Jurassic World (SPOILERS!)

[beeshaw]

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Book for both JP and TLW.

At one point I read JP at least once a year. Haven't read it in a few now though. Lent out my hardcover and I have no memory of who I gave it too...

 

[greygoose]

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I guess I should give it a read one day.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

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Book or Film? Which do people prefer?

It's all about preference and perspective. I read the book 14 years after the film was released, so in my mind, the film was the standard by which all other formats would be judged.

But I would suggest you give it a read because there would be no movie without it.

 

[greygoose]

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Is the Rex breakout scene different in the book?

 

[jye4ever]

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A billion words wouldn't be able to present the T-Rex like the movie does.

Screw the books.

 

[Sachiel]

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Is the Rex breakout scene different in the book?

You can read the book. It's worth a read.

 

[crows]

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A billion words wouldn't be able to present the T-Rex like the movie does.

Screw the books.

 

[greygoose]

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SPOILER WARNING: D-Rex

 

[Rotfish]

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Looks rad. Pretty much how I envisioned it: a jacked-up, slightly extraterrestrial-looking Giganotosaurus.

 

[beeshaw]

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SPOILER WARNING: D-Rex

....I....like it...

 

[a-dev]

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I suspect the problem some have with the D-Rex is not the idea that the same science that brought back dinosaurs could make up an entirely new dinosaur, rather it's do we as dinosaur fans and movie fans really want to see some made-up dinosaur over the ones we know and love.

 

[greygoose]

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Full European Expo Pic

 

[Rotfish]

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I suspect the problem some have with the D-Rex is not the idea that the same science that brought back dinosaurs could make up an entirely new dinosaur, rather it's do we as dinosaur fans and movie fans really want to see some made-up dinosaur over the ones we know and love.

Aren't oversized, featherless dinos technically made-up?

 

[greygoose]

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Aren't oversized, featherless dinos technically made-up?

I'm a big fan of dinosaurs however because Jurassic Park means so much too me on a personal level I like to keep my JP dinos separate from regular dinos.

 

[beeshaw]

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I suspect the problem some have with the D-Rex is not the idea that the same science that brought back dinosaurs could make up an entirely new dinosaur, rather it's do we as dinosaur fans and movie fans really want to see some made-up dinosaur over the ones we know and love.

From Trevorrow himself -

On the concept of having humans creating dinosaurs in Jurassic World, as opposed to utilizing the many species that really did exist many the earth, Colin Trevorrow agrees that, "There is no shortage of awesome dinosaurs." He continued, "We could have populated this entire story with new species that haven't been in any of these movies. But this new creation is what gave me a reason to tell another Jurassic Park story. We have the most awe-inspiring creatures to ever walk the earth right in front of us, but for some reason that's not enough. We're not entertained. We're always hungry for the next thing, and those who profit from it are always looking to feed that hunger. The focus groups want something bigger than a T-Rex. And that's what they get."

Granted, that's the Movie universe and not 'us'. I'm fine with it. I've said from the beginning that this feels like a natural extension of the the JP universe. We will see the ones we know and love, and ones that we haven't seen yet...AND the D-Rex.

 

[a-dev]

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Aren't oversized, featherless dinos technically made-up?

 

[RIDDICK]

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I will not tolerate science in my summer blockbusters!

 

[jye4ever]

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D-Rex looks crappy.

 

[Morgul Matt]

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Aye I have. It had Dodgson go to the island, a bratty know it all Levine, 2 kids kelly and Arnold (or was it arthur? I forget.), a less chaos Malcolm and his Jane Goodall Sarah girlfriend. Oh and the book tossed out the stand still he cant see you rex bs, raptors did circus acts with the kid in a cage rolling him back to their nest while sarah became tomb raider on a motorcycle to go after. Alll the while Malcolm was hurt... again... oh ntm the camoflauge dinos.. and dead ones floating out to sea to only end up on costa rica's shores to be destroyed by the gov.

Oh, wow. So it is very different to the movie then. I'll have to pick me up a copy sometime next year & give it a read. Cheers!

 

[Morgul Matt]

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Book or Film? Which do people prefer?

I've not read TLW but I much prefer the book Jurassic Park to the 'far too Spielberg' movie version. Jurassic Park book spoilers below...

Spoiler

Muldoon is awesome in the book & lives whereas, for me, he was just a good character in the film &, of course, dies. Hammond is a crazy megalomaniac in the book & quite a dark character who cares only for his precious park. Even when his grandchildren go missing his main concern is the success of the park. And even as he lays dying, being eaten alive by, I think, those little buggers that kill Peter Stormare in TLW, he still convinces himself that the park will be a success. & last, but by no means least, Ian Malcolm dies at the end of the book.

I do think that the kids were better in the film, though. & the scenes with the T-REX are all timeless classics in the first movie. Plus, that typically wonderful John Williams score. I do love the first film to bits it's just that I prefer the book.