Episode 38

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JURASSIC PARK

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JURASSIC PARK

In this episode, the Fellowship breaks down various aspects of the movie Jurassic Park, focusing on themes of human arrogance, greed, and nature's power.

They delve into the character dynamics and the unfolding events within the film, highlighting key moments such as the introduction of the dinosaurs, the failed security measures, and the pivotal scene with the T Rex.

The hosts also touch on the symbolism of the storm as a foreboding metaphor, representing the impending chaos and conflict between humans and resurrected dinosaurs on the isolated island.

Through analyses of character reactions and plot developments, they explore the transition from scientific debate to intense action sequences as the central characters face unexpected challenges and dangerous situations within the park.

Key Takeaways

·       Discussion on themes of human arrogance, greed, and the awe-inspiring power of nature in Jurassic Park.

·       Analysis of character dynamics and pivotal moments such as the introduction of dinosaurs and the failed security measures on the island.

·       Symbolism of the storm as a metaphor for impending chaos and conflict between humans and resurrected dinosaurs.

·       Transition from scientific debate to intense action sequences as characters confront unexpected challenges and dangerous situations within the park.

·       Exploration of character reactions and plot developments that lead to a breakdown of security measures and the emergence of the T Rex as a central threat.

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Snyder's Genres:

MONSTER IN THE HOUSE - MONSTER, HOUSES, SIN

GOLDEN FLEECE - ROAD, TEAM, PRIZE

OUT OF THE BOTTLE - A WISH, A SPELL, A LESSON

DUDE WITH A PROBLEM - AN INNOCENT HERO, A SUDDEN EVENT, A TEST OF SURVIVAL

RITE OF PASSAGE - A LIFE PROBLEM, THE WRONG WAY TO FIX IT, THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM

BUDDY LOVE - AN INCOMPLETE HERO, A COUNTERPART NEEDED TO MAKE THEIR LIFE WHOLE, A COMPLICATION THAT IS KEEPING THEM APART EVEN THOUGH THAT FORCE IS BINDING THEM TOGETHER

WHYDUNNIT? - A DETECTIVE, A SECRET, A DARK TURN

FOOL TRIUMPHANT - A FOOL, AN ESTABLISHMENT, A TRANSMUTATION

INSTITUTIONALIZED - A GROUP, A CHOICE, A SACRIFICE (JOIN, BURN IT DOWN, COMMIT SUICIDE)

SUPERHERO - A POWER, A NEMESIS, A CURSE

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The Snyder Beats:

OPENING IMAGE

THEME STATED

SETUP

CATALYST

DEBATE

BREAK INTO TWO

B STORY

FUN AND GAMES

MIDPOINT (FALSE VICTORY OR DEFEAT BUT OPPOSITE OF THE ALL IS LOST)

BAD GUYS CLOSE IN

ALL IS LOST (OPPOSITE OF THE MIDPOINT, FALSE VICTORY OR DEFEAT)

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL

BREAK INTO THREE

gathering the team

executing the plan

high tower surprise

dig deep down

execution of the new plan

FINALE

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The Jurassic Episode

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[00:00:05] Chris: All of it felt like, I felt like all the exposition was very, very tight. And well done. Does

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[00:00:15] Sherry: It's like Ricky Bobby, he's covering his base. Yeah, same with Donald Trump, you know.

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[00:00:20] James: Go ahead and say it, Phil. When she's in a loud crowd. Put it in the trailer.

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[00:00:28] Chris: Yeah, I, I like the, [00:00:30] the subtitles.

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[00:00:34] James: That's a, that's an emotional swing for 24, 48 hours.

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[00:00:57] Phil: So 93, 94. So we're hitting [00:01:00] a good timeframe here at

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[00:01:18] James: Summer blockbuster, gigantic. Remember seeing it in the theater about 17 gajillion times. Right. So for me, you know, Jaws is Spielberg classic, all the Spielberg movies, but this [00:01:30] is, Mine. Yeah. As you'd say, this is the one that sticks out to me as far as Spielberg goes.

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[00:01:39] James: yeah, pretty much.

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[00:01:54] Phil: Well, this, I read the book as well, and this is one of only two [00:02:00] movies that I can readily think of where the movie is infinitely better than the book.

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[00:02:31] Phil: Dr. Malcolm, always looking for the future ex Mrs. Malcolm.

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[00:02:36] Phil: you married occasionally. Anyway, we'll get into Dr. Malcolm and all his fun as we get through. But yeah, this is, the 90s were a good time. Speed is amazing. This is amazing. Speed was more a physical effects movie that really delivered.

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[00:03:12] Phil: We just recorded speed. She's going to do her notable quotables. Okay, let's do Sherry's Notable Quotables.

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[00:03:44] Phil: That's Jaws.

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[00:03:49] Phil: it.

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[00:03:50] Chris: Yeah.

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[00:03:51] Sherry: I really did. Interesting.

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[00:03:59] Sherry: he backs up [00:04:00] after the shark pops up and

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[00:04:04] Sherry: All right. The second one, again, this is Steven Spielberg.

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[00:04:12] Chris: It's Raiders.

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[00:04:15] Chris: yes. Very dangerous. You go first. That's right.

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[00:04:29] Chris: raging [00:04:30] diarrhea?

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[00:04:37] Sherry: Work, work smarter, not harder. Sure. Okay. So anyway, all right. This is the last one. Bear with me. And see if you can, it's probably not a well known quote, but hopefully you can get it with, with where it's going.

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[00:05:06] Chris: That's close to cameras over there. Yes.

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[00:05:10] Chris: going

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[00:05:12] Sherry: About devil's tower in Wyoming.

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[00:05:42] Sherry: Red Rock.

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[00:05:45] Sherry: They have that Red Rock

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[00:05:47] Sherry: amphitheater, what is it? Colorado. In Colorado?

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[00:05:53] James: maybe, maybe not Nickelback,

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[00:05:55] Sherry: Yeah, sure. . I just had to throw that in it. Alright. I know y'all [00:06:00] wanted me to.

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[00:06:01] Phil: Okay. Alright. , money critics, fans. We ready? I guess that's what we're doing next. Mm-Hmm? . Yeah. All right.

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[00:06:29] Phil: [00:06:30] And I think the critics and fans are largely in agreement there. This is the first movie that we have reviewed. Okay. So the budget was 63 million back in 93, I guess 63 million domestically. It made 407 million. International 695 million for a gross of over 1 billion.

