Comments on: Megalodon’t, or: what most “SyFy” movies are like

By: Dinosaur Puppets | Dinosaur Toystore

Dinosaur Puppets | Dinosaur Toystore — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:51:19 +0000

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By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:58:05 +0000

I meant more like full-size puppets, like in The Land that Time Forgot. That G puppet is about the only thing that doesn’t utterly enthrall me about that movie.

I love the idea of Aardman doing the animation though. “Let’s get us a bit of cheese, Wheeljack!” And then they go to the moon, where they fight a penguin with a rubber glove on his head.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:43:48 +0000

They should be using CGI to replace all modern dinosaur footage with perfectly-rendered digital iguanas.

By: MatthewF

MatthewF — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:14:25 +0000

I can see that, like the glove puppet shots in the original Godzilla. Let’s face it, Michael Bay should just have bought some old transformer toys off ebay and then paid Aardman Animtation to move them about. That I would have enjoyed. He could have spent the spare $100 million on scriptwriters.

By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:00:37 +0000

I’d rather they use stop-motion or puppets. I don’t want a return to the days of nose-wrestling.

By: MatthewF

MatthewF — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:31:25 +0000

My point with Snakes, was that it was a better title than it was a movie. And to everyone else, yeah I would have seen it too.

Recently there’s been a trend to replace the effects in old TV shows with CGI, I want to go the other way and retrofit all the latest blockbusters with models and stop-motion. Also, all dinosaurs will now be plaved by monitor lizards.

By: lyzard

lyzard — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:39:18 +0000

Ahem. I object to the mention of Snakes On A Plane in this context. After all, it promised snakes on a plane and it delivered snakes on a plane, so I don’t see that the cases are comparable.

By: KeithA

KeithA — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:47:52 +0000

“I can guarantee you that there is no way that if they had made it, it would be remotely as good as the movie in my head. Let’s face it, it would have Doug Maclure in it and some plastic dinosaurs handing from all-too-visible wires while banging sadly against a three foot model zepplin.”

I’m not sure I’m seeing a criticism here. Although my cast would have been Doug McClure and Jurgen Prochnow.

By: The Mud Puppy

The Mud Puppy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:14:20 +0000

I'm sorry, but I still would see Zeppelins vs. Pterodactyls if it were an Amicus Production. By god, I loved their pathetic little plastic dinosaur puppets. Of course, Hammer had a lot of unmade projects that would have been quite awesome. One of them was Nessie, and was to be a collaboration with Toho!

By: MatthewF

MatthewF — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:17:51 +0000

I think you are widly optimistic sir