The Reel Rejects - THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK 2 (1997) IS AN UNDERRATED SEQUEL?! MOVIE REVIEW!

Episode Date: June 1, 2025

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some royal rejects. Hey, hey. Submit some questions. We got three here. All right, here we go. Mike. This is a fun one. If you had to control, start your own diner resort.

What type of attractions would you try and entice park goers? I saw something recently where zoos add ropes to play tug of war directly with a lion. What? I don't like that. That's not good, I don't think, for the people or the lion. If you had to, if there was a dino resort, I would be the Jeff Gobloom and the Julianne Moore of the situation. trying to shut this shit down. But if we were to play pretend here on the opposite spectrum.

Yeah, let's think. Okay. What will we do for a fun diner resort? Mm-hmm. I would try to do it where you can put a muscle on like a T-Rex so that way you could ride it. Be able to ride the dinosaur or a triceratops. Yeah. Be able to ride the dinosaurs.

That's what you want to do. I feel like I would. I know that they. eat, I feel like I'd want to be like, oh, you can come and feed like the baby, the baby T-Rex's and the baby Velociraptor's like, you know how you do a sea world? You can give them fish. I would do that and be like, oh, you can feed them. And since they're the baby ones, you could probably pet them. Yeah, I would try to like make it more like a marine, you know, where it feels slightly more natural instead of a zoo. Right. But I don't know how you would possibly do that.

You would need to find some way to make the marine near the island. in order to make that function because like a aquarium i'm sorry to say marine aquarium um yeah that's that would be more of my time i don't know or you can make it like a safari type maybe so that you i'd give them like trees or something and you can feed it to the you know the vegetarian dinosaurs some some of them are just too vicious they're too vicious you can't get anywhere near them i know well and it seems like they don't want to play at all even you can get a lion to love you. They don't want to play at all. That's my take. It's true. It's true. It's all gonna go to hell. We'll never have a dino resort. Gabriel. Hey, Gabe. What did you think of Goldblum's performance in this movie? I personally think that he's playing a different character. He's giving his all as usual, but I just feel like he doesn't quite remember his character, if that makes sense. His mannerisms and speech patterns and demeanor don't quite hit the mark for me as his natural evolution over the four years since the event of the first film. almost like a variant ian malcolm do you agree disagree agree they seem different but find it a

just about all character evolution this was what i i hear a lot because i listen a lot of movie stuff um that was one of the the things i had heard over the years so much about jeff goblem in this movie is that he feels like a totally different person than how he was in the last film and And I do think that, but I still feel like it's, I think it's a natural evolution of the character. I actually didn't find it. And a lot of people very much disagree as you do. But when I'm watching it, I kind of was on the lookout for that. And when you're factoring in the trauma of what you've experienced, knowing how right you were during that time and no one listened to your warning size, you try to warn the public.

and then you're ostracized and then lose your career while then this probably makes it difficult with custody with your children. I think there's so much that would beat this guy down who was once confident and full of excitement into now being a curmudgeon. I think it makes a lot of sense that he would become this kind of individual. You know, and I can imagine that was like a disappointment for people. As a kid, I didn't really look out for that, but I can imagine that that's a disappointment when, considering how phenomenal and fun he is in the first one, like, there's nothing really like iconic or super hardcore memorable. Like, he's good in this movie. He's really good. But it's not the impact for sure that he is in the first one. But what do you think? I think that, I think

it, because ideally in the beginning of this, in the first film, there's still, a sense of freeness about him and wonder he's not quite sure what we're going to get to but he's still that guy but then all the crap happens to him especially at the park and then he's canceled for telling the truth he signed an NDA but he's like people died right and that's going to change somebody when it comes to like even their personality and them interacting with other scientists when they're on an island yet again with other dinosaurs you know what happened before, he's not going to have that same, like, flirtatious freedom that he had because he's like, I don't have the freedom.

I know that this is now dangerous. To your point, he had the near-death experience. Exactly. And now he's trying to get his- Danger changes you. Yeah, he's trying to get his life in check. He almost died many times on the island. Absolutely.