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[00:06:54] Phil: Okay.

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[00:06:56] Phil: Yes. And so for that I decided to make a new sound effect [00:07:00] for any movie that makes a billion or more money.

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[00:07:16] James: Not to mention the merchandising rights. Oh yeah. Of all the T-shirts they sold.

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[00:07:25] Sherry: Yeah. Oh,

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[00:07:28] Chris: opening the door, man. Yeah, [00:07:30] that's, yeah. We, I'm sorry, what were you saying? Girl Money Maker Michelle. Alright. Money

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[00:07:35] Chris: Said money

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[00:07:45] Phil: And Creighton wrote two books, or just the one? I know he wrote one. I

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[00:07:48] Chris: it.

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[00:07:56] Chris: Jurassic Park. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He wrote two books based on, and [00:08:00] this world, I guess is what I meant.

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[00:08:11] Phil: Park, the book, is not badly written. I just enjoy the movie and the characters so much more. Dr. Malcolm is not enjoyable, in my opinion, in the book.

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[00:08:22] Phil: like he is and so that's Goldblum taking that role and literally making it his own. Yeah, cuz that's not how [00:08:30] he's portrayed in the book at all. It's in my opinion. It's been a while since I've read it But anyway, all right anything else for the money critics fans? People love it and it made a buttload of money.

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[00:08:42] Sherry: We spent several times money, so yeah, I got it on several Watch

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[00:08:50] Sherry: theater. It's gonna be

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[00:08:55] James: Rail, all the stuff. This is another one.

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[00:08:59] Phil: [00:09:00] sure I saw this one in the theater. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,

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[00:09:02] Sherry: it. Oh yeah. 'cause I, I remember filling, filling the sound, . Oh

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[00:09:13] Phil: Okay. This movie has a lot to it. I think there is a theme that is echoed time and time again throughout, and I think that theme is as relevant today as probably it was during the time. Spielberg is no slouch and this movie [00:09:30] hits on all cylinders as I guess we'll find out if you haven't seen it, but if you haven't seen it, I don't know where you've been.

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[00:09:46] Chris: someone.

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[00:09:50] Chris: an AI.

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[00:10:01] Phil: And so I didn't have time to make my own notes except watching the movie and then using his as a guide and basically noting where I diverged. And so that's my perspective and would be interesting to see where you guys come out on your beats or whatever. Opening image obviously. is this dark jungle.

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[00:10:40] Phil: We know from countless viewings. Yeah. Some sort of creature. Yeah. Some. Deadly creature is being manhandled and put into a park or something and everybody involved seems to think that, hey, they got this, they got this. And they don't got this. A guy [00:11:00] dies fade out, opening scene. So immediately the issues I think are painted quite nicely.

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[00:11:24] Phil: Debated in this world. Also,

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[00:11:33] Phil: Yes, absolutely. Yes, there's going to be, we'll talk about the theme when we get to it, but this is a good foreshadowing of the theme, a good foreshadowing of the ending, and the issues that are going to occur in this film is amazingly set up in this one opening scene.

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[00:12:14] Chris: So like that's the opening scene of the movie, but that's not what I have done for my opening image That's not what you have for your opening image, right? Well, it, it depends on which, yeah,

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[00:12:27] Phil: Yes. And I think, I think that the character [00:12:30] that you want to track is grant, right? Yeah.

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[00:12:33] Phil: Yes. He has, he has the arc. Yeah. That's what that next

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[00:12:42] Phil: So this, he has it down as an opening image, but I think you're absolutely right.

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[00:13:05] Phil: Now you are terrified out of your mind, but you cannot see the monster. And that, that's also, as soon as you reveal the monster, some of the tension is released and drastic park delays, delays, delays that

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[00:13:28] James: Yeah. Right. Yeah. Spins full as [00:13:30] possible and then show it. And it worked. Yeah. Absolutely. So Jurassic Park is, Hey, I learned all these lessons, let's use it.

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[00:13:44] Phil: Oh, bummer. Well, that sucks.

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[00:13:47] James: a shark

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[00:13:51] James: suck. That

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[00:13:59] Phil: [00:14:00] Further on into the setup you learn that the relatives of this guy that was killed now have a beef with the company that is Jurassic Park or whatever and are suing or want to sue the company. So nervous investors and a lawyer shows up to the Amber Mine to talk with Hammond about these problems and that part needs to be inspected and this kind of thing.

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[00:14:43] Chris: Holding us in suspense and it's pretty good pope in the pool No, just because they're setting up the amber stuff Yeah, right in the mosquito in the amber while they're setting up grant and talking about that stuff, right?

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[00:15:08] Chris: No, no, no.

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[00:15:15] Phil: might think they're digging for gold or something. And then it shows up on

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[00:15:23] James: And this guy has it on his cane. Yeah.

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[00:15:36] James: go, which is if I guess it baby steps you because you find out that they're looking for that stuff.

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[00:15:53] Chris: no, Jurassic juice. I like it. I just thought about if he had started with. The, the mind bit, right? [00:16:00] And, and the mosquito in the amber with the Jurassic juice, like that's way less.

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[00:16:23] Chris: You would have been like, What? Cause I'm mining some mosquitoes. Who gives a shit? Yeah,

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[00:16:41] James: Sure. And dinosaurs escape.

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[00:16:47] Phil: the sin. There's got to be a sin, and a lot of times it's greed. It becomes the theme and the debate of this movie. And we can get to it when we get to the theme, but Malcolm will talk about the arrogance being displayed here.

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[00:17:06] Sherry: I just want to say I still like the beginning of this movie a lot better than speed because I can't stand the Nothing going on for several minutes. Within

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[00:17:17] Phil: Yeah. Not nicely, you know. That's,

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[00:17:27] Chris: Even the, when the logo comes up. [00:17:30] Like the music starts right away. Yeah, you hear the thrashy part like not the theme but the music of the the movie Yeah to me like that's again, I guess no slouch using John Williams like it Yeah, it sets you into the the tone of that world almost immediately like I'm where you know You're talking seconds into the movie, right?

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[00:17:49] Phil: no,

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[00:17:51] Phil: There's a lot of it's an over two hour movie, so you're going to have a big chunk of setup and it's almost, it never feels long to me though. No, it does not feel long. And [00:18:00] because you're setting up different blocks of characters.

