SIXTY-SIX MINUS ONE - Rick Raptor Reviews 

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I hope your still not fantasizing about ammonite waifus again, Rick

That was very interesting using the 4 Horsemen as a teaser for this film!

The production of this movie is insane

For context after the films directors Scott Beck and Bryan woods finished writing a quiet place they were brainstorming some film ideas for months and one they had was a concept about aliens landing on earth at the end of the cretaceous. And so they begin writing the script and pitched it to Sony pictures who accepted and work began in late 2019 and the film was announced in February 2020. The casting was announced a month later with Adam driver being the star and the pandemic complicated some things but were able to follow guidelines and the reason why filming was done mostly in Louisiana and a few other states because of lockdown and the visual effects were done by framestore the visual effects company that did the cgi for the original walking with dinosaurs. Everything went smoothly and a test screening was held and was a disaster. The audience was not very impressed with the movie because of this Sony pictures demanded that the entire movie to be rewriting and every scene to be reshot and the cgi also to be replaced with the designs seen in the movie on a short term the test screening was on March of 2021 and trailer was released on October 2022 that means that the entire movie was rewriting,reshot and the cg work completely replaced on a small time and the budget went from 91 million to 47 million dollars and because of the nightmarish production Sony barely marked it and purposefully had the trailers misleading the viewers into thinking its a time travel movie so that when the movie is released people who have went to see it theaters they would have been duped. And it did not help that scream 6 was released the same day

Pretty much the best sum up

I think instead it should’ve been people from a dying earth in the future traveling back in time to the age of the dinosaurs to set up some kind of temporary colony

@@gavinsiville9969 that could have worked somewhat

After i watched 65 for first i noticed this, if main protagonists are supossed to be aliens and tyrannosaurus, oviraptor and other looks like this, how must look like humans and other modern animals....

​@@gavinsiville9969Kinda like the show, Terra Nova?

And their dinosaurs look much worse

The dinosaurs look more alien than the actual aliens.

Especially since in the end credits they show a burning dino carcass in the background. God, this isn't the 1950s, when dinosaurs were treated as hopeless creatures that deserved extinction

I feel like JP resonated with audiences because it was nuanced in its storytelling. They didn't tell you how or what to think, just the facts and different points of view. There was Hammond's side of the story and then there was Malcolm's. The paleontologists were stuck in the center. Of course, by the end of the film, it's obvious that Hammond was in the wrong, but he's written sympathetically because dinosaurs are fucking awesome and we all would love to see them alive in our lifetimes. With these recent, shittier movies, they definitely feel dumbed down for a "modern audience" and don't seem to respect our intelligence. I think that is mainly what is missing here and leads into your issue with the film, which is also shared with mine.

The thought of dinosaurs being bloodthirsty and savage brutes that murder and conquer has been outdated for 90 Years. They are animals, not Saiyans.

Well not all the JP movies. JP3 is guilty of that as well

​​​@@tofuteh2348Not really considering the obvious logic that the raptors were distressed over their eggs being stolen, the Spinosaurus was likely shot and then grazed by the plane of the main characters, and the pterosaurs were likely somewhat starved and then became defensive when the humans threatened their chicks and new food source. Compared to 65 JP3 is not all that unnattural in terms of agression. Especially since logically natural dinos would be weary of humans as an entirely alien creature, wheras the park's might not have any fear of humans because of interaction and familiarity. Yet somehow 65s dinosaurs are demonic.

Adam Driver is such a good actor, he needs to fire his damn agent

I see his talent but I've never seen him in a major role in a good movie. I need to look harder. @@purpledragon1945

Look up footprints of thunder By james f david That would be a bad a** dinosaur movie.

What?

They did WHAT? Out of all the people on the planet these guys don't have the right to judge ANY dinosaur design when they are responsible for literally animated AI generated designs

Watch the video Rick mentions it

"Primordial Planet" makes JWD's prologue look like Prehistoric Planet. The shitty narration also shows the sheer lack of research that went into this film. "Pteranodons have adapted the ability to fly." Yeah, so did every other pterosaur that we know of.

@@Bagelgeuse imagine doing negative research into paleontology only to then make fun of the project that actually put effort into making unique, memorable, and accurate dinosaurs

When somehow, the Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom baryonyx looks more "accurate" than 65 "dinosaurs"...

@@ExtremeMadnessX and even cursed mutant animal from Jurassic World like indominus still looks like real dinosaur than supposedly dinosaurs in this movie

​@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 Just think how ridiculous it would be if they used used the ultimasaurus from chos effect.

