My $.02 on THE LOST WORLD

[RaptorRKC@aol.com]

To all:

I saw LW a few Saturdays ago.  Not bad.  Not as thought-provoking as the
first flick, but lots more dinosaurs!  Lots more action!  Now all they need
to add to the mix is a few metric tonnes of feathers!

The stegosaurs were rather disappointing, though.  I'd expect better these
years.  

Don't rag the JP movies on their "bad writing."  I can't imagine how someone
could do a work of "good writing" for a creature feature like JP or LW.  

For the next JP movie, what the heck do they have planned?  Although LW left
the ending open, it didn't give any indications of what the next flick will
be like.

I liked the way LW largely neglected the book (thank goddess...), and,
rather, incorporated a lot of little bits from the original novel.  Such as:
a guy getting killed by a 'compy' swarm, the tyrannosaur-tongue scene,
'raptors attacking one another, rooftop conflict with the 'raptors, and the
little girl getting attacked by 'compys'.  

Yes, the movie should have had a lot more non-theropods.  I would have liked
to see some more of the sauropods, parasaurolophids, gallimimids,
triceratopsids, and pachycephalosaurs, plus some hypsilophodonts,
protoceratopsians, ankylosaurs, iguanodontids, and -- DEFINITELY --
therizinosaurs!  And what would really have been cool: fictional dino
species, unknown to science, but the result of cloning from dinosaur blood.
 (Yeah, really, what's the probability that an insect that contains dinosaur
blood would have the blood of a KNOWN dinosaur species?)  This would also
give the dinosaur design teams to go totally haywire with their dinosaurs and
not have to worry about scientists and dino enthusiasts complaining.  

I would also, personally, enjoy seeing a pack of cloned _Titanus_ terrorizing
the tourists on a Florida beach ...

BTW, were the 'compys' in LW _Compsognathus_ or _Procompsognathus_?  I can't
be certain (though Burke did say _??? triassicus_, and the little buggers
look coelophysoid in form).  I also heard that psittacosaurs were in the
film, but I didn't see a single durn one!

Later,

--RKC 

"Mommy's very angry."

Rachel K. Clark =members.aol.com/raptorrkc/= High school student, 
Trekkie, Nintendite, Procrastinator, Derived bacterium, Vertebrate,
Fish, Amniote, Therapsid, Hominid, _Homo sapiens_ individual,      
Dinosaurophilic-dracophilic artist (pencil, ink, clay, paint, digital),
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