The Reel Rejects - JURASSIC PARK 3 (2001) IS ACTUALLY FUN?!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:54 If you made it this far, make sure to... Ring the bag! ring the bell and make sure to give your gratitude to prepper for editing down these highlights so we've been implementing this process where we release our shooting schedule to the patrons and we put out every day like hey we're shooting this today leave some questions completely dropped the ball forgot to do that so sorry so sorry so we're just going to give our our opinions here and terra please my friend um what's the first thing that comes to mind with this. First thing you want to mention. You know what? I did really like that they brought the nostalgia factor back where that wonder was back. I like that Sam Neal is back. I like that Lauren Dern made, you know, an appearance. I would have liked more of her in it. Um, but, uh, the two additions to this is adding into really great actors. It's he leone and Willie Meachy. They have a great chemistry. And along with Sam Neal, it made it,

Starting point is 00:01:55 uh, an adventurous film. I liked. how quickly we got to the point we took off it's not like oh wow that's a line i'm gonna remember great great writing would have never thought of this i'm not i don't feel that way about this film but i do feel as though the pacing and where they're headed they're very self-aware and they're like we're gonna make a fun dinosaur movie and they did that and i appreciate it yeah it's an entertaining movie yeah it's it's entertaining my the biggest sin that i think a movie can commit is boredom and annoyance yeah and maybe you do feel that when you watch this film this is our point of view's not you know it's our point of view and then we have our difference of opinions

Starting point is 00:02:43 there and i and then totally there's your point of view my point of view i think that this was a entertaining film uh throughout flaws and all and and you know part of you know part of you're of that package is like even when it's flawed it's entertaining yeah and you know it we were saying it kind of like a couple of times it does feel a little made for tv there's a specific era of made for tv because now that's lost a lot of its meaning with such great films and high budget films on streaming now which are technically like made for tv totally um but back then there was a made for TV vibe and look. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:23 And this felt like a, the bigger end of that, one of those bigger production ones. But, you know, Spilberg particularly, we'll shoot a lot on the wide. And his films seem like framed for widescreen. Mm-hmm. And trying to figure out for people who don't understand. Like widescreen, you just get more dimensions, a little bit more rectangular standard is a lot more close. Yeah. And this seemed to be shot in that television type of format.

Starting point is 00:03:53 Yes. We were shot a lot closer. And the budget doesn't feel as big, even though it seems like they utilize their budget on key moments, which were, you know, the dinosaur moments where it's practical effects. Because it's a, that's where the, some of the contrasts are coming in a negative to positive way, where, when they were CGI, the dinosaurs. they looked worse than both movies before.

Starting point is 00:04:22 But when they were practical, they still look great. Whatever it was practical, it still look great. And I think it leans more into the schlocky side of this. Like, this is definitely whatever that finale was of the last movie. Yeah. Of how that felt like weird and kind of tacked on and odd for that film, that type of finale would have worked for this movie. Absolutely great.

Starting point is 00:04:49 Because this, from the very beginning is that entertaining B movie Monster Flick, where the conversation, like literally all science debate is just gone now. There is none of that outside of it. Hey, I think the Raptors might communicate with each other. I thought we, you know, established that in the first movie. Right. But no, they communicate more. now every every every movie it's like well now they do this now now they can also do this yeah so you know like the that part of the charm of Jurassic Park is the science and they just stripped it down

Starting point is 00:05:32 and they're like if we do that we got a solid 90 minute movie you're totally and you sell more tickets so you know like if you want to come in just for the adventure of that yeah it's good and it kind of does like a checklist of make sure you get this action scene here to get this this action scene in here and there's no real like build up to stuff it's like once you're on the island we're just going to get going we're going to start like crossing things off this paper sheet that we got of things we got to hit um you know so yeah it's like it's it's limited on substance for sure it's limited on depth and it doesn't really try to be interesting in its thoughts or ideas whereas i i feel like even though the lost world is you know somewhere in between

Starting point is 00:06:15 Jurassic Park 3 and Jurassic Park 1 as the not just as a part 2 but as like wanting to be a little bit more fun and still keep some of that science side of it or commentary side like this is like completely gone of commentary oh yeah yeah yeah um but the the leg up I'll give as we were saying is the relationship with the family there's at least a character arc here yep we did get that here I will say that with the CGI I mean I would take the hand that we missed pushing in a velociraptor after through the kitchen any day over CGI. Sure. Right? I just think that it was, there was a lot of dead giveaways of going there, shooting in a warehouse that they made to look like a jungle. They played with colorful lights in the background to make it look like sky. That's fine.

