Hello everybody and welcome to Hold Up, the show where we dive deep inside your childhood nostalgia, pull the movies from your past out to see if they truly hold up. Well today's a big one and there's no other place I'd rather be with my two co hosts. Kyle and Andrew. Greetings.  How are we doing? Shut up.

Hey, you don't need to I asked how you were doing. Yeah, but I care about your existence, and you tell me to shut up? What does that say about you? We have a hierarchy, and , you've shit on that hierarchy because , you just wanted to talk first. I also negated my contract that I signed with you. Yes, , signed with the devil.

The devil? Who is you? You, you are the devil. Yes. And I signed it in blood, and I broke a cardinal rule, and I apologize. Not just blood.  But. Fecal matter. And fountain ink. 

,  speaking of fountain ink, the ink really dried on this contract for a sequel, and I'm talking about Jurassic Park The Lost World. That was a nice lead in. Yeah. 

You should dabble in improv and comedy I think you should I actually move to New York and just get with  What's the name of that fucking place? I don't know what it is in New York. I'm really It's not Ascat's. No, it's Upright Citizens Brigade. And there's also the pit. Yeah, you should just give them all your money and go through the classes.

Go through the classes because that's gonna get you Do the pyramid scheme and you're gonna go far, Chase. Very far.   So, like, here we go. Let's, uh, let's stick with what I know. A little about You like movies? Yeah, I do like movies. I love the Jurassic World, or Jurassic Park series.

I almost said Jurassic World, but Jurassic Park series. for not saying 3 is my favorite.  We gotta go over that one too. But this one 2001?  I think three 2001. Yeah. Yeah, it was 2000. Yeah, it came early came a little quicker.

I think right? I've been lost world, but that's what she said  this one is probably the biggest for any kid of the 90s  we have to go ahead and say that like We all love the original Jurassic Park. It was a massive success, one of the best films of all time, one of the best books of all time.

Correct. , we can say that without contest there. But I will say, I just want to say that I was only like two years old when it came out. This was, this one I was five going on six, like it was perfect timing. It was like what we talked about, the Phantom Menace was our Star Wars, for better or for worse.

The Lost World is our Jurassic Park, for better or for worse.  This is late 90s kids. Er, 80s kids probably do remember Jurassic Park when it first launched and that was theirs, but this was a new generation. I mean, because enough time had passed. What was it like? About five years, six years, something like that.

Five or six years had passed between the making of the first one and the second one. So, this one was probably one of the most anticipated sequels of all time.  It has to be right like especially in the 90s. Yeah, so I mean I do remember the commercials for this were very like They were like black and white velociraptor And there's like  a big old caravan of camouflaged cars and black and white But that was about it.

And it was it had it was like  Some kind of bloody, , letters that were like, It was like, Lost World Jurassic Park. And I was like, fuck, I'm so hard for this movie right now. Yeah, we all went from six to midnight the minute we saw these commercials. I know I did. I was pretty stoked. And this was a summer release, if I'm correct.

May, actually. May. Late May, so like right before Memorial Day weekend. , right on the cusp of summer. Still back as you were getting out of school back in the day of summer blockbusters Which we don't really have those anymore last year. We did but yeah,  it's not every year thing   Let's talk a little bit about the childhood.

We've got a lot to cover on this one because it felt like this was  it very anticipated everyone was going to see it Everyone was talking about it from the months leading up to it. We're talking about the toys. Yes.  Let's start there Andrew, what do you remember about the lost world?

So I don't necessarily remember all of The, , trailers and commercials. Do you remember a few commercials? There might have been like a McDonald's commercial where  a brontosaurus like leaned over, like the drive through box or something, even though were silly like that? There were no, oh, there were brontosaurus in that one.

Yeah, there were. Yeah. , but  the toys were what really, , what really brings me back, because I had all of them, my parents got me all of that shit. I had  The Triceratops, mean, I had all,  the dinosaur, , figurines. I had the, , what do you even call that vehicle that, , trapped the Triceratops?

It had, , the two arms in the front. What was a Humvee with some kind of apparatus? Humvee with some sort of apparatus in the front. I had that. , I had, , the poacher. I remember  I had, , Jeff Goldblum's character. In figurine form. , I had it all. And I  carried that shit with me wherever.

I remember, tragically, I lost one of the pieces at an Outback Steakhouse in, , Jacksonville, Florida, back in the day. Did you try, did you make a huge deal? Did you start sobbing in the car? No, but , I was upset. It was like , the door of, , that vehicle. It was gone. And we went back in and they, I guess they threw it out.

Good for them. Yeah, as they should.  It was a very heavily marketed movie. For sure. And again, towards children, but this was definitely more of, a little less of a Star Wars kind of, , marketing.

A little bit more, there was a lot of adult themes in this movie. Yeah. , but, the marketing towards kids, , Chase and I were talking about the video games last night as well, there are plenty of video games that came out about this, , arcade games that came out about this, , but it was,  a kid's paradise, , that's like, , all those trucks and all those, , Figurines and, , guns, the guns that they had and like , it was definitely a time I did, I definitely had the Jeff Goldin character. Yeah. , and his red, and we will talk about his outfit later. He had his sunglasses on in , the figurine form. He didn't have sunglasses on except for the very beginning. Very beginning. So that was it. That's good though.

It makes sense.  You know, that was Jeff Goldblum saying, Hey, my action figure has to have sunglasses because it's got to be the cool action figure of the group. , I had all those toys. Because , the summer blockbuster is the best part about having a June 4th birthday.  Is that was right around the time that Memorial Day weekend launch schedule.

I was men in black.   . The lost world. , the Phantom menace, all that got released around my birthday. So all that merchandise that they were trying to sell to kids was going straight to me.  And I think even Batman and Robin too, I had a lot of like Batman and Robin stuff.

So that was  easy birthday gifts from my parents and I had like I had the truck the big truck and the big T rex too. I think I had the t rex as well. Yeah,  the t rex was fun  it came with  some Disposable henchmen that you could like you could shove into the t rex's mouth.

Yep. Yep Yep, and then you and then it had this like open wound in its stomach and you could just pull him back out Yeah, repeat the process over and over again. Yeah. Yeah, so I Didn't have very many of the I had a lot more of the dinosaurs. I didn't have very many of the human characters, there was another vehicle that I had maybe it was like the  The trailer that  the scientists were and  I think that was one they sold as well   that one I had I didn't have any of the other vehicles But I had that one which had the two compartments So it had that rubber piece that connected them and you could pull the rubber piece and like bring them around If you had the t rex, so You could just relive that scene over and over again and there was mercedes benz logos on all of course there were yeah That was we forget a big Marketing push from mercedes at that point.

They had their hand in all of this this Come to find out when I was watching top gear years and years and years and years later that When they had jeff goldblum on and they were,  having him do his lap around  their track  before they did that they started talking about you know You Shooting that movie, what it was like to shoot a Jurassic Park movie.

And, ,  he was  quoted as saying, yeah, they, they gave me one of those Mercedes Benz because I did the movie.  I think he had it when he was, he's like, Oh, I still have that car. I still drive that car around. I was like, that's, that there you go, Mercedes. It pays in other ways to be in these movies if not monetarily definitely with merchandise and other things like that.

 They hooked them up , it's really interesting just to Car person thing here real quick. It's interesting that they chose like the M Class and not the G Wagon because the G Wagon is a military specced off road car.

It's literally meant for the terrain they were in. And the other one was just like, it was cool what they did to it. They made it off road. And it is an SUV, technically, but like It has more in common with  a sedan than it does an SUV. It's not the wheelhouse. It's not, no, and I was like, that was interesting that they chose to use that one instead of the G Wagon, but then I look back on it, G Wagons are so  expensive.

They are some of the most expensive SUVs out there. I don't know how much they were at the time, but now,  they go upwards of  150, for those cars, for those cars. SUVs. So when they do, and I know we hate, we don't want to talk about Jurassic world too much, but they did use one of the only six by six, , SUVs of the G wagon for that film.

And  it's just them ramping it over a, , a hill kind of like they did in Jurassic Park with the Humvees. Or Lost World, rather. Boy, did they ramp it, dude. Yeah, did they do that. They ruined some cars. . Like any of those car films. , how many of, like in Smoky and the Bandit, how many cars Oh, so many.

But  they had kit cars, I'm pretty sure, back then. I mean, we still have kit cars, but they, I think they used kit cars for that movie, specifically for, , just throw a shitty ass engine in it, or have it towed on a line so they can just, zoom, over it, and then it's, okay, we just toss it, it's done.

Instead of just wasting. Oh, those beautiful transands. Oh my god, I know. No, don't do that, please. Yeah. It pisses me off.   When you talk about Jurassic Park, there's one name you have to talk about, and it's Steven Spielberg.

Mm. And he's back to direct this one. Almost didn't. They had to talk him into it. He didn't know if he wanted to. Y'all were surprised that he was the director last night, weren't you? Yeah, I didn't think that he was.  Cause we did no prior research. I haven't seen this movie. I've seen it a lot in my lifetime, but I haven't seen it in a long time.

, usually  if I sit down and I'm like, I'm gonna watch a Jurassic Park movie, it's the original. Or,  I recently went down the rabbit hole with the third movie a few years ago. And that was the last one I saw, but I watch Jurassic Park every year. Never really think about the lost world.  And so it did surprise me that Steven Spielberg directed this because there is some negative commentation with this movie which we'll  Catch up to later on.

It's also tough to follow up with such a great original like sequels don't always hit But it wasn't a film sequel. It was a book sequel book And then it was and then it was in the book The second book is just as good as the first in many ways they're very they are they're the same movie, but  they're different same book with different  I think that helped their case in making this and also helped that Michael Crichton wrote a second book for Steven Spielberg to then direct. 

If it hadn't been that and there hadn't been no book, I don't think he would have done it. Right. And that's what I was going to get to is Crichton  didn't write it as a sequel book. He wrote it as a sequel movie. And so Spielberg was all on board at that point. Right. So.

Yeah, we're thinking about that now into like a bigger scale. It's like, of course this movie had so much anticipation. You got the same guy coming back to direct. And at this point, Steven Spielberg , was considered one of the best directors of all time. He still is,  at that time,  you couldn't get a better director than Steven Spielberg. 

