Why Jurassic Park III is Underrated | 2001 Retrospective

0:00 foreign [Music] how good this movie is yes Jurassic Park 3 is fittingly the third Jurassic movie made by Universal for their franchise the one that divides the community for daring to kill a T-Rex and the one that put the series on Hiatus for many years why do I love this movie so much when so many dislike it is it Nostalgia or is it just because it's a very underrated movie yes of course I agree that the first two movies are objectively superior with their drastically different tones and

0:45 stories which make for some amazing Cinema Jurassic Park to this day is one of the best pieces of Cinema out there iconic and awe-inspiring not to mention the groundbreaking CGI used for the dinosaurs and the compelling story recently celebrated its 30th Anniversary it will never not be fondly remembered the Lost World Jurassic Park on the other hand is so unique and dark but fantastic for being its own thing and pushing the franchise in bold new directions I'll probably end up doing a review on that one at some point in the future as well as the original but for now we're in 2001 A year of great here's just a small selection of movies and TV shows that came out that year Jurassic Park 3 Walking with beasts the BBC adaptation of the Lost World when dinosaurs were in America the Blue

1:31 Planet Monsters Inc Spirited Away Shrek and of course the greatest film of all time The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring Peak Cinema and absolutely timeless [Music] anyway I'll have to talk about my obsession with Lord of the Rings another time unlike the darker tone of the Lost World Jurassic Park 3 feels much more like the 1993 original in its style opting for the lush tropical rainforest seen on nublar unlike the coastal redwoods of sorno in 1997 which can only be assumed to be another part of the island wait those Camp Cretaceous season 4 biomes drawing on the fact that sauna had radically different environments too

2:19 this movie is directed by Joe Johnson who also directed Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Jumanji two more really good films Johnson first asked if he could direct a sequel to Jurassic Park but when Steven Spielberg said he was going to do the next one he told him he could direct the third one if it was made this played out and we got the first Jurassic movie not to be directed by Spielberg also the first one in the franchise to have music not exclusively by John Williams but instead the majority of it newly composed by Don Davis who also did the music for The Matrix I'll talk more about the music in depth later it's a very fast-paced action movie with barely any slowing down since it's the shortest movie in the franchise it really packs in the action and leaves you wanting more well for me anyway the story revolves around a young boy in his mum's current partner going missing

3:05 on site B AKA Isla sauna since the San Diego incident in 1997 the islands have become restricted and monitored by the Costa Rican government yet smaller legal operations still run for a chance to see the dinosaurs companies such as the dinosaur which is just such a great name also can we talk about how cool that title shot is with the claws ripping through the screen before the movie starts it works in so many ways looking awesome symbolizing the Roman numerals of three and the three clawed hand of a Raptor or potentially a Spinosaurus so Eric and Ben are the two lunatics who've been conned into doing this and of course they get into a slight situation the crew of The Boat mysteriously vanishes in some fog which I've always assumed was the spinosaurus is doing seeing how I can actually swim

3:51 and is capable of doing that but actually it's meant to be the pteranodons even though they're still locked in their cage at this point huh in any case Ben and Eric escaped the boat wreck and sailed towards the island as we transitioned to American Suburbia here's an appropriate time to dive straight in with some character profiles Sam Neil is once again on top form as his s t a paleontologist character of doctor Grant easily the best character of the film and the star who makes the film more accepted by the fans grunt was essentially the main character of the first film and Malcolm got his own story with the lost world so here we are with Grant again who gets his own Standalone story too he effortlessly carries the film and if they've gone with someone who wasn't from the original film or its sequel this probably would have been much less

4:37 memorable Grant is shown to be much more World weary in this entry however his view of Jurassic Park is a concept being more to the tune of it just being another theme park with monsters and so he's returned to paleontology and digging up real dinosaurs or as close to real as you get in this franchise with Velociraptor remains being found in Montana this is the European Utahraptor from Walking with Dinosaurs all over again it's so degrading I like that his introduction to the film is just him being a big kid and playing with some vintage Carnegie dinosaur models also his attitude towards children has vastly improved through the bonding of Lex and Tim in 1993. back then you'd never see him be friendly to them can you imagine him being like that with Charlie so you know try to show a little respect

