Jurassic Park

Interesting you mention the books and then about Hammond being a sympathetic character... film Hammond, maybe, but Book Hammond was a greedy, almost con-artist type man, who over promised investors and pushed boundaries, not necessarily in a good way, and all for the pursuit of making money. It's interesting how they reversed it for the film to make him more palatable.

Lee-anne

The T-Rex. She stole every scene she was in

Alyson Addington

Because i am uploading them directly after recording as a RAW file. Meaning I am not using and editing software like on youtube.

Aussie Dillon

Who the hell is Rexy?

Aussie Dillon

That's from the second movie, btw, where, as one critic put it, Jeff Goldblum returns to "play his naggy Brainy Smurf character--'Papa Smurf SAID this would happen if you played around with dino DNA!'"

Eric Janssen

Yeah "oooooooh, aahhhhh..." that's always how it starts but then later there's running......and screaming.....

Alyson Addington

The ethics of cloning and DNA manipulation are a common theme in Michael Crichton books. Hammond really is a sympathetic character. You can tell he really just wanted to fulfill a dream and share his discovery with the world. Was it foolish to think he could control such animals...of course. And you commented on how at the end, they just left the dinosaurs behind. That becomes a key fact in the sequels, especially the next one. All of them are good. Yes, some better than others but all are worth a watch and tell an interesting over-all story. The newest one (which will be the conclusion to the franchise) coming out this summer will show the consequences of these animals living with mankind.

Emily Smith

I'd enjoy watching some of these being re-watched with your wife, too, and get her reactions to some of these movies. You both do great together with Friends.

Kevin (31Mike)

I joked about “Lost World syndrome” with the It director, and you can guess how it got its name—Spielberg doesn’t really like sequels, and didn’t really take JP2 seriously, except for putting in characters that resembled his own wife and kid, throwing in dopey personal in-jokes, and letting the whole thing go to mess. Jurassic World, without Spielberg, indulged our fantasy of “How cool would the park be if we could see it open?”, but their second go-to-mess movie was just as dopey, and they were dead serious about it.

Eric Janssen

You're very brave watching all these scary films this month, i could never 😣

AyaaChann

I hope you watch the whole franchise, I really do enjoy watching your content

@EricJanssen Oh yeah, I *was* going to say something about that but then forgot all about it! There was that baby mammoth mummy up in some island at the top of the world where the last mammoths were before they went extinct a couple thousand years after the rest....I think....it's been awhile...I forget also, did they get enough DNA to work with? I can see an Ice Age park where the sabertooth cats and hellpigs and killer giant birds and short faced bears and dire wolves all get loose and start running amuck... not as big or as impressive as dinosaurs, true, but there's probably a scenario or two panning out with that that'd make a decent movie franchise. Definitely more do-able. Probably just as bad an idea.

Alyson Addington

I'm just glad Steve Alten's megalodon movie was such a trainwreck from start to finish and therefore most of the planet isn't all gung ho about recreating Jaws 2.0. Not that you can get shark DNA from mosquitoes anyway. Well maybe you can, I dunno. Life finds a way?

Alyson Addington

I don't know why but the volume on your videos is always so low I can only just barely hear you...even with the volume on my phone turned ALL the way up. And, your account is the ONE account I have this issue with on Patreon. 🥺

Linda Wallack

They still want to use relatively fresh Ice Age DNA to mix with elephants' to revive mammoths, despite the fact that a fur coat is no fun in Africa without an Ice Age.

Eric Janssen

Also, this movie sparked interest in a brand new wave of paleontologists, digging up fossilized mosquitos and trying to work out if it was even possible to extract blood with dino DNA in it. A few years back, there was much excitement when they discovered that yes, they COULD get blood out of an amberized mosquito, and people went NUTS. Insane People: "YES!!! YES!!!!!!! WE CAN MAKE A JURASSIC PARK!!" People With Common Sense: "THERE ARE NOW SIX MOVIES ABOUT WHY THE HELL YOU SHOULDN'T DO THAT." Insane People: But dinosaurs!!!! People With Brains: DID YOU EVEN WATCH THE MOVIE??? Luckily for the world's entire population the DNA was too degraded to use. It's not possible to make dinosaurs.............................yet.

Alyson Addington

You rose to the occasion, mate. I've been looking forward to this one since the list came out. Will you follow the line-up of sequels, too?

JIM SCHMITZ

Number 2 is just a jumbled mess, only needs to be watched to get some references in Number 3. The re- boot movies of Jurassic World are better. One is really good, World two is adequate the trailers for number 3 are awesome so far. But we all know how trailers can be awesome and the movie stinks. We shall see.

james fewell

I wasn't sure I liked Timmy when this movie first came out but now as an adult I can properly appreciate his combination of scene stealing one-liners and solid steel plot armor. And the dinosaurs were a mix of CGI and practical effects....animatronics for the large ones and a couple of guys running around a kitchen in velociraptor suits. The blend of different technology hadn't been done before (Spielberg partnered up with Lucasfilm again and they had to invent all new programs to make it work) and imo hasn't been done so successfully or seamlessly since. That's why I think the movie has aged so well. Yeah, I know it's kind of cliche to have the T rex show back up right at the end and eat the raptors. Spielberg even agreed that it didn't make sense (I mean it doesn't really make sense to have the predatory T-rex roaring all over the park, alerting every potential prey animal in a six mile radius to its presence as it stomps with ever-increasing volume towards them....or that an 8 ton animal like T-rex would cause impact tremors but a HERD of 30 ton brachiosaurus's just stroll along without so much as a twitch on the Richter scale, for that matter..... but whatever. It's a movie.) but he wanted to throw it in there and give the audiences one more moment of awesome. I approve. Rexy was the real star of the film.

Alyson Addington

“We can charge $2000 a day, the customers will pay it!” Yeah, and just imagine if they built a Star Wars hotel! 😛 Seriously, though, if you want more Michael Crichton theme parks gone wrong, check out 1973’s “Westworld” (not, under any circumstances, to be confused with snooty pretentious cable series). It’s one of the reasons I recommended the original “Magnificent Seven” over the remake.

Eric Janssen

Don’t worry about the amber. As far as we know, it’s not possible for DNA (inside the blood the mosquito ingested) or any nucleic acid (such as RNA) to survive that long. It’s been millions of years and they haven’t found anything that proves otherwise yet. It would be possible to clone a mammoth or a thylasine as the mammoth went extinct about 4,000 years ago and the latter less than 100 years ago, so the DNA is still preserved!

Mariana