5/8/2023 0 Comments Dinocide trailer![]() The final molt into adults begins somewhere around the third week of July, but individuals can remain in the late nymph stage as late as October. In the fourth stage, the nymphs are more conspicuous as they are larger and red in coloration. In the first three stages, nymphs are black with white spots and can be easy to overlook, as they are small and look somewhat like ants. The nymphs hop around and feed, molting several times before their final molt into adults that can fly. They hatch in the spring as wingless nymphs. There can be secondary damage in the form of sooty mold, egg mass residue and similar issues. No, not directly in the manner that termites or carpenter ants can do structural damage. (Check out the picture of the tarsal claw in our photo section) Can they damage my house? ![]() The only thing close to a bite we have experienced is a pinch or poke from the legs of the lanternflies hanging on to us. We have personally been in highly infested areas and literally covered with dozens of spotted lanternflies at a time and have never been bitten. ![]() ![]() We have heard several stories of and from people who think they have been bitten by a spotted lanternfly but couldn’t swear that they either saw the physical bite take place, or that it wasn’t a horsefly, mosquito, or other such native insect. Their mouthparts, which are fused into a straw-like beak that they insert into plant tissue to suck up sap (phloem), are not capable of penetrating human skin. Spotted lanternflies, however, are native to countries in South East Asia. We have many native species of planthoppers in the US. So bad it’s good? Sure, I’d be agree with that judgment.Spotted lanternflies (Lycorma delicatula) are planthoppers from the order Hemiptera like our native aphids, cicadas, or leafhoppers. I think it has a lot of potential to be a fun party movie if you need something for a whole bunch of people to mock as they absorb the silliness on display. Yet there’s something glorious about Theodore Rex that really only could have come from the mid-1990s. You’d think that being paired up in a cop buddy movie with a psychic dino (yes, he’s psychic… somehow) to solve a murder would be every boy and girl’s dream, but it’s clearly killing her with every minute of film that goes by. I feel really bad for Whoopi, who clearly doesn’t want to be here and radiates that with her every gesture and line. This is the kind of movie where the weird keeps piling on until you’re sitting there either laughing at the mountain of nonsense before you or you have a migraine. This is the kind of movie where people toss out terms like “dinosaurologist,” “ninja grid,” and “dinocide” with a straight face, which in my opinion qualifies them for best drama actor Oscars. This is the kind of movie that doesn’t bother to explain itself until perhaps a third of the way in, and even then, it’s just a hodge-podge of bad editing choices, Dick Tracy-colored sets, and terrible dino lip dubbing. It was a mess, and once you watch it, it’s your mess too. The studio knew it was a stinker, and sent it straight to video after funding it with a theatrical-level budget. Goldberg even knew that this was a stinker before she got involved, and it literally took the threat of a lawsuit and an extra $2 million in her paycheck to keep her on the set. The ’90s tried to do this a few times, and it never ended well. Basically, I’m talking about that awkward feel of having actors try to play off of life-size jittery puppet antagonists. movie with a bit of Demolition Man’s clunky cyberpunk future. ![]() The best I can describe Theodore Rex’s vibe is that it’s kind of a mix of that old Dinosaurs sitcom, Howard the Duck, and the Super Mario Bros. Also, there’s Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but more toned down. Basically, there’s a Jurassic Park rich guy who brought dinosaurs back to life (as human-sized sentient people) and now wants to wipe out people to bring back even more extinct critters. I’ve never seen a movie do that right out of the gate, especially for a detective movie, but we can’t spend any time pondering that because we have so much more bonker territory to cover. The film opens with the strangest crawl I’ve ever seen - literal bullet points about some billionaire who is using a “New Eden missile” to usher in another ice age and repopulate the world with pairs of frozen animals from his ark - which completely spoils any suspense about who the villain is. And it’s an express train to weirdville that you have to experience at least once in your life. Let’s do another Bell run.” Yet my friends, this one actually happened. “Hey guys, wasn’t there… wasn’t there a buddy cop movie about a dinosaur teaming up with Whoopi Goldberg? No, no, that’s too silly to even ask. Justin’s review: Theodore Rex is the kind of movie that, if you think about it at all, you’ll convince yourself that you dreamed it up after you overdosed on Taco Bell crunchwrap supremes. ![]()
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