I know you don't go to a Hollywood movie to learn science, but the paleontology in this movie is so bad that it destroys the suspension of disbelief for anyone with even a passing interest in dinosaurs. I saw this movie when I was a teenager and the bad paleo irked me no end. I may have been more forgiving if I had been younger; say a preschooler.
It is nothing less than tragic that the producers chose costumed lizards and caimans over stop-motion photography. Also, that annoying Professor Challenger kept blathering about the brontosaurus. More than 30 years before 1960, the scientific community had reached a consensus that the so-called brontosaurus had been misidentified and should correctly be called the apatosaurus. And I am not even going to mention that neon green tarantula.
To me, the one saving grace in this movie was the alway personable Fernando Lamas. OK, it wasn't his greatest role, but at least I cared when he died. Inexplicably, the TiVo folks didn't even include a billing for Mr. Lamas in their capsulized summary.
It is nothing less than tragic that the producers chose costumed lizards and caimans over stop-motion photography. Also, that annoying Professor Challenger kept blathering about the brontosaurus. More than 30 years before 1960, the scientific community had reached a consensus that the so-called brontosaurus had been misidentified and should correctly be called the apatosaurus. And I am not even going to mention that neon green tarantula.
To me, the one saving grace in this movie was the alway personable Fernando Lamas. OK, it wasn't his greatest role, but at least I cared when he died. Inexplicably, the TiVo folks didn't even include a billing for Mr. Lamas in their capsulized summary.