Geek Channel 8 - Jurassic World: Dominion

Our dino year continues with Jurassic World: Dominion.

Episode Transcript

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Welcome back to Geek Channel eight.
I'm Eric.
And today
we have got more
Jurassic World dinosaur stuff.
You're shocked. I'm sure.
But also, in addition to that,
we've got some more non Jurassic Worlddinosaur stuff. So.
So there's going to be more dinosto go around.

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last night I went to see a film
on the big screen.
It takes place in the 1930scalled Sinners.
It had, the one location stand off thing.

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there were some reminiscent of Deadand Breakfast in this,
where there's the bed and breakfastis surrounded by the undead.
There are some reminiscent of,the Titty twister from,
from dusk till dawn.
a lot.
Yeah.
the one location stand offvampire film is always a hit for me.
the music was excellent.

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I love delta blues.
It's set in the the Mississippi Delta.
my one criticism about thatis that the music,
was a little overproduced for Delta blues.
In my opinion.
It should have been a little RA.
and then also big spoiler here.
So if you guys don't want to knowabout this,
like, skip ahead by,about two minutes, but,

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there is a scene after birds, like,the next day
where, smoke basically takes on the KKK,
which is a little bit reminiscent of,like, similar things in,
I don't know, Django Unchained orsomething like that, or, because everybody
likes to see the Klan get offed, like,that's like a perennial hit.

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It's just like Nazis, right? It's like.
totally I was totally thinking about,like, What's the other, Tarantino?
The one where where they're killing Nazisand Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Inglorious bastards. So.
So it's got that fan service is like.
Yes, but my only problem with that is it's
kind of anticlimacticafter you've fought vampires, right?
So I thought it would be betterif they had put that section earlier

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in the movie, that was my only realcriticism about it otherwise is awesome.
Yeah. Yeah.
when I pitch it,what I say is this, this movie,
I, I felt fear, right?
And dread.
And I had nothing to do with the vampires.
these different thingsthat were going on there.
There was all these different tensions.
Okay.

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And probably the best thing I've heard
is that This is probablybe supposed to be one of three, that'd be
I also got to give a shout outto my homegirl,
Hannah Beachler,who I worked at Pizzeria with.
She was the production designer.
She's also been the productiondesigner for, like, Creed.
And I think she won an Academy Awardfor production design on Black Panther.

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I guess if you got a Michael B Jordanfilm, she's the production designer.
Right on. He's guy's crew, doesn't he?I yeah.
the director crew, you know,I mean, I, I love it, man.
They're they're cooking.
I have not actually seeingthe Creed stuff, but.
And this makes me want to be like,okay. Yeah.
Between that and the Black Panther movies,I'm like, okay, it is definitely rocky.
in the mold of Rocky.
So if you like that formula,you'll like it.

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Yeah.
Whereas the Black Panther movie sort ofbroke the superhero mold a little bit.
And this definitely breaksthe vampire mold a little bit.
Creed is like right in the mold, right?
So anyway, we can talk moreabout those movies another time.
We are not here to discuss centers.
We are here to discuss dinosaurs.

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Dinosaurs.
let's talk a little bit about thisnext short film.
Jurassic World Dominion. The Prolog.
So the
Prolog is a five minuteshort film released in 2021
as a preview for the movie Jurassic WorldDominion.
It's the second live actionshort in the franchise
after Battle at Big Rock,which we talked about last episode.

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it has basically two partsa prehistoric sequence set
in the Cretaceous period showing dinosaursin their natural habitat,
and a modern day sequenceset in California where a T-Rex
disrupts a drive in movie theater.
It was originally intended as the openingof Dominion, and the footage was cut
due to runtime, but was thenrestored in the film's extended version.

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It was released online On November23rd, 2021,
following a limited Imax debut in June
2021 with F9.
I don't know whythey keep releasing these shorts with Fast
and Furious movies,but apparently it's a natural, like,
these are our two big franchises,you know, I don't know.

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I don't know, maybe it's like boys.
Like dinosaurs and fast cars.I don't know what.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
Colin Trevorrow,directed it again and again.
Colin Trevorrowand Emily Carmichael wrote the script.
Michael Giacchino was the composer.
You know,I don't know how you pronounce his name.
I've said it before.

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The visual effects were doneby Industrial Light Magic.
the prehistoric segment was filmed on theisland of Sokoto off the coast of Yemen.
Using a second unit crew.
And the drive in sequencewas shot in England at Holly common
and mainly woods, overthree days in March of 2020,
with the helicopter footageshot on the final night.

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Okay.
Trevorrow had wanted for a long timeto show dinosaurs
in prehistoric settings,which the franchise had never done before.
We'd only seen them in the modern world.
So that was one of his goals,to show dinosaurs in their natural time.
And place.
The Cretaceous scenes were storyboarded

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by Glen McIntosh, who had been at ILM.
So they call it giga, not a source.
I've always thoughtit was gigantic to saurus
because it's huge,but apparently it's giga, to saurus.
it basically battles a T-Rex in this,which was inspired
by nature documentaries,They kept it short because
real worldpredator prey conflicts tend to be short.

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there was a lot of, focus on using warmamber lighting, to make things
feel, alive.
there were two, paleontologists involvedin, scientific, consultation on this.
One is Jack Horner,who we've talked about for a long time.
He's the long time Jurassic Parkpaleontologist and also Steve Bruce.

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Sorry, Bruce site.
I'm sorry, Steve, wherever you are.
Ken, I don't know howto pronounce your name.
So for the first time in the series,we see feathered dinosaurs Yeah.
so they're actually keeping upwith the, scientific progress
of how dinosaurs are depicted,which is always a good thing.
One of the species featured was Moreau's

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es, which is a small tyrannosaur,that was first described in 2019.
And Trevorrow highlighted the chanceto depict paleontological,
accurate dinosaurs.
Unlike genetically engineered versionsfrom earlier films.
So they have the great hand wave
for why dinosaurs don't look like sciencesays they should.

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Look now that we know it,which is these aren't dinosaurs.
These are genetically engineered dinosaurs
that use some DNA from other species,and that's why
they now have feathers in the earlierepisodes, you know.
though, like, We have the
the direwolves that apparently Don'tactually look like direwolves.

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part of that was you know,we don't have the DNA.
And part of it was marketing.
So. You
know, life imitates art imitates life.
Right. So. Yeah.
the T-Rex shown
is the same individualfrom Jurassic Park in Jurassic World,
which is now depicted as a clonedescendant of the original,

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the early part of the movie.
The prehistoric battle sets up a rivalryin the main film between T-Rex
and Gigan, a saurus.
And Trevorrow transitionedquickly from the T-Rex, his apparent death
in the past to its modern version to avoid
traumatizing children
because, yeah, apparently, you know,
you can kill all the humans you want,but you can't kill the T-Rex.

