RedLetterMedia Jurassic Park Commentary

hello and welcome to the jurassic park commentary by red letter media i'm mike i'm jay and rich evans rich evans is here as well here's a laugh at steven spielberg's hard work this is a a half in the bag commentary for jurassic park and the best of the worst commentary for all the sequels that's right is that sound accurate that's fine yeah they're moving a raptor this is yeah this is very this is very spielberg you don't see the dinosaur hardly at all in this opening scene it's a it's a perfect way to open your movie it's a mystery some tension perfect way to open a pretty much perfect movie if you didn't know the movie was called jurassic park you might not know what was in that crate that's true the mystery of what well even if you like because raptors weren't really well known you know it's a very dangerous animal of some kind and you know that there's 40 guys with machine guns and the animal is intended to be in a park for children so it's a perfect scenario okay here's here's the shot that makes uh paleontologists throw up in unison real life paleontologists yeah when they see this are you telling me that they don't find completely formed dinosaurs they they uh they do not i i especially a perfect in a perfect death pose like this they find piles of bones and if they're lucky they have 12 percent of a skeleton that's right and if they're lucky they the 12 percent goes to one animal and not a mixture this is a nice way to establish raptors and what they do we'll learn all about the way the raptors attack which will come into play later and and how uh sam neil's character hates children yes he's like what let me just tell you horrific things that will give you nightmares yes we're learning multiple things we're getting lots of information in a scene that is in addition to giving information is also entertaining that's right it's a fun scene this is what they used to call a movie now movies are giant noise festivals yeah we should point out this movie at least for me represents the end of one era in the beginning of another when it comes to uh movies like the what they call the summer popcorn movies which started with star wars and uh jaws and this movie at least for me and this probably has something to do with our age and you know when we grew up and when we saw these movies growing up but this was kind of the end of that era of smart fun summer popcorn movies and that coincided with um the uh unrestricting of special effects yes that has their cg in this and then every 90s movie after this completely overused cg and realized oh we can do anything now we don't have to be clever with the filmmaking like all it draws all the way through this let's like oh we can't do everything we want to do so we have to be you know clever about the way we execute our scenes the transition was along the lines of this you went from summer popcorn movies like the empire strikes back and back to the future and then you went to from that to summer popcorn movies like the arrival and species you know no independence day that's the big one is like this was the biggest movie ever and then two years later i think independence day come out yeah um and that's you know people used to those blockbuster movies aspire to be like spielberg movies the other filmmakers doing it and then independence day was a huge hit and everybody tried to imitate independence day and that movie is dumb and pandering and horrible so that's that's the movie this is the movie that ended the era of the smart summer blockbuster and independence day is the one that started the new era which uh just continues to get worse and worse oh my god 1000 volts it's not real mike that lock that that it just goes in like an inch the doors are still moving like it would clearly pop out if the doors were pushed that's that's just for the little the little chicken-sized dinosaurs those would they just jump through the fence this park is horribly designed this is important this is our first cg yeah it holds up it still looks pretty good oh is this to say back then like they didn't seem to have textures down quite as much so it's a little smooth looking it's got lots of detail but it's a little smooth but i mean it's still like this looks just as good as a lot of things that are made today now i i haven't seen it the 3d re-release they did they redo any of the effects no no spielberg learned his lesson from the re-release of e.t he was like i'm never doing that again so they just took everything and made it look worse because 3d because it was in 3d yeah it didn't need to be in 3d i saw in the theater in 3d just because i wanted to see jurassic park in the theater again which was a lovely experience until the credits started rolling because there's two like 18 year old girls sitting in front of us and they were on their phones the entire movie and then when we're all getting up to leave i hear one of them say to their to the other that was the most boring movie ever they were