'Jurassic Park' Rewatch | Jurassic Pals

Summary

Podcast Summary: 'Jurassic Park' Rewatch | Jurassic Pals

Podcast Information:

• Title: No Dunks
• Host/Author: The Athletic
• Description: No Dunks is a daily NBA podcast hosted by Skeets, Tas, Trey, and JD — the original basketball podcasters. Join 'em as they break down the league's biggest games and headlines, answer listeners' questions, interview guests, and more.
• Episode: 'Jurassic Park' Rewatch | Jurassic Pals
• Release Date: August 8, 2025

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Introduction to Jurassic Pals

[00:10] J. Skeets:
The episode kicks off with J. Skeets introducing "Jurassic Pals," a summer project where the hosts embark on a journey to watch and dissect every movie in the Jurassic Park franchise. Skeets humorously praises his co-hosts, highlighting their unique personalities and roles within the podcast.

[00:46] J. Skeets:
He outlines the series’ plan: reviewing each Jurassic Park film over seven weeks, drawing a parallel to their previous project with the Fast and Furious franchise. Skeets emphasizes the anticipation and excitement surrounding this endeavor.

Initial Impressions and Background

[01:04] J. Skeets:
Skeets provides a brief overview of the original "Jurassic Park" movie, noting its impressive budget of $63 million and its substantial box office success, initially grossing over $914 million worldwide and eventually surpassing a billion dollars with re-releases.

[02:01] JD:
JD humorously remarks on the movie’s runtime, adding a light-hearted note to the discussion.

Personal Experiences and Nostalgia

[02:27] Tasmelist:
Tasmelist shares personal anecdotes about watching "Jurassic Park" multiple times in theaters during childhood, highlighting the movie’s enduring scariness and her wife's lasting fear from a specific scene involving a T. Rex outbreak.

[03:06] J. Skeets:
Skeets reflects on the decision to start with the original movie, expressing optimism that the series will maintain high standards as they progress through the franchise.

Opening Scene Breakdown

[04:22] J. Skeets:
The conversation delves into the movie's opening scene featuring the character Joffrey being killed while transferring a velociraptor into a pen. Tasmelist criticizes the scene for its lack of theatrical engagement, noting it as a forgettable yet necessary setup.

[06:13] Trey Kirby:
Trey humorously comments on Spielberg’s penchant for shaky effects, drawing parallels to his previous projects.

Character Introductions and Dynamics

[07:57] J. Skeets:
Discussion shifts to the introduction of key characters—Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). The hosts analyze the chemistry between Grant and Sattler, noting subtle hints of their relationship dynamics and Malcolm’s flirtatious interactions.

[11:03] JD:
JD contemplates the ambiguous relationship between Grant and Sattler, highlighting conflicting cues from the movie.

Themes and Exposition

[13:44] Tasmelist:
Tasmelist critiques the character of John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), labeling him as a sinister figure beneath his charming facade. The discussion touches upon Hammond’s motivations and the ethical implications of his actions.

[14:45] J. Skeets:
The hosts commend Spielberg’s ability to blend exposition seamlessly into the narrative, particularly in scenes where John Hammond interacts with his Airstream trailer, providing deeper insights into his character without feeling forced.

Dennis Nedry and Sabotage

[16:30] Tasmelist:
The conversation turns to Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), the disgruntled computer programmer bribed to steal dinosaur embryos. The hosts discuss Nedry’s financial desperation and his bumbling nature, accentuated by Knight’s charismatic yet flawed portrayal.

[18:15] JD:
JD reminisces about Nedry’s iconic scenes, including his fumble with the shaving cream can—a humorous yet pivotal moment indicating his impending betrayal.

Introduction of Chaos Theory and Ian Malcolm

[18:51] J. Skeets:
The discussion moves to Dr. Ian Malcolm’s introduction aboard the helicopter, where he eloquently explains chaos theory. Tasmelist marvels at the real-world basis of chaos theory and its intriguing incorporation into the movie's narrative.

[20:04] J. Skeets:
A deep dive into Grant’s struggle with the airplane seatbelt leads to a metaphorical discussion about improvisation and quick thinking, showcasing Grant’s resourcefulness.

First Encounter with the Brachiosaurus

[20:53] J. Skeets:
The hosts passionately discuss the iconic "Welcome to Jurassic Park" scene, where the characters first observe a live Brachiosaurus. They laud the scene's emotional impact, impeccable acting, and John Williams’ majestic score.

[22:12] Tasmelist:
Tasmelist emphasizes the scene's timeless quality, highlighting the authentic awe and childlike wonder displayed by the characters, particularly Grant's transformative reaction.

T. Rex Breakout and Escalation of Tension

[24:04] JD:
JD points out Spielberg’s strategic placement of dinosaur appearances, noting that despite their limited screen time, each encounter is meticulously crafted to maximize tension and fear.

[25:09] J. Skeets:
The discussion highlights Spielberg’s craftsmanship in building suspense, comparing the T. Rex breakout to key scenes from "Jaws," emphasizing the minimal use of music to enhance terror.

Ethical Debates and Park Operations

[33:02] Trey Kirby:
A crucial lunch scene unfolds where the guests debate the ethics of cloning and creating Jurassic Park. Malcolm vocally warns of the impending disaster, while Hammond and the lawyer, Gennaro, focus on the park’s profitability and wonders.

[35:14] Tasmelist:
Tasmelist applauds the scene for effectively conveying diverse viewpoints, underscoring the movie’s deeper themes about the consequences of unchecked scientific advancement and capitalism.

Inclusion of Hammond’s Grandchildren

[36:08] J. Skeets:
The inclusion of Hammond’s grandchildren, Lex and Tim Murphy, is explored, with the hosts pondering Hammond’s motivations for bringing them to the park—likely a strategic move to impress the park’s specialists and demonstrate its family-friendly appeal.

[37:05] J. Skeets:
Skeets humorously compares the Murphy children to other cinematic children, noting their lack of parental oversight during the chaos unfolding on the island.

Muldoon and Raptor Encounters

[31:12] Tasmelist:
The character of Robert Muldoon (BD Wong) is likened to Quint from "Jaws," showcasing his expertise and eventual downfall at the hands of the very predators he sought to control.

[32:26] J. Skeets:
The hosts appreciate the scenes where Muldoon discusses the raptors’ intelligence and hunting strategies, enhancing the audience's understanding of their danger.

Climactic Confrontations

[48:30] Tasmelist:
A thrilling breakdown of the T. Rex’s destruction of the cars and the ensuing chase is discussed, highlighting Spielberg’s masterful direction and the scene’s enduring impact.

[50:14] J. Skeets:
The absence of music during intense scenes like the T. Rex chase is praised for heightening realism and fear, allowing sound effects and acting to carry the tension.

Final Escape and Resolution

[72:37] Tasmelist:
The hosts dissect the final escape sequence aboard the helicopter, noting the silent pact among the survivors and the movie’s ambiguous yet satisfying conclusion.

[83:53] JD:
JD expresses admiration for the emotional weight of the Triceratops scene, emphasizing its role in character development and thematic depth.

Favorite Scenes and Characters

• Favorites:

  • Tasmelist: "Welcome to Jurassic Park" scene for its joyous and awe-inspiring depiction of dinosaurs.
  • Trey Kirby: The T. Rex breakout for its sound design, choreography, and escalating tension.
  • JD: The car falling into the tree and the initial dinosaur reveal.

• Favorite Characters:

  • Tasmelist: Dennis Nedry and Dr. Ian Malcolm for their unique performances and memorable lines.
  • Trey Kirby: Dr. Ian Malcolm for his humor and depth in the role.
  • JD: Jeff Goldblum’s portrayal of Malcolm and the emotional resonance of the Triceratops.

Themes and Insights

[93:31] Trey Kirby:
The hosts explore deeper themes such as the ethical boundaries of genetic engineering, the dangers of capitalist greed, and the unpredictability of nature—a testament to Spielberg’s storytelling prowess.

[95:11] JD:
A humorous yet insightful comment about the potential future of the cast members’ velociraptor models underscores the enduring legacy and personal connections formed during the film’s production.

Critiques and Observations

• Safety Procedures:
  The hosts critique the park's lax safety measures, questioning the feasibility of the security systems portrayed in the movie.

• Character Development:
  While largely praising the film, the hosts note minor inconsistencies, such as Muldoon’s lack of assistance and Hammond’s shifting priorities.

• Technical Aspects:
  Appreciation for the practical effects, CGI, and sound design is balanced with observations about certain technical limitations, like the portrayal of dinosaur hatching and indoor raptor scenes.

Conclusion and Ratings

[96:12] Tasmelist, J. Skeets, Trey Kirby, JD:
All hosts unanimously rate the original "Jurassic Park" a perfect 10 out of 10, citing its storytelling, character performances, groundbreaking visual effects, and timeless appeal. They acknowledge the franchise’s subsequent decline but celebrate the original film's unparalleled success and cultural significance.

[97:11] J. Skeets:
Skeets wraps up by mentioning the film’s selection for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, reaffirming its status as a culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant masterpiece.

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Notable Quotes:

• Tasmelist at [00:10]:
  "Welcome to Jurassic Pals, the new no Dunks summer podcast project where we've decided to watch and break down every movie from the Jurassic Park franchise."

• J. Skeets at [04:55]:
  "We got to meet the dinosaurs without really meeting them."

• Tasmelist at [10:18]:
  "Why is that kid there?"

• Tasmelist at [19:26]:
  "I can't believe chaos theory is a real thing."

• JD at [32:12]:
  "Life finds a way."

• Tasmelist at [60:08]:
  "And we have one Velociraptor actually attacking somebody that."

• Tasmelist at [66:17]:
  "Clever girl."

• J. Skeets at [72:37]:
  "Perfect catch."

• J. Skeets at [83:51]:
  "Seeing the dinosaurs for the first time, I can't, I can't resist."

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Final Remarks

The "Jurassic Pals" episode of No Dunks successfully revisits the magic of the original "Jurassic Park" film, blending nostalgia with insightful analysis. The hosts’ engaging discussions, combined with their mutual admiration for Spielberg’s masterpiece, make this rewatch series a must-listen for both longtime fans and newcomers to the franchise. As they conclude the episode with unanimous high praise, listeners are left eagerly anticipating the deep dives into subsequent movies in the Jurassic Park series.

Transcript

[J. Skeets]

Welcome to Jurassic Pals, the new no Dunks summer podcast project where we've decided to watch and break down every movie from the Jurassic park franchise. I'm J. Skeets here in the classic factory and alongside me as always, he's Chaos Theory himself. Tasmelist. Thank you.

[Trey Kirby]

You are.

[JD]

Oh, wow. I appreciate that.

[J. Skeets]

Next to him, he's my top shot hot boy and clever girl, Trey Kirby. And last but not least, life finds a way to keep this guy podcasting. Super producer JD Hello. That's all you do.

[Trey Kirby]

It really is actually pretty much over.

[J. Skeets]

The next seven weeks, we're going to be reviewing each Jurassic park movie. That is the definition of hold onto your butts right there. Okay? We did this back in the day with the Fast and Furious franchise. We had a lot of fun. I learned a lot about cars.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh yeah.

[J. Skeets]

And that it's important to have that little nitro boost in your car. But we're doing it with the dinosaurs this time. So if you're a fan of this type of content, hit the like button. Subscribe five star ratings and reviews. So yes, we are starting with Jurassic Park. The OG Dragon. June 11, 1993. This is over 30 years old at this point. Guys had a budget of $63 million. Its initial theatrical run grossed over 914 million worldwide. And then they would like re release it. And it went way over a billion dollars. But not bad. The skinny science sabotage and prehistoric DNA collide when cloned dinosaurs escape their enclosures and begin preying on the guests at top secret theme park. Runtime 2 hours and 6 minutes. Did it go fast? Did it go slow? Just quickly. Did you think it flew by?

[JD]

2 hours and 7 minutes after checking my stats.

[Trey Kirby]

Did it go fast?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, I flew by to me too. It's a good movie. Star Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum. Really Jeff Goldbluming it up in this one. And it's directed by Steven Spielberg. So I want to start before we work our way through the movie. 93TK. I mean you're. What are you, 11, 10? You're a young child.

[Tasmelist]

9 years old, buddy. A young boy. And I saw it in the theater multiple times. How could you not? My kids would not be able to handle this at the exact same age as now. So scary this movie. But I love Jurassic Park. I remember seeing it in the theater the first time in Yorkville, Illinois. I saw it when they re released it in 2013. My wife Laura, she hates this movie because when she saw it the first time her there were Some older kids sitting behind her, and when the T. Rex came out, they started shaking the chair. So she's been scared of it ever since. So 2013 at released, I'm like, you're a grownup now. Should be fine. Still terrified the whole time. This movie totally holds up. Perfect movie. Can't wait to talk about it.

[J. Skeets]

Yes. We're obviously starting with the banger. I feel as we make our way through the Jurassic park series, it's going to get maybe worse and worse and worse. But what do you think your initial thoughts of J. Be here?

[JD]

I think Steven Spielberg would have loved that effect of the shaking chairs.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, he likes things a little shaky.

[JD]

Yeah, I mean, I mean, I watched it last night. I. I was on the edge of my seat.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, okay.

[JD]

32 years.

[J. Skeets]

Had you not, in all honesty, probably seen it since like back in the 90s.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, I think.

