Regarding everyone on the boat being ripped apart; there was originally a side plot about a pack of raptors sneaking onboard the ship, and then escaping in San Diego. That whole thing was eventually scrapped pretty late in production to focus on the T-Rex, but the boat part was already filmed. And thus we end up with arguably one of the biggest plot holes in movie history!
I always just assumed that it was the baby Tyrannosaur. I know he says the baby is in a secure facility but that coulda been after the adult left the boat.
Well there's no way the T-rex was able to return to it's hold and close the doors on itself after killing everyone. My goofy theory is that something else was on-board, caused the carnage, and escaped, either by air or sea. The Rex tried to break out in a weak, tranquilized stupor when it hears the commotion, which is why it was unable to get out at first, and why the guys arm was on the control holding it down. The Rex simply went back to sleep after the ship fell silent again, until it wakes up crashing into San Diego.
The part at the beginning was actually how the first book started. It also had babies getting their faces eating while sleeping in their cribs. Good book.
Fun fact, Julianne Moore's character, Sarah Harding, is the daughter of Dr. Gerry Harding, the veterinarian who was looking after the sick Triceratops in the first movie. A couple of things to note, Roland Tembo was a big game hunter, yes, but not a poacher. There's a scene in the script that was cut from the film, but included in the graphic novel adaptation, that gives you a much clearer picture of his character. Another deleted/cut scene included a slightly drunk Ludlow stumbling around while talking to Tembo, and falling onto the infant rex, breaking its leg. Daddy rex crushing Ludlow's leg in order to incapacitate him so that the infant can kill him is another example of poetic justice. Steven Spielberg himself has stated that there are things about the production of this movie that he wishes he'd done differently. The first Jurassic Park was a bit of a passion project, as he loves dinosaurs and was a good friend of Michael Crichton, but he's admitted that with hindsight he feels like his approach to directing The Lost World was one of complacency rather than enthusiasm. Most of his energy and passion at the time went into the making of Saving Private Ryan. As a dinosaur enthusiast this is probably my favorite film of the franchise, though I agree that the first movie is better. I just enjoy seeing the Tyrannosaurs portrayed as nurturing, protective parents, especially the father. This was rather new and radical idea at the time, as the predominant theory only a few years earlier was that predatory dinosaurs didn't care for their young at all.
Excellent post. The book was great and the story is fun, but this film could have been better. As you said, not the best movie in the franchise but still a favorite.
Good post. I remember the aftermath of the first movie and Spielberg was pressured for a sequel. After publicly stating hundreds of times, "I don't do sequels", he gave in and agreed to make one. Can't help but think that had some bearing on this as well, but just my opinion.
That scene at the start with the little girl being attacked is taken directly from the first book. The original book is a horror novel. It has the girl being attacked, stories and legends of newborn babies being eaten alive, and even an actual event where you see a baby being eaten. The book talks on several occasions about the smaller dinosaurs reaching the mainland, and have been running amok for years. The thing with the boat, is that a raptor, maybe 2 or 3, managed to get on the boat without anyone knowing. Also, note when Dieter gets killed... he opens the cattle prod, and the Compy runs away... yet when he first used the cattle prod, it didn't run, because it didn't know what he was doing. The Compies have been following Dieter the whole movie since he attacked one of them. Basically following his group, and nobody knew it. Once he's alone, they attack.
I like the execution of the Pete Postlethwaite character - He has a clearly defined sense of morality, even though it doesn't align particularly with the protagonists. Someone who got excited by bigger challenges is such a selfish motivation but it remains believable and adds a nice bit of world building. I even like how he departs, essentially having reached his own objective, he leaves everyone else to die. Just a genuinely interesting character
He left because he didn't get to achieve his objective - the male T-rex was caught alive, because his lethal rounds were stolen (or sabotaged...I can't remember which) by Nick and he could no longer kill it in a "sporting" manner; it was the fact that he had not only missed out on what he considered the pinnacle of achievement in his life, but had also ultimately led his best friend to death with nothing to show for the sacrifice. Pete Postelthwaite acted this complex character so superbly that you can be relieved that he made it out alive while still feeling satisfied that he was justly denied his desire which allied him with the InGen poachers.
The story with the hunter, Roland Tembo, is better explained by a scene that didn't make it into the film. Its watchable on UA-cam. It shows a scene from early in the film when his partner Ajay Sindhu (the guy who was yelling at the hunters to not go into the long grass) comes to recruit him in Africa for this mission. At this point in his life Roland is retired and hasn't seen his life long partner Ajay in years. They've hunted every big game animal on Earth and Roland is essentially just languishing in a bar, slowly wasting his life away because he feels like all his adventures and challenges are over and that there's nothing left for him. So when his best friend comes to him with a chance to hunt the ultimate predator, the T-Rex, he agrees to join Ajay on the mission. But.... after everything goes to shit and he gets word that Ajay was killed by the Raptors, he no longer cares anymore about the hunt because he's realized that it was his friendship with Ajay and the adventures they'd had together that really mattered...and that this whole endeavor was a terrible mistake.
Yeah lol 😂 I'm just seeing this now and hey that Adult T-Rex teaching the baby Rex to Eat the same mean old greedy guy trying to steal it lol it's actually kinda funny and it's what he kinda Deserve would you agree with me?
Favorite line "There's a dinosaur in our back yard." in a normal speaking tone. I liked the last act. Especially the T-Rex roaring against the city scape.
At least the city scene gives Malcolm a redemption in the eyes of the rest of the public, now that they’ve seen an actual dinosaur that he had been warning people about.
The dude in the beard and cowboy hat is based on Bob Baker, also known as "Dr. Dino." At the time these movies were made he was one of the world's foremost experts on dinosaurs and actually served as the technical adviser for both films. He was the guy who successfully argued that birds should be reclassified as a subset dinosaurs. Tim even references a book by "a guy named Baker" in the first movie when he's fan-boying over Dr. Grant.
24:04 That is _absolutely_ a Godzilla reference. It's too perfect to be a coincidence, and is exactly the kind of thing a filmmaker would call an homage while secretly thinking it was hilarious.