talking about jurassic park and jay they may have been watching a more boring movie on their phones i i didn't take that into consideration yeah okay here's the famous egg hatching scene this is uh classic steven spielberg continuity here spielberg not giving a [ __ ] about continuity yeah um yeah let's see i think the robot arm the robot hand here grabs the egg and moves it or something and then another shot it's completely gone yeah like there it is there and i think in the reverse it's gone which is coming up next and then uh i want to say there's some other continuity errors here but i can't quite remember it's such a bizarre continuity error too it's not like like you see those in like uh spielberg's kind of like scorsese where he does he's not too concerned it's more about the flow of the scene but that one is so blatant because it's just cutting from one close-up of the egg to another close-up of the egg yeah it's really bizarre you know a little bit by this point in the movie i was so enthralled i don't think i either noticed or gave a [ __ ] i i want to say i noticed in the theater way back when i think i noticed it because you know [ __ ] dinosaurs yeah i i don't know it's it's a neat little prop there's a lot of great little animatronics and little and big and big very big okay best scene of the movie it's a good scene it's a good scene the best scene of the movie like as far as excitement goes but quality quality um oh it's it's exposition it's themes it's the morals of the movie and it's all delivered with these wonderful visuals a wonderful blending of everything that you need the reason why the movie exists the moral dilemma and characters different characters every character is strong you know like ian malcolm and the lawyer john hammond we all know where their opinions are coming from and they have this debate and it's great it's not just dumb action i love that that uh ian malcolm is pretty much like he knows how he feels about this from the get-go but just through this little speech she kind of has other people start to like oh maybe you've got a point maybe this entire thing is a terrible idea and john hammond is so lost in his own world of wonderment that he's flabbergasted that anybody would be against this but we've got dinosaurs it's magical [Laughter] he's a dreamer yes so to the point of being psychotic when you factor in the sequels and how much damage and how many people die because of his dreams yes this dream turns into a nightmare have they ever remade a spielberg movie has this happened yet because john carpenter's been raped john carpenter's got it bad i don't think so no spielberg's still too active yeah he probably wouldn't allow it when he dies they're gonna start making plans for e.t oh yeah et2 will be out within a year after during the works for the uh indiana jones reboot so that's true that'll be the first one right it's on the way he's drinking jolt colab do they still make jolt cola i think it came back briefly but we're not going to talk about jolt cola i'm sorry i'm sorry to get off track on our jurassic park commentary i'm sorry how much do you suppose that giant pile of [ __ ] cost i think it's just mud from a production standpoint uh probably ten thousand dollars but it's just mud i know it's not actual [ __ ] but as a as a prop like do you hire who do you get what department do you put in charge of that do you put the effects department or the prop department spielberg wanted he wanted everything to be real and realistic so he just he fed everyone on the cast and crew a bunch of taco bell okay everyone pull your pants down this is nowhere near watery enough for that oh that's true has some substance maybe pf changs which i uh which i like to call bm changs [Laughter] and of course the fact that this is all happening during a tropical storm is sort of another example of not being able to control nature are you saying the movie also has a theme i'm saying the movie has yeah a theme and things happening other than just dinosaurs attacking people you know i'm all for controlling nature [ __ ] nature i think i had heard somewhere this when the t-rex head comes down and it knocks the the the window out i think i had heard that that wasn't supposed to happen it was just supposed to smack on it oh really and so their reaction those kids reactions was like real they were terrified because the window popped out that's awesome yeah that's true i think i read that that's well that's the difference between this movie and the sequels is this one it treats you know even the the dangerous dinosaurs as animals just acting in their nature um and then the second and third one it's like nope they're just they're just monsters they're out to kill people one of the dinosaurs in the third one even though it's already uh like hurt and injured a person it it literally snaps his neck it takes the time to snap his neck why would a dinosaur even think to do that wasn't snapping his neck or was it starting to just pull his head off and