Too Scary; Didn't Watch - JURASSIC PARK with Wes Larson

Episode Date: August 5, 2026

H3LLCH3LLA: TRIPLES IS BEST is here! Wes Larson is back!! Life, uh, finds a way, babyy!!Movie & Guest Intro @ 8:29Trivia @ 19:35Recap starts @ 28:32All Hellchella video episodes will be available on our Patreon!Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content!Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy.Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fm.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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So that's pretty much worth it. Do you like to see us talking in front of a still image? Because if so, there's a place you can go for that. And if you want to jump straight to the recap, there's timestamps in the show notes because first I need to know, Emily, did anything scary happen to you this week? Well, Sammy, something did. And it's fine. but I have, this is, I'm, apologies because this is all I'm, all I've been talking about and all I will continue to talk about for quite some time is that I've recently moved, which, sue me, I'm going to

talk about it. It's a big life event, but I'm still getting used to my new home, which is scary, but yeah, new noises, new, new noises, mainly the noises. It's mainly the noises. It's, it's, it's like, we're on a street now, like most houses are, but I, in previously we were not, we were in like a backhouse. So, you know, people can see right. There's a window right to the front of our house, which is like, that's scary. That's new to me. Right. But the way our house is, it's two levels.

It's like we're like on a hill. And so our bedroom is downstairs. Everything else is upstairs. And we have now opened up the bedroom door to the cats. When we first moved them in here, we were trying to keep them in a smaller perimeter for a while. So the bedroom door, when we would go downstairs to the bedroom, we would close the door. So Joel had a little bit of the door. already gone downstairs to the bedroom. So Joel is downstairs. The bedroom door is shut. I'm

upstairs alone. It's nighttime. But I'm getting ready for bed. My bathroom is upstairs. So I'm my bathroom. If we're the one bathroom, it's crazy. I'm getting ready for bed. I had put some clothes in the dryer earlier. Still figuring out the dryer. It's a nice new dryer, but I like can't tell. I'm still figuring it out. Sure. But so it, the clothes hadn't quite dried all the way. They were still damp. So, you know, it's dark. I'm upstairs this nighttime. I go, I walk over to the laundry room. I restart the dryer to get those clothes dry. And I walk away, go into my bathroom and I start brushing my teeth. A mere 30, 45 seconds later, the dryer does the little like song to tell me that it's done. And I was like, nah, that's weird. And so I go over to the dryer. And it's dark in this.

corner the house. In the laundry room, there's like a door to the outside. And I look at that door and it's unlocked. Oh, no. And I'm like, I'm just, I'm like in the cold open of scream, like, this is where I get murdered, where I was like, the killer, like, lured me over to the laundry room by like ending the drier cycle so that I would walk over there and then the doors unlocked. And I don't know. And then they've come in in the meantime and they're behind it. Everything was fine. But I genuinely got like so scared. I like locked the door. I was like,

did I just lock the killer inside the house? I couldn't call for Joel. He's all the way downstairs. The door shut. We have a new rule. Before anyone goes downstairs, we all check all the doors. Right.

So that's, it's helpful. Yeah, I didn't get murdered. I think I'm still figuring out the drier settings. But we've now to have a new rule that before anybody goes downstairs,

we check that all the doors are locked together. Great. And then you can go downstairs. I love that. But it's scary, you know, there's multiple doors that people can get into and, like, they could come and get you. Yeah. Yeah. It's really scary.

I'm trying to think of, like, when I moved in here and I don't know why, but I was, I, not to brag, was never scared at all. Wow. Wow. I don't know why. Because I do get scared in, like, new houses usually. Remember, I was living in Bellingham for a little bit? Well, that was very scary. And it was really scary. I was really scared of that house because it made a lot of noises. You know what? That's not true. There is when the AC comes on again bragging. There's a C. It does scare me most times because it's like a weird loud noise that kind of, it feels like it almost shakes the house a little. So I guess it's not that nice. So powerful. But I'm glad you have your rule. You have a new rule. Yep. Keeping it safe. You guys.

Gotta keep it safe. Three doors. You lock them all. Triples makes it safe. Huge bag. Three doors. Oh my God. My house has three doors, you guys.

It's huge. Luxury. Luxury. Anyway, it's fine. I survived. It's not scary. The house is wonderful. But yeah.

It's just adjustment time. Anything scary happen to you, Sammy? My scary thing is really stupid but kind of related. This all just happened to. Today, this hall. When you hear what it is. I woke up this morning, left the bedroom, and walked past our coat rack, and things are arranged on it in such a way that it is fully just looks like a man. Yeah.

It has the hats on the top. The coats on the body. Skinny little tiny legs. But it like fully jump-scared me. I like, like, three times. Three separate times it got me as I walked back into my room later. It got me again. I've since after the third time, I rearranged the things.

I was like, we got to get this. A man would never have hats on a speed. We got to get this shaped in a different way. Yeah. But this color rack has been, yeah, it's been in my. house this whole time and it's never scared me before and I don't know sometimes you're just in a specific state of mind yeah the veil is thin and you are seeing things you perhaps that you're not always seeing yeah yeah so glad you made I'm glad you changed it up thanks gave it a weird weird shape

that couldn't possibly be human we'll see I haven't walked by it again since then so give me posted jury still out yeah I'll be sure to follow up so everybody yeah You can get the update. Stay next week. Safe out there. And your coat wreck is by the door. It is. Which is where man could be.

Exactly. Had he just entered through the door. Mm-hmm. So I do get it. Scary. Scary. Well, speaking of scary as well, I watched this week's movie. Wow.

Wow. So brave. So brave. I watched a movie I'd already seen one million times. Because of this week's movie, we're. kicking off Helchella, in honor of the late great Sam Neal with Jurassic Park. Very exciting. Can't believe we've never done Jurassic Park.

I know. I'm kind of wild, but we were saving it for this exact, perfect, wonderful moment. Jurassic Park came out in 1993, directed by Stephen Spielberg, written by Michael Crichton and David Kett based on the novel by Michael Crichton, starring Sam Neal, Laura D. and Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferreiro, B.D. Wong, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight, Joseph Mazzello, and Ariana Richards. You can rent it. Or you can do what we did, which is rent it. And then immediately after pressing purchase, Joel was like, I own it. And it was so upset. I was like, it's fine. The stakes are low, but he, like, was really.

That $3.99. No. And we are not alone. Thankfully, just kidding, Triples. Is it. best we have a guest with us to recap this movie our animal of all kinds and times and moments expert welcome back to the pod correspondent west larsson hey i'm so excited i really am so excited to have you yeah a real thrill this is my favorite movie of all time just i thought that i i feel like i had that memory and then I wasn't sure because I was like is it that or is it Jaws and Wes only you know the answer actions they're pulled up there too really good because I feel like I'm getting a little bit of mixed signals here no we'll talk about it but uh okay on tooth and claw like

93 is the year that I use as a reference for everything because it's when Jurassic Park came out like we have pre-jp post-jp yes mine's 99 we were going to see ours 99 yeah I would I did want to do, and then didn't do, any other research into what the other big, maybe you know, what were some other big 93 moments? Let's see. Like the context of Jurassic Park in cinema, I was like, I don't really know. It was also Schindler's list because those two movies came out like pretty much simultaneously. And so that's the one that swept the Oscars, I believe.

And the firm? The firm. Oh, the first. Ninety-three is a good year. The firm. Cannot forget the firm. Yeah. We're not talking about the firm enough.

I just saw it for the first time recently. Yeah. It's a great movie. It's so good. Anything. I was nine years old in 93. Nice. And I feel like I was just perfectly primed for this movie.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I can tell you more about that later. Yeah, we will get into it. Joel was also nine in 1993. And it's a big move for him as well. And he had, right around that year in school, they had to do a project on like an influential American figure.

And his teacher wouldn't let him pick Michael Cretton. And it like gets him to this day. He's like, they wouldn't let me do a project on Michael Crichton. I was hoping you were going to say the T-Rex. That would also be. That would be pretty cool. Well, before we get into all the Jurassic Park, everything that we want to discuss, it's so funny having you here to ask you this question, Wes, and we're like,

We got scared by a coat rack. But, West, did anything scary happen to you this week? You know, it was a fairly pretty typical week around here. I was in Glacier last weekend and saw a number of grizzly bears and some good wildlife. But this week I've mostly been at home on our little farm, but something scary happened to my girlfriend that I got to witness. So I'm going to use that. Okay, fair. She's more of the farmer of the two of us.

I'm kind of the farmhand. but a recent thing that she's gotten into is beekeeping. And so we have two hives. And I don't love getting stung by bees. Sure, sure. It's not my favorite thing. And it does increase the number of bees around and the number of stings. So I think I'm on like four stings for the summer.

But she just got her first sting in a while. And Jesse, my girlfriend, she tends to react like strongly. And we talk about this a lot on tooth of claw about like venom and how like some people can have a very normal kind of, you know, ho-hum reaction while others can have like a systemic reaction or, you know, an allergic reaction or something. And so her hands swole up and she was kind of like, yeah, you know, this really hurts this time. And I was like, all right. And then the next morning she had all these red lines like tracing up into her arm and her limp notes were all red. I was like, oh. Okay.

So we just kind of sat it out. Oh, sure. Like you would. I mean, I just, I was like, hey, I had Benadryl and Zyrtec and ibuprofen. So I gave her those. And I think it's gotten better. She's not here right now. She's not with us anymore.

I think it got better. I don't know. Oh, my God. I was kind of like, hey, maybe we should rethink this new hobby. Of, like, having 20,000 bees around. But she, it's so meditated to her and she loves it so much. And like, I do love it. It does seem like such a, it does seem so cool.

It's a special thing. But, yeah, that will like, you know, keep tabs on that because that seems like pretty bad. Probably, yeah, just make sure you're stocked up on the antihistamines. Yeah. Whatever you need. Figure out what works. We should get an epipen. I we've done episodes on bees and I mean it like people less than a hundred stings can kill a person

Yeah, so I think oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, thinking about getting like a bunch stung a bunch of times Yeah. So that was a little scary but I think we're out of the woods. Hopefully she doesn't get a bunch of stings or then I'll have to be the main farm farm person. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. That would be the worst part. Yeah. All the chores. I would release that one. suck. Oh boy. Well, yeah, get your hands on some backup epipens, I guess. You know, the only time I've been sung by a bee, it was dead in a jacuzzi floating around and it just ran into me stinger first. I got stung by a bee in a pool.

It just like floated into my butt. Right top of my butt she got stung by a bee. That's a very, it's a very city way to get stung by a bee. That's the only way to get stuck by being a city. In a jacuzzi. City bees are always swimming in pools. Wow. But is there something about the more you eat their honey, maybe the sting won't be as bad for you?

Is that a thing? Yeah, I've heard that. And I've heard it can work for seasonal allergies too because you're like eating the pollen. Getting a little bit of that pollen. Yeah, I don't know. I honestly don't know. Okay, that's cool, though. Yeah.

