RedLetterMedia Jurassic Park Commentary 

I still remember watching this in the cinema in 93 and in the scene where Laura Dern and Bob Peck go out to check why Sam Jackson has not turned the power on yet, I heard a little boy ask his dad "Why didn't she take a gun aswell?" There was a brief pause and then the clearly divorced dad replied "Because she is a stupid Woman"

"why would the dinosaur break the guys neck" so he wouldnt testify against him of course, no witnesses.

I love how evert time they introduce Rich Evans or he introduces himself it's always his full name.

"He's just an upsurper." Never change, Rich.

Everyone knows that when you mix human DNA and dinosaur DNA, you get kicked out of Jurassic Park..

"We're not gonna talk about Jolt Cola." Proceed to talk about Taco Bell poop joke for 3 minutes

I want to just re-re-re-re-reiterate the fact that Mike, on record, on review, _loved Jurassic World._

It was actually heartwarming to just listen to these guys basically praise this masterpiece through the whole thing.

Mike is so damn right when he says new movies coming out are noise festivals

"what department? Props or effects?" If it's on set, it's the Set Dec department. If an actor touches it, it's props. So the pile in the back is Set Dec. The pile in front is props.

I really wish they did more of these, it's taken RLM 9yrs to knock out an incredibly random selection of only 22 commentaries. Even just once a month as a Patreon tier would be something. Still, I really like these fan highlight edits, it's just a pity there isn't a bigger selection to pull from.

In Jurassic World IX, the dino will be so smart it will DO MY TAXES!

Jurassic Park is a heroes journey about parenthood. Grant has a feminine arc and Ellie has a masculine arch. This is why the beginning and ending shots are about the prospect of raising kids. Set against the backdrop of "creating life". It's an absolutely brilliant subtext.

I can't believe how good this movie is in every way.

There is a line about the park being for the rich. The lawyer brings up that it would be for the rich and when Hammond naively says "this park is for everyone" the lawyer cynically retorts that they might have a "coupon day" or something.

it genuinely makes me happy they love this film so much because it's one of my favourites

Even the code Nedry was writing wasn't bullshit. It's actual pascal, he calls his routine that takes over the system "nedryland" and there are files explaining the procedure to check-in work and the deployment pipeline. Jurassic Park could have been saved if someone pressed the spacebar and tab keys at the same time on his computer is what the code implies.

"This is what they used to call a movie. Now movies are giant noise festivals." -Mike Stoklasa

"They're going to use human DNA!" So the studios DO watch RLM...

Disappointed this abridged commentary didn’t include Rich Evans’ random aside about Stalin’s plans for human-monkey hybridization. That’s one of the funniest RLM bits I’ve ever heard

“Ex-specially” - Michael Stoklasa, drunken Milwaukee resident and internet model

"How much do you think that giant pile of shit cost?" I thought this was a Jurassic Park commentary, not a Jurassic World one

Aw man, you left out one of my favorite bits. It was something in the lines of: "Ah yes, Alan tying his seat belt with female connectors is a metaphor/foreshadowing of the dinos finding a way to reproduce despite being girls, the detail that every douchebag that wants to look cool points out to people when watching the film!"

I have it in good authority that paleontologists actually love Jurassic park, because they loved it as kids and can laugh at it as adults

I watched this movie as a kid in theatres and it just blew my mind. It's still one of my favorite movies of all time, just love it!

"It thinks like a person too" - They predicted Intolerable Rex

i have to correct Jay here, the second film The lOST WORLD actually does treat the dinosaurs as animals even more so Sarah (Juliane Moores character) mentions that her objective is to prove the idea of the t-re being a rogue to be false and instead prove they are nurturing parents and the course of the movie shows the t-rex’s as parents looking out for their child, even the end scene with the male/father rampaging downtown san Francisco, is the fact they lure him back to the ship by using the t-rex infant and the whole theme of the that arc is the Rex is not some brute who abandons their offspring, but is a caring protective family unit the third movie kinds of drops that, but the lost world actually does treat the animals as animals and makes the point that the big carnivore species is actually a loving parental one who takes care of their kids.

Rich was on the right track with the human DNA being part of the plot in the new ones, but he underestimated how dumb it would be.

I saw this in theaters and when that 1st dinosaur came on screen on i believe it was a brontosaurus Took my 9 yr old breath away only to look over at my parents who had the same expressions on there faces It was truly amazing

Watching them talk about the "continuity errors" in the egg scene, looking more closely I realized that Spielberg couldn't have the shots he needed unless he moved the arm out of the way. In one shot the arm is gripping the egg, but the the next shot shows everyone crowding around looking at the egg from the opposite view. You couldn't show everyone around the egg with a giant robotic arm in the way of the camera which is why they had to move it. So yeah it's a "blatant" continuity error, but it has a purpose. One of the rules of editing is that "continuity doesn't matter" and for the most part it doesn't. Most people wouldn't notice unless they were looking closely. Not bashing the guys here, just pointing it out as a film making factoid :)

Watching this reminded me of how damn good the shot of the T-Rex throwing the Raptor into the bone sculpture is.

