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[–] 9 points 8 months ago* (8 children)

crazy how there's billion dollar movies that have embarrassingly incorrect dinosaurs in them

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Movies often align to the popular perception if a thing rather than reality. Otherwise you're watching a documentary.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    it's not like documentaries aren't plenty popular, that recent series on dinosaurs (walking with dinosaurs, i think?) with our homeboy David Attenborough was hyped as fuck, no cap, on god, etc

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    While the look is based in old misconceptions of dinosaur biology, the Jurassic Park dinos lacking feathers actually works really well for the story. They were never meant to be real dinosaurs. They're just theme park attractions, so of course they look how the customers expect them to. Just like how most of them aren't even from the Jurassic period.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes that was the retcon explanation. The actual explanation is that they wanted to have Velociraptors in the movie and weren't really bothered about the fact that they aren't actually that big, there are species of raptor that are that large, but they didn't want to use their names because they were less well-known. Velociraptor was one of the few dinosaurs people knew. T-Rex didn't become famous until after Jurassic Park.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    T-Rex didn't become famous until after Jurassic Park.

    Really? I thought everyone knew T-rex when I was a kid. The only pick for Land Before Time I thought was weird was Duckie because I'm still not 100% sure what she is despite having looked it up a few times. The rest of the cast are what I'd consider your classic dinosaurs. But it's hard to know what other people know when you're an autistic kid.

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