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You know?
Yeah.
So, there was a big delay heredue to Covid 19,
so they wanted to release somethingto sort of keep the franchise alive.
they knew this movie was coming.
It was just goingto take longer than usual.
So they released this is partially

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from what I've read and partially me
connecting the dots here and sortof making some, some assumptions.
But I believe what their goal here waslike, let's get this out there
so that we can keep the buzz going, for,Jurassic World Dominion.
The Imax version of thishad some extra scenes, including a gallery

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mass in a neighborhood, a mosasaurusattacking a fishing boat, and an alternate
view of the Allosaurus attackfrom battle at big Rock.
It got positive reviews.
And, the main criticismit got and considering
it had two paleontologists,I'm surprised at this.
But there was the outdated portrayalof the raptor

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as an egg eater,which they now think was not the case.
You know, it'seven in the name Oviraptor, right?
They used to think they were egg,stealing.
and, you know, they did say thatGigan to saurus, T-Rex battle in the past
wouldn't have happened becauseof geographical and temporal differences.
They weren't ever in the same place,same time on the planet.

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But So for the first timein depicting them in the past And yet
we're just going to wave our hands anyway.
And you know what? Whatever.It's fine for fun.
You know, now,
there were some people that, disagreedthat said that it could happen.
One was a reporter, Riley
Black for slate,who said that it was creative license

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and that the fossil record is offersdiverse interpretations.
And there was a paleontologist,Joe Bonsor,
who considers the depictionsmostly accurate or at least plausible.
So so there's you know,this is not settled science here.
Okay.
So, you ready to jump into this?

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Yeah.
So, it's got this prehistoric segment
takes place 65 million years agoduring the Cretaceous.
And it depicts thesein their natural habitats,
including Dredd,not us, trudging through a lake,
Quetzalcoatlus and Pteranodonscavenging on corpses,
and Ankylosaurus drinking from a wateringhole over raptor stealing eggs.

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The suit of Sarah topswading across a river,
and a moros and Gorgon, a saurusin a symbiotic relationship.
Basically,it's eating the food out of its teeth,
kind of the waybirds deal with crocodiles.
You know?
The prehistoric segment ends in a showdownbetween
Gigan, Osirisand a partly feathered Tyrannosaurus rex.
So now T-Rex has feathers.

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This almost made Dino battle of the week,but not quite.
This was a contender, but did not make it.
A nearby Iguanodon flees the areawhile the two carnivores
battle with begana saurus killing the Tyrannosaurus.
So basically the winner here,Gigan, a saurus, then a mosquito sucks

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the blood from the Tyrannosaurus,setting up the whole franchise's premise,
in which ancient DNA is recoveredby, know, a mosquito trapped in amber.
Then it skips to the present dayNorthern California,
where the original Jurassic Park
T-Rex is being pursued by rangersin a helicopter.

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And, the helicopter is part of theUnited States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Important note there.
she has escaped Jurassic world,fallen kingdom, at the end of that movie.
And, she flees and entersthe drive in theater area
and basically wreaks havoc trying to evadethe helicopter and a Ranger

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eventually, tries to tranquilizer,but she escapes off in the woods.
That's basically the story here.
So, a couple of thingsthat I wanted to note
here is the drive in moviesthat were showing.
There were AmericanGraffiti and Flash Gordon.
Now, given that Flash Gordonis the inspiration for Star Wars

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by George Lucas and AmericanGraffiti is a George Lucas film?
I think this was histip of the hat to Lucas.
You know, ILM does do the dinosaur effect.
So, famously,Spielberg Lucas are good friends.
my guess is they probably
wanted to do Star Wars or something,but it may be that it was tied up.

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They didn't want to advertise for Disneynow on Star Wars or something.
You know, that's my guess of whythey use Flash Gordon instead.
But, there we go. gave it took me back.
I'm like,wow, a drive in where they find one.
Where Lee there's people making outin the car while the dinosaur shows up.
It's, it has a certain flavor.

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And I think, the movies on the screenreflect that, Yeah.
And every time
this T-Rex shows up, you get the hero shotwhere the T-Rex is just like.
Oh, Well,
like, it's one of those thingswhere if the T-Rex shows up
and that doesn't happen,you're doing Jurassic Park wrong.
All right,so there's this creature being chased

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to the woods by it, government agents.
I mean, and gave me a feeling
this is all this stuff where I'm like,okay, you know, It was a great teaser.
It made me want more, you know.
One of my favorite parts is,
when the T-Rex attacks happensto be right at the intermission.
And the infamous let's all go tothe lobby is playing,

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which is, of course, in the public domain.
And you hear that played a lot.
it's what always gets us a YouTube
copyright strikewhenever I put these videos up on YouTube.
Because it's used in so many other things
that such as thisthat like the YouTube algorithm says,
oh wait, that's from Jurassic WorldDominion's Prolog.

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Like, you know,
therefore it's copyrighted, you know,because it's not a human listening to it.
I think more often it'slike some band uses it in their in their,
in their music,like they have it in their intro.
And so they are credited as holdingthe copyright incorrectly to this.
And whenever I try to dispute it,you know, they just demonetize

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and no human ever reviewsthat crap, you know?
Welcome to our dystopian future.
Yes. Lovely.
speaking of, let's all go to the lobby.
Let's hit it.
Let's all go to the lobby.
Let's all go to the lobby.
All right, so,I kind of leaned into this time.

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It's about.
indulgence. It's about feeding that fact.
We're going to call this, Dirtypig burgers.
Okay.
So. Dirty pig burgers.
Maybe Funky Pig would be better,but I think regardless, this is
this is going to be something whereit's like, this is borne on indulgence.
And I will tell you what we want to do.
first you get yourself some bacon.

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I would say the more the better,because to me, bacon is good hot or cold.
But you want to make enough baconso that you have a nice layer of fat
when you're done.
So we'll just say six pieces of bacon.
Cut those up.
want to slice up some onions, dice themmake them into thin slices.
I prefer dice. Put them in your fat.
You might want to remove some of the fat.
You just want enough so that you'recooking in, in basically bacon fat.

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This is going to be all in on the pig,all on and on. Fat.
All Okay.
that, I like to add a little waterand a little baking soda
to help them brown up quicker.
So you want to brown these? Cookthose off, set those aside.
Both these things are set aside.
Next back with a little bitmore of the fat.
You take your buns, I say Hawaiian.
Those are my favorite saddle buns.

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Either Hawaiian or potato. Either way,
toast them face down in the fat.
Finally, we get to our burgers.
Are we going to make beef? No, we are not.
You're going to get ground porkbecause we're going all in on a pig.
Okay. so ground pork.
Cook those.
Now the ideal is a griddle,but it doesn't really matter I'd say.