Obviously it is. Also, the guy in glasses that gets eaten immediately after that scene is David Koepp, script writer. This movie is just Spielberg having fun with his buddies.
Im glad that you guys seem to be having slightly longer post movie discussions. Its good to hear what you think overall afterwords where with a lot of the older reactions we only get your thoughts during the movie.
"company of death" is such a nice double. Like being in the company of people and animals dying but also working for ingen which doesn't strike to be a nice company to work for in this movie :D
The paleontologist tagging along with the hunters is loosely based on Dr Robert Bakker, who was/is a friendly rival of JPs paleontology consultant, Dr Jack Horner. Bakker is referenced in both JP and JP2, and Alan Grant was loosely based on Horner.
The bearded paleontologist wearing the cowboy hat is an homage to Robert Bakker, one of the world's most famous dinosaur experts. He's the one who popularized the idea that dinosaurs were warm blooded in his book, The Dinosaur Heresies. Tim makes reference to Bakker and his book in the previous Jurassic Park film.
At first, when I saw this film, I hated it because my favorite Paleontologist Alan Grant wasn't in the film as Sam Neill, the actor was too busy working on the Sci Fi Horror Thriller EVENT HORIZON.
14:05 When I was a kid I once pulled a friend to safety after he fell of a clip with my fake leg. I held the strap and he held the foot. After he was safe he was very excited at how cool the rescue was. I never told him that as I was pulling him up I was watching the strap come apart. If it had broken.... I had to leave camp to get my leg fixed. The prosthetist who fixed it asked what had happened. He thought it was so cool he did the repair for free. And gave me an extra heavy duty strap. I can tell you, I don't miss that effing strap. But this was the 80's so not such good prosthetics.
So this is one of the few Jurassic Park movies to question your morality, and maybe it was in Poor's taste to do that in Jurassic Park but I respect this movie for it all the more. The hunters who are clearly here to do the wrong thing of bringing these dinosaurs off the island also the ones who genuinely help our heroes get off the island. Meanwhile, our heroes who are trying to save the dinosaurs also end up getting lots of people killed on the island. Especially Sarah who carries with her a blood-soaked baby T-Rex blood. And it is solely because of our heroes that both parties are trapped on the island. I also like the conclusion at the end that the real evil is the corporatism behind everything. The hunters are humanized by the end but the big corporate entity funding them is killed off.
Sarah at least doesn't have a choice really, being that she doesn't have a change of clothes and the group is in a hurry so they can't stop and give their clothes a proper cleaning. Nick is more to blame, deliberately sabotaging Roland's weapon after the groups had joined up which forced Roland to use the dart gun instead, leading to the whole San Diego. Roland meanwhile, despite being a big game hunter, is actually really personable and has a strict personal code, goes out of his way to help the other team and is mainly focused on getting his men off the island. Both parties have their good and bad members.
@@Riku-zv5dk I don't mind Nick removing the bullets from the weapon. it is an inconvenience that gets people killed, but Roland (the bad ass that he is) manages to make a do and while that does lead to the San Diego incident and also means that the T-Rex gets to live. But you know what you're absolutely right. Nick leads to the San Diego incident, once again our altruistic hero has caused people to get hurt. Another great example of questioning the consequences to moral actions But Roland points out to Sarah that she is covered in T-Rex blood, and she does mention that T-Rex have some of the best sense of smell out of all the dinosaurs, AND SHE DOESN'T THROW THE JACKET AWAY. WHAT A COLOSSAL DUMBASS BITCH. Sorry, that really angers me.
as of next summer there are 6 theatrical films not 7, Battle at Big Rock is and 8 minute short film that was released only on UA-cam, it takes place 1 year after Fallen Kingdom
With the Hunter, the film implied that because his partner was assumingely killed by the Raptors, and the rest of the lost of life, which proved to him-- it wasn’t worth being in that life anymore…
Fun fact: the "flying dinosaurs" in the end were actually not dinosaurs, but pterosaurs, a related but distinct order of animals. Some dinosaurs also evolved flight independently of pterosaurs - these dinosaurs are now known as "birds".
Fun(?) facts: Malcolm was the main character of both the movie and the Book. He also died in the end of Jurassic Park (the book). The book was written as a sequel to the movie. The author liked the character so much he just brought him back to life. Hammond also died in the first book. in the book, they never went to the mainland. The third act was totally different. Around this same time, a Gozilla reboot came out with Matthewe Broderick. Coincidence? The small dinos that attacked the girl in the beginning was a scene in the first book. They are compsognathus (Compys) and had a desensitizing venom that puts the prey to sleep. In the first book, they ate a baby in a crib at the beginning. They are also the ones that killed Hammond. There was a Far Side cartoon where cavemen named the "thing at the end of the tail" on a stegosaurus a "Thagomizer, in the memory of the late Thag SImmons." Real Paleontologists now informally use the term. The only way to get into the wheelhouse and leave a hand on the wheel is a small enough dino to get through the door, but big enough to sever the hand cleanly. We only see the T-rex. There are 100% raptors in SoCal.
I can look around the Ghost and the Darkness grass ripoff, the stupidity in San Diego, even the gymnastic raptor scene. My biggest disappointment though was that Sarah didn’t get eaten. She’s the worst. She’s the biggest antagonist in the entire movie. Your reactions however are fantastic- keep up good work.
Idk if you guys caught it but the lil girl that got swarmed by the lil dinosaurs in the beginning did survive. Hammond mentions it briefly in his talk with Malcom
27:00 Steven Spielberg actually wanted the ending changed to the San Diego ending. The original involved the Pteranodons (thats why they were in the last shot) attacking helicopters and some hunters with gliders. The production team fought for the scene but Steven wasn't convinced.
The big game hunter says he’s spent enough time in the company of death for two reasons: 1, he knows that what ingen is planning is going to be a huge disaster that will cost more lives and 2, he has reached the pinnacle of his hunting career, capturing the ultimate apex predator. He has conquered his highest personal challenge, which is specifically why he compared it to climbing Everest. No, the climber doesn’t kill the mountain, and he had no intention of climbing the t-rex. It’s called a metaphor. I know the movie needed some bad guys but game hunters are the most influential contributors and activists for preservation, so don’t go so hard on em.
