Why doe Jurassic Park look better than any movie released today?
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kinoki
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Vinci said:
Every movie Spielberg has made has aged with grace. While he has made a few mediocre movies they still launched acting careers for good actors. And he's one of the few directors today who can bring enough style without sacrificing substance.
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mrklaw said:
When did people stop calling it Brontosaurus? That's what it was called in my school.
Rocket Punch
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The absence of animatronics has damaged newer movies abilities to create realistic looking CGI since movie makers lack a real life template to contrast with and match against.
EmCeeGramr
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Brontosaurus was recognized as a misidentified Apatosaurus in 1903.SlipperySlope said:
The name "Brontosaurus" just got so popular in the mainstream that it was impossible to correct everyone. FFS, even Firefox's spellcheck is telling me that Brontosaurus is a word, while Apatosaurus is not.
beelzebozo
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Willy105 said:
definitely.
JURASSIC PARK SPECIAL EDITION with feathers
Actually Spielberg still nails it. At the same time Lucas was cranking out CGI overload for Star Wars, Spielberg was modestly using it to great affect for Minority Report, AI, & War of the Worlds.shintoki said:
His worst effects movie of all time is Crystal Skull, but his other stuff is very good and holds up very well.
As an old school director (Pro acting and actual sets/locales) I don't think he's comfortable with not controlling the process.
Now with Avatar he was shown he could have both worlds and thus we have Rin Tin Tin.
EDIT: Not really disagreeing with the official post, but Lost World's dinosaurs were an improvement over Jurassic Parks although it was my least favorite of the three.
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Not sure if this was posted in here, but I thought it was pretty interesting.
Not sure if this was posted in here, but I thought it was pretty interesting.
The effects were non CGI for Indy films and I personally think Lucas had a heavy hand in Indy 4. It makes no sense why the effects were THAT bad (Although I enjoyed the nuclear explosion) when Spielberg never had a problem with it before unless he lost interestVinci said:
like I did.
Oops. Pavlovian slip.ymmv said:
Melfice7 said:
It may have been mentioned already, but there was a reason it was dark and rainy the entire movie.:lol
Zombie James
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ChRoNiTe said:
Terminator 2 is nowhere on the list.
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MrHicks said:i really wanna see a modern dinosaur movie updated with the feathered look we now know raptors etc looked like
JP quality dinos but like THAT hehe
Fuck no. I'd rather just pretend that never happened. Somebody should have stepped in and orchestrated a big cover-up of that information to preserve dino dignity.
Christoff Yurievich
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No worse than me: I thought that they filmed the scenes with the kids and then waited for them to grow up to film the rest of the movie.Relix said:
A lot of real talented minds were at work on this movie, i was talking about this very same subject with a friend some weeks ago.
If I remember correctly Phil Tippett and his team were animating a lot of the dinosaurs based on little mo-cap puppets that would take the frames in digitally. So much of the spirit of the animation was very hand-crafted similar to stop-motion... not to mention Tippett is really great at giving lots of character to animations. but so much of that movie was done great.
To me it's kinda' how they did with Little Shop of Horrors. It has a different quality to the animation because they did the puppet in slo-mo and doubled the frames when they were done filming. rick morranis would even move around and act in slo-mo
If I remember correctly Phil Tippett and his team were animating a lot of the dinosaurs based on little mo-cap puppets that would take the frames in digitally. So much of the spirit of the animation was very hand-crafted similar to stop-motion... not to mention Tippett is really great at giving lots of character to animations. but so much of that movie was done great.
To me it's kinda' how they did with Little Shop of Horrors. It has a different quality to the animation because they did the puppet in slo-mo and doubled the frames when they were done filming. rick morranis would even move around and act in slo-mo
beelzebozo
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i watched this last night, and it's an excellent movie. i was pretty impressed actually, particularly when i considered how cleverly they got around the fact that it's an extremely complex crichton novel, and the ways in which they explained the concepts in such an economical way.
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beelzebozo said:
The whole "Mosquito stuck in tree sap combined with the DNA of a frog to make clone-able embryos" is probably the greatest piece of BS science ever seen in a Hollywood movie. It just makes so much sense. They explain it in that 2 minute little Mr DNA cartoon, and then it's off to the dino park! Brilliant.
Johnlenham
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Goddamn this film is good. Haven't seen it in YEARS!
