Deathadder
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Post by Deathadder on Jul 23, 2015 23:12:10 GMT 5
as the title says just list the worst dinosaur related shows and your reasons why.
DON'T BRING THE JURASSIC PARK FRANCHISE INTO THIS!!!!!!!!
Ill start.
primeval: i know its not a documentary but still, it could at least try to be accurate. like the animals are WAY to aggressive like the hyenadons and giganotosaurus just randomly attacking everything they see. that's not what animals do. and especially since they are often brought into a different world, with different smells different sights, and different everything. the only reason they would attack is out of fear when a human gets too close.
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Post by creature386 on Jul 24, 2015 1:37:32 GMT 5
Clash of the Dinosaurs: A Brachiosaurus Sauroposeidon that has nothing to do with reality (Deinonychus can kill it by touch, but hey, it can digest iron!), each episode has the same scenes, quote mining
Monsters Resurrected/Mega Beasts: Their Godzilla Spinosaurus has nothing to do with reality, terrible animation, Sauropelta is harder prey than a huge sauropos
Jurassic Fight Club: A ridiculously endurant Megalodon, hyper raptors, interesting views of the dinosaur brain (they can think of only one thing at the same time!)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2015 12:05:13 GMT 5
Valley of the T-Rex: Jack Horner's nonsense about T. rex being a slow and fat scavenger.
Clash of the Dinosaurs: It's severe downgrading of sauropods, and it's nonsense about Tyrannosaurus having bacterial venom.
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Post by blaze on Jul 24, 2015 20:04:59 GMT 5
We could just say every single Discovery Channel dinosaur documentary since 2003.
Also the recent echo chamber that was Dino Death Match from National Geographic, decent CGI but everything else was just bad.
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Deathadder
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Post by Deathadder on Jul 24, 2015 20:41:39 GMT 5
What was it?
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Post by Life on Jul 25, 2015 19:21:36 GMT 5
Jurassic Fight Club: A ridiculously endurant Megalodon, hyper raptors, interesting views of the dinosaur brain (they can think of only one thing at the same time!) I believe that Megalodon could take lot of punishment. Singlehandedly hunting cetaceans (all types) is arguably the most risky and challenging niche to occupy for a macro-predator. |
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Post by Deathadder on Jul 26, 2015 0:15:50 GMT 5
I disagree. Most cetaceans are unimpressive to in my opinion. Excerpt for the predatory species.
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Post by theropod on Jul 26, 2015 3:23:03 GMT 5
^Technically mysticetes are predators too, they feed on other living animals. But I get what you mean. I think the point was that they are very impressive, simply because of their size, and that's true, in much the same way as sauropods are impressive. But of course no mysticete (and especially not a cetothere) could have dealt out the sort of punishment the megalodon was shown as taking in JFC. It got rammed and bitten by a whole pod of hypothetical 14m physeteroids if I remember correctly, an attack that would certainly have had fatal or debilitating results on pretty much any real animal. Simply being resilient isn’t enough to survive that. As for the topic, JFC totally qualifies as terrible (it doesn't even actually deserve being called a dodumentary imo). Their megalodon is actually just a minor point to me, there was just so much worse crap in there. COTD and Mega Beasts too, for the reasons jinfen mentioned. There was that old documentary called "the real jurassic park" ( here→), which deserves a mention simply for claiming T. rex to have averaged 50ft in length, with peck's rex claimed to be 65ft. Also, look at their T. rex depiction! Compared to that, Jurassic park itself was hyper-accurate. The whole thing sounds as if it was made by a fanboy. None of those did anything to make up for their terrible science. |
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Post by Cross on Aug 5, 2015 11:55:42 GMT 5
I personally think that "Dino-Death Match" made a pretty dirty move by only showing the paleontologists who support N. lancensis as a valid genus and not including the opinions of those such as Thomas Carr, Thomas Holtz, John Hutchinson etc. It seemed that they wanted it to sound like there was no debate about N. lancensis being its own taxon.
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Post by creature386 on Aug 10, 2015 14:13:13 GMT 5
Jurassic Fight Club: A ridiculously endurant Megalodon, hyper raptors, interesting views of the dinosaur brain (they can think of only one thing at the same time!) I believe that Megalodon could take lot of punishment. Singlehandedly hunting cetaceans (all types) is arguably the most risky and challenging niche to occupy for a macro-predator. Maybe, but I still believe Jurassic Fight Club exaggerated. Really, a pack of similarly sized whales did everything they could to the Megalodon and it was after that able to continue fighting with no problem. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 10:41:25 GMT 5
Clash of the Dinosaurs.
At least JFC was interesting to watch.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Mar 1, 2019 13:34:22 GMT 5
Clash of the Dinosaurs: A Brachiosaurus Sauroposeidon that has nothing to do with reality (Deinonychus can kill it by touch, but hey, it can digest iron!), each episode has the same scenes, quote mining Monsters Resurrected/Mega Beasts: Their Godzilla Spinosaurus has nothing to do with reality, terrible animation, Sauropelta is harder prey than a huge sauropos Jurassic Fight Club: A ridiculously endurant Megalodon, hyper raptors, interesting views of the dinosaur brain (they can think of only one thing at the same time!) Those ones are actually pretty interesting. You want a bad dino show, just watch Barney. That's horrific. |
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Post by theropod on Mar 4, 2019 18:29:14 GMT 5
^The difference is that that’s a show about a plushy dinosaur for young children. Nobody is lead into believing it has anything to do with science. The ones you claim are interesting are full of BS, but they hide it behind a facade of credibility by styling themselves as "documentaries".
Take "in a land before time" or stuff like that. Of course it’s a big pile of crap from a scientific standpoint, but who cares? I wouldn’t say that was a bad dinosaur movie based on the criterium of accuracy, because it wasn’t a documentary, it was an animated story for children. Critiquing it based on scientific accuracy would be like saying the lion king was a bad movie because real lions can’t speak. There’s a difference between that and something that claims to be a documentary containing real scientific information, but presents a bunch of made-up, inaccurate hogwash instead.
All the other criticism on this thread is based on scientific accuracy, mostly on purported "documentaries" or at least shows for adults, that seem to portray supposedly realistic organisms but fail at it.
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Post by creature386 on Mar 4, 2019 20:54:45 GMT 5
The title also allows for shows that are not documentaries. I think he just wanted to say he finds Barney boring.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Mar 4, 2019 21:39:25 GMT 5
Oh, I did not realize this was about scientific accuracy. In that case, I would probably have to go with WWD by the virtue that there is, has, and will never be such thing as a 25 meter Liopleurodon.
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