[JD]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Wow.

[JD]

Yeah. That era. Yeah. For sure.

[J. Skeets]

And J.D. you're a little older than us. Did you go see it in the theater?

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, of course. Yeah. I probably saw it at least twice in the theater. 93. So I would have been 22.

[J. Skeets]

So you were that. You were the kid shaking hands.

[Trey Kirby]

Was. I was. I'd read the book before it came out and I was a huge fan and yeah, it was awesome.

[J. Skeets]

Were you, were you ready to scrutinize it at the time? I'm sure you were a fan of the book.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, yeah. You know when you read a book and it's like you have a personal relationship with it already, you know, it's like, okay, this movie is for me. This was made for me because I read this book and that's how I felt and it blew me away. I mean, there's differences in it for sure, but it's a great adaptation.

[J. Skeets]

All right, well, let's get into it because sometimes these can take quite a while as we make our way through the movies. It's a two hour, six or seven minute movie. Can we do our first Jurassic Pals under that time? I think we can. I think we can. But it starts obviously. The premise here is John Hammond, the owner of Jurassic Park, a theme park located on Isla Nublar, which is off the coast of Costa Rica. Do you consider it more a theme park or a zoo?

[Tasmelist]

Theme park. Okay, first one theme park.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, first one theme park.

[Tasmelist]

First one theme park. I think it changes as we get into it, but it's weird seeing this now that I have a daughter named Isla, because guaranteed, that's the first time I ever saw that word isla. I think they pronounce it Isla.

[Trey Kirby]

I think they prola.

[Tasmelist]

For me, seeing it, I'm like, that says Isla guaranteed.

[J. Skeets]

That's probably why I said Isla.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

She was actually named after Jurassic Park. Not a lot of people know that.

[J. Skeets]

You should have named your second child Nublar. Ada's a great name, but Nublar is an even better name, in my opinion. All right, so after an incident with a velociraptor, Hammond brings in three specialists to sign off on the park to try and calm the investors. Now, we're going to get to the specialists and that scene in a second. But what did you think of the movie's opening? Because it does start with, I believe, a man named Joffrey. Not the guy from Game of Thrones, but this guy getting killed while they're transferring the velociraptor into a pen, into a cage. And all hell breaks loose and we lose our first victim here. That's how this starts. Like, were you in right away? Did you remember that that was the opening scene? Cause I sort of forgotten.

[Trey Kirby]

That's how I was.

[JD]

I had forgotten. Because it is something you want to forget, I think. You don't want to remember that, not because the person dies, but because it's just. It ain't all that theatrically engaging.

[Trey Kirby]

Shooter.

[J. Skeets]

Shooter.

[Tasmelist]

Zoomed in on his mouth, zoomed in on his eyes. They thought of everything except for how to open the gate.

[JD]

Exactly. Oh, my God. And when I say engaging, I mean, I don't want to remember that because I just don't think it was great.

[J. Skeets]

The technology.

[JD]

The rest of the movie is so good. And that is. What are they doing?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, the technology through the roof. We're bringing back dinosaurs, for crying out loud. But, yeah, we got to transfer this one velociraptor into another part. Hey, buddy, you're going to have to get on top and just pull it up. And then he obviously, one of them gets attacked, the guy named Joffrey. So you. You were into the open. You loved it.

[Tasmelist]

We got to get a little taste of the violence.

[J. Skeets]

Yes.

[Tasmelist]

We got to meet the dinosaurs without really meeting them.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

And we got to know that there's danger out there before we actually start getting into the real world of stuff. So they give us a little action at the beginning, but promising that it's going to pay off in the long run. I think we have to see this, because otherwise, what? We're starting with a lawyer. We're starting with guys out working in the field of paleontology.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Tasmelist]

That's not exciting. Seeing somebody get eaten to shreds, that is.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. The stakes right away, JD are high here and sets up why John Hammond is going to have to go get.

[Trey Kirby]

The specialist to okay this exactly right. I mean this is a move that Spielberg does in Jaws. There's an attack right off the bat. And this is a standard operating procedure now in movies you got to come in with a bang. And also this is the only bit of action we see for an entire hour. We do not see another dinosaur attack until one hour and three minutes into this movie. That's more than halfway through the movie.

[JD]

Yeah, that's how good this movie is. Crazy.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, it's a good point. Within five minutes of this movie, like the start of it, we jump from Nublar this island to the Dominican Republic to Montana in the badlands. Like we are bouncing around here like bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. And we can make our way to the badlands here. And that's when we get to meet our heroes of the story. Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant. That's Sam Neill and paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler. So that's Hammond going to them to again get them to come to the park. Gonna have to. Okay. It's. We learned that Dr. Grant is a hands on paleontologist. He doesn't like the machines. Trey. He's a digger. He's a digger.

[Tasmelist]

There is that little scene with the lawyer going and talking to the guy and like the amber mine. And like you're never gonna be able.

[Trey Kirby]

To get Dr. Grant.

[Tasmelist]

He's a digger.

[J. Skeets]

But guess what?

[Tasmelist]

You promise him something that he's never seen before and the guy's gonna come out and this is just great stuff. This is just great Spielberg stuff. Within like five minutes of meeting Grant and Sattler, we know there's a little bit of a thing between them.

[JD]

Cool.

[Tasmelist]

We know he hates technology. And he gives that story to the kid about the raptors, which is priming us. Hey man, raptors are a thing you're gonna have to worry about. Even though it pays off like 90 minutes down the road. Like he's teaching us stuff about the movie and how we're gonna be watching this movie. But it's also fun to watch. Like that scene is pretty hilarious. Him talking to the kid, scaring the daylights out of him. Gorgeous stuff.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. That is the kid's name, I believe in the movie is Eddie. A lot of people just call him the six foot turkey boy because that's what he's all like talking About. It's like, hey, it's just a six foot turkey. It was driving me nuts watching. I'm like, where's that kid from? Where's that kid from? And it finally hit me. He appeared in Full House for a couple episodes. He was a super nerdy kid in Full House. I mean, he's pretty charismatic, the kid. Like, he's expressive. Expressive, yes. That's a good way to put it. He's just like a classic 90s sitcom kid that you bring in for a couple episodes. Episodes. To play a nerd. To play. Maybe a little bully. I think he was on Family Guy or Family Man. Not Family Guy. Family man as well. Family Man. Family Matters is what I'm trying to say. Yeah. Anyway, that's Eddie. And you're right. I was gonna add to that Trey. You also learn, I guess. Oh, Dr. Grant hates kids. Yep. Right. Totally. And why is that kid there?

[Tasmelist]

Why is that kid there?

[J. Skeets]

Why is he in the middle of the bed? Listen.

[Trey Kirby]

Felt like a tour group of some sort or a field trip. It felt like there were kids there, like, you know, learning about archeology and Stu. That's what it felt like to me.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Because there were the people working and then there were a lot of diggers, and then a lot of other people just seemed to be there. Maybe it was a tour.

[Trey Kirby]

I think so.

[JD]

Yeah. I don't remember the idea that Dr. Grant hated kids when he goes out and saves the kids.

[J. Skeets]

What do you mean? Well, right. No, he eventually learns to love the kids. That's a part of it. Yeah. But he. He even. He says something like. He's like, he's not a fan of kids.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

They have that little combo as they're, like, walking away after he's scared the kid and she asked him about if he wants to have kids. Like, no way.

[JD]

Yeah. I thought it was more just about this kid not respecting dinosaurs the way they should be respected. That kid just loves. Kid just loves turkeys. Yeah, whatever.

[J. Skeets]

And something. Trace that. J.D. i want your thoughts on the relationship between the two, you know, doctors, between Ellie and Alan. Like, yeah, there's an immediate chemistry, but it was a little like, what is. Are they together? Are they not. Are they.

[Trey Kirby]

Great question.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. I was a little perplexed by that watching this. It's.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, it's hard to say because she's way more receptive to Malcolm later on. Like her flirtation with Malcolm. Malcolm is the biggest threat on that island, including all the dinosaurs, to Samuel's character. You know what I mean? So you Assume they're together. They seem to live in this Airstream trailer in the middle of the desert, and they work together, and she seems to want to have kids with him, but I don't know, it's. It's a strange. But they kept.

[JD]

They come out And Malcolm asks Dr. Grant, Are you guys together?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, Dr. Grant. He didn't ask Ellie, and he's like, yeah. What did he say? He says something like, yeah, she's. She's spoken for or whatever. Like. And then all of a sudden, there's a dinosaur. There's something. Yeah. Change the subject really quick.

[JD]

One second.

[Trey Kirby]

It's like, I don't know if he just likes her and wants to get with her, but it's. It's hard to.

[JD]

Hard to tell.

[Tasmelist]

They don't seem to be an active couple to me. No, they're currently together, but.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

I mean, when you're out there in the Airstream.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[Tasmelist]

That's when the bones are getting dusted.

[J. Skeets]

Come on. Yeah, I agree. Like, I think they have your neckerchief, doc. They've boned down for sure.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, you're right.

[J. Skeets]

She's even, like, putting the handkerchief on his neck. Like, there is some chemistry there, but I'm with you. I don't think they're, like, actively together, because when Malcolm does bring it up, like, yeah, Grant sort of like. Like, they're in a car together and Malcolm is, like, macking on her.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

And he's sitting right there. So if it is his girlfriend or, like, partner, he'd say something, I would think, like, cut it out, chaos guy.

[Tasmelist]

Some chaos puts water on my wife's hands.

[J. Skeets]

It's. Oh, yeah.

[Tasmelist]

I mean, hold on to your butts.

[JD]

Yeah. Goldblum, like, looked super sexy when he was injured, and, you know, the shirts. But what a sexy. What a sexy shot.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, so John Hammond shows up, and he is to lure the two away from the site. It's going to take a sizable research grant, and he's going to cover the expenses for, like, the next three years. They can't possibly say no. At first they were maybe going to, like, we're not doing that. And then it's like, okay, they're going to cover this, all of this. We're going to be able to bone out here in the middle of nowhere for three years. Pun intended. Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

I mean, look, he. At one point, Hammond says He's been paying $50,000 a year for their research, so that's pretty cheap for him. He's basically trying to buy them off for $150,000. And they are elated to hear that news. But, man, this is the second scene with Hammond. We. Or I guess this is his real first scene is here in the trailer. But we hear earlier from his lawyer that Hammond hates inspectors. And then he's here, and he says, I don't care for lawyers. This is a sinister man.

[JD]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Tasmelist]

They're trying to make it, like. I mean, eventually this dude went on to play Santa Claus, right? Like, I think Richard Attenborough was a Santa clau miracle. So they're trying to make him lovable, but you got to look behind the facade. This is an evil, evil man, okay?

[Trey Kirby]

He's one of the most interesting villains. You know, he. Because he's so avuncular, he's just his whole character. When he's in the Airstream, he's like. He. He's in the fridge and then is like, turns around, pops the champagne, you know?

[J. Skeets]

Oh, he took forever to open that champagne.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, he made a meal out of it.

[J. Skeets]

Are you gonna open this?

[Trey Kirby]

Well, he opens it right away, but then he's wiping glasses, he's fiddling with it. But this is. This Spielberg. And this is another massive exposition dump. That doesn't feel like an exposition dump. You know what I mean? Like, this is. We got a full hour of exposition here, and every one of them is just a master class of. This is how you do it with. Keeping everybody interested and. Yeah, and he's just, like, fiddling around with the bottle and just, you know, they're covered in dust and stuff. And we get to see almost the entire interior of that Airstream, which, by the way, is about five times the size of the exterior of the. I don't know if you noticed that.

[J. Skeets]

It was quite large, a lot of space.

[Trey Kirby]

But, yeah, I mean, I love this scene. It's a great intro to Hammond.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. And it's a good point about, like, he is sort of a villain, but, man, he's likable as hell, too. Oh, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

You wanna.

[J. Skeets]

I love this guy.

[Tasmelist]

Look, once you realize that he is the real villain, you're like, don't trust this guy.

[Trey Kirby]

Right.

[Tasmelist]

Every time you see him on the screen, he's like, whatever he's saying, do the opposite.

[J. Skeets]

Especially when he's eating ice cream.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, he's probably gonna get sick.

[J. Skeets]

We'll get to that. All right. Our next scene introduces Jurassic Park's disgruntled lead computer programmer, Dennis Nedry. This is Newman from Seinfeld. He is taking a bribe from Dodgson. I Guess the guy's name is. He's getting 750,000 up front and then 50,000 upon delivery of each viable embryo to steal these fertilized dinosaur embryos. That's his. That's his mission here. That he gets a lot. He's getting a lot of money up front. And then only 50,000 per dinosaur embryo. And I think there were, like, 14 or 15. So it adds up. Don't get me wrong. But what a payout. Like, yeah, he's only making, like, a.

[Tasmelist]

Million and a half dollars, which seems pretty cheap to get right on par with ingen with regards to their dinosaur research.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Tasmelist]

Like, you're making a million and a half dollar investment. I'm. Hammond spent way more than that.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

To develop the embryos and build the park in the first place. Meanwhile, Dodgson is here, and he's just trying to get him right in the game for a million and a half. It's like, I think Nedry should have charged more.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, okay, so you've got bad. Bad agent.

[Tasmelist]

He's got a terrible. Exactly.

