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Vertigo1 wrote:They should've stopped with the second movie. What's next, a damn "reality" TV series / mockumentary sticking a group of people on Site B? :roll:

oh wait.....some jackass at Fox will think its a good idea and will try to make it happen.
Actually thats a very cool idea. The Site B 'reality'/mockumentary.

And call it...Raptor Island! :) Welcome my freinds to Raptor Island, where your flesh will fall from the bone!
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I actualy like the idea. Dinosaurs vs the military is going to be an interesting fight to watch. Of course if the producers go for realism the dinosaurs will be slaughtered but it would be a fun fight anyway.
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neoolong wrote:They would have to make some convulted thing about the mud it was buried under keeping it cool enough.
It's possible, the coolant was only supposed to last 30 hours or so. So theoretically the mud could have kept it cool. At least until the rain stopped...

The only explanation I can come up with for finding Nedry's jeep is that each vehicle has a transponder in it. (Which is quite possible, given the amount of crap they have in the book.) Then someone finds the transponder logs and puts it all together.

As for this movie, I'm not sure what to make of this. Seems like an interesting idea, if a little wankish.
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Agent Fisher wrote:But how did they know about the can?
Dodgson or the other guys at his company fessed up.
The security system was down. No one saw him take the embryos and put them in a can. And how will the find it?
If they find the jeep, they might search around the area. Conceivably they could find it.
But with the Super smart dinos, part of me goes COOL!! but most of me goes WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY SMOKING??
Well, I'm just hoping the triceratons from TMNT are in it.

Or the guys from that Asian movie Dino Wars or whatever it was called. That looked great.
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18-Till-I-Die wrote:
Vertigo1 wrote:They should've stopped with the second movie. What's next, a damn "reality" TV series / mockumentary sticking a group of people on Site B? :roll:

oh wait.....some jackass at Fox will think its a good idea and will try to make it happen.
Actually thats a very cool idea. The Site B 'reality'/mockumentary.

And call it...Raptor Island! :) Welcome my freinds to Raptor Island, where your flesh will fall from the bone!
Or they'll make it a hunting trip for rich folks and something goes wrong. Oh wait, they're doing that in A Sound of Thunder.
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Stupid. Why doesn't Spielberg leave this shit alone? 2 and 3 sucked. Leave it alone!
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Vympel wrote:Stupid. Why doesn't Spielberg leave this shit alone? 2 and 3 sucked. Leave it alone!
Given his level of brainrot by revising E.T. to have walkie talkies...instead of pistols in the FBI agents hands.

I'd say it's another brain fart of his.
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The concept about a Judas strain in bullshit.
The idea that you can only get genetic material from the shaving cream when there's Live dinosaurs running around the Americas is bullshit.

The Grendel idea is... meh. Wonder if they'll pay Niven royalties?

Oh and Aly, they were Utahraptors in the first film.
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InnerBrat wrote:Oh and Aly, they were Utahraptors in the first film.
IIRC Utahraptors hadn't actually been discovered until after the first movie was made. They just fudged the size of regular velociraptors, although there were theories going around at the time saying that there could have been man-sized raptors.
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Me, from the "Predator Lands in Jurassic Park" thread:
The thing that pissed me off about the raptors is that they kept getting smarter and smarter with each movie. I'm pretty sure that if they ever make a Jurassic Park 4, it'll have raptors flying airplanes and building nuclear weapons.
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InnerBrat wrote:Oh and Aly, they were Utahraptors in the first film.
IIRC Utahraptors hadn't actually been discovered until after the first movie was made. They just fudged the size of regular velociraptors, although there were theories going around at the time saying that there could have been man-sized raptors.
The description was published in June 1993, (JP was a 1993 summer movie), but the animals are still closer to Utahraptors than Deinonychus.

Also, Jim Kirkland (who described Utahraptor) has a claw from the original film and a claw from his discovery. Indistinguishable.
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So they got lucky?

