The staple of any good nature or dinosaur story is the good ol' predator/prey thing, and there is no shortage of that.
You watch him eat, crap (which leads into a piece on prehistoric dung beetles.), fight for dominance, and mate (Got to admit, I'd never seen a dino shag before!). You watch him grow into adolescence, and the predators that follow him into the woods, along with the quarry they find. So you watch him hatch from his egg, with a spot on the egg thieves. Then they follow every aspect of that animal's life, along with every animal it would encounter or pass by. They pick one central animal, say a diplodocus. Or perhaps the camera is that of a person in the woods observing, with a very subtle touch of Blair Witch for realism.Įverything you would see in a National Geographic-style documentary is covered. Your camera view often becomes the eye-view of the dino in question, with your brothers in front of you, your sisters behind you, and your enemy leering in the bushes at you.
Tricks are used to make you feel like part of the action. But there are no paleontologists, no on-screen narrators, no museum skeletons just a living world followed by an on site camera. Using CGI and anamitronics to bring the reptiles to life, they created a series that looks exactly like a well-shot Wild Kingdom/National Geographic-style documentary where you follow the animals for the entire picture to witness all the aspects of their existence. The Movie The maker of the greatest documentaries on the planet, the good ol' BBC, has put together a fascinating series on dinosaur life.
You know it has got to be something special if Fox studios decides to present it in a 2-disc Fight Club-style special edition. I truly doubt this fascinating documentary series will change the fate of the myriad of plastic dinos out there, but it gives some great ideas for post-carnage activities. I'm willing to bet real coin that the most dog eared page in your dinosaur picturebook is the one where the Allosaur is tearing up the brachiosaur, or perhaps the classic T-Rex/Triceratops face off. When you were young and had those ubiquitous plastic dinosaurs, how long were they in your hands before T-Rex had Bronto's head in his mouth? Ten seconds? If that?ĭid you ever take the time to make them wander in packs, gather food, build a nest, mate, socialize, etc? Fat chance.
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