5:24 once again Grant has bribed into going to another island with Isla in the title sensing a pattern here what's more impressive is that he's managed to block out any mention of sauna with regards to there being dinosaurs there huh this is something I wanted to be mentioned in Dominion where he cracks a joke about always being bribed into being trapped on an island full of dinosaurs but this never happened lots of missed opportunities in that film okay let's get the elephant in the room out of the way now or rather the Rapture on the plane [Music]

6:11 what the hell is that this whole scene is supposed to be a dramatic and scary scene but of course it doesn't come across this way it's often cited as the lowest point of the franchise even lower than Kelly's gymnastics from The Lost World in reality it's almost a payoff to a very minor moment when Grant is in Ellie's kitchen trying to get him Accord to say Alan only for it not to and him to get this horrific dream later during the flight to sauna this stream is obviously joked about a lot but it's supposed to be like Grant having some kind of raptor related PTSD which is pretty heavy stuff but not really touched on again it would have been interesting to explore his psyche a bit more now the reason the Rapture that appears is a male variant from this movie and not a 1993 female is the fact that these new Raptors were essentially going to be retconned into being the only version

6:57 we've ever seen hence the continuity break here as Grant hasn't encountered these ones yet strange Choice by the filmmakers but not the end of the world either way Ellie degler yep degler not Satler she married someone other than grant that aside for a second it's nice to see another OG character make another return and her and Alan being such good friends again is nice you also just kind of want them to get together but I guess Mark slid into her DMS oh hi Mark Mark degler is an odd character not really having any bearing on the plot whatsoever just kind of there as Ellie's partner this is one of the few things that I think Dominion did right resolve this issue on screen yes obviously it was only done in that movie so that Alan

7:42 Ellie could get together finally but I really appreciate the inclusion which means that at least one small aspect of this movie was acknowledged in the final entry that actually made me excited to see it as I saw that scene before the full movie and I was hoping for other references and anything in Dominion but alas it was not to be Dominion was very disappointing okay I'll stop ranting about that for now I think the inclusion of Mark and Ellie being together as a couple definitely helps putting the fans of this one as many enjoys of this franchise would have liked Alan to be with Ellie instead as implied by the end of Jurassic Park but not explicitly said back to Ellie so she got oh Alan must be marooned on is the sauna I need to send help to rescue him from her son saying

8:29 and Grant shouting that's a strong connection to her friend with her dramatic walk away she's out of the film which is a shame seeing how she doesn't appear on the beach at the end together Mark and Ellie have two children their oldest being Charlie has obviously been nurtured to some extent by Grant with his love of dinosaurs which is a nice touch he has relevance to the plot later when he receives a phone call from Grant trying to reach Ellie after dancing to Barney for a bit yeah those scenes intercut with the terror and share power of the spinosaurus ripping open the boat should have been removed yeah I'm gonna call you clearly what's wrong Billy this guy really should have been the antagonist of the movie seeing how that apart from the dinosaurs there isn't one another

9:14 thing which fans like to bash then again this movie is so simple and linear but it doesn't really need a villain with how it is but if it did Billy Brennan would be the perfect candidate What if after the moment Grant discovers the eggs in Billy's bag that he not only reals that he stole them but also he's working for bison and trying to get them back from none other than Lewis Dodson you know Dodson we've got Dodson here then the tension between Ellen and Billy would be more dramatic and there could even be more argumentative dialogue with Billy trying to argue that these species would be better off being shown than simply being locked away the ultimate conclusion of this could still played the same with the birdcage with Billy redeeming himself by Saving Eric and ditching the eggs with Grant so that the Raptor scene at the end could

10:00 still happen I would have preferred that Billy died here as he serves a full character journey and it makes sense as it stands it's still nice to see that he survived somehow Grant gets his iconic cat back shame Dominion ruined that too also another lucky pack in this film however it's less lucky for Billy overall Billy is a decent character but not too special Billy's one of Grant's closer friends and a budding paleontologist who utilizes new techniques to better understand extinct animals this is evident with a 3D printed Raptor resonating chamber obviously Billy isn't seen or mentioned in 1993 but he is naturally aware what transpired on nubla he also seems to know Paul Kirby and

