>
> Here's the problem: The general audience, as you state, doesn't care
whether
> the Spinosaurus has lacrimal horns or not. So >why not< do it the
>right<
way
> (if we know the right way)? Why go out of one's way to do it
>wrong<, if
the
> audience doesn't care one way or the other? Just so that nitpickers will
have
> something to talk about after the picture? It takes no more effort to do
it
> right than to do it wrong.
>
> (Incidentally, Spinosaurus >probably< didn't have larcimal horns,
because
its
> relatives with known skulls didn't, but we don't have an actual
Spinosaurus
> skull to support this.)
Good point, but I'm quite sure the main reason they dont always do it the
"Right" way is because the Film makers like to 'tweak' things to make
them
look they way they want them to look.
'Make the arms longer', 'make the teeth bigger' and so on. Although I
don't
think thats really necessary, I dont see why it has to detract from the
movie going experience. I just think it is, as I said, silly to nit-pick it
to death.<<
You are 100 precent correct. They do it because
they want it that way. The reason why Iguanodons were used in the Disney movie
is because some big wig came in and said that they looked like horses, so
Iguanodon was used in a Late Cretaceous period. I’ve heard several ‘horror’
stories on such subjects.
One way to stop this is to produce the Documentaries
ourselves.
Tracy L. Ford
P. O. Box 1171
Poway Ca
92074