And it's like a sense of danger and caution is going to change how someone performs in the minute. You're not going to feel like you want to be flirting with Julianne Moore, which is. maybe what would have been something that you would have liked to see, Gabriel, and a lot of audiences of like, well, what do you think about that, scientist? Like that kind of a vibe. But he has, his daughter's here now, right? And he knows what's happened before.

He doesn't want to be here. He wants to, like, just get his girlfriend and get the hell out. So I get it. I do get it. That would have been fun, but I do understand why it's not that way. And I assume that Spielberg probably directed him. Or maybe he made those choices. I'm not as free in this film as I would be in the first because I know people have died.

Yeah. This is a common complaint that I heard about this film. And it is something that I actually, I, I, as a fan of Gobloom, would I have liked him to be a little bit more fun? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right.

We all love to see that side. We love that fun side of Gobloom. Yeah. I think it makes sense for the character. I agree. I agree. uh gandu ball uh having watched all the alien and predator movies hey now Jurassic Park which would you rather have as a friend a T-Rex alien or predator you'll have to have lunch with

them at least once a month or they'll get really so funny I love it really upset you don't have a lunch on the side I'm so credibly excited to rewatch these movies with you guys hoping you'll do the entire series that's the plan it's the road to Jurassic World rebirth. Tara, please, do you go first? Well, we'd rather have lunch with. That's a very easy one for me. It's a T-Rex. I mean, just straight up. I'm a big fan of T-Rex on my YouTube channel. My whole logo

used to be a T-Rex and a shark fighting. I love dinosaurs. So that's just, that's going to have to be it. It would be so fun for me. I don't even, even when I watch this, you hear me just being like, that looks so awesome. I'm not even scared. I think they're freaking great. Like, I

went to, did y'all go to, prehistoric it was like two years ago where they had they they rented out warehouses and I forget the name of it but you could go and it was like Jurassic Park they had huge animatronics of dinosaurs all the types of dinosaurs and you could walk around and I got to ride on top of an animatronic like T-Rex it was the best time of my life they make it mainly for kids but I was like sign me up I love this so it would have to be a T-Rex that's fun yeah I think an alien would drool too much over the food and it would make the lunch feel disgusting. It would be a little repulsive.

You wouldn't be able to eat. Yeah, I'm like, you ruin my appetite. A predator, I think, would be a little bit of an awkward conversation. Like, I feel like you'd be the one closest, he or she would be the one closest to where we can maybe get some type of body language dialogue going, some type of rapport going because a predator can. respect but he also might not want to eat because the meal wasn't hunted and I feel like I might have to hunt with this guy in order to eat and I don't want to go through all that bullshit that's way too much work but a T-Rex do I risk dying yeah but it's freaking T-Rex you know I'm with you on that if he can we risk it because it's cool as hell F Mary Kill I would

F the predator Married the T-Rex, kill the alien. Oh, my God. Which one would you have to F. The Predator. Yeah, that's the only one you could probably have. I would kill the alien, obviously, marry the T-Rex. You probably get canceled. Is that what you just said?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, you said, kill the C-Rex or married C. I said, Mary. Yeah, yeah, that's what I said, yeah. We're at the same play. I don't think you really want to hang out with the alien. No.

No, no. I mean, it's, there's so much about it. It's sticky and your eye. The eyes are big, and I don't know. Anyway, patrons, you royal rejects, thanks for supporting us. And thanks for the questions. Yeah. And let's swing into it some more.

Tara, please. What's your impressions upon it ending? What did you, what did you think? Would you, what's the first thing that comes to mind? First thought, first emotion. It felt like it could have been a post-credit scene because it did feel very different. The finale you're talking about? The finale.

The very, the very end. I thought it was going to, and when they were taken away in the helicopter. It does feel that way, doesn't it? Right? Oh, they're safe. And then we maybe follow them a little bit. And then those hunters are like, we don't know. We forgot about them.

Hopefully they're dead or something. Yeah. It's odd how we kept going. It felt it did feel, even though it was still a lot of fun. It felt like, oh, somebody's a big fan of Godzilla. We wanted to see a type. We wanted to see a T-Rexam. moving through a town.

It felt like someone needed to see that and wanted that to happen and was able to get that, which is great. It still was fun. But I did think it was more, maybe more of a post-credit. It didn't feel like it belonged to the movie. The only part that really did feel like it belonged

is obviously getting the baby back, great callback once we have the baby and then it'll follow us. That's fun. That's sort of like that ending rom-com thing where you're like, we got a you know the guy runs to meet the wife the meet the ladies like don't get married it's sort of the thing like

oh yeah now we're running with the baby we got to get we got to save their lives in a way um i thought that was fun but the the stuff in between was funny but i'm just here i'm here for a good time so i didn't i didn't really mind it that much but it did feel like it was a little bit of a different tone and stylistically different movie what did you think of the adventure overall though like leading up to the finale. Oh, I loved it.

Here's the thing. What I said, when we were watching it, I was like, the wonder and excitement is gone because we went right for, this is going to be a lot darker. So in the beginning, I was like, oh, we're spending a lot of time building up Goldbloom's life, his background story, Hammond,

and I'm like, okay, when are we going to get to the juice? But I'm glad that they spent the time in, and especially once we get to meet Sarah and her personality and how the juxtaposition of them and how she's just so excited to be there, she's not going to listen to him, she is staying. The second they get thrown into danger

because his daughter and his girlfriend are there, it really kicks off. Not only with that, but then add hunters on top of it where they're not going to agree. They are not there for the same reasons. That makes it a real conflict that audiences go, oh what's going to happen here like who's going to die how can we get them to not hunt these dinosaurs

but also how can we also get these characters to survive there's a bit of a back and forth because you go well if you have the weapon and I'm in danger and the tigrecks are going to kill me you would think well you would hope the hunter maybe comes maybe now you want them to be killed but not really but it does put you in a little bit of a predicament yeah yeah i i think the because they wanted to do the finale i think they really had a missed opportunity of driving home something that could have been a very interesting character thing with the main with the hunters and the environment and our quote unquote environmentalist characters yes because like the concept is really cool the concept of the you go to the island of dinosaurs

and you have environmentalist people once we want to preserve this and look after the animals and you got people who are hunters, poachers, who are, yes, they're hired for something bigger for some capitalistic advancement, but, you know, you got people who wanted to do it for the sport as well. And I feel like the converse, the theme and the debate of that, that's one of the cool things about the first Jurassic Park is the debate of should we, you, the whole, I don't know the quote offhand, but the concept. Does it mean that you should?

Yeah, that whatever that quote was. It doesn't mean you should type of a deal. Yeah. And this movie seemed like they were posing something whether they could have done with their characters. And if they have kept the finale on the island with them and even if the numbers were getting dwindled down with the hunters, where you kept to the main people on the antagonistic side,

then I think we could have had something that results in something more interesting. Yeah. Because by the time you get to the finale, it dawned on me like, oh, Jeff Goldman has like no. character arc in this movie right and they set him up like he might have some type of character arc maybe a father or some type of thing with the relationship like they drop the ball there it seems like there's some other alternate finale that they dropped to make this finale yeah when it didn't proper i don't feel like it actually concluded the characters like sure you see jeff goblum

having you know he's asleep on the couch and his daughters there's spending time with his daughter sure um kept his word there i i think there's like missing beats though that we didn't ultimately fulfill. I don't know why Vince Vaughn wasn't with them on this journey to helping out with the San Diego incident. Right. There's like some things that started right. It felt like tacked on and replaced something else.

Even though the San Diego stuff was shot with precision, Spilbergian play. And like he's having fun with his toys. So I think they tried to make the most. out of it and have the most fun out of it but watching Jurassic Park one the part of it that I was greatly reminded of is oh yeah there's like such great character work in this film and that's why the movie works so well so everything leading up to the finale while I think the finale is fun it does um does kind of create a handicap to what might have been a more impactful second installment because the whole journey up to it,

I think is a lot of fun. I think it's a blast of a journey. Julianne Moore, I don't know why, maybe because of how the movie ends. I don't know why enough people don't, like, mention how great. She is so good in this movie. I think she's amazing,

easily like the favorite performance out of anyone in this film. Because she's such a strong personality. She feels very human. nothing feels like in your face or messagey about the way they write her i believe her the relationship with jeff goblum everything about her i thought was um refreshing and and injected an energy and i again would have been the thing that i think really uh helps out with the themes and i and the other part with the dinosaur adventure stuff like the sequence with the baby dinosaur when they the baby wrecks

when they're in the was that caravan in the trailer when she gives it to yeah that whole sequence is like masterpiece direction masterfully directed yeah

even in the tent there's there was so many like good ideas and some scenes that were excellent and the setting of calling it the lost world to have a bit of a throwback vibe to those movies where it's a where it's a land of dinosaurs and humans are infiltrating

or humans are like a part of it I don't really know those movies that well I've just seen like visuals of that so I felt like that's what it was harkening back to and I know Spilbert likes to harken back to other films of stuff he loves so yeah I think it's a I think it's a solid part two

I think it's a fun part too do I think it reaches the heights at the first one absolutely not but it is a I think it's probably like under a appreciated, especially over where the franchise ends up going. This was a really, I thought this was a really fun time. And I appreciate that they actually went for something different, that they didn't just try repeating themselves, even though there are some beats that are a little bit repetitive.

It's ultimately not a repetitive film. And the jungle setting and I think Spelberg still like gave a lot of TLC to it, even if it doesn't reach the solid storytelling. or characters because like the character the characters are nowhere near as like good as the first one either i i absolutely agree and when you said you were like that it seems tacked on like i said it does seem like it's a different movie that maybe they replaced it and there was some stuff there what i am missing is there would be a perfect moment for a callback that his arc would take one sentence Jeff Goldblum's arc. When he, it's very precise of when she's on the high thing and she's like,

you never keep your word, whatever that line is, and he drops down. It would be the most perfect callback. Something happens. He's there. See, I'll start keeping my word now. Like, this is the start of me keeping my word. Like, and never ending it, whatever. That would be a good art for him and his daughter because we still left it.

Sure, we saw him together on the couch, whatever. But I am saying that, oh, they missed that opportunity. for that arc that you're that you're discussing um i also think um oh what were you you were talking about the freaking and and oh my thought just escaped me it might come back to me y'all holy to molly oh what was it i had a good thought i just got really wrapped up in that they should have had a callback with the daughter because that would have been a really great callback. Oh, I was going to say that the perfect moment for Julianne Moore is when she goes to give the baby dinosaur to the dino is a perfect acting moment. She goes from like scared and wonder to like

a smile on her face and she's so happy. She got to do this moment and then the door closes, right? And there was affirming to her book. It was affirming to her theory about the, about the T-Rex. Right. About and you could see it written all over her face that she's like, she was right. And I really like how powerful they made not only her, but also the little girl is like, she's not afraid to tell her dad. I mean, I love that they realize she's in there because she tried to cook dinner. Like, they're not setting her up like a child who doesn't know how to do anything. She's a child that just wants to be involved.

And I really like that because otherwise they would have written her like she's not that there was anything wrong with the girl from before, what we saw in the beginning. How she's kind of like, she didn't know much about the dinosaur. She was scared. This one, Jeff Goldblum's daughter, I really like that she wasn't scared. She was more like Julianne's character, which is why they got along so well. And I really like that dynamic. I wish we would have gotten to see a little bit more of that.

And possibly the little, I like how she saved the date with her gymnastics. Like that was, that's like, that's the reason we talked about the gymnastics. Got it. That was fun and funny. I think I could have done with that without the line hey there over here but it's still, hey you. Hey you

that's what it was. It's such like an inserted recorded line. It doesn't sound at all like she's doing that while flipping it's like some weird V-O they added it. I would have just wanted to be a surprise or he's here flinging and then the dinosaur's there and he's like and then she kicks him out right? Because

the hey you is a giveaway where I went oh she's going to kick him out of there. But anyway, overall this movie was still a lot of fun and who knows what their thoughts were for the entire ending. But I do think there could have been, which there was in the first, a lesson. Where was the lesson? I don't know. We had a moment probably to get to a lesson, a stronger theme in between the environmentalists and the hunters to really like nail down.

