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Who is the biggest JP fan here?

SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
edited January 2011 in Jurassic Park
Hey guys and girls,

I need to talk privately with someone who is a really big fan of the JP movies. You can reply to this thread and I'll PM you, or you can PM me directly. It's important and secret :)

Thanks!

SWP
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  • TrenchfootTrenchfoot
    edited November 2010
    Jurassic Park is my favorite film of all times. It's the film that inspired me to be a film-maker. And it's one of the few films that I can watch over and over again with the same excitment as I watched the first time on the early 90's. Such a magical film... If there's any way I can help, let me know :)
  • SadonicusSadonicus
    edited November 2010
    Trenchfoot wrote: »
    Jurassic Park is my favorite film of all times. It's the film that inspired me to be a film-maker. And it's one of the few films that I can watch over and over again with the same excitment as I watched the first time on the early 90's. Such a magical film... If there's any way I can help, let me know :)

    signed
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited November 2010
    I am a pretty big JP fan.... I doubt I am the biggest however.
  • Captain_JackCaptain_Jack
    edited November 2010
    I am a huge fan of the first two films. The music, the acting, the suspense, the Goldblum...it's easy to forget how funny the first film is amidst all the tension.

    From a technology and graphics point of view, I still always refer to the first shot of the T-Rex snapping the fence wires and taking those steps out of the enclosure to be the single greatest and most flawless cgi creature achievement in the history of special effects cinema, even still. For me, anyway. Next to "Raiders", the original "Jurassic Park" is my favourite Spielberg film.

    EDIT: Not a big fan of the third film however. Even seeing it at the movies as an impressionable teenager I felt the tone was off and that it was too self-aware of itself and the franchise it was now apart of. But I appreciate other people may like it.

    Anyway, let me know if you need any help with anything Mr. Wolf! :)
  • valkysasvalkysas
    edited November 2010
    Yea love JP i was about 11 or 12 when the first movie came out saw it in the theater the cgi and animatronics even the quality of the sound effect where amazing

    it was like going from doom 1 to doom 3 in quality for movies at the time
  • valkysasvalkysas
    edited November 2010
    Captain_Jack wrote: »
    I am a huge fan of the first two films. The music, the acting, the suspense, the Goldblum...it's easy to forget how funny the first film is amidst all the tension.

    From a technology and graphics point of view, I still always refer to the first shot of the T-Rex snapping the fence wires and taking those steps out of the enclosure to be the single greatest and most flawless cgi creature achievement in the history of special effects cinema, even still. For me, anyway. Next to "Raiders", the original "Jurassic Park" is my favourite Spielberg film.

    EDIT: Not a big fan of the third film however. Even seeing it at the movies as an impressionable teenager I felt the tone was off and that it was too self-aware of itself and the franchise it was now apart of. But I appreciate other people may like it.

    Anyway, let me know if you need any help with anything Mr. Wolf! :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sIyn504hzY
    skip to 56sec or so i no this is #3 but they had a full scale one for jp 1 t-rex scean as well


    a remote control T rex would be sweet
  • waroftheworlds01waroftheworlds01
    edited November 2010
    I'm a huge fan.
    I've seen all the movies countless times and enjoyed everyone of them.
    I own a lot of the comics and I'm collecting the new series as well.
    I still own a lot of the Jurassic park Toys. (I have an unopened Ian Malcolm on my wall)
    I own five of the video games and have played two of the board games.
    I own and read the novels coutless times as well.

    So yeah, I know a lot about the series.
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited November 2010
    Okay, thanks guys! I already sent PMs to people who were very helpful. Thank you for the infos. :)
  • xChri5xxChri5x
    edited November 2010
    What an odd thread.
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited November 2010
    xChri5x wrote: »
    What an odd thread.

    I'm an odd guy ;)
  • ElvenmonkElvenmonk
    edited November 2010
    waroftheworlds01 wrote: »
    I'm a huge fan.
    I've seen all the movies countless times and enjoyed everyone of them.
    I own a lot of the comics and I'm collecting the new series as well.
    I still own a lot of the Jurassic park Toys. (I have an unopened Ian Malcolm on my wall)
    I own five of the video games and have played two of the board games.
    I own and read the novels coutless times as well.

    So yeah, I know a lot about the series.

