Posted on 06/12/2015 1:42:57 PM PDT by ETL
The dinosaurs are back, and they're looking more bad-ass than ever.
Jurassic World — opening 22 years after Steven Spielberg's first Jurassic Park stomped into theaters — is tracking to open to $125 million or higher in its three-day North American debut, one of the best showings in recent times. It begins rolling out Thursday night before landing in a total of 4,273 theaters on Friday, the widest release in Universal's history.
Overseas, the tentpole opens in 66 markets, including China. And it's getting the widest-ever day-and-date release in Imax houses, or more than 800 locations. In North America, even a $100 million would be a rousing victory for Universal. And globally, it should open well north of $300 million.
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Set two decades after the events in Jurassic Park, Jurassic World features a fully operational dinosaur theme park on the island of Isla Nublar. Pratt plays a skilled dinosaur trainer, while Howard plays the operations manager whose niece and nephew come to visit just as a new hybrid dinosaur, Indominus rex, is unleashed.
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Mosasaur ping! About time the marine reptiles of the Mesozoic get some air time. :)
Yes. Most people think all of the large reptiles back then were dinosaurs. Besides dinos there were marine reptiles and flying reptiles.
“Pterodactyl is the common term for the winged reptiles properly called pterosaurs, which belong to the taxonomic order Pterosauria. Scientists typically avoid using the term and concentrate on individual genera, such as Pterodactylus and Pteranodon.
There are at least 130 valid pterosaur genera, according to David Hone, a paleontologist at Queen Mary University of London. They were widespread and lived in numerous locations across the globe, from China to Germany to the Americas.
Pterosaurs first appeared in the late Triassic period and roamed the skies until the end of the Cretaceous (228 to 66 million years ago), according to an article published in 2008 in the German scientific journal Zitteliana. Pterosaurs lived among the dinosaurs and became extinct around the same time, but they were not dinosaurs. Rather, pterosaurs were flying reptiles.”
http://www.livescience.com/24071-pterodactyl-pteranodon-flying-dinosaurs.html
He went on to thoroughly bash the movie. Lol, stated that it is avialable in 3D, that he saw it in 2-D and suggested it should be seen in zero D. Lol.
Is it in 3-D?..........................
Looking forward to it on a giant IMAX screen.
I usually ignore the critics. Most of them come across as know-nothings and/or fruitcakes, IMO.
All I know is that I’m damn tired of past Jurasic Park flicks taking up space on my cable.
If those two brats aren’t eaten by something; it’s a waste of my time and my money.
Well, they do rerun them an awful lot.
Then again, with all the absolute JUNK that's on TV today, reruns of the Jurassic Park films is the last of my concerns.
You should review movies. lol
I would love to see it on that humongous screen myself. Will it be out on IMAX? Pardon my ignorance, but I can’t remember the last time I went to a movie theater. Might actually have been for JP-3! Lol!
2 hour Season Premier of “Defiance” tonight so there is that to look forward to.
Last season was pretty weak but ended strong so it gets another chance from me.
Sorry, didn’t mean to offend you. Are you one of those know-nothing fruitcake film critics?
Probably because there’s no fags or Catholic priest pedos...
I put movie critics and political pundits on the same level.
**Pratt plays a skilled dinosaur trainer**
Is that like a dinosaur whisperer?
Let’s not forget. Chris Pratt was recently “caught” teaching his son to say the pledge of allegiance (God included)
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