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investing involves risk. Acorns, LLC, and SEC, registered investment advisor. Review, important disclosure is acorns.com slash rejects. Thank you again, Acorns. I think you could have messed with the character. Yeah, that's why I like the shot of Julian Moore loading the gun because you're watching the anti-gun and anti-hunter person now have to take on the skill set. Again, so I think it could have messed with the characters a little bit more. and and dived into an actual debate about what it is they're doing. Yeah. But I like the capitalistic society building around them on the outside.

Like you don't, even though they talk about it, how, you know, Jeff Golden lost all this and he was making public appearances. Yeah. And the name of this company, I really don't, I had no idea. The company was named something. IGN, what the hell was it called? EGN, something like that. Ingen. Engine.

Yeah, I N-G-E-N, I think. Really? I think it was. Is it the engine, like an offensive word? Is it? Maybe it was, I swear it was, I-N-G-E-N. I got to look it. I don't remember.

I got to look it. I don't know. You might have to say something really offensive. It sounds like an offensive word. Is it in? I'll assume it's offensive. Shut up. I ain't cutting anything out.

Company. It stays. your casual derogatory words. Yes, N-Gen is the company in the lost world. Get the hell out of here. Oh, I thought he said a difference. I said, I-N-G-E-N, that's what I said. I said, I-N-G-I-N-E.

No. Which I don't know what that word means. I didn't say that. Anyway. I said, I-N-G-N. In-G-N. I don't even know why I brought them up. to throw me under the bus but uh yeah like watching the the world building around that

was an interesting aspect and you know i like i like the idea too of like people wanting to come here and hunt there were there was there was such great direction and flourishes kind of throughout the entire journey with with the great music it just ultimately doesn't come together fully in the end sadly when it feels like there was a really great opportunity because spillberg when he does part two it's like he did it with indiana jones too he for some reason wants to go sillier like the child than him comes out a lot more yeah he's he's kind of an adult in the first time around and then the child and him comes around like let's do these like fun silly like the velociraptor scene is to me kind of emblematic of what this one does like while the

teorexines are are one they're on the island are so scary and so good the velociraptor seed compared to the last one last movie like the last movie that's a terrifying scene absolutely this one is like kind of silly it's a little silly you got gymnastics girl kicking one of them the whole thing with like he goes inside one room it jumps through the glass uh though there's so many of them and somehow they manage to survive this shit that the raptors aren't attacking them it's a lot sillier it was it wasn't really quite scary it was it was fun and I think when you can enjoy this movie for when divorcing yourself from the prior one yes makes it a lot easier to get on board and i fortunately was able to do that for so much of this film that i was able to

appreciate a lot of intention and a lot of set pieces and even when it was like nowhere near as scary as the first one right yeah there's enough goodwill in here where i'm like yeah no there's there's there's enough care and it seems like in the first act they were really setting up their characters for something that would have like real payoffs but yeah and the fun and excitement of seeing that T-Rex up close opening that one shot just where it's through the window we open the door we do not cut that T-Rex that is there wackadoo wild amazing I think the opening scene too is really disturbing oh yeah oh god I have really yeah even that and then the capturing of the bay I just I hated it I hated it I hated it

I hated that's when I was like oh we're in dark Jurassic Park now let's freaking go yeah usually in sequels when you get more money you kind of see especially nowadays you see an uptick in in CGI and visual effects being used more and it was cool to see them use that money to unload on more animatronics to unload on more practical effects like the baby dino thank goodness yeah the baby dino when they're in the trailer is like wow that really It's like a real animal just moving right now. Absolutely. I agree with you. And there's so many more close-ups on the T-Rex face. Yes. Like those are legit, like terrifying.

Yep. Yeah. Vince Vaughn was fun. It's, he's like way more fun later in his career. He was fun here. He was fun. Yeah.

I mean, he wasn't like totally Vince Vaughn in it up. No. But, but yeah. I mean, maybe there was a subduedness. The direction may have been.

This is a little. bit darker during these times take it more seriously starts off darker but then it gets corny it's so corny it's funny you know and then you're like i don't know what the direction was maybe it was just the actor's choices and that's that yeah i don't know yeah because they get to the island quickly and it doesn't really feel like there's a beat in getting to the island like no they're just there yeah they're just there and then suddenly they're just leaving exactly exactly and it is weird it's really weird that like you remember and I was like, oh, I forgot about Vince Vaughn.