@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 Indominus Rex does look like a functional dinosaurs, with some gimmicks and obviously no survival instincts. I wouldn’t be surprised if some undiscovered theropod like it actually existed.

The whole plot of the movie is that humans ARE aliens. That's why he's from that weird planet in the beginning and not earth.

@@yissibiiyte Then imo it doesnt explore that enough tbh

@@krook_prothespinosaurus I agree it isn't explored enough and gets completely glossed over. But there is a reason why the aliens "look" like humans.

@@yissibiiyte Thanks for this information!

Man, sci-fi now is so much overrepresented by shit like this with baffling concepts. "What if humans were aliens? I'm a genius!". No exploration of the consequences of that fact, no explanation of how we would eventually become primitive again and zero, and I mean zero, real science behind anything that matters. This movie feels like a classic 40s 50s dinosaur adventure movie but in all the worst ways, inaccurate dinosaur designs, plot consists of people walking in the jungle and random animals appears, animals with cartoony and unrealistic behavior.

In my opinion, there’s a kind of horror realistically designed (and even more importantly, realistically acting) animals that can capture something no “generic monster” can. The greatest fear is famously the fear of the unknown. When something is obviously “scary looking”, you can king of predict what it will do, how the scene will play out. With a more realistic monster, you can have a sense of ambiguity, leaving you guessing as to what it will do next.

@@stupendemysgeographicus5009 exactly!

​@@stupendemysgeographicus5009Weird birds by Archesuchus is amazing example of this.

​@@stupendemysgeographicus5009There's also the element of realism. A crazy monster covered in jagged, irregular spines and massive, constantly bared teeth isn't something I can really imagine being real, but an accurate dinosaur is something that does, and that makes it feel like more of a real threat.

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Hm yea

You see 2 species of herbivores a hadrasour of some sort far of the other we see is a horribly desined jakapil

You see 2 species of herbivores a hadrasour of some sort far off the other we see is a horribly desined jakapil

Yeah, it's weird that it's so rarely shown in Dinosaur media. Like- a plurality of the deadliest animals in Africa aren't just Lions and Crocodiles... it's Cape Buffalo, Elephants, Hippos, they're massive animals that even when just spooked can hit hard enough to kill a man, and god forbid they get aggressive, as those herbivores are known to be. A raging bull is pretty scary, not everything has to eat you to be dangerous.

@jmaster2855 aparently they were originally gona have a vengeful trike be the villan not the croc thing

JWD Microceratus moment.

They had one job. *Just the one.*

I could say that they have a better anatomy than JW pterosaurs (except my boy quetzalcoatlus🙌)

​@@Gorgonopsidcommenter that actually didn't look bad at all compared to that thing in 65

WWD Anurognathus: first time?

So basically, the moment where Ann Darrow meets the Foetodon in Peter Jackson's King Kong. God I wish he made another dinosaur movie.

The only problem is these creatures in 65 are acting like monsters that only come out to kill protagonists and other creatures for the sake of killing, that’s his concern about this trope. Heck, none of them bother to retreat when one of their comrades are killed by a being with a deadly object in his hand!

It's so stupid too because I literally have a girlfriend who is afraid of birds ffs, which are basically small avian dinosaurs.

​@@Justmonika6969Birds with claws, teeth and crushing jaws, body covering is insanely intimidating I dont get why people are still so lazy with this.

@@kennethsatria6607 some folk have never had a pissed off rooster come at them. Vicious little bastards.

@@evelawless5480 I can get people not being intimidated of birds cause of the size limitations of flying and how the flightless ones are all herbivorous but seriously a dark feathered rex in a forest at night is nightmarish. Or well maybe not rex cause of the recent studies, but still there are massive bear sized real raptors that had feathers

@@kennethsatria6607 they're not all herbivores. Chickens are omnivores, as are roadrunners. They'll kill and eat things like mice and snakes. Looking it up, most flightless birds seem to be at least opportunistic omnivores. Penguins are carnivores.

There must always be a papo rex

I bet the Jack ‘O bit will make sense in the review.

12:57 Here’s the Jack O’ reason

as a big guilty gear fan i screamed when i saw jack o in the thumbnail :3

@@larrymantic2635 thx

Yeah

They don’t have any physical differences from humans unlike Kryptonians who have godlike strength or Saiyans who have monkey tails.

@@rickyrackey7930 This! If you're gonna make aliens look similar to humans, at least make them stand out in some ways.

Already a more interesting plot than 65.

