What would be some really neat ideas for the next movie? Researchers finding out that Rexes can learn to communicate like apes since they have brains the size of a gorilla. One pretty smart lizard or bird. And raptors can actually repeat words like parrots.
Someone in another forum posed this question and I couldn't help but respond (in spite of the fact that I believe a fourth film is unnecessary).
Jurassic Park IV: Raptorworld
Plot: Dinosaurs have begun to turn up everywhere in the world and the United Nations have setup a taskforce to deal with the ever growing international problem. However in spite of their best efforts the Dinosaur threat continues to escalate. Scientists discover that a group of Vilociraptors have been directing the rest of the Dinosaur population to avoid capture and carry out coordinated attacks. A final battle on the streets of Washington D.C. will decide which species will rule the world of tomorrow.
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
I have a plot. Millions of years from now, scientists recover Jeff Goldblum's DNA from a sperm bank preserved for millions of years under the ice age that followed global warming. Nefarious business interests build a theme park which contains him. But of course he escapes ... stupid nefarious business interests! But the humans of the future of course are not ready for the chaos he unleashes.
Raptors take over Nakatomi Tower demanding the release of their brethren dinosaurs from the island they're quarantined on. In fact, they're actually after 400 million dollars worth of negotiable bearer bonds hidden in the building's safe.
Unbenownst to them, John McClane has once again flown to Los Angeles to try to reconcile with his estranged wife, and is in the building (barefoot) picking the Raptors off one by one.
Explosions ensue.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Cail wrote:Raptors take over Nakatomi Tower demanding the release of their brethren dinosaurs from the island they're quarantined on. In fact, they're actually after 400 million dollars worth of negotiable bearer bonds hidden in the building's safe.
Unbenownst to them, John McClane has once again flown to Los Angeles to try to reconcile with his estranged wife, and is in the building (barefoot) picking the Raptors off one by one.
Explosions ensue.
Now I'd pay serious money to see that! I'd expect Willis would demand half the film's budget to star in the movie. Would the lead Raptor somehow resemble and sound a bit like Alan Rickman?
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
No doubt. We'd need one that sounded like Alexander Gudenov as well.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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If they allowed humans to actually fight back and kill some dinosaurs it might be interesting.
That was what was so laughable to me about all 3 movies; the 1st one had a hunter/tracker that never got off a shot, the 2nd one had hunters that caught dinos in nets and the 3rd.......I forget what happened in the 3rd.
I could also go for a little Twilight Zone type of twist.
The Dino's do escape and begin to take over a human populated area.
Let's say L.A.
Nothing people can do can stop the Dino's.
But by the end of the movie we are saved by rats eating the dino eggs.
High Lord Tolkien wrote:If they allowed humans to actually fight back and kill some dinosaurs it might be interesting.
That was what was so laughable to me about all 3 movies; the 1st one had a hunter/tracker that never got off a shot, the 2nd one had hunters that caught dinos in nets and the 3rd.......I forget what happened in the 3rd.
I could also go for a little Twilight Zone type of twist.
The Dino's do escape and begin to take over a human populated area.
Let's say L.A.
Nothing people can do can stop the Dino's.
But by the end of the movie we are saved by rats eating the dino eggs.
I agree about the first film. The story is crafted in such a way (what with a hurricane bearing down on the island) that most everyone with a weapon is gonzo. Dinosaurs are just vulnerable to having their hearts burst by machine gun fire just like any other animal.
In the second film there was plenty of gun play (one hunter bagged a T-Rex just for the sport of it) but again the circumstances placed most of the gun toting nit wits in full on, run for your lives, panic mode. Making their marksmanship somewhat clumsy.
The third film featured a couple of mercenaries who were well armed but were eaten pretty quickly as to be fairly useless.
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
High Lord Tolkien wrote:If they allowed humans to actually fight back and kill some dinosaurs it might be interesting.
That was what was so laughable to me about all 3 movies; the 1st one had a hunter/tracker that never got off a shot, the 2nd one had hunters that caught dinos in nets and the 3rd.......I forget what happened in the 3rd.
I only saw the first two. I remember the second being a crummy rehash of the first, but I still like the original. Ok, the hunter didn't manage to any good, but then he wasn't exactly accustomed to hunting dinosaurs. He'd never done it before.
I have no problem with the dinosaurs being that dangerous. That's what I disliked about Aliens, after all - it made alien killing machines into big pansies.
CovenantJr wrote:Ok, the hunter didn't manage to any good, but then he wasn't exactly accustomed to hunting dinosaurs. He'd never done it before.
He seemed to do alright, except for the fact that the dinosaurs double-teamed him. Effin cheaters
Well it's not like the guy didn't know anything. In fact he goes to some trouble to explain how he's been studying them and knows they are problem solvers, pack hunters etc. Just before he was attacked he knew damn well he and the girl were being hunted. He managed to put on what looked like a pretty good hunt himself. Shame he didn't have time to shove the barrel of his shotgun down the Raptor's throat and fire when he was surprised. All it seemed he could do was mutter "Clever girl" before he was disemboweled.
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
Other than a rather silly premise, I liked the third movie better than the first two.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Local terrorists (your choice of nationality) kidnap the daughter/son of prominent politician from a cruise ship and hide on the island from the 1st movie. They've set up their own private commune, eating scrambled dino eggs for breakfast and bronto burgers for dinner.
And who gets sent in to rescue the kid and shoot up dinosaurs and back-to-nature terrorists? Altogether now ... Snake Plissken.
Except that Dinosaurs from the future have sent back a cybernetic Raptor to kill Plissken's mother.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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How about a thematic sequel, linking two Spielberg movies?
Schindler's Park, in which some white supremacists use genetic engineering to recreate a Death Camp on a remote tropical island. Little do they know, they inadvertenly recreate Oscar Schindler, who then proceeds to bend the rules, and prevent as much harm as possible to the local 'wild-life' . . .
Enter Jeff Goldblum's character to warn us of the dangers of playing god. I think it could be a hit.
"For the love of God, Montresor!"
"Yes," I said, "for the love of God!" - Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado.
Jew-Hasidic Park - Adam Sandler yuks it up as a man who must find the golden yarmulke he lost as a youth before the last barmitzvah so he can ascend to the top of the local ethnic hierarchy. To accomplish this task, he must fight the seven dino-monsters in animated battle-sequences. Jew-Hasidic Park looks a lot like NYC Central Park, complete with its own sterotypes done up as dinosaurs.
It is critically fire-bombed, and lambasted by popular media at the same time it makes $300 million at the box office, ensuring 3 sequels starring 4th-string SNL perps.
And raptors can actually repeat words like parrots.