Our honey is great. I bet. I eat a lot of it. Nice. Not just because of bears. You know, I also love honey, too. It's not just for them. Every part of it.

Wow. Okay. So, Jurassic Park. Yes. I hear it's your favorite movie. It is. You know, I think like a lot of little kids, my fascination with animals was rooted in a love for dinosaurs. Like dinosaurs were number one for me.

That was like the first true love of my life was dinosaurs, which then like kind of transitioned into sharks and reptiles and then to mammals, which are my focus now. But dinosaurs have always just been like a soft spot for me. They still are. Like any, any dinosaur thing, all these Jurassic movies, they've gotten so bad. I still go see him on opening day. The last one was so bad. It was terrible. Yeah. They're so bad. But I'm going to see them. They can keep you have to make a hundred of them. I'm going to see them. Yeah. And I bet they will. They're not stopping. Yeah. What's your favorite dinosaur? It's T-Rex.

Nice. Yeah. Hell yeah. It's kind of a boring answer, but it's T-Rex. But my favorite as a child was the one that they based Velociraptor after, which is Dynonicus. And Dynonicus was in the same family as Velociraptor, but much bigger. And the real velociraptors are only like the size of a dog. Yeah, yeah.

Whereas Dynicus was like closer to the size of a person. And as a kid, I was obsessed with it. So I was really stoked to see him in this film. Yeah, why, so why then, I'm asking you, is it, well, Wes, why when they made this movie? I know, I know the answer. Okay, yeah, why not just use the one that was already the one they were trying to show? It's just because Velociraptor sounds cool. Uh-huh, that's exactly it.

That makes sense. Michael Crichton liked the way that Velociraptor sounded. It sounded a lot more dramatic. It does sound cool. That makes sense. So does, I also saw some trivia about like, it's none of these, maybe none of these slash, maybe only some of these dinosaurs are actually from the Jurassic period. but he was like, but Jurassic sounds cool. Yeah, there's two.

Like Jurassic Park sounds cool. Mm-hmm. The brachiosaur and the Dolophosaur are both Jurassic dinosaurs. But an interesting thing, like we live closer to T-Rex than Dolophosaurus lived to T-Rex. This type of shit sends me spiraling. Yeah, I actually can't conceive of that. That doesn't. Take it back.

Take it back. Don't say it. I don't like it. Any, yeah, a little fact like that about the way time works just. We're living on a dinosaur planet. Like they inhabited this planet longer than, you know, just about anything. So this is like, we're just on the very tail end of their planet. Wow.

Ooh. Yeah. That is really wild to think about. Freaky. I don't think about dinosaurs that much, to be honest. That's a big difference between you and me. Big difference between me and my husband as well. He spends a lot of time thinking about dinosaurs.

And it is like, because I think once I start thinking about it, it becomes the only thing I want to think about. Like, I'm suddenly like, how do I read everything about every dinosaur that's ever? Joel got really into megafauna for a while, too. Hell yeah. And those are, that's dinosaur adjacent, right? Kind of. Yeah. It's adjacent. We have megafauna now. Megafauna is just anything that's like big and alive. Yeah. So like elephants and whales and a lot of other things are megafauna. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I, you know, I just say go for it. Like, let those impulses take over. Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I think about dinosaurs when I look at birds. Like sometimes when you're really looking at a bird, you're like, wow, they really are dinosaurs, huh? Yep. I'm the same way. I think about them all the time. Wow. But as a nine-year-old, even more so. Thanks to this movie. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, this is, let me give you some trivia. This was a, you know, huge movie.

91% on Rotten Tomatoes 68 on Metacritic which is astoundingly low. Metacritics always Metacritic what the fuck 8.2 on IMDB which is a 1000% On 9% It had a budget of

56 to 63 million According to Wikipedia box office 1.058 billion A lot of money A lot of money made on this movie I thought this was interesting That according to the behind the scenes book The Making of Jurassic Park

an adventure 65 million years in the making. The infamous roar of the T-Rex was a composite mix of a dog, penguin, tiger snarl, alligators gurgle, and a baby elephant squeal. Wow. Yeah, and they used a koala for one of its other noises, like it's grunting. They used a, like, a baby koala, no, a male koala. Yeah. Wow.

Really cool. Yeah. A lot of the other dinosaurs, too, are composites of, like, different animals. They really got creative with how they made the sound design for this. It works. Like, it sounds really good. Speaking of that, T-Rex, the crew had to have safety meetings about it because it weighed 12,000 pounds. And it's robotic.

So it was very powerful. They had to use flashing lights to announce when it was about to come on to alert the crew. Because if you were, like, standing next to it when it started going, it was like being next to a moving bus, which is really insane. I remember when I was next to the cow at the gentle barn? You really freaked out, yeah. The cow was too big for me. I couldn't. And it was a dairy cow.

So it was bigger than it was supposed to rescue dairy cow. It really freaked me out. I was so scared of it. It was really big. Cows are big. They were a lot bigger than I was expecting. This was my birthday party. I chose to go see these cows.

And then I was really afraid of them. And other critters. There were other animals there too. The cows were. There was a really mean turkey. Yeah, Romeo. All the other, all the lady turkeys had to wear type. because Romeo would attack them.

Oh, no, Romeo. Romeo, I'm sure to... Yeah, for real. They shouldn't have done that. Yeah, we had a good time. Gentle Barn is great. Gentle Barn is great. Cows are big.

The cows are bigger than you think. Be warned if you go. Yep, yeah, yeah. I know that the T-Rex was so big that in some of those shots, they had to rearrange the set around the animatronic because it was so hard to move once they were shooting that they, like, rather than move the T-Rex, they would just move the entire. Right. Wild.

But it's also like, yeah, you have to build a gigantic T-Rex if you're going to make this movie. You need an actual physical giant T-Rex. It doesn't work. Wes, did you see Disclosure Day? I haven't seen it yet. Not to bring it back up. I feel like I'm in my like hater era. That's kind of why I didn't see it.

It's awful and it like made, it makes me mad to think the CGI and it is so terrible. and just like, dude, you made Jurassic Park? Like, what are we doing? Yeah. Sorry, just had to get. That was definitely something I want to talk about. We might as well just bring it up here. Let's bring it up.

This movie for me, like, I think the reason it hits so hard is like, I was seeing real dinosaurs, you know? Yeah. It was like, I'm in a theater and I'm seeing real dinosaurs. And the reason I think they look so real and it holds until today is like they, it was so hard to use their CG that they had to be like really sparing. and like thoughtful about it. And so like Spielberg's obviously like the master of blocking, but they did it with their CG too where like the T-Rex is like most of its body is in shadow as it steps out of the paddock, you know?

And like they just did it so well and so thoughtfully that it works until today. Like it looks more convincing than a lot of the stuff they're putting out today. Yeah. Yeah. It's sad. And it's interesting because this movie, it starts by, you know, making jokes. about like how computers are bad. And then it's like, and now it's like Spielberg, like, buddy, you made that.

Yeah. Anyway. Well, even the part where Alan Grant says that his job's like kind of functionally extinct, you know, and then Jeff Goldblum says, oh, don't you mean extinct. Yeah. That happened in real life, like one of the animatronic designers when you saw the CG test was like, oh, I think my job's extinct. So, you know, it's like.

It's kind of, I think, and then Spielberg decided to put that in the movie. Yeah. Ooh. That's really interesting. Yeah. It grossed 47 million domestically in its opening weekend. Then the biggest opening weekend gross in history. It beat Batman Returns from the year previous.

And the novel was published in 1990, but pre-production of this film began in 1989. They decided to make the movie based off of the unpublished manuscript because they were like, this is going to be huge. Smart. Right. Yeah. It's pretty cool. That's really, I mean, there's a ton of freaking trivia about this movie. But that's what I got.

Great. Yeah. That's what I got. I'd read the book. It was my first novel ever. This is my copy from back then. It says soon to be a major motion picture. Nice.

Oh my God. And it like, it was a lot for a nine-year-old. Like a lot of the genetic stuff and whatnot, like straight over my head. Yeah. But all the dinosaur scenes I just like reread and reread and reread. So I, again, I couldn't have been more pumped for this movie when it came out. It was like, yeah, it was perfect timing for me. Oh, man, that's so cool.

So you're reading that novel at seven? No, I read it like, I truly read it like two months before the movie came out. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's like violent. It's very violent. Yeah, it was a lot for me.

It's like really. It was kind of intense. Yeah. The novel's much more violent than the film. Yeah. So I've heard. But I enjoyed it. I reread that a lot.

I really liked the violent parts as a kid. That's why I'm on a horror movie podcast. And why you do what you do. Okay. Let's watch the trailer, which I don't think I've ever seen. Yeah. But let's just get a freaking look at what this trailer was doing. Let's take a peek.

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It's a good trailer. Great trailer. Damn, yeah. I want to watch it again. Oh, and the score is so good. I've had the score. stuck in my head all week

since watching it again. Because we also, we went to Universal City for a movie the other night and I parked in Jurassic parking and the whole time I was driving up I was like,

da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I was just like, it's great. I remember as a kid, it took like a long time for movies to come out on video after they were released. Yeah.

And so this like ended its theatrical run a couple months after June 93. And then there was like this drought for me like before it came. out on video. Yeah, I saw it five times in theaters and then just like, no, nothing for a long time.

So I bought the score and just would listen to it like over and over and over again. Yeah. And just picture dinosaurs. Oh, my God. That's so sweet. There's something to the availability of everything now that I'm like, I think it's good for a child's brain to like have to just listen to the music and imagine watching the movie for months. Yeah. We should start depriving today's children of things just to give that experience.

They've got too much. They do. Access. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, well. Okay. I am so excited to talk about this movie. Are we ready to do it?

Yes. The movie opens with like, in my opinion, some of the best titles ever on screen, like the writing and just how quick it happens and like this kind of thudding music right behind it. And then we get this scene of what at first looks like maybe a dinosaur coming through the trees. But then we see it's actually this big like shipping container type thing. And there's a bunch of men standing around with guns. Robert Muldoon, who's like the kind of main animal, like the biologist of the park almost, is overseeing this. And we see this crate get put down.

And as the animal is about to be loaded into its enclosure, it runs and hits the end of the crate, knocking this gap free and pulls one of the workers inside and starts to maul him horrifically. And everyone's tasing it. And we hear as the scene cuts out, Robert Muldoon screaming, shooter. And then we cut to a new scene. Starts great. It starts great.

We're in it. We are in it. I am. Yeah, this guy, they're trying to pull him out from wherever he. I'm like, this guy, he let this guy go. Like, what are we going to get back of this guy, this poor guy? But, yeah, yeah. And we cut to something that's so fun about these kinds of movies and like Spielberg in this

era is it's also like, you go from that in really intense scene to then this like dorky lawyer like tripping over like the wilderness just like so out of place. And it like, it just plays so well. Yeah. That actually like seeing that transition this time, I watched it again again for like probably the 10,000th time. But it made me kind of realize, like, this movie exists. It feels like an old movie and a new movie all at the same time.