Godzilla reference: There was a "did you know?" on a Jurassic Park documentary that claimed one of the Japanese businessmen shouts something like "I left Tokyo to get away from this!" So yeah.
As usual, Ian Malcolm had all the best lines. You didn’t show the best one, where he comes up behind Ludlow on the dock after the T-Rex escapes and says “ _Now_ you’re John Hammond”.
I love the Robert T. Bakker cameo where George says "That guy just seems like he was studying". He was basically the inspiration for Sam Neill's character in the first movie.
Game Hunters contrary to popular belief are actually good guys, and they are the opposite of poachers. They pay high fees to hunt that help pay to maintain sanctuaries or facilities. They are even needed sometimes to pick off troublesome animals. For instance older Elephants that kill of young Elephants for mates despite the fact that they are infertile. Poachers just kill for animal parts and money without paying to maintain the ecosystem/facilities. They also kill indiscriminately.
Because, this is my favorite movie of all time, I leave two fun facts here. 1. The ship, that carries the T-rex to San Diego is called SS Venture. The ship that carried King Kong to New York had the same name. 2. There is a reason for the over aggressive behavior of the raptors, but it’s just explained in the book. In this universe, raptors are social animals. But because they had no parental guidance, they show unnatural behavior. That’s why they attack each other and everything in sight.
Decent enough sequel to the franchise thanks largely to Goldblum & the dinos. Fun facts: The Venture (the boat that crashes the pier) is a nod to the original KING KONG (which had the same name of the ship that brings the crew to Skull Island and Kong back to NYC); the poor bastard who gets eaten by the T-Rex while attempting to flee in the San Diego street is the film's screenwriter David Koepp (and the character is called Poor Bastard); and again darker and more lean & mean than the original.
You should read the forward to the book. It's basically Crichton doing the, "They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house!" gag from the Simpsons. I like Crichton's work, aside from where he uses characters to defame and mock people he doesn't like, but the guy was a bit of a self important pretentious a$$hole.
The reason they can't leave the island is that their is a certain nutrient they lack that the park handlers instilled into the plant life. So they can only live on that island or in a facility.
You made me curious and I checked... Speed 2 came out only 1 month after this one, so we really cannot say who copied who's idea with the ship smashing the pier and the kid calling danger out to his parents... I remeber I loved the gymnastic trick back when it came out, I thought it was super cool and original (I was 12 back then) and recently heard it called cheese and dumb... I still like it lol You guys will love the 3rd, I remember that one more than this one :)
Practically every line Ian Malcolm has in this film is comedy gold!! I'm one of the few who likes this movie more than the first one. Much like Predator 2 we the audience have experienced the visual terror/ wonder, not any mystery surrounding it any more. Just solid meat in this story, so to speak.
It is a Godzilla reference in San Diego. According to UA-camr, James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd), the man says in Japanese : 'I left Japan to get away from this!'
Regarding the baby T-Rex having a broken leg, it was not the ones who tied the baby down. It was the one with the glasses. He was drunk and broke its leg.
Fun fact. The spikes on the tails of Stegosaurus (Stegosaurii?) are called Thagomizers by palaeontologists. It wasn’t their proper name (may not have even had one), but it came from a Gary Larson cartoon where cavemen were discussing those spikes and calling them Thagomizers after their buddy ‘Thag’ who got puréed by one. Since a lot of Gary’s quirky humour hit the spot with many scientific minds, this bit of humour stood out and the spikes became known (semi-) officially as Thagomizers.
27:28 I don't know where the 7 comes from, but there actually 5 movies so far. ;) Next year it's 6 with the release of "Jurassic World: Dominion". JP1, JP2, JP3, JW1, JW2 ... JW3 (2022) Nice reaction as always though! :D Always fun.
When this video released, there were five Jurassic Park movies released: Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The newest one just released a few weeks ago called Jurassic World: Dominion but what JP movies are the other supposed two? I only know these six.....
This movie is SO underrated!! It's such a suspenseful sequel that smartly doesn't try to repeat the first film. Also, this film's got a mean streak that I find darkly amusing.
I really enjoyed the book and this movie is virtually unrecognizable from the plot of the book. So I've always held a grudge against it. Interesting to see non book people's reactions. Literally the only thing they kept from the book was the t rexes attacking the trailer, and they took a lot of license with that as well.
A lot of it is from the book but it’s like they intentionally twisted everything. No Levine, no carnatosaurs, no Arby, etc. The vehicles, the island layout, some characters for example.
when i was a kid my mom used to have to skip the part where the dog gets eaten or tell me to close my eyes lol. broke my little heart the first time i seen it years later when i actually watched the scene i remembered it looking like a completely different dog and being a lot more disturbing than it actually was
when they made the first film they made the velocyraptors bigger than they are. one year later they found a raptor fossel in Utah USA. 3 meaters nose to tail.thats over 9 feet.
The T-Rex was still in the cargo hold when it arrived. Obviously other dinosaurs got onboard to the crew of the ship, but not before the ship was put on autopilot...
I'm not sure where you're counting, but there aren't 7 Jurassic Park movies. There are currently 5. The 6th one is being released this coming year (2022). Jurassic Park (1993), Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Jurassic Park III (2001), Jurassic World (2015), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and then Jurassic World: Dominion is the one being released on June 10, 2022.
21:40 - The SS Venture is the ship Carl Denham used to travel to/from Skull Island in King Kong. Ships with that name show up in a whole lot of giant animal/kaiju movies.
"I died... I-in the movie I died..." In the late 90's some Gateway computers were shipped with a Lost World RTS game. The equipment good guy that was eaten has that voice line he will say occasionally and I still think about it to this day.
@@LudusAurea I do, but that retcon was only made because of the popularity of Goldblum’s portrayal of Malcolm. Spielberg didn’t kill him off in the first movie, so Crichton brought him back to life in the book sequel knowing Goldblum was going to be the star of the 2nd film.
The animal wildlife "expert" walks around with the blood of a baby T-rex on her. This after it's parents just killed your colleague and totally destroyed your base camp. You begin to wonder how she managed to get her qualifications?
One of you guys noticed the bottle next to the trapped Baby T Rex, yes that was meant to be a deleted scene where the main bad guy stumbled into their plan while he was drinking, thought he heard an adult T Rex , got scared and fell backwards breaking the Baby T Rex's leg.
This movie showed me another side of Arliss Howard's acting range. I had trouble 'believing' this was the same guy whom played 'Cowboy' in Full Metal Jacket or Lindroff in Tequila Sunrise.
the opening scene in this movie was the opening scene in the original Jurassic Park book. I hate reading and it's an amazing read. It gives Ian Malcom a bit more time expanding on chaos theory which he briefly explained to the lady paleontologist in the first one where you guys just thought he was being a creep. But chaos theory is the central focus of the book and it's quite amazing. Had to read it in calculus of all classes in high school.
In the movie they added the line that the little girl in the first scene survived. However in the comicbook adaption, based on the original script, the dinosaurs actually ate her.
Sir Richard Attenborough (John Hammond), played in one of my favorite Steve McQueen movies called "The Great Escape". That would be cool if you guys watched it.
In a deleted scene, after the mother screams it cuts to a board meeting at InGen regarding the incident. In the game Jurassic Park (PS1) there's a hidden ending showing Ian Malcolm on the shore of Isla Nublar proving the existence of dinosaurs only to be interrupted by a T-Rex roar. When the infant is captured by Rowland, Ludlow being drunk steps and breaks the infant Rex's leg. Which is why the father Rex let the baby kill Ludlow in the end.
There's also another reference in The Lost World regarding the characters, Nick Van Owen and Roland Tembo. They're a nod to characters from the song Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
Also, big game hunters are not poachers, those are people who hunt illegally. Realistically a substantial portion of the funding for conservation comes from revenue from hunters.
The guy thats got killed by the small dinosaurs is Peter Stormare, he is a famous swedish actor, if you listen werry carefully you can hear him swear in swedish befor he dies. Hes also in armagedon as the russian cosmonaut.
It wasn't in the reaction, so I'm not sure if you heard, but the little girl survived. She was injured, but alive. Those tiny dinos are more dangerous than they appear as later scenes ended up showing. O.O
Another fun fact: the guy that gets eaten by the t-rex in san francisco is credited as "unlucky bastard" and is the writer of the movie, as well as the first jurassic park
I'm sure others have commented, but there are several elements that were explained in the book that kinda got left behind in the movie. 1. The little Compys have poisonous bites. That's how they overwhelm that guy even though they're just nipping at him. 2. The T-Rexes attack the caravan because, by bringing the baby there, the people made that area part of the Rexes' territory. They were repelling intruders.
The raptors converging through the long grass, one of my favourite shots.
I read the raptors were in the long grass because they were breeding.
@@tsogobauggi8721 LOL
The raptors in the grass remind me of when the lawn mower broke down but the chihuahuas still gotta go out.
Im sure they reshot that scene in one of the Mummy movies lol
Regarding everyone on the boat being ripped apart; there was originally a side plot about a pack of raptors sneaking onboard the ship, and then escaping in San Diego. That whole thing was eventually scrapped pretty late in production to focus on the T-Rex, but the boat part was already filmed. And thus we end up with arguably one of the biggest plot holes in movie history!
@Doug Nading Raptors on the boat stole a submarine? I see what you're trying to say :p
Thank you, never made sense. Along with the original T-Rex paddock drop off that it walked out of. Which I later saw somewhat explained.
Another theory was that it was pteranodons that attacked the people on the boat
I always just assumed that it was the baby Tyrannosaur. I know he says the baby is in a secure facility but that coulda been after the adult left the boat.
Well there's no way the T-rex was able to return to it's hold and close the doors on itself after killing everyone.
My goofy theory is that something else was on-board, caused the carnage, and escaped, either by air or sea. The Rex tried to break out in a weak, tranquilized stupor when it hears the commotion, which is why it was unable to get out at first, and why the guys arm was on the control holding it down. The Rex simply went back to sleep after the ship fell silent again, until it wakes up crashing into San Diego.
Eddie was the true hero in this, juggling the different things to keep them from falling off the cliff, right up to the point that he dies.
That scene broke my heart. Never have I ever felt so sad about a character dying
The part at the beginning was actually how the first book started. It also had babies getting their faces eating while sleeping in their cribs. Good book.
Little Dinosaurs like little human meat
Wtf really?
Yep! Nothing like some baby stealing demons (er, dinosaurs eating babies...). haha
Hammond was also an insufferable asshole in the book.
Now I need to read the book.
Fun fact, Julianne Moore's character, Sarah Harding, is the daughter of Dr. Gerry Harding, the veterinarian who was looking after the sick Triceratops in the first movie.
A couple of things to note, Roland Tembo was a big game hunter, yes, but not a poacher. There's a scene in the script that was cut from the film, but included in the graphic novel adaptation, that gives you a much clearer picture of his character. Another deleted/cut scene included a slightly drunk Ludlow stumbling around while talking to Tembo, and falling onto the infant rex, breaking its leg. Daddy rex crushing Ludlow's leg in order to incapacitate him so that the infant can kill him is another example of poetic justice.
Steven Spielberg himself has stated that there are things about the production of this movie that he wishes he'd done differently. The first Jurassic Park was a bit of a passion project, as he loves dinosaurs and was a good friend of Michael Crichton, but he's admitted that with hindsight he feels like his approach to directing The Lost World was one of complacency rather than enthusiasm. Most of his energy and passion at the time went into the making of Saving Private Ryan.
As a dinosaur enthusiast this is probably my favorite film of the franchise, though I agree that the first movie is better. I just enjoy seeing the Tyrannosaurs portrayed as nurturing, protective parents, especially the father. This was rather new and radical idea at the time, as the predominant theory only a few years earlier was that predatory dinosaurs didn't care for their young at all.
Excellent post. The book was great and the story is fun, but this film could have been better. As you said, not the best movie in the franchise but still a favorite.
Wow although I know Dr. Gerry Harding I never realised that Sarah is his daughter.. all those years :o
Good post. I remember the aftermath of the first movie and Spielberg was pressured for a sequel. After publicly stating hundreds of times, "I don't do sequels", he gave in and agreed to make one. Can't help but think that had some bearing on this as well, but just my opinion.
Interesting post. Thanks for the info. ... PEACE to ALL.
That scene at the start with the little girl being attacked is taken directly from the first book.
The original book is a horror novel.
It has the girl being attacked, stories and legends of newborn babies being eaten alive, and even an actual event where you see a baby being eaten.
The book talks on several occasions about the smaller dinosaurs reaching the mainland, and have been running amok for years.
The thing with the boat, is that a raptor, maybe 2 or 3, managed to get on the boat without anyone knowing.
Also, note when Dieter gets killed... he opens the cattle prod, and the Compy runs away... yet when he first used the cattle prod, it didn't run, because it didn't know what he was doing.
The Compies have been following Dieter the whole movie since he attacked one of them. Basically following his group, and nobody knew it.
Once he's alone, they attack.
I like the execution of the Pete Postlethwaite character - He has a clearly defined sense of morality, even though it doesn't align particularly with the protagonists. Someone who got excited by bigger challenges is such a selfish motivation but it remains believable and adds a nice bit of world building. I even like how he departs, essentially having reached his own objective, he leaves everyone else to die. Just a genuinely interesting character
He left because he didn't get to achieve his objective - the male T-rex was caught alive, because his lethal rounds were stolen (or sabotaged...I can't remember which) by Nick and he could no longer kill it in a "sporting" manner; it was the fact that he had not only missed out on what he considered the pinnacle of achievement in his life, but had also ultimately led his best friend to death with nothing to show for the sacrifice.
Pete Postelthwaite acted this complex character so superbly that you can be relieved that he made it out alive while still feeling satisfied that he was justly denied his desire which allied him with the InGen poachers.
@@vashsunglasses he wasn't in FK
The story with the hunter, Roland Tembo, is better explained by a scene that didn't make it into the film. Its watchable on UA-cam. It shows a scene from early in the film when his partner Ajay Sindhu (the guy who was yelling at the hunters to not go into the long grass) comes to recruit him in Africa for this mission.
At this point in his life Roland is retired and hasn't seen his life long partner Ajay in years. They've hunted every big game animal on Earth and Roland is essentially just languishing in a bar, slowly wasting his life away because he feels like all his adventures and challenges are over and that there's nothing left for him. So when his best friend comes to him with a chance to hunt the ultimate predator, the T-Rex, he agrees to join Ajay on the mission.
But.... after everything goes to shit and he gets word that Ajay was killed by the Raptors, he no longer cares anymore about the hunt because he's realized that it was his friendship with Ajay and the adventures they'd had together that really mattered...and that this whole endeavor was a terrible mistake.
“Idiot, the adult! Shoot the adult! I want the baby alive.” “Oh! Is he talking to me?” Best part of this whole video lmao
Yeah lol 😂 I'm just seeing this now and hey that Adult T-Rex teaching the baby Rex to Eat the same mean old greedy guy trying to steal it lol it's actually kinda funny and it's what he kinda Deserve would you agree with me?
Favorite line "There's a dinosaur in our back yard." in a normal speaking tone.
I liked the last act. Especially the T-Rex roaring against the city scape.
At least the city scene gives Malcolm a redemption in the eyes of the rest of the public, now that they’ve seen an actual dinosaur that he had been warning people about.
It's truly one of the most satisfying "I told you so's" in movie history.
The dude in the beard and cowboy hat is based on Bob Baker, also known as "Dr. Dino." At the time these movies were made he was one of the world's foremost experts on dinosaurs and actually served as the technical adviser for both films. He was the guy who successfully argued that birds should be reclassified as a subset dinosaurs. Tim even references a book by "a guy named Baker" in the first movie when he's fan-boying over Dr. Grant.
24:04 That is _absolutely_ a Godzilla reference. It's too perfect to be a coincidence, and is exactly the kind of thing a filmmaker would call an homage while secretly thinking it was hilarious.
Obviously it is.
Also, the guy in glasses that gets eaten immediately after that scene is David Koepp, script writer.
This movie is just Spielberg having fun with his buddies.
Im glad that you guys seem to be having slightly longer post movie discussions. Its good to hear what you think overall afterwords where with a lot of the older reactions we only get your thoughts during the movie.
+1. That's why I watch reaction videos.
I don't like reactors who go "well here you go, that was the movie. Bye!"
I see Simone is stealthily still having fun changing Cinebinge to something else
I'm glad I'm not the only one hearing that 😂
Yeah, but I wonder if she's aware of the meaning of the second half of what she said (in some parts)...
20:45 Roland's problem is that his friend didn't make it. Ajay's death was a price he wasn't willing to pay for his adventures.
"company of death" is such a nice double. Like being in the company of people and animals dying but also working for ingen which doesn't strike to be a nice company to work for in this movie :D
Exactly, thank you.
The deleted scene with him and Ajay sheds more light on him as well.
@@ColonelCarnage yeah he defended a waitress who was harassed by a drunken guy
I had multiple nightmares about finding a T-Rex in my backyard and running through the city trying to scape it
I had a recurring nightmare from the first movie about being on the jeep being chased by the t-rex.
The paleontologist tagging along with the hunters is loosely based on Dr Robert Bakker, who was/is a friendly rival of JPs paleontology consultant, Dr Jack Horner. Bakker is referenced in both JP and JP2, and Alan Grant was loosely based on Horner.
There is a deleted scene that really flushed out the safari hunter character. It’s a shame it was cut.
The bearded paleontologist wearing the cowboy hat is an homage to Robert Bakker, one of the world's most famous dinosaur experts. He's the one who popularized the idea that dinosaurs were warm blooded in his book, The Dinosaur Heresies. Tim makes reference to Bakker and his book in the previous Jurassic Park film.
