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Silver Screen / Walking With Dinosaurs:The 3D Movie
« on: December 14, 2013, 06:30:32 PM »
I assume most people have seen trailers/adverts for the new Walking With Dinosaurs movie that comes out next week. I was really looking forward to this when I saw the first trailer months back, especially since I adore the incredible BBC TV series it is based on, but I am fairly disappointed to hear that they have, one month before release, decided to hire voice actors to voice the dinosaurs, despite the fact that their mouths don't move.

Whilst originally promoted as a educational visual spectacle, Fox seem to have turned it into a generic kids comedy movie and completely gone against what the original BBC series was about. From the newest trailer, the film looks absolutely gorgeous (using the same live-action/CGI mix technique as Disney's Dinosaur) but it is clear that the voice acting is pretty rushed and sounds terrible.

While I think the film will still be perfectly watchable and decent, and might even be surprisingly good, it is a real shame that studios seem to be scared of releasing a good documentary-style dinosaur film, and have this outdated attitude that only toddlers will want to see a film about dinosaurs  :bang (Still, at least we have a fourth Jurassic Park film to look forward to in 2015)

I don't mean to sound entirely negative here, I am still looking forward to seeing it despite being annoyed at it's production, but I would probably recommend watching the BBC documentary series beforehand.

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Silver Screen / You Are Umasou
« on: August 29, 2013, 06:32:30 PM »
Considering it’s both animation-related and dinosaur-related, I’m surprised there isn’t a topic here already about one of my favourite films of all time. If you want to use the original title, its “Omae Umasou da na!”, which translates to ëYou Are Delicious!’ although most people refer to it as You Are Umasou.

If you haven’t heard of it, which you probably haven’t, it is an anime film about a Tyrannosaurus Rex who is raised by a Maiasaura. Angry about how he was born into a herbivore family, he runs away and grows up by himself as a meat-eater, where he finds an egg which hatches into a baby Ankylosaurus, who believes that the T-Rex is his father. Taking the name Umasou (delicious), due to a misunderstanding when the T-Rex says how good he will taste, the T-Rex reluctantly adopts him and ends up forming a strong parental bond.

Although the storyline is quite strange (and will have palaeontologists shouting in anger) the actual film is beautiful, with a very simplistic cartoon style which makes every single character, even the more murderous T-Rex villains, insanely cute. As well as being a heartwarming story about family, there is a lot of action, including a brilliant scene in which the main T-Rex beats up several other dinosaurs using martial arts set to a Japanese nursery rhyme:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhcJEdkQrug

Although it looks like a silly little cartoon, it is really well written, well paced (although the intro is a little rushed) and all the characters are lovable from the minute they appear on screen.



Unfortunately, the English dub of the film was cancelled pretty early on, despite the fact they even released a trailer for it. Shame as the film is perfect for all ages and since there are so many cheap direct-to-DVD family films being released now, it must be profitable for a dubbing company to pick it up elsewhere, especially with the fact it is anime attracting the whole anime fanbase as well as the colourful kids appeal. The only version available is the Japanese version with subtitles, but I would really strongly recommend this film to anyone.

I assume that no-one has, but is there anybody out there other than me that has seen this?

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The Welcome Center / Hi
« on: August 28, 2013, 07:46:39 PM »
Hi! I’ll warn all of you in advance that I’m terrible at introductions so the following paragraph may seem quite awkward...

I am Danosaur, or just Dan if you want to refer to me by my actual name, and I am currently 18 and will soon be studying Film and Media at university. I am a huge fan of all types of animation, and have been since I was around 13 years old. (Weirdly, I was much more into live-action stuff when I was a child.) Since I started an interest in animation, Don Bluth has always been my favourite animator, and a lot of his films are some of my favourites of all time. I originally took a large interest in The Secret Of NIMH, but more recently upon re-watching The Land Before Time I think that has taken the spot as my favourite of his films, and I have started watching through all of the sequels and TV series and lurking on here for about a year or so. (I’ve seen all of the TV series but I still need to get around to watching the 10th, 11th and 13th film.)

Because I can’t think of what to write next (again, awkwardness) here are some random facts about me:

-As stated earlier, animation is my favourite type of film, and my favourites include all of Don Bluth’s work, a lot of anime films such as Ghost In The Shell, Perfect Blue and Ninja Scroll (although my favourite anime film is called You Are Umasou, and is coincidentally another dinosaur film), and also I am a big fan of animation from my home country of the UK, especially Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, When The Wind Blows and Animal Farm. Despite this, my favourite animated film of all time is Walt Disney’s Bambi.

-I live in England, in the north-west where everyone basically talks like ëyer warra ye gonna do abarr it lad m8 yeah????’ I swear sometimes I am the only person in my area who can actually spell.

-My favourite Land Before Time is the original, obviously, but I love the sequels and the TV series aswell. My favourite character from the films is a tie between Petrie and Ducky, and Ruby is my favourite in the series.

-Other than animation, my favourite live-action films include RoboCop, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park, Jaws, DragonHeart, Commando, Hard Boiled, Battle Royale and Shaun Of The Dead (all pretty clichÈd and obvious choices, I know.)
-I also watch a lot of TV series but there are way too many of them to list here, I’m currently in the middle of watching Gravity Falls, Spooks and Arrested Development.

-I would consider myself a video game fan but it’s mainly restricted to the 32-bit era of the PlayStation, Saturn, Dreamcast etc. My favourite video game of all time is Spyro The Dragon (I’d probably consider him my favourite fictional character of all time aswell)

-I collect VHS tapes and LaserDiscs. My LaserDisc collection is fairly small as they are very expensive and hard to find in the UK because the format was pretty much nonexistent here (My most prized laserdisc is probably the CAV collectors’ edition of the first LBT film) My VHS tape collection is currently sitting at 1052 tapes.

-I am absolutely hopeless at drawing/writing, which I know is very unusual for an animation fan as everyone else seems to be great at drawing fan-art and such.
-I’ve never been able to make many friends in real life, which is why I try to make as many online as I can, but I am quite the introvert and have a lot of problems with real contact.

-I am blind in one eye. (Random fact, but it’s the only other notable thing I can think of now.)

So, feel free to ask me any questions and I hope I don’t come across as too awkward.

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