Parts of the imagery were well captured and the live cinematography was up to standard.
The CGI was rather hit and miss -- I'm sure there were budgetary considerations that set limits on time, talent and processing.
Actually a really good cast -- but you really can't go wrong with kids, even bigger kids. And all they had to do is express anger, fear, and fright. The acting, in so far as there was a script, was all that anyone could expect and no doubt they brought more to the screen than was on the page.
As for the pages . . .
A concept right out of the late 1950s. Rather good production design and values for a budget film.
Not nearly enough background research done -- this was written in a long afternoon by mildly intoxicated adults looking over the railing of the patio -- who clearly forgot that the internet is available to random folks who could become audience members and have more curiosity than these two writers do.
The temporally mis-located plants are forgivable -- I don't think many will recognize the west coast is a cheap substitute -- should have been filmed in a dense and lush tropical location dripping with humidity -- akin to other famous dinosaur movies that you can name.
Really a deplorable action script with gross unexplained blocking and movement -- not that it was bad but the audience will know that movement is wrong in that place and no explanation is given for why our hero makes that mistake -- quite reasonably, since he is not an explorer.
Complete with one predictable, convenient plot development after another -- worst of all failing to take the opportunities presented by the scenario for Adam's character's greater development.
If you were going to do an old school - 'I rescue you then you rescue me' -- Robinson Crusoe on Mars-1964 would have been a better starting point.
One must hope that Adam Driver had a lot of fun or got big bucks up front.
A very 'pretty' piece of fluff with a climax that is suitable only for the students who never read about the Chicxulub impact. That bit of artwork was right out of When Worlds Collide-1951.
The cinematic visual presentation is evidently where these two excel
Don't let these two write anymore without some supervision . . . I am available.
The CGI was rather hit and miss -- I'm sure there were budgetary considerations that set limits on time, talent and processing.
Actually a really good cast -- but you really can't go wrong with kids, even bigger kids. And all they had to do is express anger, fear, and fright. The acting, in so far as there was a script, was all that anyone could expect and no doubt they brought more to the screen than was on the page.
As for the pages . . .
A concept right out of the late 1950s. Rather good production design and values for a budget film.
Not nearly enough background research done -- this was written in a long afternoon by mildly intoxicated adults looking over the railing of the patio -- who clearly forgot that the internet is available to random folks who could become audience members and have more curiosity than these two writers do.
The temporally mis-located plants are forgivable -- I don't think many will recognize the west coast is a cheap substitute -- should have been filmed in a dense and lush tropical location dripping with humidity -- akin to other famous dinosaur movies that you can name.
Really a deplorable action script with gross unexplained blocking and movement -- not that it was bad but the audience will know that movement is wrong in that place and no explanation is given for why our hero makes that mistake -- quite reasonably, since he is not an explorer.
Complete with one predictable, convenient plot development after another -- worst of all failing to take the opportunities presented by the scenario for Adam's character's greater development.
If you were going to do an old school - 'I rescue you then you rescue me' -- Robinson Crusoe on Mars-1964 would have been a better starting point.
One must hope that Adam Driver had a lot of fun or got big bucks up front.
A very 'pretty' piece of fluff with a climax that is suitable only for the students who never read about the Chicxulub impact. That bit of artwork was right out of When Worlds Collide-1951.
The cinematic visual presentation is evidently where these two excel
Don't let these two write anymore without some supervision . . . I am available.
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