Walking with Dinosaurs rocks!

[Filby]

I loved all of the "Walking With" and related documentaies, except for "Walking with Cavemen", which I didn't get to see.

No one mentioned "Neanderthal"? That was my favorite. The scene with the neanderthal and the Cro-Magnon staring each other down, with all the dramatic tension, was amazing.

 

[Tanager]

I liked JP III myself, more than the other two in the series, but thats because I've always *liked* the idea of intelligent, social dinosaurs with sophisticated communication. How they used the idea in the movie, well that's another story. I still think they shoulda had feathers though

Walking with Dinosaurs was good fun, I wasn't as thrilled by Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, it's been a while since I saw it, but I remember feeling that the cgi wasn;t up to par with what they'd done for Dinosaurs.

 

[Viking Bastard]

It's the hair.

CGI hair always looks extra fake.

 

[reapersaurus]

I actually kind of liked Jurassic Park: III. I thought it was maybe the best of the series. Though nothing will top the sheer I'm-a-six-year-old-again delight of the T-Rex in San Diego at the end of II for me. That will forever be one of my greatest moments in a cinema. I totally didn't see it coming and was so delighted by it it almost made up for all the stupid, stupid crap Spielberg made me put up with in the first hour and a half.

Dinosaurs are good.

You, sir, are a poet.

How can someone as crotchedy and off-base at times *wink* be SO spot-on in this opinion of the end of JP2?
I'm the only other person I have ever heard of (IRL) that has expressed intense admiration for that scene.

And I have a soft spot for the earlier parts of JP2, since they were filmed at Patrick's Point and Fern Canyon, right at the time I went to school up there (didn't get to see them filming, though, dangit).

As for Walking With Dinosaurs, they are fantastic.
The 3-series, 5-DVD set is a must-own for a dinosaur family.

Anyone see Dragons? How was it?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Anyone see Dragons? How was it?

Has it even aired yet? If not, it should be soon...

 

[Mark]

Much more exciting, BTW, than Crawling with Crustaceans...

 

[Desdichado]

Gianotosaurus, from Arengentina. And while I'll adimit to liking JP III, the whole Spinosaurus thing jaded me to, considering any creature with a sail that big is not going to engage in any activity that might damage it, like fighting or hunting large prey. Which is why, along with it's straight, not curved teeth, led my (non-profeessional) opinion that Spinosaurus was a really big vuluture, using it's size to steal a meal, or a fish-eater. But yeah, walking with dinosaurs rocked.
And walking the prehistoric beasts was cool, to.

Giganotosaurus carolinii (you left out a letter) and Carcharadontosaurus saharicus and Saurophaganax maximus were also about the same size. Although saying that they are "bigger" than T. rex may be a bit silly, considering the sample size we have of these animals. We have many more T. rex's than any of the others with a grand total of ...six skeletons ever found. For G. carolinii we have one. And it's incomplete to boot, so how big it really is is largely based on estimates.

For what it's worth, though, T. rex was quite likely a much more aggressive and powerful hunter than any of the carnosaurian therapods (all of the others; they are relatively closely related as allosaur-like animals) even if they did average a few inches longer and a few pounds heavier. And that's all it is, too, is a few inches and a few pounds. The T. rex's had much more powerful jaws, forward facing eyes, a much leaner and faster physique, much more aggressive and dangerous prey (in the form of Triceratops horridus) and apparently a nastier temper (some T. rex skeletons have extremely nasty scars on the bone itself that can only have been made by the teeth of other T. rexes, and are partially healed indicating that the wounds were made while they were alive.)

Anyway, I have a terrible tendency to hijack any thread on dinosaurs (or other prehistoric creatures) or ancient history/linguistics/archeology with my overly technical analysis, but as to the original point of the thread, I actually preferred When Dinosaurs Roamed America. It's not nearly as well written, but the actual dinosaurs look tons better. And let's face it; I don't watch those to learn about dinosaurs, because I already know much more than they're gonna tell me, I watch it to see dinosaurs. So When Dinosaurs Roamed America followed by any of the Jurassic Park movies, and I too liked all three, win out over Walking With Dinosaurs or Allosaurus any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

 

[reapersaurus]

It should have aired tonight, no? (Dragons...)
Anyone see it? What'd ya think?

And IIRC When Dinosaurs Roamed America was almost unwatchable... (?)

 

[Desdichado]

And IIRC When Dinosaurs Roamed America was almost unwatchable... (?)

Is that a question for me? Because clearly my answer was already in the post to which you responded.

 

[Mark]

And IIRC When Dinosaurs Roamed America was almost unwatchable... (?)

Is that a question for me? Because clearly my answer was already in the post to which you responded.

Do you mean where you specifically discuss it here...?

I actually preferred When Dinosaurs Roamed America. It's not nearly as well written, but the actual dinosaurs look tons better. And let's face it; I don't watch those to learn about dinosaurs, because I already know much more than they're gonna tell me, I watch it to see dinosaurs.

Looks like you say it is quite watchable and that it's the rest of the content with which you have a problem. Yes. You seem to say the opposite of "unwatchable" is how to describe it. I'm not sure if reap liked the information and didn't enjoy visuals or if he just isn't expressing himself well.

reap(ersaurus)..(?)...huh?