You were like, it's weird. He's not with him. And I was like, oh, totally blanked. He was even, they just made me forget. Because a lot of the ending of that movie is really just Goldberg daughter, Julianne Moore. That's it. Right? And Vince Vaughn is somewhere around there.

But you felt like pretty integral through a lot of the other journey. Oh, absolutely. It's just insane that I forgot that Vince Fawn was not there in the end. Right. Otherwise, I would have been like, where you? Vince Vaughn. So, what? I want to know, like, what are the differences in the book versus movie with the Lost World, Jurassic Park, and the book, Lost World?

And easy to digest way. Thanks, AI. Let's find out. Load AI. Okay. Okay. We're looking at differences, different kind of trivia. Book.

Ian Malcolm goes to site B to rescue a colleague and study the dinosaurs before nature wipes them out. It's more about science and curiosity. Interesting. In the movie, John Hammond sends Malcolm to document the dinosaurs to gain public support to protect the island. It's framed as a conservation mission. Okay. Yeah, one sounds, the movie's approach sounds more movie. okay in this book but not the movie

Richard Levine arrogant scientist who triggers the mission sounds like he was a very integral part of the book RB a young tech savvy boy Thornton Eddie Carr engineers okay I guess they're not here in the book in the movie but not the book oh Sarah

Sarah is in the book but she's more serious in the book wow the nephew is not not in the book he's like a huge part of this movie and neither is the big game hunter wow i mean one thing i did say when watching is they felt surprisingly one dimensional they yeah like they're right because they weren't written out

the the the the nephew is like i'm it's literally this i am greedy and roland is i want to hunt totally um kids on the island oh so the rb and kelly they're kids in the book but i see kelly is Malcolm's daughter, she does not use gymnastics to be. Not in the book. Of course not. It's not in the book. Hallelujah. The San Diego thing is totally made up in the movie.

Okay, I was so curious about that. Certainly feels that way like a mini Godzilla movie. This was Adamar for spectacle. It says who dies in the book, more deaths, especially among the bad guys. I love that. I love it. And in the movie, it says fewer deaths. Dodgson isn't even in the movie and said we get Ludlau as the current villain.

Dodson's the one who gives him the, who gives Wayne Knight, the Seinfeld guy. Yes. Yeah. Oh, wow. Okay. So the book focuses more on chaos theory as what Jeff Goldblum talks about in the first one. Extinction, ethics, and silence, more intellectual on Darth. The movie is more action, spectacle, and family with some environmental messages sprinkled in.

Yeah, that's what I, this is. Good job, AI. That is a great to break down of it because it does feel like the first movie does have all that as a part of the character of the film. The chaos theory, the extension, the ethics and science. Right. And the movie is like doesn't really follow through with environmental messages and is more about action. Like where's the lesson, you know? Yeah.

Okay. So in the movie, in the book, Ian Malcolm is more philosophical, serious, and reflective after his near death in the first book. Oh, interesting. In the movie, it's still sarcastic and quippy. Jeff Goldblum style, but less scientific and more reactive. I guess they were trying to a blend of this. Yeah. Yeah.

The book is a dark, thoughtful survival story with lots of science. And the movie is a thrilling action adventure with new characters and blockbuster style ending. I could have done without the block style, the blockbuster style ending, which they actually do crash into a blockbuster. which is great and maybe if it felt more fleshed out like they belong together all right oh he felt it

okay in Spielberg's own words he felt that the books end he was too subdued for a blockbuster movie the original story ends with the characters escaping the island but Spielberg thought audiences would expect one last massive set piece something fresh that wasn't just more jungle dinosaurs chaos

so he said I didn't want to just end it with another escape from the island I wanted to go further what if the dinosaurs made it to the mainland did your inspiration from the classic monster movies

and I said Godzilla I called that out and Kong of course the Kong comes to New York yeah that's what I mean oh my God why is I not referencing fucking King Kong