[J. Skeets]

Right? Yeah.

[JD]

Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I totally agree.

[J. Skeets]

J.D. you disagree?

[Trey Kirby]

I don't know. The guy's got financial problems. Yeah. That's.

[Tasmelist]

A million and a half to him is still big money.

[JD]

Oh, that. That's what it is.

[Trey Kirby]

We're also talking 1993. I mean, you guys. To the big contracts now with the NBA. So you're like, what? Million and a half? What are you talking about?

[JD]

Yeah, we're not getting paid to create dinosaurs.

[J. Skeets]

Do you think he has a player option?

[JD]

No, but you're right. You're right in that he has money troubles. That's what this is all about. He is. He's a struggling man. And I think that's the whole part about every single.

[J. Skeets]

Whoa.

[JD]

How excited he is every single time.

[J. Skeets]

Whoa.

[JD]

Whenever he's being directed through that discussion, he is super excited. He's excited to hear the number 50. $50,000 and Y. So he's just super, super excited.

[J. Skeets]

He's obviously doing, you know, rough times financially because he gets Dodgson to pick up the. The bill at this. At this weird, like, outdoor restaurant. I had completely forgotten about this scene. I just had completely forgotten that he meets this Dodgson and they have this dinner, and he's, like, being all loud, and the guy's trying to be, like, all covert.

[Trey Kirby]

It's so good.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, but that's.

[JD]

That's the transport. How he's struck.

[J. Skeets]

That's where the shaving cream first comes into play for sure.

[Tasmelist]

Brilliant. The Barbasol can.

[JD]

How cool.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh. So, James, so interesting to look at. Such a nice touch of him. The squeezing out the shaving cream and then putting it on the pie. Like, I fucking hate this guy. You know what I mean?

[J. Skeets]

What are you doing?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, he's just. He's just a dick. And. And I love it. He's just the. The pure charisma. Wayne Knight. You know, Wayne Knight.

[Tasmelist]

That's Wayne Knight for.

[Trey Kirby]

And just so sweaty and such a mess. But one of the greatest characters, man. I love him.

[J. Skeets]

Next scene is the helicopter ride to the park. And this is where we first meet chaos theorist Ian Malcolm. This is Jeff Goldblum. And he is Jeff Goldbluming more than anyone has ever. Jeff Goldblum. I have three questions for you guys, which he asks in the airplane ride. You've heard of chaos theory? Nonlinear equations, strange attractors. Just keeps going. Strange attractors. Like what?

[Tasmelist]

I can't believe chaos theory is a real thing. Yeah, I was like, if you're on Wikipedia and you click where it says chaos Titian or whatever that is, it clicks to a real field of mathematical study.

[Trey Kirby]

100. Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

I didn't know that was a thing.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, I remember reading the book and that that was the first time I had ever heard about dinosaurs being compared to birds. Chaos theory, all that stuff. And it's. You know, I guess it's. At the time was the. The brand new thinking behind archaeology. The. The. The bird thing anyways. But yeah, I had never. Butterfly Effect. I mean, there's an Ashton Kutcher movie now called the Butterfly Effect, but back then, this was all new. That's the point. Like, it's just like, okay, this movie is already going a million miles an hour, and now it's going even faster with just information throwing it.

[J. Skeets]

I do have a question about this helicopter ride, though. What was the point of Alan Grant struggling with the seatbelt?

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, I'm glad you asked.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. So break this down for me.

[Trey Kirby]

It's a metaphor.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

He had two female.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Couldn't. Couldn't. He couldn't buckle them together. What did he do? He tied them together. Life finds a way.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, that's why it's there. That's the whole point of that scene. Right.

[Tasmelist]

I think also that you would say that they haven't even gotten to the park and the safety procedures are falling apart around them.

[J. Skeets]

Great point.

[Trey Kirby]

Great point.

[Tasmelist]

This is the first time you're trying to be safe and you can't put on a seat belt.

[J. Skeets]

This is good. Can I add a third maybe thing. You know, it's. It's him showing, like, thinking outside the box a little bit.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

You know, thinking on his feet here. I'm gonna have. You're gonna come across a lot more. Much more scarier instances where you're have to make quick decisions, stuff like that. So I guess those are great, though.

[Trey Kirby]

And that's a great point and very on brand for Grant. Just an analog solution. It's like, it. I'm just gonna. I'm tying this together. It's two pieces of string. I'm tying it together. Yeah, that's great.

[J. Skeets]

It is funny that they couldn't even get the seat belt buckles right on the airplane to take into Jurassic Park. That is a bad sign. Now that you say that. Not a good sign for the security. Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

Not great.

[J. Skeets]

We screwed up that.

[Tasmelist]

As for Jeff Goldblum wearing a leather jacket to an island off the coast of Costa Rica in the summer, I don't have a good theory or explanation besides sexiness.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

It looks so cool.

[J. Skeets]

It looks cool. All right, so 20 minutes into this movie, we are now on the island, and we get to one of the most iconic scenes in movie history. Right. I don't think anyone's gonna disagree with that. This is the welcome to Jurassic park scene where they see for the first time a live dinosaur, the Brachiosaurus, in the distance. And this is the sunglasses coming off from both of them and him turning Dr. Sattler's head and them just being in awe and the John Williams soundtracking. And honestly, it's awesome.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, it's awesome.

[J. Skeets]

It is one of the best scenes in movie history.

[Trey Kirby]

Absolutely.

[J. Skeets]

Period.

[Tasmelist]

It holds up every time. I rewatched this, like, a week ago and then just was flipping through my favorite scenes before we started recording. And I still get chills seeing them see a dinosaur that I know isn't real, that I've seen them see 50 different times. Them getting excited, but every time, like, the reactions are perfect. Grant struggling to get his glasses off. Like you're saying Jeff Goldblum. Malcolm goes between saying, like, you actually did it, and then laughing because he's like, man, I am seeing dinosaurs. I don't think it's a good idea, but you're a crazy son of a bitch, you know?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, it's. It's. And like, that first shot, obviously the. The cgi. JD like, just the work they did. Like, when you see the. The two Brachiosauruses coming out of the water.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

And then all the other dinosaurs there by I. It Just looks awesome. But obviously them in the foreground or whatever, like watching from behind. Yeah. Chef's kiss. And then the music, too.

[Trey Kirby]

The music. The music is what makes it. But it's. It is those shots. It's those. What are they looking at? You see Grant, you see Ellie, you see Malcolm, they're all like. And then even Hammond is like, ah. And the way. The way. If you actually, like, step back and watch how it's blocked, like, you know, Hammond stepping up to the camera, whispering into the void, with Dr. Grant puking his guts out behind him. You know, welcome to Jurassic. Like, it's just. It's great. It makes your hair stand on end in a good way. You know, I loved it. And I love it.

[JD]

Yeah. Even Dr. Grant just entering the frame that's above the bar as he rises to see the dinosaur. It's just perfect framing. Yeah. And, yeah, as you said, it was. Was that 60 minutes into the film?

[J. Skeets]

No, 20.

[Trey Kirby]

No, no, no. 20 minutes. The T. Rex shows up.

[JD]

Oh, that.

[J. Skeets]

He's saying, like, the action. The real action.

[JD]

Yeah, yeah. Because it's literally. That's the amazing part about this mov. That the dinosaurs are only on camera for 15 minutes of the 127 minutes.

[J. Skeets]

Oh. Yep.

[Trey Kirby]

Is that true?

[JD]

Yeah. Wow.

[J. Skeets]

I mean, yeah, Jaws, like, move.

[JD]

Jaws was only six minutes in comparison. So this is a vast.

[J. Skeets]

Getting a lot, way more.

[JD]

But it's literally 15 of 127 minutes.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, but Spielberg, man. J.D. you nailed it. Like, this is basically a Jaws sequel, the way it plays out. And you can tell the things he's learned from the first. First from Jaws play out in this as well. Like, maybe we are seeing double the amount of dinosaurs, but they're hardly in it because it makes it more exciting every single time they're in it. And, you know, the framing, that's a Spielberg magic sort of thing. And he's just so smart with the way he drops nuggets in here. Like, they say, how fast can the brachiosaurs move? And Hammond just is like, well, we clocked the t. Rex at 32 miles an hour. So guess what? Now we know there's a T. Rex there. And what if they ever happen to get into a car chase with a T. Rex? Oh, good thing we know how fast it goes.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD]

Spielberg.

[J. Skeets]

This scene. I mean, everybody's seen this scene. It's up on YouTube. You like this particular scene? The comments are amazing. Under this video, I just pulled my favorite one quote, I remember thinking, yep, we need to find a way to do this. And then they went on to say, I also had a Jurassic park themed birthday party that year. Okay. I just love that. Yeah, we need a way to do this. But there is, like, that idea of, like, Dr. Grant, like, even at when he gets up there, he stumbles out of the car and stuff, he's like. Like, it's a dinosaur. And he, like, says it like a child. Right. Like, it's a mind fuck. Like, this guy's like, his entire life is digging up dinosaurs and now there is one in front of him. And he, like, turned into basically a child. Like, the awe of this in front of him.

[Trey Kirby]

Totally. Not only that, but he's seeing theories in practice immediately. Like, oh, they're traveling in herds. And they're like, things that have always been theoretical and just, you know, speculation is now right before him. And Sam Neill pulls this off incredibly. They all do. But him, especially in this scene, is just him just being so blown away, basically brought to tears by this. It's. It's just incredible.

[J. Skeets]

Good point. It you, like, done with the wrong actors or obviously the wrong director. It could be cheesy.

[Trey Kirby]

Totally.

[J. Skeets]

It totally could come off super cheesy.

[Trey Kirby]

But Kurt Russell was up for this role.

[J. Skeets]

He was?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

For.

[Trey Kirby]

For Dr. Grant. Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

Totally.

[Trey Kirby]

Different movie.

[J. Skeets]

Wow. Yeah, that's. That's interesting. Okay, I didn't know. Okay, so we go to the park's visitor center. And this is where the group learns that the cloning was accomplished by extracting dinosaur DNA from prehistoric mosquitoes preserved in amber, as one does. And there is a note here, very important note. DNA from frogs used to fill in the gaps in the genome of the dinosaurs and to prevent breeding, because that comes up. All the dinos were made female by direct chromosome manipulation, though Ian Malcolm, not convinced. And this is where we get life finds a way. Yeah. He's like, yeah, come on. What'd you think of the. I guess it was sort of like a ride almost. It's the show at the visitor center. The whole presentation of what they're doing there in Jurassic Park.

[Tasmelist]

Perfect, Honestly, perfect. Like, they have to explain DNA. People didn't know what DNA was before Jurassic park and before the OJ trial. And this was before the OJ trial. So they literally come up with a theme park ride. They have those at real theme parks. You sit through this kind of stuff at Disney World before you go on the Avatar ride or something like that. So turning it into a character, Mr. DNA. Which tells you how they did this.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

And what potentially could be the problem down the line. It's just brilliant stuff.

[J. Skeets]

Like it's not boring or anything.

[Tasmelist]

It's fun to watch.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

I think at Universal Studios, like you can buy a Mr. DNA plush dollar. You know, like they made that into a character. That's how beloved this little part of the video is.

[J. Skeets]

Holy moly.

[Trey Kirby]

And just the selection of the narrator who is in a familiar voice to all of us. Like, we've heard this guy. I can't remember his name. I'm blanking on.

[J. Skeets]

Richard Kiley.

[Trey Kirby]

No, no, no, no.

[J. Skeets]

He's in the car. He's.

[Trey Kirby]

He's in the car. But the animation, it's that sort of. Down, homie. It's almost Wilford Brimley. He's in like Christmas specials and stuff like that. Purposefully so picked, obviously. And then you have Hammond in the back going, oh, this. All this score is temporary. And that's a nice touch. You got Gennaro going, is this autoerotic? You know, he's talking about the, the, the scientists in the lab. He's like, no, no, this is all real. It's just. It's very chaotic. Well, I mean, they, they. There's a couple of lines from Jed Arrow to make him seem like a complete buffoon. Like the goat. Later on he's like, wait, you never had lamb chops? And he's talking about the goat. Anyways, a great scene also another instance.

[J. Skeets]

Immediately of security not being all that great.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, the three of them just lift.

[J. Skeets]

Up the bar on the ride. They're like, nah, we're gonna get out of here.

[Tasmelist]

We're gonna check out that science lab.

[J. Skeets]

And they go right into the lab's like, come on in.

[Tasmelist]

We got one, dude.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Like, they don't have to mask up or put on any of this suit. They just come on in. And that's where they get to witness test the hatching of the little velociraptor right there coming out of the little leg, which I thought sort of looked like crap.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, come on.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, I thought it was the opposite of crap.

[J. Skeets]

Well, I know it's more of. Obviously a little puppeteer at this point.

[JD]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, the, the little motions take a little bit.

[Trey Kirby]

It is a little.

[J. Skeets]

But it's a.

[JD]

The coming out of an egg.

[J. Skeets]

So I.

[JD]

It's accepted for me. I thought it look cool.

[Tasmelist]

That's why I also like that Hammond mentions he has to be there for every dinosaur creep because they imprint on the first thing. He's like, it's got to be me. His going to love me. I also, like. We also get like, our first change in tone right at the end of this. Right. As soon as the raptor hatches out of the egg. Sam Neil. Alan Grant's holding it and he asks BD Wong, he's like, what species is this velociraptor? And then in complete darkness, like, his face is covered in shadows. You bred raptors?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

And then we're on to the next scene, just once again priming us like, hey, be scared of raptors.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, they're coming.