, there was a lot of up and coming directors at the time, but Spielberg was like A class and Universal's go to. For anything that they tried to do that was on that scale. Um,  let's talk a little bit about  the all star cast too, that we have now. 

There was so many great actors in this. And I think they all pretty much nailed their role. For what it's going to be. There is some silliness to some of the characters But in a world like this, I think you do have to have kind of  the silly characters and especially throwaway characters , which is different that is different in the book.

, there's not a lot of funny stuff going on. , maybe like here and there, but , they're very serious.  , it's still a family film. Mm hmm. , that's  another thing that , I'm gonna say  now that we're kind of on the topic.  The original Jurassic Park  has some debate about it.  What you classify it as.  What as in terms of what? As like action adventure.

Action adventure., that's the first thing that comes to mind. , the original Jurassic Park to me, it  obviously, it's got multiple genres in it. A lot of movies have multiple genres in this, but there's predominantly a lot of horror in the first Jurassic Park.

Yeah, I would say. I would say more sci fi horror. Sci fi first and then horror. Just because this is very well done science fiction, , but it is still fiction. Yeah.  But it's real enough that it does make it quite horrifying.  Because they're not showing everything all at once. You kind of build up to it. You don't really see the Velociraptors until you see the Velociraptors. , like you don't see the T Rex until you see the T Rex. This one, you know what's coming at you, but the situations they create in the second movie , are more scary than the first.

Yeah. , I think , the way that they use the element of to your point suspense in the first movie  I thought it amplified,  The horror elements to it a lot,   There's a lot of it that kind of reminds me of alien in a way like where you don't see a lot of the stuff That's coming your way.

And then when you do see it, it's so well done. It just scares you lifeless  The velociraptors that they were able to  create this horrific killing machine Whether it's rooted in fact or not is, you know. But after the fact. After the fact, yeah. We'll talk about that when we start talking about this.

They carry it over in the second film really well, but, you know, I think, like, when you do anything on grandeur, right? , I like comparing it to Alien because I feel like Alien and Jurassic Park 1 and 2 have a similar carryover. The first Alien, horrific. Sci fi horror all the way. But it has that similar element to Jurassic Park where it is, you're trapped, With these creatures that just want to kill you and live.

I would say, I think it lines up more with Aliens than it does the original. And , that's what I say. In the Lost World becomes Aliens because Aliens like injected a lot more action into it. And yes, there is that horror element in both these movies,  but it becomes more action adventure in , that go to sequel.

So you  lose a little bit of that.  What the original film was intended to be because you know was at the end of the tunnel So yeah,  jeff goldblum had the perfect line It's  yeah, you start off staring and on bewilderment, but then you start running and screaming at the end That's the perfect encapsulation of what this movie right?

  Yeah, and of course in this movie they made more into a family friendly film, I feel like. So, like the horror elements are, even though they're there, they dumb them down a little bit more and make it more grander and inject the comedy that we're talking about.

Cause it feels like there was a little comedy in the first one, but there's a lot more.  , one liners, or Jeff Goldblum's performance, , some of the shit he says in this is really  funny to me, especially watching it back now. Yeah. Yeah, it's very, yeah, definitely. And there's Vince Vaughn.  He's not the same Vince Vaughn that you would, , think of like an old school in dodgeball, but , he's still Vince.

He's still funny. Yeah, he's still funny. Dry delivery,  . He's that arrogant humor, too. Did you, , do you know how he got this role? No idea. . , when they were shooting Swingers, , Steven Spielberg went to the premiere  so he could approve them using the Jaws theme song. Oh, that's hilarious.

And he saw Vince Vaughn and he was  so enamored by his performance He was like i'm going to offer him the lost world and offered him the lost world without a screen test So vince vaughn damn got this role based on his performance in swingers Well, that doesn't surprise me. Vince vaughn's a fucking legend.

He's great and everything he does so good for him   I think it's time.  Are we ready to jump right in? This is a long Movie, we're gonna we'll shorten it up significantly for you We  should because  It's a lot. It's a lot. But it's a good, it's a good a lot. This isn't a bad one. But damn. Also, y'all are all going to have to take the lead on this one because I was so tired when I watched it last night.

We know. We know. We know how tired you are. So in the first time in a hold up history too, we all watched this one together. So our minds were synced up. Was it really the first time? Yeah. The first time. Yeah. All three of us anyway. Our minds and our cycles. I was going to say fifth element, but you weren't there for that, so.

I wasn't.  How neat! What an experience. Let's savor this. Yeah. You saying that makes me want to do this never again. Before we dive in, Andrew, Give us some of those box office mojo numbers Yeah, yeah. That I've been looking for. We got some hefty numbers here. How hefty? , the budget was 73 million.

Woo!  And domestic opening.  72 and a half. Wow, they made back their entire budget in a week. That's insanely good. Good for them. But that's, , what did you expect? Let's be honest. Like, this is always, it was always gonna be a blockbuster. The names in this are massive. . I'll say this too, 72 million though.   That seems  lower than I was expecting I mean thought it would be right there  that's to me That's pretty impressive. They almost make it all back within that first week. Like that is that that shit I feel like I feel like the budget was gonna be closer to 100 million.

Yeah, it's a 90s adjust for inflation 

the b roll stuff in Hawaii was probably the most expensive part, aside from the animatronics. And what we were talking about,  they were gonna shoot New Zealand and shoot more in Hawaii, and the budget got cut, so they moved a lot of that to California.  It would have looked better if they did it in New Zealand,. But it doesn't. But it doesn't matter. Does it attract?  Now, Andrew, what did we do worldwide now? , let's go domestic first.

Domestic was 229 million and some change. Oh.  International, worldwide, was 389 million and a half. Wow. Half a billion dollars. Add those together worldwide, it was , 618 million  and some change, so closer to 619.  Insane numbers right  plus when you add merch sales into that. I mean you're looking at over a billion for sure , of course you adjust for all the marketing because this was a heavily marketed movie, but for reasons They almost made a billion, you know, so close to that.

I imagine  that was probably the highest grossing film of 97 titanic beat it. It beat it.  That makes sense. I beat it. I did beat it.   Titanic is number one, Men in Black number two, and then Jurassic looks to be number three.

. Now that we've got our numbers, this movie shattered everything.

It was such a rousing success.  I mean, we knew it was going to be.  , let's dive right in.  Let's talk about the Lost World Jurassic Park, baby Yeah, first scene.  Where are we Kyle? ,  we open up on a beach  and what's supposed to be Costa Rica So fun fact, I don't want to spoil the book for people though because the book is different So i'm not going to spoil it, but if you haven't read the book by now, fuck you.

Yeah  I'm not gonna spoil everything. There's some really good stuff in there But I will say this at the end of the book , some of the consignathus, the compys, , they're in the first book. , they hitch a ride on one of the cargo ships that leaves with people on it, and they jump ship and then land in Costa Rica.

 , the second movie it picks up, we're the first book leaves off, not the first movie. Which I thought, always thought was interesting going back and looking at it.

But we open up on a beach, and it's a very wealthy family. The most unlikable family. So unlikable, just rich, probably oil tycoon money. Billionaire type family. Yeah, this is like mega rich. , we're on our own yacht cruise with, . Servants. A hundred servants. Come here, Jeeves.

Yes. Please, I need you right now. Yes. And then this little girl's off playing by herself on the , the mother goes, Catherine, don't go too fast, we can't see you. Oh, let her have some fun, Catherine, for once. For once. I know.  The world is fine, we've never been here before, but it's fine. Let her wander off on this unknown beach.

This unknown beach is probably landmines.  She'll have to learn how to sweep them someday., she fucking just absconds off and just has  a little sandwich that they give her. And she goes over to  this little alcove that's out of eyesight of her family, not probably not too far away, but enough.

 She's just having fun. Out of the bushes pops a bipedal  lizard. Which, in the book, she doesn't know that it's not a lizard. She just thinks it's a lizard. Anybody who, you know,  who would be older than seven would be like, that's a little fucked up. I don't know what that is. I'm not gonna touch that.

In the movie, she looks like she's like 10, 11. Yeah, so she's a little older. So the fact that she doesn't know that , and they're rich, she's probably very well educated. The fact that she doesn't know that this is , not a normal thing. , that to me is a little bullshit, , we'll go with it just because , it's a child, whatever, cool, she's having fun.

So, this is She gives it some beef tenderloin? She gives it some, it's part of her sandwich, like a piece of meat from her sandwich. And all of a sudden, all these other buddies pop up and they start jumping out and chirping. She's like, oh, I don't have enough for everybody. And then one of them , nips her in the back of the leg and she goes, oh, oh, here's my sandwich, take my sandwich.

And then all of a sudden you cut back to the family on the beach. And And you just hear, like, where's Catherine? Raaah! Help! Help! And then they take a moment, they pause, and they run after her. It's a whole scene, , you don't see it, but they're probably covering her. In the book, she is severely maimed, and they fuck her face up big time.

And  they got chunks out of her face and stuff,  she's fucked up. So after that, the mom comes over, sees what's going on that we don't see, which I thought was a very good piece of storytelling.

Don't show what's happening.  Horror is better sometimes when you don't try to show everything. Especially in the first five minutes of the movie. Exactly. Like, there's no need to blow your load that early. Correct. , it's supposed to build, but, and Carpenter was a great director for that.

But, so we don't see it. The mother screams.   Match cut of Jeff Goldblum. Yawning. Yawning on the subway in New York. And where, where are we at in the subway, Andrew? New York City! Andrew's favorite place. City of dreams, baby.  I never read the book.

So I don't have , the comparison. , but  just from the movie standpoint,  Eh. It was just a very, eh, start to a sequel. You had that weird dude on the subway who like approached. Yeah, and then you go Goldblum in the corner. But Which was the most realistic That was very realistic. New York subway interaction ever.

, people aren't that Okay, you got weirdos on the subway. Were you a weirdo on the subway in the 90s though? Goldblum. Yes, of course. There was, the subways have always been a haven for, I don't know, people don't, people don't talk to you. Usually, I mean, I shouldn't say that.

Usually. There's plenty of times it again, but, but he's a celebrity. Yeah, he's famous. Yeah, he's famous. He's famous. So like a weirdo on the subway sees a celebrity, he's gonna talk to him. Yeah. It's fair. It's fair. So yeah, it's like I, I mean we, all three of us have ridden a subway in New York, at least one.

