The SPOILER. Thread to the Good Dinosaur.

[Takama]

Discuss. Your thoght on the movie including you reactions to certain. Scenes and feel free to speak every detail about the movie.

I just got back from the theator and i must say. I am impressed and disapointed.

Fist off, i have no problem with most of the Animals designs, in fact most of the animals you see in the toys don't even appear in the movie.  The only animals in it are

Sauropods

Pterosaurs

Tyrannosaurs

Styracosaurus

Dromeaosaurs

And Oviraptors made to look and act like Chickens

Now heres were my problems come into play

I originally was not too disappointed in the fact that The Sauropods feet are ALL Elephantine. But at the Beginning the movie, they all have to make a hand print on a Silo, and the prints look Every bit as inaccurate as the feet suggest.   In my mind i was saying "WHY COULD YOU NOT MAKE THEM LIKE THE REAL THING?" it would have made a more distinctive print, and maybe actually teach kids about the animals anatomy.

Also, The Pterosaurs have TEETH. and there Pteranodon like species (though one is clearly a Ncytosaurus)  I was thinking, " If you wanted Pterosaurs with Teeth, Why could you not use Ornithochirids?" Its not like there depicted accurately anyways (they eat little "critters") Also, there the most reoccurring bad guys in the movie. The Dromeosaurs appear in one Sequence, while the Pterosaurs get two.

As a whole, I think the movie is plagued with a lot of miss opportunity's, Like the fact that it states that The Asteroid would of hit the earth 65 million years ago instead of the more up to date 66.

At least all the Dinosaurs Depicted were mostly Cretaceous Species

[alexeratops]

I'm glad that they mentioned that the "Rustlers" (I'll just call them Dakotaraptors) had feathers and not fur. If they didn't, all of the kids would assume that it was a furry dinosaur, which is not the case obviously.

[EarthboundEiniosaurus]

The part where they got drunk on rotten fruit really freaked me out, it came out of nowhere and I really didn't expect it at all. The hallucinations that followed were nightmare inducing, especially for young kids. That scene alone took me out of the movie, and i couldn't get back into it. I do commend them for showing death as a natural process and not trying to hide the truth from kids, I think they can handle it.

Thanks,

EarthboundEiniosaurus

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

just got back from seeing it, overall i loved it a few really good tear jerking scenes had me watering my cheeks. You really cared about the characters.   I was not expecting a Western either..that was new. Very Jack London-ish.

The hallucinations were weird but quickly forgotten by myself and friends. I'm reminded of the scene at the end of Brother Bear with funny faces in the ice, funhouse mirror-style and the one bear who actually looks normal in them..lol

A more Mufasa-like death scene would have better.i think they didnt linger on the event enough.

The sauropod legs were weird and the only thing that really threw me often.  I can chalk all the other differences up to evolution.