10:45 pushes for Grant to go with them to sauna speaking of our favorite not quite Enterprise dealing businessman William H Macy does an excellent job playing this quirky paint and tile salesman thrust into an Island full of dinosaurs with no knowledge of them I would definitely employ his Services however he's got some emotional moments and good comedic timing and iconic lines okay fine go ahead and scream and then when that tricycle plots attacks you don't come crying to me another moment is when Kirby is relieving himself Upstream whilst Billy is drinking further down yet other than Groton Satler I'm sorry Ellie degler Mr Kirby is one of the few characters holding this band together and he is generally a good actor and a welcome addition to the franchise in all

11:31 be it it's supposed weakest outing but Kirby doesn't get it easy and he's not the brightest in terms of the dinosaurs but then who can blame him he does however get punched by Grant flying to him well at least he didn't get eaten by the tricycla clots unlike Nash he insists on bringing Grant to the island to help look for his son Eric with his divorce wife Amanda oh okay you knew this one was coming yeah I agree with you a lot she is incredibly annoying but that's not to do with the act of Tea Leoni who is only doing what's in the script as it stands Amanda Kirby is one of the worst characters ever but she does have some redeeming moments however her love for her family and protection and ultimately her big moment at the end where she returns the Raptors their eggs

12:16 gives her a few things to do other than scream [Music] it's Kirby the phones are working seeing her current relationship guy yeah that's what I'm calling it as a dead desecrated and rotten corpse can't be the nicest thing to experience so her reaction is perfectly valid honestly foreign managed to escape yet Ben instantly died somehow I can only imagine that he got tangled in a little parasailing equipment and got swarmed by compies seeing how skeleton is still left where he died

13:03 [Music] not much to say about this guy he isn't a major player and just dies off screen Ambiguously so I have nothing to say only that how could a man to choose you over Paul now we get to sorry didn't quite catch that name what's this kid called Eric this way Eric [Music] the compulsory divorcee kid of the

13:49 franchise yet he's actually quite a compelling character I've always liked his inclusion and his scenes with Grant a nice to watch since Grant is much more tolerant of him from the get-go having had some experience with surviving dinosaur-filled islands with children also in particular at the moment when they joke about Ian malkin's book is quite funny Eric seems pretty resourceful for a kid of 10 years old as Kirby says as well even going so far as to procure T-Rex p seriously though how did he get it after evading compies and hiding in an upturned engine truck Alan and Eric reunite with the others and I thought there weren't any fences on the island without fences without

14:35 boundaries without constraining technology so maybe the kid is the answer to fix a divorce the Kirby's all seem happy with each other and the level of cheesiness is almost too much but it's sweet and a nice way to end the movie we also start the movie with Eric and as accompanying supposedly responsible adult Ben Hildebrand hey you knew this was dangerous this whole operation was your idea say let him crash moving on to the disposables Nash Cooper and udeski Nash and Koopa go together as minor characters that don't do anything except angular Spinosaurus and Kickstart the adventure okay maybe they are important for this story then they're only there to serve as spino fodder is it racist that the black guy is one of the only human casualties in

15:20 the movie maybe they're both just Pilots stroked not really mercenaries in this movie who get dispatched very quickly Cooper can naturally outrun a plane taking off obviously only to be eaten by a giant theropods and a terrible liar that's what you get for punching grants no wonder he sees Raptors that aren't there stop giving him concussion wait how did Paul manage to hire these two at udesky he doesn't really have any proper money does he speaking of poor poor udesky all he did was take a wrong turn and become wrapped to lunch he mocks the final character death in the film and it's quite graphic how he dies with being immobilized and then set as a trap before having his neck snaps yeah the Kirby's aren't going to forget

16:05 that at least he managed to survive a bit longer than his other two comrades he's also got some good comedic timing and another character who really has no clue what he's doing Grant must look at these people and go tourists now let's move on to talking about the Dinosaurs the designs of the dinosaurs in this movie are the best in the franchise end of story even the species that get less than a minute of screen time are treated to an amazing and intricate color palette and fits so nicely into the already established designs from the previous two films species like the pythosaurus and ceratosaurus get these beautiful colors and are so underused within the franchise almost every herbivorous species in Jurassic world is just blue or gray and they're given way too much screen time to show off how ugly they are can they not do something to make them more

16:51 unique [Music] reoccurring species like the ceratosaurus and Camp Cretaceous gets the dullification treatment and becomes a single monotone color with the red white and black markings its model is a bit iffy however from just being a repurposed T-Rex model as far as I can tell but the colors make up for it at least in Jurassic Park 3. also congrats complications for making sure ceratosaurus dies in the Jurassic franchise that's definitely not a Hallmark of a lot of paleo dogs [Music] aurus unleashes his rage on the wounded rival okay also what happened to the

