I'm a Jurassic Park fan and now that the trailer for Jurassic World is out, I can't wait to see it! Anyone else excited?
Quote from: Dr. Meh on November 26, 2014, 06:55:05 PM
I'm a Jurassic Park fan and now that the trailer for Jurassic World is out, I can't wait to see it! Anyone else excited?
No. It will come out on DVD down the line.
Quote from: Dr. Meh on November 26, 2014, 06:55:05 PM
I'm a Jurassic Park fan and now that the trailer for Jurassic World is out, I can't wait to see it! Anyone else excited?
Nah... That project will be too-aware of itself. I may catch it on DVD, with the obligatory
extra footage, not seen in theaters extras.
Pfft! Have either of you seen the trailer? Shoot, all of the Jurassic Parks are way better to see in the theater. Watch the trailer and get back to me.
Quote from: Dr. Meh on November 26, 2014, 08:42:48 PM
Pfft! Have either of you seen the trailer? Shoot, all of the Jurassic Parks are way better to see in the theater. Watch the trailer and get back to me.
:lol: I don't do theater. IF it's not on DVD or VCR I don't do moves.
Quote from: walkstall on November 26, 2014, 08:59:05 PM
:lol: I don't do theater. IF it's not on DVD or VCR I don't do moves.
If it's a DVD that HAS NOT been reduced to theater-matinee-price levels, I don't buy it. More than $7.50? Forget it.
Have mercy. So what was the last movie you guys saw in the theater? An old Chaplin silent film?
Quote from: Dr. Meh on November 27, 2014, 12:41:49 AM
Have mercy. So what was the last movie you guys saw in the theater? An old Chaplin silent film?
I wouldn't mind to pay good money to see one in the thearter. They are way better than most of the garbage that Hollywood is churning out these days!
Darth
I'm not sure. I've been boycotting Hollywood. I think it was Switch; the French film where the girl is tricked-into switching apartments, framed for murder, then foot-chased through Paris.
Quote from: Dr. Meh on November 27, 2014, 12:41:49 AM
Have mercy. So what was the last movie you guys saw in the theater? An old Chaplin silent film?
My wife loves Chaplin. :lol:
I would say it's been over 30 years now. I must say I don't miss Loud Rude People.
Quote from: Dr. Meh on November 27, 2014, 12:41:49 AM
Have mercy. So what was the last movie you guys saw in the theater? An old Chaplin silent film?
:biggrin:
Last movie? Nemo, and only because a friend of mine played a huge part in it's creation. Prior to that, the first new Superman movie that came out in the 70s, only because a hot neighbor ask me out on a date, and I hadn't been to a theater since Mary Poppins prior to that moment.
Like Kit, I too boycott Hollyweird, and the fact I can't sit for more than 20 minutes at a stretch, due to injuries in the Military.
Now I just use Netflix. With so much to choose from, I'm behind the times on some great productions, and to be quite honest, the Jurassic series is low in ranking for me.
I don't doubt it's entertainment value, nor it's visual splendor on the big screen, it's just not my genre.
We see one or two films a year...but neither my wife or I can recall what they were.
At $7.50, most are overpriced even for DVDs.
I see maybe one or two a year so I'm not exactly Roger Ebert either but I can't believe there haven't been some movies that at least tempted you guys into going. What about Lincoln?
Quote from: Dr. Meh on November 27, 2014, 08:42:05 AM
I see maybe one or two a year so I'm not exactly Roger Ebert either but I can't believe there haven't been some movies that at least tempted you guys into going. What about Lincoln?
:lol: At my age, what are they going to tell me new about Lincoln? That they have not talked about for the last 149 years.
Quote from: Dr. Meh on November 27, 2014, 08:42:05 AM
What about Lincoln?
The movie? An Englishman stars in it. So much for American history.
Quote from: quiller on November 27, 2014, 04:54:07 PM
The movie? An Englishman stars in it. So much for American history.
But he's a terrific actor and looked just like him.
For me, it's a combination of being tired of lib Hollywood, and the movies just aren't that great, with the occasional exception. I'm someone who really likes going to the movie theater, getting raped by ticket and popcorn prices, and making an evening out of it.
With Jurassic World, it sounds like what I already expect it to be. I want something that's gonna mindf*k me. Re-heating leftovers is just boring as hell and won't get me into the theater. I have money and want to go, but they have to get me in there.
Quote from: Dr. Meh on November 27, 2014, 08:27:39 PM
But he's a terrific actor and looked just like him.
So who played the vampire?
The problem with Jurassic Park movies was something I noticed in the first one. They have a lawyer with them, but they planned the park as if Lawyers - especially personal injury lawyers - don't exist. Ten tons of teeth and appetite, is running around, and you have people in jeeps?
