Jurassic Park

Stegron · **on:** April 14, 2009, 05:45:33 PM

What do you think of this revolutionary blockbuster hit?

raga · **Reply #1 on:** April 14, 2009, 06:09:09 PM

I don't know if it was "revolutionary" but it was a great movie. I enjoyed the book more but the movie was still great for its own reasons, plus there were enough differences between the two that the movie really can be considered its own entity. Well, now that I think of it, I suppose the movie did have a very profound effect on the use of CGI in motion pictures, bringing it more into the main stream and showing off what CGI can really do.

P.S. That the image of the apatosaur standing up on its hind legs will be forever engrained in my mind.

NeoGenesis005 · **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2009, 07:57:50 PM

I always loved the first movie of Jurassic.

Stegron · **Reply #3 on:** April 14, 2009, 08:02:18 PM

I love the original because of how great it was, and how they showed how Resurrection would work. Creation is an act of shear will!

DarkHououmon · **Reply #4 on:** April 14, 2009, 08:04:39 PM

I think Jurassic Park was revolutionary because it was the first movie to utilize CGI animals, wasn't it? Before Jurassic Park, I don't think anyone really attempted to make realistic animals using CGI.

Stegron · **Reply #5 on:** April 15, 2009, 07:16:14 AM

While Jurassic Park was a great movie by showing 3D Dinosaurs, i liked the stop-motion ones in the classics also because i use to make videos of those.

Stegron · **Reply #6 on:** April 17, 2009, 10:03:56 PM

I also liked how cartoon shows made Jurassic Park parodies that usually put in the name island instead of park at the end.

metadude1234 · **Reply #7 on:** April 17, 2009, 10:07:24 PM

the book was 1, 000, 000, 000 times better than the movie

Saft · **Reply #8 on:** April 18, 2009, 07:57:16 AM

Whilst I enjoyed the movie, the books (regarding both) are much better. More well crafted and will probably be remembered as one of the all time 'classics'.

Chomper · **Reply #9 on:** April 18, 2009, 11:46:00 AM

Jurassic Park is always good, although i would like to see speilburg try and get the whole book in a movie. i think it would be good, long, but good.

Saft · **Reply #10 on:** April 18, 2009, 12:05:08 PM

Unfortunately movies adapted from books are never as good as the novels.

Although there are some exceptions that are as good as the novels or even better than the novels they are based from. Yet, if that is the case it depends on those who are making the movie; director, screen play, script writer, actors etc.

Stegron · **Reply #11 on:** May 06, 2009, 03:52:35 PM

The size comparing between the Velociraptor in Jurassic Park and the one in real life is uniquely neat, it could mean the movie featured a different species of Velociraptor that was from North America.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #12 on:** May 06, 2009, 11:15:22 PM

Check out the book "Raptor Red" by Robert T. Bakker. It's an awesome story written from the POV of a Utahraptor. In his epilogue, he talks about visiting the JP set and looking at the dino designs while talking with the designer himself. If I remember correctly, Bakker mentions about there being the error of the wrong raptor size being used in the film. He said the Velociraptors were made the size of Utahraptors in the film. Judging by name, yeah, it came from North America, specifically the Utah area

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DarkHououmon · **Reply #13 on:** May 06, 2009, 11:21:12 PM

Actually, the JP Raptors are smaller than Utahraptors. Here's how big a Utahraptor was compared to a human:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...imate_chart.svg

I heard the JP Raptors were more the size of Deinonychus.

Nick22 · **Reply #14 on:** May 07, 2009, 01:16:00 AM

There are going to make another JP film..

Littlefoot3897 · **Reply #15 on:** May 10, 2009, 03:45:11 PM

Quote from: Nick22,May 7 2009 on 12:16 AM

There are going to make another JP film..

REALLY??? When?

Kor · **Reply #16 on:** May 10, 2009, 10:17:04 PM

I've not seen the movie or read the book, but I did check out a bit before the movie came out, audio cassettes of the book & listened to that and enjoyed it. I think it was around 3 hours or maybe a bit longer.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #17 on:** May 12, 2009, 11:28:00 PM

There has not really been any further info on the fourth one so I don't know when it will come out.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #18 on:** May 12, 2009, 11:47:55 PM

Quote from: Littlefoot3897,May 10 2009 on 02:45 PM

Quote from: Nick22,May 7 2009 on 12:16 AM
There are going to make another JP film..
REALLY??? When?

It was supposed to be completed before, but the daggone Writers' Strike delayed them <_<. With the economy as bad as it is, the completion and release of the film have probably been pushed further back. I believe it was scheduled to be released this summer, but I have not heard anything yet.

Saft · **Reply #19 on:** May 13, 2009, 11:11:12 AM

Quote from: Darkhoumann on

I heard the JP Raptors were more the size of Deinonychus.

You are correct:

The real species called Velociraptor was much smaller (about turkey-sized) than the animals in the film and were believed to have been feathered. They were part of bipedal, bird-like predators of the family Dromaeosauridae, some of which were even larger than the "velociraptors" in the film.
However what is important to note is that Crichton (who doesn't know much about dinosaurs) made a error at the time when he was writing the first novel and wanted to use Deinonychus as his 'evil dinosaurs' as it was classified as a subspecies of "Velociraptor." So he used the term velociraptor as it was a much more scarier name.

However as we know and as we can see from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deinonychus-scale.png

As to the fourth movie being released, I doubt that will happen now as (basing on what Cancerian Tiger mentioned) Crichton died in 2008 and he played a larger role in bringing the movies to life.