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I swear I've replied to this before, or a similar topic of yours. 

Change your topic title to "My Rant on My Worst 4 Dinosaur Movies", and you get your point across.

Here I am to counter:

Land of the Lost:  a really bad summer movie that you watch for nothing more than wanting to watch a terrible movie to laugh at.  A few good scenes here and there, a lot of messed up jokes that you can laugh at how messed up they are.  

Jurassic World:  BIG COUNTER!  Jurassic World was what Jurassic Park was supposed to become.  Wouldn't you have wanted that?  This movie built upon what Crichton was talking about in the Jurassic Park novel, which is what your fave JP movie is based on, right?  Surely you've READ Jurassic Park?!  Practically ZERO characters are likeable in any Jurassic movie because character development isn't the main point of these movies (but it's done well enough to get across).  This is especially true when you look at the characters on a surface level, which I believe you did.  Sure, militarizing dinosaurs is a dumb idea.  But so is militarizing elephants and dogs, BOTH of which have been done many times throughout human history, even continuing into today (think K9 units with police forces, many of which are part of nations' militaries), and they've been met with varying degrees of success.  You know what else is a dumb idea?  Making a theme park full of very large and (sometimes) very vicious animals that went extinct a long time ago, where people can get hurt.  But you were fine with that, right?

Jurassic Park 3:  no way I'm going to say that it's actually a good movie, but it's a far better movie than it should have been.  Pre-production and production were wildly disorganized to a point that there was never a final script.  But this was still a summer action blockbuster, so why should plot be important?  Just see it so you don't have to think for an hour and a half.  Escaping reality for an hour or so does the soul some good.  Plus, no character is ever truly likeable in any Jurassic movie, hell in ANY MOVIE, if you have pre-conceived bias already.  And hey, this fan-base division was stupid to begin with, so why get involved?  It's been over for a long time.  But your AIDS and cancer comments are uncalled for.

WWD 3D:  again, your disease-based comments are legit uncalled for and unnecessary.  Sure, the dialogue is poor, but you emulating poop jokes (remember "Walking With Pieces of Sh!t"?) makes your post as bad as your opinion of the movie.  So, watch the film without dialogue, like the movie crew originally planned?  There is a version of it available, called Prehistoric Planet 3D.  And sadly, as paramount as the WWD series was, it had some stupid shortcomings (Utahraptors in Europe?  5 ton T.rex?  Ornithocheirus the size of Quetzlcoatlus?), so your comparison point is moot.  The plot is cliché because you can only get so creative in nature.  And again, very few characters are likeable in ANY MOVIE if you have preconceived notions about it.  For all the shortcoming of this film, Animal Logic actually made a new software program called RepTile as a result of combining 2 previous ones so that you get a more seamless CGI model of dinosaurs, between the skin/scales and the internal structure, instead of layering the external model over the internal one separately and trying to sync them once both models were completed.  Any software innovations should be celebrated, because it is progress.  You should be happy that such new software exists, so that an even better version can be made.  Who cares what movie is was made for?  Progress is progress.

I get how hurt you were at the time you made this post.  I know all too well the impact a film (series) can have on you, because certain peers of mine chose to interact negatively with me and my (now former) friends due to a certain film's influence on them.  It can easily have been considered bullying.  They had no reason to commit such actions, even though we were all 12 -13 years old at the time (aren't we all naive at that age?). 

Hopefully, enough time has passed that your sentiments have cooled off and you have "grown a thicker skin".  I have.  I still intensely dislike that film (series), so while my opinion remains the same, I have moved on from focusing on it to the point of an irrational rant like this.

@James Inkton,  it wasn't just Spielberg who consciously chose a different name.  Crichton did it too when he was writing Jurassic Park for the same reason.  But one unconfirmed explanation was that along with consulting with John Ostrom about Deinonychus, he used a lot of Gregory Paul's material when writing the novel.  During the 1980's, Paul actually pushed for Deinonychus antirrhopus to be classified under the genus Velociraptor, and thus wrote several books under the new name.  Then it was refuted, so Paul retracted the initiative, but by then, Crichton's novel was set to be published.

The odd thing though is that even though the body shape of JP's raptors is based entirely on Deinonychus, the size and length of the animal are larger than any known Deinonychus specimen, even though some sources say otherwise.  JP's raptors are around 12-15 ft long and are 5.5 feet tall at the head in a neutral posture.  The largest Deinonychus specimen was 11 ft long and 4 feet tall at the head in the same neutral posture.

Utahraptor is a lot bigger than Deinonychus, and bulkier. That's one of my favorite Dromaeosaurs, if not my favorite. Also, raptors wouldn't have been as smart as they are said to be in the movies. Still could probably open doors though (with handles).

