How was carnotaurus treated?

So finally we got to see Carnotaurus in a JP movie, a longtime fan favorite (myself included) which many of were hoping for in JW and even during the dark years we would imagine a JP movie with carnotaurus, being that it was so awesome in the novel and is an extremely strange and interesting carnivore overall. Kudos to Trevorrow and Bayona for including it. So this should've been a dream come true, but how did it make you feel? It appeared, roared, approached the humans and was then subdued by the triumphant t-rex (since the t-rex's role is now to appear all of a sudden to save humans). Then the carnotaurus appeared again towards the end of the movie where it killed Mills together with the t-rex. Was this the carnotaurus you were hoping for all these years? What more could they have done with it in your opinion? Hopefully it will make another appearance in JW3. It's still a bit unreal to me that it actually appeared in the movie, but then again I'm a hardcore carno fan (and not much of a t-rex fan).

I'm glad it appeared it more than one scene. It was cool but since the Indominus had the camouflage it's unfortunate the Carno didn't get the ability.

Dr. Wu wrote:

I'm glad it appeared it more than one scene. It was cool but since the Indominus had the camouflage it's unfortunate the Carno didn't get the ability.

I agree. Would've loved to get something like in the novel, that would've been a lot more exciting (and terrifying).

Yeah I kinda wished it got more screentime (along with allosaurus), but I was still glad it featured and I thought it actually had a decent design (i like the pattern). Like the Doctor Wu himself said (lol), Since the Indominus, a hybrid, got the color changing ability, it feels redundant to give carnotaurus the same ability. I don't argue that it would have been cool. I would have liked if it was the main threat at the island island half, if it was longer.

But I did love the moment when the rex and the carno Eddie Carre'd Mills- not only because it was brutal and statisfiyng, but also bacause it marked a historic moment:
This was the 1st time someone gave carnotaurus a hand

I think it was totally wasted. This could have been any other medium sized predator.

It was awesome and kind of surreal to finally see one in a Jurassic Park movie. I remember when I first watched the first trailer, my eyes almost jumped out of their sockets when it first appeared roaring. Design-wise, it looked awesome (in fact, it's probably the best-looking creature in these new movies).

Thing is, like a lot of other dinosaurs in Fallen Kingdom, it's there basically for window-dressing. It doesn't really do anything of note (although the fight with the Sinoceratops was really cool), and it must have about one minute of screen time in total. It was almost like an extended joke how it constantly got its ass kicked by the other dinosaurs. I think the movie could have easily replaced the Allosaurus and Baryonyx with other Carnotauruses, and it would have been much cooler.

Also, it's kind of sad that none of the Jurassic Park movies ever delivered the infamous camouflaging Carnotaurus from the Lost World novel. Especially sadder if you remember that the main reason Crichton created them in the first place was because he wanted to see how that would look like in a live action movie. Carnotaurus could've been a great main antagonist for a movie in the same vein as the Velociraptors in the first movie: they are very distinct looking with that small head, small arms, big horns and osteoderms; were supposedly very fast; are bigger than the JP raptors but smaller than a T. rex; and you can come up with a lot of cool scenes involving that camouflage.

Better than the Allosaurus.

I agree as well. Would really have loved the Carnotaurus vs the flashlights scene. Still happy it made it in.

^That was my fav novel scene, would love to see it visualised one day.

I agree that carno, along with juvenile pach..erhm, Stygimoloch and Sinoceratops, were the better treated new dinosaurs. Poor Allo..

I did enjoy the carno scenes.

But like others have said I would have liked to have seen a movie with camouflaging carnos as one of the main dinosaur threats.

The indominus having the ability was just a waste as it only used it once in the whole movie and the scene wasn't even that good.

My favourite depiction of carnotaurus is still Disney's Dinosaur. They looked so cool in that film and were actually pretty scary.

Btw did you guys catch that the Allos in FK were juveniles? Hopefully that means we will see some adult Allos in JW3. As well as some more carno action.

Disappointed. Stiggy AND Carno should have been let out into the auction floor. That would have been awesome

Wish it had more scenes. The fight with the Sino is awesome.

I loved it, except for that lame scene with Rexy killing it. Unecessary. You don't bring cool theropods to make them die like that.

Am I the only one who still thinks Rexy didn't kill the Carno?

V.a.nublarensis wrote:

Am I the only one who still thinks Rexy didn't kill the Carno?

She did, though. In the shot where Owen starts running after the gyrosphere (and away from the herd of herbivores), you can see the Carnotaurus still down on the background, only it's not moving. I'm pretty sure it's dead.

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Mr. Robustus wrote:

V.a.nublarensis wrote:

Am I the only one who still thinks Rexy didn't kill the Carno?

She did, though. In the shot where Owen starts running after the gyrosphere (and away from the herd of herbivores), you can see the Carnotaurus still down on the background, only it's not moving. I'm pretty sure it's dead.

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Technically, it could just be unconscious for less than a minute, but I digress. Nice catch, btw.

Mr. Robustus wrote:

She did, though. In the shot where Owen starts running after the gyrosphere (and away from the herd of herbivores), you can see the Carnotaurus still down on the background, only it's not moving. I'm pretty sure it's dead.

Then how can it appear later in the movie? Unless of course there's two of them (or more).

Lost wrote:

Mr. Robustus wrote:

She did, though. In the shot where Owen starts running after the gyrosphere (and away from the herd of herbivores), you can see the Carnotaurus still down on the background, only it's not moving. I'm pretty sure it's dead.

Then how can it appear later in the movie? Unless of course there's two of them (or more).

There are multiple in the film. In fact, I think the one we saw at the end might have been a juvenile. It looked like it had smaller horns than the one we saw on the island (saw the movie only once so i could be wrong)

Dilophosaurus wrote:

I did enjoy the carno scenes.

But like others have said I would have liked to have seen a movie with camouflaging carnos as one of the main dinosaur threats.

The indominus having the ability was just a waste as it only used it once in the whole movie and the scene wasn't even that good.

My favourite depiction of carnotaurus is still Disney's Dinosaur. They looked so cool in that film and were actually pretty scary.

Btw did you guys catch that the Allos in FK were juveniles? Hopefully that means we will see some adult Allos in JW3. As well as some more carno action.

Yes the Allos in FK were juveniles, I'm hoping they have a similiar design to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwDUYvXwFt8

I think the Allo's were juvenile because a full grown Allo would look too much like a T-Rex?

but as for the Carno, I'm satisfied. I know people wanted to see more of it, but it's hard when there are so many dinosaurs. Carno had one great scene, So I'm satisfied. Baryonyx also had one great scene, and Sino had a good one too.