One too many times. Yeah, too many times. But yeah, that's exactly how a New York subway. So I was like, bravo. Like we went. The most realistic scene in the movie is And they filmed on a subway. Yeah. Like it was actually the interior of a New York subway. And the guy looked like Scott Stapp from Creed. Creed, yeah. . Maybe he'll take us higher next time. , now we're introduced to Jeff Goldblum. Who is heading to,  Hammond's office? He is going to Hammond's estate. Because Hammond is not doing well. , I do like what they did with him crossing his character over from the movies again movies being different than books I like what they did with it.

He's still John Hammond, but  we come into his estate and Malcolm sees Timmy and Lex from the first movie. It's like the only time we see them and it's  a lost opportunity , I would rather have just, I would have, yeah, I would have rather just not see them at that point. Also, fun fact, Timmy, , the guy who plays him, , was in the Pacific.

He plays one of the, one of the main characters. Oh nice, I read about him. Yeah, he's pretty cool. I love that. Yeah, and you also,  see a picture on John Hammond's desk when Malcolm starts talking to John Hammond. There's a picture of the kids from the first movie. It looks like a behind the scenes photo of them together.

And they put it on the desk and it kind of focuses on that. I'd rather you not see the kids. And just focus on the photo. Yeah, that would have been great. I would, I agree. I think that was just, it was just kind of like fan service, but just poorly done. Yeah, no one cares about those kids.  Um, so, so we found out that, , Malcolm has written a book about what's happened on , , the first island.

, and he wasn't supposed to, he signed a non disclosure agreement. So he's in a little bit of trouble with the Legal trouble, baby.  So there Regardless of whether or not he was right or wrong, because they tried to paint over  , a couple of the people, one of them being the lawyer, um, the game warden, and who, there was somebody, oh, , Tom Arnold, , who was Samuel A.

Jackson's character. Yeah. But, , Ian gets led up to John Hammond's room and John's like, you were right, Ian, you were right the whole time.

You know, they were,  life finds a way, and it just because they were, the life scene was bred out of them, it didn't mean that they died and the predators eat the pred That is Attenborough, right? It's, yes, and that is Richard Attenborough, David Attenborough's, yeah. The late Richard Attenborough, unfortunately he has to pass away.

Great performance. Great performance. Little ways in there, but he nailed it in the first movie too. Yeah, basically he's telling Ian, , we moved all the dinosaurs off to a second island so that they can live and be free. So, Gonna correct you on that one because  they didn't move them there That was just a separate site.

They had site A and site B and they were on that other site Okay, and they were not they didn't  move them there  they just had to abandon it  because of all the legal fallout So they kind of just left them to fucking do whatever and they thought they would all die out Which one of the reasons why they are gonna go in there because  they have to have lysine Um, in their diets, which the scientists and the biologists prepared for them.

So they're like, well, how do they survive? They didn't have lysine in their diets. Life finds a way.  So we're going to hear that a lot. And that's, it's a good quote, but it's over quoted in this movie, in my opinion, to kind of dulls it down. Right. It was a great quote in the first movie. And then they just bury it like as the theme to this movie.

, and then Jurassic world, Oh, I don't want to mention it too much, but they absolutely beat you over the head with life finds a way.   So what do we learn from this whole scene with John Hammond and Ian Malcolm?

 He is preparing a group of scientists and biologists, I guess? Yeah. Like, and then fanservice. photographers as well. Some are already en route. Some are already en route. He's preparing them to go to the island to show the dinosaurs existing in their ecosystem so that he could fend off the rest of N.

Gen, right? Because N. Gen is trying to procure the dinosaurs saying  They can't survive on their own. We're gonna bring them back and basically make another theme park. I'm doing haircuts in the United States. And the, and the, , the states. San Diego. San Diego. ,  Hammond has a change of heart, which Malcolm says the best line of the movie, capitalist to activist to overnight.

 We'll just put this in here now. Jeff Goldblum's line deliveries always are 10 out of 10. He doesn't miss. Except for a couple points in this movie that we'll talk about later. But that's one of those line deliveries. There's enough ham in this movie.

That's the writing, that's not him. Yeah. , , what's funny about all that too as we move on to the next scene, , Steven Spielberg did not let the actors prepare. , he wanted them to deliver their lines,   as they're reacting to stuff. So they didn't have any rehearsals scheduled for this.

 Which is why some of the lines come off  weird at times. It's because it's a natural reaction.  Spielberg always wanted the movie magic to happen. He didn't want everything to be so prepared that people were just delivering on time.  I think that they're still written lines. I think they know their lines. I don't think they, but they don't know how to. Yeah, so they didn't  react until they got on set that was them  this  crew of scientists that Haman has prepared Jeff Goldblum's girlfriend is In it that he didn't know about he didn't know that his girlfriend was Being sent out to the island off Costa Rica.

No, , that was a surprise to him. Yes. And he was not happy about it at all. It's just funny that you, your girlfriend of, I don't know how many years, but they seemed, , fairly serious. Wouldn't tell you that you're going to an island off Costa Rica to,  document dinosaurs, nor did he like he's like, where'd she go?

She hasn't been here , I guess the argument they make later on the movie is like I'm the best kind of girlfriend There is the one who's never around which is like yeah, but wouldn't you know and also it's not like she has a mundane job She deals with large predators across the world in Africa India like South America Like she's like big cats.

So so Malcolm hearing that because Hammond wants Malcolm on the island because he's the biggest like Proponent to try to say, Hey, we don't need to move these animals.

They're fine on , this island. So he wants to get Malcolm Malcolm's like, fuck you. I'm not going remember what happened last time. I do. And then he finds out his girlfriend. He's like, oh, I guess I'll go save her. It's a rescue. It's turned into a rescue mission. 

It turns into a rescue mission. In his eyes, everyone else sees it as a great opportunity.  to get to , the island and see these dinosaurs. We make it to the island. , not a whole lot happens in the first 40 minutes. It's moving quick.

We're introduced to new characters. We're introduced to Vince Vaughn, who's a photographer. They're like the loading dock or whatever they're pressing. He's a Greenpeace person who's also an activist. He's been to Bosnia, Kosovo. , Rwanda. He's seen genocides is what he's saying. He's had documented genocides.

So, he's seen shit. , we introduced to Malcolm's daughter.  Yep, it's who just fucking runs in and is just now a part of the story just and this is how we get to our kid This is why it's a kid's movie. There has to be a kid in these every single Jurassic Park movie.

There is a child Yeah,  and like welcome to the 90s. She is the only black character in this film only Yeah. And what was, , what was Vince Vaughn's character's quote? What would, what did he say? Oh, I don't see the family resi Blah. Eugh. I don't see the family resemblance there.

Well, that's not how biology works, friends. So, congrats. Ooh. Yeah. So it was a little, a little spicy. We laughed at that, though. We did. We did laugh. Us three white guys laughed at often.  Did not hold up. We'll go ahead and put that stamp on that one.

Bam! Like, let's not do that one again. But anyway, he's like fighting with her, telling her that she's gonna stay with the babysitter because he's going to this dangerous island. You can't come with me. She wants to come with him. You're never around, Dad. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, family drama we don't need in this movie.

That's another strike for me.  I get what we're trying to set up here, but it's just a character we don't need.  Fun fact on this character, this little girl, the reason she was hired by Steven Spielberg was for the same reason Vince Vaughn was. He saw her in a, , I forgot the name of the movie, A Little Princess or something, along those lines. 

He actually was meeting the cast afterwards and getting autographs because Spielberg is a big movie fan  and that's what I love about Steven Spielberg He saw the little girl said your performance was so great ,   next movie I do I want you to be in it and it happened to be the lost world So that's how she got signed on for it.

And to be clear. She's very good in this movie   great child actor. Very good.  But just a character. That's just  Kind of tossed in there. Kind of annoying too. It does, but like my whole thing is like Very annoying. Yes, but the purpose of her being in there in my eyes would be to raise the stakes.

Does she raise the stakes? No. No. Not really. Yeah. She's just, you just  know she's gonna be okay. You kind of forget about her. At times, yes. Yeah. Which is She's only there at certain points. , she is also a character written to move Malcolm from different location to different location, which I hate.

She's like a little pawn. So when she moves, Malcolm's gotta move there. So how do we get Malcolm from point A to point B? His daughter. Ugh. , we could do better than that.  It could have been done a little bit better. Yeah, and I'm talking specifically for this character. We're going from a 10 movie and we're taking points away right now. But we make it to the island. Malcolm's got all the technology.

They've got M classes all over the place. They've got Mercedes Benz M classes that have been,  revamped to be Something they're not. , and they've got a giant trailer that has that really fun, , CTA bus. It's a big research trailer. Research trailer It's massive, like a military research trailer.

Yeah, it's, everything's camouflaged. When I was a kid, That was the coolest part. All their gear they had, all this stuff, so cool. We haven't even got to the coolest part from like a child standpoint yet, they're setting it up.  When you see that as a kid, you're like, I'm about to see some shit. Shit's about to go down. , , we're clipping over some of this right now because , it's just too much. It's just setting it up.

 They're almost about to port to the island. The guy that has the boat with all their equipment on it was like, I am not going near that island, they called it. Vince Vaughn is translating, it's Spanish. Vince Vaughn speaks fluent Spanish, good for him. The way he was translating it too, made me think he does not speak it fluently.

, I thought he was making it up, honestly. But he was actually, he was actually, you know, translating it perfectly. It could have been a little bit better than it had been.  It was so sarcastically delivered from Vince. Yeah, it was like, yeah, it seemed like he was Sigur Svartes! Five deaths.

Yeah. I will not go near that island. He says. I will not go near that island.  Too many people go near this island and go missing. Yeah. They do not go near this island. And it's like. Okay. So it sets up that the locals know about the island. Which we don't need to know. Yeah. So again, this is something that could have just been.

Again, we set that up with the little girl getting her face ripped off. We get, we understand. We get that. Yeah. We get that. We get that. They're just bolstering it, you know. Yeah. For real. That's we need. A hiding machine. , so they get onto the island. I don't even think we see them. See them exit the barge they're on.

We're just, they're just on the island all of a sudden. Yeah, they go straight to where they're running around the island looking for Sarah, which is Malcolm's girlfriend. But we also see our first glimpse of one of the first GPS ever made, friend. And they just, and it's just like this shitty, Tom Tom, Tom Tom, and it's, and they, but they magically just find, , Ian Malcolm's girlfriend, Sarah Harding.

