Genre – ???
Movie Total Runtime – 1 Hour 31 Minutes
Spoilers – How?
Everyone has pet peeves. I may have a surplus of them. Among this collection is “Dinosaurs and Cavemen Together”. I’m not talking about birds as we know them, but the classic dinos. I can forgive some pet peeves if the surrounding work earns it. Thos one does not.
The almost complete lack of dialog works against it as the cast is not skilled enough to convey everything via expression and gesture. It feels like some sort of art film, yet received general release. To fit within this constraint, the plot is simplified. Dark-hair tribe lives in the uplands, and has a culture of might is everything, abandoning the weak to their fate. Losing an altercation, Tomak of the Dark-hairs is driven out and nearly slain if not found by the Blond-hairs who live by the shore. The Bond-hair tribe has better stone age technology which confounds Tomak, including spears which have stone and bone tips, super rudimentary agriculture, and the sewing needle. Yet they somehow are not smart enough to deal with a wandering dinosaur until the savage Tomak shows the courage to slay it.
Of course, providing cultural enrichment extends to trying to steal the spear of one of the blond-hair warriors. This leads to a fight and Tomak is thrown out, no longer welcome as a guest. Smitten cave bunny Raquel follows him and gets treated to the unempathetic culture Tomak comes from as he lets her struggle and straggle through harsh terrain, providing only rudimentary guidance.
Since every set looks like a rocky cave, I can’t tell where he takes her. Dialog would be so helpful here. It turns out to be the cave of the troglodytes. Or some other nonhuman hominid. Being very furry and ape-like, I can’t tell what they’re supposed to be, but they fight each other at the drop of a stick. Tumak and Raquel hide in a tree until the Troglodytes settle, then climb out of a vertical shaft rather than deal with them. But this doesn’t muss Raquel’s makeup. Gotta be aware of what the audience is expecting from your posters.
Stumbling onto a claymation triceratops, the two get caught between it and a sharptoothed somethingorother. Credit to the animators, the claymation work is quality, but I still get annoyed to see the beasties well past their extinction. The ceratopsian gores the sharptooth, and the humans escape, only for them to stumble on to the dark-hair tribe. The leader and Tumak fight until Tumak spears him. Raquel convinces Tumak not to finish the man off and the lot of them head to the dark-hairs camp. Though I’m not sure stone age medicine can do much for a gut stab.
Pretty dark-hair woman tries to kill Raquel, motivations unknown. Dialog would be helpful here. Despite winning, and the encouragement of the Dark-hairs, Raquel refuses to kill the aggressor, her decision backed up by Tumak.
In a scene of blatant cultural appropriation, Tumak teaches the Dark-hairs as best he can what he’s learned of Blond-hair technology, especially the improved spears. There follows a cringeworthy scene where Raquel encourages the Dark-hairs to play in the lake water. As though we are expected to believe a tribe of humans living by mountain lakes never had thought of it. I am starting to really hate this movie. The scene is cut short by a claymation attack by a poorly depicted Pteranodon. It steals Raquel and flies off with her in doll form to feed its hatchlings. A different flying critter attacks and Raquel is dumped in the sea. Thankfully, the transition from doll form to stuntwoman soaks up all the momentum and she survives the drop.
I suppose Tumak thinks her dead, as he wanders back to the Dark-hairs as Raquel stumbles to the Blond-hairs. Raquel guides a war party of Blond-hairs towards the Dark-hairs. Since I can’t tell what they’re actually saying, I don’t know if she wants to kill Tumak or save him. After context, it appears the idea was help. Though they may be overloading the verb ‘akita’. Yes, dialog has increased – none of it in a real language. The Blond-hair war party interrupts a Dark-hair coup, I guess, and battle breaks out between pro- and anti-Tumak factions in the Dark-hairs, and the Blond-hairs not really having sufficient understanding of the factions but they aid the pro-Tumak side I think.
The fighting gets interrupted by the wrath of God as he puts an end to the silliness with a volcanic eruption. Admittedly the smoking peak was visible in a number of wide shots previously, so it was foreshadowed. Rocks fall, people die, coup leader is skewered, and everybody living flees, with many falling prey to the now -hostile landscape. The effects are comedically bad through this sequence. Stock footage, not good enough composite shots and “bless their hearts” attempts at practical effects.
Sadly, this doesn’t put the movie out of our misery right away, but it does switch to sepia film stock as the survivors stagger out of the rubble. Since the characters were all so nuanced and well-developed… I can’t tell you who made it to wander off into the credits.
This movie sucked.
This one took multiple tries to watch.
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Duh! Competition!
Wet animal skin contest.
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Some peoples are non swimmers as a safety mechanism.
I would be too if I came from Africa where crap in the water would eat me.
Play?
Everyone knows you are there to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka!
Got a question for ghe gearhead Glibs
For a story I’m writing I need an engine fault to fit specific parameters.
It’s a war story in a world with technology roughly 1920s/30s equivalent. The vehicle is a one-man tankette with aun uderpowered engine. The only other detail regaring the engine is that the driver was able to kic-start it. The engine was built in haste in a factory where the vehicles drove out of the factory into the batttle, so quality control was not the highest priority. (Things have improved since then) No more details have been given regarding the engine.
