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* ''[[Gertie the Dinosaur]]'' |
* ''[[Gertie the Dinosaur]]'' |
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* ''[[The Lost World ( |
* ''[[The Lost World (film)|The Lost World]]'' |
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* ''[[King Kong]]'' and its [[R Emake]] |
* ''[[King Kong]]'' and its [[R Emake]] |
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* ''[[Godzilla]]'' and its sequels and remake |
* ''[[Godzilla]]'' and its sequels and remake |
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* ''[[Gorgo]]'' |
* ''[[Gorgo]]'' |
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* ''One Million Years BC'' |
* ''One Million Years BC'' |
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* ''[[The Beast |
* ''[[The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms]]'' |
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* ''[[The Valley of Gwangi]]'' |
* ''[[The Valley of Gwangi]]'' |
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* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' and sequels |
* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' and sequels |
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* [[Computer Generated Images]]: The latest method of bringing dinosaurs and other monsters to life. The program also has a brief [[Take That]] moment at it, or more specifically at the '05 ''King Kong'' [[R Emake]], saying that the movie suffered from an overdose of over-the-top CGI scenes. |
* [[Computer Generated Images]]: The latest method of bringing dinosaurs and other monsters to life. The program also has a brief [[Take That]] moment at it, or more specifically at the '05 ''King Kong'' [[R Emake]], saying that the movie suffered from an overdose of over-the-top CGI scenes. |
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* [[Cultural Translation]]: ''Gojira'''s brash, American [[Re Cut]]. Also the later [[Godzilla ( |
* [[Cultural Translation]]: ''Gojira'''s brash, American [[Re Cut]]. Also the later [[Godzilla (film)|remake]]. |
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* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: The main theme. |
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* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: The ''T. rex'''s defeat at the hands of King Kong. Some of the [[Talking Heads]] found it too disturbing. |
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: The ''T. rex'''s defeat at the hands of King Kong. Some of the [[Talking Heads]] found it too disturbing. |
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* [[Feathered Fiend]]: ''Velociraptors''. The ''real'' ones. |
* [[Feathered Fiend]]: ''Velociraptors''. The ''real'' ones. |
Revision as of 14:22, 9 April 2014
A one-shot BBC TV Documentary from 2011 about the history of Dinosaur Media. Discusses several stock tropes present in dino-movies, and reflects on their cultural importance in a lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek way.
Thoroughly talks about:
- Gertie the Dinosaur
- The Lost World
- King Kong and its R Emake
- Godzilla and its sequels and remake
- Gorgo
- One Million Years BC
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
- The Valley of Gwangi
- Jurassic Park and sequels
... and also features a stock of other, often pretty obscure productions, most of which are best left extinct.
Appearing tropes:
- Computer Generated Images: The latest method of bringing dinosaurs and other monsters to life. The program also has a brief Take That moment at it, or more specifically at the '05 King Kong R Emake, saying that the movie suffered from an overdose of over-the-top CGI scenes.
- Cultural Translation: Gojira's brash, American Re Cut. Also the later remake.
- Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: The main theme.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: The T. rex's defeat at the hands of King Kong. Some of the Talking Heads found it too disturbing.
- Feathered Fiend: Velociraptors. The real ones.
- Fight Scene Failure: "The fight between the ape[1] and the dinosaur in Unknown Island. It has to be seen to be believed!"
- Frazetta Man, and their contrast with sexy cave-women.
- Fur Bikini: Raquel Welch could not be left out.
- Lost World: One of the more commonly used settings in early movies.
- Nubile Savage
- One Million BC: Discusses the time the "genre" was at its peak, and also how the overflow of Fan Service and increasingly diminishing roles of dinosaurs lead to its downfall.
- People in Rubber Suits: Godzilla, Gorgo, and tons of other, forgettable monsters the Narrator just calls "Crapasauruses".
- Prehistoria: The "inventive" new setting that dethroned the Lost World, but brought about a gigantic Anachronism Stew. Again, the cave-woman made audiences gloss over this.
- Prehistoric Monster: What Gertie, Gorgo and Ray Harryhausen's creatures were definitely not.
- Raptor Attack: The program goes on to point out that real-life raptors looked nothing like their Jurassic Park cousins, but even so, faux-raptors are still cool and scary.
- Sequelitis: Mostly in reference to the Godzilla and Jurassic Park movies, and how none of these sequels managed to overshadow the original.
- Slurpasaur: Strangely an avoided topic.
- Special Effect Failure: Films with poor SFX are mercilessly mocked.
- Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying: Briefly touched upon, while JP is being analyzed.
- Stock Dinosaurs
- Stop Motion: A lost form of art in dinosaur media.
- Tyrannosaurus Rex: It's almost everywhere.
- Visual Effects of Awesome: Dinosaur movies are all about spectacle. The documentary can thus also be seen as an overview on special effects history.
- ↑ actually supposed to be a giant sloth, but yeah... from the looks of it, it might just as well be called an ape