[J. Skeets]

Yep.

[Trey Kirby]

It almost seemed like he was about to crush it in his hands. Like, this is a raptor. I was like, this is not a good idea. Crush movie should have.

[J. Skeets]

I mean, not a good idea to be breeding the raptors. Also, they do know that there are T. Rexes as well already, right? Maybe that hasn't sunk in yet because they haven't seen it. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, I have here my notes. Alan. Dr. Grant alarmed to know that Hammond and his team have bred raptors at the park. But we're now off to see a cow being fed to the raptors in that enclosure there. And this is where Robert Muldoon comes back. Oh, yeah, this guy just shows he's spitting mad facts about raptors right away. He's talking about the cheetah. Speed, how much they can leap, their problem solving, intelligence.

[Tasmelist]

Like he's investigating the fence.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Muldoon seems like he doesn't like working there. I don't like. He does and he doesn't. He knows how scary it is.

[Tasmelist]

I guess this is another Spielberg doing Spielberg. To me, Muldoon is the Quint character from Jaws. The Robert Shaw, like, crusty sea dog who they finally call him in at the end to try and hunt down Jaws. But he knows more about the sharks than anybody. Dune knows more about the raptors than anybody. He's like the prime predator trying to take down his greatest prey. And, you know, long story short, his story arc goes the same way that Quince does in Jaws. Dies at the hands of who he was trying to track down. But yeah, just more and more Spielberg is piling up reasons why we need to be scared of this guy. We know it's scary. I kill the guy. At first, Dr. Grant is scared of it. And guess what? Actually can kill five guys to one. It can figure out the weak spots in a fence. It can't open doors, but can it?

[J. Skeets]

They're smart. JD Any thoughts on the enclosure part here?

[Trey Kirby]

This scene, it was great. I. I mean, you know, the cow Getting skeletonized and then it comes back up. Also adds to the dread of what's in the pen. We haven't actually seen a raptor yet either, other than in Dr. Grass.

[J. Skeets]

Maybe an eyeball through the cage.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that. Yeah. Great scene.

[J. Skeets]

I would have loved to have worked on Jurassic park and my only job to be shake leaves. Cuz there's like four scenes in this movie where it's just a bunch of leaves going crazy. I would have loved them in one of those people shaking leaves.

[Tasmelist]

This is a great movie for fans of vibration. You got the, like the water, you got the leaves. You've got the jello jiggler at the end. Big vibrations.

[J. Skeets]

Good, good, good, good vibrations. I should have put that. All right. During lunch. We have this scene during lunch in the weirdest room ever.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

They're eating lunch in a strange place.

[Tasmelist]

Let's have a sexy sit down lunch.

[J. Skeets]

With all of these images going on like sort of on the wall. The group debates the ethics of cloning and the creation of the park. And we got the blood sucking lawyer. What's his name?

[Trey Kirby]

Gennaro.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, he's sold. Now he's just counting dollar bills. He's like, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching. But Malcolm is warning about the implications of genetic engineering and, and he basically calls it shot here, right? He's like, this is inevitably not going to work. This is going to break down. He says, quote, dinosaurs had their shot and nature selected them for extinction. But here we go. Any thoughts on this scene in the weird room they're having lunch in?

[JD]

No, no, that's a forgettable one for me.

[Trey Kirby]

Forgettable. This is probably my favorite scene. Oh yeah, because just the debate of. It's the debate now.

[JD]

Oh yes.

[Trey Kirby]

Everybody's kind of. Well, Malcolm's been out from the second he stepped on the island. But even it goes around the table.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And I just love the discussion. And again, it's just exposition that is just handled so wonderfully. And, and it's just adding to the dread. And you know, now, now it's on. And then they go. And then it ends with the kids showing up. It's like we've, we've decided, okay, the scientists are in agreement here. This is a terrible idea. You should probably shut this place down. And then two, two children arrive and they're going out into the park immediately.

[J. Skeets]

You know what I mean?

[Trey Kirby]

It's just, it's just a perfect pacing. It's. And it just, you know, Trey, you've mentioned it several times. It's just Building up the dread, building up the tension. And a lot of exposition, which I loved. So. Yeah, I'm surprised that you didn't like.

[JD]

Oh, I liked it. It's more the. Listen, the. The Dr. Malcolm lies line is the line.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[JD]

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

[Trey Kirby]

Right.

[JD]

That's the line.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

No, it's more. I just meant the. The scene.

[Trey Kirby]

The.

[JD]

The actual room.

[Tasmelist]

I was distracted.

[J. Skeets]

Like, why are they sitting in this weird room? But obviously, it is the debate of, like, the ethics of all of this. TK Anything to add?

[Tasmelist]

Nah, not much. You're basically just getting a refresher on everybody's perspectives. The people who know better know this is a bad idea. But the lawyer and the guy who created are like, we can make a ton of money and dinosaurs are cool.

[J. Skeets]

I sort of love in rewatching it, obviously. Didn't think about it when I was 13, watching it in 93. I love the meta portion of this movie. This idea of, like, cha ching, cha ching, cha ching. We see merchandise. We see Jurassic park merchandise in the movie, and it's like, that's obviously what's just gonna happen with the actual movie itself, too. Selling, you know, or making a billion dollars and how many more in, like, merch and stuff like that. Sort of crazy, what you think about it.

[JD]

It is crazy.

[J. Skeets]

It's, like, happening at the same time. It's actually happening in the movie. It's very weird. So, yeah. The group is joined by Hammond's grandchildren, Lex and Tim Murphy. They are there for a tour of the park. Do we. Do we get told why? They're like, their parents just sent them there. He just brought him in.

[Trey Kirby]

Brought him in.

[J. Skeets]

Is Hammond doing that to, like, help, you know, prove to the specialists, like, how cool this is? Probably just worked out on the calendar that he had the grandchildren that week. What do you think?

[Tasmelist]

Well, Tim is obsessed with Dr. Greg Grant.

[Trey Kirby]

True.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Tasmelist]

Like, he's dressed like Dr. Grant. He's talking to him about reading his book about how dinosaurs have become birds. So maybe it's just a grandfather seeing what his grandchildren are interested in, trying to get him involved.

[J. Skeets]

Come see.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, as he was. As. He also says, this is the target audience. Let's. Let's get them in the cars and let's. Yeah, show them some dinosaurs and get people excited.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

See, it's so the. The scientists see it through the eyes of a child who would be seeing. Not that you needed that because Dr. Grant was seeing it through the eyes of his childhood.

[J. Skeets]

But still, I gotta say, you know, the parents for Home Alone, those parents that left Kevin behind, they get a lot of flack, right? As bad parents.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

But I think we gotta start adding Lex and Tim's parents to the list. Here they are, like sending their kids to a goddamn island full of dinosaurs.

[Trey Kirby]

You're right.

[J. Skeets]

And I know Grandpa's there, but.

[Trey Kirby]

But this is the.

[J. Skeets]

He's also evil. Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

He's a bad guy.

[Trey Kirby]

Not to spoil anything, but they're the best parents, actually of the entire seven movie stretch.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, yeah. Okay. I have to be something.

[Trey Kirby]

They're actually.

[J. Skeets]

That's a good point.

[Trey Kirby]

The gold standard of parenthood in the Jurassic Park. Because they actually don't realize. Right?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Everybody after this, they know, okay? They know.

[J. Skeets]

And again, this, like, goes back to, you know, these kids are here now. And, oh, guess what, Dr. Grant, he hates kids. Oh, my God. Now we got these two kids hanging on. Yeah. One that idolizes him and dresses like him and all that. So we sort of. Well, two things happen here, obviously. We get into the control room and what's going on there. And we start the tour, too. They get in these cars with the interactive CD rom. And the voice here is Richard. Kylie J.

[Trey Kirby]

That's correct. Spared no expense. And by the way, that is such a great line in this movie where it's just the first half of the movie is, hey, we spared no expense. Like, this is awesome. This is. And then it just becomes, you know, like a joke. Like a punchline to, you know, how shit everything.

[J. Skeets]

Spare no expense. I couldn't even fasten my seatbelt on the helicopter. I would say that's the definition of sparing expenses.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Spared my expenses on Dennis Nedry, actually. He came in at a huge bargain.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, that's right. So, yeah, we get our first hold on to your butts line here from the chain smoking Samuel L. Jackson in the control room.

[Tasmelist]

This is a casual hold on your butts.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Totally slips it in.

[J. Skeets]

Hold on. I know. It is a forgotten one. How many cigarettes does this guy smoke in this movie? How many Crushing them. What would you put it at? Like, I know we're not seeing them on camera.

[Trey Kirby]

Are we talking just on screen or the. In the production itself? Because it's hundreds. If that's the case, is there any shots of him without a cigarette either in his hand or in his mouth?

[J. Skeets]

Well, when his hand's hanging off of.

[Trey Kirby]

There should have been a lit cigarette on that.

[J. Skeets]

And she's like, I don't wanna smoke? Stop asking me. As his hand falls off. Yeah, it's a lot.

[Trey Kirby]

It's a lot.

[J. Skeets]

And wow. I never thought about it until this very second. Hold on to your butts. Double meaning. Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

Double meaning just blew my mind. Yeah, that's what he was talking about.

[J. Skeets]

He's actually talking about.

[Tasmelist]

He's like, why aren't you all smoking on your butts? It's like a recycling program. He's like, I gotta get $0.01 per.

[J. Skeets]

Butt that I bring in here.

[Tasmelist]

Trying to get through as many as I can.

[J. Skeets]

So we learned that the entire programming here in the control room, it's all buggy. I think there's something like 151 bugs and glitches to fix. And it's implied here that Dennis has had bad financial problems. Dr. Hammond doesn't seem to give a shit, though. He's like, I don't care, man. Get your crap together. Just fix this stuff. Right? And meanwhile, on the tour, the group, they're just not seeing anything. Like, you know, there's just a bunch of leaves shaking, if that at this point, no Dilophosaurus, no T. Rex. Like, this is the. This tour is an absolute dud task. Like, you'd be. You'd be. Tasmelis would be asking for his money back at this point, for sure.

[JD]

No, no, these moments are what it's. This is all about. We're just waiting and waiting and waiting. It's about the moments that you don't see the dinosaurs. Those are there.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, you think it's. You think a part of the tour is purposely not showing you a dinosaur for the first couple pins? That's smart.

[JD]

That's a Spielberg movie.

[J. Skeets]

That would build more. Exactly.

[Tasmelist]

I do love Malcolm, like, tapping on the camera to talk straight to Hammond. Do you plan on having any dinosaurs.

[J. Skeets]

On your dinosaur tour?

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, that's almost a meta moment as well, right? Because now we're about 45 minutes into the movie and, like, the audience may be going, where the hell are the dinosaurs, man?

[J. Skeets]

But we have seen a couple at this point. Where are the scary ones, man? Yeah, it's a good point. I also. I want to say here, I just love these cars. Did you guys love these, like, the Jeeps as well as these, like, whatever SUVs or whatever they are? I don't know what you would call them, but, like, they just look so cool. The branding looks awesome on them. I just remember being like, this looks.

[Trey Kirby]

Like a great bar.

[Tasmelist]

Like, the cars look cool. The outfits everybody's wearing look pretty cool.

[J. Skeets]

Everything except for the safety procedures is.

[Tasmelist]

Awesome at Jurassic Park.

[J. Skeets]

The, the, obviously the big doors that you go through Jurassic park, everything looks badass. No expenses spared on at least aesthetics.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, one bit. They did spare an expense on locking mechanisms for the doors. I love that Muldoon's like, I told.

[Trey Kirby]

You we should have had locks on the door. The doors of the car.

[J. Skeets]

Wasn't that just a glitch that Nedry's supposed to be working on or.

[Trey Kirby]

No, I thought, I thought they just.

[J. Skeets]

Didn'T put them in.

[Trey Kirby]

Saddler jumps out of the car and then that's when Muldoon is like, we should have got locks locked those people into those cars.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[JD]

You know, the first guy getting eating in in the opening scene could have figured that out.

[J. Skeets]

Seat belts. So. So they are on this tour and they make their way. Well, this is the scene where Malcolm is macking on Saddler. Saddler. Yeah. And Dr. Grant's just sitting there. And I guess I did gloss over. We had the fun little like, hey, what car are you riding in exchange between Tim and Dr. Grant. Like he doesn't want to ride with them, but he's just following around, he's spitting all these facts from his books and stuff like that. So there's that cute little moment. But we eventually make our way to a sick Triceratops that's on its side. And that's where we come up literally sick.

[Trey Kirby]

Cuz it sounded like you were talking about like a really cool.

[J. Skeets]

Well, it's funny you say that, cuz I was team Triceratops back in the day. I thought that was one of the cooler dinosaurs.

[Trey Kirby]

100% very cool.

[J. Skeets]

Got those three tops. Yeah, man, it was just cool. And this, this looked way cooler than the little baby velociraptor coming out of it. Egg. This looks awesome.

[JD]

It did look cool.

[J. Skeets]

Looks awesome.

[Tasmelist]

Grant laying on it. It's like going up and down when it's breathing. That's so cool.

