Comments on: Dinosaur Cinema Explosion

By: Herman Diaz

Herman Diaz — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:22:03 +0000

@Zach Miller

“It’ll be interesting to see if they put feathers on Troodon and Stenonychosaurus,”

I would think so, given the pic in this link: http://www.markwitton.com/#/consultancy/4552742056

By: Zach Miller

Zach Miller — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:32:38 +0000

An older theater up here screened Jurassic Park a few years ago. It was wonderful. I hadn’t seen that movie on the big screen since I was 10! The Walking with Dinosaurs sequel is pretty exciting considering it’s dealing with Alaska’s dinosaur fauna (my backyard). It’ll be interesting to see if they put feathers on Troodon and Stenonychosaurus, and if Albertosaurus has some now that we’ve got Yutyrannus.

Of course, the BIGGEST draw will be the pachyrhinosaurs. The animal in the screenshot, with the bulbs on either side of the rostral comb, looks a bit like P. canadensis, but I’m hoping to see the parietal hooks of P. perotorum.

By: Walter

Walter — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:48:51 +0000

If nothing else, I hope this spate of movies inspires some other dinosaur media. We haven’t had an anthology of dinosaur fiction for quite a while, for instance.

And if Jurassic Park the film is getting an anniversary edition, what about the novel? I’ve always wanted to see an annotated version of the novel with accompanying illustrations and essays. Imagine that as an interactive ebook* for tablets… but now I’m just dreaming.

*Jurassic Park isn’t currently available as an ebook, although its inferior sequel, The Lost World, is. This is ironic give JP was released as an ebook back in 1992: http://alfabravo.com/2011/08/early-ebooks-and-why-they-failed/

By: 'Dr'. S Beckmann, BS

'Dr'. S Beckmann, BS — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:37:07 +0000

The general public is going to pack the house when JP3D comes out because no matter how much money you have invested in a home theater system, nothing can replace the HUGE screen and deafening sound of a roaring Rex at the ol’ Bijou.
If Universal was smart, they’d re-release it every 7-10 years to a ‘new’ audience, ala Disney and their classics.
And Evan’s comments above reminded me, I think I had one too many fuzzy pterosaurs at the bar the other night. ha
Cheers!

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:38:22 +0000

Out of all of these, the only ones I really have hope for are the Walking with Dinosaurs sequel, and The Good Dinosaur. And with the latter, as silly as I’m sure the evolutionary theory bits will be, I will be completely willing to suspend belief if they, at the very least, have feathered Maniraptorans, and pycnofibers on their Pterosaurs (I have a feeling we’ll see at least one feathered theropod, but I will be quite disappointed, yet not surprised, if there are no fuzzy pterosaurs).