Exactly! These old designs have a lot of personality to them that most modern reconstructions sadly lack.
I think that it depends. For guys like Todd Marshall, Luis V Rey, and even Kaijusamurai they have presented modern dinosaurs that have managed to reinvent themselves, but it is a balance. Imagination needs to be included for both sides: the retro and the modern/accurate. For example, you can make a superb Knight T-rex but run the rick of still ending up with a pokey thing that looks like it belongs in a B movie or, what every dinosaur fan laments hearing, a lizard. What was the difference? You still have to figure out the mechanics of what makes a retrosaur good, much like how the 2014 Godzilla did when they pretty much made the most convincing retrosaur that we've ever seen.
The same goes for modern ones where you can have Luis Rey make a perfect velociraptor, but you can also have the fool who just makes the thing look fluffy, the antithesis of the lizard and still just as discouraging. The trick is finding something that isn't a gecko, a tweety bird, a lobotomized clod, or a generically "accurate" specimen with no personality to it. Remember, Pokemon gave us a surprise with Tyrantrum: a T-rex that was feathered and yet wasn't fluffy, ornamented and not gaudy, ferocious, but ferocious like a lion.
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The same goes for modern ones where you can have Luis Rey make a perfect velociraptor, but you can also have the fool who just makes the thing look fluffy, the antithesis of the lizard and still just as discouraging. The trick is finding something that isn't a gecko, a tweety bird, a lobotomized clod, or a generically "accurate" specimen with no personality to it. Remember, Pokemon gave us a surprise with Tyrantrum: a T-rex that was feathered and yet wasn't fluffy, ornamented and not gaudy, ferocious, but ferocious like a lion.
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This post right here pretty much sums up my stance on this issue.
Hey, we dinosaur fans typically know what we're talking about. We love them for what they are and not just for what we want them to be: warts and all. To ignore the truth is to lie to one's self and to shut out the possibility of wondrous realities more astounding than anything we could have imagined on our own. That and as Jurassic has shown, we're not doing the Dinosaurs justice by selling them short. Ironically, the series has NOT evolved since it broke ground during times that were just as stagnant as these. It was the last word in prehistory 20 years ago, but the movies are now just like everybody else and that's sad for the king of the dinosaur movies.
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