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[00:18:13] Sherry: Yeah.

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[00:18:23] Phil: Satler. That's Satler. Laura Dern, paleo by paleo botanist. Paleo botanist.

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[00:18:32] Chris: Old plants. Yes. Where he's a paleontologist. Yes. Yeah. He studies

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[00:18:38] Chris: Yes. Yes.

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[00:18:44] Phil: Put it in the trailer.

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[00:18:49] Phil: his old bones in her old bush I guess. Anyway.

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[00:18:53] Sherry: gosh.

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[00:18:58] Sherry: Lord have [00:19:00] mercy.

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[00:19:04] Chris: now Grant is established as this sounds like a joke that Malcolm would have made you.

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[00:19:14] Phil: to believe that you don't understand the laws of attraction, Dr. Sattler. Anyway. So we were, we were introduced to Grant He is what they call a throwback, an old school guy, digging and meticulous and, and [00:19:30] hates computers, he says, shuns technology very much a respecter of the natural world, but almost part of that world that is sort of been moved on from.

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[00:19:41] Phil: Shown by his touching of the computer and having it freak out and, and, and just saying he, he hates computers and technology, or they, computers hates him. This is noted, okay, so in the setup you have the status quo, and then you have the rock in the pond, and this is the status quo [00:20:00] before Jurassic Park.

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[00:20:24] Phil: Then then to the modern world in terms of how he

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[00:20:29] Phil: [00:20:30] Yes, absolutely. And he hates kids. And he hates kids.

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[00:20:34] James: smell

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[00:20:37] Chris: yeah And again setting up of the rafters right because that's what they're what's they're digging up or whatever is a rafter and he Takes the claw out and yes, it looks like a big turkey the smart ass kids And so he you know scares the shit out of that poor kid. Yes, he hates kids.

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[00:21:06] James: Wasn't that a respective nature?

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[00:21:14] Chris: heard that now as you say that yeah World thing that'd be cool. It would be cool.

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[00:21:22] Chris: Yes, also sets up the Talon or whatever you want to call it like he has that mm hmm the claw.

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[00:21:36] Phil: So yeah, so this kid makes a joke about the six foot turkey and that's it So this is this is the grants before picture Okay. Very old school. This is opening opening image.

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[00:22:21] Phil: As he's doing that, this guy says, and I don't know if you heard it, that there's a the, the, the scream of a hawk in the background. [00:22:30] You know. as he's doing this, as he's talking about the birds and

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[00:22:36] Phil: I'd have to go back and, and catch that because I, I, I did not catch that. But again, these are the things that need fixing.

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[00:23:05] Phil: The past and present echo off each other, a motif that will happen repeatedly. Yeah, so I did not catch that. Now I wrote down here, everything in the third act is set up in the first, which is again, a masterful storytelling. Anything that you want to have in the third act set up in the first act, and Spielberg is doing that.

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[00:23:45] Phil: Later we will discover this is the very thing that Hammond and his enterprise are doing. So it's very, so that's, that's subtle and it's expressed completely clear. If you didn't catch it, you know, here it is again with Dr. Malcolm saying the, you know, [00:24:00] the arrogance exhibited at this table. This is, this is the theme of the movie and the, and, and the message of the movie is the complete lack of respect before the awesome power of nature.

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[00:24:14] Chris: everything. Right. He sure caught up. So caught up with the fact, can we, you know, can we do this? You never thought, never stop or think, should we do? Should we do? Yeah. I love that he starts banging the table and he's

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[00:24:24] Sherry: I say that

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[00:24:27] James: Before you know it, they patented it and packaged it [00:24:30] and slap it on lunchbox,

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[00:24:33] James: Yeah.

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[00:24:48] Phil: Nature. Mm-Hmm. And the past. And, you know, almost like Titanic, you know, the, the Titanic. There's a, there's a, this ship is unsinkable. Yes. There's a story. Yeah. I don't know how true [00:25:00] it is. I've heard it that a passenger was asking one of the crew of Titanic as she was boarding

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[00:25:08] Phil: about the, about the, about the.

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[00:25:23] James: Thunder

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[00:25:33] Phil: The sin of arrogance before arrogance of pride and hubris before the awesome power of nature is around eight or nine minutes that is stated. Any thoughts on that? Anything else? All right. The catalyst. So if we're talking about Grant being the opening race, the catalyst is the rock being dropped in his palm.

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[00:26:01] Chris: interesting. I didn't, I didn't think about it. I always thought it was like rude and kind of like, because they land and the helicopter's, you know, fucking up all their sight and stuff that they're doing.

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[00:26:16] James: He's just there to buy them off money can pay for it spared. No, he's only

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[00:26:24] Phil: Yes, they run back to it. Cover it up, cover it up. Yeah, and his grant's like And their laundry is being blown in, their [00:26:30] clean laundry is being blown in, and they walk in and he's rummaging In their fucking house? Yes, taking their Who the fuck are you?

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[00:26:35] Phil: Well, he was saving that, well, for today, because I'm here.

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[00:26:46] James: Yes, that's Then he, he wins them over by going, yeah Money. Three years. I'll fund you for a fully three years.

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[00:26:55] Chris: but, but How are you going to say no to that?

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[00:27:10] Phil: Now, this guy has a massive debate section, which I do not necessarily agree with.

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[00:27:41] Phil: That's what I'm saying

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[00:27:42] Phil: he doesn't think so. But that's so that's where I disagree There is some debate why us ask Grant Hammond evades the question prolonging the mystery They initially declined his offer. We can't leave, you know, but then money is brought in that tempts them and they accept the offer based on [00:28:00] being fully funded.

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[00:28:03] James: Yeah. I think I did the math on that. I think he was going to give them in the neighborhood of what for three years. I think a dig like that is in the. Half a million dollar range probably. Nice. So there's a good chunk of money and obviously nothing to him 'cause he spares no expense.

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[00:28:19] Chris: Yes. Now anyone track how many times he says that

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[00:28:22] Chris: Well, I know it's a bunch, I just didn't know. Yeah, no I didn't count. But yeah. Yeah, he, I like how the tone of it changes though. We spared [00:28:30] no expense to the, at the beginning of, we spare no expense to when he is eating the ice cream. Yeah.