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You know, I I'm assuming you're going onyour, on your skillet cook those.
You're going to get even more fatfrom that.
Don't worry about it doesn't matter.Pour it off.
Whatever.But you get me cooking your burgers.
So you're assembling these burgers.
you have your your onions.
You have your, burger.
You have your bun,which is nice and crispy.
So basically, let me get this straight.
So we're talking ancient dinosaurs.

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This. This thing opened,like, in in the prehistoric past.
So this is this is paleo dietapproved, right?
Sure.
Yeah. That's.
Look over that. Oh, yeah.
The eyes don't forget. Yes. Of course.
You were putting the baconon the pig burger
that has been cooked in in pig fatwith the onions and.
So for me, this is how I would do it.
I said a pile of pickles on the sidebecause I love my pickles.

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But you could add themas much as you want.
And the perfect thing,if you want an actual quote, side dish
two things one, you could take all of thatfat and cook yourself.
Just get yourself some regular fries or from a freezer and cook them in that fat.
That's a little much even to me.
I'm not saying I wouldn't eat,I would totally eat it.
But, probably a better one that cutssome of the, the, all the fat.

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You're dealing with coleslaw.
You get it Oh, yeah. right.
This is what coleslaw is for.
are you talking about the vinegarycoleslaw,
or are you talking about the, mayonnaise?
Coleslaw? it's.
This is how I do it.
It's one of my favorite sidedishes for almost any meats
I go coleslaw
mix your favorite ranch.

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Okay.
Just enough to get it all creamy.
Don't go heavy.
And then
everythingbut the bagel seasoning to taste.
lots of flavor.
You know? You're not,you know, mixing anything. You.
But you're getting creaminess, flavor.
You get your onion, your garlic, all that.
Don't go too heavy handedbecause it'll be too salty otherwise.

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Because everything.But you know, that includes salt.
And, you get all these little poppyseeds in there and all the sesame seeds.
Very good.
Perfect side.
I love coleslaw on a dog.
Not big on a on a burger.
It cools off too much.
But ultimately, you're having a groundpork bacon burger topped with onions.
for me.

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I don't even need cheese for this.But if I was going to use cheese
of all things, what I would chooseis better.
Interesting.
Yeah, I like that Tang.
Okay, I think that's great.
And, you know, it just can go on as you'recooking your burger at the end,
you know, get towards the end, plopthat fat on top, cover it, till it melts.
Pull it out. You're good to go.

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if there was such thing cheese made frompig milk, I would recommend that.
But I don't think there is such a thing,
Oh, you can make cheesefrom any kind of milk, right?
but I think that's one thingpigs won't put up with.
It's like, yeah, you're not.
No, get away from me.
Okay, let me clarify something.
So you're saying you pull it out?
So how are you cooking this, exactly?

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I'm pampering this okay.
So and in every step.
Well most steps when you are cookingyour bacon
you're going to have a lot of fat.
And that's important for, making surethat your buns are toasted nicely
with a little,that's a, that's a grilled bun basically.
Okay, so you're buns. You're grilling.
well when I say grilled.
But I'm sorry when I. Okay.Let's put this way.

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When you take a little fat,put it in a pan.
Right. Yep.
You take your bunsand you put them face down, okay.
Okay.some people call it toasting, grilling.
I don't know you're going to get itcrunchy and little brown.
The crunchinessand that that all that that's perfect.
The backs will still be softwhen you pull them out.
You set them aside

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because you don't have to keep those hot.
All the heat comes from the burger.
You know, you're going to be layingthe burger on that.
You're going to add your onionsand your bacon on top of that.
So it's big, fat, meaty,mostly pig in your hand, in your face.
I will this is a symbol of the indulgencebecause that's

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what I really got from this.
our movies this week. So. Loved it.
All right, so let's jump inand talk about our next film here.
The the main course.
Jurassic world,the extended version from 2022.
So let me give you some background.
This, in early conversationsabout Jurassic World

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the movie that came out in 2015,executive producers Steven Spielberg
expressed to director Colin Trevorrow
his interest in making more Jurassic Worldfilms.
by April 2014,
Trevorrow confirmedthat sequels had already been discussed.
He emphasized the importanceof crafting a story that was not arbitrary

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or episodic, but one that could formone cohesive trilogy.
A second trilogy, a Jurassic Worldtrilogy, with a clear arc and conclusion
Trevorrow said thathe already knew where the story would end,
but needed to develop the beginningand the middle and contrasting this
new approach with the more episodic

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nature of the Jurassic Park films.
So, like, you didn't like the factthat Jurassic Park films all seemed
like separate, like there's not onecoherent story unfolding over a trilogy.
He wanted new directors,he cited the franchises Mission Impossible
and Star Warsas examples of where a series benefited

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from different people coming in to, directdifferent, installments.
that's a big swing, Well,not only is a big swing,
it's like giving upa lot of control, right?
Because you're like,yeah, I could do this all myself.
I have my vision for it.
Or you could be like,
I get to start the ball rollingand let other people take over.

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But still, like,you know, create the whole story.
He, also wanted the franchise to move away
from the theme park thing and explore
the broader question of the co-existenceof dinosaurs and humans.
Emily
Carmichael had some of her own ideasshe brought to it, as did

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the cast, particularly Bryce DallasHoward, who played Claire,
had a bunch of ideas for stuffthat she wanted her character to do.
Trevorrow and Carmichaelconsulted this list
while they were developing the scriptso that they could.
It's not likethis was shoehorned in later, like,
often happens where it's like, okay,

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and now we've got this big A-list starand they want us to do all this stuff.
Now they were still at the writing stage,so they were able to incorporate
some of the stuff. Awesome.
So some of these ideas that made it intothe film included the appearance of a baby
raptor and a depiction of an undergrounddinosaur market in Malta.
envisioned that to be
a darker version of the auction

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that happened in FallenKingdom in the mansion.
he described itas, quote, a hive of scum and villainy.
there was also a big decisionto put Doctor Sattler, Laura Dern's
paleontologist from the original JurassicPark at the center of the new story.
He consulted with, scientists to explore
how a paleo botanist might be the firstto recognize a global

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ecological crisiscaused by genetic manipulation.
cool.
they don't admit to this,but this reminded me a lot of Monsanto.
We'll talk about that later.
Yeah.
they do say that one real world
inspiration came from DARPA'sInsect Allies program,
in which genetically modified insectsare used to deliver pesticides to crops.

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And so this led to the creationof the film's central locust plot.
Wow. So yeah,there's some real, real stuff here.
Like, throughout the processof writing this, they collaborated
with a bunch of other screenwritersfrom the previous films,
they sort of all collaborated
to refine the final version of this.

