Tag: Jurassic Park

Giant gator saunters across Florida golf course in ‘Jurassic’ moment

Footage shows the colossal reptile in a purposeful stride, causing meteorologist Matt Devitt to remark, “I’d let him play through.”

Alligator sightings occur fairly routinely in and near water on Florida golf courses. Less common is the sight of a giant gator strolling across a fairway in broad daylight.

The accompanying footage was shared Wednesday by WINK News chief meteorologist Matt Devitt, who stated via X:

“Welcome to Jurassic Park. Massive Florida gator spotted Monday at this golf course in Rotonda from a WINK News viewer. I’d let him play through.”

It’s not the first time Devitt has referenced ‘Jurassic Park’ in video clips he received from viewers.

In February 2023, Devitt shared an image showing a truly massive gator gazing ominously toward the photographer from a different golf course.

“Welcome to Florida, home to Jurassic Park,” Devitt wrote on Facebook.

Any alligator measuring 10-plus feet is huge.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the state length record is 14 feet, 3-1/2 inches (Lake Washington, Brevard County).

The weight record, for a different alligator, is 1,043 pounds (Orange Lake, Alachua County.)

Not everybody was impressed by Devitt’s video post on Wednesday.

One follower commented, “That’s pretty much an every day occurrence somewhere in Florida. Only non-Floridians even find it noteworthy.”

Dozens of dancing dinosaurs stole the show during Iowa State-TCU halftime

TOO GOOD.

Iowa State knows how to put on a halftime show during football games, particularly when it comes to prehistoric themes. We’ve seen the Cyclones do this before, but it never gets old.

Saturday during Iowa State’s home game against TCU, the Cyclone Marching Band took the field. But they weren’t the only stars of the show.

The band was accompanied by dozens of people dressed up in inflatable dinosaur costumes — along with a giant, additional dinosaur that required multiple people to drag it on the field. The dinosaurs performed a not-so-perfect choreography to what sounded like the Jurassic Park theme song, but it was hilarious and wildly entertaining.

Other marching bands and halftime shows should take note. More dinosaurs at football games!

Here are a few more looks at this incredible performance:

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6 Jurassic Park filming locations you can visit in real life

Life finds a way!

Venture into the land of dinosaurs! Or, at least, get as close to it as you can in the modern day. Explore the magical places where crews filmed the “Jurassic Park” and “Jurassic World” movies. Hawai’i served as the backdrop for most “Jurassic Park” scenes. The state’s gorgeous waterfalls, parks, and hiking trails helped build a sense of wonder in the movies. Additional filming locations took crew members from California to Louisiana.

If you’re a diehard dino fan, you can visit all of these fascinating locations. Start your tour of “Jurassic Park” filming locations by checking out this list of six enchanting destinations.

Jurassic Park fan recreates the iconic T-Rex breakout scene in Dreams

The creator studied the film’s concept art and drawings to bring this moment back to life.

One dedicated Dreams player reimagined Jurassic Park’s famous T-Rex breakout scene in Media Molecule’s sandbox builder with impressive results. 

This is the second time Dreams fan Krenautican attempted making the scene, following an earlier experiment and finished product they were less than pleased with. 

Dreams is a sandbox-building title for PS4 and PS5 that lets players make whatever they can, well, dream of, whether a self-contained creation or a more ambitious project, such as an entire game.

Krenautican is also making an entire Jurassic Park fan game within Dreams and dug deep into the original film’s concept art to make the best possible use of the assets available to them in Dreams.

Krenautican said they paid close attention to important details such as where the T-Rex would enter the scene, and movements involved in pushing the car around. However, smaller particulars presented more trouble than they expected. Foliage placement, the exact positioning of the car rails, and even asphalt coverage and lighting all took significantly longer than Krenautican expected — all of which is documented in their fantastic explainer video below.

That’s before even getting into the logistics of animating the scene – with several effects that Krenautican believes most viewers wouldn’t notice – and ensuring everything behaved as it should. 

In short, Krenautican built a miniature film in Dreams, highlighting the game’s seemingly endless capacity for letting users explore the limits of their imagination.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF.

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If you thought Jurassic World: Dominion was going to be about dinosaurs, you were wrong

It’s about bugs.

[Spoiler warning: this post contains spoilers for Jurassic World: Dominion]

Part of that might be because the main villain in Dominion was locusts. That’s right, locusts. Like big bugs. But we’ll come back to that.

Dominion, which hits theaters everywhere on June 10, is nowhere near the best Jurassic Park movie (that is, of course, Jurassic Park), but nor is it the worst (hello, Jurassic Park III). It struggles with finding a really gripping plot six stories in, especially considering that the actual source material — the 1990 novel by Michael Crichton — told a perfect and concise story.

