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I can't help feeling the dead ones got the better end of that deal.
But why am I talking about this?
And why?
It's because as I sit here, typing this deathless prose, The Lost World is on my television. Not one of the fancy modern films of that name but the real one. The 1960s one. The one that was made by Irwin (Lost in Space) Allen.
And what a nightmare experience it is, as Professor Challenger and his team encounter harmless lizard after harmless lizard and try to pretend they're scared of them while unseen stage-hands push them off cliffs.
But not every dinosaur movie's been as convincing as that.
And all this terror's demanded of me one thing.
Which is that I ask you what are your favourite dinosaur movies?
Perhaps you love 1914's cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur which I believe to feature the first-ever dinosaur depicted on celluloid. Perhaps you love the original King Kong which does, after all, feature prehistoric beasties. Perhaps it's The Land that Time Forgot that floats your boat. Or even Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
For me, I wish I could claim it's a close contest but, despite my love for The Valley of Gwangi and One Million Years BC, I have to go for Jurassic Park, that tale of what happens when you let the wrong Attenborough brother get involved with wildlife.
You, however, may have other opinions. And they're opinions you're free to express in the comments section below.
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