,  they come across some Stegosaurus, and then that's the first time everybody's like, the theme music comes in, they're like, wow. Very, very much reminiscent to the first film when they see the Bronchiosaurus is, and they're all like, oh, oh my god, I can't believe it. So they're doing that, and then Sarah does the dumbest thing I think I could ever see a scientist do.

What does she do, Andrew?  She, , extends her hand out and starts petting , the beak of the triceratops baby that's  two times her size and just, why would you do that? Because then later on as, I guess Vince Vaughn's character was doing something. She yells at him. She's like we're here to , we're here to observe Interact not interact.

But what the hell were you doing when you were touching that baby? With your human disgusting hands, but that's like my whole that baby got looking back Yeah for sure that  looking back on that whole thing That's the one part of this movie that it takes off an entire point Like from the 10 point scale because like  that's dumb as fuck you wrote that in there You And she touches it, just because, , , what is Jeff Goldblum, what does Jeff Goldblum say though, Andrew?

Right when she's trying to touch. What is, what does he say? What does he say? He says, , it's always touching, touching, always touching, she always has to touch it, she always has to touch it. Ha ha ha, that's a funny line, what a funny line.

You wrote that in there to have a funny line. And now we've completely, , Thank you.  Ruined her reputation as somebody that we can believe because then she goes forward and then she's like we're here to observe We're not here to interact. We're here to do this that and the other and you've already done that though What else have you been doing?

  Her character was so poorly written Like it's julianne moore like she's a powerhouse. She can do anything with anything and she acted well Very well, her character was acted well enough, but it was a dumb character and she has no credibility She seems as a huge liability like from the moment you met her and she's supposed to have this incredible reputation She was hand selected by hammond to go to this island  She has to be one of the best scientists out there, but now you see her.

She's touching shit. She's like leaving her backpack strolled around. She's just  constantly just in the way Mm-Hmm. . And I'm like, and that's, that's just bad writing though. Yeah. Right.  It's just bad writing.  It's a man writing a woman's character. Yeah. And then Malcolm has to come there and save her.

It is the, a tale old time. , at first you're like, Malcolm, leave her the fuck alone. Now you're like, you need to save that woman. Yeah, because she's not getting it. She's about to get yeeted. Yeah, real fast. So , they have this whole interaction with the stegosaurus. She has a camera  after she tries to, I don't know, does she actually touch the beak or does she get close to touching it?

It doesn't matter. I think so. She touched it. She actually touched it. Whether or not she does, it's the fact that she tries to do it that ruins it for me. But, she tried to take a picture of the little baby, and the camera makes a weird sound, and all of a sudden the stegosaurus is like, Yeah, fuck this shit.

Ran out of film, which kids will never know about today. And then they come after her, apparently offensively, which is, And then they come after her, apparently offensively, which is, What you're hoping she dies.

Yeah, she hides in the trunk of a like a hollowed out tree And they stabbed  their spiky ass spines in it, which of course it dramatically misses by  six inches Yes, so that and that happens and all of a sudden they're gone and then do one stab and they leave Yeah,  if that was in a case where they feel threatened.

They're going to murder her That's what and there was nothing that Any of them could have done it. Cause they have one shrink gun, that's a bolt action. But they, and   they were gonna use it, but then Eddie, the guy, he's like, they're just protecting their baby. And they are. So why would you fucking kill them?

for trying to, when she's dumb enough to get close, let her die. Let her die. Let her die. She deserves that.  But it was a tran gun too. No, that wasn't a tran gun. They had the poison gun where they killed them.  I keep losing because they had like these big tran guns too that were like the same size and they, they looked, they looked same.

You know what? Yeah. I think we might have just found a story hold, because I think they conflate one with the other and it's the same gun, but they're like, no, this is the one that kills them. Maybe they have different darts who fucking does. Yeah, I'm confused. Yeah, I, I was confused on, 'cause I always thought that he was carrying.

Cause the trink gun that they use later on is the same fucking size as the, I guess, the murder weapon. Looks exactly like the other one. Same, same thing. So Again, great writing. Yeah, it's just, there's a lot going on that might have crossed the cracks. They're trying baby. Yeah, right. Well, , they protect the baby.

, they get Sarah out of there. They go back to their base camp. That we never see them established, but it's just established now , on this mountaintop cliff. , and all of a sudden, oh, there's a fire. Where's the fire coming from? And who pops out?  Uh oh. It's Ian Malcolm's daughter. Uh oh.

You told me not to listen to you, Dad. Yeah, for sure. Do you think he meant go inside of this, , trailer? Which, by the way,  how long do you think it took him to get from New York City? Isn't that where they started their journey from? On a barge. All the way down to near where the Galapagos Islands are.

Costa Rica? Yeah. I think that probably would have taken them a week or two. So she's just surviving in the back of that fucking ar Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. That's a bullshit right there. Yeah, well, I mean, if you look in the RV when they're cleaning it up, there's food everywhere. It was like a week worth of food everywhere.

She looks like she's been living there. Bunch of junk food, though. Yeah, but he's like, he's furious at her, and they're having this whole domestic dispute, him and Julianne Moore having this giant domestic dispute about, oh my god, why don't you do this, and how come you never do this, and like, Well, I'm staying here and I don't need to go to a foreign island unprotected.

Yeah, well, I don't understand why anybody wouldn't do that. That seems like a really sound idea. They got to learn somehow. . Then we see  a lot of military aircraft flying through the air. And when we hear Eddie say, well, it's got engine on that chopper.

Why would they send two teams? I thought we were the only two teams here. So, and this is where the, that picks up the story of what Hammond was talking about earlier, where the team that was coming to take the dinosaurs to the newly constructed theme park in  San Diego are now And Intersecting with the team that's trying to save it.

So now we've got two competing teams with different agendas They're completely different and this is where the end movie gets interesting and this is where stuff starts to like really move along This is where the action happens where you're seeing this military team and they're fucking up the place  that's where we see the humvee ramp in the air and they just completely ruined it Yeah, so I mean like those guys are dead we did  Andrew when that happened yesterday I could see him cringe because 

it just, it goes over that berm, and it just fucking, , nose dives. It nose dives. It hits , the very front end of, , the grill, but then,  somehow, , it gets back on its, , all fours, and it drives off.  I heard Andrew's like breath leave his body too when he saw that I heard it go   I don't understand why we have to do that with vehicles in movies to show that they're going off road.

I think that was an accident. . I think it was like one of those things where , the car was just going too fast. And then they shot it and they were like, Well, it's cool as shit. We're keeping it in. Wouldn't it be funny if like, when they were actually filming it, Like, it was a huge disaster and they just had to like, edit it over somehow to make it seamless You'd be surprised how much that happens.

People got ejected from the car. Yeah, people like, broke their legs. God,

 regardless, I didn't understand the implications of this until , later. , , these are not the good guys. Yeah, at no point. These are these are bad poachers and they're fucking assholes But the kind of shit they have is so cool and they're going around these fucking cars And what are they doing when they're in these cars?

So they're just like tearing up the land tearing up the land Capture like a bunch of rednecks basically.  Driving around as quickly as they can now and they're spearheading some of these dinosaurs. They're trying to capture them. They're capturing the they have like a  cowboy esque, , paleontologist with them.

He looks like Chris Stapleton, , honestly. He's a big old bushy beard. , like a white, western looking cowboy hat. He wears glasses.  He's the, , lead scientist, if you will. And they're just running around poaching at this point, capturing. But, I will say, at this moment, we're introduced to probably my favorite character in the whole movie.

And that's the lead,, poacher? Or hunter? How would you describe him? He's definitely a poacher. He's leading big game hunts in Africa , his monologue. It was great. It was incredible. I'm trying to find it real quick. He's talking to that weasel. Here we go, here we go. Peter, , if you want me to come on your little camping trip,  I'll have to stop from the top.

I need to get this thing down.  Peter, if you want me to run your little camping trip, there are two conditions. Firstly, I'm in charge, and when I'm not around, Dieter is. All you need to do is sign the checks, tell us we're doing a good job, and open a case of scotch when we're having a good day. Second condition, my fee.

You can keep it. All I want in exchange for my services is the right to hunt one of the tyrannosaurs. A male, buck only. How and why are my business? Now if you don't like either of those two conditions, you're on your own. So go ahead, set up base camp right here, run a swamp, or in the middle of a T Rex nest for all I care, but I've been on too many safaris with rich dentists to listen to any more suicidal ideas.

Okay? , You can tell all you need to know from his character right there. He's a big game hunter. He takes dentists. He's serious as fuck. He's fuck. And he doesn't All he wants to do  is the thrill of the chase. He's like, essentially a turn of the century, , Victorian General Zarnoff, but not with humans, with dinosaurs.

With dinosaurs.  He's a bad guy. Yes. He's a bad guy, but a lot of people write these villains, or these bad people,  kinda like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, a little bit, like, Like, cartoony in a sense.

Yeah, cartoony. There's nothing cartoony about this dude. , Maniacal. He's, he's very serious, but he's very human, too. Very. Like, he, he's not there to hunt people, or kill them, or , throw them in the way. , he's Saves several people, very much, and he's trying to save people.

, he just doesn't care if you fucking die. No, on. He's like, listen to me. If you don't wanna listen to me, you're dead. You're dead. I'm sorry about that. Like, and he, but he's right though. And you can't, and that's why this movie, it adds a layer of realism in this movie that's very good. . Cause you almost , at this point you're like, oh man, he's a fucker. But also, Malcolm, get next to him and follow that guy, cause that guy's gonna lead you out of here. Mhmm. Him and his elephant gun. Yeah, him and his elephant gun.   Malcolm's team is seeing all this, and now they know they're one on one with , the shitheads.

The end gen poachers.   We fast forward and we see, the big game hunter. Now has found the T Rex nest, right?  This is around the time that like the our other team our good guy team is like they're witnessing all this stuff and the cruelty To the animals and stuff so we see that and we have to keep that in the background mind because that progresses the story A little bit later, so  while that's all happening.

, what's his name? What was the guy's name? Roland. Roland and, uh, and Roland Tembo and Ajay, his, , his second person, his tracker, find the T Rex track. They follow it to the T Rex nest, which has to smell like, I can only imagine what horror  and death. It's just a bunch of carcasses and there's Flies everywhere.