At first, when I saw this film, I hated it because my favorite Paleontologist Alan Grant wasn't in the film as Sam Neill, the actor was too busy working on the Sci Fi Horror Thriller EVENT HORIZON.
Event Horizon is a great movie.
14:05 When I was a kid I once pulled a friend to safety after he fell of a clip with my fake leg. I held the strap and he held the foot.
After he was safe he was very excited at how cool the rescue was.
I never told him that as I was pulling him up I was watching the strap come apart. If it had broken....
I had to leave camp to get my leg fixed. The prosthetist who fixed it asked what had happened. He thought it was so cool he did the repair for free. And gave me an extra heavy duty strap.
I can tell you, I don't miss that effing strap. But this was the 80's so not such good prosthetics.
So this is one of the few Jurassic Park movies to question your morality, and maybe it was in Poor's taste to do that in Jurassic Park but I respect this movie for it all the more.
The hunters who are clearly here to do the wrong thing of bringing these dinosaurs off the island also the ones who genuinely help our heroes get off the island. Meanwhile, our heroes who are trying to save the dinosaurs also end up getting lots of people killed on the island. Especially Sarah who carries with her a blood-soaked baby T-Rex blood. And it is solely because of our heroes that both parties are trapped on the island.
I also like the conclusion at the end that the real evil is the corporatism behind everything. The hunters are humanized by the end but the big corporate entity funding them is killed off.
Sarah at least doesn't have a choice really, being that she doesn't have a change of clothes and the group is in a hurry so they can't stop and give their clothes a proper cleaning. Nick is more to blame, deliberately sabotaging Roland's weapon after the groups had joined up which forced Roland to use the dart gun instead, leading to the whole San Diego. Roland meanwhile, despite being a big game hunter, is actually really personable and has a strict personal code, goes out of his way to help the other team and is mainly focused on getting his men off the island. Both parties have their good and bad members.
@@Riku-zv5dk I don't mind Nick removing the bullets from the weapon. it is an inconvenience that gets people killed, but Roland (the bad ass that he is) manages to make a do and while that does lead to the San Diego incident and also means that the T-Rex gets to live.
But you know what you're absolutely right. Nick leads to the San Diego incident, once again our altruistic hero has caused people to get hurt. Another great example of questioning the consequences to moral actions
But Roland points out to Sarah that she is covered in T-Rex blood, and she does mention that T-Rex have some of the best sense of smell out of all the dinosaurs, AND SHE DOESN'T THROW THE JACKET AWAY. WHAT A COLOSSAL DUMBASS BITCH. Sorry, that really angers me.
as of next summer there are 6 theatrical films not 7, Battle at Big Rock is and 8 minute short film that was released only on UA-cam, it takes place 1 year after Fallen Kingdom
Minge?? :O lol Great reaction :) Jeff Goldblum in the rain....good name for an album.
The opening scene in the film is actually the opening of the original book. The little girl end up having her face disfigured, but survives.
"How many Sarah's do you think are on this island??"
-Dr. Ian Malcolm 🤣
Awww, I almost wish your version was true: the baby T-Rex explained what happened and the parents came back to help pull them back from the cliff! 😁
With the Hunter, the film implied that because his partner was assumingely killed by the Raptors, and the rest of the lost of life, which proved to him-- it wasn’t worth being in that life anymore…
Fun fact: the "flying dinosaurs" in the end were actually not dinosaurs, but pterosaurs, a related but distinct order of animals. Some dinosaurs also evolved flight independently of pterosaurs - these dinosaurs are now known as "birds".
This. :D
"They certianly don't look like birds to me."
@@matthewkalasky2891 Quoting the movie... why?
@@ChrissonatorOFL eypandabear said "Some dinosaurs also evolved flight independently of pterosaurs - these dinosaurs are now known as "birds""
@@matthewkalasky2891 Yes, which is true. 🤷
If you want to learn: the tail of a stegosaurus is called the thagomizer.
If you want a laugh: look up why.
Haha this was awesome to learn about. Thanks!
I got this immediately and LOL'd. I love GL.
I love how the father Rex was like, "That's my boy" when killing the bad guy.
I definitely recommend reading the novel this was adapted from, but just like its predecessor, is much darker in tone and more graphic
Amazing book really!
I agree! I highly recommend the book.
Fun(?) facts: Malcolm was the main character of both the movie and the Book. He also died in the end of Jurassic Park (the book). The book was written as a sequel to the movie. The author liked the character so much he just brought him back to life. Hammond also died in the first book.
in the book, they never went to the mainland. The third act was totally different. Around this same time, a Gozilla reboot came out with Matthewe Broderick. Coincidence?
The small dinos that attacked the girl in the beginning was a scene in the first book. They are compsognathus (Compys) and had a desensitizing venom that puts the prey to sleep. In the first book, they ate a baby in a crib at the beginning. They are also the ones that killed Hammond.
There was a Far Side cartoon where cavemen named the "thing at the end of the tail" on a stegosaurus a "Thagomizer, in the memory of the late Thag SImmons." Real Paleontologists now informally use the term.
The only way to get into the wheelhouse and leave a hand on the wheel is a small enough dino to get through the door, but big enough to sever the hand cleanly. We only see the T-rex. There are 100% raptors in SoCal.
I can look around the Ghost and the Darkness grass ripoff, the stupidity in San Diego, even the gymnastic raptor scene. My biggest disappointment though was that Sarah didn’t get eaten. She’s the worst. She’s the biggest antagonist in the entire movie.
Your reactions however are fantastic- keep up good work.
Vince Vaughns character is a close second, maybe worse. Almost all the deaths on the island( especially Eddies) are directly due to his actions.
Idk if you guys caught it but the lil girl that got swarmed by the lil dinosaurs in the beginning did survive. Hammond mentions it briefly in his talk with Malcom
27:00 Steven Spielberg actually wanted the ending changed to the San Diego ending. The original involved the Pteranodons (thats why they were in the last shot) attacking helicopters and some hunters with gliders. The production team fought for the scene but Steven wasn't convinced.
