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@Levian- First off, it's nice to see you back. (I thought you were gonna be gone forever, lol)

That is somewhat true, but there are plenty of films that were really good such as the Planet of the Apes reboots. I'm not crowning sequels but I do think The Lost World was a better sequel while Jurassic Park 3 was the least best sequel. Although in the past I've berated Jurassic Park 3, I do it out of fun mainly and I don't mean everything I say about it.

Jurassic World was good, but as I said already I stand by it doesn't deserve all the extremely high praise it gets.

How funny, today I decided to watch all the Jurassic Park films. I got to say, I totally agree and hear where you're coming from...though compare it to other movies today, and well, you can see why it's so great. Otherwise, the day the movie was on theaters, I never glorified it. Which I find it completely unfair to have people call the other sequels horrible and crown this one better. I love them all the same, cause it's funny how each sequel equally missed a long shot to make each on par to the first. However that's not to say each sequel did not stand out and aren't unique from one another.  

Hey a Dino Dominion player. :D

Yeah! I'm all for new discoveries! :D

^I am! :D

@GorillaGodzilla, It's only a matter of time before Dakotaraptor finds its way into all of our stories...

On another topic Is anyone else exited for saurian?

Here's my brief look at famous late Cretaceous fauna:

-a long-tailed ostrich

-a giant ground eagle with switch-blade talons and teeth

-a mid-sized chicken with a longer tail and an appetite for flesh

-a 3-horned, parrot-beaked, frilled porupine

-a GIANT angry chicken who crushes bones for lunch

Did I catch everyone guys? :P

TYRANT KING - I am of the opinion that both animals would have an equal chance at victory were they to engage in battle. They seem to be of roughly equal mass and prowess. However, I believe that the animal that could gain surprise over the other would be provided with a significant advantage. :)

SVANYA - That is utterly phenominal news! I can not wait to see how this discovery impacts the paleontological community in the coming years! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us! :)

ALPHADINO65 - You are most welcome! Please continue providing us with these fantastic works! :)

i will once i figure out how to fully use this site on a mobile.

SOMETHING REAL-I was waiting for you to reply and to give your eloquent responses that you love to give out :D

Btw, all responses are awesome, so name me the "alpha writer" if you want, but I'll just keep doing my thing :P

This was something that I've never seen really addressed in this forum, about how Indominus was feeling about her existence.  Yes, it was kind of nodded to in Jurassic World, but the emphasis had to be on A HUGE MONSTER RUNNING AROUND DESTROYING EVERYTHING!!

And because she's pretty smart, it gave a more relatable medium to work with.  Yes, we humanize our characters a bit, but the Indominus is pretty close to us in how identical her intelligence is to ours.

@Tyrant King, it sounds like another T.rex vs *insert similarly sized carnivorous dino here* debate, especially since Utahraptor lived about 60 million years before.  Both animals could do damage to each other, that's all I could conclude.  Make a fight about the confrontation if you want.

Impressive find! 

Wond whod win between it and a utahraptor.

btw, the true king is back  

Impressive find! 

Wonded whod win between it and a utahraptor.

btw, the true king is back  

I thought it was good, the high heels never really bothered me.

ALPHADINO65 - That was exceedingly interesting - and very well written! I very much enjoyed the way in which you described the internal turmoil of your subject! Thank you so much for taking the time to create this and share it with us! :)

A point I also missed was that on the effects. Jurassic Park 3 at least still had that realism to it that will never look fake to me, like The Lost World and Jurassic Park.

Then with Jurassic World were many times the CGI was great and other times made me cringe and miss Stan Winston. (Most of the Jurassic World fans I know probably never even heard of him.)

I mean the reason why the raptors in the military bothered me was because Jurassic Park did thinks that would be logical if it were to happen. But it just sounded way too stupid to me. The more I think about it the more it just annoys me. VIc Hoskins and his constant lines about "Raptors running the battle line" and "them on the enemies side" just just made me sigh on the inside.

When I rewatched it I realised the movie dealt way too much with the original Jurassic Park and the novel. I get it, the movie was a masterpiece, I get it that scene with Nedry was funny and scary, I get it Rexy is awesome, I get it the original park was cool, I get it some of the book scenes were cool, etc.

However it still was fun but if I were to watch it a third time will be quite a while from now.

THERIZINOSAURUS RED - Oh, how neat! This is extremely compelling news! Additionally, I am very pleased to see you once more! Thank you ever so much for taking the titime to share this with us! :)

Awesome find, I got very excited to find news like this!

Thx for link fixes GG!. :)

I think Jurassic Park 3 edges out Jurassic World by a couple of hairs largely based on special effects artistry and technique. This was some of the last of Stan Winston's animatronic work and, most certainly, the last of his wizardry on a Jurassic Park film. This is something Jurassic World desperately needed more of. Even the animatronic Apatasaurus was overlaid with some CG which was disappointing. The amount of sub-par to par CG in a Jurassic Park movie has never been more obvious and it really took me out of the film. Compare that with the Spinosaurus attack on the airplane which gave actors more to interact with and looked something with weight was really attacking.

Again, I don't mind the camp factor about the movie and the direction it went. Raptors being used for the military? Sure! Spliced dinosaurs? Go for it! Sounds fun! Dinosaurs teaming up to defeat a spliced monster? Sounds like fun. My issue is that the execution undermines its own integrity--Practically admitting its by-the-numbers mindless, inferior material instead of genuinely enjoying itself as a reimagined monster movie. Yeah, the original Jurassic Park is a masterpiece. We get it. We didn't need the reminder, we didn't need the nostalgia and reflexive nods about inferior sequels.

Granted the movie's still fun regardless, but the emphasis on what it is and is not is retroactively eyerolling.

