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Nayman
posted 10-23-2000 04:55 PM              
I love dinosaurs. The rock my world. not that way.eww.

Anyhoo, anyone have any ideas for an origonal dino based script?

SeerSavant
posted 10-23-2000 06:37 PM              
Aside from the cloning or lost isle favored lately, I would suggest seeking dino's in the deep, last one I heard of is in one of the large lakes up north, or maybe Hudson Bay, similar to the loch ness. Think about it, a huge dinosaur, living in a maze of deep underwater caves, perhaps caves that have pockets of air, lichens and moss to provide oxygen?

Anyway, what I wanna know is how come I haven't heard of anyone except my lonely self talkin about Neanderthal lately? My theory is that he is close to extinction but not yet. (A discovery magazine article actually found human/modern human bones that predate the neanderthal and cromags. Hmmm, perhaps we didn't evolve from one to the next, but existed alongside eachother, yet another nail in evolution's coffin.)

My personal pet theory is that Neanderthal still exists and has even been spotted. It's just that we call him; Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Abominable Snoman, or Yeti.


Hmmmmmmm.

Nayman
posted 10-23-2000 07:37 PM              
I LIKE, actually it turns out we evolved form homo habilis i beleive. We all have one common ansecestor, mitochondrail eve. The wonam to whom we are all relatyed. look it up, it is cool

capt. video
posted 10-24-2000 03:28 AM              
actually Cromagnan or modern humans neanderthals and homo erectus all existed simaltaniuosly about 200,000 years ago there is no genetic evidence that there was any interbreeding. neaderthals probably died out because they were heavily adapted to ice age conditions and were not able to compete with cromagnans for resourses homo erectus probably died out because he was intulectually inferior to modern man. as for them being bigfoot, wrong body type bigfoot is extremely tall and lanky neaderthals were short and very stocky and much smarter than bigfoot seems to be if it exists neaderthal used worked stone tools and had clothing. all primates have a common ancestor.

SeerSavant
posted 10-24-2000 09:37 AM              
yes!
I'm not the only one who has noticed any of the changes in the accepted thinking along the typical darwin type evolution theory (Which to my dismay is still being taught, errors and debunked theory all, in my daughters school.)
Midocondrial eve (Scuse the spellin) makes the book of Genesis appear to be more than religious document and historical in many ways (But more on that another time.)

As far as bigfoot, other than the footprints cast and that one shaky video, our perception of bigfoot is kinda vague (Or at best influenced by movies).
what I'm saying is that there is enough gray area to link Neandertal (or ..thal, whatever) to bigfoot yeti, etc. At the least this makes for very interesting movie fodder, eh?

I had tinkered with a script idea years ago (Now with Blair Witch/Freaky Links, it would seem derivative, oh well...) of a group of wannabe scientists/college kids who flock to another sighting of bigfoot to track it and with trusty camcorders in hand, prove to the world, well, you know.
I wanted to show a hybrid view, half of what we had learned about bigfoot and all that we know about neandertal and cromag into a loose tribe of humanoid creatures, innocent and savage, living at the edge of society, perhaps even throw in some native american folklore to boot.

Trouble is, finding a fairly budget friendly way to do this. If you can figure out a way to make it feasable, let me know, and I'll help you any way I can.

As far as my original idea, I have changed it into a novella, in which pirates circa 1660 come across a floating isle of volcanic rock floating like a tentative bubble in the atlantic (Probably slid into the ocean from a volcanic event and floated away) This floating isle is my take on the land of the lost A Conan Doyle type story. I'm still tinkering with the scientific end, trying to bend science enough to make it plausable, but right now, it has the feel of something like "lost Continent" from hammer studios.

Anyway, Maybe this gives you a new direction to think of, and perhaps a bit more budget friendly than dinosaurs, although, I think access to a large lake could give the loch ness type direction some decent treatment.

Let me know what happens.

The Replacement Killer
posted 10-25-2000 03:52 AM              
Mitochondrial Eve? Does that have anything to do with the mitochondria organelles that produces life energy? Or is it just a name for something else?

cdolsen
posted 10-25-2000 03:42 PM              
Getting back to the origional topic - how about a hidden area that has intellegent miniature dinosaurs that have survived because of their small size and 'smarts'?

Flemchuck
posted 10-25-2000 05:30 PM              
that is a terrible idea, cdolsen, with the words "small dinosaurs: from the makers of that crap fest 'small soldiers'"

sorry if that was too harsh; it didn't sound like you had much conviction in your words.

back on the dinosaurs, like i said in behind the scenes area, there should be a movie with the underwater dinosaurs. like some divers and boats and stuff get messed up from them. It'd be almost impossible to film on a low budget, but hey. water and dinosaurs.

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Crazy Clayer
posted 12-28-2000 10:22 PM              
MOKELE M'BEMBE!!!!! Emela N'touku, Kongamato, Kasai Rex........All African animals that havent been proven to exist, but the Natives say they do. And they all fit Dinosaur descriptions. Search the web for Info (a good site is www.cryptozoology.com) Mokele M' Bebmbe is a small apotosaur(long neck) 30 ft long.... Emela N'touku (spell?) fits the centrosaurus description, Kongamato fits pteronodons description, and Kasia Rex fits T rex or allosaurus along those lines description ...

I dont beleive in evolution so this is plausible to me, Maybe not to you but when im 28 im going to search for them.........seeya

Peter Murphy

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zombie84
posted 12-28-2000 10:39 PM              
on the topic of bigfoot, there is a low budget indy horror movie that is being made now called The Unknown about a group of campers who venture into the west in search of bigfoot. its no Harry and the Hendersons bigfoot either, this guy'll tear your arms outta your sockets and rip you in half. it looks to be pretty good. check out the site: http://www.hudsonpro.com/

[This message has been edited by zombie84 (edited 12-28-2000).]

E. Flask
posted 12-30-2000 01:32 AM              
One twist on the dinosaur concept that I have not seen in a while is that of an organism that is thawed out of a block of ice and grows to monstrous size. It was the premise for a wretched movie called (I think) Reptilicus, back in the 50's or 60's.

You could also try making the dinosaurs crawl out of an old mine shaft or volcanic chute-- perhaps an "old faithful"-type steam geyser that suddenly stopped steaming.

An advantage of these kinds of ideas is that you can inject dinosaurs into whatever environment you want. This could save money and time over having to create/find a "lost world" type of place.

thegreatone
posted 12-30-2000 10:03 PM              
Whatever plot you do, if you have a T-Rex, do not make it stand up like in JP...... it's head would have fallen off!

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Nayman
posted 12-30-2000 10:08 PM              
great one?!

WHAT THE HELL!?

no way man, a t rex was a total bipedal machine.

Take a look at fossil records. The rex's neck was strong enough to pick up a car! much less its measly 300 pound head. mind you 300 pounds of 7 tonnes

dont you think a 7 ton animal could hold up a 300 pound head? especially one with a brain the size of a novel. (*exageration)

Not too sound mean. Sorry greatone.

jsut, i bhelive dinos were that way, not slow sluggish reptiles

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