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[00:28:36] Phil: it's nice. Now there is some indication that he learns his lesson at the end of the movie, but yeah I feel like he does. Yes, but but but

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[00:28:46] Phil: Sure But in the second one with Goldblum, isn't he like on his, I can't remember, but in the books I don't know. Yeah, he's on

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[00:28:55] Chris: In the book he dies? Yeah, in

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[00:29:04] Phil: For some reason I thought that he tried to do it better, again, either in the book or in the movies.

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[00:29:16] James: But

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[00:29:24] Phil: Yeah, I mean, that's the world. Okay, my bad. But by the end of this movie, he, he seems to have learned his lesson. Now, this is a [00:29:30] good point, because this guy notes that in, usually in the movie, the protagonist is the one with the problem.

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[00:29:53] Chris: That's true until everything fucking goes to shit. And then Grant and all the rest of them have a very big problem that they now need fixing.

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[00:30:03] Phil: Right now. Yeah, absolutely. And this guy says nobody considers Hammond the protagonist. So, so that's, that can't be now. It, it, it occurs to me that that's interesting because the movie has dinosaurs in it and it's about Jurassic Park, but if you are tracking Grant, the movie is about a guy.

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[00:30:31] Chris: Jurassic Park is

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[00:30:37] Chris: Right.

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[00:30:42] Phil: The problem is.

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[00:30:43] Phil: Well, you always say, like,

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[00:30:50] Phil: But I never, I mean, I always knew that Grant changed, but to me it was always about, well, the dinosaurs, you know, but, but if you look Who changes it's

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[00:31:03] Chris: Well, that's a drama. That's probably you know Yeah, it's not gonna make a billion Dinosaurs in there. Oh, yeah.

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[00:31:13] James: just stumbled upon the billion dollar formula

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[00:31:17] Chris: there Homework, but

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[00:31:28] Chris: Now this is a good point.

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[00:31:31] James: ha ha ha ha. You seem a decent dinosaur. Dread Pirate Velociraptor.

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[00:31:49] Phil: So, this guy says, you know, usually the protagonist is the one that has a problem that he's fixing and that's Hammond, but it's Grant who changes or whatever.

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[00:32:21] Chris: problem.

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[00:32:32] James: That's true. She was trying to force the kids upon him. Yeah. And smiling about it.

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[00:32:40] Phil: Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Okay. I, it's a weak point. This guy makes, I, he says cat

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[00:32:53] Chris: That makes him a better, well, save the cat is usually a bad guy doing Yeah. I mean, right. He gives him, because he is a bad guy and wants to save his kids who [00:33:00] has rough edges, he gotta give them. Yes, yes. Well even save a cat out of a tree. Well now, okay. They're a nice guy. You're right. Right. Well

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[00:33:10] James: Yeah. Yeah, so he can't be that bad of a guy if he's

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[00:33:30] Chris: Into this, into this world. Yeah, no, I agree with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like, you could do Malcolm if you wanted to, but he's so eccentric that that's harder to Yeah, nobody can identify with a

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[00:33:50] Phil: Well, the next scene is Nedry with, with Dobson, and they're making this deal about buying the embryos. And it's total, this guy was just handed [00:34:00] 750, 000, but he wants Dobson, don't get cheap on me now Dobson, wants him to pay for his, for his embryos. It's South America, so it's probably like a $4 lunch. Right.

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[00:34:12] Chris: We got do, got

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[00:34:21] James: Dresses like CIA though, or presents himself did. He did, yes.

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[00:34:42] James: There's a bit of foreshadowing there when they're coming down in the helicopter.

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[00:34:55] Chris: I got that the seatbelt didn't work and I thought it was just showing him Oh, you mean less resourceful? 'cause he has to tie 'em [00:35:00] together. But two female ins and the dinosaurs are all female down.

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[00:35:08] James: Nice. And I was thinking about that in the helicopter arrangement. Some of the, her sitting next to him would have had two male ends, right? Like they should have traded, but whatever. Yeah. So that's what I'm thinking. Like, why didn't they just trade?

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[00:35:26] Phil: Yes. More set up. We meet Dr. Malcolm who, [00:35:30] who has some of the best lines in the movie, but this guy's notes is really the, the, the strongest voice of reason. Yeah, up to this point in the movie the approach Jurassic Park requires, he, he makes note of gateways and thresholds that's true that there's crossing over several gateways and thresholds, the oceans, the air, the cliffs of the island, you know, making their way into this second act, this special world, special world.

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[00:36:12] Chris: don't think was to come check out the island check out is his thing and give their endorsement So all of it from the moment from the helicopter ride on that's their break in to their yes I'm doing this for the money now to fund my shit.

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[00:36:32] James: It's only when you get in the Crazy son of a bitch did it. With the Jeep, with the lawyer, do you realize, Oh, okay, this is not just a pleasure cruise.

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[00:36:51] Phil: Yes. So he has like a precursor break in the two, which I don't agree with any of that. Everything after that is fun and games.

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[00:37:12] James: I was thinking that she was looking at a leaf or whatever, and was saying it was from the late Cretaceous period or whatever, this shouldn't be here.

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[00:37:41] James: Like how long did it take to grow those to the size? Yeah. Where did they get all that? They didn't get all that stuff.

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[00:38:08] Phil: But what sells tickets is, you know, the big, the big ones, T Rexes. Yeah.

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[00:38:28] Phil: Sure. Well, there [00:38:30] were different paddocks, so you had the T Rex paddock, and you had the So, they were kept separate from each other. And maybe so you would move through different eras. Oh, that makes sense. On the tour or something, I don't know. Yeah, it's

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[00:38:48] Chris: Ideas as far as bringing the past and turning it into a theme park.

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[00:38:52] Chris: yeah. Westworld. When you said the Abraham Lincoln thing and gang isk, like it's that that was Westworld, right. Was, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Westerns and then medieval and like it's all these different [00:39:00] Yeah, that's true.

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[00:39:15] Chris: Wait, you get a fucking load of this Yes

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[00:39:30] Sherry: Well, even it just made me think, even at the zoo, the tigers are next to the lions. They're big cats.

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[00:39:41] James: But they exist now, you know, like, right,

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[00:39:46] James: Million. We're talking millions of years in between those, right? Dinosaurs. No, absolutely. Millions of veg, vegetable plant life.