Thanks for the fact.

I acutally digged more research into Deinonychus and i found out that it was cooler than Velociraptor.

Oops,i corrected the thingy,i liked Deinoninychus but i never knew he was the Raptor from Jurassic Park.

I forgot to mention but i love all the Dinos,but i still have favorites!

For the average it said that it had 14 meters in length,so the largest specimen will be larger than a T-Rex,anyways good list.

Do you know that Mapusaurus is actually the largest one,i have a book about Mapusaurus and other dinos.

Anyways i respect your opinion,also what are the best Dinosaur films,have you thought of that?

Walking with dinosaurs was one of my favorite films!Anyways i don't really like the fact that you hate Jurassic Park 3 and i respect that you put Jurassic World on the list because it sucks,and because people say that T-Rex is stronger than I-Rex,because the I-Rex was defeated by Blue,Rexy and the Mosasaurus,Rexy needed help to kill the I-Rex.

WHAT THE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks!

Thanks!

Yup, also a part of etc

It’s part of etc lol

How about a sperm whale?

Your forgetting prognathodon 

Nope, none got big enough. Maybe Titanoboa, but there would be no point for it to do so, seeing as how Megalodon is so big that it can't even eat it, and that's assuming it even could constrict!

Livyatan, pod of orcas, etc. If it's a pod of Livyatan, Megalodon's screwed.

Mosasaurus, Tylosaurus, Hainosaurus, etc. Quite a few, but I think Megalodon still would have the best chance of winning out of all of them.

I saw the fight already pretty well written

Funkei. I think Megalodon would win more times than not though. Also, the Tyrannosaurus V.S. Torvosaurus topic is done... again...

TheLazyFish What species of Pliosaurus are you referring to?

Pliosaurus perhaps. No long necked plesiosaur could take one on though; they weren't built to fight.

I said a single one, and a single wolf won’t scare off a bear, and the difference is that the Megalodon would be actively looking to kill the Liopleurodon, not escape like an elk. Also, I meant Camarasaurus supremus, the one that got to 60 feet. That’s why it’s far fetched. It’s also like saying a great white would kill a Megalodon, seeing as it’s only slightly smaller than Liopleurodon. Sure, if they’re incredibly lucky with a gill shot, it’s possible. But usually, they’ll just be eaten.

well if the liopluerodon is desperate enough it prove to be a nuisance. Also wolves have been known to take down animals way bigger than it, so Utahraptors taking down a Camarasaurus isn't too far fetched. Some Utahraptors can grow to roughly the same size as an Allosaurus europaeus.

I know that Xenotaris, but saying a Liopleurodon can kill a Megalodon is like saying a single Utahraptor can kill a Camarasaurus or an Ocelot can kill a Tiger. At a certain point a creature is too small to pose too much of a threat to a larger creature (without venom or other defenses like quills on a hedgehog). As far as we know, Liopluerodon possessed none of those. Seriously, a great white shark sized pliosaur to a Megalodon. No way.

Not a kiddy smile though, not like it's about to pull a prank. Also, I don't think that really counts as a grin, it was just how its face was formed to make it look like it was smiling. The Indoraptor actually does smile, it goes from resting to smile in a matter of seconds. And the Raptor smile actually looked more realistic for the closest thing it could muster, NOT A BARNEY SMILE. The Raptor's smile is more like what you would see with an actual animal, it looks like a smile, but you can tell it isn't actually smiling with common sense. It's just how it looks. The Indoraptor actually does make a smile, from it's face that kinda looks like a little smile to a full blown smile. Like Barney. Actually, that was more of a smile than even Barney can make!

BUT  LIVYATAN MELLIVEI WILL STILL KILL THE MEG!

I will say that a Purussaurus and a Rhamposuchus will kill the Meg.

The BigOne (the lead Velociraptor) from the original Jurassic Park sported a huge freaking slasher grin like a serial killer!

Bigger doesn't mean better TheLazyFish

Maybe, yeah, but it doesn't matter which ones. The question is if a Megalodon stands a chance of beating any Crocodylomorph in a fight, and it does. Of course it wouldn't win against, say, a Purussaurus 10 times out of 10, but it could beat a Purussaurus and other big crocs.

Or maybe crocodylus bugtiensis

What about Gryposuchus or piscogavialis?

Sarco, Purussaurus, Deinosuchus, Rhamphosuchus, maybe Machimosaurus, big crocs we haven’t discovered yet of course. I’m forgetting some I believe. I think another cool question would be if there’s any phytosaurs that can take on a Megalodon, or maybe Ichthyosaurs.

It was my opinion,im no scientist at all,or even a professional at Sharks.

But i atleast learned something.

Can you list all the big ones that can provide a big challenge to the Meg?