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He found it a little implausible.
This is Trevorrow again,
found it implausible that afterthree decades of technological development
within the storyline timeline,Wu would still be
the sole personcapable of engineering dinosaurs.
You know, so he introduced Bio
Sin Corporation,which actually was in Michael

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Crichton's original novelsbut absent from the previous film.
So everybody remembers Ingen.
But there was also biosin was a rival company at the time.
I believe bio said might have been.
And they hinted this in the movie.
Remember in the original one, when Newman
like, Wayne Knight's

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character, from Jurassic Park.
you remember he, like, tried to smuggleout the dinosaur DNA in the barbasol.
Can so the barbasol can actually makesan appearance in this.
Right.
So I think what they are suggestingis that the people he was selling it to
or was planning onselling it to was biasing, Yeah.

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because Ingen was the onesthat were working with, Hammond
and creating the dinosaurs.
So, never explicitly stated,but it's part of how
well thought outthis series is at this point in time.
I'm like. You had that last part.
I'm like. I'm. No, I'm 100% dealing.
And, they even have crossoverwith characters from the animated.

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Yeah.
first of all, let's talk about the onesfrom the original movies, because Doctor
Alan Grant's back, doctor Ellie Sattlerback, doctor Ian Malcolm's back.
Doctor Wu is back.
you get all of them back in this, butyou also get some of the other characters
that have been picked up along the way,like, Charlotte's doctor, you also get.

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Yeah.
As we mentioned, Santos from the animated,Oh, I think the cast are so.
Well, I mean, I'm like. Yeah.
So you when you saw her live actionversion, you knew that was her, right?
Immediately, immediately.It's like, wow. Yeah. It's.
And you've had this feelingbefore where you know, you're like,
oh they put that character

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from the comics into this comic movie.
And I didn't knowthey were going to do that.
And this is kind ofthat was kind of that same feeling.
I'm like, oh, wow.
You and you got to figure some youngpeople at this point probably started out
with, the anime seriesand that was their first exposure
and maybe moved into the moviesand maybe didn't.
But this was their opportunity.
So, We know the two films were made and,

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they decidedthere was going to be a third.
And, everybody was on board.
And, Chris Pratt, who playedOwen, was signed on.
the character of Clairewould come back with Bryce Dallas Howard,
and so in February of 2018, universalannounced that Jurassic World three,
would be released on June 11th, 2021.

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that was when they announcedit would be released.
As we know, it didn't come out until 2022.
So, Yeah. things happened in between.
there's some setbacks herebecause Chris Pratt,
he's now blown up as a big Marvel star.
And so he's got other commitmentsand things like that.

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And filming for this began
in February 19th of 2020.
Now, do you see a problem with that?
Do you see a potential problemwith beginning your filming in late
February, like February 19th of 2020?
Right.
Yeah.
For those who don't remember,global pandemic hits the next month.

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Everything goes into lockdown.
So, they come to an abrupthalt of filming During the shutdown,
the filmmakers used the timeto start post-production on the parts
they've already shot,So at least they were smart about that.
That was smart.
Particularly stuff involving dinosaursso that the visual effects
team could get a head start.

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universal announcedthat filming would resume
in July of 2020 at Pinewood Studios,and they implemented
a $5 million health and safety protocolto protect the cast and crew,
including thousands of Covid 19 tests,a dedicated medical facility, on site
temperature screening stations, over150 hand sanitizer stations,
1800 safety signs reminding workersabout social distancing and hygiene.

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Cast and crew
were divided into two groups,one handling, construction
and pre-production, and a smaller,isolated group that included
Trevorrowand the actors and the key crew members.
Everyone received a
109 page guideoutlining the safety procedures
and mask wearing was mandatoryexcept for the actors
during filming.

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So productiondid resume on July 6th, 2020.
They rented out an entire hotel in Englandto house the cast
and crew for the remainder of the shootto create a protective bubble.
Right, so they had to basically rentan entire hotel.
after quarantining for two weeks,the actors and staff
could move freely within the hotelwithout distancing.

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They were tested up to three timesa week, and Trevorrow noted that
living together for four months helpedbuild strong relationships among the cast
and allowed for deeper charactercollaboration.
I mean, it could have gonethe other way. Like.
I am so sick of this guy, but. Yeah.
the hotel and safety
measures added around$9 million to the film's production cost.

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change.
as one of the first major Hollywood studiofilms to resume during the pandemic,
Dominion became a model for how largescale productions could adapt.
universalfound it, good movie to do this with
because it requiredvery few real world locations,
you know, a lot of green screenand, featured a small primary cast,

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the main, charactersfrom the original film, played by Sam
Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum.
They started filming their scenesin August of 2020.
Then around this time, four crew members
in England tested positive for Covid 19.
Four more tested positive on arrivalin Malta,
where the film was also scheduledto shoot.

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And then, dueto a spike in Maltese cases of Covid 19,
the UK imposed a 14 dayquarantine on arrivals from Malta,
forcing the production to cancelmain unit filming in that country.
Tavares
rewrote the Malta scenes to accommodatethis change.
These sequences were eventually filmedby the second unit under Dan Bradley

(31:40):
without the principal actors,so that's why they're not in Malta.
Malta shooting began in lateAugust and continued into September,
after which they returnedto Pinewood Studios.
Then this led to challenges
with various actor availabilities.
So Jake Johnson,who originally was supposed to reprise

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his role as Lowry, had to exit the projectbecause of travel restrictions.
Daniela Pinata,who appeared early in the film,
she was meant to return for a later scene,
but quarantine restrictions interfere,and she was replaced by Vera.
Satu playing a different character.

(32:23):
Wait, is that the pilot?
No, no no, no, she's,she's like one of the people that broke.
Remember that the the.
Yeah.
What's it called?
Paleo veterinarian.
Yes, it's a thing. Yeah.
So. Well, I was wondering where she wentbecause I'm like, why did you scuttle her?
her character was essentially replacedby a a different character,

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but filling that same gap, not the pilot.
filming again slowed in Octoberafter several people
tested positive for Covid 19.
They later tested negative.
But the film safety protocolsrequire a two week quarantine.
So during this next shutdown,
the main cast members continued to filmsecondary scenes

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before the full production resumed laterthat month, October.
Then, they finally wrapped in Novemberafter 100 days.
Like previousfilms, Spielberg was sort of involved
a little bit, but, not a whole lot.
Because Covid 19 protocolsprevented him from visiting the set. So,

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the paleontologist Jack Horner, returned,
and he was joined, as we mentioned,by Steve Brassard for Broussard.
I'm not sure how you say your name. Steve.
But Colin Trevorrowwanted to balance the scientific realism,
what with, quote, awesome movie, scary, I.
so he wanted to blend those two.

