came out and it was incredible.

I was mildly disappointed in the movie in that they Speilberged it instead of keeping it to the not-quite-horror-but scary that the book was.

Other than that though, the movie was great. The dinosaurs were awesome (for the time/technology). Many of the scenes were brilliantly conceived. Still love the jeep getaway with Goldblum's deadpan.


Everything since then has been a steaming pile.
 
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I enjoy The Lost World...it is not nearly as good but I like it. Jurassic Park though is a classic and I still get goosebumbs when Hammond says "Welcome, to Jurassic Park". (not to mention when the T-Rex gets loose) The book is better but I get why Spielberg changed it.

But hey...who needs that we have a new fake dinosaur and Chris Pratt supposedly as a non-ironic badass. Sounds great...
 
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Handyman said:
I enjoy The Lost World...it is not nearly as good but I like it. Jurassic Park though is a classic and I still get goosebumbs when Hammond says "Welcome, to Jurassic Park". (not to mention when the T-Rex gets loose) The book is better but I get why Spielberg changed it.

But hey...who needs that we have a new fake dinosaur and Chris Pratt supposedly as a non-ironic badass. Sounds great...
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Oh I do too. Had to appeal to kids too - the ones most into dinosaurs.

A good balance was achieved.
 
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Yeah, I don't know that Jurassic Park would've worked as a scarier movie or a more straight adaptation of the book. Spielberg's version was probably the best movie that book was ever going to get.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Yeah, I don't know that Jurassic Park would've worked as a scarier movie or a more straight adaptation of the book. Spielberg's version was probably the best movie that book was ever going to get.
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I think I envisioned it more along the lines of an Alien type movie. That would have been a fine line to walk though.

At the time, the book had me on EDGE.
 
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The book was outstanding...I read it in like a day and a half I couldnt stop reading :)
 
Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Yeah, but for whatever reason it's a kind of dumb I can get behind.

Until one of the raptors becomes a fat bumbling idiot that takes out 30 dinosaurs after tripping and bumbling around the screen for 20 seconds, it's a kind of stupid that I can handle.
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So is that a no to the Jar Jar Raptor character?
 
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I had almost completely forgotten about Jar Jar...
 
ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
It's perfectly reasonable to think that they're just all just running from crazy-mutant-hybrid dinosaur, but I just really want to believe that it's a trained pack of raptors.

Just imagine the spin-off possibilities with trained raptors. You could do an Ocean's 11 style heist movie, or have them travel the countryside solving mysteries, or... THE GREATEST REBOOT OF SPACE JAM YOU COULD POSSIBLY THINK OF.
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*. Now I really want to see Raptor Jam... :D
 
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