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----- Original Message -----
From: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Cc: dpeters@pterosaurs.net ; Stigwalsh@ravenknoll.fsnet.co.uk
; trudy.bradbury@port.ac.uk ; richard@antbits.co.uk ; edmo@virgin.net
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 7:19 AM
Subject: JPIII: unmitigated rubbish
JPIII... yet another spoiler post.
Spoiler below, rates 7 on the Holtz scale-------------------------------- I enjoyed JPIII, I thought it was a lot of fun. The 12 year
old boy in me loved it.
I really don't see the point of nitpicking it to death, the
audience really does not care (nor will they ever care) about
a 'spinosaur with lacrimal horns and overly long
forelimbs', I think it's safe to say that they don't
make these movies for Paleontologists ;)
Maybe you dont like the story (or lack thereof), I'm sorry but
I think it is so silly to worry about scientific accuracy in a Hollywood movie.
How can you ever enjoy any movie while sweating all the
details?
"I also was unimpressed with the CGI: some of the animation was
genuinely very very bad. If you looked carefully at the three brachiosaurs which
approached the boat (also the ankylosaurs at the riverside), the animation and
rendering were awful - more like WWD than JP! Many of the animals looked way too
glossy for their environments (esp. the dromaeosaurs) and the
tyrannosaur-spinosaur fight scene closeups did not look half as good as the
closeups of the tyrannosaur in the finale sequence of JP. "
I must disagree with you here, being a student of CG animation
myself, seeing you compare the CG to WWD makes my skin crawl. So as not to
offend anyone I will say no more on this ;)
Of course that's just my opinion ;)
-JB
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