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How do you make good dinosaur movies?
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How do you make good dinosaur movies?
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>>70628402
Make them character driven
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>>70628402
Character driven
Good special effects
Good music
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>>70628402
You add a bunch of old actors...
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They eat everyone.
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>>70628402
>90 cg still better that most of the crap action movies have nowaways
i swear to god they had to be fucking timewizards
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>>70628428
>>70628446
Land before time, pls. Last thing dinokino needs is talking dinosaurs on a quest for peace and redemption.
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>>70629149
they had animatronics back then
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>>70629149

They actually used CGI as a tool and not a crutch. Used only when needed.
The Rex breakout scene is one of the best scenes ever filmed because it was filmed perfectly: at night, masked in rain, half animatronic.
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>>70629149
They were real fx artists back then. They knew the limitations of their tools and how to get the best out of them. Today's CG isn't about that, it's just about more more more.

>>70628402
One aspect of Jurassic Park I think that was so good was it really played up the "man is outmatched here" theme. From all the theoretical discussion about man's inability to control nature to the actual confrontations with the dinosaurs, man was always at a disadvantage. The only person who even attempted to fight a dinosaur was Muldoon, and it didn't last very long. The rest of the characters only ever evade. It's not an "us v. dinos" situation, it's a "we have to get the fuck out of here or we're all gonna die" situation.

It's why the best scene in Jurassic World is the one where Owen is trying to escape from the pen. You can feel the vulnerability. It's Owen's quick thinking and evasion ability that helps him survive.

When a knight goes to fight a dragon, the story is all about the knight. When a dragon terrorizes a village, the dragon is the main star.
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>>70628446

i feel da atmosphere is crucial, like even more so than usual

its gotta create a sense of wonder, a desire to see the dinos in action without resorting to weird turbo charged shit like genius iq t-rex's
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>>70629149
You have to do it right, JP1 pulls it off well while JP2 is pretty bad looking back at it. Cinematography is a big part of it I think, which is weird because Janusz KamiƄski is good but Dean Cundy did way better in the Jurassic Park movies.
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>>70628402
mfw I just finished watching this cause it's on netflix.

Forgot how fun the movie is. It helps that I enjoy dinosaurs a lot.
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>>70629292
this is exactly why i was really bummed out when i found out they scrapped or at least edited-in-post the fuck out of the animatronics they had planned on using in the thing reboot

just look at jaws ffs, hollywood used be clever
>hmm this shark isnt THAT big
>lets put a midget in a scuba tank
>???
>fucking huge ass shark on screen
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But anon, it's already been made
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>Sprinklers

Lots and lots of sprinkler s
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>>70628402
Don't have a transraptorrex
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>>70628402
bring back science
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I think Jaws with a raptor would be pretty sweet. Two or three guys on an island against a single killing machine, trying to outwit the crafty hunter.
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>>70630769
>not a pack
also humans run out of ammo and have to use spears and shit
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>"Dinosaurs"
>They don't have feathers
Those aren't dinosaurs, those are giant mutant lizards.
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>>70631038
>giant mutant frogs
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>>70628402
you set it on a WHOLE different planet comprised entirely of Dinosaurs.
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>>70629200
>are these uh....uuhhh.auto...auto-eroticasphyxiation?
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>>70628402
>good dinosaur movies
NO HUMANS, just Dinos.
It would be awesome, essentially a CGI film, and it would make no money because no stars for normie shits to droll over.
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>>70631458
That exists. It's called Dinosaur and it fucking sucked. One of the most forgettable Disney movies but the CG was impressive for 2000.
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>>70628402
Get Ray motherfucking Harryhausen to do your fx
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>>70631538
>Disney talking toony garbage filth family kike trash
>and a monkey too
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS THREAD
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>>70631538
>It's called Dinosaur
>doesn't feature actual dinos
>made up CGI puke
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>>70628402
Give the dinosaurs lasers, rockets and machine guns.
Cut out any kind of plot or dialogue, just armed dinosaurs fighting each other for an hour and a half.
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>>70630704
>feather mentality
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>>70631659
also they need to fuck
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>>70629292
>>70629200
>>70629645

rip stan winston

at the same time, the brachiosaurs scene doesnt hold up as well because its stop-motion, and its just choppy enough to be noticable
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>>70631665
>science stopped when I finished jr high
>I'm entitled to my stupidity
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>>70631604
>>70631651
can you read?
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>>70630247
Jp2 has looled pretty great to me still

The answer to OP is speilberg
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>>70628428
Silly anon.
Characters can't drive dinosaurs.
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>>70629292
This. The key is knowing when to use what medium and at what distance
>CGI for distant scenes or quick moving
>animatronics for close ups

the gallimimus were all cgi but it worked because the way it was shot.
likewise the triceratops worked because it was a physical animatronic that was interacted with
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>>70628428

This. An underrated aspect of Jurassic Park are the great and memorable performances by Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, and Richard Attenborough. They played interesting and well-rounded characters where you actually cared about what happened to them and made the whole thing actually work.
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