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Post by allosaurusatrox on Jun 20, 2015 14:23:29 GMT 5
Well, would you keep your tail horizontal when it has several plates and 3-foot spikes on it?  And t-tops' tail (like all ceratopsians) curved down from the spine. Neither species "tail-dragged", the tail was simply kept in a more reasonable position, it was never dragged. The age of hyper-athletic Paulian Dinosaurs is over. |
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Post by Grey on Jun 20, 2015 15:52:21 GMT 5
Hum Stego and Trice do not drag tail in the movie, the people having *****ed about that just took some screenshots where the animals are balancing their tail (Stego) or are lifting up (Trice) but you don't see real tail dragging in the movie.
Beware of the *****ing comments.
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Post by Deathadder on Jun 20, 2015 16:05:16 GMT 5
People whom about the innacuracies of this movie just as if not more then they would if it was a dokumentary.
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Post by blaze on Jun 20, 2015 18:21:41 GMT 5
What continuity? is "no feathers" the only aspect that has to adhere to the continuity argument? Several dinosaurs in JW are very obvious step backwards in accuracy and flare than what we saw in the original and previous sequels, it's like in the original they had a contemporary Greg Paul book open when designing them but in JW they had a run of the mill 60s dinosaur book for kids, not only is the anatomy of the herbivores more "retro" they all have oily wrinkly skin in different shades of gray.
What's the point of a dinosaur movie if there's no dinosaurs in it! If for some reason the Valley of Gwangi had a sequel coming soon would you be encouraging them to have a Godzilla posed Allosaurus? mmm which reminds me, aside from the Godzilla posed Allosaurus, the dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) from that movie are about as accurate as those from JW, more accurate even, at least their ornithomimid has the arms of the right size and in the right place.
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Post by Grey on Jun 20, 2015 19:02:00 GMT 5
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Post by allosaurusatrox on Jun 20, 2015 21:13:56 GMT 5
What continuity? is "no feathers" the only aspect that has to adhere to the continuity argument? Several dinosaurs in JW are very obvious step backwards in accuracy and flare than what we saw in the original and previous sequels, it's like in the original they had a contemporary Greg Paul book open when designing them but in JW they had a run of the mill 60s dinosaur book for kids, not only is the anatomy of the herbivores more "retro" they all have oily wrinkly skin in different shades of gray. What's the point of a dinosaur movie if there's no dinosaurs in it! If for some reason the Valley of Gwangi had a sequel coming soon would you be encouraging them to have a Godzilla posed Allosaurus? mmm which reminds me, aside from the Godzilla posed Allosaurus, the dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) from that movie are about as accurate as those from JW, more accurate even, at least their ornithomimid has the arms of the right size and in the right place. Well, you have to think, aside from The Pack, all the dinosaurs we saw were of the multi-ton range, of corse their going to be dull! I didn't expect vivid red t-tops or blue stegos. For those of you who are going to throw the "Dinos are birds! Birds are colorful!" Argument at me, think, all of the largest birds (emus, cassowarys, ostriches, penguins etc.) are either dull in color or have bright patches limited to small areas. The face of the cassowary, for example. Also, only a small fraction of birds are what you could call "bright and vibrant", many are earthy shades of brown and black. |
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Post by Grey on Jun 20, 2015 22:30:44 GMT 5
I always a problem with the colors-nazis who absolutely want to see hyper-colorful T. rex, a 6-9 tons predator which rather needs to be stealthy...
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Post by Deathadder on Jun 20, 2015 22:34:16 GMT 5
I understand that, but the herbivores could stand to have some color.
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Post by allosaurusatrox on Jun 21, 2015 0:24:22 GMT 5
They did, the parasaurs were tan with black stripes.
And herbivores typically are dull colors.
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Post by Deathadder on Jun 21, 2015 2:12:19 GMT 5
There are some.
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Post by allosaurusatrox on Jun 21, 2015 2:25:19 GMT 5
Some...what?
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Post by Deathadder on Jun 21, 2015 3:52:21 GMT 5
Colorful herbivores.
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Post by allosaurusatrox on Jun 21, 2015 5:27:31 GMT 5
Note how I said "typically".
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Post by Deathadder on Jun 21, 2015 6:11:48 GMT 5
Well no shame in making different colors then grey. And changing the colors of their special features.
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Post by blaze on Jun 21, 2015 6:47:26 GMT 5
Mammals are mostly colorblind that's why big mammals are dull grey but dinosaurs most likely had color vision, I'm not saying they should make them every color of the rainbow, everyone that has read my thoughts on Dinosaur Island should know that I detest such flamboyant depictions but they at least should have realistic colors, colors that allowed them to blend with their environments and dull greys do not accomplish that when you have color vision, Jurassic Park did it, The Lost World did it, freaking Jurassic Park 3 did it but JW did not?
And what about their skin? aren't the herbivores supposed to be scaly? why do they have such ugly wrinkly skin? the previous movies tried to give them scales but this one, specially with the Apatosaurus, didn't even try.
Where's the continuity here? why are JW herbivores such an obvious step backwards?
I admit that I went to see the movie a second time, hoping I'll like it more but it resulted in the opposite, it just left me wanting to see dinosaurs in a dinosaur movie, not ugly retrosaurs... sigh, I guess since I'm not a fan of the movie nor will I be of the upcoming sequels there's probably no point in me commenting in this thread.
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