[J. Skeets]

And then. Yeah, Sattler. Dr. Sattler trying to figure out like what the hell's wrong with it? Why is it sick? Cuz this is like her field sort of probably what, what it ate. Where's the poop? Let me start digging through the poop. And that's this whole scene looking for.

[Tasmelist]

Some kind of berry or something, right? Or like a fig.

[J. Skeets]

I don't know, some sort of poisonous plant that she's like, you shouldn't have. You shouldn't have these out here. And they're like. Well, they, they doesn't the, the Guy, the vet, he says, yeah, but they don't eat them. Yeah, is what he says, I think.

[Trey Kirby]

And then she's. Well, there's only one way to find out. Go find a big pile of. Give me the poop. Yeah, this is, this is a great scene. It's such a juxtaposition between the lab and the. You know how. You know, cold and not sterile. Very sterile. But then you're in the, in nature. And then you got passionate scientists who are touching the dinosaur. You know, concerned about the dinosaur. Ellie goes so far as to stick her hand all the way into the dung looking for what's wrong with his dinosaur.

[J. Skeets]

Sounds like we got a digger.

[Trey Kirby]

We got a digger on the island. Finally I get to dig.

[Tasmelist]

What do you think they made that pile of out of?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, great question.

[Tasmelist]

Wow, it's one big pile of what a line you think that was is improvised or written into the script, I wonder.

[Trey Kirby]

Great question.

[J. Skeets]

You're right, they do say. Yeah, that's sort of interesting decision. You know, it's great at pg, I think. Yeah, I guess it is sort of scary.

[Tasmelist]

It's the 90s.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. I don't know how you make that poop. You're. You're the compost man.

[JD]

How do you begin a six foot pile of poop? Never seen it. I decompose way too well for it to even get that high.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD]

I mean it's a monstrous.

[J. Skeets]

It's huge.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

It's almost comically too big. In a weird way, it looks taller than the actual Triceratops. Now I know the Triceratops is on its side because it's sick. Get that thing up on all fours. Then it's butts off higher off the ground. But it looks like as tall as it to me.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So it's like, like it's like pooping so much. It's like building up and it's like legs are up behind it.

[JD]

Yeah. How long did it take.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

For that triceratops to create that much poop? Wouldn't it decompose?

[J. Skeets]

I have a. I have a question. While they're making their way to the six sick triceratops, Lex, the girl, she falls, right?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

And then Dr. Grant holds her hand. Did she fall on purpose to get him to help her to hold her hand? Cuz she's super happy when he holds her hand.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, he helps her up and then she claps and like iron grip. So I don't know. That's a. Interesting.

[J. Skeets]

That's why you come to Jurassic Pals for the hard Hitting questions that no one's asked in 30 years. Did Lex fall on purpose? All right, so bad news, though. Tour is going to be cut short here. Tropical storm approaching, and there was, like, some build up. I like how they sprinkled it in a little bit. Right? A few scenes of, like, a storm making its way. I think it'll pass. I don't know. Don't worry about it. Blah, blah, blah, blah. But it start to rain, and most of the park employees, they're leaving for the mainland for the boat. And then the visitors, like, they're like, okay, we better return here. Except Dr. Sattler, she's gonna stay behind and help out the park veterinarian to study this sick Triceratops. Triceratops. In a downpour. I thought that was a bit of a weird decision. But also, in her defense, like, she is seeing a Triceratops for the first time.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. She literally says, I wanna hang out with the trike a little longer.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Tasmelist]

She's like, you.

[J. Skeets]

That was her favorite when she was little. Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

Trike head. What can I say?

[J. Skeets]

And it must be just going through the poop.

[JD]

And that was a story about Jurassic park and the filming of it. Right. Is that there was a bunch of storms where they're filming in Hawaii.

[Trey Kirby]

Right?

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[JD]

Not on Isla Nublar, but in Hawaii, where they were filming it. And they were having these difficult, difficult filming situations. And they're just hanging out, well, waiting.

[J. Skeets]

We get to nefarious Ned here, Nedry. He deactivates the park security system to gain access to the embryo storage room to store the embryos inside that container disguised as the shaving cream can. Nedry's sabotage also cuts power to the tour vehicles, and it strands them by the T. Rex paddock. The phones are out. Hammond can't call for help. And basically, most of the park's electric fences are also deactivated. So this is Trey. We get Nedry doing his thing, the start of his thing, or he's at least putting them into the can. And we get to, obviously, you know, one of the best scenes in the movie as well, where we encounter the T. Rex now able to get out because of the deactivated fence. I love it.

[Tasmelist]

The fence is going crazy. They're trying to, like, hack into Nedry's system, and it's got Wayne Knight laughing. And obviously, John Hammond is, like, finally getting scared because he's realizing, my grandkids are out there and they're now stuck. And he says the line, where did the vehicle stop? Instant cut to the Goat just sitting in the T. Rex paddock in the rain. Like chills just from a cut.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

And then the scene finally starts and it takes a while to build up. And then we're talking about our. What this is maybe our third all time classic scene already in the movie. And yeah, it totally holds up. The way the T. Rex is like smashing the car and then flipping the car and spinning it. Gennaro finally leaves, the kids freak out even more and we're like, oh, so that's why they end up. Ended up splitting up with the lawyer going with two kids he's never met before and the three adults being together. And so the kids could end up alone being scared by the T. Rex. And luckily Timmy had his night vision goggles that they gave him for their daytime tour. They're the standard. The standard in the wayos that they invented 30 years prior. But so good. Just a iconic scene.

[J. Skeets]

And J.D. like you said, we're. Now we're into this thing.

[Trey Kirby]

Now we're into.

[J. Skeets]

We have the real, you know, exciting scenes here.

[Trey Kirby]

Absolutely. And you know, we were talking about how awesome John Williams score was earlier with the majestic brachiosaurus. Seeing the dinosaurs for the first time. There is an incredible lack of music through all of these scenes. There is no music in this T. Rex scene. It's carried by effects and acting. Like sound effects and acting. When the goats. When the goat leg lands on top of the jeep, your instinct is to like have a shing. Or like some sort of like a music sting. It's punctuated by thunder. Right. Like it's. And it just puts you in the car with them and in that scene. And it just makes it that much more terrifying. And you don't hear music again until it cuts back to the control room. And then there's tension. Music and stuff.

[J. Skeets]

Stuff.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

It's awesome.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD]

How many times is there music in this movie?

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, it's like there's no music in that scene. There's no music in the Nedry death scene. Very little. Anyway, what else?

[J. Skeets]

What about the kitchen scene?

[Trey Kirby]

Kitchen scene. There's no music.

[J. Skeets]

Wow. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. So like the scariest parts of the movie. There's no music. That's incredible.

[J. Skeets]

Scary. God, this is scary. And you talked about like, yeah, like watching it with your girls. This scene, this is terrifying stuff here.

[Tasmelist]

Big time.

[J. Skeets]

Big time.

[Tasmelist]

I'm not scared. I'd say you were scared.

[J. Skeets]

So, yeah, you got the. This is the T. Rex scene and there's so much happening here. Malcolm gets injured and the lawyer gets Eaten on the shitter.

[Tasmelist]

I don't think Malcolm needed to make the sprint. No, I don't think there was any.

[J. Skeets]

Reason for him to do that sprint.

[Tasmelist]

Right. Like, I mean, Dr. Grant was trying to distract him with the flare. It wasn't working as much. Much, but it at least caught the T Rex's eye, which I think would have given Tim and Lex enough time to get somewhere else. But then Dr. Malcolm hops out and.

[J. Skeets]

Just goes for a run, which, you.

[Tasmelist]

Know, gets the T. Rex excited. Chases him down. That's when Malcolm is supposed to die. But they're like, Jeff Goldblum, you're killing it, man. Just go hang out for the rest.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, just. Just somehow fall under a bunch of, like, bamboo.

[Tasmelist]

Him. He's too cool. But I don't think he needed to do that sprint. I think there was better options in that moment. But, you know, you're panicking. It's chaos theory. Nobody knows what they're going to do.

[J. Skeets]

Until they do it. That's true. The real chaos theory. Theorist. Theorist. Excuse me. Would have, like, stripped naked and started dancing or something. Like, just done something.

[Tasmelist]

T Rex has never seen this before, but.

[J. Skeets]

Worst ways to die on a crapper. J.D. can you think of any, then? Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, I mean, it would be worse if it was actually taking a dump.

[J. Skeets]

That's true. He was just hiding in there.

[Trey Kirby]

I think that's why they put him in shorts. You know what I mean?

[Tasmelist]

He was wearing a suit with shorts.

[Trey Kirby]

Shorts. So when he sat on the toilet there, it looked like he was actually taking a dump. I think that's. That was the decision to put Geno in shorts.

[JD]

That's a good point.

[Tasmelist]

Would you rather go being eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex or Elvis style? Just heart attack on toilet style.

[Trey Kirby]

Come on.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Or a crossbow to the chest. Like Game of Thrones. Ups to go. Full Joffrey. Back to Joffrey's world. Chomp me.

[Tasmelist]

It's over. It's over.

[J. Skeets]

He was done like that.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, that's true.

[Tasmelist]

I agree, baby.

[JD]

One of the scariest things of going into Porto Potty is just seeing all the feces. Right. Just having to. Having to absorb that. I think if it's, you know, you.

[Trey Kirby]

You.

[JD]

The biggest worry is that the thing gets shaken and. And literally you're covered in poop.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

Yes. So I think that would be fine. In that moment, if you're gonna get eaten, that's the time to get covered in poop.

[J. Skeets]

I suppose it's true.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Those would have been lightly used Porta Potties, too, at this point. Maybe the workers out there.

[Trey Kirby]

But listen, I'm offended on behalf of John Hammond that you call that a Porta Potty. It was a restaurant.

[J. Skeets]

I guess it was.

[Trey Kirby]

It was a restaurant. They spared no expense.

[JD]

Spared no expense.

[J. Skeets]

True. It's true. Plumbing and everything installed out there.

[JD]

Just one question. This is the scene where the kids. Kid says, oh, so much blood. Right. No, this way.

[Trey Kirby]

That's when.

[JD]

My bad.

[Trey Kirby]

When they're caught up in the stampede. And then the T. Rex comes out.

[JD]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll save it. I'm gonna save my comment for later.

[J. Skeets]

I do love the part where, like, the car gets flipped and all that, and Dr. Grant's trying to save them. Like, I love how it's like. Like, sort of going back and forth. Yeah. Like, they're like. Like spinning with it, like, against the edge. That was cool. And I had forgotten then that the T. Rex pushes it off the edge. I think I just forgotten that part where Tim's in the car and it goes over. And then they obviously make their way to the tree later, but Tim's in.

[Trey Kirby]

The car and they're underneath it holding on to wires.

[J. Skeets]

Forgotten about that.

[Trey Kirby]

This whole, like, this. This is where. When I watch something like John Wick, which. I enjoy the John Wick movies just fine. They're incredibly choreographed. This is more choreographed. But it feels wild. Like, all of these scenes were storyboarded apparently two years in advance, because Spielberg went over budget and over schedule on Hook, and he was like, I'm not doing that anymore. So these scenes are so meticulously planned, but they don't feel like it. They feel like utter chaos. And it just makes it that much more exciting. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Well, we go back to Nedry. Here he is on his way to deliver the embryos to the island's docks, but he becomes lost in the rain, and he crashes his Jeep Wrangler. And then, you know, hijinks ensue here. He falls down the hill. Cause he's like. He breaks his glasses and he falls down the hill, and it's pouring rain, like I said. And he's trying to, like, winch up his Jeep. He's trying to get it, like, down the hill. Cause it's stuck. And that's where he comes across. That is the dilophosaurus. Yes, I believe.

[Trey Kirby]

Right? Yep.

[J. Skeets]

That's the poisonous one.

[JD]

Yep.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

I just think Screamy Poison Face. There are real scientific names, but.

[J. Skeets]

Yes, yes. And, you know, this is. Well, he gets attacked by it. He doesn't do himself any favors. I think he pissed off the dinosaur, saying, good boy first off. Right, right, Carl. Stupid nice boy, I guess he said. And then. Yeah, and call him stupid. Yeah. And then gets in the back into the jeep and there's another one in there. And that's the mud or the poison and gunk to the face. And then more shaking.

[Tasmelist]

Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

That was me behind the jeep, going crazy. And then the embryos, like they're in the shaving, you know, can. And it falls down the little hill and gets buried by the mud. And I asked you before we went, you know, live here doing this show, does that pay off? Like incoming Jurassic park movies? Because you would like. They made a clear decision to show you, hey, all the embryos in this can. It's gonna be covered in mud and maybe fossilized itself or something like that.

[Tasmelist]

Oh, modern day Amber, you're saying.

[J. Skeets]

Well, I don't know.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, maybe I've only rewatched one and two so far, and it didn't pay off in two.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, okay.

[Tasmelist]

But they also went to a different island, so it could still be out there. I don't know when they. Maybe they find it. Okay, this is good for Barbasol, like brand wise, you can be involved here.

[Trey Kirby]

Absolutely.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, I think so.

[Tasmelist]

Gillette.

[JD]

Barbasol's still kicking it.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

32 years later. So, yeah, this is why it still exists.

[Trey Kirby]

The embryos would have only lasted for 36 hours.