Like, it was made at the perfect time where it feels like a classic movie and a modern movie. And I think, like, a big part of that is just the way that Spielberg shoots his films, or at least the way he did, can feel this way. So, yeah, it cuts to Gennaro, the lawyer. And, like, you know, he's paying this visit to an amber mine in the Dominican Republic. and is learning a little bit more about Jurassic Park. And it's just exposition. This is an exposition scene.

Yeah. You got to have it. Yeah, you have to. And he's, yeah, he's looking for, we learn that, yeah, he's representing the investors of this park, whatever it's going to be. And he needs to find the owner, creator, whatever, John Hammond of Jurassic Park is looking for him. He instead finds, yeah, these men in an amber mine. and we see them come upon, they like excavate this, a bug in amber,

and it's like, we don't know why yet, but they're excited to find this. Cut to Montana. Montana. Cut to Wes's house. Is this why you move to Montana in this movie? I mean, I'm four-generation Montana, so, you know, it could be why my Norwegian ancestors

for the paleontology. No, Montana's really rich in fossils. And T-Rex, one of the most complete T-Rexes was found here in Montana, Sue. Wow. Yeah. So we see one of those dig sites, and we get our first look at Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler as they're uncovering this fossil. And Alan is forced to use some new technology that he doesn't want to use, some ground-penetrating radar. to look at these bones.

And, you know, as he does, he starts describing what these dinosaurs look like. He's pointing out the backwards femur bone and the air sacs in the vertebrae and saying that it looks like a bird, you know, which seems like a normal comment to make. And there happens to be just some little asshole kid as part of this, like scientific expedition. On an adult work site, there is a young boy who's kind of a little dick. Yeah. And he says, oh, it looks like a big turkey, you know, to ask. Alan Grant to this famous paleontologist who then decides to just completely traumatize this child for the rest of his life, which is merited, in my opinion. I think, you know, that kid needed it.

Yeah. He tells him how raptors hunt. And he has a little raptor claw on his hand that he is like using as a visual aid. And it's like, when a raptor comes for you, you'll like, you'll be looking at it in the eye and you'll be focusing on this raptor. but then that doesn't get you. It's the ones that have been coming at the sides, and they'll slice your stomachs, your intestines fall out. And this kid's really, really scared. But this is also, this is important exposition for us, perhaps, about how raptors behave.

It's a great scene. It's a great scene. And Ellie, played by The Impeccable Laura Dern, comes up to Maptur, and is sort of joking with him about traumatizing this child. And then they, you know, They sort of talking about like, might we want children? She's her sort of, as the woman in the film,

her sort of whole vibe is like maybe and someday you want kids. But we're getting there in a, they're in a romantic relationship. They've got a really nice rapport. They do. Great chemistry. Flawless looks, both of them. It's going to say great like kind of matching-ish outfits.

It's so great. And it's like, a lot of denim. A lot of denim. A lot of denim. A lot of khakis. And wards and little boots and like, oh, God, it's fucking great. And just then a helicopter arrives, blowing shit around everywhere. They just dug up this fossil and they're like, cover it up.

And they're mad at the helicopter telling them. Cut it, cut it off. They go to their trailer on the dig site to discover Richard Attenborough. Yeah, a kindly old man in their trailer. A kindly old kooky man opening champagne in their trailer. And they're upset at first, but then they realize like, oh, this is the man who's been funding. their dig, so they have to be nice to him. And he tells him he needs them to come and check out his park.

He's got investors that are worried about his park. He needs some experts to come and just certify that all is good. They're sort of like, we can't leave our dig site. And he offers to fund their dig for the next three years if they do it. So they're going to do it. I love the idea of him holding his secret until they get to Costa Rica, too. Like these two are just surely they asked like over and over and over again. So what is it?

Why us? But he loves drama, you know? This guy lives for theatrics. It's right up your alley. And hey, it would be really fun to drop that seat. You know, you would want to milk that for all its worth. That's pretty cool. Yeah.

So then we see them flying to the island. And this shot is actually Maui, but most of the rest of the movie is filmed on. Kauai. And they arrive. You know, we load into these jeeps. As the jeeps are going, Ellie grabs a leaf from a fern and she's looking at it and she's like, oh, this fern hasn't existed since the Cretaceous area right as they come to a stop. And Richard Attenborough, Dr. Hammond is very excited and you say, you know, stop the vehicle, stop the vehicles. And we see the, you know, the classic scene of Sam Neal playing Ellen Grant, like shakily taking off his sunglasses. staring out, music swells, and we get our first look at a dinosaur, at the brachiosaur.

And it's emotional. Like to this day, that scene can get me to choke up a little bit. Yeah, get me every time as well. Especially, like, in the wake of Sam Nail's passing today, you know, got a little choked up watching it. But they get out, they have this incredibly emotional moment. Like true scientists, they're also making observations while the dinosaurs are moving her. They're like, oh, they do moving herds. Oh, it's warm-blooded, you know, all these different things.

And then they asked Dr. Hammond, like, how did you do this? And he says, I'll show you. Side note, question for, I couldn't remember when I was retaking me and as, when do we get the barbosol? Ooh, that might have been right before this. Okay, so let's say it now. Yeah. Because I just was like, I can't, I know it has to happen. It's somewhere in here.

Somewhere in here. And it does, it is like an abrupt sort of cut away from like what's been happening. we see a character named Dennis Nedry on like an island, an island food shack, just hanging out. And as approached by a business-like man in a hat, clearly trying to hide his identity. And they're making a deal, a business deal. We don't entirely know the details yet, but we gather that Dennis is going to sneak. He says, he's going to seek embryos off the island and give them. to this guy, a little bit of corporate espionage here at play. He's like, I guarantee I can do it.

The businessman gives him a can of barbassol. Yeah. Saving cream that's like tricked out to, it's actually a canister that you can put embryos in and keep them cool. He squeals. He makes a squealing noise that no human being has ever made before. I mean, it is a fun little we saw. They sell cans of barbosol like that. the Academy Museum for like thousands of dollars. It's like really silly. But it is cool. And yeah, he guaranteed like we need it in 36 hours. He's like, no problem. I can do this in 10 minutes. I've already got it mapped out. So we're like, okay, something's going on there. We don't really know much else about him or what that vibe is. And then we're back. We're back

at Jurassic Park. Yes. Oh, and we should mention that as they arrive, as Grant and Dr. Sattler arrive at Jurassic Park. There, the lawyer is also, and he has brought with him his expert to certify the park, which is Dr. Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum. Woo! He is a mathematician. Chaotician. Chaotician.

Chaotician. He corrects someone in that, yeah, I can't say to you. A real thing that we all know about. And he immediately is hitting on Laura Dern. His vibe is just, who could, I mean, it's crazy. too to rewatch this movie where it's like this the image of of jeff gold woman in this movie we all know he's got his sunglasses on is all black like fucking cool as hell it's just wild to think about seeing all of this for the first time you know like the three of them are so hot and in such different ways and it's so beautiful to see them together it's a really wonderful thing and i just need to call it's we're so used to it by now but like god you got to give it up for the casting in this movie it is absolutely outstanding. I had forgotten

slash didn't know that Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum were engaged for two years. Oh, I'm not sure that I'm doing that. After this movie, they got together

and they were engaged for two years and then they broke up. Huh. Obviously, but. That's funny for me because I, like, again, seeing this so young, it was like,

oh, you know, the people that are like my parents' age and, like, there was no attraction. I know. And then it was probably on, like, the 200th watch where I was like,

wait, Dr. Sallor's hot. She's really hot. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's also, yeah, they're not playing her to be hot. She is just like she's a scientist, but it's Laura Dern and she's really hot. Yeah. There's beautiful people to look at.

But yeah, so the whole group is then taken on a little, the like sort of welcome to Jurassic Park tour that all the guests would start off. And it begins with an instructional video about, hey, what's Jurassic Park and how did it come to be? And it's a very fun early 90s, like, graphics style video. It's great. It reminds me of, like, many things I watched in school of a little, like, double helix guy as a character, Mr. DNA, explaining how DNA works and explaining that they were able to extract. So, a mosquito. Boo. Million.

Boo. Millions and millions and millions and years ago, there were mosquitoes. which I'm also like Of course there were Sorry Wes All creatures are important But I'm I'll hold it I'll hold it

Sorry I'm sorry But mosquitoes were around And they would bite dinosaurs And then they sometimes Land on a tree And the tree sap would cover them And cover them in amber And then that amber would become fossilized

And our scientists were able to extract Dinosaur blood From those mosquitoes trapped in amber and get dino dna. And then by combining that dino DNA with other creatures, frogs, DNA, they would create the full gene sequence to be able to clone dinosaurs. They should have had you narrate the little film. Yeah, I think I did that really well.

And nobody has any questions. There's a part in this sequence that I love where you hear that Mr. D&A say using sophisticated techniques. And then it shows one of these researchers, like, literally drilling a hole into the amber and then just sticking a needle into the mosquito right when it says that. It just gets me. This is impossible, by the way. We can do this with mosquitoes and DNA.

They've tried. Yeah. Great. This is good to know. See? I was like, seems reasonable to me. Seems like a good idea. I've been sure it works.

and so you know everyone is fascinated by this dr malcolm the whole time has been like uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh this is bad you shouldn't be doing this like ellie or dr satler and dr grant are just so fascinated and enamored with like being around it's like their dream so they are still very like oh my god how did you do this wow i'm getting to see dinosaurs but dr malcolm is immediately like this is wrong wrong wrong wrong and he's like a pretty cool fucking like doesn't give a fuck kind of vibe guy and he's he's saying his opinion um and along this tour we stop it's like a little moving you know car thing that you do at like universal studios and it stops in front of the lab where they are like breeding and hatching these dinosaurs um and so dr grant

and dr satler get out of the the tour they're like they have to go in there and break yeah they like move the thing off the seat so they can get up and go into the room which is like yeah duh you would um and they they go in and and we see we got some eggs ready to hatch. Bidi Wong is in there as the main geneticist telling them how they do it all. And Dr. Hammond is like, oh, why didn't you tell me there was one about to hatch?

And it's very freaky daddy mentality where he's like, it's a weird vibe. I have to be here in every single dinosaur's bone because they imprint on the first person they see and they all think of me as daddy. And it's like, I don't like this at all, sir. Hi, I'm Beck Bennett. I thought I was Beck Bennett.

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born and everyone is, I mean, Dr. Sotler and Dr. Grant are just like tears in their eyes can't believe, can't believe what they're seeing. They keep being like, oh, there you go, sweet. Oh my God, little baby. Like they're like, it's, it would be really cool. It looks great. It's practical, little like thing popping out of a big egg. And Dr. Grant picks it up and his whole, it and like, oh my God, it's really cute as teeny little teeth. And he says, what kind of species is this? And B.D. Wong says, it's a raptor. Very casually.

