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| Kamidio | Jun 4 2012, 01:44 PM Post #16 |
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The man has a point. Bonus if the animal is in baby form? You know how crowded Cinicinnatti Zoo was when the baby giraffe was born? Very fuckin' crowded. And meanwhile, all I was thinking was 'when do we get to the reptile house?' |
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| lamna | Jun 4 2012, 01:49 PM Post #17 |
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No story there. |
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| Canis Lupis | Jun 4 2012, 01:58 PM Post #18 |
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A baby of practically any mammalian species is sure to attract a large audience. When a baby elephant was born at the Louisville Zoo and Columbus Zoo, there was a huge crowd (I was a part of it at both places). The same thing happened when an orphaned baby polar bear was transferred to the Louisville Zoo (which I frequent). People like cute animals. These are usually baby mammals, due to their big eyes, fluffiness (in most cases) and general curiousity (such as watching a baby elephant play with its trunk to discover what it is used for). |
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| Kamidio | Jun 4 2012, 02:28 PM Post #19 |
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Can't forget baby crocodilians though. I wish the zoo would let us watch the baby crocodilians. They're like concentrated diabetes. |
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| Temporary | Jun 4 2012, 03:13 PM Post #20 |
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At least they'd have an excuse, look when the original Jurassic Park was made. Besides, continuity and all that (I seem to actually remember hearing somewhere that Spielberg did want a more accurate remake, but I'm not sure). I'd rather have a remake. I'll always love the originals, but still. Currently scientifically accurate dinosaurs would be great. |
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| Canis Lupis | Jun 4 2012, 03:42 PM Post #21 |
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I'd love to see a more accurate remake. So long as they made the dinosaurs just as real-looking as in the original. I swear, even though the movie is around two decades old, they are some of the most realistic dinosaurs I have ever seen in a movie or documentary. |
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| lamna | Jun 4 2012, 03:46 PM Post #22 |
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They are not dinosaurs. They are themepark monsters made for a non-expert in the early 90's, hence why they look the way they do. So it's ok for them not to have feathers. They are protogynous hermaphrodites and you're complaining about them not being fluffy? |
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| Canis Lupis | Jun 4 2012, 04:08 PM Post #23 |
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Oh, I understand why they are the way they are. And, in fact, I'd probably enjoy the 1990s version more than a feathered remake. Which is why I don't complain about the dilophosaurus in the movie (even though it is completely different from the dilophosaurus in the book). |
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| Carlos | Jun 4 2012, 04:18 PM Post #24 |
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Because them being able to switch sexes is symbolic that sexuality of all forms is natural and, since humanity is seen as morons from the movie's point of view, it shows how far we strayed from natural goodness into our heteronormative opression. Dinosaurs, therefore, are the Na'vi/elves/[insert another superior species here] of Jurassic Park-verse. |
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| lamna | Jun 4 2012, 04:23 PM Post #25 |
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Sometimes a dinosaur is a dinosaur. |
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| Flishster | Jun 4 2012, 04:33 PM Post #26 |
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Nanotyrannus has a differently shaped brain. Not a juvi. Anyways, I'll be happy with JP as long as they explain what happens more than in the third and they add mistakes like in the other ones.
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| Kamidio | Jun 4 2012, 05:04 PM Post #27 |
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Actually, it was made in the 80s. In the book it was hinted at that the geneticists that made the dinosaurs are dumber than they claim to be. Seriously, what good geneticist makes an animal have a lysine dependency? Any self-respecting biologist knows that most animals don't produce lysine to begin with. You see, Dr. Henry Wu was an idiot, and quite frankly, I loved it when he died in the book. Now, go see what Steven Speilberg did with the movie. Go watch the special features in the new box set. He wanted the dinosaur to act as accurately as possible in the movie. And for the time period, they did. T. rex was lone hunter and whatnot. The dilophosaurus wasn't actually his doing. You can blame the people who made the animatronic. They went and made the Dilo itty bitty with a frill, not Steven.
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| T.Neo | Jun 4 2012, 05:30 PM Post #28 |
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Lamna, it's because featherless dinosaurs are stupid. They are awful.![]() ![]() Look at these featherless dinosaurs. Do they look stupid? Do they look awful? Of course they do. That's because they are awful. It should not change based on the measly status of something being extant or extinct, or within or outside the clade of Aves. Also, it'd be interesting if they took the original Jurassic Park footage and redid it with dinosaurs possessing a semblance of accuracy. There'd still be a lot of nonsense (like gigantic velociraptors and venom-spitting dilophosaurs) but it would help... a little. That said actual practical effects like animatronics would be more difficult to replace than CG stuff. With advanced enough technology, who knows. The real limitation is the pricetag, after all. |
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| Carlos | Jun 4 2012, 05:36 PM Post #29 |
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You seem to forget that only one of us has the means to travel and beat the crap out of the other... |
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| Kamidio | Jun 4 2012, 05:37 PM Post #30 |
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Actually, the T. rex in Jurassic park is till the most accurate in history, not counting the behavior. |
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