Starting point is 00:07:03 It's just when you're talking about made for TV, you don't do a lot of wide or master shots. You're not going to really shoot anything widescreen because you don't want people to see the white screen. We don't have a big enough budget to shoot this whole thing because then it's really a big giveaway that's fake, right? So those things were obvious to me. I mean, probably not to a lot of people. They're not thinking about that when they're watching the movie.

Starting point is 00:07:28 I think the aspect of him having, you know, the arc through the family, it's fun to see. It's fun to see the kid's reaction. The fact that the kids survived eight weeks. It's cool. The fact that Ellen goes, thanks, Eric. He didn't even need to see his face. He knew it was Eric right away.

Starting point is 00:07:44 I like those beats of like, and him going, Mom, I think I can last without you for two minutes. I've been here for eight weeks in a bunker, right? He's learned how to survive. I like that with the kid specifically. And I think what probably draws in because this is a family film that a lot of families probably liked it because it's like mom and dad are back together. It makes the kid happy even though he was like, oh, that's going to be a bad thing. You consider this a family film? I think so.

Starting point is 00:08:14 I mean, I'll give you for me an action. I think now that I said out loud, I think Jurassic Park is that weird franchise. We're like, yeah, I could still take the family. Absolutely. Even though it's like violent and peril.

Starting point is 00:08:23 It's like that weird one where you could, like I saw, I saw, my parents took me when I was like three to watch. Exactly. Yeah. So I saw all three of these in the theater. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:31 And it's not, it's not that. It's like even with Billy or whoever kind of like, we got him some picked that. But their reveals are just blood in the water. Yeah. That's how you do a PG-PG-G-13, right? Right. And the one thing that I thought with the script, the skeleton is not going to be hanging

Starting point is 00:08:51 from the parachute. He is going to be eaten. The parachute needs to be eaten and the strings are no longer there and we assume he's go by-bye. Not running it. I thought that any producer, anyone involved with this would go, this is not realistic. Let's not do it. I like that you wanted T. Leone only to have that. We want it to be funny. Do it with. something else it makes sense that's just me that's just me that's my one like nitpick thing but i think overall i think it's it's families would come and go oh mom and dad they're back together and the kid he survived and and that's fun and we just get to see dinosaurs and they're not really thinking about do we want to know like the science behind why are we here what are we what are we evolving into

Starting point is 00:09:37 what are new things that we can learn and i think what makes a good script is not showing them and giving them the science it's putting it in there without them even knowing like you're you're learning it and that's what happened in the first and the second movie they're explaining things adding in this background of this is why we have to do this thing this film they just went we don't have to do any of that which is fine it was still an adventure it just wasn't really like let's make it so that this is run by a scientologist like not a scientologist a scientist and a paleontologist and that you know it's it's written by people who know about like the science behind the dinosaurs because we're dr grant is still there he has plenty to say and so is billy they're both in that

Starting point is 00:10:25 world they had plenty of things that they could have taught or said um we didn't really get to that but it's it's fine still fun yes yes it's really easy to chalk that a lot of this and that is how I feel most people who are fans of this movie have talked about to like yeah it's a fun movie it's a fun time yeah and now we go into miss potential this opportunity yeah you know um there's no sam neal character arc i really thought there would be a character arc of some sort like this was the thing is there's a lot more i think there's some clear moments even with the family they give them the arc but it could have been so much more like that's the way how a lot of this stuff feels is like there could have been so much more of of more punch or impact to the characters here because uh you know unlike the last

Starting point is 00:11:25 one i actually found it like pretty quick to get invested in this character it's easy it's easy it's very primal to latch on to a family like if there's a family mom in bed or missing their kid it's a really easy emotional hook and um i i wonder some of the critical about Malcolm in the last one carried over here because I like that Dr. Grant still feels like Dr. Grant. Yeah. And I think they had some setup of him to face some fears, you know, like he has this cheesy, corny, famous Raptor Allen moment in the plane showing like this guy's traumatized. But it didn't really feel like there was a lot of trepidation or fear or going over that island. So maybe they added in that dream sequence to throw that in there to make it seem like

