The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Arts => Silver Screen => Topic started by: Gentle Sharptooth on March 20, 2020, 10:11:56 PM
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Any Disney’s Dinosaur fans?
Disney’s Dinosaur is one my all timd favorite dinosaur films. I listened to the soundtrack imcessantly and collected most of the toys, trading cards, and books.
Dinosaur is the first movie I time I took notoce of the species Iguanodon. This is only film I’ve seen to date that depicts accurate sized Velociraptors at 4ft tall, and I simply relished the Carnotaurs which were a last minute change because The Lost World: Jurassic Park featured two T-Rexes. Aladar’s story was endearing to me, and while it borrowed from Promise Land (Nesting Grounds) premise that TLBT did earlier, the voice acting, soundtrack and computer graphics were amazing.
I was such a diehard I made my own Pokemon inspired cards. :D
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Rewatched the film on Disney+. The CG animation still holds up after all these years!
I have always had a crush on Neera, I knew the actress from the TV series ER and the Morgan le fey series.
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The Velociraptors are the actual right height and shape! Jurassic Park used Deinonychus as its template for Velociraptors.
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The Music, O the Music I use to listen to over and over.
I understand some LBT fans hate the film calling it an LBT clone. Chiefly the idea of going to The Nesting Grounds being similiar to The Great Valley. However, Spielberg admitted the Great Balley was based on The Promise Land Overflowing of Milk and Honey.
Where Dinosaur and LBT Differ:
Aladar is an adult Inguanodon, Littlefoot is Longneck/ Apatosaurus Child.
Littlefoot leads other dino kids, Aladar leads his family of Lemars and then elderly back of the herd members.
Aldar and Neera fall in love and jave hatchlings, Littlefoot’s closest romance is Ali and they are too young for a family.
Sharptooth is a solo Tyrannosaurus Rex hunting kids, while Dinossur features twin Carnotaurs hunting an entire herd.
Littlefoot’s journey to the Great Valley is instigated by his Mother, while Aladar goes to the Nesting Grounds when he meets Kron’s Herd.
Littlefoot has a major bond with his mom, Aladar never knew his birth mother and instead knows his adopted Lemar mother Plio.
Kron and Bruton are both stubborn and mean, Cera is similiar except Cera reforms and lives while both Kron and Bruton die.
Littlefoot’s mother dies, we never see Aladar’s mother die, in fact the Carnotaur feeds on a type of Threehorn not Aladar’s Mother.
The calamity is an Earthshake that seperates Littlefoot and the Gang from their families, Aladar and his family of Lemars lose their home over an Asteriod, but arn’t separated.
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The biggest similiarity is the beginning when Littlefoot’s egg goes on a journey, the same as Aladar’s egg goes on journey.
And the search for the Promise Land, however Dinosaur makes it clear the herds don’t stay in The Nesting Grounds forever, while The Gang of Five stays forever in The Great Valley.
I love LBT and Disney’s Dinosaur. I owe my love of Carnotaurs to the film. :)
I do not see Dinosaur as a rip off of LBT. So much is different as I have laid out.
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Liked this movie in my childhood! :)
Last time I watched it around four years ago.
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Liked this movie in my childhood! :)
Last time I watched it around four years ago.
What did you think of it? The animation, the characters, and etc.
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Accidental Double Post.
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I watched it before I formed my vision about "2D traditional cartoons are better", so this cartoon and its CGI was kinda something new. New experience. So it amazed me back in days. And because I loved dinosaurs since childhood, I liked this cartoon very much.
I watched it after first Land Before Time, so its plot (and couple characters) had strong resemblence to LBT.
After all these years, I still remember and laugh at scene when Neera calls Aladar "Moron-saur" (In my native language, don't know how it was in English).
And meteor rain scene... O_O Can't describe how I was scared when I watched it for the first time...
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I watched it before I formed my vision about "2D traditional cartoons are better", so this cartoon and its CGI was kinda something new. New experience. So it amazed me back in days. And because I loved dinosaurs since childhood, I liked this cartoon very much.
I watched it after first Land Before Time, so its plot (and couple characters) had strong resemblence to LBT.
After all these years, I still remember and laugh at scene when Neera calls Aladar "Moron-saur" (In my native language, don't know how it was in English).
And meteor rain scene... O_O Can't describe how I was scared when I watched it for the first time...
I am glad you enjoyed. Dinosaur is probbaly my favorite dino film next to LBT and Jurassic Park.