The big game hunter says he’s spent enough time in the company of death for two reasons: 1, he knows that what ingen is planning is going to be a huge disaster that will cost more lives and 2, he has reached the pinnacle of his hunting career, capturing the ultimate apex predator. He has conquered his highest personal challenge, which is specifically why he compared it to climbing Everest. No, the climber doesn’t kill the mountain, and he had no intention of climbing the t-rex. It’s called a metaphor. I know the movie needed some bad guys but game hunters are the most influential contributors and activists for preservation, so don’t go so hard on em.
Ian tells Dr Grant he's got 3 kids in the first movie, but Kelly is the only one seen or even mentioned in this one.
Still cracks me up that she's black when malcolm is Jewish 😂
The bit with the crowd running from the rex was the film crew.
Fun fact. The ship SS Venture, which brings the T-Rex to the mainland is named after the ship that brought King Kong to New York in the 1933 original.
Godzilla reference: There was a "did you know?" on a Jurassic Park documentary that claimed one of the Japanese businessmen shouts something like "I left Tokyo to get away from this!" So yeah.
As usual, Ian Malcolm had all the best lines. You didn’t show the best one, where he comes up behind Ludlow on the dock after the T-Rex escapes and says “ _Now_ you’re John Hammond”.
Narrator: "Four patties is never 'too many.' If anything, it may not be enough."
I love the Robert T. Bakker cameo where George says "That guy just seems like he was studying". He was basically the inspiration for Sam Neill's character in the first movie.
Game Hunters contrary to popular belief are actually good guys, and they are the opposite of poachers.
They pay high fees to hunt that help pay to maintain sanctuaries or facilities. They are even needed sometimes to pick off troublesome animals. For instance older Elephants that kill of young Elephants for mates despite the fact that they are infertile.
Poachers just kill for animal parts and money without paying to maintain the ecosystem/facilities. They also kill indiscriminately.
Because, this is my favorite movie of all time, I leave two fun facts here.
1. The ship, that carries the T-rex to San Diego is called SS Venture. The ship that carried King Kong to New York had the same name.
2. There is a reason for the over aggressive behavior of the raptors, but it’s just explained in the book. In this universe, raptors are social animals. But because they had no parental guidance, they show unnatural behavior. That’s why they attack each other and everything in sight.
Decent enough sequel to the franchise thanks largely to Goldblum & the dinos. Fun facts: The Venture (the boat that crashes the pier) is a nod to the original KING KONG (which had the same name of the ship that brings the crew to Skull Island and Kong back to NYC); the poor bastard who gets eaten by the T-Rex while attempting to flee in the San Diego street is the film's screenwriter David Koepp (and the character is called Poor Bastard); and again darker and more lean & mean than the original.
FYI Peter Ludlow in this movie is played by Arliss Howard, who you might recognize as Private Cowboy in Full Metal Jacket.
I recommend "The Neverending Story" for a reaction video!
You just want to see Simone cry don't you? Lol.
Seconded
You should read the forward to the book. It's basically Crichton doing the, "They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house!" gag from the Simpsons. I like Crichton's work, aside from where he uses characters to defame and mock people he doesn't like, but the guy was a bit of a self important pretentious a$$hole.
The reason they can't leave the island is that their is a certain nutrient they lack that the park handlers instilled into the plant life.
So they can only live on that island or in a facility.
You made me curious and I checked... Speed 2 came out only 1 month after this one, so we really cannot say who copied who's idea with the ship smashing the pier and the kid calling danger out to his parents... I remeber I loved the gymnastic trick back when it came out, I thought it was super cool and original (I was 12 back then) and recently heard it called cheese and dumb... I still like it lol You guys will love the 3rd, I remember that one more than this one :)
As for the game hunter Roland when he bowed out, his best friend and hunting partner Ajay was killed by the raptors.
Practically every line Ian Malcolm has in this film is comedy gold!! I'm one of the few who likes this movie more than the first one. Much like Predator 2 we the audience have experienced the visual terror/ wonder, not any mystery surrounding it any more. Just solid meat in this story, so to speak.
It is a Godzilla reference in San Diego. According to UA-camr, James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd), the man says in Japanese : 'I left Japan to get away from this!'
The Flyers are Pterosaurs and they are not Dinosaurs. The one in this movie is called a Pteranodon
Jeff Goldblum Breathing meme is a good search since Simone is a fan of his work in these movies 😉
Regarding the baby T-Rex having a broken leg, it was not the ones who tied the baby down. It was the one with the glasses. He was drunk and broke its leg.
Fun fact. The spikes on the tails of Stegosaurus (Stegosaurii?) are called Thagomizers by palaeontologists. It wasn’t their proper name (may not have even had one), but it came from a Gary Larson cartoon where cavemen were discussing those spikes and calling them Thagomizers after their buddy ‘Thag’ who got puréed by one. Since a lot of Gary’s quirky humour hit the spot with many scientific minds, this bit of humour stood out and the spikes became known (semi-) officially as Thagomizers.
27:28 I don't know where the 7 comes from, but there actually 5 movies so far. ;) Next year it's 6 with the release of "Jurassic World: Dominion".
JP1, JP2, JP3, JW1, JW2 ... JW3 (2022)
Nice reaction as always though! :D Always fun.
When this video released, there were five Jurassic Park movies released: Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The newest one just released a few weeks ago called Jurassic World: Dominion but what JP movies are the other supposed two? I only know these six.....
This movie is SO underrated!! It's such a suspenseful sequel that smartly doesn't try to repeat the first film. Also, this film's got a mean streak that I find darkly amusing.
Simone, pterosaurs are NOT flying dinosaurs. They are flying reptiles. Birds, however, ARE flying dinosaurs.
“I could use a double cheeseburger”! I love it!! McD’s strikes again.
I really enjoyed the book and this movie is virtually unrecognizable from the plot of the book. So I've always held a grudge against it. Interesting to see non book people's reactions. Literally the only thing they kept from the book was the t rexes attacking the trailer, and they took a lot of license with that as well.
Yeah, I just can’t get past the Godzilla knock-off second half.
