Last movie you saw

[derspatz]

I thought Derspatz surely must have been some crotchety bitter old lady, who wore glasses and never smiled in the company of people.

And yet while you were thinking I was "surely ... some crotchety bitter old lady", you hurled all sorts of insults at me in various News threads.

Even just based upon that, one can only and shudder at how you must talk to your mother.

I think we might have found part of the root cause to your love life problem you recently admitted and bemoaned in these forums, uan. You just ain't going to do well while you talk down to or insult who you also presume to be women.

Trust me on that ... I've applied (and continue to apply) much in the way of "first principles science" ala "empiricism" in that regard.

Anyhoo, tis always nice to learn that I've occupied somebody's thoughts for more than a passing moment. (Hi DT. )

regarDS

 

[up_all_night]

Yeah... no... also I laugh every time you claim to follow science seeing you think humans and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. That's just ****ing retarded you moron!

 

[Sonia]

Random...I'm not religious at all but i do believe the organisms we evolved from were probably formed towards the end of the mesozaic era probably during the cretaceous period when mammals started to form and some dinosaurs still lived although not those great big ones we've come to know such as the sauropods so technically it's kinda awesome to think that our very earliest ancestors may have lived with dinosaurs!?

(I love dinosaurs if this wasn't obvious by now)

On another note i saw Les Choristes a gorgeous french film and rate it 8/10.

 

[up_all_night]

Mammals started to evolve a couple hundred million years ago, so those ancestors lived with dinosaurs but they are so far removed from humans. We branched off from primates 6 or so million years back primates were around for only the last 5 or so million years of the dinosaurs who died out about 60million years back.

With all evolution, yes there were times with shared ancestors. Even today, we live with ancestors of dinosaurs. Birds for instance are related to Velocoraptors. That reminds me i heard recently they were actually fully feathered. So in Jurassic park they should have been feathered.. i've been meaning to look that up... Crocodiles and sharks date back to the period of the dinosaurs. Our ancestors though as far as I am aware didn't live with what we currently consider dinosaurs, but all sorts of prehistoric beasts. However not in a recent time frame as young earthers believe.



How good are the Jurassic Park films by the way! I know people who hate the lost world vehemently, but it's such a fun guilty pleasure movie!

 

[up_all_night]

watched The Proposal tonight. That Ryan Renolds, Sandra Bullock rom com.

It was actually pretty good. I have to admit as a straight macho man, I actually enjoy a good rom com. I tend to just stick to the ones that look like there might be something to enjoy. This was one that looked amusing and I like both the leads. It was never dull, never boring, never too contrived.. despite the subject matter of a boss getting her male secretary to pretend to marry her in order to get a greencard and of course they fall in love. There's nothing that doesn't brake the mold here with these kind of films, but there's enough that makes it stand up as an enjoyable better than average rom com. A big part of the appeal is, both the lead actors are really likeable and appealing, so that really helps to pull off the film. While the relationship logically is in no way convincing you care and get into it because of the leads. They both are fine actors. So if you like romantic comedies it's a good one, not a classic but there's little to really criticise if you want an amusing one that entertains and never disappoints.

 

[Sonia]

Adore Jurassic Park and you're right we're living with dinosaurs right now! The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park need to be more colourful too they were sort of like birds in the way they had various colourings they weren't all brown as we used to think. My favourite depiction of dinosaurs has to be walking with dinosaurs still my favourite tv series of all time, fantastic show.

 

[up_all_night]

Oh and I looked it up Velociraptor did actually have feathers. How awesome!

I should go back and read the lost world novel again. So cool!

 

[bb-06]

With all evolution, yes there were times with shared ancestors. Even today, we live with ancestors of dinosaurs. Birds for instance are related to Velocoraptors. That reminds me i heard recently they were actually fully feathered. So in Jurassic park they should have been feathered.. i've been meaning to look that up... Crocodiles and sharks date back to the period of the dinosaurs. Our ancestors though as far as I am aware didn't live with what we currently consider dinosaurs, but all sorts of prehistoric beasts. However not in a recent time frame as young earthers believe.