Quote from: mdgiles on March 16, 2015, 10:02:11 AM
The problem with Jurassic Park movies was something I noticed in the first one. They have a lawyer with them, but they planned the park as if Lawyers - especially personal injury lawyers - don't exist. Ten tons of teeth and appetite, is running around, and you have people in jeeps?
From the start of the movie that bugged the Hell out of me. No bunkers scattered around the island, no heavily armored vehicles, stun grenades, heavy weaponry, just a bunch of bait.
Quote from: Solar on March 16, 2015, 10:17:21 AM
From the start of the movie that bugged the Hell out of me. No bunkers scattered around the island, no heavily armored vehicles, stun grenades, heavy weaponry, just a bunch of bait.
Meanwhile in a trailer they have people sitting in the stands surrounding a pool with a giant marine reptile. Obviously they've never seen Killer whales hunt baby seals - on the shoreline.
One thing I've always wondered about. Once Imgen brings the dinosaurs back, would the environmentalists ever allow us to get rid of them? Can you get more endangered than having been wiped out 65,000,000 years ago?
Quote from: mdgiles on April 14, 2015, 05:39:33 PM
One thing I've always wondered about. Once Imgen brings the dinosaurs back, would the environmentalists ever allow us to get rid of them? Can you get more endangered than having been wiped out 65,000,000 years ago?
Looks like South Korea is going to try and revive the Mammoth.
I keep picturing Godzilla batting Rodan. :biggrin:
Frozen mammoths appear to provide all of the raw material necessary for rebuilding a living animal. In some cases, entire organs are intact. Blood, eyes and digestive matter have been found. But this isn't the same as having well-preserved tissue on a cellular and molecular level.
Some groups of scientists, including one led by Akira Iritani of Kyoto University and another at South Korea's Sooam Biotech Research Center (in partnership with Russia's North-Eastern Federal University) hope to extract functional cells from a frozen mammoth and use the genetic material in those cells to begin cloning.
Unless an organism contains some type of antifreeze, the freezing process tends to destroy cells. A steak in your freezer may look like a perfect slab of muscle and fat, but if you were to look at it under a microscope, you would see that as water within the tissue freezes, it expands and tears apart cell walls and other fine structures. Attempts at somatic cloning of mammalian cells that have been frozen for years have failed, with one possible exception.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/can-scientists-bring-mammoths-back-to-life-by-cloning/2015/02/06/2a825c8c-80ae-11e4-81fd-8c4814dfa9d7_story.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/can-scientists-bring-mammoths-back-to-life-by-cloning/2015/02/06/2a825c8c-80ae-11e4-81fd-8c4814dfa9d7_story.html)
Quote from: Solar on April 14, 2015, 06:56:06 PM
Looks like South Korea is going to try and revive the Mammoth.
I keep picturing Godzilla batting Rodan. :biggrin:
Frozen mammoths appear to provide all of the raw material necessary for rebuilding a living animal. In some cases, entire organs are intact. Blood, eyes and digestive matter have been found. But this isn't the same as having well-preserved tissue on a cellular and molecular level.
Some groups of scientists, including one led by Akira Iritani of Kyoto University and another at South Korea's Sooam Biotech Research Center (in partnership with Russia's North-Eastern Federal University) hope to extract functional cells from a frozen mammoth and use the genetic material in those cells to begin cloning.
Unless an organism contains some type of antifreeze, the freezing process tends to destroy cells. A steak in your freezer may look like a perfect slab of muscle and fat, but if you were to look at it under a microscope, you would see that as water within the tissue freezes, it expands and tears apart cell walls and other fine structures. Attempts at somatic cloning of mammalian cells that have been frozen for years have failed, with one possible exception.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/can-scientists-bring-mammoths-back-to-life-by-cloning/2015/02/06/2a825c8c-80ae-11e4-81fd-8c4814dfa9d7_story.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/can-scientists-bring-mammoths-back-to-life-by-cloning/2015/02/06/2a825c8c-80ae-11e4-81fd-8c4814dfa9d7_story.html)
The formation of ice crystals is a problem for cryonics. To clone a Mammoth, all they would need is one intact string of DNA, and an elephant egg and mother. If they ever found an intact string of Dinosaur DNA, all they would need is an ostrich egg.
BTW, we now know that birds and theropods (raptors and T-Rex) had a common ancestor. So why no feathers on the dinosaurs in "Jurassic World". They've already found raptor arm fossil with the little knobs where the feathers were attached. And there is even a theory that young T-rexs had feathers, which the lost as they matured. There are also some who feel that they hunted as family groups like a lion pride or a wolf pack, with the smaller, faster, young driving prey toward the larger, slower, adults. And the Mosasaur (the marine Lizard) was way to big. And how did they get the DNA from a marine lizard. When the died, they fell to the ocean floor and ended up in our gas tanks. Also no way insects could have bitten them underwater. Remember they obtained the DNA from insects trapped in amber.