Vintagosaurus (movie)

Vintagosaurus is an American science fiction action film about dinosaurs. The film is also meant to be a nostalgia film, which is meant to mimic vintage dinosaur films, including having all the dinosaurs in the film designed to look like old reconstructions from the 1970s/1980s.
== Plot ==
The film follows a group of safari explorers in 1986 who travel to a recently discovered island off the coast of Africa. As the explorers explore the island, they quickly discover that the island is teaming with prehistoric life, mainly dinosaurs. The explorers are in amazement as it is a breakthrough in science to have long thought to be extinct animals alive and flourishing on a remote island. The explorers decide to explore a cave to see what's in there. However, as they go deeper into the cave, They run into a massive carnivorous dinosaur, a spinosaurus. The spinosaurus chases the explorers out of the cave and thru the forest, but not before managing to kill one of the group's members. As they run, the explorers encounter a stegosaurus. The Spinosaurus ends up engaging in a battle with the Stegosaurus and kills it, but not before the explorers are able to get away. 
After getting away from the Spinosaurus, the explorers decide to get back to their helicopter so they can get off the island. When they arrive, they all board and prepare to leave. But as they takes off, a group of pteranodons attack the helicopter and causes it to crash. The explorers manage to contact a rescue line and tell them where they are. Soon after, the pteranodons break into the helicopter and force the explorers to get away. However, not all of them escape as one is caught by a pteranodon and taken away. The other pteranodons are still trying to get out of the broken glass and metal that they got stuck in when the tried to get into the helicopter. Just as the explorers get far enough away, the helicopter explodes, killing the Pteranodons near it. The explorers are safe now. But now they have no way to get off the island. There only hope is the rescue team they managed to contact. But they don't know when the rescue team will come. Until then, the team will have to rough it and try to stay alive on the island of dinosaurs.
The explorers try to stay close to shore so that when the rescue team comes, they should spot them easily. However, they are being stalked by a group of raptors. The raptors attack then and kill off another member of their team so that only 3 explorers are left. The explorers have no choice but to run into the forest. As they run, the raptors get closer to them. In a last ditch effort to lose the raptors, the explorers jump into a river. Since the raptors can't swim, they continue down the river until they think it's safe to come back to shore. When they finally get to shore, The explorers realize that they must get back to the beach to wait for the rescue team. They head back to the direction of the beach. As they walk, they follow the river as that will eventually lead to the ocean. 
As the explorers continue to walk along the river, a shape in the river rises up from the water. It is the Spinosaurus. It once again attacks the explorers and forces then to run. The spinosaurus gets out of the water and chases the explorers. It chases the explorers thru the forest and eventually onto the beach. The explorers scatter to try to make it harder for the spinosaurus to hunt them. However, the spinosaurus decides to target the female explorer and chases after her. Just then, the rescue helicopter shows up. It fires guns at the spinosaurus and causes it to flee. The helicopter lands and the rescuers save the explorers. The helicopter then takes off back to the mainland. 
== Production ==
The film takes several creative ideas from vintage dinosaur films. The film itself takes place in the 1980s to set the time period the film is trying to portray. They designed all the dinosaurs in the film to look like their 1970s-1980s reconstructions, This includes upright postures for theropods and sloping backs for 4 legged dinos. Although the dinosaurs themselves were portrayed with CGI, the movements of the dinosaurs and their physical appearances were meant to make them look like they were portrayed using stop motion models similar to what would have been used in vintage dinosaur films. All of these aspects were to ensure that audiences who would watch the film would feel like they were actually watching a vintage dinosaur film. 
The idea to make Spinosaurus the main big bad dino of the film was simply because the filmmakers felt that using a T Rex would be way too generic and Spinosaurus hasn't appeared in many dinosaur films throughout the years. The filmmakers also wanted to show off the portrayal of a pre 2000s designed Spinosaurus, complete with generic carnosaur head and thin spiney sail. The Spinosaurus design itself was meant to be as monstrous a posible, with white eyes, large teeth, and its overall sharp looking features such as its claws and serrated sail.
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