How cute... a sub-30yo as head of a research unit on a privately owned company...
And only one guy sees the problem with that research.... the janitor... oops... the hunter... also working for the company... also a sub-30yo with massive experience in dealing with dinos... and he only gets to know about the research subject when it's already well over a few years old. Nicely done, portraying companies as stupid money making machines... oh, wait!

I think I've seen pornos with cleverer plot.

Still.... eye candy - me likes it, me wants it! humongous gator eating JAWS!!!

(December 5, 2014 at 2:35 am)Alex K Wrote: They're not gonna fix any if that. I suppose there simply isnt going to be a spinosaur, but of course the mosasaur in the trailer is also quite oversized.

If the bait shown was meant to be a average sized great white (5 meters long), the mosasaur that can swallow it in one bite would have to have a jaw in excess of 5 meters long, meaning the whole animal, if normally proportioned, would be over 50 meters long, or about twice the length of a blue whale.

As a very rough approximation, cube law means the mesosaurs as shown would weigh about 1000 tons. Since apex predators are seldom if ever even close in size to the largest animal in an ecosystem, I wonder what other battleship sized swimming reptiles Steven Spilberg has in mind.

Surely no one actually expects reasonable plots out of a Hollywood "blockbuster", much less accurate science?

The vast majority of what comes out of the major studios is utter crap, I see no reason for this film to be any different.

(December 5, 2014 at 11:42 am)LostLocke Wrote: I haven't seen Chris Pratt in anything yet, but critics seem to be raving about him being the next big action star.
I'll reserve judgement till after I watch him.

But he's definitely no Sam Neill.

Bring Jeff Goldblum back and all will be forgiven.

(December 5, 2014 at 3:30 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:

(December 5, 2014 at 11:42 am)LostLocke Wrote: I haven't seen Chris Pratt in anything yet, but critics seem to be raving about him being the next big action star.
I'll reserve judgement till after I watch him.

But he's definitely no Sam Neill.

Bring Jeff Goldblum back and all will be forgiven.

But he won't. Bastard!

(December 5, 2014 at 3:15 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Surely no one actually expects reasonable plots out of a Hollywood "blockbuster", much less accurate science?

The vast majority of what comes out of the major studios is utter crap,

I agree. But why? So often I wonder why 100 million were spent on fx, another 100 mill on famous actors, and apparently 5$ on the script. Why why why?

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(December 5, 2014 at 11:42 am)LostLocke Wrote: I haven't seen Chris Pratt in anything yet, but critics seem to be raving about him being the next big action star.

I'm telling you, that's not gonna happen. He's way to interchangeable, generic.

Oh gawds, Judy Greer? She never used to bug me until the horrifying iPhone 6 commercial came out. Now I want to drop kick her.

(December 5, 2014 at 6:38 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Oh gawds, Judy Greer? She never used to bug me until the horrifying iPhone 6 commercial came out. Now I want to drop kick her.

Luckily I don't watch commercials...

I knew her from latter day two and a half men where her role sucked bad (along with the show, so probaby not her fault), and from the big bang theory where I thought she was ok.

(December 5, 2014 at 9:31 am)Alex K Wrote:

(December 5, 2014 at 7:11 am)Gawdzilla Wrote: Dead bang! It's just a movie, folks.

Very deep observation. And your point being?

That movies aren't deep or worth rants and raves.

(December 5, 2014 at 7:32 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote:

(December 5, 2014 at 9:31 am)Alex K Wrote: Very deep observation. And your point being?

That movies aren't deep or worth rants and raves.

I disagree, they are worth rants to me