The depictions of dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (at least the movies) are not all that accurate. Velociraptor was probably only about waist height on humans, maybe a bit larger. They were almost completely covered in "feathers" (probably more like a down sort of thing, like on baby birds). The Velociraptors in the Jurassic Park movies are more based on Deinonychus in terms of their height and appearance. The Dilophosaurus - a waist height, spitting dinosaur with a 'fin' around its head in the movie, was actually over 6 feet tall and didn't spit, or have a fin.

Not to mention the Spinosaurus which wasn't this terrifying, T-Rex killer but more lived on a diet of fish.

And yes, I'm a bit of a dino-nerd .

 

[Sonia]

I have books and books on dinosaurs i just love them so much yay *high five* dino-nerds.

 

[Mud Cake]

Could a velocoraptor be domesticated if they were around today?

 

[derspatz]

Could a velcoraptor be domesticated if they were around today?

ButOfCourse. Just like with many birds make sure you're the first thing it sees as it hatches out of it's egg, and then lead by example.

It's called "imprinting", and is an essential part of the survival of the new life.

Just don't stand too close to it when wearing wool or felt, etc, or you might end up in a similar situation as Brüno did when he went to the fashion show in That outfit.

(ok, ok, so I removed a vowel in the original quote ...)

regarDS

 

[Sonia]

I'm so glad dinosaurs died out before we came, dinosaurs shouldn't be domesticated they're too brilliant.

 

[josephine]

500 days of summer - do not bother with this one! I read a review saying it was one of the funniest and enjoyable rom coms he'd seen in years so I watched this and was completely and utterly underwhelmed. A laugh did not pass my lips, not once. The movie is done in an art house type way, with silences and lots of pining on the male's point of view. I'd say it was somewhat depressing and not funny at all. To be honest I'll have to go back and re read the review, maybe I read it all wrong and they were talking about a different movie??? Anyway, for me a total failure on every level.

 

[Bkeela]

500 days of summer - do not bother with this one! I read a review saying it was one of the funniest and enjoyable rom coms he'd seen in years so I watched this and was completely and utterly underwhelmed. A laugh did not pass my lips, not once. The movie is done in an art house type way, with silences and lots of pining on the male's point of view. I'd say it was somewhat depressing and not funny at all. To be honest I'll have to go back and re read the review, maybe I read it all wrong and they were talking about a different movie??? Anyway, for me a total failure on every level.

The film mustn't be within your spectrum of taste. I thought it excellent - perhaps my favourite film of 09.

It portrays a Shopenhaurian view of romance, which may seem pessimistic to idealists, but can be liberating to those burnt by love, like the protoganist.

The force that draws couples together often does not have the longterm happiness of the pair in mind. It is more interested in producing fit offspring to perpetuate the species. Therefore, people shouldn't take the machinations of the selfish gene to heart when rejected.

I found the film very funny, but maybe this stems from my male perspective. I absolutely identified with everything the film represented.

The audience I saw the film with also loved it. There was lots of laughing out loud.

 

[up_all_night]

Could a velocoraptor be domesticated if they were around today?

ButOfCourse. Just like with many birds make sure you're the first thing it sees as it hatches out of it's egg, and then lead by example.

It's called "imprinting", and is an essential part of the survival of the new life.

Just don't stand too close to it when wearing wool or felt, etc, or you might end up in a similar situation as Brüno did when he went to the fashion show in That outfit.

(ok, ok, so I removed a vowel in the original quote ...)

regarDS

No dinosaurs probably couldn't be domesticated if you just cloned one or something. Possible they could be tamed to a point. Very few animals have actually ever been domesticated and it took thousands and thousands of years of selective breeding. A wolf for instance isn't domesticated where as dogs are. The selective breeding is a big part. If you raise a wolf like a puppy it won't grow up like a dog would.

Don't listen to that crap about imprinting. Domesticated birds have been breed to be domesticated and accustomed to humans. You may be able to tame a wild animal, but domesticating takes a long time and there's a big difference.


Unless you were looking at domesticating them over thousands of years.

We unfortunately don't know enough about dinosaurs to know how they would have been around humans. Their temperament, their social structures, disposition ect. I just don't think a world like Dinotopia could exist from looking at the type of animals that have been domesticated.

