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Ninjasaurus posted:We're in agreement. The Lost World to me is mostly lovely with a few good parts (trailer sequence, Pete Postlethwaite) while I can't even remember half of what happened in JP3. Let me see what I can remember. There were flying reptiles in an aviary and a rope bridge. That dinosaur that had the spine ridge that they were trying to play up as a bigger threat than anything ever wound up eating the satellite phone. Alan Grant refused to answer questions about what happened in the second movie. And that's it. I'm stuck. I can't remember anything else about it. I remember more about Lost World being terrible and stupid. JP3 a dead lump of a tumor stuck onto the series.
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Lobok posted:Is that a beret? It is a bony crest.
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I'm pretty sure you can excuse any incorrect paleontology in Jurassic Park since they tell you in the first film that the dinosaur's DNA isn't 100% dinosaur and has bits of frog and other poo poo in it.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The best thing in JP3 is how they seem to have written themselves into a corner at the end, so they have Dr. Sadler, who is in the movie for all of 5 seconds, call in the ENTIRE NAVY to rescue Grant and Co. I'm pretty sure it was like 5 dudes and an APC sitting on a beach because (in my mind) the producers ran out of money. They couldn't even think to have some sort of flyover of the island while playing the music...
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Feb 12, 2014 17:25
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SetPhazers2Funk posted:I'm pretty sure it was like 5 dudes and an APC sitting on a beach because (in my mind) the producers ran out of money. They couldn't even think to have some sort of flyover of the island while playing the music... I swear I remember seeing an aircraft carrier (and maybe a destroyer) in the back ground. And a guy in a suit just standing out in the open.
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Feb 12, 2014 17:28
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Random Stranger posted:Let me see what I can remember. There were flying reptiles in an aviary and a rope bridge. That dinosaur that had the spine ridge that they were trying to play up as a bigger threat than anything ever wound up eating the satellite phone. Alan Grant refused to answer questions about what happened in the second movie. velociraptors are as smart as people, Grant watches them a few minutes and understands their language and then talks to them by playing a velociraptor skull like a harmonica
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Feb 12, 2014 17:30
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Rita Repulsa posted:velociraptors are as smart as people, Grant watches them a few minutes and understands their language and then talks to them by playing a velociraptor skull like a harmonica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du95opzY8qg
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Feb 12, 2014 17:38
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It was actually a replica of the inside of a raptor skull because Alan Grant's new thing was using computer modeling to figure out the tissue-y bits of dinosaurs and 3D printing them, followed by being pissy when undergrads asked why he didn't just go catch actual living dinosaurs because those exist now.
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Nucleic Acids posted:I swear I remember seeing an aircraft carrier (and maybe a destroyer) in the back ground.
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Feb 12, 2014 18:13
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Interesting article on "Noah". Basically looks like Aronofsky will get the cut he wants, which is good news. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rough-seas-noah-darren-aronofsky-679315
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Feb 12, 2014 18:46
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Iron Crowned posted:I remember the They're not dinosaurs. 
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zandert33 posted:Interesting article on "Noah". Yay! I can't wait to see how insane this movie is.
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Feb 12, 2014 19:05
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FlamingLiberal posted:There was a whole carrier battle group offshore. Yep, it was. Along with an entire complement of Marines. All mobilized over the course of maybe 8 hours.
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Feb 12, 2014 19:23
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At least it's more accurate than the original Jurassic Park novel, which had the island bombed by the Costa Rican air force at the end. Even though the real Costa Rica does not have any military at all.
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INH5 posted:At least it's more accurate than the original Jurassic Park novel, which had the island bombed by the Costa Rican air force at the end. Even though the real Costa Rica does not have any military at all. Was it the CR Air Force? It's been about 20 years since I read it but I had interpreted it as they detonated a nuke that was built into the island.
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They napalmed it.
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The first movie I can remember seeing in an actual cinema was The Adventures of Baron Munchausen which was a weird loving movie. Why a friends mom picked that movie for us to see I have no idea.
