While the look is based in old misconceptions of dinosaur biology, the Jurassic Park dinos lacking feathers actually works really well for the story. They were never meant to be real dinosaurs. They’re just theme park attractions, so of course they look how the customers expect them to. Just like how most of them aren’t even from the Jurassic period.
Alberat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
crazy how there’s billion dollar movies that game embarrassingly incorrect dinosaurs in them
stray@pawb.social 2 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Yes that was the retcon explanation. The actual explanation is that they wanted to have Velociraptors in the movie and weren’t really bothered about the fact that they aren’t actually that big, there are species of raptor that are that large, but they didn’t want to use their names because they were less well-known. Velociraptor was one of the few dinosaurs people knew. T-Rex didn’t become famous until after Jurassic Park.
stray@pawb.social 2 months ago
T-Rex didn’t become famous until after Jurassic Park.
Really? I thought everyone knew T-rex when I was a kid. The only pick for Land Before Time I thought was weird was Duckie because I’m still not 100% sure what she is despite having looked it up a few times. The rest of the cast are what I’d consider your classic dinosaurs. But it’s hard to know what other people know when you’re an autistic kid.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Movies often align to the popular perception if a thing rather than reality. Otherwise you’re watching a documentary.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
it’s not like documentaries aren’t plenty popular, that recent series on dinosaurs (walking with dinosaurs, i think?) with our homeboy David Attenborough was hyped as fuck, no cap, on god, etc
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Walking with dinosaurs is like 20 years old it’s not recent.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
the new one lol, people were really excited about it so it’s weird that you missed it:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Walking_with_Dinosaurs_(2025_T…
Alberat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dino DNA!