Re: Re[1] Neck flexibility in large theropods

["no go" <honkietong@hotmail.com>]

There is really no need to repeat what all too many people have already 
known or said. The truth of the matter is, the Spinosaurus in JP3 is simply 
put there to make the movie even worth watching in the first place and 
mostly as a gimmick. Hollywood was morally bankcrupt in relation to the 
paleontological community to start with anyway, they are more concerned with 
making monster flicks to "put butts in seats", not dinosaur movies, with 
dinosaurs as a convient tie-in as a "real life monster" gimmick... to heck 
with misconceptions we may be forwarding. But what really irks me I suppose 
is when they go around claiming that their animals have been reconstructed 
to be as scientifically accucrate as possible. The JP3 Spinosaurus could 
literally go down in modern dinosaur high-budget movies as the most hyped up 
and blown out of proportion animals just as a marketing gimmick ever. One 
could just count the liberities they took with the animal just to make it 
look badder or meaner to attract attention, including a blatantly obvious 
one of it surviving the bite of an furious Tyrannosaur to the neck, when by 
all logic and rights it should have lost its head or died at that very 
instant. But instead not only did it survive being yanked around and chomped 
on by bone-crushing jaws, it managed to somehow turn the tables, and kill 
the Tyrannosaur by breaking its much more robust neck in a much shorter time 
then the Tyrannosaur with all its bite-force superiority and Spinosaurus 
more graile neck failed to do! It's no surprise the JP3 Spinosaurus had its 
conception in the mind of an expert who is hopelessly biased against 
Tyrannosaurus rex to start with. There's really no point dissecting JP 
movies here. As far as science goes, it's pratically all nonsense.


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