that's probably like the biggest out of all the things I'm talking about yeah King Kong has dinosaurs and the whole thing with them going to the island and wanted to take it back oh my god's totally king con what the hell did i completely go over my head

yeah that's what they were going for damn that completely went over my head that's why i thought i was like oh i think it's godzilla just with a t-rex like somebody wants to see this happen a t-racks running through the streets which i get it's fun it just didn't feel like it belonged to this movie yeah it works in king kong but does not work yeah it's no not a it it it's a register is totally different And it doesn't feel rooted in characters and stuff. And I think like the plot of the dinosaurs should support the character journey. And I understand whoever's made this far is like, well, if you're a concern about characters, you better stop now. I'm like, I got my expectations.

I understand you got to like consistently put them lower as you go through this franchise. But yeah, that was a, it was a fun time. And I had a, I'm excited to continue on with this. Because I like watching the evolution of this stuff. Yeah. And it is cool, like picking up on things that, you know, beyond seeing things that I don't recall, it's fun. Even when I do seeing things I recall, but having a completely different view on it, you know. Yeah, especially now because you were scared then or, no, you said you weren't in the mindset that they were doing anything bad to the dinos because you were just scared.

And now that you're an adult, you're like, you have a different mindset of like how these characters are moving through life, which it's fun to experience. like, oh, how am I going to feel about this movie 20 years later? Like when the guy is the one who tortures the little dinosaurs. Oh, yeah, I hate him. When I was getting flashes of being a child and being like so scared during that scene of what the dinosaurs are going to do to him. And then now watching this, I'm like, well, dude, you're torturing them. Yeah. The guy, like there's so much dialogue that there's, I know I did not pick up. I have a hard time as a 35-year-old gathering dialogue.

I know as a child, there's not a chance of now. caught any of this dialogue about the, like an understanding the corporation and businesses and all this shit. So that line that the one scientist dino expert on the hunter side says about they haven't had any exposure

to humans. So there's a way we can bomb with these. Basically implying there's a way we can bomb with them where they won't be violent. They won't be afraid. And the guy immediately antagonizes it and I'm like, I know you're the exact kind of guy I want to die. So yeah, as an adult, I'm like, oh, I hate this guy. I want to see him die.

And he totally had it coming and he made his choice, made his bad. Yeah. I had a great time with that, man. That was a fun, fun, fun, fun adventure. I can't wait to get into Jurassic Park 3. Watch this evolution or de-evolution, depending on your opinion. Leave your thoughts down below, please. What did you think about Lost World Jurassic Park?

Tara, thanks for joining Royal Rejects. Thanks for being Royal Rejects and appreciate the questions. We'll see you next week, people. sci-fi sunday down Rogue 808 JT Well you know who would survive An island of dinosaurs

The only one we know Here who lives on an actual Island Yes Where they shot Jurassic Park You live in Jurassic Park Face it So if I had to go rescue one of my

dumb ass friends who are like Venturing to this island because they think they could take some stupid ass Instagram photo or whatever the hell they do when dumb humans go there. I imagine in this case it would be me. I would need to call on someone to be a survival guidest, and I think you would be the one we would call on

Rogue 808. Drive in on a motorcycle with your sleeves ripped off and you do the hand thing and save us all. Yeah, except he does it with his butt. He does it with his butt cheeks. He's like Eddie Redmay. Yeah. Fantastic beasts. Yeah. For most people, you know, for most

animals, that's a display of submission, but not for you. That's a display of aggression. Yeah. Don't point that thing at me. Yeah. I don't want to know

what's coming out growing into that. But it constantly lures away other dinosaurs and stuff. It'd be great. I think you would be a good person to survive

amongst dinosaurs, for sure, for sure. And I know, too, that if, you know, like a T-Rex was closing in, you would let me throw the T-Rex at you.

And somehow you'd still come along. You still survive. I think you're eating. Cry. No. But then he's pushing the jaws up. Oh, yeah, in its mouth.

Hands and feet just pushing. Like, go, save yourselves. And then we think you died, but then you show up later with just one cool scar. Yeah. On your butt. On your butt cheeks. And you have assless chaps. Yeah.

So that way you know people who can see the scar. You made a raptor skin. Pervert. Love you.