Starting point is 00:12:10 he has to conquer something but I didn't really feel like he conquered something he's just like all right got through it going home another day you know right um not even leading to it seems like they were even trying to set something up with the kid being like you should go talk to laura durn and say thank you and i was thinking like it was just setting him up to finally professes love right be like i want you back and like maybe this would be the adventure that he goes on where he realizes like oh i i missed out on stuff in life i need to i need to actually do it but the whole sequels i hate that sequel trope that they used to do that a lot where it's like oh what the fuck they're not together now like why she even in this movie then you know what you put her back here

Starting point is 00:12:52 if they're not even together and i think it kind of ruins the character arc of what he had in the last in the first movie and now he's not even um having a character arc this time around the family could have definitely felt like more substantial in that with oh you you like I think the shade the thing I'm talking about is like there are shades there like it seems like with the dad there was he was lacking on stuff yeah the first thing she points out when you hear about their catch up is how much weight have you lost 25 pounds you you you didn't know how to swim yeah I learned how to swim like like a guy who's like growing and working on himself and whatever the hell life she's been having but you know it while it felt telegraph they would

Starting point is 00:13:33 fall back in love again there was they still felt like there was missing beats that that could have really made that, like, pack a punch or some type of emotional, cathartic thing with that, like how the son and the things, what did he say? He said, like, all them together. That's not good. It's not good, yeah. But having some type of conversation, like a family dynamic here, like mess with the dynamics, you know?

Starting point is 00:13:56 Totally. Let's see the dirty. So when we get to when it's good, how did we get there and what did we learn? Yeah. And then watch through these actions and the physical turmoil of them kind of working that out working so there was so much emotional beats that they so could have hit because it's and it's strange to say that because it's all like set up and it's all there to toy with um but it seems like they cut out anything that could have had more substance in favor of runtime you know that's how a lot

Starting point is 00:14:33 of it felt it was like let's cut down to runtime while it like moves briskly it's still because it's a part three to to a decent a pretty solid sequel which had a masterful it's a masterful tension still yeah and then like a masterpiece of a first film it's kind of crazy how the third one goes let's strip down so much now uh so yeah so it's weird i shouldn't say disappointment because it is a fun film but it you know it's disappointing at hindsight when you see what they really could have done with what was there. Reject Nation, the basketball playoffs are heating up. And if you want to turn your takes into something real,

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Starting point is 00:16:46 Maybe it could just be, you know, it's nice to add it in the moment. She's like, well, you look good. And he says, you two, they walk away. Maybe it could have been a thing like, you know, she just says, well, you were never there. And he's like, I know, but I plan to be somehow he shows up there for him, there for them when he's like, I'm not going anywhere at the end, right? there's that could literally be the little bow tie it you're just adding in two sentences of like

Starting point is 00:17:10 oh if we know that she's like you were never there and we see them sort of fighting through this we got to save our kid he's there for you now maybe he pulls her in and she almost died she's like thanks he was there we don't need to say it right we get it it's it literally could have been an extra two minutes tacked on where we get a little bit more of that substance with the relationship and maybe Tia Leone gets to shine a little bit more. She has failures too, right, as a mom. And then we would have had arcs with all of them. Because dad had his thing and then he swims, right?

Starting point is 00:17:43 And then I'm not going anywhere. And then the kid, eight weeks. He made it. All right. You're a grown up now. But T. Leone was just like mom from the beginning to the end, which is fine. But I'm not saying we needed to spend 30 minutes.

Starting point is 00:17:56 I'm saying it's as easy as I think what I said there, an extra two minutes to build just a little more substance in there. Sure. Sure. Yeah. You know, it's a fun time. Yeah. It is one of those things that it's some is a lot of times you say a movie's fun. Yeah. It sounds like it's just. It sounds like bad. It sounds like you're just being given pass. But it's not. It's not bad. No, but it actually is like a fun time. Yeah. Um, let's see here. I think it is. I thought I was actually having a fun time and I was really, I'm really glad that it's paced the way it was. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Right. So we asked AI to give us some fun facts about this movie. The script was never finished when filming began.

Starting point is 00:18:41 Kind of shows. The plot changed multiple times during production. Some actors like William H. Macy had publicly said the script was being re-readed and daily on set, which led to a lot of behind-the-scenes drama, chaotic production, and unfinished script movie problems. I can't believe that. Wow. Yeah. No, I mean, it's kind of crazy to do with Jurassic Park 3.

