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Maybe a little off-topic but I can't resist quoting also Gamera, a giant flying turtle (really interesting concept!!), star of some "Z" movies produced presumably by Hishiro Honda, the father of Godzilla. Now, to set the record straight, Actually, Godzilla has 4 fathers: Tomuyuki Tanaka, producer of every Japanese made G film until his death in 1997, Ishiro Honda, director of the first Godzilla film(along with most of the classics from Godzilla's glory days in the 60's), Eiji Tsubaraya, Toho's special effects director, and Akira Ifukube, the composer who scored most of the films until the 70's. And as far as them being "Z" movies, I'll take Godzilla vs the Thing over 95% of the swill put out by Hollywood these days. As far as dinosaur films go, I don't really think Godzilla counts anyway, as he's a mutated dino. Add to that the fact that his design was based on science that's now 45 years out-of-date, if Godzilla were created today, he'd look totally different. If you want to count Godzilla films as dinosaur movies, then the worst dinosaur movie ever made has to be the 1998 American Godzilla(called Fraudzilla by hard-core fans like me). I'd also have to nominate "The Lost Continent", it's an early 60's picture where the Tyrannosaurs are men in cardboard(!) costumes. If you look closely in the scene, or in stills, you can tell that the dino suits are only about 6&1/2 feet tall. And even though it isn't a movie, I'd also have to mention that awful episode of Star Trek: Voyager with the dino-humanoids. All of this brings me to a related science question: Could Godzilla actually exist at 50 meters in height and 40,000 tons in weight? Could a mutation , or the natural evolutionary process, create such a large creature? Would such a large animal be able to stand and walk if its' bones were strong and dense enough? Brian Buck Oh, and by the way, a giant flying turtle(with teeth!) is just plain silly. |