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Post by fooman666 on Feb 20, 2011 3:45:11 GMT
so what dino doco's other then WWD do you guys like to watch?
my fave is probably When Dinosaurs Roamed America or possibly The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs or maybe Clash of the Dinosaurs
let me know what you think
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Post by Horridus on Feb 20, 2011 3:47:42 GMT
Always liked WWD more than When Dinosaurs Roamed America - the animals in the latter always seemed that bit less convincing to me. They just bounce around more, and make more noise...
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Post by fooman666 on Feb 20, 2011 4:37:47 GMT
Always liked WWD more than When Dinosaurs Roamed America - the animals in the latter always seemed that bit less convincing to me. They just bounce around more, and make more noise... fair point, i just like it because it was the second dinosaur thing i ever saw on tv, other then WWD. |
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Post by Himmapaan on Feb 20, 2011 11:57:06 GMT
The WWD ones remain my favourites, though admittedly I haven't seen many others. Of the entire series, The Ballad of Big Al may possibly be the one I like best -- along with the Time of the Titans episode from the original series (as if that wasn't a painfully obvious thing to mention  ;D). I've seen a few clips of something which I think was called Jurassic Fight Club, which (forgive me  ) was an utterly loathesome travesty in every respect. It takes a great deal for me to make so severe a pronouncement, so that really is saying something. |
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Post by darwinian on Feb 20, 2011 14:17:30 GMT
Not a dino doc, but I really like Chased by Sea Monsters, simply because there is so much aquatic fauna showcased that we'd otherwise never see on a big or small screen.
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Post by stemturtle on Feb 20, 2011 15:21:52 GMT
If you like the Triassic reptiles, there is some great footage about the Ghost Ranch, NM fauna in the IMAX film from 2007, "Dinosaurs Alive."
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Post by zopteryx on Feb 20, 2011 21:18:39 GMT
WWD and the other "walking with's" are ceratinly my favorites, but Chased by Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters are close seconds. Prehistoric Park was nice, but a little too corny to be my favorite. Why isn't there a doc where scientists travels back in time with a film crew and they are generally scared/cautious of the environment around them; as I suspect they would be in life? On another note, I just saw a NatGeo doc on Terror Birds that I really liked.
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Post by foxilized on Feb 20, 2011 21:24:00 GMT
Wow, "Clash of the Dinosaurs", for real? :s I must confess that is actually one of my very least favorite ever, not because of the digital work wich was truly superb but the documentary itself was so unwatchable... If it had been a 15 minutes doc with digital dinos only, it would have been a true masterpiece. Shame how they screwed it all so badly.  My favorite ever was the documentary starred by Christopher Reeve with stop motion of Phil Tippet. It's on youtube. That was really really sweet.  I have some good memories on WWD, probably more about "Big Al" than any other. I remember the Ornithocheirus tale too as one I specially liked. It was very dramatic. Some other episodes I didn't enjoy them so much, though. The "Truth about killer dinosaurs" was very enjoyable. There was some other docs from the 90's with some cartoons drawn in Bakker's style. I liked the cartoons, but I can't remember that much about the rest of the documentary, so I don't think the content was that good. But the cartoons were cool, the dinos moved and showed some attitudes never seen before in animation -as said, Bakker's theories and drawing style based-. |
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Post by Horridus on Feb 20, 2011 21:26:55 GMT
What's the name of the stop motion docu?
Edit: never mind - found it and giving it a watch.
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Post by Himmapaan on Feb 20, 2011 21:53:52 GMT
My favorite ever was the documentary starred by Christopher Reeve with stop motion of Phil Tippet. It's on youtube. That was really really sweet. I remember you mentioned this and posted a short clip. I like it too. 'Sweet' is a very good description of it. |
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Post by foxilized on Feb 20, 2011 22:52:41 GMT
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Post by Seijun on Feb 20, 2011 23:44:22 GMT
Does 'Land Before Time' count as a documentary?
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Post by Himmapaan on Feb 20, 2011 23:55:06 GMT
Does 'Land Before Time' count as a documentary? ;D |
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Post by Libraraptor on Feb 22, 2011 20:22:58 GMT
Back in the 90s there was this fantastic British documentary in four parts. Puh old - fashioned models, by today´s standards, but I loved them!
Don´t remember the exact name anymore, but there was a book, too, by David Norman with a Deinonychus at the cover.
That documentary, however, revived and confirmed my childhood dinosaur passion.
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Feb 22, 2011 22:54:12 GMT
Back in the 90s there was this fantastic British documentary in four parts. Puh old - fashioned models, by today´s standards, but I loved them! Don´t remember the exact name anymore, but there was a book, too, by David Norman with a Deinonychus at the cover. That documentary, however, revived and confirmed my childhood dinosaur passion. DINOSAUR! with Walter Cronkite Outdated now, but a great series nonetheless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDOFfDHGpWs |
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Post by Gorgonopsid on Mar 2, 2011 1:54:23 GMT
The walking with series. |
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Post by jurassicjr on Mar 2, 2011 3:59:15 GMT
They're all great, but my personal all-time favorite is the Dinosaur program that was hosted by Christopher Reeve in the mid-'80s.
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Mar 2, 2011 7:21:20 GMT
They're all great, but my personal all-time favorite is the Dinosaur program that was hosted by Christopher Reeve in the mid-'80s. I think that is the one that sticks in my mind more than anything. The Dinosaur scenes were so memorable : www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcTEJn8HZR4 |
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Post by brontozaurus on Mar 2, 2011 9:26:05 GMT
The documentary those were taken from (simply called Dinosaurs!) was one I watched religiously as a child. All the tapes of it were in the local video shop, and I borrowed them time and time again. The other big documentary of my childhood was a stop-motion one called Once upon Australia. I had an incomplete tape of it, which handily clipped out most of the dinosaur section. It does not appear to be on the internet aside from some clips the animator uploaded. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vLhjkZaZpwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=33KElmMfKtc&feature=related |
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Post by gwangi on Mar 2, 2011 16:10:48 GMT
My favorites are the older ones as well, the Christopher Reeves documentary is one of the first I recall seeing and the animated "Dinosaurs!" is among my favorites as well. I also enjoyed the "Paleoworld" series that used to be on TLC. For more recent documentaries Walking with Dinosaurs is also good, especially "Big Al" and I also enjoyed "When Dinosaurs Roamed America" and "Dinosaur Planet". "Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia" narrated by Donald Sutherland is a good one as well and yo should be able to find it on Hulu.
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;D).
) was an utterly loathesome travesty in every respect. It takes a great deal for me to make so severe a pronouncement, so that really is saying something. 
