hiddenmovement posted:

Dinosaurs = feathered isn't as clear cut as headlines make it.

Most dinosaurs were scaled. There's some evidence that ceratopsians had a bit of feathering here and there, but for the most part they are how you pictured them, give or take a little plumage along the back.

There is little evidence that large therapods had large, colourful, shafted feathers like modern birds. There is strong evidence they had fluffy downy feathers, but again it's not clear if they all had them (because there are certainly examples of certain species with scaled skin) or if they only appeared on juveniles which were lost as the animal matured. Eitherway, a T-Rex probably looked less like a flamingo and more like a wolf. Dromeosaurs are a different story, there is pretty strong fossil evidence that at least some of them had large feathered coverings so it stands to reason that most of them were probably like that. So Velociraptor, which was actually a teeny little dinosaur with a crocodile like snout, was probably Absolutely Fabulous.

Big fluffy feathers like the ones we associated with modern birds have evolved to allow the animal to fly and conserve heat. They may have been evolutionary advantageous to a small therapod, but If you are a 16 meter, 8 tonne monster, you aren't flying nor losing heaps of heat. How does it benefit the animal to evolve them? It probably doesn't.

Improbable Lobster posted:

lol you're completely and utterly incorrect

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/

The prevailing scientific theory is that many, many dinosaurs were highly feathered. Every time there's a major advancement in fossil analysis or a new, better preserved fossils are found there are feathers. Don't forget that dinosaurs were on earth for longer than anything post-ice age has been and covered a wide variety of ecological niches. Feathers were to dinosaurs as hair is to mammals.

hiddenmovement posted:

The article you just posted literally describes a juvenile coelurosaur, so a small young predatory dinosaur exactly like I described. Thanks for playing, try reading your own link next time.

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

To be fair, Timeline is Timeline with teleportation instead of time travel.

Improbable Lobster posted:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-discover-a-gigantic-feathered-tyrannosaur-172633563/

The Yutyrannus huali was a 9 meter long feathered dino, the largest currently confirmed and not a feathered juvenile.

I assume that since it doesn't fit with your nostalgia for a movie about genetically engineered frog monsters then 30 feet won't be big enough or some poo poo like that.

Improbable Lobster posted:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-discover-a-gigantic-feathered-tyrannosaur-172633563/

The Yutyrannus huali was a 9 meter long feathered dino, the largest currently confirmed and not a feathered juvenile.

I assume that since it doesn't fit with your nostalgia for a movie about genetically engineered frog monsters then 30 feet won't be big enough or some poo poo like that.

THE ARTICLE YOU JUST LINKED, YOU IDIOT posted:

this dinosaur’s body was covered in fine, wispy feathers

Casimir Radon posted:

The sword fight in The 13th Warrior is pretty cool. Too bad the rest of the plot thread about the prince stirring poo poo up go lost in the cuts.

Rising Sun (The movie) was really boring and I can't remember much that happened outside of a few main points. The whole Japanese economic scare or whatever it was mostly over by the time I really became aware of anything outside kid stuff so that just seems bizarre. The Japanese guys in the movie are written as a bunch of almost extraterrestrial weirdos who cover up murders with their expertise with VCR technology. Seeing Wesley Snipes before he became a punchline was a bit of a trip too. This was also probably the point Connery's career started declining due in no small part to bad decisions in choosing what to star in.

Byzantine posted:

PJOmega posted:

Improbable Lobster's stupidity aside I want a new version of Jurassic Park with the T-Rex replaced by this thing. It might even be more terrifying.

Neo Rasa posted:

Rising Sun is so bad for a number of reasons. But regarding its Japan-scare elements, even during production it was already derided for its bizarre "UGH these evil Japanese people just so WEIRD AND CORRUPT AARRGH!" plot. Wesley Snipes was literally cast in the movie so that the producers could say "See of course our movie isn't racist, we cast a black person in it!" Sean Connery took the role because the character in the novel was literally written with him in mind. Given Connery's ego I'm sure "okay well THIS script was actually written specifically for you and you play a zen master investigator cop fluent in Japanese who gets to dunk on the entire cast over and over again" was an easy sell.

I can't remember the book too well, but IIRC it's much more just about Snipes' and Connery's characters and how much they hate each other, like I think they straight up brawl with each other and everything.

Lobok posted:

You could probably raise the money real quick through crowdfunding but the donors would claim false advertising once they see what you meant by Jurassic Park: Furry Edition.

Byzantine posted:

FilthyImp posted:

Jurassic Park: Kakapo would be chill. Just a bunch of fatbirds making GBS threads and humping everything.

TTBF posted:

Wait, how did a movie about zombies even get released in China?

TTBF posted:

Wait, how did a movie about zombies even get released in China?

Josh Lyman posted:

Goddammit china

https://twitter.com/thrglobal/status/836140955027689472

Cardboard Box A posted:

They're virus infected people, not literal undead horrors, just like 28 Weeks Later.

Of course they rejected World War Z so...

HannibalBarca posted:

China doesn't like Brad Pitt; also the source novel shits all over the Chinese government

Red Bones posted:

Dinosaurs are cool but unfortunately they are just animals, which really cuts down on the number of interesting movies you can make about them because you've gotta jump through a lot of narrative hoops to justify bringing something into a story that really only wants to eat food and mate.

Leavemywife posted:

Do the Chinese have problemswith zombie movies? I can understand them not releasing the movie where the book shits all over them, but what's wrong with other zombie movies?

Barudak posted:

There are various laws against story content such as "no timetravel" or "no skeletons" which they use to keep out content they dont approve of without having to say whatever hurt feeling they are assigning to it. Once you learn what those things actually mean, such as "no timetravel" means "no story where the CCP doesnt come into existence/isnt the best thing ever" it becomes easier to parae why some get blocked for those rules and others dont.

Leavemywife posted:

Does that mean they never got Army of Darkness? Because that should be a crime against humanity.

Tars Tarkas posted:

Orc cop movie Bright preview -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksSRIOP7u4I