Haha yes Neera says, “Jerkasaurus” in the US version. Moronasaur is funny though. :D
The Meteor scene still gives me chills when ai watch it.
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I watched Dinosaur too. It was great, wish there was more content of it. I was a little kid the first time I saw it. Have seen it a few times since.
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I watched Dinosaur too. It was great, wish there was more content of it. I was a little kid the first time I saw it. Have seen it a few times since.
Its funny you mention more content, there were plans to make sequels and in fact Dinosaur 2 was being made when it got scrapped.
I really hope Disney considers making sequels to compete with Universal’s Jurassic World.
Dinosaur was a huge box office success, it even beat Ridley Scott’s Gladiator that came out at the same time. :)
This took me back, I had this game:
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they both look like they're about to eat that monkey's head
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they both look like they're about to eat that monkey's head
Hahaha indeed, it is odd Pilo (the monkey) is there. It would look better if Aladar and Carnotaur were roaring at each other without anyone else features on the pic.
She literally is the monkey in the middle. :D
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The music was so majestic:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KpftR8oYN6E
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The McDonalds puppets and toys.
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I had all the puppets, my favorites were the Carnotaur and Neera.
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This film is over hated.
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This film is over hated.
Do you know why that is? It puzzles me. I loved it personally.
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I really enjoy it too.
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On my rewatch, the graphics still look stunning. The ripples in the water, the Carnotaur chase at the beginning, and more.
I think its that they used real locations, and took the camera on cranes in place of the CG Dinos to give it authentic movement. The animators then did a supurb job! My mom even remarked that when she looked at scenes from the film that it looked lifelike and real.
I am so glad they did not opt to make this a silent movie like Walking With Dinosaurs, The Ballad of Big Al: The Allosaurus, and etc. the actors and actressses really brought life to the characters.
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On my rewatch, the graphics atill look stunning. The tipples in the water, the Carnotaur chase at the beginning, and more.
I think its that they used real lovatipns, and took the camera on cranes in place of the CG Dinos to give it authentic movement. The animators then did a supurb job! My mom even remarked that when she looked at scenes from the film that it looked lifelike and real.
I am so glad they did not opt to make this a silent movie like Walking With Dinosaurs, The Ballad of Big Al: The Allosaurus, and etc. the actors and actressses really brought life to the characters.
Speaking of the people who did the effects in this film would later go on to do documentary classics like When Dinosaurs Roamed America and Dinosaur Planet which is awesome. I will have to get the film on Blu-Ray to see how the effects hold up in crystal clear HD but from memory the CGI is still really good.
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On my rewatch, the graphics atill look stunning. The tipples in the water, the Carnotaur chase at the beginning, and more.
I think its that they used real locations, and took the camera on cranes in place of the CG Dinos to give it authentic movement. The animators then did a supurb job! My mom even remarked that when she looked at scenes from the film that it looked lifelike and real.
I am so glad they did not opt to make this a silent movie like Walking With Dinosaurs, The Ballad of Big Al: The Allosaurus, and etc. the actors and actressses really brought life to the characters.
Speaking of the people who did the effects in this film would later go on to do documentary classics like When Dinosaurs Roamed America and Dinosaur Planet which is awesome. I will have to get the film on Blu-Ray to see how the effects hold up in crystal clear HD but from memory the CGI is still really good.
I rewatched it via Disney+, so digitally and it was still breathtaking. I now remember why I watched it over and over. As much as I love Jurassic Park, I love Dinosaur more. I think its because it is dinocentri, and not about dinos getting out and eating people.
I haven’t seen Dinosaur Planet, I’ve seen it in the roster of Amazon Prime, now that I know its the same team of animators, I gotta see it!
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My biggest problem with this film is the dialogue can be very cheesy at times. Also not a fan of the pee jokes. :rolleye
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Well the intent was not to use dialogue at all, and let it be a Walking With Dinosaurs type film.
I am glad they added dialouge, I think for the most part if works.
As for pee jokes, those no doubt were for kids.
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I can't believe I haven't mentioned this but James Newton Howard's score is absolutely incredible.
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I can't believe I haven't mentioned this but James Newton Howard's score is absolutely incredible.
Indeed, the raptor chase scene music was actually used in variation in Alien: Covenant.
I use to listen to this score over and over. Its magnificent.
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Fun fact: You know that shot of the Brachiosaurs that's on the DVD cover? That shot was a seamless blend of two locations, Florida and Venezuela. If I hadn't watched the BTS I would have never have guessed that. It's absolutely seamless.