Starting point is 00:19:01 there's been some great movies that have been in those circumstances and have managed to be fucking great in the end but totally it's kind of surprised if we do that but Jurassic Park three exactly what the hell an early draft movie had tyrannadons attacking a small town America think Jurassic Park meets a war of the world universe wow they had a completely different direction universal thought it was too big too expensive and two different so it was scrapped like a full-on dinosaur invasion movie wow freaking cool i mean that would be very different than very different another we're going to the island and we got to get off the island movie totally um billy was almost the new allen grant uh he once claimed

Starting point is 00:19:52 the actor would become the next allen grab sam as the lead for future sequels that plan was quietly dropped uh yeah that makes sense yeah The Spinosaurus death was a middle finger to T-Rex fans. What do you mean? Oh, because he killed it that quick. They're saying, hey, T-Rex ain't that big of a deal. Because the Spinosaurus isn't. Oh, what you were saying?

Starting point is 00:20:13 Oh, yeah. I think that's why they're like, screw you. And I'm like, nah, T-Rex forever. Yeah, Spinosaur. Okay, so there were fans who were actually really mad about it. I'm mad too. And it's one of the most hated dino fights here. Don't crack my T-Rex's neck like that.

Starting point is 00:20:26 Uh-uh. I'm not happening. Like I said, good intentions. But the way it was executed. it was like a little disheartening. I didn't realize there was all that backlash, Joe. Me neither. All these years of hearing stuff of Jurassic Park.

Starting point is 00:20:39 I actually didn't know there was backlash. I'm glad to hear you guys are on my side. The satellite phone gag was last minute. Oh. Many found the humor more gross than funny. Oh, yeah. The poop shot, probably. Oh, wait, wait, no.

Starting point is 00:20:57 I think I misread that. Oh, the moment, the ringtone was coming from dining. I know guts, but fans found it more gross than funny. So they, I think they changed it to the poop scene. Oh, okay. Well, Laura Dern was only shot for a few days. At least Sattler's return was extremely limited. And her part was mostly to please fans.

Starting point is 00:21:17 It was not going to include her at all. Interesting. I feel like you might have been fine with that. At least they made her essential. Yeah. Oh, oh. That was Spilberg's idea. oh my god did you guys know this

Starting point is 00:21:33 did you guys know this about Jurassic 4 3 that the Allen moment the famous Alan moment was a spillberg idea wow he approved that and it's one of the most mock moments in the franchise it says Jurassic Park 3 Raptor talking meme worst Jurassic Park scenes ever

Starting point is 00:21:53 oh my God oh yeah this is what this is what Jurassic Park has been wanting to get to forever that they wanted to do a human dino hybrid plot. What? That's been like the consistently canceled Jurassic Park idea. Before this version, Universal considered a dark sci-fi thorough where soldiers were part human, part dinosaur,

Starting point is 00:22:14 think raptors with guns, it made it foreign to develop before being scrapped for being too weird. That is the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Nobody wants to go see that. I do not want to see a half human, half dinosaur. I want to see dinosaurs. course um johns the director joe johnson said uh all we had was an outline and some action scenes when they started shooting why um he hated the experience i bet you didn't have a freaking script

Starting point is 00:22:41 he reportedly wanted to leave the project midway he told empire magazine i should have walked away it was miserable oh wow uh two completely different versions of the script were thrown out just a few weeks before camera rolled Jesus. One version was about a teenage boy stranded on the island. Another had Alan Grant living alone on the island of studying dinosaurs by choice. How is that even

Starting point is 00:23:05 possible? That doesn't make sense. I don't understand that. We both were ditched. David Kep, the writer of Jurassic Park 1 and 2, refused to return. So new writers were rushing at the last second. And David Kep is actually back for the new

Starting point is 00:23:21 Jurassic World. so that might be a good might be a good one and that's why they didn't is because they were the summer 2001 release date they had to make that no matter what that's why they had to start filming without a script Oh, Johnson admitted the movie was shaped by what's, that's, this is the first one. Ah, that's what I want to say in the review too, is that it was the first one to me that felt like it was written around action scenes. The way I had like the emission of possible movies eventually feel. Yeah, totally. Like this doesn't feel like it was story first and then action. Right, but I liked, because I did, I called it out very early in the film and it says that he said the movie was built around already pre-built sets.