You bred raptors? Not loving that. And this is where we learn that they ask about how are you going to manage population control. And they say, oh, well, we've handled that. They can only be born when like in our lab because we have made sure that all of them are female. We can edit their, you know, chromosomes. All species start off as female and we just don't add the protein that would cause them to become male. Again, I'm just doing this really well.

You are. Absolutely. I'm doing the best of this. And this is where we get our famous, wonderful life finds a way Dr. Malcolm is. like, life finds a way. And it does. It does. He says life finds a way.

And BD Wong is like, you're meaning to tell me that like somehow a group of all female animals will find a way to reproduce. And he says, yeah, basically yes, life is, life is chaotic. Life is, uh, unmanageable. Life is, it, it bursts, burst through. It, you know, he's being all whimsical Jeff Goldblumby. And, um, is like, you truly just like, you have no idea. what you're working with here.

Like it's you versus all of existence. And they're sort of like, okay, weirdo. And then they're taken to the Raptor pen? The Raptor pen. Yeah. Which is an intense scene. It's intense in the book, too. I bet.

But we see them go to the Raptor pen. Hammond is really not excited about it. He's like, hey, let's go eat this Chilean C-Pass. Yeah. This part's fine. This part's fine. You can tell that he's, you know, that everyone maybe agrees that the raptors were one step too far, that they had created these animals that were so ultra-dangerous, they have no idea what to do with them.

So they're kept in this little pen with extra security. And we get this nice exposition again of Dr. Grant learning, like, just how capable they are, how they're incredibly fast. They can jump incredibly high. This is from Muldoon, who is so funny. His vibe. Best thighs ever on screen. Yes.

Great thighs. He's also, he like appears here for the first time since the opening scene with him. He was at the, you know, Raptor pen at the beginning. But he's, everybody's like, yeah, they're basically super, they're super smart. They're super dangerous. They'll fucking come after you. They'll kill you. He's like so, so over these fucking Raptors.

It's really funny. Like doing the least to sell it to everybody. He's just like, yeah, I mean, they'll kill you in your fucking sleep, these guys. I don't know what to tell you. You get the impression he just wants to kill all of the dinosaurs. He fucking hates these dinosaurs. Hates them on a personal level. He does.

So he explains it all to them as they're sitting there. And again, Hammond is really pushing them to go get their meal. But right as they're about to leave, we see a cow being hoisted into the air. Also scary. Huge cow. How big are we talking? A big cow. So we're really freaking out.

Yeah. And the cow looks, you know, like really nonplussed. It's being lifted through the air. It's about to be dropped to be fed to some animals. We see it lowered into the paddock and the trees are going back and forth. We first, we hear the screams of the raptors, the cow in anguish as it dies. And then the like broken, mangled mess of everything is lifted out. And I always picture like one of the workers being like, hey, we should really figure out a new way to

feed these guys. Yeah. You know, when it's like completely destroyed after they do it every time. But we have to buy a new harness every fucking day.

So yeah, then we cut to to the Chilean sea bass to the scene where they finally get to talk about. Yeah, everybody wants to eat lunch after that. Yeah. Yeah.

And Muldoon had told them too, he's like, the Raptors are really, really smart. They, we've noticed they like strategically are testing all of the perimeter of the electric fence.

He tells them that they remember these aren't things you want to hear no um but yes then we have lunch we have lunch we sit down to lunch it's uh dr hammond dr malcolm the lawyer janaro dr grant dr sattler and dr hamma's basically like so you guys like it what do you think and they are all pretty against it

uh pretty i mean janar the lawyer is like we're gonna make a fortune this fucking rules he's like we could charge any we could charge people two thousand dollars ten thousand dollars a ticket and dr hammond says, well, you know, I don't want it. Everyone should be able to access the wonders of Jurassic Park. It shouldn't just be for the ultra wealthy. And Girard says like, okay, we'll have a coupon day. That's the day I'm going.

Yeah. And Dr. Malcolm is very quickly, I think Dr. Sattler is also like, this feels a little risky. Like maybe, you know, you're not entirely certain of what you've unleashed here. And, you know, these creatures haven't existed. haven't been alive for many, many, many, many millions of years. Like, we don't really know they live in different ecosystems. They haven't breathed the same type of air.

Like, all these, you know, scientific concerns. And Dr. Malcolm is, like, honestly, like, pissed. And he says, like, you didn't earn this. Like, you took other people's work and other people's science and you just didn't, you, like, you had no discipline to achieve this. So this doesn't mean anything to you. He says, just because you could do this, you didn't stop to think about whether or not you should.

It didn't take you any discipline to create it. So you wield it like a kid who found daddy's gun. Oh, man. He gets him. Oh, he fucking gets him. And Dr. Hammond is like, it's creation. It's the most extraordinary. You mean to tell me you wouldn't create something like that?

And he says, creation is a penetrative act. What you call creation, I call rape of the number. world. It's a great scene. It's a great writing. Great writing. Crichton knows what he's fucking doing. Haman needed me there at that moment because I would just be like, now this place is

so cool. This is the best place. He needed a nine-year-old there to be like, keep going, keep going. This is fucking awesome. I need this. And he says like Dr. Grant, surely you must be on my side. And Dr. Grant is also like, I don't know, man. And like, I get it.

I was enchanted by dinosaurs. That part is cool and exciting. But there's just no way to know, like, what this means. But, you know, we got to take a tour. We can't keep talking about it. We got to get on the freaking tour. And guess what? My grandkids are here.

So you got to go take them out on this tour. Would I really bring my grandchildren here if this wasn't safe? Turns out he would. Turns out he would. It turns out he would do it. So we got two jeeps lined up out front of the visitors. Center time to go on tour there on a little like track. They're so on driverless vehicles, which like, you know, wow, pre-Wamo, pretty exciting.

I would take a Waymo through Jurassic Park. And Dr. Sattler is like pretty quickly like, Alan, hang out with the kids because maybe someday we might want to have kids. Yeah. On the best day of your entire life, let's just enforce some kids on you. It's like focus on one thing at a time here. But we do end up, the lawyer ends up with the car. in a car with the two kids,

and then the car behind them is Dr. Sattler, Dr. Grant, and Dr. Malcolm. They head out on their tour, and let me see from the control room, Dr. Hammond, Samuel L. Jackson, and Dennis, the Barbasol guy.

So that's when we learn, oh, he works for Jurassic Park. And they're in the control room and they can see the tour vehicles from there. And they're sort of, they've got like a bird's eye view of the whole park,

the security system. So they're watching from in there. Dennis Nedry gets like a little bit of a chiding from Dr. Hammond in the scene, I think, where, you know, he's like, you can tell there's been a lot of friction between the two of them and that Nedry wants more money and Hammond won't give it to him. And, you know, in 2026, I'm kind of like, should have paid Dennis Nedry a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah. We should have done some things different here for sure. Yeah.

So I don't totally blame him. Shouldn't be talking down to the guy who is the only guy who can access your whole security system? Right. Yeah. Let's not like talk to him like he's a little piece of shit even if he is. A really interesting thing about the movie versus the book is that in the book, Hammond is like much less lovable and he actually dies at the end of it. Like he's eaten by those little green dinosaurs from the sequel, the compis.

Those are the ones that really scared me as a kid. Yeah. It's like a very violent. death and he's i think he kind of we needed that like i think this is a near perfect movie but like spilberg wrote a more like a Walt disney and less like uh you know like an Elon Musk or something yeah and i think he's more Elon than he is wall not that Walt Disney's any like a good example or anything but i'm just saying like yeah but yeah he's like very whimsical yeah as opposed to like a dystopian evil.

Yeah. Well, he's in Attenborough. Yeah, well, he's not Edinburgh. I was like, what are we supposed to do? Right. Look at him. We got all of them. Look at him.

I did, when we watched it the other day, I was like, as soon as Richard Edinburgh came on screen, I was like, is this going to be one of those things? You know how sometimes you watch a movie that you saw when you were a kid and there's someone in it who looks, you remember as being so old? And then you look it up and you're like, they were 55. He is 70 in this movie, which is helpful because I was like, oh my God, is he like 60 years old but he is actually 70 which was helpful yeah i think though like this movie's so well written but he's maybe the one character that i kind of struggle with because we kind of see

him dip in between like caring about his vision more than anything in the world and then also like you know completely abandoning it and i feel like i wanted more than ham into the book where it's just like Jurassic park over everything this is his chance to prove to the world that he can do it you know and he's willing to risk even the lives of his family members to prove that. Yeah. Because we don't really have a villain aside from Nedri. And Nedri, I feel bad for it. Yeah.

Reminding me of Timmy's Wonka versus Gene Wilder's Wonka, where it's like, Wonka shouldn't be like that. Wonka shouldn't be like that, Tim. Wonka kills kids. It needs the darkness. Yeah. I feel like that scene's really important, too, because we kind of learn that the parks really just kind of being run on, you know, threadbare, like, very little. And it's not even close to being ready to launch.

We need more staff. Right. And Hammond is rushing this whole early tour so that he can get his investors, like, fully on board. Yeah. And that is important because shit's about to hit the fan in Jurassic Park. Yeah. But, you know, it starts off chill. You know, we go.

Boring. We go to, past a, like, enclosure where we're getting little facts about. out in, you know, in this pen we have the dilaphasosaurus, yeah, dilaphasaurus. Which is the one that, like, actual paleontologists and dinosaur heads, like, kind of hate from this movie because he took a lot of liberties with it with, like, the size. It's much smaller than real life. And then also, like, the frill and the spitting the venom and stuff.

Oh, yeah. They did have those cool crests on their heads, but it's no, there's no way for us to know if, like, a dinosaur, like, this spit venom. I personally like it This is one of my favorite dinosaurs Yeah Yeah it's really cool Yeah so we learn that these dinosaurs

Spit venom on their prey So that they essentially can eat them alive Like they like paralyze them and then eat them alive Which is really fucking scary but they don't show We don't see them and so it's sort of like Oh man, oh and one of the kids The kids' names are Lexi and Tim Tim the little boy is like a big dino head

And has read Dr. Grant's book This is a young west is like obsessed with dynos, knows all the facts, and so he's like ready to see these dinosaurs and is immediately, he's like bummed that no dinosaurs show up. But next we go to the T-Rex enclosure.

And again, we're not seeing anything. No T-Rex. Dr. Malcolm is poking fun, making jokes, he's saying to the little camera in the car, like, you will have a dinosaurs

in your dinosaur park at some point, right? And Hammond says, I really hate that man. And yeah, no T-Rex shows up. They try to feed it. The goat shows up. They put a goat out to tempt it. And Dr. Grant's pretty quickly like, that's not going to work.

Apparently that goat just hangs out until it's time, you know? Yeah. Down there. We watch the goat like lay down. It's just like, all right. And yeah, Dr. Grant's like, the T-Rex wants to hunt. It doesn't want to be fed. Yeah.

