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Because there's only one story to tell, for adults, and it's the Jurassic Park (et al.) story.

You can't tell a period story for adults, with dinosaurs birthed normally and no modern science, because then it's not a 'talkie', and we're about a century past it being possible to have the budget for a state of the art dinosaur-prop film with no dialogue.

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We just had an animated movie about animals[1] with zero dialog win an Oscar.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(2024_film)

No mention of any Oscar at your link, not that that's really important. I think you should read my 'for adults' as precluding animations/cartoons, not to say that Flow isn't aimed at adults or that's childish or anything, just that that's what I meant - in that format of course you can do it and I'm sure there's been loads, no doubt an adult can (re) watch and enjoy A Land Before Time too; I assume TFA was also thinking of 'live action' films.

Mid-way down:

> ... At the 97th Academy Awards, Flow won Best Animated Feature and was also nominated for Best International Feature Film as Latvia's submission ...

I've seen the movie and I'd say it's enjoyable for kids and adults.

The other alternative is for time travellers to be marooned in the past. (A là Homer Simpson who wishes he didn't kill that fish.)

À la Eckels in "A Sound of Thunder." (This is HN, if I didn't make the correction someone else would.)

This is the very problem Hollywood is facing now: a lack of imagination.

How about a World War 2 flick where Nazis breed dinosaurs to fight in the war?

It's not meaningfully different than JP is it - it's scientists recreate dinosaurs cohabiting with us in the modern world - that's the type that I meant.

The sequel to Iron Sky has a tyrannosaurus-riding Hitler. Trailer has a clip from that scene.

https://youtu.be/NuI-KU70pvM

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