jurassic park

This thread is quintessential ILX: A single topic goes on a divergence toward creative hilarity.

Anyways, I still believe that Jurassic Park is one of the most magnificent movies that I have ever seen.

"malcolm rex" lol

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/a-sound-of-thunder-08.JPG

I saw JPIII in the theater and have no memory of it at all. YouTube suggests that the talking Raptor might have just been a dream sequence which would be pretty disappointing...

TS: Jurassic Park vs. Congo.

both pretty awesome movies.

the SNES JP game was pretty good

The Genesis one was a fun platformer too. I thought the Wolf 3d stuff in the snes one was kinda weaksauce

http://www.cpujunky.com/pugsley1218suxSNES/Jurassic%20Park%202.gif

^^^also good

oh god congo is seriously one of the most fun movies to watch drunk

you are too young to be drinking!!!!

wha

Malcolm Rex

― latebloomer, Friday, May 11, 2007 4:39 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the scene where sam neill is sitting in a tree and imitates a BRONTOSAURUS CALL to get all these brontosaurii to crane their necks up above the forest canopy and stare at him

man

that is magic

I do love this film.

man what a great movie.
― ethan, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (7 years ago)

^as true now as it was 16 Jan 2002 01:00

Hold on to your butts!

dinahsaww

when i was 12 i wrote a sequel to jurassic park for a creative writing class. it was basically Predator in the south american jungle with a group of escaped Velociraptors. still the best thing i've ever written. (the raptors win.)

haha my friend would do that for basically every writing assignment in 4th grade. Eventually he ended up at Jurassic Park 6.

I just bought a boxed set of I,II, and III and another disc of even more bonuses for a fiver in Sainsburys. Hours of Jurassic fun.

Silicon Graphics, whose public profile was increased substantially by this movie, sold for a sad-sack $20 million to another has-been this past week.

I just bought a boxed set of I,II, and III and another disc of even more bonuses for a fiver in Sainsburys. Hours of Jurassic fun.

― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II)

well yes, 2 hours of Jurassic Fun then the 2 shite sequels :P

Jeff Goldblum. what a totally awesome dude.

Hold on to your butts! x 1000

http://www.made2mentor.com/Images/jurassicholdbutts.jpg

I forgot that Samuel Adams was in this movie!

Samuel Johnson, I mean

hold onto your butts, indeed

Samuel Jackson, you mean?

Jurassic Park wasa gyp compared to the book but still enjoyable. Not the horrible abomination that was The Lost World. perhaps if the movie had winked at the audience more...but nope, it was actual not smirking or holding any irony at all when the little black girl SOMERSAULTS and kicks over a dinosaur that WEIGHS SEVERAL TONS.

more like sockuel jacksock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx6X_VLtfIc

^^ still my favorite scene in the movie

http://io9.com/5431548/velociraptors-cousin-had-a-venomous-bite

http://www.livescience.com/animals/091221-venomous-dinosaurs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+%28LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Using snake-like fangs, saber-toothed dinosaur relatives of velociraptors likely subdued their prey with venom, scientists now suggest.

Paleontologists analyzed the skulls of Sinornithosaurus, whose name means "Chinese bird lizard." This narrow-snouted raptor was the fifth and most bird-like dinosaur species ever to be discovered, and lived roughly 125 million years ago in the warm, moist forests of northeastern China during the late Cretaceous.

"This is an animal about the size of a turkey," said researcher Larry Martin, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum in Lawrence. "It was almost certainly feathered. It's a very close relative of the four-winged glider called Microraptor."

Their investigation revealed its upper teeth are grooved, long, and fang-like, and its upper jaw contained pockets that could have housed venom glands. These pockets are connected to the base of the teeth by narrow ducts.

"People are probably sorry they missed it, since it's so obvious," said researcher David Burnham, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum in Lawrence.

"When we were looking at Sinornithosaurus, we realized that its teeth were unusual, and then we began to look at the whole structure of the teeth and jaw, and at that point, we realized it was similar to modern-day snakes," Martin said.

How it worked

This pattern of features is specifically much like that found in "rear-fanged" venomous snakes. The fangs in these serpents do not inject venom, but instead channel poison along a groove on the outer surface of the teeth that pierce their prey's flesh.

"This thing is a venomous bird for all intents and purposes," Martin said.

If rear-fanged snakes serve as any sign, the venom Sinornithosaurus employed likely was not lethal. Rather, it may have caused rapid shock, enabling the saber-toothed raptor to subdue its victim, shrinking the odds of retaliation or escape from the prey or piracy from other predators.

"You wouldn't have seen it coming," Burnham said. "It would have swooped down behind you from a low-hanging tree branch and attacked from the back. It wanted to get its jaws around you. Once the teeth were embedded in your skin the venom could seep into the wound. The prey would rapidly go into shock, but it would still be living, and it might have seen itself being slowly devoured by this raptor."

The length of the dinosaur's fangs probably allowed it to penetrate the thick layer of feathers on the birds abundantly available as prey. Teeth at the tip of the snout may have then helped Sinornithosaurus pluck the feathers off its victims.

Recently scientists discovered venom in snakes and lizard was very ancient, dating back to roughly 200 million years ago. "It wouldn't surprise me at all if it dated back to their common ancestor with the dinosaurs," Burnham said.

Other raptors?

These findings are prompting the researchers to look more closely at other raptors.

"Preliminary results suggest that Microraptor may have been venomous too," Burnham said. When it comes to larger, more iconic raptors such as Deinonychus, "they were bigger animals, so they might have lost venom since they had other means of subduing prey, but then again, who's checked?"

There remains potential for many other discoveries in China. "This is just the tip of the iceberg," Burnham noted. "There are thousands of feet of sediment one can search that span an area from North Korea to Inner Mongolia, and it's proven hugely diverse, producing things one could have never imagined.

Martin, Burnham and their colleagues detailed their findings online December 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

http://bubleraptor.tumblr.com/

http://io9.com/5813380/who-wants-to-stay-at-a-jurassic-park-themed-love-hotel

watched this again at the cinema tonight. was actually a couple of moments when the audience audibly laughed at the exposition etc., best laugh was at the couple of close up shots of dr ian malcolm's greased torso as he lay injured.

this is probably my favorite spielberg. "i didn't say i was scared."

but the raptors were still scary right?

xp

yeah, raptors were still scary.

i actually hadn't noticed attenborough is doing a scottish accent at times in the film, until today, cinema was howling whenever he cracked some ridiculous groundskeeper willie phrase.

T-Rex attack sequence awesome, raptor stuff scary, much of the rest a risible if technically proficient mess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBxgAmdPQWg