The Weekly Planet - Jurassic Park - Caravan Of Garbage
Episode Date: June 2, 20221993's Jurassic Park was an incredible cinematic experience both for the time and now. Combining the best of old school monster movie making with cutting edge CGI and blending those elements with a c...ompelling narrative and characters it's considered one of Steven Spielberg's best and also one of the great blockbusters of all time. Mason doesn't really like it though. Anyways thanks for watching out Caravan Of Garbage review.SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNVideo Edition ► https://youtu.be/wxf8BlJwJnIHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of...
Fuck me.
What's going on, Mason?
Great start. Incredible.
I don't get it.
Big day.
Big day.
Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of Caravan of Garbage,
where, yes, we're going to be going through the first three
Jurassic Park movies, aren't we, Mason?
Wah, wah, wah.
Wah, wah.
That's right.
Wah, wah.
We can't obviously use the licensed music no no no no they'll come for us
amblin entertainment will will will will send some dinos after us they'll fly in on a little bicycle
and decapitate us with radios that's right photoshopped radios that's kathleen kennedy
will come for us i got some kathleen some Kathleen Kennedy information in this. But anyways, if people could leave a like on this video,
that would be terrific.
But before we get into all things Jurassic Park,
Mason, say that dumb thing you think about Jurassic Park.
Say the thing, Mason, that is obviously wrong.
The dumb thing that I say, James, is that as far as I'm concerned,
every movie in the Jurassic Park slash world franchise
is of roughly the same
quality now bearing in mind i haven't seen some of them so go that's that's ridiculous but i stand
by the thing but you haven't seen two or three correct which we'll be covering so that'll be
interesting to come back to every week to see whether or not you know your opinion kind of
shifts on that
because they kind of go in interesting and strange
and I think some good directions.
That being said, I have seen, of course,
the most recent two Jurassic World movies,
and I cannot recall a single thing that happens in any of them.
So in order to fairly judge the sequels,
I might have to re-watch the world movies.
Wow. That's incredible.
What an incredible thing you're doing.
It's interesting, though, isn't it?
I think so.
This one is full of wonder and magic or what have you,
but the Jurassic World movies are like,
what if we put a Margaritaville in?
You know, I think that's a fascinating, like,
people are like, okay, well, actually,
the Jurassic World movies, they're just completely,
they're absolutely nothing because it's just a boring park or whatever. Yeah, but that's Jurassic World movies, they're just completely, they're absolutely nothing
because it's just a boring park or whatever.
Yeah, but that's the...
It's kind of the point, yeah.
It's heavy-handed satire, and I love that, James.
I remember the thing, Margaritaville.
There you go, you remember the thing.
Well, it's interesting you say that because Steven Spielberg,
in getting this movie, he knew that Michael Crichton was working on this book,
which came out, I think, around 1990, and he was like, my God, I need this book. So apparently they paid $2 million for the
rights. Not just the book. I want to make a movie of the book. Stephen, you can stop at the airport
and get this book. So Michael Crichton was paid $2 million for the rights to the novel before it
was published. James Cameron was reading it and was like, I want this, right? Oh, this is a,
give me it. This is kind of the director equivalent of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger
fighting over various roles.
Yes, like Stop or My Mom Will Shoot.
Is it going to be revealed that James Cameron actually didn't want Jurassic Park because
he thought dinosaurs were stupid in the end?
He's like, ha ha ha ha.
Enjoy throwing $2 million down the toilet, Spielberg.
No, not at all.
He wanted to make a version that was more frightening
and I guess also in line with a couple of things,
one being Aliens, which he also directed,
and also the book is quite dark and it's got like...
And dull.
I don't think so.
Have you read it?
Yeah.
I like it.
There's a lot of computer diagrams.
Well, that is certainly true.
What's fascinating about it, because this is, I believe,
the second Michael Crichton-based franchise we have discussed.
Because we've also talked about...
The movie Congo in our normal everyday lives.
Yeah, we talk about that constantly.
But on this video series, we've also talked about the movie Westworld.
Which is also a Michael Crichton creation.
Yeah, that's true.
And I think what we learned from that one is that while Michael Crichton is great at inventing incredible worlds,
he's perhaps not great at putting a narrative through that world.
Sure.
He needs a director like Spielberg to just really, really,
really ramp up that tension, you know?
