No Doug Walker knows what he's talking about when he reviews god awful movies that need to be ripped apart. He has a brain and I like his reviews he does. So keep your negative opinions to yourself next time.

For the record ADFan, everyone is entitled to their opinions and to declare them (as opinions rather than stating them like undeniable facts). It is not up to you or anyone else to order anyone here to keep any opinions to themselves. Such attitute is in conflict with the board rules and can lead to sanctions if repeated after such a warning

Between the declarations of piracy and now this, is there a reason ADFan is still here?

For the selfsame reason that other GOF members are still around after having repeatedly put a toe across the line.
Nobody should mistake the lenience of the admins as ignorance. We still got the banhammer if nothing else is working, but we are sticking to the rules which we impose not just on others but on ourselves as well and don't go around banning people just because some others might dislike them but only on the basis of the board rules.

That being said, everyone remember to keep the difference between fact and opinion in mind and treat others with the same respect you want to be given (in case you don't want to be met with respect, treat others respectfully anyway!) and everyone should be fine.

Fair point, Dinotopia: Quest For The Ruby Sunstone was really a very poor movie, especially when comparing it to the marvelous books Dinotopia is based on. It is a pity that movie makers tend to approach Dinotopia with a desire to turn it into an extreme action / magic story rather than presenting the marvelous world imagined by James Gurney (the author of the Dinotopia books).
The Dinotopia mini-series made the same mistakes (along with some very poor acting) while the series that followed the mini-series was quite decent, corrected many mistakes committed by the mini-series and came up with some original own ideas without distorting Dinotopia beyond all recognition. Sadly that series was cancelled on a cliffhanger.
Anyway, I am getting off topic here.

The show was awful god awful to be frank. Each episode was hard to sit through.

I'm sorry it was so bad for you ADFan185.
I got to say that for all my criticism about the later movies I found the LBT TV-series better than many others and better than I had expected it to become.
Serving the plans to revive elder threads as suggested in the rock circle, here is a link to my old thread on behalf of the TV-series.

You denounce a few things about the movie but can you tell me what they could/should have done instead?

Let's start with the volcano. Do you have an alternate idea how the gang could get up that mountain quick in order to be there prior to Pterano, Rinkus and Sierra (who could have been there within an hour but what would the movie have to gain from them being there a day before the gang even arrive there?

I would have changed the plot in such a way that the Pterano would still require some information from Littlefoot or one of the others to find the stone (or some additional information on what exactly its alleged powers were or how to unleash them). Such a simple change would correct the logic flaw of why the flyers weren't able to get to the stone first.
Such a plot could even give Pterano a reason to abduct Ducky. Forcing the other kids to follow them so he could get more information from them in the Mysterious Beyond rather than in the Valley under the watchful eyes of the kids parents.
If Pterano abducted Ducky more silently (without causing an all out stampede in the Valley) a plot would have been possible in which only Petrie realized that Ducky was abducted by his uncle. Not only would that have caused another conflict of conscience for Petrie but it would even have corrected the major flaw of Pterano's deliberately provoking the adults into persecuting him (perhaps he could have given Petrie a "follow me on your own without the parents!" kind of message).

The idea (of the Rainbowfaces who are interesting characters!) is actually quite cool. Remember this is made for kids, not for our small group of adult fans.

I agree they were interesting, but the Star Trek beaming in the end seemed really ill fitting to me. Had they been kept more mysterious (similar to Doc) I think it would have been more impressive. This is of course a matter of personal taste and I think I am pretty much alone with the view that Star Trek, gore, science fiction technology etc. got no business in the land before time.

Strange colouring... okay I get that it shouldn't look like that but seriously what is so bad about that?

Again a matter of taste. Personally I think a volcano spewing something like spinach is something in need of improvement. If you don't feel that need I am certainly not out to convince you others, I am certainly not out to talk you into having a problem with it.

You're complaining about deus ex machina solutions? Well, they're everywhere in movies, you know?

True and wrong at the same time.
There are plenty of situations of last minute saves. But most of the time they had been built up and were not something that could have happened all along (like it would have been the most natural matter of course things imaginary for the adult flyers of the valley to go after Pterano after he abducted Ducky). In LBT 6 we see grandpa to the rescue brought there by Littlefoot's friends and Doc's previous farewell also made his appearance plausible.
LBT 5 perhaps had the extremest case of Deus ex machina in the form of Elzy's sudden appearance. But while that was not an elegant solution it was at least something that could possibly happen. A flyer capable of carrying Littlefoot, Cera and Spike is just a lazy excuse. I agree that one shouldn't apply too extreme logic on land before time movies. But I still think there is a difference between bending plausibility a little and making up something outright impossible defying all logic. If you think different, that is fine and I am not trying to convince you otherwise. Personally I want a good story to like rather than so much wishing to like a story that I don't require for it to be good anymore.

Nobody knew if the Stone had the powers it was predicted to have but I'm sure the grown-ups wouldn't just let Pterano gain that possible power. Even if it's just non-sense (as it turned out later on), could they risk that Pterano might gain huge power in the event that their doubts turn out to be false?

As I already wrote in your other thread the makers of LBT 7 had taken extreme efforts to establish that the adults in the Valley didn't believe in the stone of Cold Fire. They even had Cera's father repeat that after "Beyond the Mysterious beyond" to make sure that it was perfectly clear that the rainbow faces didn't convince anyone. If that is still not enough to convince you that the adults in the Valley didn't care at all about the stone the fact that they didn't hurry to prevent the flyers from reaching it. The alleged powers of the stone didn't play much of a role in the adults discussion.
It would have been odd enough if those powers had played a role, because it has never ever actually been specified what exactly that stone was supposed to do. There is absolutely no reason for Pterano to believe that the stone would allow for him to dominate or controll anyone at all (which I consider another major plothole of LBT 7).
In spite of all that, I do not hate LBT 7, but I thought it a great pity that some good ideas were largely wasted due to flaws such as those mentioned above.

Aye, it is such details along with some improbable solutions (e.g. using a volcano as an elevator), illogical timing (e.g. these flyers seriously didn't reach that volcano in the time it took the kids to get there even though the flyers had a lead of like half a night and half a day), strange coloring (e.g. green lava), deus ex machina solutions (e.g. Star Trek Rainbowfaces) and serious plotholes (why exactly did they abduct Ducky to begin with? They had absolutely no reason whatsoever to do that. Had Pterano announced to the assembled adults in the valley that he was going for the stone of cold fire to rule them all he probably would have earned himself a collective shrug and an "be off already" from Cera's father. Abducting Ducky was really the one way to ensure that he would be pursued eventually) are aspects that kept a movie with some really great ideas (e.g. Pterano's past) from being great altogether in my opinion.

Congratulations and a happy third Schnappszahl birthday to you elder one
I hope that you have a great celebration today and will have a 34th year of life of health, success, happiness, friendship, luck, peace, love and occupation to come

Welcome with us CybertronianBrony
It is always a pleasure to welcome new members to our community.
Same as with Rocking Scorpion we share more than one fandom though my MLP related activities are mostly on another forum.
Anyway, please feel hearty invited to join our discussions or start threads of your own

Congratulations for your third Schnappszahl birthday Nick
I hope you had a great one and that your next year of life will be one of health, success, happiness, friendship, luck, peace, love and occupation

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What about Civ5 or Beyond Earth? Do you play these too? Can I duel you for the admin status?

You are misunderstanding this Andrey. I punish those who defeat me all the time in Civ 4 by making them admins. Sweet revenge