Name The WORST Dinosaur Movie You've Ever Seen . . .

[stargatedalek]

I've never seen Speckles the Tarbosaurus, but if I know anything about dubs I can sympathize.

Hey, now. Some dubs are brilliant, even improving upon the original work. It's not fair to lump them all together!
But perhaps that is a topic for a different thread.

I concur, Funimation in particular comes to mind as doing dubs that not only stay really close to the source material but are always respectful to the originals. I was mainly poking fun at the bad-dub trope given I feel that people think of my having an interest in otaku subculture, and anime in particular is associated with the trope.

[Takama]

To be honest, I'm indifferent towards Disney's Dinosaur, although the fact that they gave the Iguanodon lips really freaked me out. The worst dinosaur movie I've personally seen would have to be The Dinosaur King. While the CGI is fair, the voiceover is ten times worse than Walking with Dinosaurs the movie, and that says something. I'm sure there are worse ones out there, but that's to worst experience I've personally had with a dinosaur movie.

Thanks,

EarthboundEiniosaurus

I forgot about "The Dinosaur King" aka "Speckles the Tarbosaurus" (same movie I believe). Yeah, I couldn't watch that one. I made it through Mario at least but I had to turn that movie off as soon as I heard the voices.

I actually liked that movie, and only had a problem with the Kid who Voiced Speckles as a Baby.   I thought who ever did him when he was older, was tolorable

[irimali]

Disney's Dinosaur I'd say was the most disappointing.  They had some great artists working on the design, and some good looking dinosaurs(minus the bald velociraptors and lips on iguanodon).  And they put a lot of work into making the dinosaurs move believably, with muscles under their skin and such.  And shooting locations all over the world.  Although the Walking With Dinosaurs series a year earlier picked much better locations for mesozoic backdrops.  And for Disney's Dinosaur they digitally added grass in backgrounds where there  wasn't any in the original shot.  They could have added ferns but they added grass, before there were any known grass fossils from even the latest cretaceous.  And then they lumped together a bunch of dinosaurs that didn't live at the same time or on the same continent.  And made the Carnotaurus gigantic.  And had the same plot as the land before time.  And now we'll never get to see the stop motion animated Paul Veerhoven/Phil Tippett movie originally proposed to Disney that was executive produced into Dinosaur(s are inferior to mammals).     

[Newt]

Oh wow, I'd forgotten about Super Mario Bros. It just goes to show, you can throw a lot of talented actors and effects guys into a film and still get absolute garbage.

[Kovu]

I'll agree with you on this much: the soundtrack is great. I still listen to it at the start of every summer.

As for the rest...well, it all comes down to a matter of taste, doesn't it? My own expectations affected my response: I wanted a dinosaur version of "The Lion King," without any tacit implication that mammals are better than dinosaurs, and I didn't get it. I can see how the movie would be enjoyable enough if you didn't have that image in your head before going in.

Exactly, it all comes down to taste! I'll be the first to admit my attachment to the film is probably largely sentimental.
And as far as the soundtrack - right? It's fantastic! "Across the Desert" is one of my go-to workout songs.

[PaleoMatt]

I swear I'm the only person who enjoyed speckles the tarbosaurus :/ But one of the worst films was Dinosaur island, it came out recently and was so armature

[tyrantqueen]

I've never seen Speckles the Tarbosaurus, but if I know anything about dubs I can sympathize.

Hey, now. Some dubs are brilliant, even improving upon the original work. It's not fair to lump them all together!
But perhaps that is a topic for a different thread.

I concur, Funimation in particular comes to mind as doing dubs that not only stay really close to the source material but are always respectful to the originals. I was mainly poking fun at the bad-dub trope given I feel that people think of my having an interest in otaku subculture, and anime in particular is associated with the trope.

Speaking as someone who was an otaku in their teen years (but hates most anime now), I now am of the opinion that if the source materials sucks, watching subs over dubs doesn't make a difference. Such is the case with Speckles. Sub vs. dub complaining was one of the topics I absolutely hated when I was in the fandom. Besides, most dubbing today is miles ahead of how it was in the '90s (in the dark days of 4Kids dubbing).

I don't speak the original language (Korean), so I have a hard time judging whether the voice acting is any better. The only reason to watch subbed anime, for me, is to view content that may have been cut from the dubbed version.

[MLMjp]

A lot of people dislike disney's dinosaur but i would probably be a completely diferent person who does not have interest in dinosaurs, if i hadn't watched, that film put dinosaurs in a three year old mind and today the dinosaurs are still stuck in that mind fifteen years later
I wouldn' be here if I never watched that film
And speaking of prehysteria and we are back, a dinosaur story, I liked those movies as a kid, but now.... yes... not the best...

[TomWToyForum]

Hm. I have two clear options in my head and I'm not sure what to go with - either Speckles the Tarbosaurus or Walking With Dinosaurs.
Part of me wants to say the latter is worse because it could be so easily fixed into a decent movie by removing the voices, but I don't know if that should be a point for or against it.

In terms of non-kids movies, that's difficult. I try not to watch movies that suck so I don't have much to go on. I think I watched Age of Dinosaurs on Netflix once, so I'll go with that. Unless King of the Lost World counts, even though that didn't contain dinosaurs, it was "based" on something that did.