And the magic.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
So one of the things, and James Cameron has even admitted to this begrudgingly,
not begrudgingly, he seemed very happy to say this,
was that Spielberg was the right choice for this
because Spielberg came at it from his perspective
from when he was a kid of this like wonder and awe of dinosaurs
and, you know, the Ray Harryhausen era and King Kong and all of those things.
So things from the book that like John Hammond is basically evil Walt Disney
and he gets like a big come up and stuff like that was just taken out.
You know what I mean?
Like the weirder and dark stuff was mostly taken out
and even things like Alan Grant and Ali Sattler,
they're like a mentor and mentee
in that. They're not in a relationship because he's
much older. But this, they're like, nah, they can be
in love and do kisses, I reckon.
Just bring some of the magic, you know what I mean?
Because a man and a woman can't be friends.
Is Steven Spielberg's point.
That's the point he was making. He's putting his foot down.
What I think it does really well, though,
to kind of sell that, well, there's's obviously the dinosaurs but it's also that every single
i didn't see any dinosaurs okay fair enough is that every single main character in this
despite their skepticism at various points through the movie they do have moments of like
oh my god like even the lawyers like from his his perspective, it's obviously a money-making thing,
but even he's taken aback by the awe of it.
Even a lawyer, a man with lizard DNA,
Yeah, that's right.
is filled with awe and wonder at the sight of these dinosaurs.
What's interesting, because I haven't seen this in a number of years,
some of the stuff that jumped out at me, first of all...
The dinosaurs.
They go, rah. I didn the dinosaurs they go rah i didn't
say anything but um that hammond wants grant and sadler to visit jurassic park so they can like
sign off on the park's authenticity for the investors william sadler yes which is fascinating
because these days they'll be like we don't need accuracy no who cares yeah shut up what are you
saying right now and also i love it love it that he brings the beer.
These days they're just bringing influences, right?
That's right.
And they just take a selfie with a whatever
and then you're on, you're off, aren't you?
But I think one of the things this movie does really well is...
Mr Beast would be there and be like,
I'm going to create a real life Jurassic Park.
They'd be like, Mr, Mr Beast, you're already in a Jurassic Park.
We've done it already
i think one of the things that's really great about this movie is that it's kind of cast like
star wars like you've got like richard adenborough well i guess you know he's your old school kind of
british actor you know what i mean but everyone else is not unknown but kind of you know jeff
goldblum's in the fly sam neill was in various projects, you know what I mean, prior to that.
We've caught you attempting to think of an Australian or New Zealand movie
and you can't do it.
The one where he's blind.
The one where he's blind, Mason.
Or maybe Hugo Weaving's blind.
That's proof.
It's a Hugo Weaving movie.
I'm sorry.
Yes.
Now, there's a couple of reasons I think this works.
One, because it's cheap, which means you can, you know,
you bring the budget right down.
Apparently they wanted Kurt Russell initially for Alan Grant.
He was one of the many names and he wanted an exorbitant fee, you know,
and they were like, no, absolutely not.
So they got.
Because he's got that Disney blessing, you know.
Yeah, he does.
That's a fun fact people should look up.
Or here it is on the screen, just quickly.
Oh, you missed it.
that's a fun fact people should look up.
Oh, here it is on the screen, just quickly.
Oh, you missed it.
And also, them being relatively unknown, I think, works.
You know, as opposed to, like, getting big-name actors to run around and be like, I'm a paleontologist.
You're like, you're not a paleontologist, you're Meg Ryan or whatever.
You know what I mean?
Sure, yeah.
Who's a famous person.
In that era, she was very famous.
That's right, still famous, Mason. But I think also, here's something that's fascinating famous person. In that era, she was very famous. That's right. Still famous, Mason.
But I think also,
here's something that's fascinating to me.
One of the criticisms of this movie at the time was,
and this quote is from Variety, but there's-
Was it, it'll be roughly the same quality as its sequels?
No, Mason.
Yeah, this quote is from Variety.
And there's a bunch of others
that are pretty much along these lines,
that the characters are one dimensional.
And I think, especially compared to, like, the newer ones,
but on first viewing, I think all you would take away from this was,
man, those dinosaurs, hey?
But there are so many good character moments in this
that you kind of, that have become more iconic over the years.
You know, little laughs, little quips.
Ellie Sadler is sassy.
It's Sadler, by the way. It's Sadler. It's
Sadler. It might not be.
Ian Malcolm is horny.
Yes. Alan Grant
takes a huge amount of glee
frightening and traumatising children.
And he does it the entire time. He certainly
does, doesn't he? Whether it be threatening a
child with a claw or
pretending he's being electrocuted
and leaving them alone in a park filled with dinosaurs,
he'll do it.
He'll do it.
He loves it.
Yeah.
And speaking of the park,
one of the things I love about this movie
is that it never feels like a safe place.
For one, just look at all those 1990s computer interfaces
and I'm like, oh no, I remember stuff like this.
Just not good to navigate. That was your fear't it not that you're in a you're stranded on an island
with dinosaurs no no you wouldn't get internet access i'd see that weird floating park system
where you gotta lock and unlock the doors and i'm like none of this is labeled it's just all
3d boxes i'm flying through space oh the word i mean just a nod to what people thought future computers would be at the time.
The flying through boxes, the turning DNA with virtual reality gloves.
Oh, yeah.
Love all of that.
But even things like there's no seatbelts on the cars.
There's, you know, the dinosaur embryos.
There's no bloody seatbelts in life, let me tell you that much.
That's very true, except for in cars.
Oh, there's tons, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's even spelling errors on the dinosaur embryos.
Now, that's probably like yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's even spelling errors on the dinosaur embryos.
Now, that's probably like a mistake on the production side,
but I like the idea of just being like,
who cares, you know what I mean?
Engineers can't spell.
Yeah, and it's also like it's a shoddily and quickly made park.
Like it's poorly designed.
It's interesting that right at the start of the movie they're trying to get a raptor into its cage.
Yeah.
And in order to get that raptor in the cage, you have to get one guy to stand precariously on top of the movie they're trying to get a raptor into its cage yeah and in order to get that raptor
in the cage you have to get one guy to stand precariously on top of the cage and open a gate
while it's just wobbling and the dinosaur's trying to slash at you yeah what an incredible system i
agree so uh i wanted to talk about this system and in particular the character of dennis nedry
okay who people refer to as a villain because of his villainous activities. But I would argue that he's just a man who is severely underpaid.
So the background of this character in the movie is...
And they keep calling him fat.
And they keep saying that, and it's rude.
Don't do that.
At one point, all right, I mean, it's rude,
but also there is a great line where Hammond at one point is like,
where's Nedry?
Check the vending machines.
Check if he's stuck in the vending machines like Homer Simpson.
So InGen apparently...
Fuck me.
Oh, man, I need to go to a vending machine for a cough drop, Mason.
Oh, yes.
Do you like this extended material that I leave in?
Oh, that's okay.
Terrific.
Yeah, no, I love it.
Yeah, good.
So John Hammond's company, InGen, they held a bidding war for the position of lead programmer, right?
Okay.
So Nedry won this.
for the position of lead programmer, right?
So Nedry won this,
and upon being introduced to his position on Isla Nubar,
he found that he had severely underbid on the job,
and there was just an immense amount of technical issues and all this crazy programming that he hadn't anticipated.
And it's mostly him and Samuel Lowe Jackson
who's just punching darts the entire time.
Great cigarette-in-mouth acting, by the way.
Some of my favourite work. Great cigarette-in-mouth acting, by the way. Some of my favourite work.
Great cigarette-in-mouth acting.
What I loved about it is that it was an abnormally subdued performance
by Samuel L. Jackson for a bit.
But you cannot hold him back for too much longer.
Sorry, you cannot hold him back too long
before he just explodes into full Samuel L. Jackson at some point.
You're absolutely right.
So, yeah, this unexpected larger workload and then his low salary,
that's the reason he went out of his way to kind of get paid properly.
And I think...
By potentially getting everybody killed.
Yeah, give him more money, you know?
I mean, yeah, he's not a great guy, but what are you doing?
Spare no expense.
He keeps saying that, but it's just you look around
and it's just not true.
Why are there like eight staff?
You know what I mean?
That's a great point.
There's like a lot of scientists and then like eight blokes
just being like, this is fucked.
This is out of control.
Spent a lot of time, spent a lot of money and time
on that sort of platform that the park guests turn on
so they can see scientists at work.
Not a lot on programming safety features, hey?
Was it John Hammond's plan to just do every one of those tours?
Just do it like eight times a day, taking everybody through?
I mean, he's a showman.
He had his flea circus.
So that's what he wants to do.
He wants to be up front and he wants to do his little sing and dance
kind of song and dance act, right?
I mean, maybe for a while, but I'd imagine, you know.
They bring in an animatronic?
Sure, yeah.
Or a lookalike.
Or a lookalike.
Or David Attenborough.
Yeah, why not?
He's cheap, isn't he?
I think so.
Yeah.
I want to talk about bringing dinosaurs to life.
Not literally, Mason.
Ask me if they can make a Jurassic Park now.
Can they do it?
No, Mason, don't be an idiot.
We're obviously not there yet.
Oh, my sense of wonder.
I do want to say, though, you know the bit where everyone's like,
you shouldn't do this.
This is a bad idea.
No, 100% do it.
I don't care.
Just do it.
Put some good fences up.
Maybe a moat.
I don't know.
You know what I mean?
You're a big picture guy.
Yeah, yeah.
Don't, like, alter their DNA because, you know, they'll alter it back
and then they can breed.
Just, like, neuter them with, like, big, like, hedge.
Bolt cutters.
Yeah, bolt cutters.
That'll do it.
You'll be fine.
Don't even worry about it.
But anyways, to bring them to life, there's a few things at play here.
A lot of things, actually.
I feel like it's the culmination of old and new technology
just working in perfect harmony.
You know what I mean?
Go on.
So Stan Winston did with his team.
Oh, I thought you meant in the narrative of the movie. I going to say dna no no oh there's there's there is the
dna yes bd wong yes is involved of course there he is i you know i spent every scene that he was in
like searching for signs he was going to go bad yeah but he never did you didn't even have a
mustache you didn't even have a mustache at the time. I don't think he does now either, but you know.
BD Wong, you devil. You absolute devil. But so yeah, there were the Stan Winston suits,
like the Raptor suits, for example. There's like people like hunched over in those,
very uncomfortable, but they're, you know, they're very realistic. There's an enormous T-Rex rig
that could bend and snap like, you know, really, really quickly. It got bogged down with water at
one point because, you know, the scene in the the rain so it would like jutter like and people like oh you know what i mean very nervous situation
had to get a crew member to squeeze it out yes well they were coming in just like hitting it
with towels you know what i mean trying to like trying to dry it off so they actually initially
got phil tippett who came in to do go motion which is like an advanced version of stop motion right
and he hired a whole team to complete the 50 shots that were required.
And if you see it like, yeah, it's incredible, right?
But Steven Spielberg was like, this is too jerky.
I'm not really sure this is the way to go.
So a couple of guys, Steve Williams and Mark AZ Dip, were hired just to originally create
like motion blur for the StopMotion dinosaurs.
So you get rid of some of that jank.
And they were expressly forbade from developing like a computer generated t-rex or anything like that interesting so they did it
anyway they put it up on a monitor kathleen kennedy walked past and she was all right because
she was obviously spielberg's producer for years and also a very good producer i just want to point
out she's like put together some amazing movies and she walked past not by chance like they set
it up and she was like what's that and so she told spielberg and then they were hired to do this work basically
putting phil tippett and his team out of work whoa that line of like and a lot of people know this
maybe you even like i think we're extinct that was his reaction to seeing that just being like
oh my god my life's work wow yeah he's probably held a grudge. Well, no. He hasn't snuck to those guys' workplace
with a fake can of shaving cream
and put all their USB sticks in and snuck out with it?
Maybe he did.
Because by your logic, James,
it would be perfectly justified doing it, wouldn't he?
No, I didn't say that.
I'm just saying I understand his motivations, Mason.
Do you think Nedry should come back?
Yes.
I mean, he can't, but yes. He could come back. We don't see him torn to shreds. That's Mason. Do you think Nedry should come back? Yes. I mean, he can't, but yes.
He could come back.
We don't see him torn to shreds.
That's true.
Maybe he beat that little spitty dinosaur in single combat in that truck.
Maybe he did.
And he retrieved the shaving can,
and he went off and now he's infused with dinosaur DNA.
Wow.
In the new one.
We haven't seen it yet.
That would be incredible.
But anyway, so Phil Tippett,
they actually got him back to create these dinosaur input devices or DIDs
where basically he's doing stop motion with these electronic devices
which then transfer that kind of movement to the computer models.
So they ended up using him for that.
He also did a bunch of stop motion animatics for the scenes
with the T-Rex and the cars and the raptors in the kitchen.
So he didn't get completely put out of work, but still, this was basically the death of stop
motion in big budget movies. You know what I mean? Other than, you know, it still exists, but.
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You don't see a movie like this really using stop motion anymore.
Wow.
And it's your fault is what I'm saying.
That T-Rex scene though.
Go on.
My goodness.
Just incredible moments. Which T-Rex scene though. Go on. My goodness. Just incredible moments.
Which T-Rex?
The one that busts down the fence.
You see it being like pinged apart.
It comes down next to the car and the pupil dilates when the light hits it.
Obviously the toilet.
The toilet bit, Mason.
The toilet bit.
That whole sequence.
Was that lawyer wearing shorts the whole time?
I think he was.
Like walking shorts and a suit jacket?
But don't you just think that whole sequence is just, it's phenomenal, right?
Yeah.
It's probably better than anything else in any other Jurassic Park movie.
No, I don't know.
Or at least equal to.
Have you seen Jimmy Buffett running down the street?
He's got only two margaritas.
He does have two margaritas, yeah.
What about that scene where that woman is unnecessarily torn to shreds
for the crime of being a bad babysitter?
You said that was your favourite part of the movie.
Yep.
Both of us think that.
Apparently, I learned recently that actor requested a horrible death.
Oh, okay.
That's why she got one.
Okay, great.
It wasn't the filmmakers being unnecessarily cruel.
But yeah, I just think there's so many wonderful sequences
and they've clearly been mapped out perfectly to use both suits and then CGI.
And you can now tell, you know, if a raptor's jumping on a kitchen bench, you know, you know what's up.
But I just think the way it transitions between puppetry and CGI is incredible.
And it really does.
Like, I know we talked about aliens in the start where I said aliens and you went, oh, really?
It does kind of turn into aliens. I'm doing, really? It does kind of turn into aliens.
I'm doing it again.
It does kind of turn into aliens at the end, right?
Yeah.
And here's a fun little fact that I saw, probably on IMBD trivia.
Go on.
IMBD Wong trivia.
Oh.
So the big velociraptor, it appears to only kill for fun in order to get revenge, right?
Because she understands that she's been locked up against her will.
So she's not the one that kills Robert Muldoon.
She's the one ahead.
Because if she had have started eating people,
she would have been like, I'm full, I don't want to hunt.
So she doesn't eat anybody.
She's just killing people.
Interesting.
I think that's terrific.
Yeah.
You know what's terrific about this movie?
So many iconic lines.
Speaking of Muldoon, oh, clever girl.
Yeah. What about the bit, that weird laugh that Jeff Goldblum does? I can't do it. Yeah You know what's terrific About this movie So many iconic lines I agree Speaking of Muldoon Oh clever girl Yeah
What about the bit
That weird laugh
That Jeff Goldblum does
I can't do it
You know
Sure
That's good
I like that a lot
Any more iconic lines
Don't worry
Goldblum
It's all Goldblum
What about the
I was going to say
What about the big pile of shit line
That's also him isn't it
That's true
Or like
So preoccupied
With whether or not they
Could Think about whether or not they could.
They think about whether or not they should.
Perfect.
I love how Hammond just invited just a bunch of esteemed doctors
to his place just to evaluate it.
They just rinsed him at dinner.
The entire time.
This whole idea sucks.
No sugarcoating at all.
This is bad.
You're a bad person.
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, you're right.
This is going to go wrong.
You're going to lose your business.
Yeah.
You do kind of feel...
You've got a stupid hat.
You feel...
He actually initially had a death scene
where a raptor clawed his chest.
He dies in the book as well.
He gets eaten by compies.
But he's a bad dude in the book.
He doesn't care about his grandkids.
He's like,
eh, fuck them, whatever.
I kind of like the way they turned him into this,
like I'm just, I'm the greatest showman.
I'm Hugh Jackman.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you get that vibe?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you know about the original ending to this?
Then you can tell us.
I don't.
I'll tell you.
I will.
Here we go.
Okay.
They all team up and go out for ice cream.
That's right.
The humans and the dinosaurs.
Oh, that's lovely.
I feel like that's- The dinosaurs die because they're lactose intolerant. I feel like the dinosaurs having ice cream. That's right. The humans and the dinosaurs. Oh, that's lovely. And the dinosaurs die
because they're lactose intolerant.
I feel like the dinosaurs
having ice cream with humans
could be something that happens
in the newer movies, you know?
That's right, yep.
Yeah.
So in the original script,
and I don't think this is good
and I'm glad they took it out,
the T-Rex skeleton in the lobby,
that was hooked up.
James, Skellington.
The T-Rex skeleton in the lobby,
thank you,
it was hooked up to like pulleys
and Alan Grant kind of puppets it to kind of kill the raptors, right?
He stomps them and crushes them in its mouth.
Is the living T-Rex involved somehow?
No, not at all.
So Spielberg was like, we need to get the T-Rex back
and we're going to make her a good person or a good dinosaur
for the rest of these movies and this is the turning point where it just happens to save these people.
And look, there's been a lot of talk.
And then salute the American flag with its tiny little hands.
You can't really tell, but...
And there's also been, you know, a complaint of this movie,
or people call it a mistake of like,
how did nobody hear the T-Rex kind of sneak in at the end
tippy toes
or that
Phil tippy toes
I was gonna say
Phil tippy toes
I was gonna say
John Williams' beautiful score
but yeah that also
if you got that blaring
you're not gonna hear it
great score
that's my way of saying
this was a great score
etc and so forth
including also
shout out to the sound design
which was led by
Gary Rydstrom
so things like
redwoods were cut down and hit the ground and that's the T-Rex stomping noises all the sound design, which was led by Gary Rydstrom. So things like redwoods were cut down and hit the ground,
and that's the T-Rex stomping noises.
All the sound design in this is top-notch, Mason.
And I defy you to say something bad about it.
I'm not going to do it, probably.
I think it's something.
Could be louder?
Could be louder, but, I mean, that might be an issue with my television.
Sure, okay.
I can't lay that on those guys okay yeah i can't lay that on on
those guys yeah can't lay that on a ride stream maybe you could come around and turn up your
television though that would be great yeah offer some sort of service like that that'd be great
terrific now in the original novel the armed forces of costa rica who apparently haven't
existed since like the 40s they just come in and they carpet bomb the island oh no and no. And that's how things end on this original island.
That's why in the sequel, in the book, they have to go to Site B.
Ice cream.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, they end up destroying that island anyway in the movie.
B stands for Bubba Lo Bill.
Wow, I love a Bubba Lo Bill.
And by that, I mean I eat it and I go, actually, this isn't very good.
I've misremembered this.
And this chewing gum nose, it's not great.
Yeah.
That's all I'm saying.
I always thought as a kid, Mason.
Go on. I love this movie as a kid.
It melted my brain.
Oh, you're not talking about Bubba Bill's.
This isn't a childhood story about Bubba Bill's.
I mean, it could be.
These things, they're probably linked in my mind.
I always thought that the shaving cream can was going to be something, you know?
Like it's Chekhov's shaving cream can. Yeah, you see it dropped. It's covered in mud. You're like, oh, okay. It was going to return something you know like it would it's it's chekhov's shaving cream yeah you see it
dropped it's covered in mud you're like oh okay he's gonna return in a sequel see i haven't seen
the two jurassic park sequels so it doesn't it doesn't reoccur again well so steven spielberg
put it in intentionally to put it in the sequel right or like somewhere down the line but the
book goes in a different direction however the show camp show Camp Cretaceous, it actually reappears in season five.
I don't think it plays like a huge role,
but you know, it's there.
Someone shaves with it.
Yeah, I mean, but also at that point,
they made all the dinosaurs again.
They don't need it.
That's true.
Here's a question.
Yeah.
And maybe I'll find this out in subsequent movies.
The man who was purchasing the embryos,
does he reoccur again?
Wow.
What's that?
That is a great question, and I have the answer.
Okay.
Who is the rival company?
Do they return again?
I can't remember the name.
Terrific.
But so Cameron Thorpe, he was actually up for Ian Malcolm initially, right?
This is the actor.
The actor, yes.
But for the newest, latest movie, that character of Dogson was recast, right?
Okay.
With Dogson being the man who wanted to buy the embryos.
Exactly.
And he wears the little hat, right?
Now, the reason it was recast is because he spent about six years in jail as a registered
sex offender.
Oh.
So, yeah.
So, I think that character appears in the sequel book, I'm pretty confident.
Okay.
But he's only now just reappearing again in the sixth movie. Oh. So, there. So, I think that character appears in the sequel book, I'm pretty confident. Okay. But he's only now just reappearing again in the sixth movie.
Oh.
So, there you go.
Also, you might be like...
Now, is that the one that's still to come?
That's the one that's still to come, yeah.
That's Jurassic World 3, Jurassic Park 6.
Correct.
Okay, great.
Now, are you one of those guys that are like, I love dinosaurs and I hate all the inaccuracies
in this?
No.
Well, Mason, there's so many dinosaur inaccuracies in this.
It's irrelevant to me.
So, for example, right?
I'm indifferent.
Anything you say right now, I'll be indifferent to this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, you know how they're looking for Amber?
That's in the Dominican Republic.
And no dinosaurs that were seen in this film, they were from that era or area.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't care.
Yeah, no, no, it's crazy, right?
Also, Velociraptors's actually the size of a turkey.
Crichton actually based them more on the Deinonychus, right?
But he's like, that's not a cool name, Velociraptor.
Is that something you care about?
I mean, I think I already knew that.
Yep.
And it doesn't affect my life in any way, really.
Okay, what about this?
What about this?
They also probably didn't hunt in packs.
Like, they'd maybe occasionally snap at the same thing, but they're just like, let's just,
I don't know.
We don't have to be friends.
Let's not work together.
They're like Komodo dragons, apparently.
Wow.
Yeah, there we go.
You got me.
I've turned around.
You got me.
You got me.
All right.
Hit me with the next one.
Okay, here we go.
How about this one?
How about this one?
Actually, a version of dinosaur was discovered right after this
called the Utheraptor Spielbergi,
which bears a striking resemblance to the raptors in this movie.
That's why it's called that.
Yawn.
Oh, no.
You've lost me again.
Sorry.
Sorry.
You shouldn't have had such a boring fact.
Boring.
Can I get you back with some of them supposed to have feathers maybe?
No.
God.
I'm like, God.
And also when we say that, people are going to be like,
well, not technically.
Not all dinosaurs maybe had feathers.
Hey, shut up.
No one cares.
No one cares about feathered dinosaurs.
You're back on my line.
I'm on board.
There it is.
There it is.
Also, to be fair, they explain all these inaccuracies in Jurassic World.
BD Wong's like, you know, we just made what people wanted to see.
You know what I mean?
And I like that.
Just be like, people want to see dinosaurs?
Yeah, here's one.
That's close enough, isn't it?
Shut up.
Do you have any watch trivia?
There's a bunch of watches in this.
Ian Malcolm's wearing a watch.
Robert Muldoon is wearing a watch.
You know what I didn't?
I didn't write it down, but I didn't notice any particular models.
But I thought I had when they're all in the helicopter going to Jurassic Park.
I'm like, what a world.
Everybody's wearing a watch because nobody had a smartphone then.
That's true.
They had to know the time.
Or fly through an interface on a computer to find the time.
Okay, fair enough.
You better be ready for watch trivia next week, Mason.
Okay, great.
It's coming in hot and fast.
Anyways, here's some green trivia.
Love green trivia.
This is where we talk about all the amazing facts that I've found on IMDb
and various sources.
I watch a bunch of behind-the-scenes stuff, Mason.
These are more extensive.
They seem manic and, like, unwieldy and they don't make sense.
But I trawl through a bunch of crap to get here.
You know what I mean?
And it hasn't affected your mental state at all, so that's good.
I don't think so.
I don't think it has at all.
The kid Alan Grant spooks at the start.
There was a fan theory that that's Owen Grady as a child.
You know, the Chris Pratt character.
Yeah, but it's not.
Don't worry about it.
Terrific.
They could say it is, though.
That's true.
Ariana Richards, who plays Lex, was upset by the fact that an action figure of her character was not produced.
Kenna made Grant Sadler, which it is, not Sadler.
I did look it up.
You are correct.
I know I'm correct.
Muldoon, Nedry got an action figure.
Tim got an action figure. Tim got an action figure.
Malcolm got an action figure.
She did not get an action figure.
Wow.
Yeah, at the time.
Maybe she has since.
Maybe.
Because how would they advertise it?
Yeah.
Lex with boring nerd action.
She's done some good stuff.
Computer nerd action.
She grabs the wire when they're swinging.
Wire grabbing action.
Yeah, wire grabbing action.
Thank you.
What does Tim do?
Karate chops. He does do a bunch of karate chops with this. Yeah. You're swinging. Oh, wire grabbing action. Yeah, wire grabbing action. Thank you. What does Tim do? Karate chops.
He does do a bunch
of karate chops with
this, yeah.
You're right.
Actually, Mason, if
you examine the setup
of the park, it's
going to be seen in
the movie.