If I may throw in a couple of my ideas to supplement this premise: 1.) Given that these aliens would presumably be non-human, the narrative could rely almost entirely on visual storytelling, in a similar manner as Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Primal”. In fact, also given the fact that Genndy is thinking about expanding “Primal” into an anthology series, I could easily see him making one or more episodes, about an advanced non-human alien being marooned on prehistoric Earth and tapping into its own primordial instincts to survive. 2.) Also, perhaps the marooned aliens could turn out to have brought wildlife and domesticated beasts from their home planet along for the ride. That way, we can see grounded speculative alien fauna interacting with paleo-accurate Late Cretaceous wildlife. This aspect can culminate in a fight between T. rex and one of the alien home-world’s most feared beasts (whether it is a natural apex predator, a gigantic domesticated war/hunting beast, etc.), where the T. rex wins and makes the alien characters fear Earth as the more hostile world.

I've similar thought too

Update on this story?

Update?

I would much rather have a triceratops be the big bad dino at the end instead of that four legged crocorex freak

Wait triceratops and ankylosaur aren't scary therefore bad for animal antagonist. What a dumb opinion, this just same calling elephant or bison harmless just because they're herbivore

@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 Yes, shame they were cut Too bad boring ass general public think of herbivores as harmless like in media

I dare those people to go pet a wild bull elephant

@@firegator6853especially if said bull elephant was in musth

The ironic thing is, that depiction of Postosuchus was so bad this abomination looks more reasonable..

@@bkjeong4302 To be fair, WWD was a case of Science Marches on. This movie has no such excuse.

@@GoGojiraGo WWD’s Postosuchus was horribly inaccurate even by 1990s standards, it just became even more outdated afterwards. Even in 1999 it was already known Postosuchus wasn’t that big or that pathetically slow and incompetent at existing.

Would’ve made more sense if they went back in time to the Triassic period and not the Cretaceous period

Tbf, if it's attacking even when there's a perfectly good carcass around, it's probably territorial, and then hiding in a carcass, which could be smelly enough to cover the smell of the main characters could actually be smart.

Watch the movie Alpha it does this two unlikely companion type story so much better than 65. You feal actually invented in the two protagonists and feal worried for them. Of course because the movie is about both characters going on a parallels treck through the ancient wilderness together no one actually dies but the only reason both characters survived the trip was because of them supporting and hoping each other at any cost. A movie dosint need a bunch disposable meat balloon characters to serve as horror movie fodder. It can still be scary if you make the viewer care enough about the cast of characters that participate in the storyline of set movie.

Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park starts playing.

Triceratops would've been better choice since Triceratops was one of most dangerous herbivores

Yeah but we could finally see an aggressive sauropod (aside from Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal of course)

Apparently this film was originally gonna have that but the cancerous sociopaths that were the test audience thought it "WaSN't ScaWY eNouGh"

@@GTSE2005 at least it had head hadrosaur and Wooly mammoth here

Yeah because people can’t accept an aggressive animal that doesn’t eat meat. I think the creators of this film oughta watch an elephant or a hippo

I was thinking the same thing.

with your alternative time, i also imagine after the aliens learn what happened to earth, they eventually feel pity for earth's creatures

*W Avatar, Pikmin*

Roided-out Acro. That's exactly what JWD Giga is

@@Animusprimalemperor6257exactly!

I mean, at least the Dominion dinosaurs actually look like whatever species they were supposed to be based on (aside from Atrociraptors) Like; come on, aside from the V-Rex and the plucked sick Oviraptor, every other dinosaur is just a big stupid carnivorous "whateversaurus"

@@ZombieChicken1310 Sure, I prefer JWD’s designs over 65’s, but I guess the Giganotosaurus is also a “whateverasaurus” too because it lacks many of the features (Brow horns above the nasal fenestrae instead of the eyes, keel on the end of jaw) that make it recognizable from other mega-theropods, and as such makes it feel less unique. Even the more recognizable designs like Therizinosaurs still lack features that make those animals so weird looking (Narrow head, pot belly).

At least you can tell what most of the animals were in that movie except well giga

Wait aliens?

That would have been dope. Then, just like the games, it would have been easy to dismiss inaccuracies because they weren't actual dinosaurs.

“Triceratops” have never seen such bullshit before

@@larrymantic2635 Real

Actually, by 65MYA mammals were already starting to get big-the idea giant birds dominated the world before mammals got big and outcompeted them is a myth and was always contradicted by fossil evidence, which showed mammals got big first.