Right. You can't suppress instincts like this. So that's setting us up for something a little bit later. But yeah, no dinosaurs. It's kind of a little bit like, okay, not really all that exciting. And at some point we see around now that also there is a tropical storm approaching. And so it's a little bit like, is the storm going to come? Is it going to dissipate?

We're a little like, like Samuel Jackson keeps being like, I think we've probably got to end the tour because we've got the tropical storm coming. But Dr. Hammond really needs this. He really fucking needs this to work. So he's like waiting to the last possible minute. Yeah. And when they announce that they're heading back and they're driving kind of through this field and we get this really good illustration of chaos theory. I think it's really good. I don't know.

I think it's really good. Yeah. With the hand and the drop and he's flirting with Dr. Sattler while he's doing it. But it's effortlessly, like just very cool and charming. Yeah. He's explained chaos theory to her and she is like, I don't know what you're talking about. He grabs her hand and he drops her hand. and he drops a droplet of water and he says,

where do you think water's going to go? And she's like, okay, let's say it goes down my thumb. And he does and it does. And they're like, okay, if I do it again, where do you think it's going to go? I'll drop it the exact same place. And she's like, okay, let's say it'll go to the same place. It goes somewhere else.

He's like, oh, my God, look at that. I want somewhere else. What's up with that? And he's like, it's, you know, because this is chaos, right? Any number of factors could influence any given outcome. So, you know, could be the breeze in that moment, the imperfections in the sense. skin and she's like, oh, imperfections.

And he's like, minor, minor, minor. Microscopic. Microscopic. The way that your hair on your hand might be standing up. Like any number of these things could change the outcome of it. And we have no way of knowing what factors are a play. And just then Dr. Grant gets out of the car. The car is like still going slowly, but it's still running.

And Dr. Grant like sees something and gets out of the car. And he's like, see, see? That chaos area right there. There was no way of knowing that he was going to get out of the car. And Dr. Sattler immediately follows him and he's like, and there you go. There we go again. I, nobody could have predicted that. And now I'm, and now I'm talking to myself.

Now I'm talking to myself in the car. Great little scene. Great little scene. Great reenactment of it too. Thank you. Thank you. And we see that they have gotten out because there is a sick triceratops. And they've gotten out to go see her.

And it is, I mean, yeah, they're very quickly like, hi baby. and like Dr. Sattler's like touching her face like hi honey what's going on and we could get Sam Neal laying on her while she breathes he's so happy he's so happy to see her and they're trying to figure out what's going on with her Dr. Sattler is a paleobotanist so she's immediately like what's the plant life over here she's having a pharmacological response she's not sick but she's like it's some she's eating maybe and she's looking at she's like I got to get in to to the droppings immediately is given like gloves that go up to her shoulders and it's just like looking to see if she can find what could be causing this. She can't figure it out, but she's like, I want to stick around with this Triceratops and try to try and the Triceratops handler guy is like, yeah. Like they're so understaffed. Like they need to understand what's happening here.

And so she's like, I'm going to stick around here. I think it's a great scene too because like the close up where she like, pops the thing on its tongue, you know, and you just like, for me again, it was like, wow, like this is a real dinosaur. Yeah. You know, like we're seeing its tongue. Like, it's sick. And it has like a little bit of snotic coming out of its nose and stuff too.

It like, just the amount of care that Spielberg took to like make sure that these were convincing real dinosaurs is so apparent in these scenes. And I think we don't, those little things go so unnoticed, but they really add to the fact that it's like, oh, we're dealing with actual dinosaurs here. Yeah, it's really, really cool. And I'm sure, like, yeah, for the actors interacting with these, like, real feeling things, it's like, you know, this Sam Niel laying on a triceratops versus,

and not to do any, obviously this is one of the best movies of all time, but Christian Stewart petting Taylor Lautner's head instead of, like, a big dog. You know, there's just a difference. There is. There's just a difference, both equally wonderful in their own way. So the rest of the group continues on their tour. Ellie's like, I'm going to stick around and see about this triceratops.

But at this point, it becomes evident that this storm is coming. It's a bad one. It's a big one. We got to get off this tour. We got to end it early. The boat has to leave because we're on an island. So we got to get people back to the mainland. Dr. Hammond is really pissed.

But it is what it is. But Nedri is like, I'm going to go. He comes up with an excuse for. He has to go do a thing. We see him on the phone, like, talking to someone that's about to leave on the boat. And the guy's like, hey, the captain's not holding the boat. We got to go now. I'm not even sure I can give you 15 minutes, you know, and Nedri's like, give me 15 minutes.

He's like, no promises and it hangs up. So Nedry gets real fidgety. We see him stand up and he's like saying that his throat is dry. And then he needs to go get us. Oh, yeah. Anybody want anything for the vending machine? Anybody want anything to the vending machine? Snack, snack, snack, snack.

Yeah, he's being really uncool. Yeah, very nervous. Leaves to go get something from the snack machine and actually goes, he disables the system. We see him do it from his keyboard. And then everything shuts down. He goes and grabs the embryos and puts them in his barbosol can. Yeah, because the only way for him to make it to the boat in time now is to have to turn off all the, all the gates so that he can drive straight through. all the gates which keep the dinosaurs in their enclosures.

Yeah. So he goes and does that, which shuts down the jeeps because they're on this, like, track. Yeah. Ford Explorers. Oh, sorry, for Explorers. The Ford Explorers. Oh, yes. The Ford Explorers.

Love to know the make and model of every car used in every movie we talk about. It's always in the IMDB trivia if you're curious. Ford Explorers. Well, you still see a. Occasionally a Ford Explorer from this time period, like painted with Jurassic Park colors. Yeah, hell yeah. And boy, does that bring me back to that time. Yeah.

But so the tour group, this is now Dr. Grant and Dr. Malcolm, and the lawyer and the kids are just hanging out in their jeeps. Like, can't go anywhere. Jeeps? Sorry, Ford Explorers. It's all right. It's all right. Sorry. Wow.

There are geeks, too. Yeah. Oh, God. but wouldn't you know it where they have stopped is outside of the T-Rex enclosure It is And we're hanging now

It's raining and we're like okay Not too scared Not that big of a deal When And we're hearing some loud thumps And Tim Looks at his little Couple

I did love Dr. Grant Immediately is like Takes his flask out To catch the rain and drink the rain I'm like buddy It's been like 10 minutes Like we don't need to start like finding bottles of water yeah literally going to be fine but um we see timmy sees a cup of water

that he has there's like a little ripple and another ripple every time there's a big step yeah oh it's really good and tim is like you guys and we see emerge from The plants. A big T-Rex foot. Any stumps out. First we see the goat leg like fall. Oh, that's right. No, that is very important.

That is very important. Sometimes I put this movie on just to watch this scene. Okay, you do it. You do it. This is actually one of the like, when they were doing all the script rewrites and everything, Spielberg was like, that scene has to stay. Like the T-Rex car scene has to be in the movie, which was a great pick. It's the most iconic scene.

Yeah. So there, you know, you hear the thumping and you see the rings on the glass. And then they're all looking around. And suddenly the goat lake falls on top of the Ford Explorer on the skylight. They all look up and like the camera pans up through the goat blood, through the skylight. and you see the head of the T-Rex for the first time kind of swallowing the rest of the goat. And as it does it, you see its two claws, like, kind of fall off of the electric fence. So, uh-oh, fences aren't electrified anymore.

This scares Gennaro, the lawyer enough, that he gets out of the car, runs to the bathroom. A really wild choice on his car. Yeah, bad choice. Yeah, which he gets rewarded for. Look, no saying that he was going to be fine if he'd stayed, but that would not be my choice. No, the bathroom's made out of like bamboo. Yeah, it's like a little outhouse thing, right? Yeah.

And you also are like, here I am, here I am, here I am running. So he runs. We cut to a conversation between Grant and Malcolm where they're talking about chaos theory and then about the kids and about Ellie and whether or not they're married. And there's kind of, you see this kind of conflict between them, but not in a big way. And then you see the poles start to bend and the wires are snout. And we know that this T-Rex is breaking out. And then we see what I think is probably the best dinosaur ever from C.G. As the T-Rex steps out of its enclosure and roars in the rain.

It's beautiful. So good. Yeah. And then it cuts to it crossing in front of the explorer that Grant and Malcolm are in. And that also, I think, is like such a smart idea where you kind of see from their perspective the dinosaur as it's passing in front of the car. It's not like this full frame shot of the dinosaur. It's this beautiful, like, perspective. And I know when Spielberg made this, he wanted it always to be the human perspective of the dinosaurs, never what the dinosaurs were seeing.

Right. To make them look, like, big and imposing. Yeah. So then Malcolm's telling, or Grant's telling Malcolm not to move, but we cut to at least, like frantically searching for a flashlight, which she finds, turns on and is flashing all over the place. Because the kids are, yeah, and the kids are now alone in the front car. And because the lawyer left them. They're scared. Very, very scared.

And Lexi's also, like, not as into dinosaurs as Tim. She's kind of, like, not loving this as much. She wants to be on her computer. She's a hacker. Dork. She's a fucking dork. And, yeah, she is, like, trying to get... I mean, she's a kid.

She's being dumb. But she doesn't know any better. And she's signing this flashlight like crazy. And Dr. Grant is, like, turn the flash light off. Bring the flash light off. And Tim's saying it too. Yeah. Because Tim knows. Tim's a dino boy.

But, you know, they're just kids. And this does draw the T-Rex to their car. Yeah. Which it smashes. We get this great scene where it like puts its face in through the skylight. And they're pushing the glass and it would be the scariest thing ever that a human beings ever experienced. Yeah. And it starts thrashing their car.

It's starting to really do a lot of damage. It's flipping it. it's pushing it down, the mud is rushing in. These kids are about to die. And so Alan Grant, we see him light a flare in his car. He steps out. He yells at the T-Rex waving the flare. It turns and roars at him.

He is scared, you know? Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Which I love again. I think you can write this hero is just like steely and like doesn't flinch. But you see him like catch his breath and be like, oh, should I be doing this? Exactly. I don't even know if I want kids. I don't even know if I want kids.

Why are saving these fucking kids? I guess I'm ready to be a dad. He throws his flare. The T-Rex follows it. Another just beautiful use of the CG with this T-Rex follows it. And then Ian Malcolm is also lit a flare. And he gets out. And he's waving his and he does it for too long.

Grant tells him to throw the flare. He says, go get the kids. And rather than throw this flare, he runs with it. throws it too late, the T-Rex chases him, hits him with his head, into the bathroom, and the walls comically fall apart all around this toilet. Like a peeled banana. Yeah. Just being like, here I am.

Yeah. And then again, we get from the perspective of like, of the toilet, the T-Rex looking at him, thinking for a second, and then lunging forward and biting him and shaking him and killing him. Yeah. Yeah. Good riddance, right? Good riddons. Fucking lawyers.

