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I finally saw it last week. I was initially apprehensive about the movie, but I had heard great things, so my hopes were high. Sadly, the movie fell very flat for me. I think it is the worst of the series. The lack of interesting characters, scatterbrained plot and most of all, too much/half-assed cgi, along with poor creature design. Take a look at the raptors in JP3 and compare to Jurassic world raptors… yikes, Tyrannosaurus suffers the same cgi failure. Even the star, the mutated Indominus… looks like it was done last minute compared to the original jurassic park, now 20 something years old. Every single dinosaur looked goofier, stupider, and more fake than previous movies. That is the reason I could not love this movie, not because I'm a paleontologist (In training!), but because I love dinosaurs, and this movie didn't take much care with them. I'll leave you with some parting comparisons.
Jurassic World- 6.5/10
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Jurassic World- 6.5/10
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Life List
Being a lover of nature alive and extinct, I keep track of the species that I encounter in the wild. My "life list has just cracked 350 species! I try to photograph the animals I see as well. Does anyone else document the animals they have seen?
Highlights on my list include, Mountain goat, Grizzly Bear, Banded Gecko, Ferruginous Hawk, Fisher, Stellar's Jay, and Great Horned Owl.
Living the Dream
Woo! I'm doing actual paleontology!!! I just cemented some work with the invertebrate paleontologist at my college. I will be co-authoring a paper describing 5 new trilobite species!!! I already have them named and everything. It will be amazing to have FIVE new animals out in the universe named by yours truly! :)
Amphicoelias Bigger or Smaller than You Thought???
A NEW AMPHICOELIAS PAPER HAS DROPPED!!!
This paper basically sums up that if Amphicoelias was real and correctly described by Cope, it was absolutely huge. They estimate vertebra height at 2.80 meters, with a centrum 90cm wide, and a femur length of 4.76 meters!!! I'll save the estimates of body size for another post, but that indicates a 70+ meter 150+ ton animal. Anyway, the paper then follows with ecological studies that indicate that such a huge animal is beyond the bounds of it's environment. (I don't buy it) :) And that Cope may have made a mistake in his measurements. They propose the 1500mm vertebral height Cope typed should hav
27 new species of Dinosaur so Far...
How many more do you think will be described before 2014 is over? Place your bets!
My guess… 9 more species.
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I wouldn't say this was the worst of the series but it is greatly overatted and although I was in love with this movie when I first saw it, I have started to realize its flaws. Yes, the CGI wasn't top notch but it wasn't terrible. I liked the concept of trained raptors because if people can train eagles (which are dinosaurs as we all know) then it doesn't seem too unlikely considering they knew Owen since birth. The best character in my opinion was Grey, mainly because he reminded me of myself when I was around 10 which was probably what the movie's intention was. Now, about the hybrid, why do movie directors feel like they need to turn dinosaurs into big, over-the-top, killing machines? It isn't right! The idea looked like it had been taken out of a 12 year old's brain! But the hybrid was the main focus of the story and the movie really wanted us to build this hatred for this abomination and created the inevitable build up for the final act of the film. In short, Jurassic World is not a movie to be taken seriously. It was basically a Micheal Bay remake of the first film. Stupid but fun to watch.