#Jurassic Park/World

[tyrannoninja]

Jurassic Park/World Spinosaurus Redesign

This is my fan redesign for the Spinosaurus as portrayed in the Jurassic Park/World cinematic franchise. I wanted to combine the 1990s and modern understandings of the animal with its anatomy, basing the color scheme on that of a toy Spinosaurus released as part of the second movie’s franchise. I really wish the franchise had stuck with that color scheme from that point on.

For all the flaws that all of Jurassic Park‘s sequels have, Jurassic Park III has and still remains the only one I flat out dislike. Partly this is due to the rushed running length, the storytelling being even more subpar than the rest of the sequels, and what I saw as pointless, inexplicable, and not really more accurate redesigns for the Velociraptor and Pteranodon. However, my biggest pet peeve was how it portrayed the Spinosaurus.

It was all well and good to have a new, lesser-known theropod borrow the spotlight as the main antagonist for a Jurassic Park sequel, but even back in the late 90s to early 2000s, we have figured out that Spinosaurus was a specialized piscivore related to the smaller Baryonyx, and therefore would not have been as well-adapted to bringing down large prey as Tyrannosaurus or Giganotosaurus. Had the whole movie leaned more on Spinosaurus’s aquatic attributes by having all its scenes set in the waterways and wetlands of Isla Sorna instead of portraying it as nothing more than a “bigger and badder” version of the T. rex, it could have stood out more as a different type of dinosaurian antagonist, and we tyrannosaur fans would have been spared some serious grief from seeing our favorite prize fighter of antiquity upstaged by an ill-equipped fish-eater.

If they really had to have the Spinosaurus fight the T. rex in JP3, I would have placed the fight at the very end. The moment Grant and the Kirby family reached the beach on their way to being rescued, the Spinosaurus could have lumbered from a nearby estuary to attack them one last time. Then the T. rex, hitherto absent, could have charged out from the jungle, deliver a bone-crushing bite or two to the Spinosaurus after some struggle, and roared in triumph over its kill while the heroes got on the helicopters to escape. Then, even with its other flaws, the movie would have been much more passable.

On a more positive note, at least what we got instead made the ending of Jurassic World, with the T. rex ultimately managing to mop the floor with the Indominus rex even if she had not inflicted the killing blow, all that much more cathartic for me. The T. rex/Giganotosaurus conflict in Dominion was lame though, especially the implication that it was a rematch after their ancestors fought on Socotra back in the Late Cretaceous despite neither dinosaur having ever coexisted with one another back then.

[r3d-m3dic]

what if Mia survied?

[its-all-ineffable]

Would anyone be inetrested in hearing my thoughts on my favourite movie franchise, the Jurassic Park/World movies?

Either ranking the movies in order of how much I like them and saying why I rank them there/what I like and dislike about them, or just review posts for each movie saying what I like and dislike?

Let me know.

[pinkytoothlesso11]

Favorite show or movie??

(I like the tales of arcadia saga and how to train your dragon!)

Favorite show(s) because I can't settle on one lol: Trollhunters (should be obvious), Arcane and The Dragon Prince.

Favorite movie(s) again can't settle on one!: How to train your dragon as well, Spirit: Stallion of the cimarron, Avatar (Cameron's incredible Sci-fi movie) Jurassic Park/World and Disney's Tangled.

I probably have more favourite movies/shows but that's the main ones off the top of my head!

[emptyjunior]

I think having a baby niece is great cause my brother will send me just a constant stream of messages that sound indistinguishable from how someone at Jurassic park would text if they were being hunted by the raptor

[bumblingest-bee]

jurassic park has a good philosophical message but unfortunately the only thing i ever take away from watching jurassic park is "god i wish i could go to jurassic park." like yeah it's a blatantly obvious don't create the torment nexus scenario, but this torment nexus has DINOSAURS.

[orange-circuits]

deinonychus group running around in the forest, inspired by a dream i had last night

[thecosmiccircus]

Exclusive Interview: Josie Campbell Talks 'Camp Cretaceous'

At this year’s Los Angeles Comic Con, I had the opportunity to catch up with Josie Campbell! A comic book writer and Hear Writer on some of our favorite animated series (like My Adventures with Superman), Campbell has explored many different fandoms. I was particularly interested in asking her about Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, the animated series that spun out of the film…

[matthewonart]

If Jurassic Park was real the DefunctLand video on it would open with "66 Million Years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest slammed into the Gulf of Mexico,"

[prideprejudce]

there should be a sub genre of books that were originally written to comment on the evils of capitalism and how greed and wealth corrupts society as a whole and how those popular books were subsequently made into hollywood movies and were marketed in a way in order to mass produce as much merchandise as possible so the companies behind the movies can make as much money as possible and thus completely erasing the original meaning of that story while also unintentionally proving the point of the original novels themes

[wayward-delver]

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Prehistoric Planet finally gives us the True Rival to the Tyrant Lizard King and it's NOT a Dinosaur.

[tyrannoninja]

Ranting about the Jurassic World: Dominion Prologue's background for a moment

I actually did enjoy Jurassic World: Dominion somewhat despite its glaring flaws, but while the "Cretaceous prologue" does have some majestic cinematography and CGI, an aspect of it that annoyed me along with the oft-critiqued chronologically and geographically misplaced dinosaurs was the shooting location being the arid Afro-Arabian island of Socotra.

That decision has always baffled me. Not only does the environment there not suit most of the dinosaur taxa they showed, but those dragon's blood trees that I assume the filmmakers thought looked "prehistoric" would not have been widespread across the Mesozoic world if they had even evolved yet. Honestly, I would have preferred the stereotypical tropical jungle or redwood forest setting. Those wouldn't have been accurate for all the prologue's dinosaurs either, but at least the more abundant vegetation would support more of those hungry herbivores than what you'd find in a dusty island desert, and tropical backdrops in particular are my favorite anyway.

On the other hand, if the filmmakers insisted an environment visibly different from the islands or the Lockwood manor's NorCal surroundings, they could have picked Florida. That state's almost-but-not-quite-tropical forests, with their mixture of palm and coniferous trees, are just about the closest habitat we have on Earth to many of the Cretaceous North American ecosystems Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops are known to have roamed, and most people would think they look evocatively Mesozoic without confusing them for the earlier movies' mountainous Pacific islands. If they really wanted to make a prologue starring the JP T. rex's ancestor, they should have shot it in one of those Floridian forests.

[bs-fangirl]

Dinosaurs:

[dinosaurguy]

[riannimation]

"You said you'd be here..." . . . . . . . . . I meant to finish this for premiere day, but didn't feel like rushing it. This is not official show art; it is just my personal interpretation of what Brooklynn's funeral would have looked like.

[obwald]

HAPPY YASAMMY- I MEAN CHAOS THEORY DAY!!!