WadiumArcadium
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We can have a Jurassic World group therapy session if it sucks. I have a feeling it'll be decent.
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COMICS! |OT| June 2015. Alright fanboys, it's time to pick a side once and for all.
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and bring it back to San Diego.
WadiumArcadium
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I actually like most of the first half of TLW but it goes downhill after the velociraptor volley. Always loved the high grass scene.
Calcium
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echoshifting
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Exactly
WadiumArcadium
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Poor raptor went down like a sucka.
Nope.
TheDarkKnight774
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I don't know why people keep mentioning Jurassic Park sequels. There's only been one movie made. Maybe one day they'll make a sequel
Calcium
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WadiumArcadium
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You're still stuck in the denial phase of grieving?
BenjaminBirdie
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There was even a second book that nobody knows
T-Rex and raptors are still believed to have had feathers, which is in line with what I've always read. Can you imagine how insane a feathered sauropod would look? A Brachiosaur rocking some insane multicolored crest.
Calcium
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Yeah, but they are always going to go back and forth on the subject. In a few months they'll probably change their minds again. I'm with you, though. I think a movie with feathered dinosaurs would rock. For now I'm content with what Jurassic World is offering.
WadiumArcadium
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They always censor it when it's on TV. Gennaro's death in JP is always cut as well as Sam Jackson's arm.Fuck the haters, I liked Lost World only because Goldblum and my crush on Julianne.
And one of the most brutal deaths in a PG13 film...
Sams arm shocked me when I was 8. Was traumatized for weeks.
WadiumArcadium
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Haha. Guess it's censored for a reason then.
I saw a great museum exhibit seven or eight years ago that had awesome models of all the various feathered raptors and what the feather patterns would have looked like on T-Rex, it was super cool. The fuzzy down baby T-Rex was so neat looking.
WadiumArcadium
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It's definitely in my top five. Definitely a film you can watch over and over.
TheDarkKnight774
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I still remember seeing the dinosaurs in the field and got the biggest chills ever. Just like the actors. Dinosaurs alive. We finally had the cinema technology to do it right. Just was stunned in the theater.
That doesn't sound like spin in the slightest though...?
Hahaharawrharawr ahha a rawr
Agreed. Maybe's it's just because of my age when it came out (it's probably just that, actually), but I'll still sit down and watch Jurassic Park 3 whenever. I thought Lost World was pretty good too.
I'm sure I'll be cool with Jurassic World too. I mean, Chris Pratt is leading a pack of raptors in those trailers; how bad could it possibly be?
Tyrant Rave
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Don't be so hard on yourself man. Just focus on what you want to improve on in the meantime and make the most of it.
:GrandHarrier:
That scene still gives me chills.
Seeing it in 3D a couple years ago was like the coolest thing ever.
TheDarkKnight774
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And it's great because it wasn't like the opening scene. Just like a great horror film you see glimpses, you have teases, you build anticipation and then bam! The jeep stops and you see the valley of dinosaurs! Hells ya
Rafa=FedKilla
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Brah don't trivialize this for me please.......
And let's not forget the absolutely brilliant score
GrandHarrier
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He's saying that the number on the book doesn't matter but that they're going to keep rebranding back to #1 because numbers matter and make money, just on the low end, in their eyes.
He was asked about his feelings in the books not climbing high with their numbers. That's notably different. I really don't see anything wrong with his response. I'm actually sort of impressed by it.
Saying outright that the top priority is to keep the comics profitable and the creative partners satisfied is so much more candid an answer than you'll typically get from someone working at an entertainment company the size/value of Marvel.
ViewtifulJC
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GrandHarrier
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He's saying the number on the book doesn't matter but that they renumber because lower numbers are more profitable so the numbers actually do matter?
So why renumber? If the number doesn't matter just make every issue a #1 and move past the farce.
Or don't even number them at all since the number is meaningless.
Wait am i being fucked with here?? He says they renumber because it makes them money in that thing you quoted
Yes, but...
The original question is being misconstrued. Tom was asked about himself and so answered accordingly.
GrandHarrier
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Basically. He's saying that numbering was a trick and that it doesn't actually matter even as they use numbering as a trick, just on the other end of the spectrum. Artificially inflated number #1s, acting as if the stories can't stand on their own and need a gimmick to "trick" people into getting them.
So the numbers do matter.
But he says they don't.
But they do.
You're adding things to his statement that are not there.
ViewtifulJC
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GrandHarrier
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The only thing I'm adding is why you'd renumber to #1. And that's just obvious based on his making money comment later in the statement.
I guess I look at it this way; if you don't feel numbers matter why number at all?
Who knows, maybe come October, they won't.