Dinotopia (2002)

[LittleDas75]

It's been 20 years since Hallmarks adaptation of James Gurney's books aired on TV. What are your thoughts of the mini series?

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Fun story about Dinotopia: My family rented the Dinotopia movie from Blockbuster back in the 90s, and settled down to watch it. The plot/acting/everything was great, but it kept going and going and going...at some point, it was almost midnight and we paused to see how much is left. We discover that it wasn't a movie, it was a mini-series and it had been edited together into one long unbroken episode that was over four hours! We never actually watched the end because we were all too fatigued from our first night of it, haha

[Daddytops2021]

I was just buying the DVD in a second hand store.

[LittleDas75]

Fun story about Dinotopia: My family rented the Dinotopia movie from Blockbuster back in the 90s, and settled down to watch it. The plot/acting/everything was great, but it kept going and going and going...at some point, it was almost midnight and we paused to see how much is left. We discover that it wasn't a movie, it was a mini-series and it had been edited together into one long unbroken episode that was over four hours! We never actually watched the end because we were all too fatigued from our first night of it, haha

Ooof. Thankfully the DVD split's it into 2 parts so episode 1 and 2 are the only ones combined while episode 3 is on Disc 2.

[LittleDas75]

Personally I really like this series. I haven't read James Gurney's books so there is probably massive retcons I am missing but on it's own it's a good mini series. Certainly a lot better than that god awful animated film Hallmark made 3 years later.

[ManOfWar GT]

Does anyone remember quest for Ruby stones?

[LittleDas75]

I just found out Hallmark Entertainment is now called Sonar Entertainment so that's what I'm going to be calling them from this point on. Or Hayclon Studios I guess.