[J. Skeets]

It did. They did say that at some point. Great call. Great call.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't know if it's under enough mud.

[J. Skeets]

That's what I'm thinking. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

It happened to fallen Amber. I don't know.

[Tasmelist]

Life finds a way.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, life finds a way.

[J. Skeets]

I laugh every time Nedry falls down the.

[Tasmelist]

Oh, yeah, the hill.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

It's legit funny. It's a great fall.

[Trey Kirby]

It's great.

[J. Skeets]

And yeah, he's dead.

[Tasmelist]

Ned.

[J. Skeets]

Goodbye, Ned.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, another great scene. Wayne Knight is perfect in this movie. He basically has three scenes and they're all great. A lot of people talk about, you can't make such and such a movie nowadays because we have cell phones and it would just be easy to call somebody. That's why a lot of movies are set in the 80s, right. So that they don't have that easy out. This you can tell was made pre Lasik because at first he gets lost because his glasses fog up, and then he gets lost because he can't see where to go. But if he had LASIK eye surgery, he would just have 2020 vision. The entire time. And maybe he makes it to the boat.

[J. Skeets]

Maybe he gets there. And you said, jd, you think he's taking a shortcut to get to the docks.

[Trey Kirby]

That's right.

[J. Skeets]

Thus why he doesn't really know the way and needs the signage to help him.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. There's a point where things are shutting down and they're in the control room and then the paddocks start to shut down and he's like, why would he do that? Why would he shut this down? And then it cuts immediately to him pushing open the high voltage gate to drive the, the Jeep through. Because he's, he's pressed for time. He has to get to the boat. So the only, the shortest way is through the park.

[J. Skeets]

And his plan was to go there, drop off the shaving can, cream can, and then come back, Right?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Just. What were you doing? I was just smoking some butts outside. I didn't know we were allowed to smoke in here.

[Trey Kirby]

There he is.

[J. Skeets]

How many did you not know? Smoking a thousand cigarettes all day.

[Trey Kirby]

That is a great moment for Wayne Knight as well. I know where this is going backwards, but him pulling himself away from the, his computer, like just all sweaty and like talking a mile a minute, just the, the guiltiest of guilty.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Just as he's going to commit his caper, it's just awesome.

[J. Skeets]

Wayne Knight, just a bumbling fool. You're doing a horrible job, man. Of making this seem normal. Yeah. Now we go to the scene where John Hammond is with Dr. Sattler and they're just. Well, he's eating a bunch of ice cream. I think this is one of the funniest scenes. There's like 10 tubs of ice cream and he's basically like, well, the power's out. It's all gonna go bad. So he's gonna eat his feelings. I guess he's going through it stress dressing. And then we have more conversation. There's obviously more to this scene, but it is pretty cool.

[Tasmelist]

What does he even say? Cause all I wrote down in my notes is Hammond has always been a charlatan. I think he's basically admitting, like, I've been scamming my whole life. I'm anti Hammond. Let me just say, I hate this guy.

[J. Skeets]

Of course.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, that's the, that's the flea circus.

[Tasmelist]

They don't exist.

[J. Skeets]

It's all facade.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. And the, the illusion of being in control. And Ellie says it's an illusion now.

[J. Skeets]

Yes.

[Trey Kirby]

You are not in control.

[J. Skeets]

You're not in control. And the dinosaurs are for sure. We go to Grant, Tim and Lex. They are taking shelter in a treetop after they survive sort of the fall and they're off the edge there. The T. Rex is gone. Right now they encounter another Brachiosaurus. This is up close and personal. This is the one with the cold like sneezes on them quite last.

[Trey Kirby]

Right?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. They later discover the broken shells of dinosaur eggs. And this is where Grant concludes that oh, they've been breeding which occurred because of their frog DNA. Some West African frogs can change their sex in a single sex environment. It's like why didn't you say this back when we were around all the actual scientists? And this is allowing the dinosaurs to do it as well because they were a part of that DNA. But yeah, this is I think. Is this the part where we're at the scene where they see all what you were talking about?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, the stampede.

[J. Skeets]

The stampede, yeah. This is all sort of in, within the same scene.

[JD]

Yeah. Oh right, yeah. I, I have a question. So obviously a Spielberg move is to, to keep the dinos off camera as much as possible. There's that moment where the kid is literally on camera for 20 seconds after he's, he's told that there's gonna, there's a lot of blood and he's watching it happen and he's on camera for 20 seconds and then we don't see the blood. When he, when, when he says so much blood we don't see any blood. Is that a move, Is that just the Spielberg move, not showing it after 20 seconds of being on camera or is it just a, some sort of issue with the, the CGI and just not being able to show, show a good bloody.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, yes and yes it's very effective. You know, just not showing. And yeah, as we say like he learned it by accident doing Jaws when the shark didn't work. Right. But I, there's a ratings thing as well. If you show too much blood you're going to get a higher, like a adult accompaniment or whatever it's called here or restricted rating. And yeah, it's, it's effective. It's just if you have good enough actors and you have a push in shot and he's just like.

[JD]

It's literally 20 seconds of the boy looking at the camera.

[J. Skeets]

Is this when the T. Rex is destroying one of the.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

Further in the future though.

[J. Skeets]

Oh is it?

[Tasmelist]

Yeah. Right now we're talking about. They get stuck in the tree. Right. With the, the Brachiosaurus.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, but I thought it led into them then, then.

[Tasmelist]

No, this is the T. Rex chasing the car with Malcolm sitting in the back seat.

[J. Skeets]

You're right.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, there's that too.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

I think the running dinosaurs are a little bit later.

[J. Skeets]

It is a bit later. Yeah. It's like the next day of them.

[Tasmelist]

But I actually really like the tree scene because it's like we've just had this huge traumatic moment, right, with the T. Rex finally appearing. A guy got eaten in half. Let's just chill for a second.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

Take down the tension so we can start building it up again. They're sitting there in that tree. Grant leans back.

[J. Skeets]

Ah.

[Tasmelist]

What is that? Oh, it's the raptor claw I keep in my back pocket. You forgot about raptors, didn't you? Because we haven't mentioned raptors for, like a half an hour, but they're still out there even though we haven't seen them yet. Also, he's cuddling the kids.

[J. Skeets]

Showing you.

[Tasmelist]

He's kind of getting on board with it more. And this part of the movie, to me, kind of really shows how much of a kids movie this is and, like, how it was made for kids. And the Spielberg kind of pushed to make it for kids because we have the car tree scene where. Where it's Grant and Tim in the car, falling down, falling down, falling down. They finally get to the bottom, the car falls on top of them, and they said, now we're back in the car.

[J. Skeets]

You know.

[Tasmelist]

A nice way to cut the tension when Muldoon and Sattler find Malcolm knocked down by the. By the toilet where Gennaro got eaten, Malcolm says, run. You thank John for a lovely weekend. When they find him, another tension cutting scene. Then they have this T. Rex chase where they can go faster than 32 miles an hour in their Jeep. They finish it and Malcolm says, think they'll have that on tour? There's just always something in this kind of like Escape from Dinosaurs montage that cuts the tension because this isn't a movie that's supposed to be scary 100% of the time. It's supposed to be 100% scary at some times. But it's also a movie for families to go and see together, and that's why it was so successful.

[J. Skeets]

I'll add one more to that because you just reminded me, and we'll get to it. Obviously, the whole fence thing, where Timmy's on the fence and gets electrocuted off of it. His joke, basically, after he comes alive after the CPR is like three, like the countdown. He's not only alive, he's still getting Sick. Like, cutting the tension there. Like, we almost killed this child on camera, but he's got a joke, man. All right. So, unable to decipher Nedry's code to reactivate the security system, Hammond and chief engineer Ray Arnold. This is Samuel James Jackson. They're going to reboot the park system. This is where we get our second hold onto your butts. This one with a lot more. This is the one people remember, I think. A lot more.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[Tasmelist]

There's also, like, a sexy Malcolm time when he's just laying there on the table, his buttons undone. Looking great.

[J. Skeets]

Arnold heads to a maintenance shed to complete the rebooting process. And when Arnold fails to return, this is where Dr. Sattler and Muldoon, they're like, well, where the heck is this guy? He said it would be, like, three minutes. I think he said, we got to head out to this shed. And they discover the shutdown has deactivated the remaining fences that has released the velociraptors. My God. And here we get. Or we can at least address the scene where Muldoon, he's distracting the Raptors so Sattler can get to that shed or that, like, bunker to go turn the power back on. Funny little part here. She does a random, weird swing off a branch.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Why? It was just odd.

[Trey Kirby]

Let go.

[J. Skeets]

Watch this move. Sort of look cool. Little parkour there for you. She, like, looks back. Muldoon. You see that? That was awesome. Before being attacked by a raptor. And she. She's down there. She's like. Avoids being attacked, sort of. But that's where we get Arnold's severed arm. And meanwhile, Muldoon, he's up there. He's out there. He gets caught off guard, and he gets killed by two Raptors or more working together in tandem. And this is where we get the clever girl. The respect he had for them, even in this day. Death.

[Trey Kirby]

Is that the best line of the movie in terms of iconic?

[J. Skeets]

No.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, there's so many.

[J. Skeets]

There's so many.

[Tasmelist]

There's so many.

[Trey Kirby]

It's up there.

[J. Skeets]

It's up there. Yeah. I mean, I say it a lot.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, me too.

[Tasmelist]

Clever girl.

[J. Skeets]

I definitely say it, like, to my dog a lot, you know?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. But.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Any thoughts on the. The Muldoon death here is a favorite of yours, TK at least this character.

[Tasmelist]

There's so much stuff I like in this sort of sequence here. It starts when they are in the lab trying to figure out what they're going to do. And they present two options. We can shut down everything and reboot the system which will turn off every fence. We even get mentioned that even Nedry left the raptor fences up. Right. Like he took down every fence. But he knew I'm not taking down the raptor fence. So that is one option. We can reboot everything. We will have no power or we can just let it go. How it is, Raptor fence is fine and we use the lysine contingency. Apparently these animals will just die eventually because they don't get their shot of lies.

[J. Skeets]

Oh yeah.

[Tasmelist]

Or whatever. Guess which one John Hammond wants to do. Yeah, yeah, we'll shut down the raptor fence as long as it doesn't kill the dinosaurs.

[Trey Kirby]

Right.

[Tasmelist]

That's how you know it's the wrong move. Yeah, because it was Hammond's idea. Even Nedry knew we can't mess with the raptor. So I think that is pretty good. And I also love the way they really tie the Muldoon knot on things. We know the guy considered the raptors like the ultimate predator out there. We also heard Dr. Alan Grant explained to that brat kid how a raptor will hunt you down. And it's by you focusing on the one that's in front of you. And two come from the sides. And guess how Muldoon dies? He's looking at one in front of him and two on the side come to get him. He dies just the way Quint did, getting eaten by the animal he was trying to kill.

[J. Skeets]

Perfect.

[Trey Kirby]

It's great. There's an amazing piece of dialogue from Samuel L. Jackson. It's probably the hardest line to say. I don't know what it is. I don't have it off the top of my head. But it's him explaining the lysine contingency. Go back and watch that. He is speaking a million miles an hour. And it's just like he's just telling us, oh, there's this fail safe that we haven't told you about yet. And it's very complicated, but it, it's just an incredible piece of very believable dialogue coming from, you know, a great actor who went on that following year to be in Pulp Fiction. Just. I mean we didn't even know Sam Jackson back then really until Samuel L. Jackson is hard to say. I find it hard to say.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And, and now many times in a row out. So I'm just calling him.

[JD]

Do you think he becomes a three name guy? You need to throw in the L. You have to. Yeah. It's incredibly well said though. With a cigarette in his Mouth it is.

[J. Skeets]

That's the part you're overlooking. You had a camel light dangling out of his lips. Now he's saying all that. I was. I was just wondering maybe. Maybe Samuel L. Jackson was. Sam Jackson showed up to Jurassic park, and Sam Neill's like, hi, I'm Sam. He's like, oh. Oh, crap. I guess I gotta be Samuel. Yeah. Gotta probably throw the initial in there. I don't know why.

[JD]

It's a Michael B. Jordan scenario.

[J. Skeets]

It's impossible. Possible reason here. Yeah. Any other thoughts on all of that, J.D. the craziness of Muldoon dying. And unfortunately, our guy Samuel L. Jackson dying as well.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. A great reveal. A great reveal. Apparently, there was a whole set piece of Ray's death. Ray. Is that his character? Ray Arnold. But budgetary constraints and schedule meant that they couldn't do it. But still, a great way to reveal that he's dead. A nice little jump scare there. Yeah. But Trey said it all. Like, Muldoon going down, hunting the beast that he had the most respect for. He was the one that had the most respect for the animals, and he seemed, like, the most likely to take them down, down. And he couldn't. He couldn't. And he already knew. He knew how they hunted as well, and he still got fooled. I don't know. Maybe have a couple extra guys.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

One on one ain't working.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. You knew what was gonna happen. You literally said it. And you're like, yeah, you're gonna try those odds anyway. All right.

[Tasmelist]

A couple other great little moments here is because Sattler is, like, trying to turn the power back on, which will then therefore allow her to turn all of the fences back on. We get, like, the countdown moment of her, like, click, fence. Click, fence. Meanwhile, Dr. Grant and the kids are scaling said fence and coming down, and Timmy is coming down when they start hearing the. They're like, jump, man.