    Mind PMing me, or posting, a pic of the Ian toy?
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited November 2010
    None of you will ever defeat me, JP nerdiness! EVER!
  • waroftheworlds01waroftheworlds01
    edited November 2010
    http://img440.imageshack.us/i/jurassicparkianmalcolmw.jpg/
    http://img404.imageshack.us/i/thelostworldgliderpackw.jpg/

    Those are the two ian ones I own. The first one is the sealed one, the second is the one that's open but still have the box.
  • ElvenmonkElvenmonk
    edited November 2010
    I had both of those.
  • waroftheworlds01waroftheworlds01
    edited November 2010
    I still trying to hunt some down. I lost almost all of them in hurricane katrina. I'm really looking for the trailer from the Lost World movie. Can't find it anywhere.
  • TrenchfootTrenchfoot
    edited November 2010
    Icedhope wrote: »
    None of you will ever defeat me, JP nerdiness! EVER!

    And the duel begins!

    (Cue "Duel of the Fates")
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited November 2010
    Trenchfoot wrote: »
    And the duel begins!

    (Cue "Duel of the Fates")


    *Ignites Flare* Let's do this..
  • TrenchfootTrenchfoot
    edited November 2010
    Get rid of the flaaaareeee!

    :p
  • Alan JohnsonAlan Johnson
    edited November 2010
    I am the biggest Jurassic Park fan of them all.
  • ElvenmonkElvenmonk
    edited November 2010
    waroftheworlds01 wrote: »
    I still trying to hunt some down. I lost almost all of them in hurricane katrina. I'm really looking for the trailer from the Lost World movie. Can't find it anywhere.

    I had it, but my mom threw it away when I was like 13.
  • waroftheworlds01waroftheworlds01
    edited November 2010
    We need a Jurassic Park Quiz up in here. lol
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited November 2010
    I'm calling Shenanigans on Alan.
  • KaldireKaldire
    edited December 2010
    JP 1 was ok.. 2-3 uhhh no

    Im no fan of JP.. but im sooooo curious at why this title and what they plan on doing with it.
    Could work out really well, could be a disaster.
    sooo many other games came to mind before this one, it was prolly just due to package deal from the company as BTTF and jurassic combo or something

    im excited but not a fan at all of JP.
    odd but had to throw that out there.
  • xChri5xxChri5x
    edited December 2010
    Maaaan. Jurassic Park AND Back to the Future (along with Ghostbusters and TMNT) were my bread and butter growing up. How can anyone not be in love with it!?
    I wasn't let down with The Lost World whatsoever. JP3 on the other hand was eeehhh..okay (bitter-sweet is a better word).

    tumblr_l14tm5FDkK1qbxc42o1_500.gif
  • valkysasvalkysas
    edited December 2010
    xChri5x wrote: »
    Maaaan. Jurassic Park AND Back to the Future (along with Ghostbusters and TMNT) were my bread and butter growing up. How can anyone not be in love with it!?
    I wasn't let down with The Lost World whatsoever. JP3 on the other hand was eeehhh..okay (bitter-sweet is a better word).

    tumblr_l14tm5FDkK1qbxc42o1_500.gif

    nice pic lol i still got that hologram card from the vhs version some where ....
  • BrakMan2005BrakMan2005
    edited December 2010
    xChri5x wrote: »
    Maaaan. Jurassic Park AND Back to the Future (along with Ghostbusters and TMNT) were my bread and butter growing up. How can anyone not be in love with it!?

    You and me both, brother.
  • ManicManManicMan
    edited December 2010
    Can't be me.. I found the first film good, but not the best thing ever.. the second was a big let down, and the third.. i don't wanna talk about..

    But then.. I'm a fan of Michael Crichton's work and love the two books.. and once you have read the books, the films are sooo weak compared to them... you can't turn Crichton's work into an action film.. you lose way too much.

    Probebly why my Fav JP game was for the Snes.. it was an adventure game that was more based on the book then the film, but with film actor pictures (okay, okay.. trespasser is high on the list too)
  • GF-REXGF-REX
    edited December 2010
    I love Jurassic Park 1-2; those are two of my all time favorite movies. #3 wasn't all that bad, it was alright.

    I also love and still play the two Jurassic Park Super Nintendo games. #1 was pretty tough and was one of the few games to use the SNES mouse. #2 was a fairly difficult 2 player side-scrolling shooter/platformer.

