Paleontologist Reviews Dinosaur Movie Scenes | Vanity Fair

How accurate is Hollywood when it comes to depicting dinosaurs on the big screen? Paleontologist Mark Loewen reviews dinosaur scenes from films including ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park,’ ’Jurassic World,’ ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,’ ‘Land Of The Lost,’ ’King Kong,’ ‘Night at the Museum,’ and more.

Filmed in Paleontology Collections at the Natural History Museum of Utah, located on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Special thanks to Abby Curran, Carrie Levitt-Bussian, and Beth Mitchell from NHMU.


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0:00 Introduction
0:30 Jurassic Park
3:41 Jurassic World
4:54 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
7:31 Land of the Lost
9:36 Jurassic Park 3
11:26 King Kong
13:01 Night at the Museum
13:45 The Land Before Time
14:34 One Million Years B.C.
15:42 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
17:38 Fantasia



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[adamlone]

I like this guy; he explains the inaccuracies without coming across as a condescending prick. Just a chill dude with impeccable fashion sense. 10/10

[herodontus]

I'm still pissed off that my parents didn't let me become this guy. Look at how cool he is. This is what peak paleontologist performance looks like.

[trishabanerjee]

“Probably the best thing to do is to stay ahead of the rest of the people in your group” lmfaoo he literally said “you don’t need to outrun the dinosaur just your friends”. I love him.

[alcatrazdelta]

I like how he doesn’t look too deep or get offended by the depictions in the movies. He critiques and says “well it’s a movie and this is where paleontology was at at this time”

[appleseiter]

Fun fact: I signed up for the world of dinosaurs class at the University of Utah many years ago because this guy was teaching and he had a great reputation. Sadly, some other guy ended up teaching it at the last minute and it was terrible. This guy came as a guest speaker one day and it was incredible. So sad I didn’t get him for the whole semester!

[switchblade_bambi]

He is the most paleontologist looking paleontologist that has ever paleontologist in the history of paleontologists.

[miyalovetco]

This dude taught a class called science in cinema at the university of Utah that I took. My god was it one of my favorites. He let us watch the shittiest tornado/volcano movies and made the whole thing educational. Brilliant man.

[sussygojira]

"No wonder you're extinct."

*The Dilophosaurus has never been this emotionally scarred.*

[christianfehr]

He was my professor at university of Utah - fun guy and great teacher. He went by “Hagrid” to the kids

[spadertwosix]

Can someone let Hagrid know he’s not fooling anyone, he’a an expert on beast in the magic world, and a paleontologist in the muggle world.

[BrokenNoah]

8:47 "T-Rex is not a fast animal but T-Rex is faster than Will Ferrell"
- Mark Loewen, 2022

[bsheaves]

I remember being a kid seeing JP3 and thinking: “but wouldn’t the bite of tyrannosaurus be basically a 1 shot?” Glad my young brain was vindicated

[thexplodenator]

This guy was actually one of my college professors! He named Nasutoceratops that shows up in the new Jurassic World movie, and that you can see the skull of in the background

[m.hoiseth]

He should be the next protagonist in the Jurassic franchise. I'd love if he while being chased just started to point out every inaccuracy of the dinos.

[daelra]

My pet peeve about dinosaurs in movies ('monsters' in general to be fair), is that they roar before attacking. Most predators are either trying to be really sneaky or try to rush at their prey. It's counterproductive to give their prey a massive warning. If you ever see a great big thing making a huge noise, it's usually because something bigger than them is threatening it.

[cschoepp]

The CGI in the 1993 film is STILL
leaps and bounds better than any of the other films mentioned in this. Insane.

[avaree]

Mark was my professor a couple semesters ago and he made the class so much fun! We learned about geology and whatnot through movies - probably one of the funnest classes I've had. Such a cool dude and I'm so glad he made it on Vanity Fair!!! Woo!

[ashardalondragnipurake]

love how he actually advised you not to outrun the dino
just outrun the humans

[piotrrkacperr]

"The bite of T-Rex would crush Spinosaurus' skull in a single bite. This would not be a good match for the T-Rex"
Finally, I can rest peacefully. Thank you.

[PTMsubaru]

I wanna go to Utah just to meet this man, even tho I don't even care about dinosaurs or cinema! He seems to be so chill, so down to earth, knowing a lot of things but not being cocky about it. I want to see more of him! Give this man a Youtube Channel!