Today we’re reviewing the Adam Driver vehicle 65 (2023), a story about humans fighting dinosaurs, except the humans aren’t really humans and the dinosaurs aren’t really dinosaurs. We talk about Triassic archosaurs, shrink-wrapped dinosaurs, and “dinosauroids”, and try to figure out who this film was meant for.
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In this episode:
The tongue-eating louse: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/1048718433/the-tongue-eating-louse-does-exactly-what-its-name-suggests
Tyrannosaurs claw: https://www.theprehistoricstore.com/products/tyrannosaurus-rex-life-size-thumb-claw-replica
Velociraptor claw: https://www.fossilcrates.com/products/velociraptor-killing-claw-and-artwork
Dinopedia’s list of dinosaurs in 65: https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/65
Screen Rant’s list of dinosaurs in 65: https://screenrant.com/65-movie-dinosaurs-species-list/
Shrink-wrapping dinosaurs: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/tetrapod-zoology/dinosaurs-and-the-anti-shrink-wrapping-revolution/
The Sixth Extinction (2014) by Elizabeth Kolbert: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185/thesixthextinction
Times when you know the most about dinosaurs: https://i.imgur.com/8I6sTZW.png
65 Pitch Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FwjddnNMcM
The Dinosauroid: https://tetzoo.com/blog/2021/8/30/dinosauroid-at-nearly-40-years-old
Quicksand on Mythbusters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhV-WpY24nE
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