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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   3080 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for August 15, 2025

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You could make so many fun films based around the idea, yet they make crap.

E.g. imagine velociraptors escaping confinement and breeding freely in the continental Americas and being as smart as parrots -smart enough to have theory of mind and to bury evidence, avoid people who may have guns and leaving tracks in the mud.

Government dismisses it (dinosaurs? On our federal land? You've gotta be joking!), nothing much happens except feral hog populations mysteriously start diminishing. Blurry photographs dismissed as photoshops and reptilian conspiracy theories. Missing people cases not much impacted yet.

What's going to happen?

Bureaupunk movie about the dead-end government agency assigned to watch the island. When containment inevitably breaks down, our crew of misfits and scapegoats has to escape the dinosaurs stalking their conference rooms and supply closets.

Bureaupunk

Careful—you'll give /tg/ an aneurysm.

A redneck shoots one and displays it to the media.

My favorite dino franchise is the Primal animated series. It takes its core conceit, a caveman teaming up with a T-Rex on a rampage of revenge, and executed so well. Great animation too, same director as the Clone Wars.

Have you ever watched Primeval? It was made in the early 2000s with the tech from Walking With Dinosaurs and broadly follows that premise.

Fan-trailer here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JLir0TDJ3GY?feature=shared

I watched it a long time ago when it came out. Pretty decent TV as I remember.

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