animals out of context..

15-03-2008

King Kong was on last night. . . His face and expressions looked good but, to be picky, his hands seemed to small. and when the chicky was sitting in hhis hands they miraculously grew huge enough for her to use them as a bed. . .

15-03-2008

well the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park(s) were made bigger than real for the purposes of movie spectacle (which doesn't forgive the publicity, including by a certain palaeontologist involved in the making, claiming these sizes as factual). However one could also say that seeing the scientists in the movies were playing around with their DNA they could have changed their sizes and attributes on purpose.

Anyway, how about the American brown pelicans in Finding Nemo? They made all the fish Australian but couldn't get the right species of pelican? What's with that?

15-03-2008

Yeah, I figured out that the "velociraptors" were in fact Utahraptors and that dilopohosaurus didn't actually spit poison, when I was 8 years old!

(Still one of my favourite ever movies though )

Now, Jurassic Park 3 is really bad for errors. Look at Spinosaurus (a predominately fish-eating dinosaur) biting into the T-Rex with the force which would've broken its teeth. Also the Pterosaurs swooping like eagles and grabbing people with their claws. I hope JP4 is more factual...

16-03-2008

interesting you say that chlidonias - i noticed the pelican as looking like an american species too (i would have said a white pelican) when i first saw the shorts and promo stuff for this film. after seeing the film i concluded that it was an australian pelican, however, the character was given pink flesh around the eyes (like a white pelican) rather than the regular yellow of our australian species. it always bugged me too, but from memory, the feather patterning etc, is true to an australian pelican (from memory)...

the seagull designs in nemo were a blatent rip-off of the penguin in wallace and gromit however, and were out of style with the other characters in the film.

16-03-2008

ha ha, jack horner was just all full of himself because alan grant was based on him!! but yeah, he would have to be the worst "advisor" ever!!

jurassic park is one of the best films ever, i agree, but it has sooooooo many mistakes in it. there is almost one every minute. my favorite would have to be that steg-O-saurus is spelt incorrectly as steg-A-saurus on the label in the embryo freezer!

the book has some errors too, michael crichton reguarly changes his mind about the species kept at the park (interestingly all of them are also the most famous dinosaurs of all! it just so happened that the scientists hit jackpot and got all the famous ones!). the book lists species all the species kept at the park but during the story grant often comes across species not listed there.

16-03-2008

PAT lol remember the dinosoars were all genetically altered, its just a massive zoo- money comes first and maybe some white t-rex's will be a good attraction

actually the third one made note that the raptors had the facny feathers, the flying ones had teeth etc. INGEN just wanted to make money after they gave hammond the flick cause he was to much trouble lol.

ok thts enough i was obssesed with jp for years, and have them all on dvd and watched about 20 hrs of deleted and making of footage!

I CARNT WAIT TILL JP4 comes out- should be soon scrpit is being written now. they ahd 1, but they tore it up and started again

16-03-2008

LIFE FINDS A WAY lol

16-03-2008

JP 3 was a travesty. i don't think i'll be interested in another unless crichton co-writes the screenplay and speilberg directs.

16-03-2008

nope he's definitely a brown pelican. Check out images of him on Google and compare to brown pelican. The giveaways include his brown plumage....

16-03-2008

Finding Nemo Movie Blooper this person agrees with you

17-03-2008

hmmmm.... colours don't concern me so much in animation as does the patterning. but your right, nigel the pelican has neither. though i wouldn't necessarily call him a brown pelican (or any other existing species) he certainly isn't designed with any attempt to appear as if he is an australian pelican. the most prominant issue is that like the brown or dalmatian pelican, he has a darker coloured chest (in this case chocolate brown), but his wings are somewhat similar in pattern (with a line of white feathers) to an australian pelican and his overall colours seem to represent no species at all. he is no australian pelican, i'll give you that, but he is no other extant species of pelican either!!!!

brown pelican
http://donb.furfly.net/photo_cd/d/b21.jpg

nigel the pelican
http://www.filmfreak.be/fvdm/11-2003.../nigel1155.jpg

17-03-2008

maybe hes a mics. pelican so that people all over the world can recongise it?

18-03-2008

I think when people see the beak they will know what type of bird it is.