Beauty vs Beast: When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth
Monday, June 8, 2015 at 3:30PM Jason from MNPP here with this week's "Beauty vs Beast" -- actually it's more of a "Beast vs Beast" this time around, as we're finally tackling the movie franchise sixty-five million and twenty-two years in the making and as much as I love all of the Ellie Sattlers and Ian Malcolms let's not fool ourselves - we go to Jurassic Park movies to see the dinosaurs of our childhood dreams be brought to (terrifying, realistic) life. Jurassic World is out on Friday and as much hyped in the trailers they're giving us a new dinosaur, the Indominus Rex. It's a genetic hybrid, spliced together from blah and blah and didn't they learn anything from the Spinosaurus fizzle in Part III? We know they need new toys to produce but we just want the classics. The originals are, as always, the best. But which is King of the Park?
Before anybody nerds out on me I know that scientists now believe the T-Rex's "movement-based vision" thing is no longer the case but hey, it's what the movie believes, so it's true for this T-Rex. You've got a week to vote! And please, no write-in's for Chris Pratt. Doesn't he have enough already?
Reader Comments (8)
Oh my god this is a genuine Sophie's Choice. My heart says T-rex. My head says raptor. Heart, head. Head, heart. This decision will haunt me for the rest of... the day...? All right, I'm gonna vote T-rex and hope the raptors don't come for me.
I read the book before I saw the movie (not always a good thing if you want to rate a movie fairly) and the Velociraptors are MUCH more frightening (spoiler alert: a bunch of the raptor babies kill a bunch of people). They win this contest.
Chris Pratt is adorable, but can he carry this movie without his #1 raccoon or Groot?
I'm with Roark. I thought about this way too long and way too hard. Ultimately I decided to go with the T-Rex because I used to stomp around and roar like the ones in the movie when I was younger.
The raptors hold a special place in my heart though. Those terrifying fuckers.
Shake that groove thang, Pratt!!!
Velociraptors are one of the few movie monsters that really scared me while watching the movie. They aren't supposed to be smart! They're not supposed to be able to open doors! They're not supposed to be clever! Chills!
OMFG, Chris Pratt. :-o
write in vote for the dilophosaurus [for killing newman, obviously]
but, given the poll choices, even though the raptors were scarier i'm going t-rex for furthering his career in the toy story movies
I have to go with T-Rex on account of I love the classics.
Giggling hard at clever girl and six foot turkey!! :D