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Pirate Monkeys Inc. Update!
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hollytoadstool's Mary Sue song. See? I actually got off my butt and did something today.
Before I did that, though, I finished watching Dinotopia. Here are my comments on it, in convenient bullet point format, for the attention-span-challenged.
- I think Cyrus isn't really dead. If their dumb-ass dad could survive (see, I was right about that) then surely so could Cyrus. Right? I'll bet he'll come back, all pissed off, looking for his wooden leg. I really didn't think Cyrus would turn out to be the villain like that. Is there any cool British actor who hasn't played a villain? Go on. Try to name one. I'll bet you can't.
- For a society as hippiefied as Dinotopia, you'd think they'd come up with a more renewable source of power. I mean, OK, the sunstones already in use had lasted for 65 million years, but idhbgy bnn (there's kitty!Snape's contribution). As I was saying: if the sunstones all suddenly started crapping out on them like that, who's to say the rest will last 65 million years? So, unless these schmucks are counting on another asteroid impact, I'd say they ought to start looking into solar power.
- I was a little surprised to see Cyrus sauntering around (well, as well as one can saunter when one is missing a major limb) Waterfall City after, apparently, trying to murder Zippo the dinosaur. He clubs him over the head, sticks him in a big sack and drops him into the canal. And nobody bothered to report this to the authorities?
- I was also surprised that there was no mention of where Cyrus came from. When it got to the part with his hideout where the submarine was, and there was what appeared to be a piece of an airplane with a crab on it, and then Cyrus started talking about his father, I was sure that his father was the guy who arrived from the outside world in the 40s (and I therefore would've been almost right). That made more sense, given Cyrus' age. But no. It was never brought up. And it wasn't in one of the two pointless deleted scenes on the DVD either. I'll bet it's like in RH:PoT - David was just overshadowing those two kids who were supposed to be the heroes so they cut out the part with his character's back story.
- I'm fairly sure that baby dinosaur wasn't from the Hadrosaur family. Those things are duck-billed dinosaurs that walk on two legs. That thing looked more like a Pachyrhinosaurus.
- While I'm at it with scientific nit picking, here's some complaining about movie physics:
1. I'm pretty sure those pterodactyls or whatever couldn't fly the way they did in the movie. Of course, no one will really know exactly what they could do, since they're fossils and all, but analysis of their morphology compared with modern birds indicates that they were mainly gliders. I'm not sure they could fly rapidly upwards by flapping, the way they did in the end (where, I have to admit, the effects were pretty cool), any more than a hang-glider could. They aren't built like bats.
2. The asteroid would've been vaporized upon impact; even if there were magic sunstones inside, they wouldn't be around any more.
3. Wasn't that secret cave supposed to be way below the level of the island? In which case, how could that basin of water be a passage from the underwater chamber to the other chamber HUNDREDS OF FEET ABOVE IT in the temple?
OK, my mum's here to take my up to the snow. Byeeee!
hollytoadstool's Mary Sue song. See? I actually got off my butt and did something today.Before I did that, though, I finished watching Dinotopia. Here are my comments on it, in convenient bullet point format, for the attention-span-challenged.
- I think Cyrus isn't really dead. If their dumb-ass dad could survive (see, I was right about that) then surely so could Cyrus. Right? I'll bet he'll come back, all pissed off, looking for his wooden leg. I really didn't think Cyrus would turn out to be the villain like that. Is there any cool British actor who hasn't played a villain? Go on. Try to name one. I'll bet you can't.
- For a society as hippiefied as Dinotopia, you'd think they'd come up with a more renewable source of power. I mean, OK, the sunstones already in use had lasted for 65 million years, but idhbgy bnn (there's kitty!Snape's contribution). As I was saying: if the sunstones all suddenly started crapping out on them like that, who's to say the rest will last 65 million years? So, unless these schmucks are counting on another asteroid impact, I'd say they ought to start looking into solar power.
- I was a little surprised to see Cyrus sauntering around (well, as well as one can saunter when one is missing a major limb) Waterfall City after, apparently, trying to murder Zippo the dinosaur. He clubs him over the head, sticks him in a big sack and drops him into the canal. And nobody bothered to report this to the authorities?
- I was also surprised that there was no mention of where Cyrus came from. When it got to the part with his hideout where the submarine was, and there was what appeared to be a piece of an airplane with a crab on it, and then Cyrus started talking about his father, I was sure that his father was the guy who arrived from the outside world in the 40s (and I therefore would've been almost right). That made more sense, given Cyrus' age. But no. It was never brought up. And it wasn't in one of the two pointless deleted scenes on the DVD either. I'll bet it's like in RH:PoT - David was just overshadowing those two kids who were supposed to be the heroes so they cut out the part with his character's back story.
- I'm fairly sure that baby dinosaur wasn't from the Hadrosaur family. Those things are duck-billed dinosaurs that walk on two legs. That thing looked more like a Pachyrhinosaurus.
- While I'm at it with scientific nit picking, here's some complaining about movie physics:
1. I'm pretty sure those pterodactyls or whatever couldn't fly the way they did in the movie. Of course, no one will really know exactly what they could do, since they're fossils and all, but analysis of their morphology compared with modern birds indicates that they were mainly gliders. I'm not sure they could fly rapidly upwards by flapping, the way they did in the end (where, I have to admit, the effects were pretty cool), any more than a hang-glider could. They aren't built like bats.
2. The asteroid would've been vaporized upon impact; even if there were magic sunstones inside, they wouldn't be around any more.
3. Wasn't that secret cave supposed to be way below the level of the island? In which case, how could that basin of water be a passage from the underwater chamber to the other chamber HUNDREDS OF FEET ABOVE IT in the temple?
OK, my mum's here to take my up to the snow. Byeeee!