Zegh's Dinosaur Thread

zegh8578 said:
You're gonna hate the latest discovery in Spinosaurus.

Say hi to stubby-legs-o-saurus
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That's what I mean, it looks more like a Crocodile than a giant killer monster.

But ahh well...

Sometimes the truth isn't so spectacular.
 
ThatZenoGuy said:
That's what I mean, it looks more like a Crocodile than a giant killer monster.

But ahh well...

Sometimes the truth isn't so spectacular.
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Thats why nobody makes animal-horror movies after the advent of Discovery and Nat Geo channel. Nobody believes in "killer lions!" anymore. We've seen too many docus of lions sleeping the day away, zebras standing there shitting, wildebeest chewing grass for months on end "muuuuh... "
With dinosaurs we can still imagine these hyperactive animals, that chased everything they saw, gobbled it up, and roared triumphantly after every meal
 
zegh8578 said:
Thats why nobody makes animal-horror movies after the advent of Discovery and Nat Geo channel. Nobody believes in "killer lions!" anymore. We've seen too many docus of lions sleeping the day away, zebras standing there shitting, wildebeest chewing grass for months on end "muuuuh... "
With dinosaurs we can still imagine these hyperactive animals, that chased everything they saw, gobbled it up, and roared triumphantly after every meal
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I honestly liked JP1-2's depiction of dinosaurs, they weren't all super monstrous.

The raptors obviously hated humans with a passion, being treated badly, the T-rex was probably hungry...all it ate was a little goat, and the Dilophosaur saw a big giant fat 'thing' which tried throwing a stick at it.
 
ThatZenoGuy said:
I honestly liked JP1-2's depiction of dinosaurs, they weren't all super monstrous.

The raptors obviously hated humans with a passion, being treated badly, the T-rex was probably hungry...all it ate was a little goat, and the Dilophosaur saw a big giant fat 'thing' which tried throwing a stick at it.
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I only really like the first.
Maybe it's just me being an old grump, but it was never really abouuut dinosaurs. It's "deeper than that", which the first movie does explore, and which is why I like it more. I recommend the book, if you haven't read it.

The movie downplays it a little, but still keeps it as a major theme - the over ambition of the capitalistic entrepreneur, in John Hammond's quest to make a lot of money, he plays god, abuses science, he corrupts young scientists (more explored in the book), like the asian dude Henry Woo, who probably went into genetics as a young man, to help humanity, but ended up corrupted into creating a monstrous theme park instead. John keeps saying "I spared no expense!" but it is only for calculated revenue, which is all that matters to him. He is even demonstrably more worried about his "assets" than the safety of his own grand children
In other words, he is a "mad capitalist". The dinosaurs are there to represent "the gun" as in Malcolm's example of his irresponsible attitude towards science "like a child who found his fathers gun"
 
Yeah, I have heard the book is a lot less 'DINOSORES!' and more about capitalism.

Hammond dies in the book, right?
 
ThatZenoGuy said:
Yeah, I have heard the book is a lot less 'DINOSORES!' and more about capitalism.

Hammond dies in the book, right?
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Way to go for the spoiler! :V
But yes

A many of the sub-plots of JP2 are picked from the book, such as the dreaded "compys", which in the book are actually "Procompsognathus", which are unrelated to Compsognathus by millions of years, but was named so at a time when this difference wasn't very well understood.

Procompsognathus was in fact a so called coelophysid, more closely related to Dilophosaurus (which incidentally did not have a frill, and which had an elongated awesome nose, that was snubbed off in the movie, for mysterious reasons)

ThatZenoGuy said:
I wonder how they'd be as pets in real life...
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Probably like a mix between a chicken and a lemur.
Can you imagine?
Yeah, me neither :/
 
haha "wok!"

I wouldn't trust an indoors Velociraptor though, since dromaeosaurs were specifically specialized to kill prey much larger than themselves.
Something non-dromaeosaurian perhaps, although I have no idea how house-broken they'd be. I never heard of birds being trained to poop in designated places... are they trainable like that? Parrots and budgies pretty much just shit wherever, whenever, but they are tiny, and just poop lil droplets that dry up in 10 minutes, and can be picked away.
Something more coyote sized would start producing real turd sausages
 
zegh8578 said:
haha "wok!"

I wouldn't trust an indoors Velociraptor though, since dromaeosaurs were specifically specialized to kill prey much larger than themselves.
Something non-dromaeosaurian perhaps, although I have no idea how house-broken they'd be. I never heard of birds being trained to poop in designated places... are they trainable like that? Parrots and budgies pretty much just shit wherever, whenever, but they are tiny, and just poop lil droplets that dry up in 10 minutes, and can be picked away.
Something more coyote sized would start producing real turd sausages
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^_^

When we must do some genetic tampering to make them sapient.

Duh.
 
Despite everything, I still love that film. I have most of the McDonald's figures that came in Happy Meals. I really need to get the two or three figures I'm missing. E-Bay gotta have them.
 
Atomkilla said:
Despite everything, I still love that film. I have most of the McDonald's figures that came in Happy Meals. I really need to get the two or three figures I'm missing. E-Bay gotta have them.
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Admission, the intro of that movie, w the pterosaur flying over the sauropod landscapes, almost gets me all Ian Malcolm choked up
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I already asked my self how long it would take before this became an Ian Malcom apprecation topic.
*Summons @Buxbaum666

zegh8578 said:
Something non-dromaeosaurian perhaps, although I have no idea how house-broken they'd be. I never heard of birds being trained to poop in designated places... are they trainable like that? Parrots and budgies pretty much just shit wherever, whenever, but they are tiny, and just poop lil droplets that dry up in 10 minutes, and can be picked away.
Something more coyote sized would start producing real turd sausages
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I think there are worse problems.
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One thing, why does this lion-king-esque african music fit so well with dinosaur landscape?

Is... is it racist? D:

Crni, I said: Dromaeosaurs would kill you. Non-Dromaeosaurs would poop the floor. So you counter argue that Dromaeosaurs would kill you.
Y u not read my post? >:I
 
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