And Dr. Malcolm has been like knocked out. We don't know where he is, but he, you know, he's not dead, but he's in a bad way. And Dr. Grant is going to try to get the kids out from under the car. And that T-Rex comes right back to him. And it's very tense of he's got Lexi, but Tim is still under the car. And they're like trying to hide behind the car while the T-Rex is pushing the car. while the T-Rex is pushing the car. And the T-Rex enclosure is like,

because the T-Rex is really big, it's like a cliff's edge for them, essentially. This was like a mistake. Well, it wasn't a mistake. But when they film this, the screenwriter was like, hey, you know, people are going to notice that this T-Rex just walked out of a spot

where there's now a cliff. And Stephen Spielberg said, no, they won't. He says there's a T-Rex. Like no one's going to see anything but the T-Rex and he was right and now people have noticed like in retrospect It doesn't matter Wait, but it doesn't fucking matter Yeah

It doesn't fucking matter Another cool tidbit about the scene is Lexi screams really loud And that was how Ariana Richards got this role It makes the look of fear on this kid's face I'm like that's all you needed from her When she screamed and Stephen Spilger was playing it at home His wife ran out to check on the kids And it was like the only

person that auditioned that like had that reaction. So it's a great scream. She has a great job. It's a great scream. Yeah, she's having a really bad time. But they, Lexi and Dr. Grant managed to like get over the side of this enclosure. They're, it's real, they're like grabbing hold of one of the like turned off electrical wires that's like come down from the gate. A real like Indiana Jones type moment here where that he's like swinging back and forth and, trying to grab the wire so they can repel down the side of this enclosure. There was a funny moment where Lexi's like on his back and she's like choking him and he's like, you have to let out my neck?

She's just so fucking scared. He's like fucking kids. Yeah. I'm back to not wanting him. And the T-Rex pushes, Tim is still like trapped sort of in the upside-down car and the T-Rex nudges it. Then it flies off the edge of the cliff lands in a tree. And I think the T-Rex roars and walks away. So we're safe from the T-Rex for now, but we've got Tim in a car and a tree.

And so Dr. Grant puts Lexi in a little pipe. Yeah, it's like a culvert. Yeah. To wait for a second. And she keeps saying, it's actually very sweet. She keeps saying, he left us. He left us. She's just so fucking traumatized because Dr. Grant is trying to leave her to go get Tim.

And she keeps being, he left us, he left us. And he says, but that's not what I'm going to do. It's a very sweet little, and funny, funny line delivery. But he's got to go up and get Tim out of the car out of the tree because it's looking like this car is going to fall out of the tree, this Ford Explorer. And they get out just kind of in the nick of time. It's sort of like one of those, they've got to climb down the tree.

It's really tall. Tim doesn't want to be scared, but the car's falling. And so they kind of got to just do it. And they managed to, a few, just in time. Car falls from the tree. Lands on them at the base of the tree, but they've like barricaded themselves.

They're fine. Big fief. I think we have a Nedri scene then, right? And then the other Nedry scene is in here somewhere, yes. Yeah, so Nedri has shut off the power, and he's in a Jeep, not a Ford Explorer. Oh, this one's a day. Okay.

The jeeps you can drive. The explorers are on the little track. And now I'll always know. So he's in a Jeep, and he's speeding off to try and get to the dock in time. But it's, you know, pouring rain. He's not, he's like really panicked. And in his panic, he actually runs into the sign that's pointing toward the dock.

And then when he gets up to fix the sign, it spins and he doesn't have any idea. It's a real Scooby-Doo moment of like, of course this arrow just can fully spin all the way around itself. So it's like, what way is it trying to go? Yeah. Big mistake. Yeah. So he's lost. And then he managed to drive the Jeep off of the road.

It's stuck. So he has to pull the winch out to try and get the Jeep back to a drivable place. At this point, it's like, you know, man, your boat sailed. Yeah, you couldn't even wait 15 minutes. You're not going to make it. You missed it. But he goes to put it out and he's wrapping it around this tree and he hears this like kind of soft hooting of maybe a bird or something. It looks around the corner and we see this Dolophosaurus kind of playing like hide and seek with him.

It's being very playful. It's really quite cute. It is. It's very cute. It's kind of making like a sound, something like that. Yeah. And so he at first is kind of like trying to throw a stick for it. He says fetch stupid.

Yeah, he starts like talking shit to it, which is like, buddy, at least don't do that. Right. It's a smaller dinosaur, so I don't think he's that worried at first. But as he's walking away, you can see he's nervous. He's like, okay. Ha ha ha. walks back up to the truck and right as he's about to leave, he makes the mistake of turning back to look at this Dilophosaurus

that had just been a couple steps behind him. And as he does, this frill comes out, rattlesnake noise behind the frill. And he suddenly has this black substance on his face, which we know from earlier is the dinosaur's venom that it has spit in his face. He balks his head. and then we get like a cartoon noise as he slips on the water.

Like it actually goes, yeah, things are going from bad to worse for him. Yeah. And the can of Barbasol rolls out and gets covered in the mud. And Jurassic fans have always thought forever that that was going to be like, you know, in the sequel or whatever,

it never really was. They just kind of laughed that. It's so funny. It's such a clear like, and this will come back. Mm-hmm. But it never does. No.

And then he finally. He finally managed to get inside of the vehicle. He takes a deep breath. He's finally safe from this dinosaur that has sprayed venom on him. And he turns as the frills come out again, we hear it hissing, we see its face, and it lunges forward and rips him apart inside of this vehicle. I was a little disappointed as a kid because the book, you hear about it ripping his intestines out. And he's like pushing out its head as the intestines are coming out. Didn't show that in the movie.

Didn't show that. Didn't show that. I didn't realize this happened like, this feels kind of early. Yeah, it's, it will, and so right around this time, we've gone back to, we're back in the visitor center with Samuel L. Jackson, Hammond, and Ellie. And we're trying to hold onto your butts yet. I think he has said hold onto your butts. Yeah, so sorry. I think he has said it.

Okay. But I also, I think he says it again later. So I'll try to do it. Yeah. He definitely says it more than once, which I was surprised by in my rewad pro. I was like, well, he really liked it. He really liked it again. But we learn that they can't get the system back online without him.

He's like locked them all out. That's right. And that's what cuts to him. They're like, where the hell is Dennis Nedry? Yeah, they're like, and then he dies. And they've just told us like, we can't get Jurassic Park online without Dennis Nedry. Well, that seems like a huge oversight. Huge oversight.

So, you know, this is, this is not great. We know. And so Nedry's dead. Yeah. We need to get power back in Jurassic Park. We get another hint to just how toxic of a work environment this was for Nedri, though, because he takes the time to record a little video of him going, nah, uh-uh. You didn't say the magic word.

Nah-uh. Right. And, I mean, you only do that if you really hate your boss. So, again. You know, I don't think he deserved what he got. No, yeah. Yeah. Justice for an entry.

Yeah. Dr. Sattler, again, is like, we need to go after them. They're out there because we know, like, the gates are down. We do learn the Raptor pen is still locked up. Because it's in a separate. Still electrified. Zone, yeah, still electrified. But they're like, the kids are out there.

Dr. Grant's out there. We got to go after them. them. So Muldoon and Dr. Sattler decide they'll go out to look for everybody in a Jeep. In the jeeps. In a Jeep. And they drive, they see the

abandoned Ford, one Ford Explorer at the T-Rex enclosure and are like, where's the other car? They're looking around. They see Dr. Malcolm under some wreckage. He's kind of, or he comes to, he's lost a lot of blood. He had like a slice happened.

in his leg by T-Rex perhaps or debris. He's like made a little tourniquet for himself. And so they're like, okay, we need to get him back to the visitor center. They say like, it should we risk moving him. And then we hear the T-Rex roar. And Dr. Malcolm's like, yeah, let's risk it. And so we that we see, you know, Dr. Soutler sees the other Jeep, our 44 on the ground at the ravines.

So she's like, okay, something happened to those folks down there. she sees footprints leading away from the Ford Explorer. So she's like, okay, Fuf, at least they were alive when that happened. But we, all of a sudden, T-Rex is coming for us. We load Dr. Malcolm in the back of the Jeep. We are flooring it trying to get away from this T-Rex. He's chasing us.

It's real scary. It's real touch and go. It's a great, great scene. It is. Dr. Malcolm is, like, facing out at the T-Rex as it's chasing them. And I feel like he says a line that, It's quippy. Must go faster.

Must go faster. Must go faster. Yeah. But they make it. They fief, make it. Yeah. And then for me,

I feel like we get the middle part that's a little bit boring as good. Then we get some middle stuff. We get some middle stuff. We get Dr. Grant with the kids, or they go to sleep in a tree. And he's being very fatherly, which is really nice.

So brachiosaurus comes up. It's magical. They like go to pet it. It sneezes. And Lexi's face. I'm like this poor kid has been through so much. Snot, too. Dr. Grant's being a good father.

They later are like walking through the majestic fields of Jurassic Park trying to make their way back to the visitor center. They notice they can cross. He's like, we're only like a mile and a half from the visitor center if we just keep walking. We'll make it. It's daytime. It's sunny.

So we're not as scared anymore. Right before that too, we get the other, sorry, the other kind of boring scene, which is Ellie talking with Dr. Hammond, which is a great scene. scene in retrospect. Like as an adult, I love that scene, but as a kid,

it was kind of like, all right. And, you know, he explains his, show me the dinosaurs. Yeah. He explains his background

and his genius. And she, again, kind of says, no, you let the power of this place overwhelm you, and now that power is out.

And now the only thing we can care about are the people that we love. And, you know, Hammond's kind of starting to get it. He's starting to realize, like,

okay, this isn't all about Jurassic Park. We also got to, you know, care about people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. They're eating ice cream also. Just sitting in a room, sitting in and eating ice cream, having this talk. Yes. And so then Dr. Grant and the kids are, you know, walking through Jurassic Park and they see a herd of galamimus. Gallimis. Gala, galamimis. That's how Tim says it.

And they're, you know, they're running in like a pack. And Dr. Grant is like, see, they move in her. he says, they look like a herd of birds evading a predator. And it's like, uh-huh. And then they all start stampeding towards them. They have to run and hide under a big log. The gallimimuses all run. And we see the T-Rex again, comes through,

picks one up in his jaws and eats it. It's very violent. It's very violent. Tim is enthralled by it, but Lex just wants out of it. She says, yeah, can we go home? She's had enough dinosaurs. And I get that.

And I do get that. Yeah. And then we learned that like they've had this meeting in the control room where they think they can get the power back on. But it kind of, it's really risky because if they shut the whole system down, they might lose everything that they worked on. But they decide to do it. They shut it all down. That's when we get a hold on to your butts. Hold on to your butts.

Yeah. They shut it all down. And sure enough, it reboots. So Dr. Arnold, Sam Jackson's character's like, you know what, I can have the park back online in three minutes. I just have to go out to this shed. And surely nothing bad will happen when I go out to this shed. In doing, I think in this reset that they did, everything got powered down. Everything.