    I'm also very interested in fossils and paleontology, so that explains my intense love for Jurassic Park and dinosaurs in general.
  • xChri5xxChri5x
    edited December 2010
    When I was a kid I used to put masking tape on the floor all throughout the house as a track for the toy JP car. I had so much fun with that.
    I think I still have most of the dinosaurs figures. I don't know what happened to the T-Rex though.
  • KaldireKaldire
    edited December 2010
    I loved the horribly hard arcade shooter.
    One in LV moved when you got in it.. not just sat there like most of the others
    It was like you were IN the jeep!!!

    ahhhh
    player two shoot the raptors ill get t-rex in his mouth!
  • waroftheworlds01waroftheworlds01
    edited December 2010
    Kaldire wrote: »
    I loved the horribly hard arcade shooter.
    One in LV moved when you got in it.. not just sat there like most of the others
    It was like you were IN the jeep!!!

    ahhhh
    player two shoot the raptors ill get t-rex in his mouth!



    You mean this one
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6I-4CcKAXo
  • AractusAractus
    edited December 2010
    ManicMan wrote: »
    Can't be me.. I found the first film good, but not the best thing ever.. the second was a big let down, and the third.. i don't wanna talk about..

    But then.. I'm a fan of Michael Crichton's work and love the two books.. and once you have read the books, the films are sooo weak compared to them... you can't turn Crichton's work into an action film.. you lose way too much.

    Probebly why my Fav JP game was for the Snes.. it was an adventure game that was more based on the book then the film, but with film actor pictures (okay, okay.. trespasser is high on the list too)
    Yes the books are much better, but the biggest disappointment for me is that the science is so bad and it wasn't corrected in the movies. If I'm not mistaking Crichton has T-Rex unable to see you if you freeze in the first book, and in the second Malcolm is horrified when a character thinks he's invisible as long as he doesn't move. Okay, that's forgivable... what about claiming that "all vertebrate dna is inherently female"? BIRDS are, if anything, inherently male since that's what happens with the absence of the W chromosome (the opposite to X-Y chromosomes in humans), or the fact that even with complete dino dna you also need dino proteins to use the dna. Or the fact that the mosquito in the amber in the movie isn't even from the right time-period as the dinosaurs, let alone would it have been able to suck dino blood (they could have at least shown the correct "mosquito"!) Of course we know now that there's no insect dna inside amber fossils of that age anyway, let alone any other dna (they've tried it). You wouldn't be able to extract the dna with a syringe, don't be riddiculious they should have known better, you have to crush the amber up and destroy the fossil in order to extract any organic material. And the idea that they would use FROG dna instead of bird dna is just astounding. Especially since they dinosaurs are shown hatching from eggs, not developing from tadpoles.

    Crichton made a lot of mistakes in the book, they should have been corrected in the screenplay. They should have used a dino-era insect/"mosquito" amber, I'm sure they could have borrowed one for the movie. Reading his books makes me certain that I wouldn't have listened to his public scientific views, I'd take them with a grain of salt. I mean I'm a "global warming sceptic too"; difference is I can prove it using science, whereas Crichton uses about as much real science as Al-Gore... in other-words: not much!

    Anyway, for the record if I was to write a novel about genetic engineering I would use chaos too; but I would point out the complexity of DNA. Just because you can change one thing in the DNA "program" to obtain a specific result does not mean you really know what you are doing. It's like this: you know that a certain part of the DNA strand is responsible for a certain characteristic; but you don't know how that part or for that matter how the DNA strand itself is interpreted by the various proteins that use it; in other words changing something to obtain a desired result is all very well until you realize that when you changed one thing you "accidentally" changed something you didn't want to change.

    Anyway he does use science well in some respects, such as the raptors fighting each other to death because there are no "parents" to tell them otherwise. It's just astonishing how he can get somethings right while making massive blunders... oh well.

    I hope telltale is reading this, so you remember to correct the science as you go. [/rant]
  • waroftheworlds01waroftheworlds01
    edited December 2010
    That's why they call it Science Fiction.
  • OrigamiOrigami
    edited December 2010
    I was a big Japanophile! :)
  • SadonicusSadonicus
    edited December 2010
    Aractus wrote: »
    Yes the books are much better, but the biggest disappointment for me is that the science is so bad and it wasn't corrected in the movies. If I'm not mistaking Crichton has T-Rex unable to see you if you freeze in the first book, and in the second Malcolm is horrified when a character thinks he's invisible as long as he doesn't move. Okay, that's forgivable... what about claiming that "all vertebrate dna is inherently female"? BIRDS are, if anything, inherently male since that's what happens with the absence of the W chromosome (the opposite to X-Y chromosomes in humans), or the fact that even with complete dino dna you also need dino proteins to use the dna. Or the fact that the mosquito in the amber in the movie isn't even from the right time-period as the dinosaurs, let alone would it have been able to suck dino blood (they could have at least shown the correct "mosquito"!) Of course we know now that there's no insect dna inside amber fossils of that age anyway, let alone any other dna (they've tried it). You wouldn't be able to extract the dna with a syringe, don't be riddiculious they should have known better, you have to crush the amber up and destroy the fossil in order to extract any organic material. And the idea that they would use FROG dna instead of bird dna is just astounding. Especially since they dinosaurs are shown hatching from eggs, not developing from tadpoles.