[J. Skeets]

Jump, man. Yeah, I'll count you down.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

He finally does it. As he gets blown off, it seems like a triumphant moment. We cut to Sattler, and she's like, we did it. Dr. Hammond, guess what? There's a raptor behind you.

[J. Skeets]

Whoops.

[Tasmelist]

There's our first raptor actually attacking somebody that. Like those two seconds.

[J. Skeets]

Seconds.

[Tasmelist]

Banger of a scene. I also love when they're getting ready to go over the fence for the first time. They don't know if it's electric, like, if it's turned on or not. They think it's not. So Dr. Grant's like, all right, I'll do it first and he goes in the Ultimate Warriors. I thought that was hilarious.

[J. Skeets]

He threw a stick at it. Classic move.

[Trey Kirby]

He's a sick bastard. He went after that kid in the beginning of the movie, and now he's scared. After everything they've been through, he's still gonna terrorize these kids. I love it.

[Tasmelist]

Respect.

[J. Skeets]

That's true, man. They literally were nearly eaten by a T. Rex. He's gonna still, like, pretend that he's electrocuted. That's some sick right there.

[Tasmelist]

It's crazy. I'll cuddle you in a tree, but I ain't that sweet yet.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. So, yeah, the power switch back on, and Tim gets that massive jolt and he gets kicked off the fence. And, you know, he somehow survives some CPR helps from Dr. Grant. And that's when he drops the three joke after. But pretty amazing that he survived this.

[JD]

Definitely a joke. And not just him coming back to life and just saying three when he comes back.

[J. Skeets]

Why would he. What do you mean? Because I thought he's saying three because of the countdown.

[JD]

Yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

You're going to count. You're going to jump on three.

[JD]

I forgot that he didn't say one, two, then them. That, yeah, literally he could be just coming back to life.

[J. Skeets]

But yeah, kids got jokes. He's got jokes. Incredible tenacity to this kid to take the shock.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

I don't know. I don't know. Big shock, big fall. Yeah. Does he fall in Grant's arms?

[Tasmelist]

Does he catch him?

[J. Skeets]

He does.

[Trey Kirby]

He does catch them. Okay.

[JD]

He does catches them.

[J. Skeets]

They catch.

[Trey Kirby]

There is. He likes kids.

[Tasmelist]

He likes kids.

[JD]

Dr. Grant likes kids.

[Trey Kirby]

There is a shot, like a crane shot of Timmy still up on the. On the fence. And Lex and Dr. Grant are on the ground and really, really far away screaming at him to. I'll catch you. He's like 20 yards away. Day. So there was that little inconsistency.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

But, you know, it worked out because the fence blew him off of about 20 yards off the fence, and he was right there to catch him.

[J. Skeets]

We caught him. Perfect catch.

[Trey Kirby]

That's great.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Maybe he meant. Maybe little Timmy meant three outs because he caught him. I don't know. He was a baseball fan. All right, so the three of them, they eventually reach the visitor center. Tell me if I am missing anything here. I was trying to take notes. I was just enjoying the movie too much. But Grant, then he heads out to look for Sattler when they get back to the visitor center. And Tim and Lex, they enjoy some. What I thought looked to be some pretty Gross ass food spin.

[Trey Kirby]

Out all night big old pin.

[J. Skeets]

Out all night dessert spread. Yeah, it just looked weird gross to me. But they're hungry. They're eating.

[Tasmelist]

Give me some green jello.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. And this is where exactly. More shaking. Because this is where they're pursued by two raptors. Eventually get into the kitchen and we have this set piece where. Which is pretty iconic. And they escape. Slick moves. Obviously, the one part with I guess Lex tricked. I guess the velociraptor, because of the mirror, like, banged into the wall, but she was on the other side in the reflection, showing her in like the. I don't know what you call it. I guess she was in a cabinet of some sort. She couldn't get the door down. But then slick move by Timmy to get the one trapped in the freezer. Yeah, he saw it. I don't know if he knew there was ice there that was going to help him out to get the raptor sliding, but they obviously get. And eventually join Grant Settler. But again, this is. This is on the short list of iconic movie scenes in this movie.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

And it's still super tense watching it happens. I'm still fooled every time. Just like a velociraptor, when Lex is using the cabinet as a mirror or whatever it is. Every time I'm like, oh, that was the one where she was hiding in the cabinets. You never know which one it's going to be. So, yeah, I think this one holds up big time tenses, scenes in a kitchen until the bear came out.

[J. Skeets]

The one raptor to the other raptors behind. Behind. Yes, chef. Yeah. J.D. you love.

[Trey Kirby]

This is a. Yeah, I think this is this. Correct me if I'm wrong. Is this the first time we see dinosaurs inside, indoors, in like a. A human setting? You know, I like it if you.

[J. Skeets]

Don'T count the bunker, like Trey said with Sattler.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's in a kitchen and it's. You know, pots and pans are flying around everywhere. And so it's just that much more menacing. And then the. There's. I can't remember if it's the kitchen scene or just shortly after. It's just, you see, there's a tight shot of the raptor assessing the situation. I think it might have been in the dining room after. But you see him glance this way, glance that way, and glance that. Like he's making threat number one, threat number two, threat number three. And just like, they seem smart, it's like they're puppets, but they're. They're so well designed, and it's just great.

[J. Skeets]

There's just that one cool shot when they're in the kitchen. I think one leaps up onto the counter and the other's going down the aisle. And so they're sort of walking together and it just like. It just looks badass.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, the combination like the feet, you know, there's that the. The. The tracking shot where the feet. You just see the feet running at Lex. I mean, that's practical, I assume, but then there's also a lot of CGI there. But it's 1993, and I still. Yeah, I watched a movie yesterday. I can't tell the difference. I can't tell which is real and what is. What isn't it. It holds up.

[J. Skeets]

So the group reaches the control room and Lex uses a computer to restore the park's power. Because we were told at one point earlier on, she is a nerd. She's a bit of a hacker. And she says, quote, it's a UNIX system. I know this. And allows them to call Hammond, who calls for help. But this is. The two doctors are trying to hold off the velociraptor from getting in the room and they need the locks. And she. Like, this is when we're like real 90s computer graphics, where it's going and what it's showing.

[Tasmelist]

What in the world kind of operating system is this?

[J. Skeets]

I don't know.

[Tasmelist]

You hover over, like, different neighborhoods of computer files until you find the security one. I've never seen something like that.

[J. Skeets]

Maybe my least favorite, like, beat of the movie or scene. Like, just. I think we're completely fine without her having to have known computer UNIX systems to help out here. I don't know.

[Trey Kirby]

Hey, she's had a reference ride. She's had a rough ride. You know, she got sneezed on. She been attacked by dinosaurs.

[J. Skeets]

She tripped, maybe purposely.

[Trey Kirby]

She hasn't really had her moment.

[J. Skeets]

No, you're right.

[Trey Kirby]

Timmy. Timmy trapped the raptor in the freezer. So let's give Lex something.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[JD]

She kept on getting called. Was it a nerd or geek that she corrects?

[Trey Kirby]

That's rich coming from Tim. Sorry.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, come on.

[JD]

Yeah, come on, Tim.

[Tasmelist]

Why don't you get into something cool like dinosaurs?

[J. Skeets]

So, yeah, so again, they get Hammond, they get the call for help, but they're not done because as they try to escape, they have to go through the ceiling because the. The raptors are still coming.

[Tasmelist]

Cool scene.

[J. Skeets]

I forgot about this part too, that it's not sort of done. And, yeah, they're up there in the ducks and it's trying to get up and the way it's shot. They eventually find their way to the visitor center, that front office. They're cornered by the raptors. Looks like they're done. They're screwed. But they escape when the T Rex appears. Kills the raptors, gives them the out. I always thought it was so polite for the T. Rex to come in through the opening. I feel like he took his shoes off even. Yep. And he's just there and he's taking care of the raptors and that's how they escape here. But yeah, two scenes there, the air duct up through the ceiling and then this part and the big dinosaur piece, like the skeleton and all that, which I got here on my chest.

[Tasmelist]

Going on the fossils.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. What do you think, TK I love.

[Tasmelist]

The shot of them, like, getting into the ducks and you can see the raptors, like, jumping up, trying to grab at Lex, I think is probably the last one through the hole. And you see trying to get at her the first time. We don't hear the T. Rex before we see it. A lot's going on in that scene. I was like, is part of the reason that the fossils fell from the roof because the T Rex is shaking the place? I don't know. But I do like that, that all things considered, all the T Rex did was eat some other dinosaurs and the blood sucking lawyer then saved our heroes.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

T. Rex is a good guy.

[J. Skeets]

Girl. Girl.

[Tasmelist]

Sorry, sorry. They're all girls. Probably.

[Trey Kirby]

Good catch.

[J. Skeets]

Good catch. Good catch. Any other notes on sort of the ending here of the movie?

[JD]

Just scenic for me. I mean, I just love the scene.

[J. Skeets]

With the banner falling.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

What does it say?

[Tasmelist]

Ruled the earth.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, that looks badass. Got the big scream of, obviously from the T Rex.

[JD]

The famous quotes, debatable. But one of the famous visuals is just that banner.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, absolutely. Because now it's the hero, like Trey said. It's like, oh, he saved us. Hammond does arrive in a jeep with Malcolm, and the group boards a helicopter to leave the island. And I. I wrote in my notes here, I love the ending of this movie because not a single word is said on that helicopter ride out. It's awesome.

[Trey Kirby]

You see some pelicans.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, I was gonna say, you see Dr. Grant, you see the two kids passed out on him. So there's that part. But yeah, the.

[JD]

Obviously it's about what you don't see or what you don't say or what you don't hear. It's a Spielberg Movie.

[J. Skeets]

Good ending. Really good ending.

[Tasmelist]

Okay, so great ending. They're like, Dr. Grant's like, I'm not going to endorse your park. Funny line. And then the movie is over. Like, they don't waste any time with, like, oh, here's what happens when they get back to the mainland and they go meet with a, like, the news or something and tell their story. They're like, no, they're getting off the island. You see, Spent one day there. Yeah, that was one day that we saw. And they're like, you don't need anything else. You do flying away. And you can tell everything that happened. Dr. Grant has grown. He likes kids right now. Ellie loves him. You can tell the way she's looking. Dr. Malcolm. This guy is strung out on morphine at this point because he was supposed to be dead, but somehow he's still alive. And even John Hammond is wrestling with his demons. Like, what did I do? Yeah, I guess I'll just open another one.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, you're right. It's just like, I love that they don't say a single word to each other on that ride.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

And it's almost like you wonder, like, have they. Do they have an unsaid pact that we will never talk about this again, what we just went through? But. JD Any final thoughts here before I have some big questions for you guys?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, it's the perfect ending to a perfect movie, I think. You know, as you said, nothing is said. And I, you know, let's not to be, you know, cynical, but I'm pretty sure they were knew a sequel was coming. Like, they know a sequel.

[J. Skeets]

They were like, this is awesome.

[Trey Kirby]

Crichton was already commissioned to write this sequel. Like, so, you know, we'll.

[J. Skeets]

We'll.

[Trey Kirby]

We'll revisit these characters, obviously, but, yeah, I loved it.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, we'll move with some pace here because, you know, we went through the entire movie, but do you have a favorite scene? Trey, I'll start with you. Favorite scene of all these amazing scenes we just went through.

[Tasmelist]

I have many favorite scenes. Probably welcome to Jurassic park is my favorite scene. It's like a joyous scene. And I don't think the scariness of the dinosaurs works the same way. If you don't get the elation of seeing them for the first time. If you don't get the first half of the movie where dinosaurs are cool and we love seeing them, it doesn't hit the same way when they turn and end up being dinosaurs. You know, they're cool because we don't know about them, but they're scary because we don't know about them. So I guess that's probably, to me, still the iconic scene. Seeing them for the first time.

[J. Skeets]

I would 100% agree. And I would just add to it just the idea of us seeing the dinosaurs for the first time in 93, maybe on the big screen or wherever you watched it on vhs, it was like, holy crap. Like we're in the same shoes as them in a weird way. Way. Seeing what can be done in movie filmmaking, totally. It's like incredible.

[Trey Kirby]

It is one of the first times or the first time that computer animation has been employed. I know the Last Starfighter back, way back, they started experimenting with it and there's been experiments with it. But this is the first time in like a blockbuster movie that they've really heavily relied on cgi. Yeah, I mean, it's a great scene. I don't know.

[J. Skeets]

Favorite scene for you as well? Them?

[Trey Kirby]

No. Oh, the T. Rex breakout. The. The. I mean, just the, the sound effects, the tension, just how well choreographed it is and just how it gets worse and worse and worse again. And you think that it's not going to get any more worse than we got a kid in a tree in a car and then a car is chasing two people down a tree. You know, it's just. It just gets crazier and crazier and crazier and. And I love, loved it.

[J. Skeets]

Same question for you. Favorite scene?

[JD]

Yeah, I. I love the car. I love that, the car falling down the tree. But I gotta say, them seeing the dinosaurs for the first time, I can't, I can't resist.

[Tasmelist]

The acting still hits.

[JD]

Yes.