Including the raptor pen. Raptor fences. So, but yeah, but he's like, we can get the power back on. But yeah, it has to be, have to essentially go and like, friggin crank a lever, of course, in this shed. Classic. And it takes a while. And they're like, where did he go? And so then finally, Ellie and Muldoon are like, we're going to go figure out what's happening.

And Hammond's like, well, I really should go because I'm a man. And Ellie's like, listen, you know, we can talk about this later. But you're a kindly old man that can hardly walk around. You have a cane, you know, and I'm a. We can talk about sexism. during like disaster scenarios at another time. Yeah. So her and Muldoon go out to try and figure out where Arnold is.

Meanwhile, we see Grant and the kids have just gotten to a fence and they have to climb over it. Grant tricks them. You know, these kids haven't experienced enough. It's so funny to make this choice in this moment. He like goes up to test the electrical fence and it's scared and he grabs it and it's obviously turned off. But he goes like, oh, go, go, go, go, g and like acts like he's done. dying. The kids are screaming. Yeah. And he turns around, he's like,

I just Josh him out. Apparently Sam Neal ad lib that too. That wasn't in the script. I mean, you gotta love him. But as an adult in this moment, I am like, I don't think that was the move, my guy. I don't think you are ready to be a dad. I actually, that was. Tim, to his credit, loves it. Lexi does not.

No. Hey, man, we're dealing with fuck enough right now. So we're good to go. You got to climb this fence. But they don't know. We're about to try to get the freaking power back online. Yeah. I remember this scene really sticking with me as a kid and, like, for some reason, like, making me afraid of fences.

Like, you know how little kid brain works and you're like, there's a shark in the pool type of thing? Like, I was just like, every fence could be electrified. This is going to happen. Somehow this is going to happen to me. I actually know exactly what you mean. Yes. Yeah. I've touched a couple electric fences and it's not.

A part about this scene that always bugs me is you see Grant like kind of try and pull the wires apart and try and get through and he's like, ha, this won't work. And it's like, dude, this guy is like six years old. He'll fit through that. It'll work for the little boy. You got smaller people with you. You're different sizes. We could try it with the child. He doesn't.

He doesn't. He doesn't understand kids. He doesn't. Meanwhile, though, we see Ellie and Muldoon and they have learned that the raptors have gotten out. And Muldoon is not. happy about it. But he's kind of happy because he finally gets to kill some dinosaurs. Yeah. So they made their way into the jungle surrounding the shed. And as, you know, they're kind of about to go, Ellie's like, let's go. And he's like, we can't. I'm just like,

why? And he's like, well, we're being hunted. Some really good music cuts in. Muldoon says, you know, there's a raptor in front of us. It's hunting us. You run. I'll take care of them. Ellie runs. Great music. Which is again really interesting because, So he's the raptor guy. He's the dinosaur guy at Jurassic Park. And A, you shouldn't run. B, we've been told by Dr. Grant how raptors hunt. And he doesn't seem to know because he's like, all I got to worry about is this raptor that I'm staring right at.

And we're like, we've been told this isn't how it goes. And you should know that. Yeah. Yeah, he should be much more concerned. Not to victim blame, but he should know that. Yeah, I agree. And also, yeah, we talk about this all the time on tooth and claw. Any predator out there, running is like the worst thing you can do because it triggers that predatory response.

They're often thinking like, oh, you know, should I eat this? Is this my food? And the second you start running, that decision is made for them. They realize, okay, it's food. Sure is acting like food. Yeah, exactly. So Ellie runs. She makes it to the shed.

She slams the door behind her. then the team back in the control room is talking her through where she has to go. She finds this big center control panel, and Hammond is kind of telling her which one she has to flip on. We see her pushing the buttons, and as she's pushing them, we cut to the kids and Grant crossing the fence, and things are starting to come alive. Like there's an alarm, there's lights. They're realizing we got to hurry up. Grant and Lex get down.

Tim somehow still, you know, like all the way on top. way behind yeah could have just gone right through one of the holes yeah so they're screaming at him to come down and grant's about to go help him and right is there he's about to do that we see ellie push the last button and sure enough power comes back on in Jurassic park Tim gets blown off the fence they immediately try to resuscitate him he's not breathing some great blocking in that shot with the ferns kind of covering Dr. Grant as he's like it's just amazing uh and then we see Ellie, she's on the phone. She says power's back on in Jurassic Park.

And we get probably the biggest jump scare of my young life. It's so good. Oh, my God. It's so good. Yeah. The Raptor shoots through the bars, its head, and is trying to attack Ellie. Okay. So sorry also to take us back to the electric fence for a second. Yeah.

Yeah. Let's do it. Zap us back there. I feel like nice. I feel like. Nice. I learned that where did I learn this? I can't remember.

But when you're electrocuted, if you were holding a fence, you would be electrocuted and, like, grip the fence tighter. Yeah, you can't undo your grip. So, like, he wouldn't be, like, blown off, just pointing it out that realistically he would have, like, probably gripped harder onto the fence and would have had to be pulled off. Yeah. Oh, fast. Just FYI. In case we ever find ourselves in this situation. Don't grip, you know, right as you're about to be electrocuted.

Yeah, I think it's like if you're testing. something like just like poke it Oh you know what I learned it in my emergency response training class yes the first time I touched an electric fence

I was wearing like rubber sold boots and so when I touched it it did nothing and I was like oh this isn't bad like I felt a little buzz and then I put my knee on the ground and touched it and it blew me back much like Tim

I didn't go unconscious or anything but yeah it's very strong yeah um yes we see Ellie, she's running for her life from this raptor. She falls against the wall. A hand falls on her shoulder. She's like, oh, thank God, Mr. Arnold.

And then she pulls the arm off and it's severed. They actually cut him being killed from the movie. Damn. Yeah. What could have been, you know? Yeah. And then I think we do see Muldoon, who is out hunting the other raptor. It's somewhere in this after Ellie's being scared.

and he folds his gun out, he has her in his sights. He's like ready to shoot his raptor finally, you know. He aims the raptor's right in a clear view. He says, I got her, you know, or got you or whatever. And then right as he says that, the head right next to him with the other raptor. Who could have seen the cover? The whole time. Yep.

There was no way to know. There was no way to know. He says, clever girl. Clever girl. And then it kills him. It eats him. Yep. which is great.

Yep, yep, yep. We need more of that. Yep, and then Ellie makes it out of the shed, shuts the door behind her, keeping that raptor right in there. And as she's running out, she sees Dr. Grant. And she, I mean, she's fucking terrified.

She's like running, kind of limping towards him. And she's just like, run, run. Hugs him, grabs him. He gets her, we get the kids. They make it back to the visitor center. We skipped one, though, a big scene. The other scene that Spielberg said for sure had to be included, which was the kids in the kitchen.

I was going to say that was after. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so Grant drops the kids at the visitor center. You're right. And they immediately start having a big feast. I mean, to be fair, they've had a really big day. Yeah. But there's a full, like, dessert spread out in the visitor center.

And they are, I usually would be fucking pumped. They get like a big bowl ice cream. Yeah, Lexi's got a plate of jello. Food is awesome. And to be honest, like, you put me in front of this dessert spread, and it also doesn't matter what else has happened to me that day. I'm filling up my plate. I'm not going for jello first, though.

Yeah. But they're just quietly sitting there, eating, pretty excited. They keep, they, like, share a look where they both just like, smile. Just like, they're like, yeah, we made it. We're good. And then Lexi's holding up her jello, and it starts going. D-D-D-L-L. And their eyes go wide.

And we see walking past the window, a shadow of a raptor. Yeah. It's like on the mural of the raptor, which is kind of a cool, a cool shot too. So they run into the kitchen and Lexi's kind of hiding Tim. The raptor walks up to the window and its air like from its nose, fogs the window. Yep. Pushes open the door. Kind of like.

Opens the handle. Yeah. Opens the handle. Pushes it open. Clever girl. Clever girl. And that's actually like the cut right before that as we see Grant when he rescues Ellie or when they see each other. And he's like, oh, the kids are in there and they're safe unless they figure out how to open doors.

And then it cuts to it opening the door and pushing in. And it's an incredible scene of the kids kind of playing cat and mouse with two raptors in the kitchen. Like really well just shot and lit and super intense as the raptors like charging reflection. of them. Yeah, it's so good. Lexi manages to hide in like a cabinet and we see her she's trying desperately to shut the cabinet door and we're

seeing her try and the raptor sees her and it rushes at her and we're like, oh my God, it's not going to do, she's not going to do it and it rushes and it hits a reflection and she's actually opposite and it was like reflected in the other cabinet which is so fucking cool and I was like, yeah, like birds. Like birds crash into windows

all the time. And they yeah, managed to to get out of the kitchen in the nick of time, but it is, ooh, it's a really, really tense. Yep. Scene. I think the thing that I love so much about Dressa Park and, like, especially this last act is that it's shot like a horror movie.

The last, like, third of this movie is the first part's more shot like an adventure movie. And then suddenly it's like, it's horror where the raptors are horror movie villains. And they are this like unstoppable violent force that only cares about. killing and they're really hard to get away from in like very you know like almost like a slasher and i just love that so many movies give me like Jurassic Park deja vu basically like anytime anything goes into a kitchen and it like just is you see this scene or elements of this scene recreated and so many other things and i'm like well that's Jurassic Park yeah yeah and i think that was missing from a lot of the sequels and that's why they never really held up is because

they're more like kids adventure movies and this one is kind of a part horror movie. But they managed to escape. Tim locks one of them in a freezer. They get out of the kitchen and they run into the arms of Dr. Grant and Ellie and they all back into the control room.

The door to lock the control room is also like mechanized or like they have to do it on the system. There's like no lock they can do themselves. So Dr. Grant and Dr. Satler are like trying to hold the door close while a Raptor is trying to get in and they're trying to figure out how to get this door locked

and Lexi's like I'm a hacker I can do that and she goes over to the computer she starts type type type type up she's like this is a such and such system I've used one of these and she's like clicking around like clicking little maps and they're like trying to find the right room and it's like I think if I go here and I think if I click there

and they're like quick quick quick quick and they're like trying the Raptor's like getting in she's like okay okay okay I've seen this your well that's visitor to click she clicks that I got it clicks it power comes on door locks Foof! Thank God she was a hacker. What an important detail. Phones are back online.

They say Dr. Hammond, I think it's time to call for a pickup or something like that. While they're on the phone, they're talking to Hammond, you suddenly hear screams and gunshots and you hear them saying it's coming through the glass. And we don't actually see this, but the Raptors broken through the glass, they have tried to shoot it and the gun jammed. And this confused me a lot as a kid, but you see the shotgun on the ground and there's like an unspent cartridge that's jammed into the magazine or into the chamber. So they're fleeing on foot now from these raptors.