Starting point is 00:24:03 it was not we're not operating on an island where we're finding real locations we're operating in a warehouse why did they decide to not have not have Ellie and Dr. Grant together there's got to be some answer to this uh spillberg and johnson wanted to show life went on they thought it would be more realistic if they had grown apart they liked the idea of grant being stuck in the past still digging fossils still haunted by dinosaurs while i moved forward the life family career kids that's what i mean like it could have worked if that was the case if that was if they if it really felt like it was part of the DNA of part of this journey of like what if that was his arc by the end like i should have moved on i should have let this all go you know right then it would

Starting point is 00:25:02 come to a, then you would have had a fucking arc with a guy. Totally. We felt Grant would never be the family type. He's too obsessed with his work, but he had an arc. Ellie having a husband and kids was meant to surprise us. Well, it did, because I did think that it was his kid

Starting point is 00:25:18 in the beginning, and that other guy walked up. Yeah, I mean, that was part of the... Word Dern didn't know until the day of shooting. She didn't even know Ellie and Grant weren't together until she got the script for Jurassic Park 3. Oh, wow, that's awful. That's a horrible thing She said, I thought they were still going to be a thing, but apparently not.

Starting point is 00:25:36 Yeah, us too, girl. Spilberg, Spilberg didn't want her in Jurassic Part 3 at all. Why? Weird. But it was too, fandom man, out of her face. The franchise is love for lone wolf scientists. The Jurassic franchise is a pattern. Heroic Loner Scientist gets dragged into chaos.

Starting point is 00:25:56 Letting Grant be married or settle would have broken that trope, so they kept them isolated for thematic. It's bullshit. You still could have done exactly what you had and she just wouldn't have gone. Like, yeah, no, there's a way to... Not a fan of that, not a fan of that. But are you guys a fan of this? Do you find Jurassic Park 3 to be an underrated family film?

Starting point is 00:26:19 Leave your thoughts down below. Tara? Yeah. We have watched these so close together. Yep. And at this time of this upload, I will be coming back from New York. So we will have like what? a couple weeks without watching the Jurassic

Starting point is 00:26:34 Park film so we're going to go into the new franchise. Oh, when you get back. The next trilogy. Oh, that's a while. Yeah, it's a while. It's about about like a weekend, like nine days 10 days from now. I didn't think about that. Yeah. That's fine. I can survive. You all

Starting point is 00:26:50 lasted years. It's going to be fine. Yeah, and like nine days from this time of shooting we will be watching Jurassic World get some space, getting fresh eyes, and I remember loving that movie. Is Jurassic world finally where we get the whale yeah there's a whale yeah i love that part yeah that's the only part that i remember it really out of any of it you see me watching these this is like it's like i'm

Starting point is 00:27:14 watching them for the first time honestly because i don't remember yeah it's a fun uh that one i think is uh i i remember being a pretty big defender of that one of like Jurassic world really knows what it is it is a fun movie oh i'm excited it just wants to be fun and it knows how to do fun and so yeah I'm excited to God, yeah, it's been so many years since I saw it. I'm excited to revisit it. And then the next two after that.

Starting point is 00:27:40 Are they not good? I remember dozing off in the third one, so I want to revisit it. Because I don't remember. I honestly cannot tell you how it ends. And I don't know if I can tell you about the second one. There's some more bits and pieces about the second one I remember. But the third one.

Starting point is 00:28:01 Wow. I don't remember. I really can't recall what the third one's like. Did the third one get a lot of backlash and people said they don't like it? Because then I might not have gone to see it. The third one was, I mean, it was a dissip- I mean, that does off quite a few times. Maybe I didn't watch it at all.

Starting point is 00:28:18 I remember not being a big fan of it. But, you know, when we watch stuff here, last thing I was saying, when we watch stuff here, I think we watch with a more observant eye. Yeah. And it's so, you know, I'm not going to fucking fall asleep on. camera unlike some people here I'm not gonna fall asleep on camera and like even watching Jurassic Park I've seen that movie several times but then watching it here the felt like a different time and I picked up on things I never would have picked up details that we never yeah yeah so I'm excited

Starting point is 00:28:51 to give it another shot and maybe we'll love it by then anyway guys too much talk we'll see you soon bye You are.

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