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greatn posted:Your friend's mom rocks For real. I caught half that movie on TV as a kid and for the next few years, whenever we'd go rent a movie, I'd look around for it. It took so long. edit: VV affirmative, Darren Aronofsky now confirmed as a goon davidspackage fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Feb 12, 2014 |
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zandert33 posted:Interesting article on "Noah". Darren Aronofsky posted:"They tried what they wanted to try, and eventually they came back. My version of the film hasn't been tested. It's what we wrote and what was greenlighted." Sweet
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zandert33 posted:Interesting article on "Noah". 
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DStecks posted:Pteranodons. And the velociraptors were modeled after deinonychus, and more recent research suggests many of the dinosaurs should have feathers. Improbable Lobster posted:I hope that Jurassic World has a quetzalcoatlus. God damnit I wish dinosaurs were still around. Imagine driving through Texas and seeing a herd of those.
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Mr. Maltose posted:It was actually a replica of the inside of a raptor skull because Alan Grant's new thing was using computer modeling to figure out the tissue-y bits of dinosaurs and 3D printing them, followed by being pissy when undergrads asked why he didn't just go catch actual living dinosaurs because those exist now. This was a part of the JP3 that I actually liked: that Grant's academic career had been more or less rendered moot both by there being actual dinosaurs and by his unwanted celebrity status. It would have been interesting if the movie actually addressed paleontology possibly being rendered obsolete vs. how much can we trust these genetic monsters are accurate stand-ins for long-extinct animals.
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Monkeyseesaw posted:It would have been interesting if the movie actually addressed paleontology possibly being rendered obsolete vs. how much can we trust these genetic monsters are accurate stand-ins for long-extinct animals. This seems less interesting than dinosaurs smashing things.
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Skwirl posted:God damnit I wish dinosaurs were still around. Imagine driving through Texas and seeing a herd of those. Imagine one taking a dump on your car while gliding overhead 
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Skwirl posted:recent research suggests many of the dinosaurs should have feathers. Wait. Super Sentai is scientifically accurate?! 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:So does this mean that we will get to see Noah go insane and attempt to kill everyone/everything on the ark after all? I would *assume* so, it doesn't appear anybody has actually seen Aronsfsky's edit yet so it's possible that he would remove it, but going by his previous work I'd imagine he would want it in.
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Skwirl posted:God damnit I wish dinosaurs were still around. Imagine driving through Texas and seeing a herd of those. I don't think you'd ever see a herd of those wandering around Texas because that looks like a giant, delicious chicken.
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Barudak posted:I don't think you'd ever see a herd of those wandering around Texas because that looks like a giant, delicious chicken.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Wait. Super Sentai is scientifically accurate?! I don't what that means, and I wouldn't consider myself any type of source. But I know that almost every time I read something about dinosaurs, they have feathers. priznat posted:Imagine one taking a dump on your car while gliding overhead Meh, realistically if man and dinosaur had co-existed at some point, we'd have killed most of them anyways. Don't (literally) poo poo on my dream of seeing a wild loving pterodactyloid.
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As far as I'm aware, only theropods had feathers. As in, only the two-legged dinos had feathers, and not even all of them.
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I'm late to the e-peen discussion and I don't care. My first theater experience was when a local college showed a revival of Empire Strikes Back in '82 at age two. A fire alarm went off right when Yoda was telling Luke to go into the spooky cave, and the asbestos curtain came down befor the film stopped, which had a major effect on young me for some reason. As far as bad movies, well you see, we watched a LOT of films in the 80s, and I can tell you right now my taste sucks. I remember disliking Spies Like Us in the theater, but again, the sheer volume of crap I enjoyed in the theater is insurmountable. Howard The Duck, Leonard Part 6, Mac & Me, The Heathcliff Movie, Ghost Dad and the list goes on. And that doesn't even touch the home video market. Hell, I even partially enjoyed Traxx, the Shadoe Stevens vehicle noone asked for.