17:37 Triceratops in this film like what is wrong with it it's so long fortunately you didn't see it much the Parasaurolophus on the other hand only appears to now have a green tint over the otherwise Brown and orange that usually has stegosaurus also remains unchanged from its last appearance but maybe it's a bit more green all nice to see such a myriad of her beverage species together it's also nice to see the Parasaurolophus and corythosaurus and a mixed herd even if that one corythosaurus gets shoved out of the way way too aggressively like what did it do wrong ankylosaurus is a nice and welcome addition to the franchise with some gorgeous Reds and blacks for the colors and even though it doesn't do a lot it's good to see them as another iconic dinosaur species added to the roster so the Brachiosaurus design in this

18:22 movie is the one that a lot of people seem to dislike I personally don't see that and I really like it for its out there color scheme of mottled greens and Browns and lovely red crest something I didn't even realize until recently is that his head shape is a different shape to the one from Jurassic Park also the ones you see are enormous just a shame that the momentosaurus didn't reappear and still hasn't it was so fleeting in the Lost worlds like the corythosaurus or ceratosaurus in this one but would have been a perfect candidate to bring back even just for another cameo role the consignathas do make an appearance but only in a small Cameo and it would have been cool to see them take down something again like Dieter Stark here they've seen hunting insects which is a cool bit of behavior and much more how their actual real-life counterparts probably would have done

19:08 the only reoccurring species from the other two films that doesn't make an appearance in this one is the Gallimimus with unrone reasons it's just not there but it doesn't matter too much also there's no Pachycephalosaurus the Raptors where do I start they are quite simply the best movie Raptor designs ever made I'd probably rank them as good as the Primeval Raptor for Quality sound design colors animations and cunning these Raptors are shown to be the most clever sorry the big one you're not the most clever girl the alpha female is where's the rappers in the other movies are essentially just after the humans for a quick snack these Raptors actually pursue the humans for their ex they're not the bad guys they just want their

19:54 children back and it's a good conflict I love how bird-like they are in appearance only in subtle ways these variants are built on the original design and elongated the skull to add the extra set of crests have pupils instead of slits in their eyes which only adds to the sense of intelligence and scariness and the males of course have their iconic set of quills coming out of their head the colors are so nice and unique the males in particular have had a Renaissance recently where a lot of people enjoy their design who can blame them the females too are equally as nice to look at and possibly more creepy with their red eye spots and yellow eyes they are shown to be intelligent by having a complex communication system which is one of the running plot threads of the movie and I love that they're just not mindless killing machines also the subtle way the alpha female calls

20:40 back one of the males and at the end of the movie after Grant uses the resonating chamber that's a nice touch the chamber itself with the simple blow into it seems to agitate the Raptors until Grant changes it to mimic the sounds of the Raptors which scares them off coupled with the helicopters approaching we also got very close to having a similar design to the jp3 males in Jurassic world with the individual known as red it would have filled the role blue does I'll be honest I hate blue in her spawn of a child beta with a burning passion but that aside wouldn't have been so-called has seen the jp3 inspired design instead they're so much cooler so what you like about the Raptor pretending to be in formaldehyde but I find it creepy and only adds to their

21:26 Supreme intelligence plus the fact that it tries to climb after that during the chase of the crossover cambryonics lab tsukumanas snow oh think bigger Baryonyx not with that sale Spinosaurus egypticus Spinosaurus is my favorite dinosaur because of this movie yes obviously I know this one isn't particularly accurate but it's probably my favorite dinosaur out of the whole franchise anyway just for the single appearance it's so imposing and threatening and yes of course the T-Rex in the other movies do their job and they are fantastic in their own right I love the buck from the lost world and the whole story Dynamic with the baby is brilliant and stuff well we're talking about the arch rival

22:11 here to the T-Rex or how it's become known from this movie so many giant theropod conflicts are because of this movie's Infamous battle with these two which we'll get to in a bit if we stay talking about just the spino for a moment can we bring up that it's iconic Raw yeah that one isn't present in Jurassic world Evolution or Camp Cretaceous why is that why is such an iconic dinosaur in those games and shows not allowed to have its proper Roar did Universal lose the file this makes me angrier than perhaps I need to be oh well never mind just the raw it has which is easily as great as the T-Rex and Raptor sounds just admire its amazing color scheme and fantastic on-screen presence I love this dinosaur seeing it in the