Just a little T Rex baby hanging out there, eating some scraps. And what do they do to it? What do they do to that poor little thing? They break its leg. They break its leg. And they tie it to a stake and wait for the T Rex to come back so he can kill it. And they're just screaming and yelling. , Malcolm's girlfriend has an idea that dinosaurs will not abandon its young. 

, the theory is that dinosaurs don't care about their young and they abandon it. That actually theory came from one of the consultants, one of the paleontologist consultants on set. Who is, well, that goes back to the first movie, the first book. He's actually who Alan Grant is based on. Yeah.

 And he's a real person, , Jack Horner. , , he's a very well known paleontologist who had a lot of ideas that were not so well thought of. And the kind of like we talked, we had a little, , heated discussion last night during this movie about some of these things. But this is like.

When you test the waters of the paleontological world, and you don't have founded evidence, because how could you? You're going off of fossils, and you're essentially piecing together a puzzle.  But he's, One of the preeminent, I don't know if he still is. I don't know if he's still practicing. I don't know if he's still practicing.

 And to give the guy credit too, , a lot of this stuff was founded out too, , later on, or like, you know, because it's an ever evolving world,  like space and astronomy. Yes, so we can't sit here, , I think I was segwaying what I was gonna say is like we can't sit here and just call this like that's bullshit That's bullshit.

They didn't do that. They didn't  know some of this stuff back then  and me and Kyle talked about this to last night is A lot of Jurassic Park is explained. I've watched paleontologists watch Jurassic Park and say, Oh no, this wouldn't happen, this wouldn't happen, this wouldn't happen.

But a lot of it is explained because, to get these dinosaurs here, it's DNA splicing. They're spliced with different creatures and different animals  Because they get it from the mosquito in the, or however they get the DNA and there's gaps in the DNA sequence, which we're just, I'll just tell you, tell y'all right there, spoiler alert, this could never happen because DNA's half life is like 500, 000 years and we're talking about things that are millions.

So no matter, like no matter what, It's  a moot point to get on them about these because they're not real dinosaurs You know, I mean like they  even if this were possible you like say that the DNA half life was longer These are finished with other animals These dinosaurs are gonna look different than the dinosaurs that lived in and plus dinosaurs that even Evolved for millions of years and lived now would still look different than their counterpart point back then So it doesn't matter.

I think it's just, it's arguing to argue.   And Andrew was saying this last night, , it's part of the movie. That's  the point, is that they aren't, and , these are man's creations, , of what we think dinosaurs are, as best as we can clue it in, They are dinosaurs, but they're not they are but they aren't so like it does so like that whole argument about like Well, that's not that's not accurate.

That's not we wouldn't they wouldn't the stegosaurus wouldn't use  its thing like those paleontologists on those things They wouldn't use it like that and the t rex definitely had the visual acuity. Well, yeah, but like No, no, no one's being spliced together with a bat, correct?   We digress, , let's get back to the topic so the topic at hand here,   the meantime  Malcolm's crew now because I don't have a better name for them are trying to find a way to Free the captured dinosaurs.

Pretty, pretty fucking easy. Pretty easy because Way too  easy. Yeah, exactly. So they're, they find the camp where all these dinosaurs are being taken to, and Vince Vaughn's like, I'm, I'm good. I got it. I got it, and pulls out a fucking monkey wrench. But It's a singular latch for each of the cages. He just pulls the spike out and the door is open.

That's all it was. , like a dog cage. So , they open all the cages and they let all the dinosaurs loose. And in the camp is, , One of the other CEOs or executives, Weasel.  He's doing like a, like , a Zoom call from Yeah, like a 1990s Zoom call, With a bunch of billionaires and Investors and shit.

Investors, just like, Look at these, these animals, we're gonna move them to the park. Here's an amphitheater They're going to San Diego. Yeah, here's the amphitheater we built in San Diego. Look at the amphitheater. It could be finished in 30 minutes, And then we can like, put dinosaurs in it, And, and, and sell record number of tickets, And blah.

And then what, like mids Rekt by like a triceratops Shit, our dinosaurs are loose. What do we do? Who could have ever foreseen this to happen? Well, what do they do Andrew? They fucking ruin everything. They destroy everything. Never stood a chance. They  flatten their camp. They ruin the camp and all get away.

 I found it funny because they're Forty five minutes of them running around the island capturing all these dinosaurs is just taken back By one monkey wrench  and Vince Vaughn and it's his hand. Yeah, it's his hand. He didn't even use the monkey He didn't he just had it there for decoration  transitioning right along so    vince Vaughn  takes the injured baby T Rex.  Just cradles it. Cradles it, swims it across the tiny little embankment river. 

And Sarah Harden goes, You're crazy, Nick. You're crazy, Nick. You're crazy, Nick. He is crazy.  It directly leads to the death of somebody like later on.

But also an incredibly dramatic scene.  The baby is screaming bloody murder.  But it doesn't have a muzzle. Does it it? Not yet. He literally just picked it up broken leg and all. And carried it. I don't know how it did that. And plus the T Rex baby too. Me and Kyle mentioned this is way smaller than a T Rex baby would be.

 Yeah, this is like the size of like a Great Dane baby. No, it's probably smaller than that. The way that he carries it, it's like less than a hundred pounds. , but to be fair, they wouldn't weigh terrible much because their bones are hollow.

And we also don't know, so. He has a broken leg too, so like, that's gonna take down some density. Yeah. So he's, they put it in, the big research van. They're gonna try to , fix its leg up and do the vet thing. So Sarah and Vince Vaughn are working on that. And that's when it gets real for Malcolm's daughter.

She sees the T Rex screaming. And also it's heavy rainfall at this point. Like just downpour.  Atmosphere if you will so they're they're in the van and Malcolm's daughter's like, , I need to get out of here I don't like it. I don't like it here and because she's smart and she knows what's gonna happen and I'm gonna go high What is somewhere high?

It's somewhere high So let's what if only we had somewhere that was a high place where we could hide what what do they have a high hide?  I hide I hide so they this is winch system with this cage  that they were able to get above the trees above any predator. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Was there a tree above them that got that up there?

I don't know how that made any sense work. It had to be like a crane. It was like a giant cherry picker. It was, but like it was, never saw it. The whole point was that they winched it around a tree branch to bring it up there. But wouldn't it be at the branch level? It was. It was above the branches. Yeah, it was like almost at cloud height.

You know, maybe we just didn't see the other side of that shot. No, no, it had, it had to be, like, again, bullshit, , that whole thing was stupid. It was, it didn't make any sense. But it's only written there to get his daughter in safety. Yes. And so we could get a really cool shot of moving trees and whatnot.

Yeah, that was a cool shot.  As he gets his daughter to the high hide and, such a stupid name, so he gets her up there with , a The other  What's his name? Eddie. Ah, I knew it was something with Eddie at the end. So they're all three up there while Nick and Sarah are in the van trying to fix up  T Rex's leg. 

And then we look over and it's a great shot, but you see the trees just almost bowing completely down.  You see two of them, two paths. , the birds leave the trees and fly off and you're like, It's the Tyrannosaurus Rex. They're coming for their baby. So this  I guess, proves Sarah's point. Proves it right away. She's a brilliant scientist. So they, , not a liability at all.

Even though here she is, , bringing this into the camp. Queen. Queen. They should have just left. They should have unplugged. Whatever. I'm not even going to. Waste my breath. Yeah, we don't need that. That'd be a whole other tangent. So he sees it coming. And there's, , a spider. Cell phone, like an ancient cell phone up there and he's calling into the van and they won't answer.

'cause they're working on , the leg of the T-Rex. And Malcolm's like Darman Daron answer. And he like, he's trying to get them to answer so he can warn them about the T-Rex.  They don't listen. So Malcolm's like, I gotta go down and how does he go down? And he throws a rope over.  , Eddie's like, Make sure you squeeze hard! 

Make sure you squeeze hard! And what's he do, Kyle? He doesn't squeeze at all. He just, he just falls down. But then , Eddie does say after that, he goes,  I would have squeezed a little harder. Because you hear him hit the ground! Which I thought was really fucking funny. That was a really funny line. You hear him hit branches and go down.

But you're like, why didn't he compound fracture both of his legs? Yeah, so like, I think he would be The branches broke his fall. But keep in mind, he's above the trees. He is falling maybe a hundred feet. Yeah, so he would be probably dead, or at least  if he's on the ground, he's got internal injuries.

Broken leg. He's not. But it's a funny Louis Toons moment, Chase, shut up.  Yeah. We're suspending fiction as it is with this movie, so just let it go. , he gets in the truck, he's trying to warn them. , the T Rexes show up, and it's horrifying. You can see T Rexes on either side of the van, their eyes looking  Into the van itself seeing them and seeing the baby.

So  it's not CGI. Those are animatronics that they're using and the animatronics Very real very incredibly real it hits totally different than CGI and I woof I got goosebumps why I was like if that happened in real life and you just saw that thing staring at you I mean, I would, I would piss myself.

I think I would shit and piss myself. I think I saw a fact and I could not verify it, but I think these were the biggest animatronics ever built. Probably. Probably. I mean, they're giant fucking T Rexes. Because their legs are built with this. , usually half the time you see the animatronics in their   they shoot it to where only half the animatronic is built.

They built the whole damn thing and they built two of them. , and they're on either side. That's where most of that budget went. That's why we didn't go to New Zealand, friends. It didn't go into the writing, , one thing that I didn't also like in this is , so they immediately give the baby back, right?

That was your one bargaining chip. Yeah, they're animals. They're gonna kill you like they're gonna kill you  Now that you've given them what they want. They're gonna kill you like  Should have done that. Yeah, so  they get the baby back and then they're sitting there thinking. Oh, we're we're fine We're fine right now and they call back up to the high high and they're like, hey, no, no, we're good We get the baby back the donna and then he's like, yeah, it looks like the dinosaur It looks like the t rexes are leaving with the baby  But next thing, you know, what does malcolm say?

Kyle, he goes  Hang on this is gonna be bad At that level no alarm in his voice not like hang on it's gonna be bad hang on It's gonna be bad. It's like something. Yeah, or like brace yourselves. It's it was a  Dynamic Movie line. Yeah, it was a movie line Jeff Goldblum line more so but in I don't see what it like when they cut to the scene of the Trailer because the t rexes are attacking the trailer now and it's rolling when you see what he was looking at He was looking straight into the wall.