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[00:40:01] Phil: We're gonna make a fortune we could charge anything we want fifty thousand and people will pay it

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[00:41:18] Phil: Right? Mm-Hmm. . Anyway. Yeah. The only one on my side is the blood sucking lord. Blood sucking lord, I was just about to say that. Thank you. Now, to Make the leap from [00:41:30] no dinosaurs to dinosaurs. There's some science involved. And I thought this was an excellent pope in the pool. The way they did it with the little ride and the video.

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[00:41:42] Chris: Yeah. The little video in the right. Yeah. Yeah. You are instantly educated. And you're learning it as the characters learn it, right. As opposed to like, cause especially, you know, I'm talking about for like bad movies, we'll put up like a little blurb at the beginning of it, explaining all that bullshit.

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[00:42:09] Phil: because you told me again.

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[00:42:14] James: Yeah, cuz it explains most everything you need to know about the the gene swapping the frogs changing sexes Like all that's planted in your brain Yes, as the dinosaurs will And you're on board, you

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[00:42:33] Chris: I think when they're going up the stairs And then I think it's I think Grant says we're all out of a job, right? He says, what do you think? We're all out of a job. And then Malcolm says, you mean extinct, don't you? I thought that was a good little jab. No, absolutely not. You know, their profession.

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[00:42:46] Phil: He has, this guy has the debate at 19 minutes. I think we've already established we're in the fun and games. Are these characters auto, auto erotic? Auto

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[00:43:04] Phil: And so the, he, he, he says, this is debate, I think it's more discussion of theme. How can we possibly have the faintest idea of what to expect brought back to life and, and, and thrown in the mix. So there is this constant hammering of, we have, where, whereas Hammond thinks he knows exactly what to expect.

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[00:43:27] James: we don't know. They're seeing the red flags, they're like, wait, you [00:43:30] have all this poisonous plants in your. Thing in your office because they're pretty. Yeah. They're fucking poisonous. And

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[00:43:41] Phil: Yes. Absolutely. So yeah, I just say, this is not a debate. It's more theme on exhibition. Yeah. The B story. He, I think he picks them as the kids. I pick them as the kids. You know, changing grant.

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[00:44:08] Chris: Hammond even announces their arrival and he says, they're here.

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[00:44:13] Phil: Oh yeah. That's cool. Yeah, that's cool. Now I didn't hear this, maybe you guys did, did Malcolm quick, this guy says he did as they're going through the big gate. What do they have in here? King Kong.

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[00:44:30] Chris: Absolutely. Absolutely.

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[00:44:32] Sherry: You probably didn't hear it. Cause I think I was talking,

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[00:44:36] Sherry: went to a a drive through animal park that had a big gate and. It was after Jurassic Park came out. My nephew was like, are we going to Jurassic Park? I said it looks like it doesn't it? So I was saying all that

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[00:44:51] Phil: Yeah, that's cool and so there this guy notes and I think it's a good point there was all this buildup and then they get into the [00:45:00] park and Nothing. Right. Right. So you're,

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[00:45:03] Phil: again, staying ahead of the audience. You know, you do plan to have a dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur. Well, they had

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[00:45:10] James: Everything was, you know, under the Jurassic parks. They had everything. Yes. And everything's on cameras. Everything's on. Yeah.

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[00:45:48] Phil: Malcolm. I know Dino, dino dropping She is tenacious

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[00:45:57] Phil: before eating Now [00:46:00] On some level I knew this, but he pointed out, and I thought it jibed, the storm as a metaphor, there's a storm coming. Well, there is a storm coming, that very physical storm, but there's also a storm brewing with these dinosaurs gonna, sure, you know, so.

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[00:46:18] Phil: Yeah, no, the storm is coming, but there is another one. Awesome. I have the midpoint as a false defeat basically I think where he has a False defeat, it's where the hero plans fail, the plans fail [00:46:30] due to unforeseen complications.

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[00:46:47] Phil: The T Rex appears and you know, he has that as a midpoint false defeat. I, I tend to agree. I had the

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[00:46:59] James: The, [00:47:00] the question I have on that T Rex paddock is when the fence comes down, the T Rex steps over. Yeah. Not two minutes, five minutes later, whatever, the Jeep or the Explorer gets knocked down fucking six stories.

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[00:47:14] Chris: T Rex may be six stories tall, I don't, No. I thought it was the other way. I thought the T Rex was over here, and so here's the road, right? The paddock, and then there, I thought it got knocked over here. Yeah. Okay. You're saying it went down the same way where the T Rex came from? I thought it was the other side.

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[00:47:35] Sherry: back. Yeah,

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[00:47:41] Sherry: going and they're supposed to be looking at the goat or whatever, but then the other time they're coming back.

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[00:47:50] James: T Rex when it, when the gate, when the fence comes down, the T Rex enters between the Explorers and then it knocks the other Explorer around and then kicks [00:48:00] it off the side. It didn't move that far up or down the road.

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[00:48:08] Chris: But yeah, I guess that's, I didn't know where it went. So either

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[00:48:13] Chris: talking about the space being real big, but yeah, it is a fucking T Rex we're talking about. So yeah, who knows how big that paddock was. Yeah,

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[00:48:22] James: So

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[00:48:27] James: T Rex coming out and yes,

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[00:48:35] Chris: notice the mistake, the door goes between open and closed on one of the Jeeps during that scene.

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[00:48:44] Phil: the door I'm like,

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[00:48:48] Phil: Now, two things here, this is, is this where she screams? This is one of my favorite screams in all of cinema, that little girl.

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[00:48:57] James: the mud and she gets up and straightens up.

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[00:49:07] Phil: it's one of my favorite screams.

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[00:49:31] James: theater. It was amazing with the surround sound.

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[00:49:40] James: reminds me of Wayne's world to every single time because they did a parody of that Wayne and Garth are lost in the National Park and they have the map up by the window and they have the flashlight and they're like, Oh, and then he pulls the map down. It's the dinosaur.

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[00:50:09] Sherry: then, I mean, even to the part where the kids in the tree and the whole, yes and no situation that I think is one of the scariest scenes. In any movie.

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[00:50:23] Chris: safe. No they're not. A couple of years ago we saw it, I guess, down at the, at the Bass Hall, where they perform the soundtrack while you're watching it, [00:50:30] and at first my only gripe was, you couldn't hear the dialogue very well because the music is live, so it's so much louder.

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[00:50:49] Chris: Yeah. Now it occurs to me when they're swinging on the rope and they're trying to grab it. And you see that car keep coming and ching, like you're the way they cut it. You're like, like you think they're about to get fucking wiped out by the, by the chief that's coming down. [00:51:00] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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[00:51:03] Sherry: Yeah, but when, and when he does that on the glass, you hear, you know, when he's Oh, and Jeff Goldblum's

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[00:51:10] Sherry: Yeah. Yeah. Cause you can put yourself in that

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[00:51:19] Chris: two dudes in there?

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[00:51:21] Phil: mean?

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[00:51:23] Phil: Well, that, that whole dialogue, you know, Oh, I'm always looking for the feed tracks, but even that, some of the best lines, you know, [00:51:30] it really goes to his character. I love Malcolm.

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[00:51:36] Chris: And then later when they're climbing the tree and the sister makes a comment about, you know, it's just a tree. Yeah. You weren't in the last one. There's

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[00:51:51] Phil: me just as because Nedry. It says every bit as greedy as, say, the lawyer, and certainly, [00:52:00] you know, If not, I'm gonna run you

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[00:52:01] James: when I come back down.

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[00:52:09] Chris: raise and all this bullshit, and your financial problems are not my Right. Yeah. That's a good moment for Haman too where he's like, you know, that or you can view him and Haman as a guy who's not a good boss and he should eat his employees, but I don't think you're on that.

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[00:52:23] Phil: He makes some reference. And so I got the idea that. People bid for the job and [00:52:30] and Hammond chose the lowest bidder.

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[00:52:35] Phil: Because he makes some reference that it's his fault. That's what you put the that's what you said. You would do the

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[00:52:48] James: So he works for some okay contractor company or something

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[00:53:00] Chris: Yeah.

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[00:53:03] Chris: to fix everything, you know? Yeah, and there's obviously tons of hubris with Nedry too, but you can't run this place without me and all that bullshit.

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[00:53:12] Phil: nature It's not always, arrogance in the face of nature There's no technology. Technology, but arrogance in the face of greed and, and hubris that is equal to your own. Okay, you're arrogant and think you can control everything, but another person who is [00:53:30] greedy, you can't predict what they're going to do either.

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[00:53:38] Chris: Greedy

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[00:53:54] Sherry: I didn't realize he said that twice. Yeah. I thought

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[00:54:06] Sherry: it was only when they did the power thing.

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[00:54:09] Chris: same. I didn't remember I'm saying it twice. Yes.

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[00:54:30] James: Cause it throws Malcolm into the toilet area. Yes. And eats the lawyer in half. Right. He gets covered up and so can't be seen. And then those two show up, the, the park ranger guy and Ellie show up. Stacey has dubbed that guy as

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[00:54:54] Chris: We were watching, did you call him that? I'm like, wait a minute, what did you call him? Yeah, that's Dino Dundee, that's amazing. That's what they call him. He's even [00:55:00] Australian I think. Wow.

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[00:55:08] Phil: understand the function of that.

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[00:55:13] Phil: off one ear? I don't understand Okay. I'm sorry, that was funny. So, talking about the sin, which is arrogance and greed and hubris. People start paying for their sins. The lawyer, blood sucking lawyer, we're [00:55:30] gonna make a fortune, bitten. Nedry, I'm gonna sell these to the highest bidder, gone.

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[00:55:36] Chris: nature.

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[00:55:41] Chris: Fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch the sticks, stupid. Fetch the sticks, stupid. Yeah, just, I don't know why, it always makes me laugh when he, I'm gonna run you over with the car when I come back down. Just, yeah. Yes. How shitty was this thing?

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[00:56:03] James: So that's the dinosaur that was in that was missing in the first paddock that wouldn't show up. Oh, okay, alright. Dilophosaurus, I believe they called it. Was, yeah, this dinosaur sprays a venom in its thing and it's not there.

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[00:56:26] Phil: Yeah. Appearing when you, not appearing when you want 'em to, an like nature [00:56:30] again. I don't, I don't know why,

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[00:56:32] Phil: too.

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[00:56:51] Phil: It didn't occur to me till maybe this time I saw it, but when they're in the tree and trying to get down, nature is again attacking them because [00:57:00] it's, it's the natural force of gravity and the trees and all. So again, it's. Them trying to get out of the tree and escape. He turned the steering wheel.

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[00:57:10] James: Right. But gravity is working against them at that point. But why didn't they, when they're coming down, go around the tree? To the you know, the 3 o'clock side, the 2 o'clock side, or whatever. Sure. I don't

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[00:57:22] James: Because it's a movie and it's not that kind of movie, kid. Yeah, and don't, yeah.

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[00:57:29] Chris: Yes.

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[00:57:30] Chris: working against them even, even now. Shouldn't it have been better if we had gone around the tree? Cause now we're back in the car. I can't think of everything, Tim.

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[00:57:39] James: No. Mine, mine either. No,

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[00:57:47] James: you said it. Well, that's the thing is, you know, the, the T Rex stepping out and then now it's a cliff. It, they needed a tree to be there. They needed the car to be in the tree. They needed the tree to fall down.

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[00:58:02] Phil: Yes. All right now. So there is the scene where Grant and the two kids are in the tree and he promises to stay up overnight and protect them all night. And I don't know if this is what you were alluding to, but he pulls out his. Raptor claw and tosses it away or whatever.

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[00:58:25] Chris: them and tossing the yeah when the line before that to what are you gonna do now? I guess we'll have [00:58:30] to evolve them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah. Well, he's starting to evolve. Yes.

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[00:58:36] Phil: sweet. Very nice. It was all his flea circus was all an illusion and then she says This was all an illusion that, that we thought we could control nature. We kept recapitulating. Oh yeah.

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[00:58:59] James: Which is dumb. [00:59:00] If he just sat in the freezer with the ice cream. The ice cream wouldn't have melted and he could have had nice ice cream the whole time. The power's off, yeah, but the door stays closed.

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[00:59:13] Chris: At least for a bit, yeah. He's just one of them

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[00:59:20] Chris: right? He brought them all out so he could try them all. Yeah, they're all melted. What a jerk. Arrogance.