A lot of it is from the book but it’s like they intentionally twisted everything. No Levine, no carnatosaurs, no Arby, etc. The vehicles, the island layout, some characters for example.
when i was a kid my mom used to have to skip the part where the dog gets eaten or tell me to close my eyes lol. broke my little heart the first time i seen it
years later when i actually watched the scene i remembered it looking like a completely different dog and being a lot more disturbing than it actually was
when they made the first film they made the velocyraptors bigger than they are. one year later they found a raptor fossel in Utah USA. 3 meaters nose to tail.thats over 9 feet.
"Going up Everest doesn't kill the mountain..."
That's debatable.
To paraphrase Monty Python: "Started out with a nice idea about Dinosaurs and Poachers but now it's just got silly."
The worst part was pretending a kid's gymnastics routine would knock a grown raptor out the window.
The T-Rex was still in the cargo hold when it arrived. Obviously other dinosaurs got onboard to the crew of the ship, but not before the ship was put on autopilot...
6:40 the bald guy was major character on the excellent TV series The West Wing. Simone needs to watch some of that show 🙂
I'm not sure where you're counting, but there aren't 7 Jurassic Park movies. There are currently 5. The 6th one is being released this coming year (2022).
Jurassic Park (1993), Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Jurassic Park III (2001), Jurassic World (2015), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and then Jurassic World: Dominion is the one being released on June 10, 2022.
21:40 - The SS Venture is the ship Carl Denham used to travel to/from Skull Island in King Kong. Ships with that name show up in a whole lot of giant animal/kaiju movies.
"I died... I-in the movie I died..."
In the late 90's some Gateway computers were shipped with a Lost World RTS game. The equipment good guy that was eaten has that voice line he will say occasionally and I still think about it to this day.
It’s so weird watching Malcolm and Hammond having that early conversation since they both died in the first book.
Yea but at least Malcolm being alive is canon in this book. You do know Crichton wrote a sequel, right?
@@LudusAurea I do, but that retcon was only made because of the popularity of Goldblum’s portrayal of Malcolm. Spielberg didn’t kill him off in the first movie, so Crichton brought him back to life in the book sequel knowing Goldblum was going to be the star of the 2nd film.
The animal wildlife "expert" walks around with the blood of a baby T-rex on her. This after it's parents just killed your colleague and totally destroyed your base camp. You begin to wonder how she managed to get her qualifications?
I got so mad at Sarah Harding, it almost ruined the movie for me. That character was akin to those bumbling scientists in PROMETHEUS.
The guy who gets eaten trying to run into the video store is David Koepp - the film’s screenplay writer!
The thing is Ludlow the guy with the glasses was the one who broke the babys leg in a drunken stupor
One of you guys noticed the bottle next to the trapped Baby T Rex, yes that was meant to be a deleted scene where the main bad guy stumbled into their plan while he was drinking, thought he heard an adult T Rex , got scared and fell backwards breaking the Baby T Rex's leg.
24:05 Finally someone who see that scene as a reference to godzilla.
Please do the rest of the series!
This movie showed me another side of Arliss Howard's acting range. I had trouble 'believing' this was the same guy whom played 'Cowboy' in Full Metal Jacket or Lindroff in Tequila Sunrise.
the opening scene in this movie was the opening scene in the original Jurassic Park book. I hate reading and it's an amazing read. It gives Ian Malcom a bit more time expanding on chaos theory which he briefly explained to the lady paleontologist in the first one where you guys just thought he was being a creep. But chaos theory is the central focus of the book and it's quite amazing. Had to read it in calculus of all classes in high school.
"it's not been that long because he hasn't aged a lot" Jeff Goldblum doesn't age 😂
In the movie they added the line that the little girl in the first scene survived.
However in the comicbook adaption, based on the original script, the dinosaurs actually ate her.
This was the first movie I ever watched in the cinema, I was 7 at the time. when the raptor stuck its head under the door I nearly hit the roof.
"I want a double cheeseburger with 4 patties"
Sir that is a quadruple cheeseburger
Sir Richard Attenborough (John Hammond), played in one of my favorite Steve McQueen movies called "The Great Escape". That would be cool if you guys watched it.
In a deleted scene, after the mother screams it cuts to a board meeting at InGen regarding the incident.
In the game Jurassic Park (PS1) there's a hidden ending showing Ian Malcolm on the shore of Isla Nublar proving the existence of dinosaurs only to be interrupted by a T-Rex roar.
When the infant is captured by Rowland, Ludlow being drunk steps and breaks the infant Rex's leg. Which is why the father Rex let the baby kill Ludlow in the end.
There's also another reference in The Lost World regarding the characters, Nick Van Owen and Roland Tembo. They're a nod to characters from the song Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
Interesting cut scene that sets up Roland's character a bit better. Worth checking out.
Also, big game hunters are not poachers, those are people who hunt illegally. Realistically a substantial portion of the funding for conservation comes from revenue from hunters.
The paleontologist Burke(with both of hat),is base on Robert Bakker, who was the advisor for the movie.
Getting eaten was the joke
The guy thats got killed by the small dinosaurs is Peter Stormare, he is a famous swedish actor, if you listen werry carefully you can hear him swear in swedish befor he dies. Hes also in armagedon as the russian cosmonaut.
This is how you fix things in Russian space station!
It wasn't in the reaction, so I'm not sure if you heard, but the little girl survived. She was injured, but alive. Those tiny dinos are more dangerous than they appear as later scenes ended up showing. O.O
Another fun fact: the guy that gets eaten by the t-rex in san francisco is credited as "unlucky bastard" and is the writer of the movie, as well as the first jurassic park
Seeing the tshirt, I legit thought that Orphan Maker is a death metal band. XDD
Great reaction btw. ♥️
I'm sure others have commented, but there are several elements that were explained in the book that kinda got left behind in the movie.
1. The little Compys have poisonous bites. That's how they overwhelm that guy even though they're just nipping at him.
2. The T-Rexes attack the caravan because, by bringing the baby there, the people made that area part of the Rexes' territory. They were repelling intruders.