    Crichton made a lot of mistakes in the book, they should have been corrected in the screenplay. They should have used a dino-era insect/"mosquito" amber, I'm sure they could have borrowed one for the movie. Reading his books makes me certain that I wouldn't have listened to his public scientific views, I'd take them with a grain of salt. I mean I'm a "global warming sceptic too"; difference is I can prove it using science, whereas Crichton uses about as much real science as Al-Gore... in other-words: not much!

    Anyway, for the record if I was to write a novel about genetic engineering I would use chaos too; but I would point out the complexity of DNA. Just because you can change one thing in the DNA "program" to obtain a specific result does not mean you really know what you are doing. It's like this: you know that a certain part of the DNA strand is responsible for a certain characteristic; but you don't know how that part or for that matter how the DNA strand itself is interpreted by the various proteins that use it; in other words changing something to obtain a desired result is all very well until you realize that when you changed one thing you "accidentally" changed something you didn't want to change.

    Anyway he does use science well in some respects, such as the raptors fighting each other to death because there are no "parents" to tell them otherwise. It's just astonishing how he can get somethings right while making massive blunders... oh well.

    I hope telltale is reading this, so you remember to correct the science as you go. [/rant]

    Who the hell cares ??? :rolleyes:

    When I watch or play Jurassic park I wanna be entertained, I dont wanna learn something about science! Extracting DNA from an amber with a syringe just looks cooler than crushing it in a machine and messing around with some kind of dust. And Raptors big like humans are just more scary than turkey sized feathered ones. Read a science book and leave Jurassic Park alone...
  • AractusAractus
    edited December 2010
    Sadonicus wrote: »
    Who the hell cares ??? :rolleyes:

    When I watch or play Jurassic park I wanna be entertained, I dont wanna learn something about science! Extracting DNA from an amber with a syringe just looks cooler than crushing it in a machine and messing around with some kind of dust. And Raptors big like humans are just more scary than turkey sized feathered ones. Read a science book and leave Jurassic Park alone...
    Yes well, the entire point of the book is chaos which is a scientific concept and Crichton was supposed to be a serious intellectual scientific mind. I don't care that they extract dna from Amber, I just don't like seeing an insect that didn't even exist in the time of the dinosaurs. As I said, at least show the correct insect - it isn't hard. And their blunder on vertebrate dna being inherently female is simply ridiculous. Get the facts right.

    As far as the plot goes, I don't understand the film version of The Lost World. I mean, the themes in the book are pretty clear - but none whatsoever are transferred in the film. The only character who is more or less the same in the book and the film is Malcolm; yet in the book he organizes the trip and in the movie he goes there against his will. It's a giant mess. If Spielberg had been more faithful to the original material then both films would have been better IMHO.
    Extracting DNA from an amber with a syringe just looks cooler
    Don't be silly. You're going to extract any organic material from a fossil with a syringe? Not only does it look stupid, the very concept is completely unbelievable. Like extracting water from a rock...

    I'm just saying that Crichton should not have made massive mistakes with his science that's all. I don't care about his unique attributes to his dinosaurs or anything like that; creative license I have no problem with. Even the Velociraptor is his creative license - I only take issue with his actual mistakes.
  • waroftheworlds01waroftheworlds01
    edited December 2010
    I actually felt that the film did better in creating an adventure story. I think if they would have stayed too faithfull to the book the movie actually would have been worse. Not that I didn't like the Lost World Novel. I thought it was very good but I just think that it would not have been as interesting if the film was exactly the same as the novel.
  • bucknorbucknor
    edited December 2010
    Jurassic Park is my favourite film of all times. It's the film that inspired me to be a film-maker. And it's one of the few films that I can watch over and over again with the same excitement as I watched the first time on the early 90's. Such a magical film. It is really amazing and outstanding movie for ever. I have never seen this type of movie before in my life. It is really wonderful movie.
  • silverstonesilverstone
    edited January 2011
    I saw Jurassic Park 1 and 2 and it was very nice film. I had so much fun watching, full of excitement and very entertaining.
  • DrevialDrevial
    edited January 2011
    If you are truly the biggest fan, you would've wanted to be a paleontologist after seeing it, such as myself lol. When I was a kid to even now.
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