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He, introduced quill velociraptors,
the first appearanceof feathered dinosaurs in the series.
the way that the series describedit is bison has more advanced
cloning techniques,so now they're getting closer to,
like, resemblingwhat the dinosaurs really looked like.
Right? Right.
I love how that worksbecause that totally works.

(34:15):
Both for plot and, you know.
really is.
And, you know, it's funnybecause there's a point in the movie
where, like, like, are these dinosaursor are these, you know, it's like.
Or do you just make these things up as,like, we don't do that sort of thing here.
We we don'twe don't just make up animals out of.
No, we are not that.
they actually say thatin this film. Right? Yeah.

(34:37):
they're like, you know, while
Ingen used like frog DNAand stuff like that, we don't do that.
This is these are real dinosaurs,you know, it's like,
some of the new feathered dinosaurs thatappear in this film are the pyro raptor.
And, there is in a saurus, as wellas a feathered T-Rex in the Prolog.
They had, of course, research featherssimulation for realism,

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because modeling feathers is not easyin, CGI.
the film's primary dinosaurantagonist is Gigan out a saurus,
which Trevorrow and intentionally savedfor the trilogy's finale.
So he envisioned itas chaotic and destructive,
likening it to the Joker from the Batmanfilms.

(35:20):
Right?
This is a direct quote from Trevorrow.
It just wants to watch the world burn.
Other creatures introduced in Dominionincluded Dimetrodon,
the pre dinosaur type dinosaur,which I thought that went
the way of the Brontosaurus,but apparently still around the a raptor
which was more brutishthan the velociraptors.

(35:40):
But we saw them already in chaos theory.
So, the Dilophosaurus, returning forthe first time since the original 93 film.
You know, the frill dinosaurs,the giant Lucas.
like.
And this is real two from backthen there were giant insects.
unlike previous
Jurassic World films, Dominiondid not feature hybrid dinosaurs.

(36:03):
Because he felt thatthat had narratively run its course.
I guess so.
sure though, I.
But like, I feel like this was a,
the outcome from when they were workingon, the first hybrid dinosaur.
and when you make them smaller,but they will still have

(36:24):
all those other things, you know,they'll be a badass weapon,
but I'm not 100% on Well,the Tressa Raptor is a real dinosaur. The.
Well, then.
Oh, wow.
I think it was discovered in the 1990s.
So we didn't know that it had existedat the time,
Trevorrow's, had a converted

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barn behind his home in the UK,for post-production.
because of the pandemic relatedrelease delay, he had extra time
to complete the visual effectsand the sound and the score.
it's unusualfor most major film productions.
He was able to preview,near final cut for his friends
and Jurassic Parkfans to gather and give feedback.

(37:08):
So it was a far more audienceinvolved process than previous films. Oh.
It was completed in November 6th, 2021.
Two hours and 26 minutes.
It became the longest entry
in the Jurassic Parkseries, running two hours and 40 minutes.
The studio expressed concernsabout pandemic era audiences
sitting through a film of that length,
because now everybody's attentionis super short due to the pandemic.

(37:30):
So he agreed to trimthe theatrical version.
But he wanted a future director's cut,
so about 14 minutes of footagewere removed,
including the five minute Prolog,which we already talked about,
the black market fight between and overRaptor and all, Lysandra saurus.
The confrontation between Ramsayand Dodgson.

(37:54):
all this stuff
get put back in for this extended cutthat we're going to talk about.
All right.
That is a very long introduction,but it is a very long movie.
So let's talk about the actual film here.
I wanted to show them
something that wasn't a lot.

(38:22):
Something that. Was real.
Something I could
see and touch.
Creation
is an act of sheer, willful.

(38:44):
Life.
I'll find a way.
We can't keep her here forever.
While they find her.
We're never going to see her again.
We got to protect her.
That's our job.
Humans and dinosaurs can't coexist.

(39:08):
We created an ecological disaster.
I'm a settler.
Alan grant.
You don't come out all this wayjust to catch up now, did you?
You come in or what?

(39:36):
We were racing
toward the extinction of our species.
We not only lack dominion over nature.
We're subordinate to it.

(40:02):
Come back!
I always come back.
That's another plane, right?
Not exactly.

(40:32):
Proof.
Go to hell!
Don't move!
Bigger.
Why do they always have to go bigger?

(40:56):
four years
after the estate, auction incident,
that followed the volcano like eruption onis land new blah.
now the dinosaurs are roaming the Earthonce again
and there's global effortsto try to control them.
in the dolomite mountains, us in

(41:18):
genetics has a lost world.
Essentially, they have like a valley therewhere they, the dinosaurs roam free.
And, they do research on them.
Meanwhile,Claire and Zia and Franklin Webb
are investigating illegaldinosaur breeding sites.

(41:38):
here we get into the animal cruelty thingwe saw in, like,
the second Jurassic Parkfilm issues of that.
Owen Grady is also trying to help relocate
stray dinosaurs, but, it's challengingbecause he's trying to keep, Maisie
Lockwood secret in a cabinin the Sierra Nevada mountains.

(42:00):
Very much a, got a lot
to reference that film,I think was Hannah was the name of it.
There's a secret child producedfrom some sort of, experiments
that has to be kept secretin, in the mountains and called.
So, yeah, kind of references that.
And as a matter of fact, I think,
what is it say, the beginning of like,hey, you know what?

(42:21):
That one thing was cool.
Let's do that again.
Yeah.
I thought it was a little weirdthat there are, like,
reporting on the news,like, 37 dinosaur deaths this year.
And I'm like,
you know, I guess maybe if it was earlyin the year, but I'm thinking 37.
That sounds pretty small,
One of the things you start out
is that he's on horsebacktaking down what?

(42:42):
I don't know what kind of dinosaurthat was, where he's capturing it.
Yeah.
And I'm like, no way.
No, no, there's I'm like,there is no freaking way.
I'm like it.
Massesso much more than him and the horse.
I'm like, no,but you know what? It was? It was fun.
It was a great start. Dude.
Cowboys and dinosaurs.
Do you not remember Valley of Ganji wherethey lassoed the T-Rex or the Allosaurus?

(43:06):
Sorry, it was analysis.
I mean, again, it was like, that was cool.
Let's do more of that.
And there's more of that in this movie.
It keeps going. He. So. last week.
But remember, he's the dinosaur whisperer,so he's able to, like, calm
it down and convince it.
Yes. He comes down very much like,
Crocodile Dundeewhen he holds his hand out.