What needs to happen for the plot – the engine has to fail in such a way that the driver is able to make it from the front line to the depot but that the depot mechanic concludes that he has to swap it to get the vehicle back in action.
The fault can be from combat or the inherent poor quality of the engine. I just want it to pass muster with people who know what they’re talking about.
What sort of engine and failure fit the bill?
Sounds like a faulty Illudium Q-36 Modulator.
I would like to mention the renoberator. That’s the part that does all the renoberating. You gotta keep an eye on those things. You let them get all manky, and doom is upon you.
Flatheads are pretty bulletproof.
My dad told me a story where he had a piston take a crap on a Dodge flathead and he pulled the pan, yanked the piston and the intake/exhaust lifters out and got back home. It ran like crap and was junk but he didnt have to walk.
Ran out of oil, from a leak – bad gasket or bullet hole, your pick. Flathead engine, that would be the easiest for a factory to build and get right into combat.
Think big Briggs and Stratton lawn mower engine.
Rawr.
What sort of engine and failure fit the bill?
Depending on circumstances, a failing capacitor in a points-and-coil ignition will render it mostly useless; weak intermittent spark. Ask me how I know. You might limp it home, but you most definitely wouldn’t go barging off into battle. This wouldn’t require a motor swap.
A burnt exhaust valve or two (bad fuel, overheating) are probably what you’re looking for. It will run like shit but make it home.
Overheating and taking the thermostat out/punching holes in the thermostat to get back on the road is a thing.
Been there.
Something like a light armored scout car might have an air cooled motorcycle motor.
Big Russian military trucks (2.5/5 tons) have air cooled diesels in them.
WWII tanks had radial engines, like planes.
https://youtu.be/0CAN5nO1ag0
Yeah, but Raquel gave Dufresne the inner power to finally escape Shawshank. So there.
Just in case you thought Japanese ads couldn’t be weirder or more obnoxius.
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Backround:
Vocaloid
Senbonzakura
That’s the best McD’s can put out? Or that’s what their execs think’ll sell best? They’re pretty good at Asia, AFAIK.
She’s not that cute and seems lost. I’m displeased.
Mc!Mc!Mc!
https://youtu.be/UjZDDtPK4jM
Hold on there Cochise.
St. Pat’s day isn’t until Tuesday.
From this season’s anime.
https://youtu.be/k33OhpMUPnQ?si=jRAC1f-u-SxejjiE
Bit too techno and Autotuned to 11 for me.
Are you sure Pope Jimbo? I know Boston already held its running of the gingers.
And the Bridge of Sighs becomes The Bridge of Fries.
“Stumbling onto a claymation triceratops…”
See also- Land of the Lost
What’s the average IQ of a Glibertarian?
I’ll bet it’s pushing 130.
That’s actually pretty high.
I wouldn’t doubt 120+ though.
Iām around 95 on a good day
More than 130. There are some (many) very smart people on this board. MENSA is 130 so if you talking the average of Glibs I think many would surpass that and carry the rest of us on their backs.
@4×20
I’ve met some MENSA people. I’ve not been impressed.
I was tested in high school and hit 128.
But, that was on the white peoples test. I failed on the BITCH test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Intelligence_Test_of_Cultural_Homogeneity
“The results of the test showed that the black group performed much better than the white group.”
LOL. This isn’t the Bee?
examinee was asked to identify the meaning of 100 words as they were then used in black ghettos.[1] Examples of words used included alley apple, black draught, blood, boogie jugie, and boot.[1]
So, not an intelligence test at all. Just the modern equivalent of an urban dictionary quiz
Eeek. I kinda know mine. Did testing with schools in Eville and was placed in “Gifted” classes. The threshold for that was 130 or 132, according to Mom, who was a Special Ed teacher in the system. (Oooh, the latter’s the same as my powerlifting weight class!)
Standardized tests are largely bullshit, but as long as kids are actually paying attention on them, I think they can get the general idea of a kid’s aptitude, or just their interest in learning. I was good at taking tests, or I didn’t mind taking them, which I imagine helped.
Dad’s 980 SAT outranking Newsom’s 960 still hasn’t come up, to my immense surprise. I might exercise some executive authority and light that fuse myself. That scene was remarkably indicative of how vapid, tone deaf, and (let’s add!) racist the DNC really is.
Joke’s on you!
Despite coming from the Brain Power State, I had to attend Memphis State to get a degree. I’m dragging ya’ll down!
I went to the same school as Sleepy Joe…
“Perpich’s eccentric persona, marked by a thick Iron Range accent”
It’s me and Rudy, we have an understanding…
If you suffer from premature prediction disorder please to to Hims.com
Our sun will become a red giant so he’s got that going for him.
12 years, 5 billion years – same diff.
According to experts, those famines would’ve lined up nicely with that new ice age we were assuredly drifting into in the late ’60s.
He would have been right but our run of Presidents sending virile young men off to war slowed things down, now that the dream of being ‘woke’ has come true and throw in lots of abortions it’s put a chill on Erhlich’s premature predictions.
I remember watching this as a kid. Raquel Welch gave me certain, uh, feelings.
Those aren’t buoys!