[J. Skeets]

Unbelievable. You've seen that scene like a hundred plus times. I'm sure. Like at least online, I mean, not the movie, maybe watching the whole thing, but like, it's still good. Favorite character slash dinosaur. You have to pick Trey. Who you got on your list?

[Trey Kirby]

Character?

[Tasmelist]

Probably never Nedry.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Tasmelist]

It's between Nedry and Malcolm. To me, they are like my two favorite performances in the movie, though. I think everybody who has lines is perfect in it. Like perfectly cast, perfect performance. I love the way it is, but like, it's probably number four on the list for me. But Nedry's death scene is in the mix for one of the best scenes out there. And I just think Wayne Knight steals the scene every time he's on camera.

[J. Skeets]

And as for dinosaur.

[Tasmelist]

As for a dinosaur. Look, you gotta give the raptors of the breakout star of Jurassic park really, they really came on the scene with this one, the T. Rex is the hero. But for me, I gotta throw a bone here to those dinosaurs that are just sprinting. You know, those just running dinosaurs in the middle, they get devoured by the T. Rex eventually. I don't even know what their names are, but I like to see them out there getting their steps in.

[J. Skeets]

I did sort of the one scene I can't place in the movie. I don't know where it goes, but I know exactly what you're talking about. And that was the one you were talking that you like as well?

[JD]

Yeah, they're like. What are those things? The hyenas, they feel like, but they're.

[Tasmelist]

Not the hyena of the.

[J. Skeets]

Of the world.

[JD]

Sort of like world.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

Then they get. Yeah, they just get what.

[Tasmelist]

What am I, Google? Running dinosaur?

[J. Skeets]

Exactly. What about you, J.D. favorite character in dinosaur.

[Trey Kirby]

I'm a Malcolm man all the way. He has the most jokes. We're talking Jeff Goldblum at his. The absolute peak of his power hours. He comes back for Lost World, which, you know, we'll get into next week. But he is just one of my favorite actors. And again, the. The guy with the most jokes is usually the person I'm gonna want to, you know, watch the most. And dinosaurs. I mean, the dilophosaurus is great. The. Just the sneaky, sort of, you know, dog like, way they are, are. They're kind of cute. They have a really, really cute chirp, you know, the. The sound design on them. But then when they fan out there, whatever, these are their wings or whatever, and then they spit, which is gross. They're legit scary. So it's like, they're so cute, but then they become terrifying.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Which is kind of the most scary thing for me. Right?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Because you're attracted to them, but then they.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

You know.

[J. Skeets]

Did you find the name of those potential.

[Tasmelist]

It looks like it might be a Gallimimus.

[J. Skeets]

I think that's what I got. It's a Gallimimus. Never saw it coming. Tas, your favorite.

[JD]

Well, actor, as JD Was just saying about the dinosaur, that's the wings and the spits. To me, Goldblum. Goldblum fits exactly that in that he is sexy as hell, but also he's smart as hell. So he's the man. To me, as far as dino, you know, I've come around on the Triceratops, I think.

[J. Skeets]

I think the most.

[JD]

I think the most emotion just because you're there and the Triceratops is sick. That I get from one single dinosaur is the moment with Laura Dern and the Triceratops. So, yeah, I'm going there.

[J. Skeets]

I'm gonna show some love here. I love the Malcolm as the character everyone's picking, but Lex, the girl.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Incredible terrified face on this.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

On this actor legit looks awesome every time. She's like, terrified, scared face. So a little love to her. As for dinosaur, as much as I love the Triceratops, the. The Brachiosaurus, just so cool, man. Yeah. Just the size of it, man. Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

They're just like, nuzzling up against it. Do you think a great team. Do you think they should open a Jurassic Park? Whoops. All herbivores.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. That was the oversight. 100. You're still making bank with those dinosaurs that are just eating plants.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. You're not making as much. Maybe not.

[J. Skeets]

Because you want.

[Tasmelist]

I want to see a T. Rex for sure.

[J. Skeets]

Because you're saying the T. Rex is like the roller coaster of this place.

[Trey Kirby]

Totally.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Brachiosaurus is like the. The show that's on at 12 and 3 and 5.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

You know, the kid rides nice. It's fine if you happen to catch it. Great. But yeah, I want to see that T. Rex.

[J. Skeets]

Sorry. And then my final, like, you know, big picture question. Is there. What is the dumbest scene to you? Or you're maybe your least favorite scene? Or is it. Or is it. Or dare I say, a perfect movie? Or there's something that looking back on it trail, you're like, I could have lived without that, or I didn't like that or whatever.

[Tasmelist]

The only thing I would change is that basically Jeff Goldblum is out of the movie after he does his run with the T Rex. He has the scene where he's in the back of the car, where he's funny in that one as well.

[Trey Kirby]

Well.

[Tasmelist]

But then he's basically just hanging out at the operations center, being like, huh, Yep. Okay. Yeah, do that.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. John Hammond puts the map out, like, the logistics on him. I always thought that was weird.

[Tasmelist]

He's like the star to me. He's like probably the best part of the first half of the movie. He's hilarious. Like, JD's saying he's got the best lines. He's probably the best character through the first half of the movie. And then the way the book was written, in the original script was written, he was going to be out of it. He was going to be devoured at the same time Genaro was. So instead, they just don't really use Jeff Goldblum very much in the second half. Of the movie. Even though we saw the first half of the movie and he was straight up killing it.

[J. Skeets]

Fair. Any dumb scenes? No way.

[Tasmelist]

Not for me.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, dumb.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I find it odd. Again, I mentioned it. Muldoon doesn't have anybody helping him with security. There's that. I don't. Literally everybody leaves the island. But, like, why? What. What is happening there?

[J. Skeets]

Like, well, is that storm was quite severe.

[Trey Kirby]

You know, isn't that a time to hunker down? I mean, yeah, maybe like summit. There's like a kitchen staff who served them lunch. You know what I mean? Like, they were all just gonna stay on the island, just with our main cast, but literally nobody else was there.

[J. Skeets]

Good point.

[Trey Kirby]

Sort of weird. But, you know, that is like just such a minor, minor flaw. I do think it's a performance movie.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[JD]

No dumb scene. The lifting of the crate. To me, we could have done something else. That's all.

[J. Skeets]

Get up there and pull open this thing. Any other random notes or observations before we actually rank it or rate it? Anything else you want to slip in here?

[Tasmelist]

We see some employees at the very first part of them arriving to the park. They're like opening the gates for them to get in before they even get to like, the giant gates. And I just really like the pink Jurassic park polo shirts they're wearing.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Tasmelist]

Like, they got great outfits. Everybody looks so cool and 90s in this movie. And like you said earlier, with regards to the trucks and the jeeps, everything looks super cool. I would 100% be the dummy who's like, yeah, Jurassic Park's opening this weekend. We should go and see it. I heard they got Tyrannosaurus rex.

[Trey Kirby]

I'm sure it'll be fun.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah, I could eaten.

[JD]

Maybe that's why the Toronto Raptors coaches all wear those pink salmon shirts when they go to summer league. They do look good.

[J. Skeets]

A node to that.

[JD]

But you're. You're right about everything looking good. The just everyone well dressed is. Is so nice.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

Did. Did they like, was this font invented or did this font exist before Jurassic Park? To me now, that's the Jurassic park font. You can't think of it any other way.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, I assume it was. Was created for the movie or the book. I don't even know. I'm not sure what the COVID looks like. If they.

[JD]

Tough question.

[J. Skeets]

I know they. I'm sure they've since redone it with at least that Jurassic park font, but yeah. Any other observations, JD that you want to get in here?

[Trey Kirby]

I think I only covered everything I Mean, I'm looking at my notes here. All my randoms got covered.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. I only have two left. In watching this with Nora and my dog Luna. My dog hated the raptor sound, that like weird staccato like grunt that, that the raptors were making, which is amazing. I mean the sound mix in this is incredible. And I think it maybe won an Oscar for it sound mixing or anything. Anyway, Luna perked right up like what is that sound? And then was like focused on the dinos on the raptors on screen. So it worked on dogs.

[Tasmelist]

Works on dogs.

[J. Skeets]

Nice. And a little love to another great quote because we were going through the best quotes. I love the exchange. Malcolm, Dr. Sattler, Malcolm goes, God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. And then Dr. Sattler comes in on the top. Dinosaurs eat man. Women inherits the earth. Woman inherits the earth. That's pretty good too.

[Tasmelist]

That's the beauty of Jurassic Park. This is an awesome blockbuster movie, a popcorn movie, a massive hit. And it actually has themes that are hidden in here that are fairly easy to pick up on that are really meaningful. We can't control nature. Technology has gone too far. And I would say that this is probably an anti capitalist movie because the three people that die are an employee of this corporation, the blood sucking lawyer and the guy who is stealing dinosaur embryos to try and make a million and a half dollars. So Steven Spielberg preaching, but also teaching. Teaching. This is not the case in the Lost World as we will see, right? The themes are not there the same way. They are in this. And this was a movie for everyone that everyone saw and had this imprinted into their brain. Just like Dr. Hammond watching a velociraptor being born.

[Trey Kirby]

Imprinting.

[J. Skeets]

I wonder if Muldoon and Arnold, because they also died, maybe they had a bunch of stock.

[Tasmelist]

Muldoon died. Muldoon died. That's true, that's true.

[J. Skeets]

You know, I'm just trying to thing, were they also at their core capitalist? I'm just kidding. I love that take. Okay, so let's write this. Hold on.

[JD]

I've got something imprinted in my brain as well. So this is a note. Steven Spielberg gave the cast a gift after filming Rap. Spielberg gave all the cast a signed velociraptor model. And apparently Goldblum, Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello and Laura Dern have those models displayed in their homes to this day, apparently. My question is, do you think Baron Davis has seen scene the velociraptor in Laura Dern's house. That's a call back to our days at the starters of Baron. Davis didn't like being asked about his relationship with Laura.

[J. Skeets]

I would say yes. The answer is yes. If he's been over yes, he's seen it because I'm sure it's somewhere prominently displayed.

[JD]

Yeah, I assume it's still there.

[J. Skeets]

It's either gotta be on a shelf in the living room or maybe it's on her bedside table.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, how big is it?

[JD]

I don't know. Yeah, cat sign, velociraptor model, I don't know.

[J. Skeets]

Incredible. All right, let's.

[Trey Kirby]

By the way, one last thing. Jurassic park won three academy awards. Best sound, best sound effects, editing, and best visual effects.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, there we go. So it got the ones it deserved. It sure sounds like. Yeah.

[Tasmelist]

I think Spielberg made Schindler's List the same year as us.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

So he cleaned up.

[J. Skeets]

Holy moly. That's wild to think about. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

John Williams also worked on Schindler's List as well. Maybe that's why there's so little music.

[J. Skeets]

He's like, I'm busy with this other movie you're working on.

[Trey Kirby]

Exactly.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, let's wrap it up. To rank this movie, I will tell you guys, 91% on rotten tomatoes from both the critics and the fans when it comes to Jurassic park, the original movie here, three out of four stars from our guy, Roger Ebert. Yeah, he wrote, quote, it's clear seeing this long awaited project that Spielberg devoted most of his effort to creating the dinosaurs. The human characters are a ragtag bunch of half realized, sketched in personalities who exist primarily to scream utter dire warnings and outwit the monsters. End quote. That's Raj. He was not a fan of our characters, our beloved characters. Yeah, yeah. So I guess with the first one here, because that's what they are on a scale of 1 to 10, is how we'll do this. Because we'll, we'll eventually start ranking them in regards to the other movies in the franchise. Right. Where we're putting them in order. But like for this first one, I just want to know, on a scale of 1 to 10, how are you ranking the original Jurassic Park?

[Tasmelist]

10 of 10.

[J. Skeets]

10 of 10.

[Tasmelist]

Yeah. This is probably in my top 10 movies all time. And it's awesome. And it holds up every time I've ever watched it.

[J. Skeets]

Ten to ten for me.

[Trey Kirby]

Ten out of ten for me.

[JD]

Ten out of 10 for.

[J. Skeets]

This is incredible. Wow, what a start. It's unfortunate just knowing where we're going to be heading with this franchise. This is our highest of highs.

[Trey Kirby]

This is the happiest. Are going to see me in Jurassic Pals.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Yeah. Jurassic park was selected in 2018 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. That's how much of a banger this movie is. All right, 10 out of 10. Perfect movie. And we'll see what the next one brings us. That is the Lost World. Jurassic park released in 1997. So. So four years after this one, we get our sequel. And that will premiere in your no Dunks feed here on Friday, August 15th. What a birthday gift for you. The Lost World. Blessed.

[JD]

I'm blessed.

[J. Skeets]

Yes. The Lost world dropping on August 15th. But if you're a fan of Jurassic Pals, like I said, off the top, hit the like button. Subscribe. Share the show. Five star ratings and reviews. Let's hear your thoughts on the movie. Your favorite dinosaurs, your favorite characters, your favorite scenes, maybe things that didn't work in Jurassic Park. And whether or not you agree with on the 10 out of 10, let's hear what your thoughts are in the comments below. All right, Great start, guys. Like Nedry sliding down a hill. It's only downhill from here. Something like that. Something like that.

[Tasmelist]

That's not bad. Like Nedry delivering a Barbasol can of embryos. It's all downhill.

[J. Skeets]

There we go. Perfect way to end it. And life finds a way. We'll see you next time on Jurassic Pals.