(43:27):
Numero morale more.
Just I'm just saying, man,they're like, hey, you know what was cool
when that one thing happened?
And they keep doing it, so let's go. Yeah.
a lot of the early stuffis revealed in news reports,
including the, battle at big Rock.
We see that, Yeah.
a little clip from that short,appear here,

(43:48):
but also there's like, a news polllike you often see on like,
I don't know, Fox News or somethingand then they're like, what do we do?
And like there's like destroythe dinosaurs or whatever, I don't know,
but there's like 7% saying RebuildJurassic Park.
Who are these7% that think that that's a good idea?
Say, I was going there.

(44:09):
You should totally rebuild it, though,
All right.
So now we also find outthat blue has a baby.
Yeah.
I don't know how this happened,
but blue is also in the Sierra Nevadamountains nesting somewhere nearby.
Oh, and maybe it followed in there.
I'm assuming he smuggles.Are there? That's the same.
However,they got there and got a whole kid there.

(44:30):
That's how they did it.
blue now has a baby.
And, that is evidenceof a sexual reproducing.
Maisy names it beta.
but she's Maisie'snow 14 years old, and she's, like,
getting sick of,like, being kept in captivity.
And she tries to sneak away to townand, Right.
Yeah.

(44:50):
keeping her there for her own good
doesn't really workbecause she is eventually spotted.
poacherwho takes the dinosaur off of them.
He's working with this wildlife.
And those guys pretend like they are then,but they're not.
So there's a showdown.
And instead of fighting, he's like,all right, I just take it,
and they're like, wow,I can't believe you.
stood down from a fight.

(45:11):
He's like, I got something to protect.
So, you know,you see how important he is to him later.
Because that's whatthat's what he has with tact.
But laterthat, that same, crew follow him,
find out aboutblue, and they find out about the kid.
So he should have just shot him.

(45:33):
Moral of the story.
meanwhile, they're giant locust swarms.
And by that,I mean, I don't mean the swarms are big.
I mean, the locusts are big.
They're swarms of giant locusts
that are decimating crops in the U.Sand, Laura Dern character
Doctor Sattler is like investigating this,I think, in West Texas.

(45:58):
that's where she discoveredthat the next field over,
which has bioscience seeds for its crops,
are unaffected.
now, this to me,
reminds me of a direct jab at Monsanto?
those of you who aren't familiar with it,you can look up seed
cleaning and Monsanto and, it's a thing.

(46:20):
this I totally bought into,this part of this, I'm like, yep.
They would do that.They would totally do that.
I wasn't so sure about, like, using
giant locusts spread, genetic material.
I wasn't sure about that.
That seemed a little bit off to me,but it turns out that's that.
That part's real.
Like,that part actually is, as we heard of.

(46:42):
what he meant.
No, that's, Yeah, that's the thing.
We thought of that already.
She's a botanist, remember?
So she's interested in the cropsshe doesn't know too much about,
paleo animals, paleo fauna.
So she takes one of these
to her old, colleague

(47:05):
and former, boyfriend, doctor Alan Grant.
So what now it's like.
Yes, Ellie's back.
Now I'm like, Doctor Grant's back.
Like, you know,
I didn't think I was so attachedto these characters until I saw movies
that didn't have them in, And I'm like,yeah, they really need those guys back,
he tells her it's a Cretaceous era insect,that's when they know

(47:27):
somebody else is, again,monkeying around with DNA from the past.
Right.
We also find out that she's divorcedfrom her husband, Mark,
who you might remember from,Jurassic Park three.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
So, guys, just so I just interject here,
as we're going along,it's like, okay, so she needs help.
She goes, gets girl buddy, who's on a digsite with a bunch of teenagers like.

(47:50):
Why are we even bothering?
Because these aren't real dinosaurs.Real dinosaurs. Right?
The real.
They're out there in the world, andhe's just like, It's like hidden life.
And she shows up and he's like, you'reprobably not going to want to help me.
I know you really love ithere. He's like, well, you know.
he already has the hat, right?
He was already a little Indiana Jonesy.

(48:12):
It's like we got the gang back together.
It felt like even just the very first timewhen I was watching, return of the Jedi,
I'm like, they have all themy own favorite characters together.
yeah, I feel like I'm being better, too.
And I like it.
loving this.
I'm like, yeah, bring me more of this.
So Franklin is nowworking for the CIA, part

(48:33):
of their Dangerous Species division.
when Claire and Owen go to him,He reveals that he thinks
that she's probably been taken to Maltabecause that's where they.
There's this dinosaur black market.
They go there and all hell breaks
loose or all dinosaursbreak loose, as the case may be.

(48:55):
Oh my God. Yeah.
Malta. Okay. Malta again. This is.
This has all the feeling of like,Indiana Jones got chase sequence.
It's literally, am I wrong in my room?
This right has, like,a three wheeled cart, but at one point
where there's a chase sequenceinvolving that.
Yeah. And there's a bush pilotwho gets them there.
Kayla. What's like.

(49:15):
there's there's. Okay.
So yeah, the Bush pilot told me yourcharacter, she's super cool, if anything.
Verging on too cool, but like, like,I think they pull it back and,
Yeah, they give her enough motivation,a backstory, and that's all.
And then they go from whereand they're like,
okay, why is she doing all this for them?
Even though she's like, you know,this hard bitten person in the underworld,

(49:37):
we get enough reasons and go from there.
just the fact that this movie has two plotlines running side by side
to me
is something I really like about it,
that we don'tget in a lot of the previous films.
So we've got the Maisie plotline
going on on one hand,and on the other hand, we've got the Lisa

(49:57):
Sattler and, Alan Grant,investigating crop's plotline.
And these twoare going to converge eventually.
And you know what?
So, based on your, production notes,Grant and Sandler would.
They probably have been in Malta.
And that would have converged thereif it hadn't been for all the, the upsets,
you know,
with the in production, as it turns out,they didn't need to have them there.

(50:19):
Instead, you had, you know, you have. Oh.
And, and,I can't remember remember her name.
Yeah. Opie's kid.
you have them and it's kind of ridiculousthat they're there, but it's awesome
because everything goes sidewaysand you get chases with the dinosaurs.
Oh, and this is where we get to seein the character from the animated series,
as the villainof this particular part of it.

(50:39):
And she's awesome.
And we get, Owen's old buddy, the Frenchguy, I guess the French Haitian.
Anyway, I didn't knowI wanted this, but I do, and it's awesome.
it's kind of like a
movie where you're like,why is everybody using kung fu?
We have guns,
but everybody is using dinosaursas their weapons, and I'm doing that.
But that's, because it's a dinosaur movie.

(51:01):
That's why. And that's okay.
We're going to do what we dobecause we like it and it's awesome.
The other thingthat I think was awesome is.
And when we cut backto the biasing facility,
Grant and Statler find Ian.
Malcolm's there,
and he's working for them,and they're like, they're all like.
Like, how could you do this? Like.

