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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

As Good As It Gets

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

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Planet of Dinosaurs is a wonderful movie. It opens with dramatic scary music and images of dinosaurs and a spider. These people in a gigantic spaceship have some disaster in space. Part of the spaceship explodes or something. They crash land on an Earth-like planet in a lake or something. They get out of the ship and it sinks. This is like Planet of the Apes, and with the name Planet of Dinosaurs, it is obvious that this is imitating Planet of the Apes. They discover that there are dinosaurs and other animals on the planet. Some are killed by them and they kill a tyrannosaurus which had killed some of them, making them much safer. I think the idea of the movie is that the planet had life come about on it millions of years later than on Earth and was in the dinosaur stage of evolution. But it's very unlikely that humans would ever land on a planet like that because evolution doesn't have a way it always goes. Life isn't programmed to evolve the way it did on Earth. The monster special effects in the movie are probably the best of all the dinosaur movies before Jurassic Park.

The plot is B movie. Astronauts somehow crash land on a planet with a perfect Earth like atmosphere and carbon life forms, including dinosaurs.Aside from the plot, the film is anything but B movie. It is a bona fide drama, with only one "throw away" character. The "throw away" character brings this down from a rating of 8 to 7. He really didn't fit in with the other three dimensional characters.That's what makes this an interesting film. We have genuine "drama" here. There is a conflict that slowly brews over the decision making.What makes the film extra refreshing is that the writer is savvy enough to show characters in a state of panic. Yes, panic. If you think you would keep your head in unknown territory, with these kind of creatures, you have watched too many real B movies.The characters squabble a little, but not as much as modern people, but the people who wrote and directed this can't be blamed for not knowing that people of the future would be immature. This is well written drama.Again, it's the times of panic and split second decision making that make this look realistic on a human behavior standpoint. And that's what makes good Adventure films-credible characters in an incredible situation. This fits the bill.

"Planet of Dinosaurs" is a lovely little trash movie. Even if the stop animation looks 1955, it was made in 1978. The old-fashioned creatures have quite a variety in their looks and behavior, though, and certainly possess a naive charm. The screenplay isn't totally silly, since the astronauts who crash-landed on the planet have a decision to make: will they hide like barbarians in a cave, or will they maintain their dignity (almost a literal quote from the dialog here) and rebuild as much of a civilized world as possible? If the movie suffers from anything, it is not the FX or the dialog; it's rather the limited acting skills of most participants, and some poor action scenes, e.g. the first killing when a woman is caught in a lake, whereas the guy she followed swims twice across the same spot and nothing happens. Why doesn't the beast below try and catch him too? And let's not mention how clumsily the laser guns are handled - a bow and spear are more dangerous in the hands of these guys. A trash classic? Maybe not, but "bad" enough to watch it once or twice.

After the success of Star Wars, there was a boost in interest in Sci-Fi movies. This was one of those cheap attempts to cash in quickly.A group of survivors from a spaceship land on a planet inhabited by stop-motion dinosaurs, where half of them are systematically killed off (the people not the dinosaurs). Porn-movie level acting. Cheap special effects, even for the time, although it looks like a lot of effort was put into them.Costumes were pure 1970's, as were the hairstyles. Ahh, the 70's. I expected a disco to break out at any minute.Nothing to really recommend in this film.