Roger Corman's dino flicks.

[Haze]

Creepizoid (love that movie by the way),

I think that the Jurrassic Park  movies are good movies but I would pick most of Corman's dinosaur films over them. They are just more fun and are especially fun when you want something with tons of action. I will admit that Carnosaur is not quite as relentless in it's action but dammit they are just more fun. Plus, that gives one of the greatest dinosaur scenes ever:

"Greeting's green brother"- that is just so damn hillarious.

[I_Luv_Dolma]

Watch carefully in that scene, Haze.

When the "Raptor Puppet" bites off Esau's face. You can  tell its just really-fake make-up, since you can still see his lips.

And when...you probably all ready know this part...that the blood on that one girl's face changes from shot to shot. And that you can see a hand pullling on her leg.

[Creepozoid]

Proabably the main reason why I would pick a CARNOSAUR over a JP is cuz it delivers what you would want most from a movie about dinos that kill...GORE, BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL GORE.

[Fearless Freep]

GORE, BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL GORE.

For some reason that brought a mental image of "The Simpsons" when they all go to Kamp Krusty and Martin says something very similar about gruel

[kvndoom]

i've only seen carnosaur 2 and raptor, but those films were a riot!  good lord even after enduring such classics as "feeders 2" and "troll 2", i'd have to give raptor the nod as the absolute worst movie i have ever seen!  god, i loved it!  i don't know which of the two scenes i liked the most, when 50 guys in blaze orange parkas run out of the lab after only 5 or 6 went in, or when the hero fights the t-rex in the metamorphing forklift!  (bobcat one scene, catepillar the next!).  man, that movie was something to behold!

at least corman didn't sell out and use those god-awful cheap computer generated creature effects that you see in a lot of b-movies these days (crocodile, blood surf, reptilian, loch ness, python, and so on).  i'll take guys in dino suits and puppets over poorly done CG any day.

[Haze]

Yeah I am aware of these scenes but stuff like that doesn't bother me when I know I am watching a bad movie. Carnosaur has tons of mistakes but Hell, that makes it more fun.

[I_Luv_Dolma]

Ohmygod, there is someone else that loves RAPTOR!

[Greywizard, The Unknown Movies]

> 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.

Well, Nathan lives in Utah - not only an isolated place in the middle of the desert far away from the many exploitation fruits of civilization, but a place that immediately frowns upon many saucy things. So because of his living in such a restricted place, "Dinosaur Island" cannot help but come across as a fun romp to him. WHICH IT ACTUALLY ISN'T, SO THERE! :-)

Greywizard
The Unknown Movies

[nshumate]

Greywizard, The Unknown Movies wrote:

> Well, Nathan lives in Utah - not only an isolated place in
> the middle of the desert far away from the many exploitation
> fruits of civilization, but a place that immediately frowns
> upon many saucy things. So because of his living in such a
> restricted place, "Dinosaur Island" cannot help but come
> across as a fun romp to him. WHICH IT ACTUALLY ISN'T, SO
> THERE! :-)

You know, people who live in Canada really can't throw stones.  (I lived in Canada.  I know.)

[Funk, E.]

Okay I just rewatched Carnosaur 2 this weekend and I change my position. It sucks. It's a lousy rip off of Aliens and unlike the first one it wasn't as much fun.

[Haze]

I would say that raptor is good to laugh at but if you go about it without regard for the unbelievably horrible cheese level then you will be struck down hard and fast.


I still hold my position that Carnsaur 2 is one of the best dinosaur films ever. It is bested by Carnosaur 3 though.