New extinction theory: Anorexia killed the dinosaurs

Minus One was also really fire. Idk why but there is some kind of connection, where most Kaiju fans I know are also a bit Dinosaur fans and all Paleo fans are also kinda Kaiju fans.

​@@krook_prothespinosauruslike me :)

​@@krook_prothespinosaurus probably because a lot of the classic kaiju characters like Godzilla and Rodan were dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, and as a result they share a lot of DNA with dinosaur cinema

@@stabster9366 I guesa thats true

The minus one reference was from a Twitter poll, he even told us that it didn’t make much sense after the poll was over

Deviljho/Anjanath fusion.

Why even make 2 seperate creatures. Apart from one of them being quadrupedal they're practically the same.

@@kade-qt1zu Precisely the issue right there. The 2 monsters (refusing to call these designs "animals") fill the exact same generic role with nothing to distinguish them aside one being bipedal and the other quadrupedal. Lazily written, lazily utilized, and lazily applied sound design that makes the two practically impossible to tell apart. At that point, you hit the nail on the head, why bother having them 2 separate monsters anyway?

I remember how disappointed I was that I paid money in the cinema to watch dominion... Seeing this movie I'm glad I gave money for dominion and not this shit At least in dominion when a person makes the most simple question "what dinosaur is this?" you can say "oh that's therizinosaurus (insert a few words about the real animal appearance compared to the movie)" the shit in this movie just makes me speechless when a person makes the same question

The daughter had a name?

@@Bagelgeuse I literally only know that because of the credits stating her name lmao.

I wish they made them some weird mutated geckos. Geckos are at least colorful.

@@ExtremeMadnessX Exactly! Half of the roasts in the comments I've seen alrady sound like a much more interestresting refernce pool like common.

Not really possible, as science always marches on, so reconstructions will always get dated.

😂 Perfect!

To be clear I don’t think this is a problem with the production artists or animators. I think it just reflects a lack of a clear vision throughout production.

Are you my long lost clone or something? Because that's exactly what I was thinking when I watched the first trailer for this movie.

ark is fire tho

At least Ark tried with its newer dinosaurs.

Ark's newer designs are examples of how to make a good awesomebro dino

Arks dinosaurs aren't supposed to be accurate. In lore they are created using DNA from all sorts of creatures, Megalodon in ark for example is not even a megalodon its actually in lore an oversized great white shark with bits of megalodon DNA. Arks designs take elements from all eras of the dinosaur they are depicting. Arks dinos seem to go for a 80s to 90s style dinosaur design mixed with modern depictions and some Jurassic park elements. Take the spinosaurus for example. it is quadrupedal and bipedal. Its also a very good aquatic mount. It takes designs from all eras of spino that we know and makes an awesome version of it that respects the dinosaur. Arks dinosaurs are made for gameplay reasons. The reason the ankylosaurus has a pickaxe like tail is to harvest metal for example. They are designed with gameplay in mind and not with accuracy. It would be really boring if every dinosaur functioned the same like most irl animals and didn't have niches they filled. Thats why most dinosaur simulator games are boring walking simulators. Ark gives a gameplay loop for each dinosaur and makes most of them stand out from each other.

@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 "most irl animals and didn't have niches they filled" that phrase is so funny to me. blud dont even know what he talking bout

Trying to make Kylo Ren badass as Riddick will never work.

They got rid of the Rid, so they’re left with Dick

I have that book!

@@juanyusee8197 What did you think of it?

​@@GalvyTheTomPretty good!

Unfortunately, too many people still think that scientifically accurate dinosaurs can't be scary.

@@ExtremeMadnessX which is sad Because like how an accurate wolf can both adorable and terrifying depending on the context and situation Accurate dinosaurs would be the same

Yeah that aint the fucking same buddy :/

@@ethanpena2030 Actually, it is.

I love to imagine a little spec-evo meme that in a future society of sentient descendants of cephalopods who live long after humanity’s disappearance, campy horror adventure films are made with shrink wrapped designs of modern predatory mammals we were familiar with like lions, tigers or bears. And eventually, there rises one group of these future sentient cephalopods who begins to point out the inaccuracy of those films…

Then there's even more evidence that this should be set jn the Triassic and not the post-KPG

I had a teacher who said that dinosaurs went extinct because they were cold blooded and needed the sun to function so basically at night they could not move at all and the warm blooded mammals ate them from the inside out Idk what cold blooded even meant for him, there are countless of reptiles and other cold blooded animals that hunt at night and run around just fine

39:33 - "Tyrannosaurus rex had never seen such FUCKING Bullshit before"