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[00:59:25] Phil: Well, it's good. I like how she says that when

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[00:59:33] Phil: Now we have this scene where Grant says, I guess we need to evolve. And then Hammond still hasn't gotten there. Cause he's saying the next time it'll be better. You know, he is resisting that. Change or whatever.

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[00:59:47] Chris: in calling the dark night. I remember who said it It was in there somewhere. I want to say I think Samuel Jackson's character says it I mean, I'd never caught it before like they're talking about the different problems And I think the line something like that. We have all the all the problems of a theme [01:00:00] park and a zoo Yes, I hadn't thought about before but yeah, that's it's both major theme park major

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[01:00:09] James: All major theme parks have delays when they opened Disney, when they opened in 1956, nothing working in Disney, nothing worked in Disneyland. So yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.

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[01:00:31] Chris: Veggie stories bitches horses. Yes

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[01:00:36] Chris: She's part of the theme too. Yeah, she doesn't like dinosaurs, right like she's Embracing to record. She's scared deaf of them. She doesn't really like it's okay until it all turns to shit Yes, I guess right like she doesn't really seem afraid at the beginning, right?

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[01:01:00] Sherry: Yes. She must've been a fan of, of what's his name? What is his name again?

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[01:01:06] Chris: Grant. Grant.

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[01:01:12] Chris: Yeah. No, she's definitely looking at him with, yeah. Googly eyes or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah.

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[01:01:29] Phil: You [01:01:30] know, I was like that. Yeah. Which, which card do you plan

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[01:01:36] Sherry: it. I love it. I love it. I'm like, just rod with them.

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[01:01:50] Chris: Visually where they could just be standing there talking. It could be visually boring, but it's not, it's him getting in the cars, trying to get away from the, this fucking kid. Yes. Cause [01:02:00] babies smell. Some of them smell.

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[01:02:27] Chris: I think they're safe. They've been through all this bullshit, [01:02:30] Tim got electrified, all that stuff. But that's a false victory because the dinosaurs and raptors are about to show up. Yes, yes, yes. That's crazy shit. Bad guys close in or whatever, yeah. Well, yeah. Like they're safe, but they still gotta break into the ring and deal with this problem.

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[01:02:45] James: out there. What would Tim being blown off the fence be?

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[01:02:57] Phil: Okay. So I have my all's lost because at this [01:03:00] very around this section, Muldoon dies.

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[01:03:10] James: He, how did his arm get in there? Just like that in the thing. And I guess

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[01:03:18] Chris: Sure. Yeah. The rest of them was gone. I guess I always was this point. I wanted to see him, you know, I. I guess they made up for that in Deep Blue Sea, you know? I wonder if Sam

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[01:03:34] James: Yeah, I don't know. Or if that was just the last day of Sam Jackson going, hold on to your butts. All right, Sam, you're good. See you later.

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[01:03:50] Sherry: Well, I have a question.

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[01:03:52] Sherry: And I don't remember where it comes in. Yeah. But what's the point of having Jeff Goldblum sitting there with his shirt wide open, laying there all [01:04:00] like he thinks he's all that. He's swarthy and handsome. Oh, but the way he was sitting,

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[01:04:06] Chris: It's me, it's a meme and shit now. Yeah, yeah, well there's

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[01:04:10] Phil: Yeah, and put it in some park and I can't remember which state. That's funny. Yeah, but it's like a big bronze statue of that scene.

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[01:04:29] Chris: What's [01:04:30] crazy is he's laying there like that, because as soon as it came up, I'm like, Oh yeah, God, why is that shot that way?

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[01:04:54] Chris: It's just a shot of almost like a hero shot. There's a

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[01:05:03] Chris: There you go. Part of the theme. Right. Oh man. So it's interesting, but like if, if Tim getting you know, possibly, you know, get shocked and I'm a shit.

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[01:05:27] Chris: Has to be the false victory, right? Yeah. And you think [01:05:30] it's up getting back to the, well, you can't be, Tim, getting fucking, that's what I'm

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[01:05:38] Chris: that's what I was thinking. Just 'cause I knew it had to be the opposite and I couldn't find a.

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[01:05:52] James: I would, I think I'd agree with you on that.

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[01:06:07] Phil: Yes, but also because it's set up earlier, the, the little girl says that she's not into dinosaurs. She's a hacker, but then she's the one that storms the castle, so to speak. Yeah. Okay. In getting the power turned on by, by getting through the computer program.

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[01:06:24] Chris: is the power back on before? No, no, no, yeah. They get back and then they turn on, so yeah, you're right. I turned the power back on as [01:06:30] part of a false victory, but yeah, that's after. Yeah. Because they have to get back. Because if the doors aren't locking or something. Right. Just, yeah.

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[01:06:39] Chris: the headquarters is the false, all's lost, false victory, right? False, yeah. They get to eat, have a nice little meal, and they know, shit, you know, we, the power's still on. You know? Yes. Yeah. I think that's right. Yeah. There's a good setup for her arc is yeah.

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[01:06:51] Sherry: Yeah, I guess what? Just because powers on that main security systems, right? Everything has to be rebooted

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[01:07:07] Chris: Yeah. So yeah, here comes the hacker girl.

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[01:07:32] Phil: The tight space leads to a grating over the construction platform surrounding the centerpiece of the visitor's atrium, a full scale skeletal mock up of a T Rex battling a Brachiosaur. It's also a recurrence of the motif of the past echoing against the new. As a real raptor terrorized them while they all spin around on loosened sections of dinosaur dinosaur fossils.

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[01:08:16] Phil: so wrapped up with the Raptors that they didn't hear it, which I guess I'm willing, but yes, it's very much They don't defeat nature Defeats and

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[01:08:35] Phil: takes it out.

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[01:08:45] Phil: Yeah, the God from the machine what so you have all the characters of all these troubles You And everything is wrapped up because God comes down and fixes everything.

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[01:08:57] Chris: you know? Yeah, but, and I see what you're saying. And that could [01:09:00] be, you can make your argument for that happening here. But you said it a minute ago, like it's nature. They don't save themselves. Nature, like, Saves nature versus nature, right?

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[01:09:23] Chris: Well, he says He would've ate them too if they'd stuck around. Yeah, right.

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[01:09:42] Phil: Yeah. The T-Rex coming in and eating the, is the T-Rex doing what the T-Rex does? This is the power of nature.