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I did not know that! :)
The real locations really added to the realism. I doubt any animated dino film will ever go to such great pains to make everything seem real from our world to CG.
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Another thing I love is there's no true villian. The Carnotaur's are just acting based on their predator instincts and Kron is trying to help his herd but in a very stubborn way.
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Another thing I love is there's no true villian. The Carnotaur's are just acting based on their predator instincts and Kron is trying to help his herd but in a very stubborn way.
Great point. The two Carnotaurs are just hunting, not some vendetta. Kron is a jerkasaurus, but not evil.
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Just in general the early to middle 2000's was the golden age for dinosaur media.
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It was indeed. I really like the characters, Aladar, Neera, Emma, and the Lemars. Great designs and voice acting.
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Definitely.
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I am saddened Disney abandoned Dinosaur II, it was even in pre-production. Makes no sense because Dinosaur was a huge box office success. And if Disney is to compete with Universal’s dinomania, a la Jurassic World, Disney will need a dinosaur franchise. Why not use one they already have started?
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I didn't know they were planning on a second one.
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Yeah, it was in pre-production and everything. And then for some reason they pulled the plug. I really hope they consider making Dinosaur II. Great thing about voice actors if you can’t tell they’ve aged.
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Ah yes, the movie I own on VHS that was pretty much my first REAL PG film, because most of the PG films nowadays are just kid flicks…
Those letters before the movie starts though…scared me back then…
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Ah yes, the movie I own on VHS that was pretty much my first REAL PG film, because most of the PG films nowadays are just kid flicks…
Those letters before the movie starts though…scared me back then…
It was an intense opening sequence to be sure. I had already been baptized in Jurassic Park, so I was ready for it.
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Ah yes, the movie I own on VHS that was pretty much my first REAL PG film, because most of the PG films nowadays are just kid flicks…
Those letters before the movie starts though…scared me back then…
It was an intense opening sequence to be sure. I had already been baptized in Jurassic Park, so I was ready for it.
That’s not really what I meant but yeah, the opening sequence was scary as well.
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Ah yes, the movie I own on VHS that was pretty much my first REAL PG film, because most of the PG films nowadays are just kid flicks…
Those letters before the movie starts though…scared me back then…
It was an intense opening sequence to be sure. I had already been baptized in Jurassic Park, so I was ready for it.
That’s not really what I meant but yeah, the opening sequence was scary as well.
Do you mean the scene of Aladar in the egg?
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Ah yes, the movie I own on VHS that was pretty much my first REAL PG film, because most of the PG films nowadays are just kid flicks…
Those letters before the movie starts though…scared me back then…
It was an intense opening sequence to be sure. I had already been baptized in Jurassic Park, so I was ready for it.
That’s not really what I meant but yeah, the opening sequence was scary as well.
Do you mean the scene of Aladar in the egg?
Does this explain it? This was always as the beginning of Disney VHS and DVD tapes from 1997-2005, and it scared me when I was little…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RPRqx5D4chA
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Oh the THX sound. Yeah that is intense, especially when you realize it often went before very mature R rated films.
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I need to go back and rewatch this as I don’t exactly recall much of it. I want to say I rented it from the library or blockbuster back in the day. Is it sad? I have to be in certain moods to watch strong emotional movies about animals with powerful emotional music. Lol I’m a sucker for animal movies but I find it hard to watch a lot of them because I get too emotional about them :thudLOL
Also it’s funny, Chomper, that you noted it being your first PG movie as I have this vague memory of feeling “adultish” watching it back then. Something in the movie made me feel like “oh my mom wouldn’t want me to see this” or “wow I’ve never seen/heard that before” feeling. I don’t remember what it was but I remember feeling that way at some point about it.
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I need to go back and rewatch this as I don’t exactly recall much of it. I want to say I rented it from the library or blockbuster back in the day. Is it sad? I have to be in certain moods to watch strong emotional movies about animals with powerful emotional music. Lol I’m a sucker for animal movies but I find it hard to watch a lot of them because I get too emotional about them :thudLOL
Also it’s funny, Chomper, that you noted it being your first PG movie as I have this vague memory of feeling “adultish” watching it back then. Something in the movie made me feel like “oh my mom wouldn’t want me to see this” or “wow I’ve never seen/heard that before” feeling. I don’t remember what it was but I remember feeling that way at some point about it.