they just cut away no it it it goes down it snaps his neck the guy like you know goes limp and then the dinosaur gets off of him because that's that's the same dinosaur that snaps the t-rex's neck said they saying that dinosaur just like snapping necks i got maybe that's that's their nature so maybe we're wrong and that they are acting according to their nature in the sequels but that's yeah that's the big difference is like the sequels it's just generic monster movie like they don't even need to be dinosaurs really do people hate uh jurassic park 3 because it's not a t-rex it's that that big spinosaurus thing well the t-rex is in it yeah but he gets killed by the spinosaurus and everybody loves t-rex nobody the spinosaurus he's just an upsurper spinosaurus is an uppity giant dinosaur as far as the public is concerned usurper usurper thank you the the spinosaurus those bigger yeah yeah and the thing in the new one's gonna be even bigger it's gonna be genetically altered to be five times emerging it's uh it thinks like a person too because it's smart it's smart for no good reason they're going to splice in human dna that's gonna be that's gonna be the big reveal that's my prediction yeah well we we had it was too dumb we had to put some people dna in there and then like you monster how could you use human dna and then they and they got them from like the black market like they had to use like prisoners psychopaths from a prison like a russian prison it's the only dna we could use we tried to go through the legal channels but we just couldn't so we had to use psychopaths from a russian prison you put russian psychopath dna into this tyrannosaurus we use jeffrey dahmer dna that's why he keeps trying to eat everybody even dinosaurs [Music] can cannibal saurus rex a tyrannosaurus that keeps trying to hump your corpse [Laughter] yeah look at how quick that scene was it's amazing it's like now now we see you know we saw how intimidating the t-rex is as far as size and and now we see that it can run too costs a lot to show that dinosaur running yeah i'm sure so now we get a little back story on john hammond's motivation he talks about the what is it the flea circus piccadilly circus no it's not piccadilly circus uh uh oh he paid the police the flea circus yeah petticoat junction what so he likes to watch it was a little boy he watched fleas on the merry-go-round and then he decided to make murderous monsters [Laughter] tried to eat his grandchildren i wanted to recreate the feeling i had of wonderment when i looked at fleas you're overcompensating john hammond i just wanted to know what it would be like at the fleas with the size of a building [Laughter] this is this is where he realizes that his dream is a nightmare seeing now the t-rex isn't immediately like i'm gonna get those humans rawr like it's it's mine in its own business because it's just an animal yeah and in jurassic park three when they beat the t-rex it's eating something else there's like a large dead dinosaur in the ground that the t-rex is eating yeah and then he sees these tiny little humans in a medium and he he instantly drops his huge dinosaur meal to chase after three scrawny humans that's because it's a big scary monster rich what else is it supposed to do and then he gets his neck broken by that spinosaurus oh yeah it takes the time to break its neck break the guy's neck like why would a dinosaur even think to do that this is a big jump moment in the theater people are like holy [ __ ] yeah that puppet's gone crazy god damn you of this sequence of course as we can say before any scene but it's great the um it's a nice breakup of of the visuals because most of the movie all of the movie is woods or jungle i should say jungle real uh life outdoor environments and then you cut to the the dinosaurs in this like totally stainless steel kind of mod yeah yeah it's not the type of environment you associate with dinosaurs right so that that uh the contrast is nice it's a nice visual breakup because now they run around inside the building gosh could this movie be more perfect i think in the book and in the original script i think the collapsing dinosaur skulls just kind of fall on the raptors yeah and they die but because spielberg is a smart man he's like yeah everyone's gonna love that [ __ ] t-rex wish they did yeah they still do and yeah this is this is a more crowd-pleasing satisfying ending yeah the t-rex is just an animal here and it's yeah it's not acting heroic or anything like it's arc isn't to save the humans or something stupid it's just it's just going after lunch but that cgi still looks great still looks good it's amazing it's amazing thanks for listening to our jurassic park commentary track oh i just woke up from his nap to say goodbye guys the movie over what's this this is oh my god thank you for listening to our commentary track good night you

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Length: 15min 55sec (955 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 01 2021