So you don't like so he had to just sense it I guess I don't know  I think he was I think what they're trying to go for is oh there he can see through the screen door Something coming and he just knows from the first movie. He got his shit fucked up. He's like, oh shit. Hang on This is gonna be bad.

But like  You wouldn't say it like that you if you saw something like that out of the corner of your eye you would be like  It just doesn't track. And  it's a very action packed scene. It is. , it's a pretty long scene, but It is the gist of it is the T Rex are pushing the van over a cliff.

It's raining, so it's muddy. And this scene is where I get kind of like some bullshit vibes here. But anyway, , it's fun. It's action packed, but they're pushing the van over.  The door comes off of it, the back door falls off, and I guess they put plate glass over the door, which,  I don't know if it was like a viewing, , area to have there, but , it also didn't really make any sense to me.

, it's flipped upside down, they're hanging on to this structure. There's two parts to this van, you have that front carriage. It's connected by that little metal piece or whatever in the middle and the back carriage which is what they're stuck in and it's Folded over at the fulcrum over that cliff So the back half is dangling while the front half is still on land which okay I'm gonna also call bullshit here a little bit because it wouldn't just be that little mesh Like rubber part hanging on there would be like a transaxle in there There'd be something connecting the drive trains together It would be if that front but that back parts going off that front part is also going off at the same time Yeah, and it's a  muddy cliff The cliff is not like sound straight  and you can even see it like the tires are like seeping into the mud So the cliff would With that much weight on it, I call bullshit.

Yeah, so it's just hanging there. But it's one of those, , stereotypical dramatic moments in an action movie where you just , let it happen. It is what it is. , it's cause it's entertaining.  You let it be. , I can accept some of it, but it just, it keeps going. , as we progress through this, Rexes fuck them up.

The T Rexes leave again. Mm hmm. I don't know why they keep leaving. And they coming back and leaving again.  Dramatic suspense, I don't know. They leave again and Eddie comes down, and  he sees them and the predicament that they're in, and he's like, uh, uh, what can I get you guys? And, you know, Sarah's already fallen on the glass, the glass is already broken, but they're able to hold onto the side somehow.

And, and they're like, uh, a rope, and, and, And double cheeseburgers with extra fries, like, and he makes that stupid comedic line that's like really shoehorned in there. It was just a McDonald's, because I think McDonald's did , , they were the fast food chain that got a hold of the kids toys for this.

Yes, they were. , so that was just them. So we had to make a McDonald's order in it, like when you're about to die. Ha ha ha. Uh, yeah. Well anyway, Eddie goes and gets the rope, throws it over, ties it to a tree, throws it over,  and through the carriage, so they're all holding on to the rope. Yeah. Which keep in mind it is raining.

 It's pouring. It's pouring.  You're holding on to a rope. If you're not trained to do it. You don't know how to do exactly what I mean That no common man happened. I don't care how strong or how fit you are You're not supposed to ever use just your upper body to hold on to rope You're supposed to hook J hook it in with your feet So that you're using your lower and your upper body to hang on and then you can sit there as long as you want to were they jayhooking?

No, they were just dang dang with their so it's just there But and what got me is like they they didn't act really well here because their arms were completely 90 degree angle Yeah, so it's like it's not even like a dramatic like they're just like extended out I'm fine, like he's holding it out like elbows out wide just I have the grip strength in my chest, forearms, biceps, and upper back to make this happen, and it's working well.

So, Ed Vaughn is a great dodgeball player. He is a great dodgeball have quite the grip strength. I wonder if he had what Patches had to say about that.  So they're holding on, and then the T Rexes show back up. Eddie's trying to , use the M Class. Which the cable. Which weighs probably, I don't know, a fourth, probably like a fifth of what that trailer, probably less than that, doesn't matter.

It doesn't have the proper tires either. No, the physics in that one aren't going to work well. And at best it's just slowing down the progression of this thing falling over. However, you do see a good moment where like, Where the tires are kind of turning counter to each other, which would be something real that you would have on a rig like that to kind of help it from a situation like that, like anti lock kind of thing with your wheels.

But it's still not gonna make that much of a difference because the whole ass half of it's off. It's not, it's not gonna work. So we don't need to get over that again. Ass half with three humans. With three humans in it. And equipment. And, yeah.  So basically what happens now, Eddie's trying to help him out.

And then uh oh, T Rex has come back, both of them. And the T Rex rips the One of them rips the thing off to destroy that  rips in half. Well, they, it gets the top off. , Eddie is trying to  dodge it, and he's trying to get his Trent gun out. And , this is a, a thing from the book. Um, uh, , over designing things, be careful.

And the tip of the gun gets caught in the mesh that they didn't need to have, that they put in there anyways, in this overbuilt Mercedes. And he can't get his trench gut out to help him. And then what happens next, Andrew? He gets ripped in half. They literally rip him in half. They take him out, flip him upside down, and you hear him go, Aaaaah!

Blech! One gets his head, the other gets his legs, and they pull them apart. Pretty gruesome death. Pretty gruesome death. He died instantly, but Maybe. Hopefully.  Then the car and the van go all over the cliff And of course miraculously those three that are hanging on the rope needle their way through the two open carriages as it passes down into the Cascading waters below as well as the other as well as the mercedes that just misses them just happens to miss the bullshit Bullshit.

Again, you suspend belief a little bit, but like, A lot a bit. A lot a bit. It's not the worst, this is not the worst thing we've seen. Batman and Robin. But , it's definitely , Okay. But it works enough to like, move the story along. We get rid of a character. And then, then guess what? The Tyrannosaurus rex is  they vacate the area for good this time, right?

 They don't come back. Yeah, and then in the ride as all this happens  they're able to use their massive dodgeball grip strength to get all the way up to the cliff All the way to the cliff to find that after they've been holding on for god knows how long They get all the way up and they find and this is where the second crew and the first crew meet Yeah, meanwhile one thing that bothered me was like why didn't he go back to his daughter at this point?

Why didn't he have a moment where he like? It was like, hey, I'm here for you. I didn't leave you. We're here. I'm alive. , they didn't do that. Yeah, they got the daughter for him. Remember, she's waiting there with them at the top of the hill. Yeah, well, she's at, yeah, so she's in the high hide and she's some, they just met, yeah, they, but this is, I do want to talk about this.

So the action we're talking about, , suspending disbelief.  I believe that that works in action adventure movies, but when you establish Jurassic Park, all the action was very well coordinated and very realistic. So, like, yes, characters will make stupid decisions. Is some things amplified for movie aesthetic?

Yeah. But there was so much just, ugh, eye rolling in this scene that it was hard for me to stay on it. You know, is it fun? Yeah. I had a great time watching. Absolutely. It's entertaining as fuck. But at the same time, the believability.  , was not there for me. But, ,  now the two groups are together.

, they're moving along, they're trying to stay together to survive. They need to, they have no choice. Yeah, they have no choice, and that's where we're seeing the main poacher is, he's human, he's an asshole, but he's human, because , he's like, you follow me, we'll, because he, they pulled him up off the cliff.

Yes, they could have just let him die. Yeah, they could have let him die, because they've already fucked up their entire operation and destroyed their vehicle, so that's why they're all on foot. Yeah. But they're all, , trying to make a plan together and they're like, hey, we're in this. They don't have, they don't have satellite communication so they need to go back to their original home camp that got fucked up.

, they keep saying village, but it's where they had their home camp. They just call their home camp the village.

Yeah, it's just dumb as fuck you'd call it. Yeah, we'll make it to this village and we have satellite communication there We just got to make it there. So they had so the whole next part of this movie is them making it there But  in that situation you see an interaction between Vince Vaughn and the Game Warden talking and he's like the only, the animal's been extinct for 85 million years and the only way you can express yourself is to kill it, which I thought was a pretty fun line.

I like that line. But then that line kind of leads into a little bit later, they, he sits down next to Sarah after Roland was saying like, are you okay? And she's like, no, I got the blood on my shirt from the baby T Rex. And they're sitting there, Roland puts his elephant gun down, Vince Vaughn looks over at it.

And then that's the end of that scene. So as they're trying to make it to the village, you're starting to see, , the, we had this big group.

The compies take out one of them. Yes. And then we're starting to see people getting picked off one at a time. While they're sleeping and camping, the T Rex shows up again. This T Rex is following them and fucking with them. Because she, because of the blood on her shirt.  I think what Roland was doing in that, which, they, you don't really, I didn't think about this until I just watched it.

Yeah. He knows  that's the T Rex blood on her shirt, and he's like, Oh, cool, bet. I'm gonna bag me a fucking T Rex, and it's gonna follow us, and I'm gonna, I don't care who dies, I'm gonna get my fucking T Rex. Yeah. So he is an asshole. He's a fucking prick. But that's good. That's,  good, subtle  storytelling, that I think that's a Steven Spielberg part in there, right there.

 T Rex takes out a bunch of people at this point. He fucks shit up. Yeah, in the camp. They all wake up, and they're all running now in the middle of the night. Yeah, , and then this is when everybody goes, this is when they go their separate ways.

Yeah, this is where people start getting split up, and then the Chris Stapleton character gets a snake in his like shirt and runs. It's a coral snake. Yeah, a coral snake. So he's dead either way. Yeah, so like he gets out. They're hiding in a waterfall from the T Rex. And the t rex is pushing its head and nose in and out and then the coral snake goes down his shirt He's like, oh coral snake and he goes out So like Chase said he's fucked either way Probably better to go from the t rex at that point than the coral snake Yeah, and the t rex grabs his arm and just pulls him up and all sudden you hear  And just red waterfall.

Great shot. Yes. Great shot.  The other group of the poachers They start,  this is the part of the movie that really kind of scared me, which is they go into the, they go into the tall grass. Don't go in the tall grass!

Ajay's the tall grass! The person, who is clearly from India, who knows that predators love tall grass like, like tigers. , Don't go in there. And this is where the scary, I think the scariest of, out of all the Jurassic Park, like this is very terrifying.  We're getting to the crescendo of the movie here, so everyone's separated and running for their lives.