And I agree, Hoskins was a bit too much...

These things are definitley going in all the stories now xD.

So Dr Grant must have dug up a real dinosaur in JP?  Awesome!!

This beast could have definitely been a match for Utahraptor.

^ Yep!

I read about this yesterday.

My first thought were the JP raptors.

Also I'm back, so yeah.

Cool chapter, looking really forward to how it will all go down with the fight.

Again I find myself not knowing anything about guns except a SPAS 12 also what is a Dragon's Breath?

@Gman- Well I mean the movie was still good, but I think it's above Jurassic Park 3. I mean I still like the third movie and enjoy the CGI, and I do find it to be kind of a fun movie to watch but I still think it's the least best of the whole series.

Jurassic World had plenty of stupid things, granted, that's part of the reason why I felt like writing the topic. And sometimes it's not that bad to give the audience what they want. I mean after the sixth and hopefully final Jurassic Park movie comes out, that will definitely be enough.

Another problem that I had with Jurassic World is that it missed so much it could explore the past sequels did not such as dinosaur migration. especially showing how the raptors made it to Costa Rica by the beginning of the first novel. It could have explored more of any possible "dark" history and secrets of Hammon and Site B.

But it just focused on just having some monster and nostalgia- which is great, but as you say will get old with each re-watch.

I feel Trevorrow was just trying to create a fun summer movie that wasn't meant to be deeply analyzed, but now it's trouble seeing that there's too many "fans" of JP now, and I have an actual bad feeling it may give fans like me a bad rep.

However I still felt the movie was better than Jurassic Park 3. It left more potential, such as what will happen to the park and the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar, where Jurassic Park 3 didn't leave much to wonder or question about, except the hinted migration of the pterodactyls and the fate of the Spinosaurus.

When I watched Masrani's death I still find it kind of emotional, I found his character to actually have a good personality and mindset. (My sister actually thought (somehow) it was racist that they killed him off...)

Hopefully the people making Jurassic World 2 will understand what worked and what did not work in Jurassic World and make a better movie. Jurassic World is a good movie, kind of an interesting story, but it's a movie that the more you think of it you realise a lot of it is really stupid. Especially raptors in the military... Still won't get over the cringeworthy villain, Vic Hoskins.

Also, Jurassic World was kind of annoying with sudden attempts at plot twists, like you mentioned. I found it really illogical that just because I. rex has raptor DNA suddenly it can talk with the raptors like good friends... I mean if you put a alpha wolf in front of several chihuahuas, the alpha wolf isn't gonna just bark commands and force the dogs to serve it... That's not how DNA works. (I use that example since dogs of course have extreme similarities to wolves genetically.)

But the movie certainly does not deserve all the high praise it's getting.

While this was cool I did find it too much that they somehow say December 26th... With our dating systems today there's no way you can predict the exact day of a million-year-old event.

^I know xD.

Just a slight play on his name, that's all GG. 

^Whaaa....There is no Alpha writer.

Great chapter Alpha-Dino.

Nice job. Guess we could say you're the Alpha writer on the JW forums. 

That last little bit, deep man, deep.

Thanks SR. I too find the Dragon's Breath round impressive. That's why I use it in this story over birdshot or buckshot or even slugs.

yeah... they were Great, so Remember... 26 December will be announced as the Dino extinction Date, remember it SCIFIED !!! Remember !

Thanks, they were Hybrids so i can't just search the picture, so... i be a little creative by drawing my creation

Honestly I place this film more on level with the unfairly maligned Jurassic Park 3, with Jurassic Park as the far away masterpiece and The Lost World trailing far behind in second place. Jurassic Park 3 and Jurassic World are neck and neck behind that for different reasons--This is if I had to rank them anyway.

I think the more Jurassic World sits with me the less I like it. The same thing happened with me and the way I look at Godzilla '14 to some extent. Unlike Godzilla '14 I find less and less reasons to revist Jurassic World.

While I enjoy the direction Jurassic World took the franchise in, with the really over-the-top ideas and it's unfettered supporting numskulls, I'm not entirely sure the meta-filmmaking worked. The Indominous Rex is largely supposed to represent the film's existence: Unnecessary, but bigger, faster and wilder because that's what audiences want. So Trevorrow practically admits the movie is catering to everything wrong with modern blockbusters today. Alright...

Then, to pay some overzealous respect to the original film, the Indominous Rex gets defeated by the original stars of the Jurassic Park franchise and the two creatures it was created from: The T-Rex and the Velociraptor--As if to also admit its an inferior product to the original.

There's some kind of reflexive genius in the stupidity of the film's execution. It's almost like Trevorrow tried to make a bad, stupid movie just to nail a point home. I'm not suggesting that's what he intended, but it sometimes comes off that way and I think if the film were trying to make a comment on modern blockbusters and "bigger" sequels it needed to be done with more finesse. And that would include better dialogue, more practical effects, a stronger emotional base (Masrani dies, who cares?) and less left field plot elements. (OH! Their parents are getting a divorce. OH! It's blended with Raptor DNA!)

As it stands the strongest emotional element in the film was the nostalgia with the old compound--Something that will have less impact on repeat viewings because it doesn't rely on an emotional core that Jurassic World established. It relies on what we remember about another movie. We need more than that chew on and statements on blockbusters aren't enough.

ELITE RAPTOR 007 - Hahaha! This was a very neat battle - and I greatly enjoy the fact that you have included images of your own creation! Excellent work! Thank you so very much for sharing this with us! :)

ELITE RAPTOR 007 - This is extremely compelling news! Having definitive time scales for these events is extraordinarly exciting! Thank you ever so much for taking the time to share this with us! :)