Thread:NixonDeBarbarian/@comment-27225564-20141126190621/@comment-17754282-20141126203744

I've had my doubts in the past about the film. The director never worried me, but what does is the idea of creating a genetic hybrid. I think of all the creatures they could have chosen, such as those already mentioned or hinted at existing within the film canon (such as Metriacanthosaurus, Baryonyx, Herrerasaurus, Segisaurus and Proceratosaurus), the ones mentioned in the novels (specifically Carnotaurus) or ones that would be new to the films (Allosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Majungasaurus, Albertosaurus) and I can't help but ask myself "Why fabricate something?" To my mind that makes it even more of a Monster Movie than the series already is. And its not as if Metriacanthosaurus and Baryonyx would be too hard to incorporate - they're already stated to be in the new park so why not use them?

But aside from that the rest seems reasonably sound. TBH it'll be worth going to see just for the Mosasaur feeding on a shark... which I've alreadly seen thanks to the trailer... hmm...

Anyway, I'm liking the Apatosaurs, the Gallimimus and the Stegosaurs. I'm liking the Jungle River Ride and the Gyrosphere tour. And, although I was a bit uncertain about it at first, I don't mind the "tame raptors" thing. They're meant to be intelligent and most intelligent animals can be trained. To my mind it is entirely possible that the raptors have come to associate the bike as something that leads them to food as oppossed to the person on the bike being food. Humans long ago found ways of co-operating with wolves, so it isn't too much of a stretch to have the same be applied to the Raptors.