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I love this movie so much

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)** 1/2 (out of 4) Dinosaurs and rival tribes are all trying to live together during a time when there are still people being sacrificed to the sun gods. Sanna (Victoria Vetri) gets swept away during a violent storm and soon finds herself with another tribe where she falls in love with Tara (Robin Hawdon). Their relationship is faced with problems from both sides as there are battles against each other as well as the dinosaurs that stalk them.After the success of ONE MILLION YEARS B.C., Hammer got this film into production and the end result is a mildly entertaining movie as long as you don't take it too serious. I've read some reviews that did take this film way too serious and they started to nitpick just about everything in the picture. Yes, you can bring up various logical issues as well as other issues dealing with the "cave people" but this wasn't meant to be a Stanley Kubrick picture. This here was a film meant to appeal to kids and young adults on weekends and on that level it works.It was a rather interesting choice to have no English dialogue spoken. The people are given their own dialogue, which the viewer can never really make any sense out of but I actually thought this ended up working quite well as it perfectly put you in the setting. I also that director-writer Val Guest did a pretty good job at holding your attention for the most part, although I will say the 99-minute running time does start to drag towards the end. The music score was nice and the cinematography was actually better than I expected.The reason people went to see WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH was for the special effects and the women. The stop=motion effects were pretty good for the most part and there's no doubt that the creatures themselves were quite good and entertaining. I really liked the giant crab at the end of the picture but most of the dinosaur attacks were good. As far as the women goes, yeah, there were several beauties wearing very little clothes and the uncut version even got some nudity in. How the large breasted women were able to stay in these skimpy outfits was quite impressive.Again, as long as you don't take this film too serious it works just fine as a "B" movie.

I saw this was coming up on TV this morning and hit IMDb to check it out first. Woe to me. I thought I'd give it a try anyway. I like a good fantasy movie. Harry Potter and a bunch of witches living among us- sure. But this movie started right off by throwing science out the window.Before we even got to the point where humans lived alongside dinosaurs (a la The Flintstones), the narrator introduced us to the first scene by telling us that "this was a time before the moon even existed". The moon existed BILLIONS of years before even the simplest form of life existed on this planet, much less dinosaurs or mammals. I might have let this go for a silent era movie from the 1920's, but this was made in the late 1960's.Then we are introduced to the primitive inhabitants of earth, with their salon hair and waxed bodies. Things kind of went along that way for the length of the film. Pretty women bouncing to and fro. Not much else going on here.Not for historians, to be sure, but at least I didn't see anyone wearing a watch.

Saw this last night on the box. It was a bit cheesy - epitomised by having people coexisting with dinosaurs in the first place, but despite that it was fun and fast moving. I never knew what was going to happen next. My enjoyment was partly from the story, partly from the pure unadulterated nonsense which the film was as a whole. Watch out for the sea and sky changing from calm to raging storm in an instant; for Sanna chastising "her" dinosaur, which hangs its head in shame; the amazing costumes (how do they stay on? why do they wear them at all?); the language which at one point only seems to have one vowel ("a"), and later consists mostly of the word "akita" that means "yes," "no," "come here," "go there," "they went that way", "head them off at the pass," "I could do with a bite to eat," and "I think we are about to be engulfed by a tidal wave."

I actually sat here and read through all 44 reviews chronologically to see what people had to say about this movie. Why? I wanted to see if anyone else had been as deeply affected by this movie as I had been. When I sat down to watch this flick, I just wanted to see some dinosaurs and have a light-hearted evening of mindless entertainment, but what I saw shocked and sickened me. This movie isn't about dinosaurs, it's about man's inhumanity to his fellow man (and obviously women - blond women). This film shows how ignorance, intolerance, and belief can (and many times do) lead to cruelty. If you look at the history of the human race, you can see this time and time again. Didn't the Catholic Church force Galileo to face the Roman Inquisition because his view that the earth orbited the Sun (and not vice-versa) threatened their BELIEF system? Weren't women burned at the stake in Salem hundreds of years ago because those in control BELIEVED they were witches (and not hallucinating because they ate grain fungus)? How often do we read about Islamic fundamentalists today strapping bombs onto themselves and blowing people up because they BELIEVE they'll get 57 virgins in heaven after they die? This movie is heavy and disturbing because it shows how horrible and wrong we can be when we allow BELIEF to get in the way of critical and analytical thought. Why has there always been a significant portion of humanity that chooses belief over science? We think we are enlightened today, but there are still people that enjoy watching FoxNews, or belong to the Moral Majority, or BELIEVE in Creationism. It looks like humanity hasn't progressed much from the time this movie portrays.