herps in movies

[adamofsound]

hey,

I watched "the empire strikes back" last night on cbc and started counting the herps that appear on Yoda's planet (degema, dagava, I dunno, Im not a S W junkie) heres what I think I saw:
green iguana
a slender monitor, possibly arboreal, not sure, dont know my varanids
either a burm or retic, again, not sure not a snake guy yet
and if you look really closely when luke is sulking just before yoda salvages the x wing fighter from the swam with his mind, there appears to be a whites tree frog (or some other large green tree frog) clingning to a tree trunk

any other movies you have seen with good or benign representation of herps?

im not interested in hokey stuff like "annaconda" or other sensationalized demonizing stuff like that.
Adam

[Adrian]

oh man... as for the hokey stuff, the most over the top bull s*&t that takes the cake so far was ' Boa vs. Python '. I noticed it on the shelf at blockbuster.... the cover even shows what appears to be an Apache Gunship firing off in the background of the 2 giant snakes squaring off in... guess what! A highly developed city environment!!
Even more abominable is that iv heard it was better than AVP (not that the bar is set too high there) But hey, what can ya do but laugh at the folly....

oh yeah.. some previously unkown hot chick gets naked in it too

[HeatherRose]

Yeah, as *if* there's really monitor lizards in the Dagaba System.

I still have to watch Boa vs Python...

The worst movie *period* I've ever seen is Boa, not even because of the inaccuracies but because it was worse than crap.

[Gary D.]

Well I guess as Degobah was a sound stage in England, and there definately was a monitor of sorts there, I guess there were monitors on Degobah.

Now technically as no animal which evolves on another planet (in fiction or reality) is related by evolution to earth's history (barring a rocket powered arc like in SKY Captain and the World of Tomorrow) they technically can't be reptiles. Reptile-like, yes, but not actual reptiles.