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You may recall the saga of Tony Tango, where the director posted here in an attempt to shrill his self financed comedy "breakout". He got thoroughly roasted as it was clear that he had no idea what he was doing and the eventual release of the trailer pretty much proved the point. Despite failing to get anywhere at Sundance or Cannes the law of averages meant it eventually got some screenings within the myriad of film festivals that dot the country. Not surprising the marketing has resorted to puff promotions,"we made the official selection!" Beyond a press release and the obvious IMDB vote stuffing, the only review I've found called it "amateurish" Well now dear Maxx is kinda mad at Nick Frost. 
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It's kind of adorable that he thinks anyone who matters would know his terrible movie exists, let alone give enough of a poo poo about it to want to rip it off.
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Feb 13, 2014 03:49
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I wonder if, 10 years from now, Tony Tango will be rediscovered and, uh, "appreciated" the same way The Room was.
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Shima Honnou posted:I wonder if, 10 years from now, Tony Tango will be rediscovered and, uh, "appreciated" the same way The Room was.
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From the trailer and the fact someone posted the entire plot on imdb Cuban Fury is pretty much a contender for the thread. It's pretty much up there with "The Boat that Rocked" where you have a pretty sluggish script that's only really carried across by strong comedy performances. Also Frost and co accept they're in Britain and don't try and pretend to be pasty-white Latinos. Tony Tango's hilarious in how the director reckons he's got a cult classic on the way with forced attempts to make memes from mustaches and pumping out the t-shirts and posters as apparently ladies are just dying to have a hairy Lothario on their panties. There's also the blatant sexism in the advertising, which completely avoided telling you about the character and focused on the director's girlfriend, clad in her underwear, doing salsa moves, in an attempt to get her stalled modeling career moving. The production pretty much suffered by them doing open casting via facebook, resulting in not bothering to screen the makeup artist who vanished with his up-front pay to score more drugs. It doesn't suffer from the surreal incompetency of The Room as it was helmed by people who knew just enough to make a film. So it just comes off as a dull and unfunny attempt to be a Jack Black comedy with none of the charm. The "big man took my little idea" spiel is pretty common in Hollywood. And Avatar picked a fare share of people trying to extort cash. The best one was the low budget CGI monstrosity that was Delgo. The producers had a case of sour grapes as their $40 mil production took in $915,840 in the box office and scoring 3/10 on RT. The producers reckoned that Avatar had nicked their ideas and wanted to somehow sue in order to make back their losses. The whole film was privately funded so no doubt there was some pressure to pay back all the interest. The "evidence" ends up looking pretty circumstantial as they drag out similarly framed shots and try and claim they're the totally same, despite Avatar's cat people vs Delgo's dino-bugs. The production was pretty infamous as it started in 1998 and laboriously took a decade to get completed with the producers boldly proclaiming it would beat out Shrek at the box office and how they'd taken CGI cartoons to a new level by focusing on the human stories (of alien creatures) and not being a CG comedy. It also became clear they were overwhelmed with the scale of the production having started off as a small scale commercials company and having to rapidly expand. This extended to the awkward boasting that they had eight main characters created and how they'd farmed work off to students.
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WebDog posted:The "evidence" ends up looking pretty circumstantial as they drag out similarly framed shots and try and claim they're the totally same, despite Avatar's cat people vs Delgo's dino-bugs. I'll have you know that their "evidence" also includes these striking similarities: quote:
This site has the screenshots side by side: http://youbentmywookie.com/entertainment/the-striking-resemblance-between-camerons-avatar-and-delgo-6945 They've been helpfully labelled just in case you can't tell the difference between the movies.
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One film stars a man who came to these forums and offered to let me spit on him at the premiere of his own movie for publicity's sake, and the other film stars Nick Frost. There's your difference.
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If I recall, I think he promised to show his wife's breasts or something on some other forum as some sort of weird promotion for the movie. But man, that Tony Tango thread was a good, well deserved roasting.
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