Re: JPIII: unmitigated rubbish

["Jbaker1" <jbaker1@citlink.net>]

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From: <Dinogeorge@aol.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: JPIII: unmitigated rubbish


>
> Here's the problem: The general audience, as you state, doesn't care
whether
> the Spinosaurus has lacrimal horns or not. So >why not< do it the >right<
way
> (if we know the right way)? Why go out of one's way to do it >wrong<, if
the
> audience doesn't care one way or the other? Just so that nitpickers will
have
> something to talk about after the picture? It takes no more effort to do
it
> right than to do it wrong.
>
> (Incidentally, Spinosaurus >probably< didn't have larcimal horns, because
its
> relatives with known skulls didn't, but we don't have an actual
Spinosaurus
> skull to support this.)



Good point, but I'm quite sure the main reason they dont always do it the
"Right" way is because the Film makers like to 'tweak' things to make them
look they way they want them to look.

'Make the arms longer',  'make the teeth bigger' and so on. Although I don't
think thats really necessary, I dont see why it has to detract from the
movie going experience. I just think it is, as I said, silly to nit-pick it
to death.

But I dont want to stop anyone from the fun of nit-picking ;)


-JB