They're trying to make it to the village and to get to the village, cause they can see it in the distance. They have to go through the tall grass, which Kyle mentioned. , as we peer up, we have this high shot of the tall grass, and we see these lines in the tall grass moving towards the group, and,  it is revealed it's velociraptors chasing them through these, this tall grass.

Pretty quickly, too,  what happens first, though, Andrew? , how do we see that they're velociraptors besides the lines? There's just, like, a group of three guys, and, like I mean, one gets, , attacked from behind, right? You just see, like, him, like, throw his hands up, and just gank back, and then you see a tail up, and then it's, that's it.

Silence. You also, you also, yeah, you don't hear anything. Yeah, you just, you hear, you hear the quick screams of people. Yeah. But, , this was, to me,  probably one of the scariest shots in the entire franchise. Yes. This scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. I had to fast forward to this shot.

In when I was a kid. I guess nobody makes it out. No, they all die Yeah, every single one of those there's like 30 of them or close to that and they're all gone. They're all perish Yeah, but I always thought was funny though because they all like they all have weapons But they don't have they have the weapons that you think he would need But you don't need they all have high powered bolt action rifles with like giant magnum like bullets and shit  like nitro express rounds  If you had Velociraptors coming at you, Pack Hunters, there's no equivalent like that in our world except for lions.

You would need shotguns, automatic weapons, , maybe some sidearms, ,  Melee weapon. , they're fucked. They didn't have a chance. They had no chance. Even in, cause you can't see them in the grass anyway. And once you do see them, it's too late. You're dead. They're jumping up on you. Cause they're so  fast.

They're fast. So, so they basically clear that whole group of people. These velociraptors take everybody out. All of them. And then we see Ian's group catch up at the appropriate time because the Velociraptors have taken out everybody and moved on. Because, and then Vince Vaughn's character has gone ahead of them to try to go to the Welcome Center.

He went out a different way to get there so that he could communicate so that they could all get out at the same time. He, I think Andrew, I think this is one of the points that Andrew was like, pissed about because he gets in there  And everything just magically works. Yeah, I was like, there's that geothermal energy being put to use.

Hasn't been touched in like, I don't know, over a decade. , it was like four years. Which in the jungle, a couple months is plenty to fuck it all up. I mean, you even see the  trees and shit growing out of the radio. The computers and everything. But it works like a charm, thanks to geothermal energy.

Yeah, so it's like, it's working. Vince Vaughn's already called in for help. Yeah. And now Sarah, Ian, and his daughter have caught up and they're going through the tall grass, Ian's like, run, and so they're running through, but all the velociraptors are already gone. So they catch up to the little village, , welcome center area.

Looking for Vince Vaughn, and then that's when they're cornered by, what was it, two or three Three Velociraptors. Maybe even four. Yeah, so the three or four Velociraptors, and they're going through and just attacking them. And it's horrific, and it'll I'm very tempted to watch. Oh, so  Vice versa to what we saw earlier with the T Rex scene.

This is a well crafted action scene. Everything made sense. Andrew made the great point last night of like, yeah, sometimes you're frozen by fear, and fear makes you do a stupid thing. So I can accept some stupidity, but not a lot of it. Or especially, I can accept stupidity and fear, but I can't accept stupidity and fear and then you making jokes about it.

So they don't do any of that here. They're kind of running around being like, Uh, uh, uh, where do we go? Their backs against the fucking wall in the courtyard. Yeah, where are we going? There's one scene where Malcolm shuts his gas station door. As he's trying to tell them to go ahead so he can like fend them off, or , separate them. 

And he shuts the door and then the velociraptor just jumps through the window. Yeah, and then he like opens door. He's like fuck shit  Which I thought I've always thought that that was like  that's how it would happen Yeah,  that's that's good acting cuz he's like as a person you're like, okay, that's a building I can at least shut the door and lock it and then he goes through the window He's like, well,  that didn't work at all.

And that's great comedy. Yeah in a sense Cause it made sense. And the thing about action is I need it to make more sense than not. I can suspend my disbelief to some point, but after a while you keep hitting me with it. I'm going to be like, okay, this is  stupid. And I don't believe anything here, but like they were making good decisions.

 It allowed me to accept the fact that when,  , there's a point where  Sarah and Malcolm's daughter get into the, you The big, the shed, but it's like an, , industrial little building. There's not much to it. There's not much to it, but it's got high beams on it, and they climb up to try, because the velociraptors are trying to get into the shed.

They climb up. And there's a point where his daughter does  a fake ass gymnastics routine and kicks the velociraptor through the window. And she sends this thing flying, which we talked about. , if a velociraptor even weighs 150, 200 pounds, which I don't know how much they were supposed to have weighed, but I'm sure it's probably somewhere around there.

, this thing is big enough. It's big enough. There's no way that she has the body mass to be able to kick that at, how far did she, how far did she kick that? Yards? Yards? Yeah, it went through the window. No, she said it, like 20 30 yards. Like it went flying. Bullshit. But,  because the rest of the scene was so well done, I was like, okay, you know, like that's where I can suspend and be like, okay, whatever.

So it kicks, she kicks it out of the window and it , happens to fall on like some debris that has a  stake is sticking  up. And so she lands on the stake, kills that velociraptor.  , there's a segment in there though. This is where I'm starting to get mad again. After that I'm like, whatever.

But then there's a scene where Sarah, I don't know how she got on. She tried to escape through the roof. And then she jumps across the Spanish tile roof across the way. And she's holding on to one. Purportedly holding on to the beam or whatever. In between the corrugation. Other hand on one tile. Again, with her arm completely 90 degrees.

Well she also, you can see her forearm like let off.  As she's like pulling down the Spanish tile to get the Velociraptor down, which was a good idea. But like, it's just that kind of stuff, like Chase was saying, like, You would be hanging on for dear life and maybe being able to do that and she's just kind of like reaching up like I think I'll let my, I think I'll let my grip go real quick and I'll just use my legs that have nothing underneath them to stand up.

It doesn't make any fucking sense.  Long story short, all this happens, they get away, obviously, and there's a helicopter to come get them, immediately, immediately, immediately, and Andrew perks up, you know, Andrew's energy was, was down, but he perked up and goes, Perfect timing. 

And that's all he had to say in that instance. Almost too perfect. Too perfect. , they get off the island. They're safe. And where do they go? And they go straight to San Diego. San Diego.  Because Roland gets his T Rex. We didn't talk about this, but he tranquilizes the T Rex. This is where we catch up.

They're off the island now. And then we see that Roland has his T Rex. Caught the T Rex. 

 He shoots the T Rex. A couple times, doesn't he?

Yeah, a couple times, he holds one of the dart cowboys, one of the darts in his mouth. Yeah. That wasn't dangerous at all. Super safe and definitely, like, the load in there was enough to take down a T Rex. If he would've, like, bit into that, it would've, like, liquefied him. Which I'm sure he would've. He would've just died immediately.

There was no way. I'm like, why the fuck would you do that? Of all that stuff happening, you're gonna put it in your fucking mouth? Why don't you put it behind your ear at that point? Or like, put the tip in your tongue? Like, who fucking cares? Dumb shit, but like, put it in your pocket. Jab yourself in the thigh.

So he gets his fucking, he bags his T-Rex and he's like, and they, the other are sniffling businessman is like, why are you, you've got, you've got your prize. Why are you so upset? What's up? What's going on, rj? He didn't make it. And then we find out his friend didn't make it. Nobody made none of those guys made up.

There's  a , little bit of the group left.  As the other group's getting away on the helicopter, they have a barge that they're about to load.  He even says, he's like, well, outstanding work.

There's going to be a job for you at the park if you want thank you. But I think I've spent enough time in the company of death. Yeah. He walks away. Great line. That was like his last line. I'm pretty sure.

Walks away. Yeah. He's done with that. Which great. He gets off scot free asshole, but like he does say, Save people, save our characters. And he knows when to quit, like a perfect villain. He knows when to stop.  The groups then again, re emerge in San Diego their idea is to get the T Rex to the amphitheater and still sell tickets. It's like, well, we couldn't get all the dinosaurs, but we got the main attraction.   The timeline here is so fucked up.

Yeah, we got hung up on this last night. It was stupid. We're talking about them making their way from this island off the coast of Costa Rica. Not Hawaii. Not Hawaii. Costa Rica. Up, up to San Diego, which has gotta be a thousand, two thousand miles away. On a barge. On a barge, which would take probably a week, if not weeks, to make it happen.

And this happens in two hours? Yeah, two hours. I'm, absolute horse shit. That literally takes up to five days. Yeah, so. Yeah, there's no, there's zero chance. Yeah, so.  But it's movie magic. We're speeding this along.  I am not a fan of the San Diego part of this movie.

Well, I know. Yeah, this is your least favorite part of the movie. My least favorite part, and I think it takes the movie down a notch for me. But,  Steven Spielberg wanted to save this for the third movie.  , this should be in the third movie, but it's too good not to add in. Too good!

He's like, it's too fun, it's too fun. So this was like, It is fun, but it's not good. This was tacked on, and it feels tacked on. So like, budget cuts or whatever, they're there, and,  The other crew, I guess they didn't take the barge. .  The main businessman, Malcolm and his girlfriend, they're there in San Diego.

And he's, he has this press conference. He's like, The Barge will be showing up soon and you'll see the wonders that we have. They're coming through this new amphitheater of the new Jurassic Park. So  trying to set up , the next business model here. Malcolm and his girlfriend are trying to stop , the press conference and whatnot.

And then at this same time, , they interrupt the press conference to tell him, Hey. Hey, uh, we got a problem. He's like, okay  All right, and so he goes to the like little I guess like what do you call that room command center command center? Yeah. Yeah, like I don't know what you'd call , that's it's just like a , like the port authorities  like little communicate radio communication room and they're like It's like the air traffic control room essentially for ships and he's like  we've been trying to call the barge and no one's answering and there and here's the blip and it's moving it Flank break neck speed  our corrupt businessman friend who's,  Hammond's, , nephew or son, who the fuck knows.

 He sees this happening, doesn't tell anybody to move, and just fucking, , slips out. Like a fucking weasel. So that was good writing. Love that. But then, , this boat crashes into the fucking, to the actual, , pier, and then Sarah Harding and Ian are there. They go up inside, and they're searching it, and then they go, a police officer goes into the, , the helm, and he's like, He's like, the guy next to him is like, where's the crew?

