[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Just a quick note: the first JP movie began pre-production in 1990 and Jack Horner supervised all the dinosaur designs for that film. Pre-production ended a little over two years later and by that point the designs were already set in stone. So unless paleontologists were discussing feathered dinosaurs in the late 80's or earlier, there was no way it was going to show up in the first film.

So don't blame the films for being inaccurate (at least the first one). The crew did the best they could with the knowledge they had at the time.

There's a *lot* of stuff they got wrong that you can blaim the crew for.
Actually, with Horner on hand, look at all the stuff they got wrong that was known then. There were no dromaes known to be as large as the Velociraptors are portrayed, yet he still made them nearly 18' long (In fact, there *still* is no known species that fits the movie Velociraptor. Utahraptors, discovered post movie was bigger, and deinonychus was smaller). Triceratops swallowing stones when it could chew. Brachiosaurs chewing when they existed millions of years before the ability evolved. Dozens of things wrong with the tyrannosaur (Teeth too large, arms too large, terrible vision, terrible sense of smell).
Basically Spielberg did what Spielberg wanted to do, even with Horner on hand. If he didn't want something, it wasn't going to happen. Horner once said he had to fight like mad to keep the raptors from flicking their tongues like snakes (Grain of salt, I heard this on an intervew on NPR a few years ago, so I can't verify this). So, it was all up to what spielberg wanted. Horner didn't have much say in the franchise until JPIII, in which he had almost full control over the dinosaurs.

I find this extremely nonsensical that ebveryone is jumping on me because as a kid I was dissapointed that my favorite dinosaur toy didn't have feathers. why the fuck does it matter to you people??? Leave me the hell alone about it!