Great Ape.

[kirinn]

Well, that was a rollicking good flick, if I do say so. Most movies with that many scenes would bog down (it was at least three freckin' hours long), but this pretty much kept being entertaining. Ok, I maybe could've done without the pit full of insect, but hey, we've gotta allow Peter jackson his requisite five minutes for bug-horror fetish.

Comments

[anacoluthon]

I read that as "pit full of incest" at first.

[kirinn]

That's an *entirely* different story.

[diatom]

Hee. I'd forgotten about that pile-up thing. That was just INSANE! ...*sigh* With their legs just poking out of the pile? BAh! Silly... But, I did wonder if Jackson was basing their behavior on some known studies of how these animals behaved. Or whether all those insects would have existed.

[donaithnen]

I'm pretty sure the insects would have been problematic. I seem to remember that the insect method of breathing doesn't work up past a certain size. I don't remember exactly what point that starts kicking in, but some of those insects were pretty damn large :)

[upsilon]

The largest insect ever to live, (widest wingspan, that is), was the Meganeura, which was a type of dragonfly with a 75cm wingspan. (That's 2 1/2 feet...)

Then there's the Giant Weta, which is 3 inches long and, as the reigning heaviest insect, weighs more than 2 1/2 ounces... or, to put it another way, more than a sparrow! (Wikipedia has an interesting picture on their Giant Weta article.)