Mesozoic Mind

David Armsby is a Scottish animator. He's done a lot of science fiction wio, but he has quite the affinity for dinosaurs, as evidenced by the triad of animated shorts he has made over the 2010's and into the 2020's.  Small Beginnings (2013) Small Beginings is about a newly-hatched baby T. rex who goes out with her mother only for another one to kill her, leaving him an orphan. Years later when he is an adult, she returns to the cliff where it happened, and goes back to her own nest to continue . As far quality goes, its fine on its own, although it does have a hefty dose of Early Instalment Weirdness to it: the short is made in full CG, one more cartoonish then realistic. The designs have the usual array of JP or Paulian: lipless jaws and tooth slippage and feel a bit too slender. In other words, there's not much in the way of heavy realistic research going on for the creatures within it, instead opting for something on the lighter side of the awesomebro styles. The to...

So it happened. After twenty-nine years, the Jurassic Park film franchise has come to an end. Jurassic World: Dominion 's trailers were quite promising, showcasing perhaps the largest-scale Jurassic Park film. And of course, the first true feathered dinosaur in film canon. So what do I think of it (without revealing spoilers too much)? It... Was.... Not very good. Like I forgot most of it a day later levels of bad. It takes the flaws of the last two, retains them. What was I expecting? The reviews are under 40% on Rotten Tomatoes. The whole film feels episodic and disjointed. Plot points are forgotten as soon as the scenes end and have no further elaboration. The plot of dinosaurs on mainland US and illegal dinosaur trade in particular is all but forgotten in the second half, which takes place entirely in one place in Italy. The same goes for the dinosaurs, both new and returning: many only appear for a single scene outside of montages, many not even named. Considering how dumb no...

It is done. I have finished Prehistoric Planet . While I had some difficulties setting it up and thus had the hype deflated a bit for me, I loved it through and through, and its certainly one of the best documentaries I've seen in a while. SPOILERS AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. 5. Freshwater By no means is Freshwater a bad episode. As I have wrote before , it's merely the least good of the series: not many of the sequences take place within lakes, wetlands, and rivers, so we don't get any fun swimming scenes and none of the cool fish or crocodilians of the time (ignoring they're practically mundane conpared to other mesozoic ones). A T. rex scene is completely superfluous, only having one wade in river as a connection, and for got knows what reason they stuck Quetzalcoatlus  in Madagascar of all places (even if it was just for breeding). It doesn't help it barely has its own identity in technical side: the colour palates of each segments, or even segments themselves,...