It's something I guess you couldn't say never, but it would have had to have required thousands of years. I guess it'd be feasible some smaller ones could have been. Big ones.. eh.. it's like elephants they aren't even domesticated.

 

[josephine]

The film mustn't be within your spectrum of taste. I thought it excellent - perhaps my favourite film of 09.

It portrays a Shopenhaurian view of romance, which may seem pessimistic to idealists, but can be liberating to those burnt by love, like the protoganist.

The force that draws couples together often does not have the longterm happiness of the pair in mind. It is more interested in producing fit offspring to perpetuate the species. Therefore, people shouldn't take the machinations of the selfish gene to heart when rejected.

I found the film very funny, but maybe this stems from my male perspective. I absolutely identified with everything the film represented.

The audience I saw the film with also loved it. There was lots of laughing out loud.

Really! - did you write the review I read?

I agree it was a clever way of explaining how to think about a lost love, but I'm at a loss in terms of the comedy, anyhoo, glad you enjoyed it.

 

[Bkeela]

Really! - did you write the review I read?

I agree it was a clever way of explaining how to think about a lost love, but I'm at a loss in terms of the comedy, anyhoo, glad you enjoyed it.

Didn't the sight of Tom, so depressed he walked to a convenience store in his dressing gown make you laugh? Have you never felt like that?

You've obviously never done karaoke with drunken mates either.

 

[Mud Cake]

No dinosaurs probably couldn't be domesticated if you just cloned one or something. Possible they could be tamed to a point. Very few animals have actually ever been domesticated and it took thousands and thousands of years of selective breeding. A wolf for instance isn't domesticated where as dogs are. The selective breeding is a big part. If you raise a wolf like a puppy it won't grow up like a dog would.

Don't listen to that crap about imprinting. Domesticated birds have been breed to be domesticated and accustomed to humans. You may be able to tame a wild animal, but domesticating takes a long time and there's a big difference.


Unless you were looking at domesticating them over thousands of years.

We unfortunately don't know enough about dinosaurs to know how they would have been around humans. Their temperament, their social structures, disposition ect. I just don't think a world like Dinotopia could exist from looking at the type of animals that have been domesticated.

It's something I guess you couldn't say never, but it would have had to have required thousands of years. I guess it'd be feasible some smaller ones could have been. Big ones.. eh.. it's like elephants they aren't even domesticated.

So what do you think of the evidelnce that Velociraptors are small and covered in feathers?

 

[up_all_night]

So what do you think of the evidelnce that Velociraptors are small and covered in feathers?

Well the archaeologists seem pretty convinced from the evidence they have, so who am I to disagree. We know birds came from dinosaurs and i think from this branch of therapods specifically. Feathers came from the scales and so it doesn't make any lack of sense to assume the therapods could have had feathers and that early feathers would have had to originally evolved for a purpose other than flight, only to later adapt to it.

So nothing with the logic and sequences doesn't make sense. There was a guy that is an expert into the evolution of birds on the skeptics guide to the universe podcast a few months back. I understand there's a lot of evidence and they're even finding out ways to get some colour information of the feathers from the fossils. All sounds convincing. Especially with having lots of evidence. Just goes against what people were used to thinking.

There's always some speculative work, like do little bumps on bones indicate feathers attached there or not, but yeah i'm sold on the feathered raptors thing. Kind of cool when you look at turkeys and stuff now.

Looking around online, raptors are meant to have come from dinosaurs more like birds. So they evolved into more bird, then back out of it, all pretty cool. So yeah that'd pretty much settle the having feathers.

It is interesting though how Archaeopteryx the oldest discovered bird is not considered to be a direct ancestor of modern birds. Makes you think that features like feathers that lead to birds were way more common in dinosaurs than we think.

Would be cool to be conducting such research, making discoveries.


Although i'm still holding my fingers crossed for the invisible dinosaur from the lost world to be found!

 

[mikidiki]

I loved 500 days of Summer. Don't usually like romantic comedies but it was done in such a way that I found it very enjoyable and not boring. The last movies I saw were "Frozen River" and "Doubt". Enjoyed them both as well. Last movie I saw that I didn't really enjoy was "Public Enemies".