Its an emotional film to an extent. The Asteroid on Lemur Island is very intense, as is the loss of loved ones. The score, music, is very emotionally packed.
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I watched on my local suburb cinema back then
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I watched on my local suburb cinema back then
What did you think of it?
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I think Disney's Dinosaur is underrated. It was a big deal when it came out - there were a lot of commercials, toys, merchandice, every kid (at least in my childhood) was obsessed with it - so it's kinda weird seeing how little fans the movie still has. It's a solid good movie but for some reason it didn't gather much of a following. Maybe it was the Avatar of its age? A big box office hit that everyone seemed to love when it came out but suddenly fell into obscurity once the next big movie hit the screens. Who knows...
I think the CGI and music still hold up very strong. For a movie that is two decades old, it looks incredible. It was a very wise move of them to use real locations. I mean, you can't make reality look more realistic now can you? :Mo
It has a lot of memorable scenes, but my favorite is the Meteor hitting Earth. It's such a beautiful yet terrifying scene, and I love it how it's one of those "the audience knows but the characters don't" scenes that just keeps you at the edge of your seat. I've seen the movie hundreds of times and still, without fail, I always gasp when the meteor falls down from the sky. For us it's obvious that the giant flaming rock from outer space is dangerous and we want the main characters to run and find a safe place to hide, but to them it's a fascinating new thing and they don't know how to react until their lifes depend on it. Such good cinema. Mwah 💋👌
I've seen the movie in English once so I can only talk about the dialogue and voice acting in Finnish, and it's... Ehh, I've heard better. All the elderly dinosaurs (including Kron and Bruton) and the lemurs sound good but the main character and his love interest? You can hear that there was an attempt, but their scenes just seem so artificial and plastic-y, if that makes sense.
Also, I can't stand Zini. When I was a kid I kinda liked him, but he's just too obnoxious and annoying nowadays. I think that the movie loses absolutely nothing tonally or thematically if he's removed from the movie altogether. Dinosaur is a movie that doesn't necessarily need a comic relief character, and I feel that Zini adds absolutely nothing to the story except occasional bad jokes lol.
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I think Disney's Dinosaur is underrated. It was a big deal when it came out - there were a lot of commercials, toys, merchandice, every kid (at least in my childhood) was obsessed with it - so it's kinda weird seeing how little fans the movie still has. It's a solid good movie but for some reason it didn't gather much of a following. Maybe it was the Avatar of its age? A big box office hit that everyone seemed to love when it came out but suddenly fell into obscurity once the next big movie hit the screens. Who knows...
I think the CGI and music still hold up very strong. For a movie that is two decades old, it looks incredible. It was a very wise move of them to use real locations. I mean, you can't make reality look more realistic now can you? :Mo
It has a lot of memorable scenes, but my favorite is the Meteor hitting Earth. It's such a beautiful yet terrifying scene, and I love it how it's one of those "the audience knows but the characters don't" scenes that just keeps you at the edge of your seat. I've seen the movie hundreds of times and still, without fail, I always gasp when the meteor falls down from the sky. For us it's obvious that the giant flaming rock from outer space is dangerous and we want the main characters to run and find a safe place to hide, but to them it's a fascinating new thing and they don't know how to react until their lifes depend on it. Such good cinema. Mwah 💋👌
I've seen the movie in English once so I can only talk about the dialogue and voice acting in Finnish, and it's... Ehh, I've heard better. All the elderly dinosaurs (including Kron and Bruton) and the lemurs sound good but the main character and his love interest? You can hear that there was an attempt, but their scenes just seem so artificial and plastic-y, if that makes sense.
Also, I can't stand Zini. When I was a kid I kinda liked him, but he's just too obnoxious and annoying nowadays. I think that the movie loses absolutely nothing tonally or thematically if he's removed from the movie altogether. Dinosaur is a movie that doesn't necessarily need a comic relief character, and I feel that Zini adds absolutely nothing to the story except occasional bad jokes lol.
I agree with you that the Meteor scene is breathtaking. I get tingle sensations down my spine when I see it and the score plays ominous music.
I happen to be one of few of those Dinosaur (2000) fans, I sadly know no one else who loves it as much as I. I loved the characters, the music, the animation, and premise.
I can’t speak for the Finnish translation and actors, I have only watched it with English voices, and Aladar and Nera (his love interest) have great voices in English.
Dinosaur is actually tied with Jurassic Park for my favorite dino film. I may like it a little more than JP because its not about dinos chomping on people.
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You a fan of Disney’s Dinosaur?