They are trying to get away. They go up into the ducting. The raptors immediately figure it out. Very smart. It's a great scene where the projector is showing on the raptor and you see all the genetic like ACGs and stuff all over it. And then as they're moving through the ducting, one jumps up. and Lexi falls out. They grab her and right before it jumps up and gets her,

they pull her back into the ducting. They manage to get into this main atrium of the visitor center. They're crawling down. They jump on the suspended bones of all these dinosaurs right as the raptors come out. And, you know, we got our final showdown. Yeah. And it's really like, how are they going to get away? I mean, we've got raptors.

Things are looking bad. They're on these bones, but they're crashing to the ground. Like, oh, my God, oh, my God. They've got him cornered. This is an unbeatable foe. When? Do we get a roar? We don't get a roar.

We get kind of like an eating sound as it lunges for it and grabs the first raptor. The T-Rex comes in the T-Rex. Now our hero, our savior. Serving the day. comes in and chomps on a raptor, forcing the other raptor to go for the T-Rex. They're all fighting each other, allowing us to escape.

We run out. We get in a Jeep. It is a Jeep, yep. Nice. And Dr. Grant says to Dr. Hammond, Dr. Hammond, I do not believe I can support your park. And he says, me neither. And we drive off.

Getting the helicopter. Get in the helicopter. We see the T-Rex finish killing the raptors that throws one into the other dinosaur bones and then roars right as the banner falls that says when dinosaurs ruled the earth. And this is, it's an incredible scene. It unfortunately is one that in a lot of the sequels, they were like, oh, we have to have a dinosaur like saving their lives at the end, you know? And it gets very played out in the world movies where there's always like right at the end.

Yeah, one of the dinosaurs you say in this, it fucking rules. And it's so unexpected. Yeah. Dr. Malcolm is also with them and he gets saved too. But I sort of forget he's like like Sammy's background just sort of like lounging around being shirtless and stuff for the rest of the movie. But he's also there and he makes it out and yay. But yeah, it's an incredible, it's an incredible ending if you don't see it coming. It is.

To get saved by the T-Rex. And then there's a very. heartfelt last scene where they're all on the helicopter flying out. The iconic theme is playing, but it's just kind of tinkling on a piano. And Dr. Grant looks out to see a small flock of pelicans flying out over the water. And you see him kind of smile and put his head back. And to me, that's kind of like him realizing, like, hey, we, you know, we've got dinosaurs. I do still get dinosaurs. Yeah. Yeah. Like, we don't need this. The world has evolved. I didn't need to see dinosaurs. I've got dinosaurs here on Earth. And,

And it's beautiful. And that's the end of the movie. It's the end. Yeah. An excellent retelling. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Let me get her credits. Yeah.

It's just great. It's one of the very, very best. It really is. After seeing it the first time, because so I don't think this is the best movie ever made, but it is my favorite movie. Yeah. And it is without a doubt. my best theater experience of all time, like seeing this in 93 in the theater.

And then just like fully having this be my personality for like a couple years. And a funny story. So I brought these to show you guys. After like Jurassic Park came out, there was a ton of merchandising, you know? And they kind of make fun of it in the film even. And there was this candy that I just loved called Spitters. They had a Dolophisaurus on the back. And I would just like 8,000.

thousands of these. Like, they were so good. They're, like, little jawbreakers that are tropical flavored. And, like, guava and, like, papaya and, like, fun flavors for a kid in Montana. So a few years ago, I was thinking this is probably, like, 10 years ago. I was like, man, like, are those still around? Like, I really want to try them again. I want to, like, remember that feeling of, like, eating some spitters.

Yeah. And watching Jurassic Park. And sure enough, I found some on eBay, like, original release. Wow. Spitters. And I can tell you that 30-year-old candy does not taste good. Not great. No.

How many did you get, Wes? I ate. Well, they also had the Raptor bites, and I got those too. Nice. And they both were absolutely horrific. It tasted like eating like dog ashes. It was really just disgusting. Very specific.

So I do have them now as a display, but they no longer. Yes, as a collector's item. Yeah. Not something to be consumed. Sure. Yeah. That's fun. I guess on a food and drink note, I also really love the tiki bar at Universal Studios.

That's Jurassic Park themed Island New Bar. Oh, it's so fun. It's real. The Jurassic Park section is, I love it very much. You get a teaky drink. You go on the fun ride. I just feel like they've converted everything to Jurassic World now. So it's going to hard for me.

That update was tough. Yeah. There is, there's like an underwater section now. Yeah, and the video is all like Chris Pratt, you know, which is like not. The like video that plays a near end line is like, it's Chris Pratt and that's just not what I want. That part is not good. But you can get some tiki drinks and get a little bit. But you get some dicky drinks, which is fun.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, just like the movies. I'll go. Yeah, I'll still go. I'll still go. Oh, it's fun. Okay. Well, this was great.

I learned more about dinosaurs than I'm. I previously knew. I'm intrigued to learn more about dinosaurs. You're going to let that impulse take over next time. Good. Finally. Did either of you see Dominion, the last one with like Pratt? No. I think I did. I don't think I did. It had Sam Neal and Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern in it. Oh yes. I remember. Is that the one that had Scarlett Johansson in it? No, that's the most recent one. That's rebirth. Oh, no. Then I did not see Dominion. No. It's probably the worst movie I've ever. ever seen. Oh, no. It's worse than rebirth. It's so much worse. I hate that they, that they would do them like that, you know? Yeah. It's just like so hard to see them. Yeah. In those roles again,

like kind of just getting a cash grab. And then it's just, it's like aggressively bad. It's a really bad movie. It's not the worst movie I've seen, but because of what it should be, it was really hard to see. Yeah, that's tough. I think I was like, was hearing the bad reviews and was Like, I don't, yeah, I don't want to. That might be the one. Where's the one where they're like in Rome or something? That's it. That's it.

Okay. I think I started trying to watch it on a plane and couldn't even do that. Yeah. It was like too bad to even get me through a where I was like stuck on a plane. Like I couldn't go anywhere or do anything else, but I was like, I won't be doing this. Yeah. Which is unfortunate. But I did watch Rebirth, which was also bad.

Yep. I do like. But I did watch that one. In Jurassic World, Jimmy Buffett's cameo. Yeah. Jurassic World was like serviceable. Is that the first Chris Pratt one? I think so.

I think that one was fine. Yeah, that one was like entertaining and there was some fun scenes and stuff. And it was also before we'd been like so, so Pratt saturated, you know? I ride pretty hard for Lost World, which is like the immediate sequel to Jurassic Park. Yes. I actually think I saw Lost World before the original. Yeah. That's because I'm always like, well, the first one where the dinosaurs.

are on the beach and eat the little kid. That's like my earliest memory of Jurassic Park is that beach scene. Yeah. I don't know if I've ever seen it. It's kind of a meaner version of this movie. And like it's still directed by Steven Spielberg though. And it still has his like touch and his magic to it. I watch it.

It doesn't have like the wonder and awe that Jurassic Park does. It's more just kind of plays like two hours of people being chased. by dinosaurs, which I... I'm into that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that works for me.

There's some great stuff in it. Yeah. How do we feel about End of Oak Street, West? Are you excited? I am. I was like, my excitement was really high. Like, I was a 10 because I just was like, finally a dinosaur movie that's not a Jurassic movie.

I'm so excited for this. The first trailer just really sucked me in. The most recent trailer has dropped me down to about a six or a seven. Got it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like there's this trend with dinosaurs for people to make them like kind of ugly and like fleshy looking. And it kind of looks like that. So I'm still going to see. I'm really excited for it, but I'm not where I was. Got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is, but that is a good point that like we've basically only gotten Jurassic Park dinosaur. Like those are the only dinosaur. It's like someone decided if it's going to be a dinosaur movie, it has to be under that franchise. And 65.

Yeah. Right. And 65. Somehow I forgot about 65. I had to look up what it was called because I was like, I remember the title was like. That was another one that I couldn't bring myself to watch. I did hear it was mind-numbingly bad. They used like fake dinosaurs.

It's like we have thousands of real dinosaurs to pick from. Why do you have to make them up? You can even, you can do what we did here and you just sort of ramp them up a little bit. Take what you got and just sort of turn the dials up if you want. Yeah. Making up a dinosaur is really funny. Although didn't they do that in Jurassic World Rebirth, kind of? Yeah, they did.

Which was also pretty stupid. Unnecessary. And it also didn't look scary. I was like, this one looks stupider than the real dinosaurs. Yeah. Right. That's how I felt too. Yep.

Totally unnecessary. Anyway, we'll always have Jurassic Park. If they broke, don't fix it. Yeah. Wow. Wow, Helchella. Haltcella. Triples his best.

Chella with a 33-year-old movie. It's perfect, though. It's a great movie. Triples his best, 33. 33. Wow, you're right. And I honestly, I genuinely cannot believe we had never done it. So, here we go.

I'm honored that I got to be part of it. We're honored as well. It was an absolute delight. And rest in peace, Sam Neal, one of the absolute greatest there ever was. a face I love to see on my screen. Unless it's the end of what's that really gnarly? No, the really gnarly space one.

Oh, God. Event Horizon. Event horizon. Whereas eyes are all gone and stuff. Yeah. No, I will never. I need to watch Deadcom. I haven't seen that one.

Oh, my God. But I got to wait till Duncan gets it. I haven't seen possession yet. That's the one I need to watch. You got to watch it. You got to watch it before they do that, the freaking. No, I saw some of the remake, and I was like, why are we doing this? I don't know, man.

I don't know. The world needs more Callum Turner. Oh, poor Callum. I mean, not poor Calum. He's fine. He's married to do a leap, but he's doing me. He's married to do a Leba. And a lot of people really like him for some reason.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, Wes. Yeah. Our listeners love you very much, but for those of them that don't already know you, will you tell where they can find you? Yeah. So I host a podcast called Tooth and Claw. I'm not a paleontologist. I'm a wildlife biologist. And the show is all about animal attacks on people and how they're often misrepresented in the media and how we can learn a lot about animals from

these attacks and paint a better picture of what's actually going on. So that's what the show's about. I hosted it with my two co-host, Jeff and Mike, who are kind of there for some comic relief on some pretty gnarly stories. And yeah, you can find us wherever you can find your podcasts. Amazing. Very scary. Scarier than anything. There's some scary stuff on there for sure you've ever done. We just did an episode that I thought of you, Sammy, because there's a photo associated with this episode that is the gnarliest photo I've ever seen in my entire life.

Oh, not. of a man who just had his face completely ripped off by a grizzly bear and survived and was like talking normally and stuff. But his face is just gone. And there's a, there's a photo of him that it, I don't, like, I don't even recommend looking at it because you'll remember it forever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's tough. It made me think of you.

I saw the gnarliest thing I'd ever seen. We always have this weird tradition of when Sammy's on the show that we. end up doing just like a really fucked up terrible category in like animal so wouldn't have it any other way I know she was she was born for this um

wow well should we close it out with one of your amazing voices you did yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah okay dealer's choice I know I know I do think it I think it needs to be um gold bloom I think it needs to be it needs to be women

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