Dinosaur 13

2014 "The true tale of one of the greatest discoveries in history."
7.2| 1h35m| PG| en
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Two years after the discovery of "Sue," the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, government officials seize the remains and claim that "Sue" was stolen from federal land.

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Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Samu Karesma I think it was good, and very emotional. It still wasn't what I expected. I thought I was going to watch a documentary about excavation of dinosaurs and all that is around them, instead 80% of movie is around the law case that was built around the dinosaur.If you want to watch a movie precisely about dinosaurs, how they are found, how they are dug up, what were they, and how to they study them, this is not your movie.Instead, most of the movie involves only a huge series of law sues and dispute about the ownership of the fossils. Yes, it is still done well, and it's interesting and most of all very emotional and makes you think the official authorities, and I had no problem watching it to the end, even though I noticed it wasn't I expected. It's just that, I guess I would have given better score, or received it better myself, had I known what this really was about. About law and court rooms, not dinosaurs. That was kind of disappointing.
kllyprkns This was a good documentary. Maurice was the same religion as the both judges hearing the case. Maurice was awarded the $8 million because he was American Indian and also shared the same religious views as both of the judges. He played both sides of the fence. Technically, the dinosaurs was in "no mans land". Google the surname origins. I believe when judges side with people due to their nationality or religious views is called discrimination. Hopefully, the group that discovered the dinosaur will prevail. This documentary is as important to this dinosaur dig as Blackfish was to killer whales at SeaWorld. I am going to buy the books. Hopefully, they will be able to recuperate the money through the sales of the books. Sending someone to jail just to side with your same religious views or nationality is illegal. The judges are people that should have gone to jail. I live in Chicago and appreciate Sue the dinosaur; however, I will tell the kids about how the dinosaurs was stolen from South Dakota and the paleontologist that discovered her.
Alha pro The documentary starts with a nice way of directing,and it shows us the main palaeontologists how they are working how they spend there time reading books and then shows us Susan Hendrickson one of the palaeontologist from them, takes a walk, an she suddenly saw something,like a stone but she thinks that it is a T-Rex's bone it was like a t-Rex spine, and then she look again closer and closer and she was sure after a wile that she discover a Tyrannosaurus Rex , she was so happy and she run to tell it to the others but after she arrived they didn't believe her, then she show them the part of t-Rex spine and they run fast to the dinosaur,and after a while they discover that it was sure a t-Rex,then they name the dinosaur Shu in memory of Susan Hendrickson. The documentary is nice until something went wrong the documentary became like a drama movie, there is nothing to understand or to show to us about palaeontologists and there work it changes the documentary and transform it to a movie, It suppose to show us about the dinosaurs.This story its nice but the documentary is going a little bit wrong.
ddparkson This is by far one of the most touching documentaries that I have ever seen. A story about the Larson family, who put their heart, sweat and blood into finding and unearthing one of the most dominant dinosaur's in the world. It goes to show that the Government can never be trusted, and for Mr. Larson to not be invited to the opening of Sue in the Chicago Museum is an absolute insult to Palaeontology. McDonald's the obesity king and Walt Disney teamed up and acquired Sue for a Whopping 7.6 Million Dollars. To know that you put everything you have into something and have it taken from you just crushes me. I hope Mr. Larson that one day you discover a 90% intact T-Rex and have it displayed in South Dakota. I wish you and your team all the best. Cheers.