Didn't know there were man-sized raptors, but got lucky that there were?
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I think it sounds like a good idea. By JP2, the series was already horrible, so it would only make things worse if they took themselves seriously in JP4. The way I see it, when you've reached the point where you can't possibly get any worse, turning to mega-action can only help.
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InnerBrat wrote:Also, Jim Kirkland (who described Utahraptor) has a claw from the original film and a claw from his discovery. Indistinguishable.
How much variation in claws could there be? You just take a regular velociraptor claw and scale it up, and there you go.
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Mutant Headcrab wrote:Just thought of something. The thing says that the focus of the movie will be the can that Nedry had in the first movie. Didn't the guy who gave Nedry the can say that it would only keep the material viable for thirty hours? By the time they get it wouldn't it have been, you know, a little over thirty hours?
The guy in the original movie needed living embryos, and the can could only keep them alive for 30 hours. It looks like Hammond only needs the genetic material, which could be extracted from a dead embryo just as easily as a live one.

Still seems like a really stupid idea, though. Not so much the can thing as the entire rest of the movie.
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Drooling Iguana wrote:
Mutant Headcrab wrote:Just thought of something. The thing says that the focus of the movie will be the can that Nedry had in the first movie. Didn't the guy who gave Nedry the can say that it would only keep the material viable for thirty hours? By the time they get it wouldn't it have been, you know, a little over thirty hours?
The guy in the original movie needed living embryos, and the can could only keep them alive for 30 hours. It looks like Hammond only needs the genetic material, which could be extracted from a dead embryo just as easily as a live one.

Still seems like a really stupid idea, though. Not so much the can thing as the entire rest of the movie.
Yeah, but wouldn't decomposition take care of all of that after 10+ years of being bured in mud?
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Yeah, but wouldn't decomposition take care of all of that after 10+ years of being bured in mud?
Lol, we are talking about people who had the science and tech in 1993 to take crusty 65+million year old dna from fossilized mosquitos and make thousands of healthy living dinosaur clones without much trouble. Some how I don't think a fully sealed can of embryos sitting under some dirt for a mere 12 years is going to phase them.
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Doesn't the whole premise of dinosaurs being a legitimate military threat to the US just a tiny bit silly?
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Doing a quick goole search (and checking "The Dinosauricon" website): though claims vary, the height of a utahraptor is often stated to be just 2 to 3 meters, and most sources state that it is about 5 to 7 meters.

The SMALLEST Utahraptors would be the size of a JP Velociraptor.

As for the claw claim I seriously doubt Grant was carrying around THIS in his pocket
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Um, how exactly are the dinosaurs going to get to central America, when the island is quarantined(other than the Pterosaurs, but they can't feed on people for long)?
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Guardsman Bass wrote:Um, how exactly are the dinosaurs going to get to central America, when the island is quarantined(other than the Pterosaurs, but they can't feed on people for long)?
They stowed away on boats that went to the island for some reason?
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Stark wrote:Doesn't the whole premise of dinosaurs being a legitimate military threat to the US just a tiny bit silly?
No, it seems pretty fucking stupid.
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InnerBrat wrote:The concept about a Judas strain in bullshit.
The idea that you can only get genetic material from the shaving cream when there's Live dinosaurs running around the Americas is bullshit.

The Grendel idea is... meh. Wonder if they'll pay Niven royalties?

Oh and Aly, they were Utahraptors in the first film.
I thought Utahraptors were somewhat larger than that. Deinonychus was the correct size.
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Anyone notice that Hammond's plan for a Judas strain is, well, exactly what he did with the original park? All of the dinos there were female, but apparently every species there managed to change sex (thanks to frog genes).

And what the hell would pterosaurs attack humans for? The largest pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, had a wingspan of about 12 meters (!), but only weighed 50kg (some sites claim upwards of 125kg, but they don't exactly have a professional look to them)! These things couldn't pick up a human if they wanted to, and I'd say that even an adult Quetzalcoatlus would be hard-pressed to lift anything but infant humans. They're fishers! (Reminds me of the Spinosaurus from JP3. It's lightly built and eats fish. Would've been pulverized by a T-Rex, but they made it an uber-dino for the movie).
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neoolong wrote:
Guardsman Bass wrote:Um, how exactly are the dinosaurs going to get to central America, when the island is quarantined(other than the Pterosaurs, but they can't feed on people for long)?
They stowed away on boats that went to the island for some reason?
They'd have to be one helluva a group of stowaways- especially a Mr. Rex
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