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[01:09:50] Phil: it can smack your ass or you can benefit from it, but you're gonna respect it and then, and they are forced to respect. Right. The T Rex for saving them, [01:10:00] certainly, but And by getting the fuck out of there.

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[01:10:12] James: Grant his arc is complete. That's when he runs out and tells Hammond, you know, I'm not gonna endorse your arc.

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[01:10:20] Phil: Yes, and then, and you know, so both have come around, both the arcs are completed. The final image, you know, they're flying off, wistfully looking at the, so you have the amber [01:10:30] topped cane as sort of a bookend to the beginning when they were mining. So all loose ends and everything that needs to be fixed is fixed.

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[01:10:44] Chris: Cuz that was his theory. Yeah. Yes, and to me just I guess it was he was Opening images wrapped up in the past like has his hands on the past, right? Right the bones then he has his hands arms around the future, right? And then the absolutely around the kids you

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[01:11:04] Phil: The six things that need fixing are fixed.

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[01:11:12] James: So he went from absolutely nothing hating kids to having his arms wrapped around two kids that he don't know who they are. Well,

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[01:11:30] Chris: more of a, you know, of a, I guess, compelling arc, right?

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[01:11:40] Phil: yeah. Right. So he is ready probably, yeah. Yeah. Ellie's not gonna leave him now or whatever. maybe.

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[01:11:52] James: Yeah, I'm absolutely

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[01:11:54] James: do fucking smell.

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[01:11:58] Phil: pants when he jumped off [01:12:00] that fence. I thought he had shit his pants, but he said he vomited.

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[01:12:09] James: there you go. Kids smell, they,

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[01:12:15] James: he got over it, he got over it,

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[01:12:16] Chris: the food and he's sitting there limping and it's all Yeah. That kid's been through hell. Ears are fucking all bleeding.

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[01:12:25] Phil: feel bad for the kid. There's things, well and he had said that when, when he is grabbing the [01:12:30] fence, he acts like he's being shocked into, into scares. So he is, he's playing a joke on the kid, but not malicious this time like he was. With the kid, you know, anyway, yeah, right.

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[01:12:40] Chris: the drain at the beginning never would have

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[01:12:42] Chris: play for done that.

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[01:12:46] Chris: All right. Yeah. Cause yeah, that was not funny. And then the kid thought Tim thought it was awesome. Right. There

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[01:12:56] Phil: I love this movie, but very good handling of the [01:13:00] theme echoed throughout, hit it over and over again in different ways. It does everything right as far as the structure and, and

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[01:13:14] James: Yeah.

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[01:13:15] James: Yeah. Michael Crichton does that really well in his books. He, or he did, I'm sorry. He went like into the science fields and learned a lot about those things and then put them in the book.

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[01:13:35] Chris: drama and strain back in the day. He wrote

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[01:13:43] Phil: the one that Michael Crichton.

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[01:13:50] Sherry: And I remember seeing something on the poster that all of Twister also said speed,

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[01:13:59] Phil: So [01:14:00] yeah. Yeah, Jurassic Park and it says something about Jurassic Park and speed right on that poster.

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[01:14:05] Chris: The creators of Jurassic Park and speed, is that what it says? Nice, there you go. Well, shit, man.

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[01:14:13] Sherry: Oh,

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[01:14:18] Sherry: crazy because I think that's my next pick.

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[01:14:24] Phil: know, yeah. Ready for pass consider?

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[01:14:34] Phil: Right. That's it. That's all I got. Enough said. Right. Yeah. I, I, I'll, I, I full recommend this movie. The CGI is done so well that it's, I think it still holds up. Full recommend for me. Yeah, absolutely. Still holds up.

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[01:14:55] Sherry: I recommend, however, it is [01:15:00] when we started watching it last night, now we do have a, a bigger TV than we used to have, however, I just remember this is one of those movies made for big screen. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I mean, if it was showing again, which it, it may have,

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[01:15:18] James: you know, I think they did it last year because it was the 30th anniversary last year.

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[01:15:27] James: surround sound, the really feel it.

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[01:15:33] Sherry: This is the kind of thing you want to go to the actual movie theater. Let's see. That's kind of maybe

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[01:15:42] James: No, absolutely. Cause when that, when the T Rex is outside to the Explorin is roaring at the kids, Oh, No, no. It's man. No.

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[01:15:57] Chris: right. Yeah. It's a, it's a pass for me. Sure. A [01:16:00] billion dollars. You got to pass on something like that. Yeah. And I like, I think all y'all said it.

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[01:16:10] James: you don't like it, you're wrong. Right. I'd watch it again. You don't like Jurassic Park. You don't like movies. Get out of here.

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[01:16:17] Sherry: All right.

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[01:16:23] Phil: Okay, then that's Jurassic Park and we are out.

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Fellowship Of The Reel
One movie review podcast to rule them all
A single movie is more powerful than a thousand realities...or something.
Come to Fellowship Of The Reel, a movie review podcast beyond the furthest reaches of your imagination.
Four movie fans meet to discuss, debate, and ultimately review movies of their own choosing.
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About your hosts

Philip McClimon

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Philip A. McClimon is an author who likes to write about the end of the world (post apocalyptic, Sci/Fi), mostly because he thinks the shopping would be awesome (No crowds, everything free). He likes heroes that are the strong, silent type and not necessarily male. By silent he means up until the time there is something snarky to say, usually before, during, and after doing something cool.

He writes Urban Fantasy under the name Billy Baltimore for no other reason than that he likes the name. Many of the same rules for his other stories apply to Billy’s, strong silent types, smart mouth, does cool stuff, but these stories take place in a made up town called Hemisphere and involve stuff you only ever hear about on late night conspiracy talk show podcasts, which are, if you think about it, pretty awesome too.

So, that's Phil. He's not strong, rarely silent, and isn't known for doing a lot of cool things.

But his characters are.

Sherry McClimon

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The wife of Philip McClimon. Probably all that needs to be said. She is responsible for his bad behavior not being worse than it is. She is concerned that her mother might listen.

James Harris

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James Harris is a tech guru and musician extraordinaire; he also loves movies. A pretty decent guy all around.

Chris Sapp

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Chris Sapp has been a friend for a lot of years and a writer for a lot more. An encyclopedic knowledge of story and movies, he can take you on a deep dive into script and screen. Another pretty decent guy, which are the only kind allowed around here.