The Dinosaur Project

[bookworm]

I doubt anyone has even heard of this, much less seen it, but I’m making a thread on it in the slight chance someone has.

I watched it last night and wasn’t impressed. It was a shameless ripoff of Jurassic Park done in found footage format. This was my first found footage movie and it confirmed what I always suspected I would think when I finally saw one: I don’t like the style.
Anyway the movie had hardly any plot, it was clearly just an attempt to ride the waves of Spielberg’s films by making a dinosaur movie and trying to fit a story into it afterwards.

The menu image featured a ferocious tyrannosaurus which never appeared in the movie! In fact there were only four kinds of ‘dinosaurs’ in the whole thing: two swimming things, one that was more of a lizard really, and some kind of bat thing if you count that. Oh, I guess there were some pterodactyls too, but they didn’t have any real screen time.

I wouldn’t have ever thought to give it a watch if I hadn’t found it under these circumstances. In the span of the previous four days I had watched the three Jurassic Park films, so when I happened to notice this in a Redbox the next day I had to check it out because I thought it was some kind of sign.

[Movieman]

The world of film is full of B-movies that are made purposefully to rip off popular movies that had already been made previously. Even some mainstream movies rip off other mainstream movies (such as "Battle: Los Angeles" and "Skyline").

[MustacheGirl]

I watched it a couple months ago it was a rip off of Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park is my favorite movie so when I saw this movie I was very disappointed.

[TheDinosaurPlanet]

The poster looks very low-budget....

[bookworm]

(Heh; explanation of the random bump, just for the record: I was telling TDP in the Chatroom just now that I always misread his username as this movie's title.)

But yeah, this is definitely not a high quality production. I've wondered a few times over the years if I was too harsh on it before and if I rewatched it I might not think it was so bad going in with proper expectations this time, but I remember being so disappointed with how meh it was that I don't care enough about finding out to spend time seeing it again.

[jelly]

Man, remember when Redbox was a thing?

[TheDinosaurPlanet]

Ok, I've changed by profile. It's dinosaurs in a planet. That should be obvious now.

[bookworm]

Man, remember when Redbox was a thing?

It's still a thing where I live. I haven't used it personally in years, but I see other people using them somewhat frequently.

[TheDinosaurPlanet]

I've seen them here and there. Not that surprising. They aren't that old fashioned.

[jelly]

All physical media is old-fashioned.

[TheDinosaurPlanet]

All physical media is old-fashioned.

As someone who uses physical media, I disagree.