That being said, if
I can just go back to
that, it is amazing to
me that any of the
I mean, it's just
Ellie and Lex.
Yeah, pretty much.
But I'm sort of
amazed that Ellie got
an action figure as
well.
It's amazing that they're one for two.
That was actually incredible.
Absolutely right.
If you examine the way the park is structured through the computer interfaces,
Nedry didn't actually need to shut down any of the fences to get to the dock.
Oh.
But I guess he just did it.
Yeah.
Because you see people during the-
And you love that, don't you?
No, I think that's bad, actually.
Maybe he is a bad bloke.
I thought about it.
But here's something that is good about him.
Maybe he could have just gotten a different job.
Yeah, maybe.
Microsoft.
Maybe he could have.
Probably would have been less dinosaurs.
I don't know.
I can't say how many, but less, I would say.
Probably a similar number of trips to a mysterious island, though.
You know what I mean?
Just saying.
Yeah.
Just saying, James.
I don't doubt it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But here's something fun about Nedry.
His clothing throughout the movie, it's eerily similar,
and I would say on purpose, to a bunch of outfits in The Goonies.
Like he's wearing Goonies outfits throughout this film.
Huh.
It's wild.
Was Wayne Knight in The Goonies?
No, but Steven Spielberg produced The Goonies.
Oh, sure, sure, sure.
So like what, so his-
Wayne Knight was Will Wheaton in that movie.
His thesis is that at least one of the kids in the goonies grew up to be a really bad
guy.
That's right.
Interesting.
And here's Sam Jackson's quote on returning to the franchise.
Well, first of all, he was supposed to have a scene of him being chased and killed, but
there were a bunch of storms while they were filming this and stuff got wrecked and they
couldn't film that.
So he was like, oh man, that would have been cool to film but he said
i think about the dude from jurassic park yeah well whatever his name is i guess his name's ray
he's samuel jackson's been in a hundred thousand i know i know i know i mean i didn't know his name
to be fair in this movie he's somewhere riding around on velociraptors with one arm he's just
on that island riding raptors. Sounds good to me.
See what I'm saying?
If you don't see a character die,
why wouldn't you put Sam Jackson back in there?
I agree.
And you know what?
You'd put him in because he's a big box office draw.
Speaking of box office, here we go.
Nice, good segue.
On a budget of $63 million.
Oh, my God.
That is peanuts these days.
What did you get for that now?
Morbius.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
Cinema's not always hitting great heights, is it?
That's right.
You know?
I'm Dr. Michael Morbius, and my illness makes me so weak.
If only I could infuse myself with dinosaur DNA,
I could stalk the streets of New York as half-dinosaur man.
It actually made $978 million, but it's been re-released a number of times,
so that's now well over a billion.
Spielberg himself made $250 million on this movie alone.
And on top of that, merchandise-wise,
over 1,000 individual deals that were created for this movie
generated over $1 billion in revenue,
including toys, making of books, yogurt, video games, fast food, bread.
Do you know what I mean?
Jurassic bread.
So there you go.
Wow.
Anyways.
Maybe like that tiger-ped bread You know that
Yeah yeah absolutely
Feathered bread
Did you
Poison spitting bread
Looks like a regular loaf
But you squeeze the sides
And it
Ah
Did you come around on this
I feel like I was just
Just spitting facts
And nonsense
Yeah
Do you like this movie
I do like this movie yeah
But do you
You see that it's incredible, right,
at a turning point in cinema?
Yeah, but so are the Jurassic World movies.
Oh, my God, Mason.
I don't hate those movies, but these are not the same.
They're not the same, Mason.
Like, if you put them side by side,
if they came out at the same time, they're not the same.
But considering the gap that these came out,
that's a ludicrous thing to say and i will
kill you mason that's fair there are no objective facts in like reviewing a movie but you are
objectively wrong i'm happy to say that anyways next week we'll be back for jurassic park to
jurassic park the lost world number two yeah jurassic world negative two yes what they call
it is that true? I think so.
Jurassic World.
Yeah.
Assuming there's not a Jurassic World zero.
I don't think there is.
So it'd be Jurassic World negative two.
There's probably a book called Jurassic World zero.
Oh, maybe.
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Ian Malcolm's got three kids.
Do we meet any of the three kids?
Yes.
Do we in the sequels?
There's one in the next one.
Whoa.
That's right.
Where are his other kids?
I don't know.
He left them on another island.
Terrific.
Who knows?
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