22:58 water during the boat scene is really cool too because it's almost exhibiting real life Behavior there but that fire shall spooked it though as it Retreats never to be seen again in that capacity anyway the T-Rex is only seen in one small scene near the beginning of the movie but that's only because it had so much screen time in the last two and we need more of that sail back Beauty okay it uses the same model as the buck from the lost world except with a more vibrant green coloration and it's smaller it's seen here feeling of a dead carcass which is meant to Showcase Jack Horner's T-Rex scavenger Theory which he still pushes for to this day basically there's no way it was just a scavenger it was definitely an active Hunter there is irrefutable proof to this and has been for a long time just just stop it Jack

23:44 anyway it doesn't come across like this much at all but even with everything against Jack Horner he still has contributed a lot to the world of paleontology he was the one who suggested Spinosaurus for this movie which was originally going to be Baryonyx interestingly and there's even some old logos showing this idea the T-Rex chases the others see he is an active Predator after they disobey Grant's instructions of staying still yeah let's just ignore the only qualified dinosaur expert we blackmailed into coming here with us now we come to a nice little inconsequential scene which has never been talked about endlessly okay let's talk about that controversial T-Rex vs spino battle firstly I must say this is probably my favorite scene in the entire film no joke I love watching this and usually

24:30 we'll rewind to see it again just to Revel in how awesome it is it's so beautifully animated and the sounds and how the characters all Escape Alan getting his own role while stuck between those two trees is quite funny and that little claw flick that the spinosaurus starts when it brings down the Rex so cool fun fact the animatronic Spinosaurus they used actually destroyed the animatronic T-Rex during filming hence why most of the battle is in CGI and one of the most satisfying Sounds here coming up let's hear that again and finally the triumphant Roar from the spino I could watch that scene over and over and I probably will it was definitely something original there's no carnival on Carnival battle with creatures that size had happened

25:17 before in the films yet now it seems to be a staple it was done here first and is over way too quickly for my liking the obvious reason people might dislike this battle is that it kills the T-Rex oh no but like so what why is it the idea that T-Rex dominates the franchise and can never be beaten people may think that that's their favorite dinosaur which is fair enough but that doesn't mean it can't ever die I've never seen a problem with it being killed hell I love the moment when it dies because the spinosaurus is just so awesome it's a bird cage one of the favorite scenes among fans the best pterosaur related scene in the franchise the build up to this scene with the fog and doomladen drums is so spooky and that shot at the Pteranodon emerging from the

26:03 Gloom is really creepy pterosaurs in general are very creepy looking animals anyway and these hybrids with teeth are definitely that I also love that most of the fog begins to clear once they all start flapping their wings fans have been waiting for pterosaur seen ever since it was written in the original book so it's great to have that appear in this one their tenacious aggression and determination is scary because they really don't have many other choices in the way of food I can't imagine the local fish population in the river is sustaining them very well also who's that skull from I can't tell if those babies are terrifying or terribly cute also the sounds and calls of the adults are a mixture of Ravens and something else but I think they sound brilliant it's always been a bit weird to think that they are set up as being incredibly aggressive and dangerous but then mirror

26:49 the Pelicans in the first one at the end by flying away peacefully even so that's a brilliant ending all of these designs have such vibrant colors the most dazzling of all the designs in the franchise and so unique that's why I love them a rather overlooked and severely underrated aspect of this movie is its amazing musical score which is composed by Don Davis who created a lot of original content whilst also incorporating much of John Williams music from film one in a very natural way something that the Jurassic World movies just failed to do properly in my opinion some of the music in this does feel a bit like it's made for TV but the themes a bit reminiscent of some of the Land Before Time sequels which is not a bad thing the instrumentation is really nice with a combination of a lot of woodwind and the more classical orchestral

27:35 fanfares made of strains and Brass undertones there's lots of slow methodical pieces which help accentuate the scenes until suddenly breaking into dramatic moments for surprise action the spinosaurus like the Raptors in the other movies and this one gets its own theme a riff on the original Raptor theme it uses the same notes and structure just in a different order [Music] it's pretty menacing turning up quite regularly throughout the story and even in the opening track as mentioned the Raptor theme from Williams score in the previous two movies makes a reappearance which is