Still, there’s something that creates a sense of youthful exuberance at the idea of seeing dinosaurs grace the big screen again. The biggest thing working against Jurassic Park: Dominion (other than a plot that hinges on a loose issue with locusts) is the fact that they missed hitting the right notes with that nostalgia. Within the last 175 days, movie goers have been treated to both Spider-Man: No Way Home and Top Gun: Maverick. Each one perfectly tapped into that sense of nostalgia while telling a fresh tale. Neither one should have worked as well as they did, but they knocked it out of the park both for critics and fans.

The return of Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) pulled at the heart strings, and that trio — along with series newcomer Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise) — were the best part of the movie. Goldblum was utterly fantastic, delivering his lines with the timing and cadence that made Malcolm (and Thor: Ragnarok’s Grandmaster) so iconic.

It wasn’t all misses on the nostalgia. Malcolm surreptitiously unbuttoning one more button on his iconic black shirt elicited huge laughs. The worst human character getting eaten by the same dinosaurs as Dennis Nedry while the latter’s Barbasol container rolls on the ground absolutely works.

But back to the locusts.

Since Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, all of the dinosaurs rescued from Isla Nublar that were set to be sold on the black market have now just gone wild. There are Hadrosaurs roaming the countryside, Velociraptors in the woods and Mosasaurs stealing crab traps off of boats in the Bering Sea. This, in turn, leads to underground black market hunting rings and a biotech company CEO — Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott) — trying to “help” by creating a safe haven for all the dinos in the mountains of northern Italy.

Suddenly, gigantic and terrifying locusts start destroying crops from Iowa to Texas before migrating across the continent. Dr. Sattler is convinced these locusts have been cross bred with dinosaur DNA and gets Dr. Grant to come with her to the biotech headquarters — where of course Dr. Malcolm works — to get proof.

Oh, I forgot about the clone child and baby raptor.

Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) and former Navy-man-turned-raptor-trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) are still together and caring for Maisie Lockwood in a small cabin in the woods. Lockwood (played by the fantastic Isabella Sermon) is the DNA clone of her mother, but we find out in Dominion that she isn’t created by her grandfather out of sadness as Fallen Kingdom led us to believe. Instead, Charlotte Lockwood (who apparently helped … found Jurassic Park) made Maisie as a replica of her that she … carried and birthed herself. Try. not to think too hard about it.

When Charlotte realized she had a genetic disease, she was able to “fix” Maisie, giving her a chance at a full life. Dodgson hires black market criminals to kidnap both Maisie and the aforementioned baby raptor (the genetic replica of Grady’s trained raptor, Blue) so that Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong) can study them both.

Of course in the end, we have the T-rex battling a bigger dinosaur that allows our heroes to escape the forest fire caused by burning locusts rages around them (wow, what a sentence). Dr. Wu claims he can mimic the process Charlotte Lockwood used to heal Maisie, therefore killing the horde of locusts, ending the impending ecological collapse and saving the day.

If you’re thinking this all sounds like nonsense, well, it is. Was it still kind of fun? Sure. Jurassic World: Dominion won’t win any awards, but the absolute mayhem of the story made it a good time. Even if it was just to laugh at the absurdity.

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We handicapped the dinosaur action ahead of Jurassic World: Dominion with 8 fake prop bets

Will Ian Malcolm wear all black? How many kinds of dinosaurs will we see? We made up some prop bets heading into the release of the new Jurassic Park movie.

The latest installment of the Jurassic Park saga, Jurassic World: Dominion, hits theaters June 10. As the sixth entry into the series, Dominion brings back newer faces — like Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard — as well as Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum from the 1993 classic.

We catch back up with our stars with dinosaurs seemingly living among us, and it appears in the trailer that things are not going great for anyone. This leads to getting the whole gang back together for one more fun romp with the dinos.

Oh, did we mention there is a little girl from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom that is apparently a clone?

While there are no official bets available on the movie, we thought we’d put together some props to keep an eye on:

9 of John Williams’s most iconic scores in honor of his 90th birthday, from ‘Jurassic Park’ to ‘Home Alone’

The composing GOAT hits a milestone birthday. Time to celebrate with some of his best works.

Legendary composer John Williams has scored some of the most iconic moments in film history, whether we’re visiting Isla Nublar to see dinosaurs brought to life or feeling chills as Darth Vader appears on the screen. He’s been a part of almost every major movie series and has effective changed the way we watch and appreciate movies. With a career that has spanned 70 years, Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, 25 Grammy Awards and three Emmy Awards (among others). Williams is perhaps the best to ever do it.

It’s Williams’s 90th birthday on Tuesday, so what better way to celebrate than with nine of his all-time greatest scores?