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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.
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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").
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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.
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The poster looks very low-budget....
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(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.
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Man, remember when Redbox was a thing? :o
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Ok, I've changed by profile. It's dinosaurs in a planet. That should be obvious now.
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jelly wrote: Wed Mar 09, 2022 7:24 amMan, remember when Redbox was a thing? :o
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.
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I've seen them here and there. Not that surprising. They aren't that old fashioned.
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All physical media is old-fashioned. :noway:
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jelly wrote: Thu Mar 10, 2022 8:31 am All physical media is old-fashioned. :noway:
As someone who uses physical media, I disagree.
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