28:20 nice to hear for a final time it's very odd that Jurassic world never utilized it also the same notes that signify the T-Rex in 1993 also appear frequently in this score too the kirbys have a nice little joyous theme which swells through and perhaps the best version when the group reunite by the fence but plays a lot with scenes of Paul and Amanda but also with Eric and Graham it's a beautiful theme it easily fits with John Williams music there's not much distinction between Don Davis's themes so they go together well the music which includes John Williams Jurassic Park themes feature a slightly shorter main theme I'll give an example this is the original theme which can be heard multiple times throughout Jurassic Park and the Lost World Jurassic Park

29:06 end credits [Music] thank you [Music] and this is the version which plays in Jurassic Park 3. originally done by Williams but recomposed by Don Davis [Music]

29:54 [Applause] this definitely highlights how quick this movie is to get going with not even time to showcase the full track which again is fine just an interesting detail I definitely recommend giving the soundtrack a lesson again if you haven't recently it's very good stuff another very important aspect of this film is the use of sound effects naturally you get a lot of jungle sounds which are very familiar and some of which definitely carry over from the other films but we also get treated to so many great sounds from the dinosaurs and Technology too I'm talking about the satellite phone of course

30:39 there's also one of the other inclusions to the overall Ambience jungle movies always do this by adding the sounds of animals that aren't found in the environment Gibbons in the case of Jurassic Park 3 kookaburras in the case of the Lost World which by the way is a scientific impossibility of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle whatever you study he also changed I think it's just any sounds they can get hold of but it does break the continuity a bit the dinosaur sounds are all fantastically unique in this film obviously the species that appear in the others keep their own sound effects and are expanded upon but the new species all get treated with such brilliant and iconic sounds mainly the Spinosaurus and Raptors if I've honest I already mentioned how the spinosaurus

31:25 Roar is absent from much material outside this movie for some reason but in this film at least we get to hear it and it is glorious moving onto the Raptors then their calls are one of the most iconic things to come out of Jurassic Park and have inspired many other sounds like that in other movies and TV shows these sounds will be used from this film naturally since they're dealing with more or less the same animal and those sounds are great but what I want to talk about the sounds unique to this particular variant they have such a distinctive tone and voice to them one of my all-time favorite sounds ever is this

32:11 I could listen to that all day it's so good their vocal range of course plays into their intelligence in this movie and I love that practical effects are back in four Force again which is lovely to see there's no point on an over-reliance on CGI if you can make convincing real life puppets and animatronics something they're Walking with Prehistoric Park and primeval took full advantage of Stan Winston's practical dinosaurs are a thing of beauty yes most of them are inaccurate nowadays but you can still appreciate them for their design the best dinosaur designs in movies by the time Jurassic world came along it was obvious that none of them were meant to be accurate instead just keeping in the style of work come before Trump puts it well genetically engineered theme park monsters nothing

32:57 more and nothing less they're movie Monsters they're not real dinosaurs the CGI of course is also very much present and looks as good as ever once again it matches perfectly with the Practical effects too and I say it still holds up to this day Jurassic Park 3 almost feels like a spin-off to the franchise whereas the original and the lost worlds were both followed on from each other with Progressive narratives and characters Joe Johnson apparently never had a clear concept of what this movie was going to do other than being more Standalone and yeah it does feel more like that this one whilst following on from the other movies by default ultimately doesn't add much to the overall story unless you count all the stuff going on behind the scenes such as the illegal cloning of new dinosaur species by Dr Wu

33:42 including Spinosaurus ceratosaurus ankylosaurus and carthosaurus all of these species being cloned during some time or after the Lost World takes place which is why none of them appear there also it's set on a completely separate part of the island there is that smashed window on the car which Grant looks into briefly before the embryonics lab which is the clear homage to the Raptor trying to get in the car in the work of Village in the lost world and for many years I used to think that was the same place but it definitely isn't Ron also mentions the San Diego incident during his fossil talk which is nice that it's acknowledged in the mighty cannon in this movie anyway I love how he doesn't want any questions about Jurassic Park at all he's so over it and he just wants to focus on his paleontology no force on Earth or Heaven but get me on that island uh yes but