[Patrx]

It has to be either "Raptor Island" or "We're Back". Both are horrible, and both for different reasons.

The preceding commentary makes me wonder - is there any particular reason we don't have an anime thread?

[stargatedalek]

I actually rather enjoyed Walking With Dinosaurs 3D, perhaps it was just because I had low expectations, or perhaps it's because I went to a late night showing and had the entire theater to my lonesome (which felt great I must say). I didn't hate the acting, it felt unnecessary and at times juvenile, but I didn't entirely hate it, the version with no VA at all and the narrated version are definitely better though.

As for an anime thread I can't think of any particular reason why not, it comes up in the general animated program threads often enough that it certainly could.

[Iohannes]

"Carnosaur" is one of the worst dinosaur movies ever:

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Carnosaur_(film)

It is as awkward as hideous. Simply unwatchable.

[Crackington]

The worst one I saw was called something like "Azteca Rex", which had a convoluted plot of the Spanish Conquistador Cortes stumbling across a lost tribe of Aztecs terrorised by, but worshipping a T-Rex.

This involved excruciatingly bad CGI effects and an incredible shrinking cast of about 3 Aztecs and 4 Spaniards, explained by Cortes losing his army and most of the Aztecs fleeing the valley. Not sure what they spent their money on!

The Rex of many colours (i.e. it looks different in every scene!) proceeds to munch on the tiny cast, including a gratuitously drawn out death of an Aztec girl, with her intestines removal by the hungry Rex being the only remotely realistic effect in the film (yuk!). This scene makes the English girl's end in Jurassic World look tasteful.

Not even unintentionally funny, avoid!

[Gwangi]

The worst one I saw was called something like "Azteca Rex", which had a convoluted plot of the Spanish Conquistador Cortes stumbling across a lost tribe of Aztecs terrorised by, but worshipping a T-Rex.

This involved excruciatingly bad CGI effects and an incredible shrinking cast of about 3 Aztecs and 4 Spaniards, explained by Cortes losing his army and most of the Aztecs fleeing the valley. Not sure what they spent their money on!

The Rex of many colours (i.e. it looks different in every scene!) proceeds to munch on the tiny cast, including a gratuitously drawn out death of an Aztec girl, with her intestines removal by the hungry Rex being the only remotely realistic effect in the film (yuk!). This scene makes the English girl's end in Jurassic World look tasteful.

Not even unintentionally funny, avoid!

This reminded me of the remake for "The Land that Time Forgot" which was hardly even a remake at all, pretty awful regardless. The original although cheesy and dated I quite enjoy.

[Quen]

I don't recall the name of the film, but I once watched a SyFy film (at least it was on that channel and of the same sort of quality) that featured frilled Dilophosaurus-type dinosaurs that swam like dolphins, complete with jumping out of the water! It definitely didn't help that the person I was watching it with still thought that the swimming method was plausible even after I gave the whole crocodile relationship-physiology-locomotion explanation (with some mention of tail-flukes).

[Simon]

I'll just chime in to make my pick for worst dinosaur movie ever:  "Any movie with dinosaur-suits" (and there used to be a LOT of them before the CGI-era!)

[Brontozaurus]

Speaking of movies with dinosaur suits, I have to nominate Adventures in Dinosaur City as the worst dinosaur movie I've seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZybLee9yo

I tried to watch it as a kid but the tape didn't work. In hindsight, this was the universe protecting me from the horror that I eventually saw later in a group livestream of the film.

It has rubber dinosaurs hitting on cavewomen. That's really all you need to know.

[Plasticbeast95]

We're Back. Its status as a Big Lipped Alligator Movie cannot be understated.

[Federreptil]

Maybe I don't know so much about the worst Dinosaur movie.

Because there is so much movie crap and for this I never want to waste time. So if it looks like a C-D-E-F-movie with superfluous stories, characters and tricks, why should I look to Carnotaurus, Jurassic City, Jurassic Predator, Jurassic Dark, The Dinosaur Project, Dinosaur Island or Dinosaur Valley Girls? If I like trash I have the young Godzilla with men in suits and blinking zippers at their front.

So it's more a feeling of disappointment with the bigger productions. Like Irimali pointed out at the example of Disney's Dinosaurs. There is such a lot waste of talent and well meant thoughts also in Dinostasia, WWD 3D and the JP-Franchise. But at the end it's never a complete satisfying result. There are beautiful scenes and very sophisticated details. But there is always a lack of an also sophisticated story or a reasonable representation of a jurassic or cretaceous life without squeaky voices and ridiculous sidekicks. Some days ago I look at a Jack Horner interview about his consultations for Jurassic World and Jurassic Park and he explained that Steven Spielberg don't want monsters. So his main task was to bring the Dinosaur presentation away from this – with very mixed results. But at the other hand Jack Horner is very happy with the effect of the JP Franchise bringing so much fresh blood to the paleontology. If this also happens with mediocre movies – these have nevertheless a useful function.

The initial WWD-series of the BBC in its pseudo-lifelike documentary film style is maybe the best representation till now.

[stargatedalek]

I loved the film style of the original WWD/WWB/WWM docudramas. If only they had the same attention to scientific accuracy that WWD3D had that would be the best of both.