(51:22):
And at this point he's like basically,you know,
I warned you guys like too many timesand nobody ever listened to me.
So basically, you know, he'sbasically at the point where he's like,
yeah,what do you want for me? I. You know.
Yeah.
So it's great because he did it first.
You're like what is wrong with you.
And then you're like oh wait he'she's playing two sides of this.

(51:45):
you find that out later.
But like love it
when he's in the middle of lecturetelling them you are people are idiots.
You know, you're you'reyou're doing it again.
You're messing with them. You shouldn't.
And then he notices that his, old friendsare there and he just says some random
like, influencer of scienceand flora bullshit and everybody classes
like, okay, bye.
Yeah.He just switches over to absolute bosses.

(52:06):
Like,that was awesome because he knows he just.
You guys will just eat this shit up.
there's,you know, this underlying, tension.
Like there always has beenwhere he's like, hey, what's up?
You know, and I mean, let's face it,we have a man who, as an actor
has a notorious, He's.
How can I put this?
This may have a lot, charisma.

(52:27):
And he's always hooking upwith his leading ladies. That's the old.
That's the joke about them.
Anyway, but, yeah,
so you get to have the sort of like,you know, you know, Allen's like,
they're like, all right, I, you know,maybe I could still rekindle this romance.
And that is not even what's going on with,you know, and he's concerned
about what's actually happening. Here.
Yeah.
is Allen, but, Allen's definitely like,miss my chance with her.

(52:50):
Maybe I get no chance.
But you know what?
They never let any of this stuffslow anything down.
It's just boom, boom. Yeah.
And there's still dino battles going on.
So, like the get a source and the T-Rexface off for round two in this,
which could have been DinoBattle of the week,
but still not Dino Battle of the week.
Because there's more to come.

(53:11):
But also, I like some of the interactionsbetween the humans.
Like at one point they're talking about,like, the fences and like,
do you know how much voltagethe fence is that Jurassic Park had?
And Alan Grant's like, yes.
Ian Malcolm has another great line too,where he's like,

(53:32):
it's always darkest before eternal
nothingness.
So. So we have this whole thing.
We have them flying in.
We have one last minuteget on the airplane.
You know, just barely in time.I mean, I don't like that.
I'm going to just go back to this.
It feels super Indiana Jones.
We have them trying to fly in.

(53:55):
you know, make an excuse to landthere at the airport
they have in the Secret Valleyand what do we have?
We have our evil industrialist, he's,you know, he's a visionary you know,
but no, of course he's up to no good,and he's behind the whole plot,
Well, here'sone of the biggest flaws of the film. The.
That the villains plan.
That that thought,because it's never really clear to me.

(54:17):
And I may have missed this.
They seem to indicate
that this was a mistake that they madeand somehow escaped into the real world.
The, locust thing.
Like they made a mistakeand it's going to collapse, Agriculture
in the food supply all over the planet.
But also
then there's the whole part about like,they don't attack the biasing crops.

(54:37):
So that seems intentional.
So I'm wondering what happened here.
Was their plan to deliberatelycrash the food supply, except
so you have to plant biasing cropsor was that a mistake?
And if it was a mistake, then why doestheir crops are not affected by it?
I think it was purposely,I mean, there's no real reason
for him to sit there and be like he has.

(54:58):
I planned thisthe whole time. Instead, he.
But he spends it,
as like, well, we made a mistake,but we don't own up to our mistakes.
We bury them. We're going to erase this.
But it was just a mistake.
It's no big, you know.
And know,you see the he's still manipulating well,
the intelligentsia that he has around himor doing the actual, engineering, etc.
he's still manipulatingand controlling them.

(55:19):
He's still not admitting to being like,we're doing anything wrong.
He's like,
yeah, mistakes were made, but it's okaybecause we'll just make it right.
it's all about control.
You're never going to give up controlno matter what.
No matter how many bad you screw up.
do get a redemption arc for our longrunning scientist who gets a chance to,
actually give up control,be honest and make things right.

(55:42):
Are you talking about Doctor Wu?
this is another one of IanMalcolm's best lines where, like,
he finally comes and finds doctor, there,and he's like that guy.
It's always him. It's like.
It's.
Which I thought was awesomebecause, it is always him. You.

(56:03):
right, so this this movie, also,it's filled with retcons
where they where they wedge
entire characters in which you didn't knowexisted, like Maisie's mom.
yeah.
Maisie'sorigin story is finally told, Yeah.
which I thought was great becauseit's like, remember we talked about that.
And the other one, it's like,what exactly happened there?
Right, right.I mean, I, I was speculating.
Well, maybe your nanny is actuallyher mom, and she's not.

(56:25):
No no no no no no no and stuff.
So yeah.
No, the story is not what we thoughtit was.
but what I like about theI guess I'll call them the retcons
or they, you know, you know, they go backis that it doesn't
contradictanything that we had absolute evidence,
one way or the other, it contradictsthe stories we thought maybe were true.
It fills in the gaps, and I'm. loving it.

(56:47):
I'm, jumping aheada little bit, but, like,
this pushed all this nostalgia buttons
and it delivered over and over again on
like, you're doing cool stuff.
Almost all of it was stuffI have seen before
in a Spielberg or Lucas movie.
Like, like almost on a.

(57:09):
Aside from thethe plot with the agriculture
and what exactly went wrong there.
and one scene where they managed to callall the dinosaurs in somehow.
I'm not sure how that worked.
but other than those two things,I don't have a lot of complaints
about this from This filmit was not critically acclaimed
as much as previous filmsand is considered by audiences.

(57:31):
a lot of people consider this
the worst film in the Jurassic Parkseries, the entire series,
and I got to disagree with thatbecause it's
got one of the lowest ratingson ratings sites and stuff like that.
And I don't get it,because to me, the original Jurassic Park
film series got worse with each film.
The first one was the best,
the second one was not as good as that,and the third one was not as good as that.

(57:53):
In my opinion.
This Jurassic Worldtrilogy goes the other direction.
The first one, Jurassic World,was the weakest Jurassic World
Fallen Kingdom was a little bit better,and Jurassic World
Dominion is the best and in factone of the best in the whole series.
In my opinion.
Yeah.
it right now.
I'm like. It's like, oh.

(58:13):
Wow. And you know, I. And will always.
It reads as a it's like it's like,
oh, it's this is a sequelto the very first Jurassic film
and also to the entirety of,steel works and Lucas's work.
It's just.
And I can't go any further withoutmentioning that the gigantic saurus
and the T-Rex who battle back in time

(58:36):
and in the first battle of T-Rex, dies.
And then they battle again, and the againa saurus wins.
Again.
And then they finally get round three,
our actual Dino battle of the week.
they get organizedwhen it's about to attack them.

