Roger Corman's dino flicks.

[I_Luv_Dolma]

Anyone like them?
Carnosaur 1-3, RAPTOR, and Dinosaur Island.

[Creepozoid]

I am a big CARNOSAUR fan. CARNOSAUR 3 is probably Roger's best film in years IMO. But RAPTOR... I felt cheated by that one. As an aspiring filmaker, I hope to launch a DINO RAMPAGE series of films myself. Maybe hire Rick Dean (CARNOSAUR 2+3) for a starring role.

[nshumate]

Carnosaur 1:  Ugh.
Carnosaur 2:  I think I'm the only person who honestly liked this.
Carnosaur 3:  Ugh.
Raptor: DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!!!!!

[Fearless Freep]

Carnosaur 2: I think I'm the only person who honestly liked this.

Carnosaur 2 was pretty well done, much more professional than the first one.  Although it still had plot holes a mile wide as I recall.

It was also funny seeing just how many scenes were lifted directly from Aliens.  Sheesh, when Corman rips off another movie, he doesn't do it half-way :)

I have yet to see "3" or "Raptor"

[I_Luv_Dolma]

Ohmygod! I can't believe there are acctually Carnosaur fans left on the face of this planet. And Rick Dean is no doubt a very talented actor. He can act well in one movie, then come back in the sequel as a different character and execute it well.

Carnosaur 1 -  Well made horror film, I consider it up there along with the Friday the 13th films, Leprechaun, Halloween, and Pumpkinhead.

Carnosaur 2 - Better then the original. Better acting and not as many flubs and plot holes, although they were still in there.  And is it me, or did Capcom watch this film and turn it into Dino Crisis?

Carnosaur 3 - A flub a minute, with bad acting, and the worst special effects since Jaws 3. I can go on about  the mistakes but its fun laughing off at the film. Rick Dean saves this one.

RAPTOR - EXCELLENT! I AM THE ONLY ONE THAT LOVES THIS MOVIE. SURE ITS DUMB I LOVE LAUGHING MY ASS OFF AT THIS!

Dinosaur Island - Like Jurassic Park meets a Porn, got to love it.

[spike]

Wow I also have a dream of making a dino rampage on a ship with a couple of people investigating the ship and discovers a sick secret of mad science experiments that uses capsules to grow the parents of dinosaur and also capsules to create plant life for the herbivours ( I can't spell) the boat should be called Noah's Ark
and the people who ends this by using explosives from one of there teamate who owns lots of weapons and bombs
ahhhhh....
actually I really just made it up
carnosaur sucks
beginning of carnosaur 2 really wass good
so was the ending
note to self find raptor and carnosaur 3
and buy milk and eggs

[Funk, E.]

I could take or leave the carnosaur series though the second one was the best of the lot. Dinosaur Island on the other hand... Now there's a movie };->

[I_Luv_Dolma]

AYO AYO!

[Brother Ragnarok]

I really dig Carnosaur.  2 was as good an Aliens ripoff as you'll find.  3 was a good time.  Raptor, or as I like to call it, Carnosaur's Greatest Hits Live, was a goddamn laugh riot at our New Year's party.  It was fun providing commentary of how each scene led into the kill from 1 2 or 3 and what was supposed to happen.
My favorite was the leading of the old guy into the basement where the Tarbosaurus is hiding.

Brother R

[Haze]

I happen to like the whole series. but corman's best dino flick (one that he was involved with because he did not direct any of them) would be Carnosaur 3: Primal Species. the flick is so humrous and unserious I ended up enjoying quite a bit.

Carnosaur: Four slimer

Carnosaur 2: Five slimer easy

Carnosaur 3: Five slimer (one of my favorite films)

Raptor: Two Slimer (it was fun in it's badness)

I have yet to see Dinosaur island.

[Haze]

I liked carnosaur and it's sequels. They are great for mindless fun.

[nshumate]

Now, Dinosaur Island -- that's a hoot!  Don't listen to what Greywizard says; he's Canadian, so he's just jealous that the best dinosaur film they've made there was the suck-ass 1997 Patrick Bergen version of The Lost World.

Nathan

[Haze]

One thing that always interested me in corman's dino films was that they were much more damn entertaining than the mainstream efforts. The filmmakers of these films are all pretty unknown (except Wynorski and Olen Ray of Dinosaur Island). The didn't work much but there work in these films show that lower budget can mean better film.

[Creepozoid]

Haze wrote:
>
> One thing that always interested me in corman's dino films
> was that they were much more damn entertaining than the
> mainstream efforts. The filmmakers of these films are all
> pretty unknown (except Wynorski and Olen Ray of Dinosaur
> Island). The didn't work much but there work in these films
> show that lower budget can mean better film.

I wouldn't say that but CARNOSAUR 3 sure beats the p**s out of JP 3. That's for sure.

[I_Luv_Dolma]

"I wouldn't say that but CARNOSAUR 3 sure beats the p**s out of JP 3. That's for sure."

YEAH!

"Ah, no sir, but donkeys aren't really dumb. They are very intelligent animals. If you look at their ears, sir. They can hear you from, like, a mile away, sir."

Rick Dean rocks! He so much more talented then people like Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neil who seem to play the same type of character in each movie. Dean can play one character in a movie, then come back in the sequel as a total different guy and execute it well.