User blog:Cloverfield monster/How come herbivores are never portrayed as bad guys?

I kind of noticed something in a large number of dinosaur movies. Why is it that plant-eating dinosaurs (herbivores), such as sauropods, ceratopsids, and what-not, are never portrayed as antagonists or showing them attacking people? It's always been kind of confusing because they always show the carnivorious dinosaurs go on rampages, but never the plant-eating ones. They weren't always peaceful. They could potentially stomp on you if got in the wrong spot or provoked them. The only example we got that I know of that was kind of close to that in recent times was in Jurassic Park 2 when the Triceratops was one of the dinosaurs attacking the camp-site.

One of my favorite instances of such cases was in the 1925 silent film, The Lost World (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle version). The final sequence featured a captured Apatosaurus escaping its captors and destroying London and terrorizing its occupants. How come we don't see things like that anymore in dinosaur films? If they ever do make a big-budget Hollywood remake of Conan Doyle's Lost World, I hope they keep that scene in.



So, why do you think we never see instances in dinosaur movies of herbivorous dinosaurs commiting villainous actions anymore?