(58:58):
And then suddenly the T-Rex,who, let's face it, is the real hero
of the Jurassic Park films, or heroine,because it's a she comes to their aid
and eventually triumphs andand we get like that roar, like
at the end of the original Jurassic Parkfilm, where you got to have that roar.

(59:20):
Okay.
But wait, wait, wait.
Let's remember.
to her? Batman? There's, like a Robin. Mr.
Blade fingers.
Whatever that thing is. Yes.
I don't know what kind of a dinosaurthat is.
I think it's called, there is dinosaurs.
it's dinosaur that has big, long claws.
I recognize that as something real that,they have discovered,

(59:40):
but it looks totally made up.
I'm like,there's no way. Something like that.
But I totally did. It's ridiculous.
It's like hey, you know what?
If a wolverine's claws were like,
I don't know, two meterslong or something?
Yeah, let's do that.
It's crazy, but fun Yeah.
So, yes, once again, there is an a sourceis a real dinosaur.
So these are all, real dinosaurs.

(01:00:01):
Quetzalcoatlusthat attacked the plane earlier in this.
That was awesome.these are all real dinosaurs.
that was the winner of our DinoBattle of the week, though.
Was was the T-Rex aided by the
There is dinosaurs.
you know, this is the near future.
let's look at something that's supposedlytakes place in the far future.

(01:00:25):
Over the past few episodes,we've mentioned love, death, and robots
a whole bunch of times.
Just recently, a new season has dropped
and it's got the screamingof the tyrannosaur,
episode seven of volumefour of love, death, and Robots
in the far future,human society is like celebrating
a royal wedding between noblesfrom different moons of Jupiter,

(01:00:48):
and they have what is reminiscentof Larry Niven's Ringworld, Yeah.
I think it's very fair. Yeah.
but it's actually a big arena.
the MC introduces the entertainment,
by saying those who are about to die.
We salute you.
Which is,
slightly changed versionof the traditional gladiator, phrase

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which we mentioned happenedto be the title
of one of the Jurassic ParkChaos theory, episodes that we watched.
So see how this all ties together?
Anyway, there's, a bunch of differentgladiators.
One is the main protagonist, May.
first they have to, like, outruna stampede of, Triceratops
that come charging out.

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Then they, like,actually mount on the triceratops.
Dune, like, giant worm style.
You know?
And then they have to fight each other,
And then once that's over with, onceit's down to just her.
She's the last one that survives.
Then they release the Tyrannosaurus.
And so we get the classic Dino and Dino

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battle here of Triceratopsversus Tyrannosaurus.
And with all of these deaths,the gladiators,
kill each other,but they respect each other.
At one point, she actually kisses another.
One of the gladiator Oh, yeah.
That's implied that they are partners.
That's like.
And she didn't kill that one.
She did defeat. Them.
also with the dinosaurs.

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It's like She kills them, But they sort ofhonor the dead of the dinosaurs.
And at the end,she switches from the Triceratops
to the Tyrannosaurus and in something
worthy of primal, Yes.
the writer and the tyrannosaur are like,
go after the royal overlordsor the whatever.

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They are the dystopian Hunger Games typepeople that are making them fight, Yeah.
channels that same sort of energythat you get from Hunger
Games, where they turn on the peoplerunning the games.
Yeah. It was.
It was pretty sweet.
The last one, she defeated herwithout killing her, but they cut loose
the t rex who did kill that partner.

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And, then after they after she defeatedthe T rex with the, Triceratops.
This was just so, like,a mos proposal style,
you know, Jonathan Swift thing wherethey send down machines to suck the blood
from the T-Rex,and then they're drinking goblets
of it's blood,to fuel their and celebrate their power.
It's like, yeah,you want these people dead so bad.

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so when she turns to the T-Rexand unites with it to, kill them.
It's like hell yeah.
Lovely.
you know, back, I didn't like it so much.
She said it was so hard to watchbecause I'm like,
I mean, that was going to happenin a way. You're like, yes.
If they had ended it with just like,yeah, you served your purpose and,
you know,now you're extinguished or something.
It would have been a real bummer.
But now turning the tableson the oppressors.

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Awesome.
I've said before, I.
This is not for spouses.
I do not choose these movies
for for people to watch with their kidsor their spouses or whatever.
If you guys choose to do that,that's up to you.
But we started this thingtalking about animation
and how I did not like the human charactermodeling in the Jurassic World

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Netflix series.
This is an example where I thinkboth the dinosaur models
and the human models,the character models were great.
I wouldn't even say that becausethey are more like, photorealistic.
They're not necessarily.
As matter of fact, they havea very stylized look to them in ways,
definitelythey brought a level of seriousness
that wasn't feeling, from, you know,even though I enjoyed the plotlines

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on the Jurassic Park, animations, it didn't
that I don't know, it just felt goofy.
Right. Yeah, it was kind of cartoony.
There is something about itthat's like, you know,
if we give them big heads and smallbodies, that's what kids have.
And kids don't have that, you know, like,that's not like how kids look, you know,

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okay.
Well,you know, when you look at Astro Boy.
Okay, so Astro Boy is,
like that.
But, you know, when you were thinking, if,you know the Astro Boy plot,
for example, it's pretty dark and,you know, so it's kind of.
It's a weird contrast.
Well, you have kids in Johnny Quest,but they don't look like that, you know?
Yeah.

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I thought that was going to bethe reprieve.
This one was going to be a reprievefrom yet another movie that was not.
But you know what?
I was wrong.
It was a nice cherryon top of an awesome movie I really enjoy.
So. Yeah. And this pretty much closes outour look at dinosaurs.
We're going to watch the new JurassicWorld Rebirth when that comes out.

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But other than that, we've come thisthis is all led us to this point.
So you can't really saywe ended on a low note.
Like.
Like there was a journey that started out
way back when last year, actually,
this brought us all this way.

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there's standout moments.
I like some of the detourswe made along the way.
Turok stands out in my mindas like, a good highlight right there.
but I also enjoyed, 1million years BC and stuff like that. So.
it was like, wow, that was a little rough,but, like, can't all be winners.
I mean, if they were all winners,
why would you even botherreviewing anything?

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Because, you just be like,everything's good.
I used to write book reviews and like,
I would write book reviews of, of books
that were that and comic books and stufflike that, that weren't good.
And people after I did 2 or 3,they're like,
why do you keep reading stuffyou don't like?
And I'm like,what kind of a reviewer would I be
if I only reviewed the good stuffand didn't tell you what is not good?

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Until next time.
This is Eric
signing off.
So. Yeah.
I'll go a long way for some good pig.