#Dinosaur Movies

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I love dinosaurs as much as robots. It is very funny to me when ppl freak out about their childhood icons having feathers maybe.

But it is actually more boring if they are all just like Hollywood imagined.

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The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)

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The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms By Rick Melton

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[madmwyrd]

So, my brother and I watched Dinosaur (2000) relatively recently, and besides the fact that it's a bad movie with horrendous character design, one thing pissed him off more than anything else: the movie's use of the word "carnotaur".

Now, to him, this word was just an infuriating attempt at saying "carnivore", which in context, makes sense. What neither he nor I knew at the time is that this is not the case. Carnotaurs are real dinosaurs. And they're really cool.

Carnotaurus sastrei, the only one of its genus, is one of the few dinosaurs we have with some of its skin preserved. We know from those preservations that it had scales, which is one of the things we assume generally about dinosaurs that we have very little evidence for. Carnotaurs also were the only known carnivorous dinosaurs with horns, which is why it's named after a bull. The other half of its name (carno-) means "meaty", and even just looking at the skeleton, you can tell that it was one THICC ASS BOI.

I'm at least 90% certain this motherfucker looked like a sausage with teeth and thighs. We all clown on the T-Rex for its tiny arms, but look at this motherfucker. We're talking whale pelvis levels of vestigial here.

Another cool thing is that geographically, the movie having these as the main hunters makes more sense than having Tyrannosaurs. T-rex lived in what is now North America, whereas these death bratwurst lived in South America. We know that the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs landed in the Gulf of Mexico, and given that we see in the movie that very asteroid hit the earth, I don't think it takes place in what would one day become California.

All this to say, Elliot, I know more about dinosaurs than you. Suck it.

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Jurassic World 2015

Dir. Colin Trevorrow

“The key to a happy life is to accept you are never actually in control.”

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Looks like Gareth gets to check off another big sci-fi franchise that he's worked on. The bar to make a good Jurassic World movie is pretty low at the moment, so I'd say he's overqualified.

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THE LAST DINOSAUR - TV GUIDE ad clipping - scanned from my personal collection

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Retro Trailer: The Last Dinosaur (1977)

The Japanese trailers for this are the best quality so we're going with that. This was a American/Japanese feature that was filmed in English.

Disclaimer: I am not associated with the uploader nor the creators of this trailer.

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Neutering Henry Wu.

This guy used to be essential to run Jurassic Park - but what happens once Hammond doesn't need you anymore? ... you sit and eat ice cream like you're told!

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What are your top 10 favorite Dinosaur Movies that aren't Jurassic Park?

(In no particular order.)

1. Planet Of The Dinosaurs (1976)

2. Carnosaur (1993)

3. The Last Dinosaur (1977)

4. At The Earth's Core (1976)

5. One Million Years B.C. (1966)

6. The Land Before Time (1988)

7. We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)

8. Prehysteria! (1993)

9. Adventures in Dinosaur City (1992)

10. Theodore Rex (1995)

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The Land Before Time Gallery - Poster By Mick Cassidy

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