I remember seeing it and the cinema and now mental it was, strangely the only one the freaked me out was the spitting one (cant think of its name) and all the cool merchandise they had but if it came out in 93 I must have been about 6 :lol
Also seen the Triceratops up close at Universal studios and it looks bloody impressive.
I remember seeing it and the cinema and now mental it was, strangely the only one the freaked me out was the spitting one (cant think of its name) and all the cool merchandise they had but if it came out in 93 I must have been about 6 :lol
Also seen the Triceratops up close at Universal studios and it looks bloody impressive.
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zoukka said:
i personally feel the shunting scene from SOCIETY belongs on that list.
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Fuuuck that shit.MrHicks said:i really wanna see a modern dinosaur movie updated with the feathered look we now know raptors etc looked like
JP quality dinos but like THAT hehe
It does sound interesting for a pitch: "It's like Jurassic Park - but in California!!"Willy105 said:
However, they spent too little time there and the whole set-up prior to it was too lame to support the end premise which is why you have phantom dinosaurs killing crew in narrow hallways.
It was not even remotely a perfect movie, but King Kong does the monster introduced to civilization better.
To me, the movie was like a collage of best scenes (& particular scenes were indeed fantastic) that they tried to stitch a story around.
Spielberg was interviewed by Premiere magazine (I just threw away the hard copy!) about this movie and he essentially said they had to do two things.
1. They had to give a reason for someone in the first JP to go back to the Island.
2. They had to get a dinosaur to civilization. He did not want another director to have that privilege.
His movie showed those were his goals. Nothing more imo.
T-Rex and other big dinosaurs were most likely not covered with feathers.
It's the same deal as with big mammals like elephant's and hippo's.
Their own big body produces much more heat than smaller animals.
Their skin can also absorb more sunlight because they are just so big.
And last but not least; the cretaceous-era was extremely hot, having too many feathers all over his body would have caused the T-Rex' blood circulation to overheat and collapse.
It's the same deal as with big mammals like elephant's and hippo's.
Their own big body produces much more heat than smaller animals.
Their skin can also absorb more sunlight because they are just so big.
And last but not least; the cretaceous-era was extremely hot, having too many feathers all over his body would have caused the T-Rex' blood circulation to overheat and collapse.
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Willy105 said:
I thought it was pretty fucking lame how the T-Rex was somehow locked in the ship's cargo bay the entire trip, and yet somehow it apparently got out during the trip, killed everyone on board (including the ship's pilot, who was killed inside an enclosure too small for even the T-Rex's head to enter without destroying it), and then got back into the ship's hold and closed the doors.
Granted, that was due to cuts made to the movie that removed the convenient raptor pack that stowed away on the same boat, but you'll notice they didn't bother explaining it away or even covering it up in the final cut of the film. Why? My theory is that everyone involved knew The Lost World was a pile of shit (and it was) and instead of trying to deny the obvious truth, they just decided to fan the stench as hard as they could, having wasted so much time and money on it up until that point.
Or possess a brain.Gilby said:
They went out of their way to protect the dinosaur- beyond realism. A mother anything would have been blown to bits even if they made it to the boat after eating someone.
The Island was even worse, because an activist good guy actually went out of his way to free dinosaurs at the possible expense of human lives when they weren't even going to kill the [fake] dinos anyway.
The camp was run by an expert hunter but was not prepared to handle killers on an Island swarming with them. Nearly everyone (I liked the West Wing guy) acted like idiots, from the doctors, to the mathmatician, to the hunters, & even the citizens of San Diego.
At least JP3 made sense from a survival standpoint and everyone at least relaized what kind of trouble they were in. The best scene was when they first landed and almost immeditately realized this was not the best idea!
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The problem with the book is it still had the lame, but was missing the movie's end premise. :lolJGS said:
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JoshuaJSlone said:
The book was just one giant mess that Critchton didn't really want to write. And then the movie changes every character (cutting a main one), and only keeps one scene from the book (T-Rex pushing trailers over cliff)
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JGS said:
Yeah, the movie people liked Jeff Goldblum so they made Critchton retecon Malcolm's death in the books.
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Sorry for bump, but looking around I see nothing about any blu-ray release soon just rumours, anybody heard anything?
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Bump again, it's on TNT, watching it again, so if any GAFfers interested go look for it
Once again TNT(HD) channel 703 for TWC NYC Queens lol
Once again TNT(HD) channel 703 for TWC NYC Queens lol
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I wish i saw this in theaters but i was like 4 or 5 at the time 
still blown away by this movie
still blown away by this movie
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