34:30 what about hell it's nice that each film has a different method of getting to their respective Islands first film was a helicopter second a boat and third a plane nice balance of vehicles like the original film this one was filmed in Hawaii and the dense steamy jungle atmosphere is brilliant to see a much more primordial and primeval looking environment which works well for an abandoned Dinosaur Island a lot of it was also filmed in the studio with a mock Jungle which looks incredibly convincing like the other movies there are a lot of deleted alternate scenes in this one many of which have never been released publicly and I've talked about how the T-Rex vs spino fight was originated with more practical effects the change later on well I mentioned some more notable ones here as well

35:15 udesky's death was much longer initially with him standing up to the wraps before being taken down Grant was also going to have a motorbike Chase with the Raptors which ultimately got used for Owen in this squad in Jurassic world it would certainly be quite amusing to see Grant do that though complete with his Fedora Indiana Jones Style Billy's death was originally going to happen in The Birdcage but was removed from a more favorable happy ending in the movie chronosaurus was a species that could have made an appearance in an earlier draft of the movie but all of this was removed as a later dry news concept for a scene here would have had a pack of raptors attack and kill the spinosaurus near the end which was ultimately solved why we don't see the spinosaurus again but I think there are enough action sequences in this movie already that would have also made the Raptors perhaps

36:00 a bit too overpowered another version of the ending would have had the surroundings attack the Rescue helicopters but all this was scratched from a much more abrupt ending even something as simple as the kirbys Embrace with them kissing at the end was removed from Pacing Jeff Goldblum was also originally going to reprise his role as the chaotic doctory and Malcolm but he suffered a leg injury and subsequently dropped out but wouldn't have been so cool to see Grant and Malcolm on screen together again something we had to wait until 2022 for which was a disappointment anyway that is one big pile of [ __ ] a lot of other scenes were pitched and or cut due to pacing and many served as extensions of already present scenes or didn't add

36:45 much else to the overall story this is a T-Rex P well actually Sam Neil has stated that he thinks Jurassic Park 3 is better than what most people give it credit so listen to Dr Grant what went expert if we're not going to use his advice okay obviously this movie isn't perfect and lacks a lot of structure but this is mainly due to the fact that this movie famously had a very troubled production with so many drafts and redrafts of the script the making of which you can find on the DVD is definitely biased towards the movie being positive obviously with none of the castle crew really mentioning the production problems so it's not the most in-depth piece of information but still worth a watch the earliest script was a battle group of teenagers that got ruined on the island obviously This was later repurposed into cap quotations 19 years

37:31 later another early script at Grant living on site B and studying the dinosaurs there which would have made for an interesting concept yet somehow I don't feel it fits with his character to just go back there after everything he went through in 1993. so I'm glad they made him much more relaxant than returning in this one this would also have featured a child stuck on the island but there was also another plot running which had mysterious killings on the mainland and everything was set to go with this idea before the script was thrown out only five weeks before filming gan luckily David Capp who wrote the scripts of the previous two films stepped in to pitch the rescue mission story with Eric as the kid and the slimmed down version of the story many characters were repurposed and the actors had to adapt to the changes I guess we'll just have to evolve too

38:16 this movie was originally going to be called Jurassic Park Extinction which is a name many fans have given to their own spin-offs throughout the years another reason many fans aren't massive fans of this one is that it's not based on anything directly from Michael Crichton who wrote the books but then again the movie The Lost World Jurassic Park is so far removed from the book version though this point is a bit invalid this movie has a lot of mixed reception some people may not even remember if they grow up at the time when Jurassic world Trilogy was coming out the first two Jurassic Park sequels are kind of forgotten about which is a massive shame as I would easily hold them above anything that came after I probably rank the first three as good as each other in their own way the reviews and general consensus puts this movie quite low on the list or are most in a middle point where it's not

39:02 great but not terrible I also think that Dominion completely flopping has given some attention back to this one and made people more sympathetic to it like how Disney's Star Wars sequels have had The Accidental quality of making everyone miss the prequels more I personally think it's a great film lots of good action music and suspense and if I had to critique it I'd say maybe tone it down a bit Amanda really otherwise I don't really have any complaints about it other than what I've mentioned already Jurassic Park 3 is underrated and deserves more love thank you very much for listening [Music] no brain big snake no rattle

39:48 I'm forever