And he goes, everywhere. And we see , a really good shot of , a hand clutching the , the wheel. Just the hand.  But then we come to find out when they open up the barge, like, the actual doors to the , to , the cargo bay. Yeah. It's a giant fucking T Rex, and there's no T Rex baby, because that's at the other site. 

How the fuck You  Did those people die? Yeah. What happened to them? We were sitting there. There wasn't a velociraptor. There was no velociraptor there. We had to pause this and like, scratch our heads. There's no other dinosaur. There's one huge ass T Rex on the barge. It's been locked into the barge. Yes, locked.

 The crew on top level should be fine. There's no way a t rex could even get in there Yeah, there's zero chance or if it's in there it when you get on the boat The t rex is going to be standing on top of the boat Like so it's like there's no it's not going to get inside of a door and these people are being ripped apart But somehow was it so it it doesn't make any sense  Or somebody should be alive.

It was just fucking horseshit. It pissed me off. Honestly, like i'm pissed off thinking about it right now but then wasn't the T Rex still underneath the gate?

So , did it get out and get back in? Yeah, that's what we were saying, it's like, how, how? Shut the gate on itself. It's raining outside. I better shut the gate on myself. It put itself in time out. It, no it doesn't. I've had enough now. And then, and then you have the hand clutching the little, you know, The gate door or the cargo bay door the severed hand which would not have it was in rigor mortis And it's holding the door and this one fucking idiot just walks over grabs the hand And then that's how the t rex is in san diego No, no, no, no, no bullshit.

We don't have to talk about this that much but he stampedes through san diego It doesn't look like san diego mind you it doesn't it looks what does it look? I don't know just looks like suburban los angeles  and i will say this so steven spielberg was always suburban Los angeles, he was always a proponent of dinosaurs meeting  That was what Jurassic World was gonna do later on with Fallen Kingdom and the other shitty movie.

But, so their idea of , integrating dinosaurs into real life through the park system, love the idea, but we have failed to execute it yet. And so, this scene that Steven Spielberg is like, oh, it's too fun to add in. Was obnoxiously bad like from the time that the t rex made it to san diego where we had to like Didn't even fill in the gap of how it like made it off the thing  But like so it's running around san diego He goes up to the the window of that kid like lying in his bed.

He's like Whoa, whoa, what's that? Mom, there's a dinosaur outside my window. And then his parents get so pissed, , Just leave us alone! What are you talking about, son? It was horribly acted. Horribly acted, and then you look out the window and the T Rex is eating the dog, just moved on. Not taking out any of the buildings, not trying to rip the kid out of the bedroom and eat it like we saw earlier with the van. 

So, like, we see it rip through an entire van to get to somebody. It wouldn't rip through that house or that door. , it wouldn't do anything. It's running through the city streets, not really doing that much damage. Hitting some cars and It's hit some cars. Hitting a guy. Destroyed a bus. Hit a guy.

But the police are nowhere to be found. No, that's not true.  They are found, but, , it's at the pier at the very end of this whole sequence. Yeah, they don't, they don't go into the streets. They turn the corner. And they see this thing, and they back the fuck up and go the other way. Cause that's exactly what I would do.

I'd be like, this is outside of my paygrade. And then also the animal control vehicle's there, and I thought that was fucking hilarious. That was a great little tidbit.  They put in the Japanese people running around. Great. And really hone in on the fact that , Hey, let's put some Japanese people to play homage to Godzilla.

  That's not paying homage. No, it's just being racist. Yeah, so it's so another point down there Especially as someone who loves godzilla like me just shut  up stay in your lane. , it was definitely it wasn't needed , ,  After all this chaos in San Diego, which is not a lot of chaos. We don't see a whole lot of the T Rex's rampage, which is kind of what you wanted. You're like, okay, , you set this bullshit up of getting into San Diego. Give me something good.

You gave me nothing. It eats one dog, takes out a bus and kills a guy. And then it finds its way to the pier or whatever. Back to the pier. Because remember they, during all this happening again, we're glossing over a lot. , Ian and Sarah get the baby, to get the muzzle off the baby so it can cry, so it can hear.

And it goes, Oh, I hear my baby. Ah, and then they get it back to the pier. And then they, they, essentially they're like hoofing it. They put the baby in the cargo hold. They jump off the side while the sniveling business man's behind them. And the sniveling business man is like, like right on their tail. He is no more than ten feet behind them, but somehow they're able to put the baby in the cargo bay and get out of there before he even gets down into the cargo bay.

So he gets down, finds the baby, and And he's like, Oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna capture the baby. The baby's  my bread and butter. And then we see the T Rex show up, go back into the cargo bay, 

 Businessman is there. The mama T Rex shows the baby how to hunt basically.

So they ended up killing the businessman .  While they shut the cargo doors a second time,  trapping the T Rexes inside.  And then that's when we finish the movie up, and they're watching the news conference of the bars, taking the dinosaurs back to Costa Rica. This time, at real speed.

At real speed. It's not overnight. They're actually like It's like six, seven days, you know? Yeah, they're following it with a live cam, and they have Navy destroyers like following it up. Probably an Ohio class submarine. Yeah, so like it's they're  Pretty realistic at that point. Yeah at the end. Yeah, so at the end Yeah at the end when it's all over and then  that basically wraps it up.

That's it. That's that's the last world That's the movie.  Whoo. Let's all take a collective sigh of relief after that one. And then what? So before we finish it up with our final rankings here, we still have a ride at Universal that still goes on today based on these movies.

And, what a hell of a ride, too. Hell of an ending for that ride. With that big animatronic T Rex and you dive down 80 feet through water. , the lasting impact of Lost World is still felt. And, , of course, people can attribute that more to the first film, but this film was good enough at the time.

It broke box office records, I'm sure, . , and it's still, you know, I think it's more of one of those movies that was critically panned .  And we look at it now with more of a fond memory than  we did at the moment it came out. Yeah, I'd say that's fair, yeah. So, Andrew, let's start with you.

You know, with some of your size in there. Does this film hold up? Yeah, , it does. I mean, there's multiple times where you  roll your eyes and obviously you scream bullshit. But, , just the magic and the lore  of,, Jurassic Park. It captures that essence and you're still involved. You still care.

And it's one of those movies like, like Independence Day, where if you're back home visiting with your family and this comes on at like 10 o'clock at night, and like TNT or something like that, you're not gonna turn it off, you're gonna watch it. It's not like , a gem of a movie, but it's good, and it's entertaining, and it holds up.

Kyle, how do you feel? Because you have stronger feelings about this. Yeah, , it definitely holds up. It just, based on like,  The, the continuity between, , the movies versus the books, and what they both do, I think it definitely does. So being a fan  of both of those, yes. , childhood nostalgia, thousand percent.

It still holds up as an adult. , I still look at this in the same way as I did as a kid, but now with, like, well, that doesn't make any fucking sense, and this doesn't make any sense. But, like, If you were drinking with your friends and this came on, or like you came home after a night of drinking, or like you're inebriated in some way, shape, or form, and you watch this movie, it doesn't fucking matter.

Like, this is a good movie. It's well put together. It's well acted. It is well acted. We didn't talk about this. A lot of the shots in this movie are pretty good. Pretty good shots. , cinematography's not great, not bad. It's like right in the middle. It's good stuff. There's a one shot in this one, Steven Spielberg's shot, that's Very good.

Yeah, not even the island. Yeah, and, and like, it absolutely, don't need to get into it anymore, it holds up. This hit all the nostalgia cords for me.  Yeah, I thought it, it was a fun time. I had a good time watching it. I had a good time dissecting it. I had some really good stuff that I was like. Like to your point some of the shots I was like that's incredible that holds up to this day The animatronics hold up the cgi was not even that bad.

No cgi was pretty good pretty damn good for what it is So it still stands the test of time  I still feel about the same way I did as a kid because I remember as a kid Not loving it as much as the original director, but who would you know, like that's a legendary film, but definitely holds up  Andrew, what do we have with the imdb ratings?

Do you know? You I know what it is. I have my own opinion. I gave it like a 6. 4 So so I figured that's what I thought. I thought he's gonna give us 6. 6 Oh, yeah, what what how are you feeling now? , seven seven point three seven points. Yeah  I keep going back and forth. I was thinking about it while we were talking I was like man when because  I want to say seven one But I think six eight especially when we started talking about the san diego scene And the beginning scene the book ends to this movie  Really left a lot to be desired for me and  that's just my personal opinion I could accept the first one, but the San Diego scene was  It wasn't as fun as it should have been no, they missed there was a lot of missed opportunities there Yeah, we're gonna use that dark comedy in that dark humor.

It could have been all throughout there Yeah, it was just there's a dinosaur on the loose Yeah, I mean you could have  done a lot there But it looks like it was a scene that he wanted to add that got budget cut  and it's sad because it's like a wasted 20 minutes of the movie that just  I mean, we were missing segments, right?

Of that, because they were trying to move it quick. And , it does not work at all. That whole San Diego scene, to me, I think drops it below a 7. 

So , i'm always going to be a little more generous with this also my generous score also comes from the book , and  it did a good job translating from the first movie to the second movie not necessarily with the books But it had enough in there To where  I think that these are great like they're both great movies.

I would totally watch it again. Absolutely It's rewatch values as high as high. I would love to rewatch it with some friends, too I'd love to do like a trilogy like watch through like a marathon like one two and three. Yeah, and  never  watch  the jurassic world drastic world. i'm gonna rate those right now , 3 out of 10 for every single movie.

There is nothing good about it. I will say this. I think I've rated this one lower than I would rate the third one because I am an apologist for Jurassic Park 3. I love Jurassic Park 3. Oh, I love it. It might be my favorite from my childhood. I don't think there's any apologies that need to be made because it, it, it clips along, it tracks, everything really tracks in that movie.

, there's only a couple of parts I'm like, eh, I don't know about that. I need to watch it again and spend a minute, but when I had the box set as a kid, I always, That one's scary. I always watched the third one. That's a scary movie. , well, you know the drill now. We've reached into your childhood nostalgia, found Jurassic Park The Lost World, or The Lost World Jurassic Park, however you want to say it.

Pulled it out, found out it still holds up. We think you should watch this one again. Or at least get drunk, as Kyle mentioned, and watch it with some friends. We had a great time together. , we'll see you next time.