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The New Godzilla Film Looks Great: Wild footage shows sparring komodo dragons butting heads [tr]
Popular Mechanics ^
| October 24, 2019
| Daisy Hernandez
Posted on 10/25/2019 6:39:24 AM PDT by C19fan
If your first thought watching the footage of the sparring komodo dragons was something like, "the new Godzilla looks great," we don't blame you. The massive lizards—which can grow up to 10 feet in length and weigh 300+ pounds—admittedly kind of look like the fabled kaiju.
Komodo dragons, which are native to Indonesia, are the largest known lizard in existence today and is referred to as "ora," meaning 'land crocodile' by local Indonesians, according to Live Science. Komodos are generally solitary animals and highly territorial, and when they get up on their hind legs and start swinging their heads during a fight, they're downright terrifying:
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: reptiles
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Before CGI, some movies for example, the 1959 version of "Journey to the Center of the Earth", would glue prosthetic onto reptiles and somehow get them to fight.
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posted on
10/25/2019 6:39:24 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I outgrew Godzilla at about age 6, and even before then it was “meh”
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posted on
10/25/2019 6:41:37 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: C19fan
What you’re saying is, back when movies were inventive and cool.
To: C19fan
At the end, it’s not clear they are “fighting”.
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posted on
10/25/2019 6:43:10 AM PDT
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
To: C19fan
The New Godzilla Film Looks Great: Wild footage shows sparring komodo dragons butting heads [tr] Because after Fukishima, CGI is no longer required. /sarc
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posted on
10/25/2019 6:44:33 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Takedown My Duly Elected President and You're Attacking The Constitution! IT WILL BE DEFENDED!)
To: C19fan
Are they arguing over who gets the “tree fiddy?”
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posted on
10/25/2019 6:46:05 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: Magnum44
Well lah-dee-dah. We needed to know this, why? Other than your own need to opine and bloviate on absolutely nothing that adds to this.
How about you keep growing at a much faster rate like the monsters do in the Godzilla movies. This way you can finally opine and bloviate on something that we still don’t care about.
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posted on
10/25/2019 6:49:23 AM PDT
by
zaxtres
To: Magnum44
I consider Godzilla flicks to be classics...they were/are great comic relief.
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posted on
10/25/2019 6:50:15 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: zaxtres
Are you comic book guy?
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posted on
10/25/2019 6:52:28 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: trebb
I don’t mind laughing at an old B movie now and then. They could make an entire season of MST2000 with old 50’s/60’s Godzilla movies. But like so much other Hollywood, hardly anything original anymore, and reboots of Godzilla? The new movies aren’t comic relief. They are usually some SJW/Climate change themed CGI mess.
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posted on
10/25/2019 6:56:22 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: bk1000
“At the end, it’s not clear they are “fighting”.?
Can’t get it to play. Are they assuming doggie position?
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posted on
10/25/2019 6:59:58 AM PDT
by
duckman
( Not tired of winning!)
To: C19fan
Here’s a sneak peak at one of the monsters in the movie. Based on this picture alone, I don’t think this movie is suitable for small children. It might give them nightmares.
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posted on
10/25/2019 7:02:45 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: duckman
“Are they assuming doggie position?”
Looks that way...only they call it lizzardy position. The other they call dinner.
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posted on
10/25/2019 7:04:23 AM PDT
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
To: C19fan
Komodos are dangerous, yes?
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posted on
10/25/2019 7:14:13 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: trebb
True Godzilla has rubber suits, destroyed toy cars, and Raymond Burr cutaways.
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posted on
10/25/2019 7:20:24 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
To: Leaning Right
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posted on
10/25/2019 7:23:32 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: wally_bert
Are the Raymond Burr cutaways in the new movie ? LOL
To: wally_bert
Yeah.
It’s not a real Godzilla movie without rubber suits.
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posted on
10/25/2019 7:54:28 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptors)
To: wally_bert
To: butlerweave
No problem with modern CGI.
They did it for that short lived revamped Night Stalker.
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10/25/2019 8:03:33 AM PDT
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wally_bert
(Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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