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Saturday, October 13, 2018

The Good Dinosaur (2015)

Do not be fooled by the Pixar label.  This dinosaur movie is not very good.  It would probably work for a child, in that nothing much happens that is scary (although Arlo's father does get carried away by flash flooding, and does not make it out alive very early on in the movie), and there is a good message about friendship and doing what is right.
It is completely without merit from a scientific point of view.  Humans and dinosaurs did not walk the earth together.  There is no evidence that the plant eating dinosaurs farmed, and they certainly did not grow corn, which wasn't developed into its modern day version until very recently in the history of the earth.  The meat eating dinosaurs did not companionably walk with their prey, most likely.  So what is accurate?  The nomadic and primitive existence of man at that point in time is true (although it didn't happen in the United States that we know of).  The landscape of Wyoming is beautifully rendered and animated in a really spectacular manner.

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