Good call by RLM on the "twist" of future Jurassic Park movies

"sorry I got off track...how much do you think that pile of dino crap cost?" 🤣

This was also the same summer as The Fugitive, which was a very different kind of blockbuster, but is also a pretty good example of a type of movie we just don't really see anymore.

I agree 100% .. what a year for movies and the best year of my 55 year old life. I was working the 3 to 11 pm shift as plain clothes security at Tower records, west 4th street NYC and my great fantastic girlfriend at the time was a register girl at the same store. Our weekends days off were the same Mon and Tues. We had breakfast at the Waverly deli and then we went to a matinee for this film and had a complete blast. We were one of the 1st ones in and it got more and more crowded till you couldn't even stand and BOY the excitement. It was like an amusement park ride. Great movie, great time in the Village in NYC. Best days, best movies'. Oh ...we also seen the Eastwood classic Unforgiven around the same time. What a year for love and movies. Its all CGI dead now. Never will be the same. Play some songs and remember the great times and that's all you need. You can die in peace.

I think they stopped making Jolt sometime in the 2000's when they realized five of them was enough to actually kill someone.

The blu ray really shows how good the cinematography for this film, which I didn't think about whenever it's on TV growing up. Of all the JP/JW films, this is the best looking one. The newer JW films, although some scenes shot on 65mm film, just feels to artificial with the color grading.

Gotta admit: To me, the best scene of this film is still two people, sitting at a table, talking and eating ice cream...........

That story of the 18 year old girls in the theater makes me genuinely sad.

Love that they take so much time to talk about the egg flipping arm as a continuity error but pass over the fact that the flat ground the T-Rex walks over to attack the jeep becomes a three story cliff.

Dobson! Dobson! We got Dobson here! See? Nobody cares...

10:54 For some reason, when this movie first came out, ALL of us thought, that tree, where Nedry wraps his cable around would actually turn out to be like a T-Rex´s leg or so....

Funny how they predicted Fallen Kingdom, that movie most likely stole Rich's ideas.

3D JP was actually really solid. None of it was gimmicky. It just got you that much more immersed, and gave me more of an appreciation for the layering and the framing.

Wayne Knight's character is dressed like every boy on the goonies.

I saw this when it was released in theatres. I saw it at the legendary Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. So this was one of those movies that had tremendous hype going into it. I remember being blown away by this movie just past my teen years. What a ride, what a movie!

7:00 let’s bring up that the great Dean Cundey did the cinematography for this. He did the cinematography for every John Carpenter film up to the 90’s. While I agree that *ID4* is when things took a turn for the worse, that and *The Matrix* are still top tier summer popcorn films for me.

when i first saw the title, i read "jurassic park cemetery" then i thought about a movie where dinosaurs are being buried in pet cemetery and coming back to life. that would be awesome.

"PF Changs" "Bowel Movement Changs"

What a movie. I was terrified those raptors would jump through my bedroom window.

7:45 Spielberg movies haven't yet been rebooted or remade, however the "Jurassic World" series has more in common with the previously mentioned Independence Day than any of the original Jurassic movies. The themes are shallow, the style is bland and formulaic, and it suffers from the same over-abundance of quips that plague other modern movies. Jurassic Park had some quips but I don't think the action or plot ever came to a complete stop in order to deliver a joke. That said, we did get the terrible Unix scene.

2:08 Jay's "the end of one era, the beginning of another" ... I like to include James Cameron's The Abyss and True Lies, and also The Fugitive.

1997: MIB, Starship Troopers, Anaconda, The relic...so much CG.

So, to answer Jay's question about the raptor that snaps Mr. Noodle's neck in JP3, if an animal wants you dead, it will kill you, then keep killing you until it realizes you're dead, 10mins after the fact. But also, we know that the raptors are intelligent so we can deduce that they figured out that snapping someone's neck is a quick way to kill prey without being injured since most animals don't want to get too roughed up in a hunt. I think the scene perfectly demonstrates that the raptors are animals while underlying how intelligent they are. Jp3 is a good film, I will hear no statements contrary to that.

I'm a palaeontologist, affiliated to a research institution that has a completely articulated "death-pose" giant carnivorous dinosaur as its logo. These DO occur! They are extremely rare, but they are out there... That said, I specialize in trying to wring out as much information from fragmentary isolated bones, so yes, that "Montana Badlands" scene certainly DOES make me throw up--explosively and uncontrollably--every single time I see it...

Steven Wright has AWESOME commentary here!!!

I assumed McDonald’s Happy Meals were in those raptor transport cages, because the commercials, you see.

I love how mad Jay is about the neck-breaking dinosaur in Jurassic Park 3

"I enjoyed watching tiny fleas, so I made the biggest fucking creatures ever!" makes sense

Hammond says he “knows his way around a kitchen”. Yet he misses the champagne glasses, and pours it into regular glasses instead. Thereby demonstrating his ignorance and hubris.

A classic movie.. i must give this a rewatch soon. I feel sorry for what the kids have to watch these days.

6:40 when I was a kid, this was the scene that I would fast forward through. I had watched it several times as a kid and just really did not appreciate the writing here. I went back and watched the movie again as an adult a little while back, and this was my favorite scene in the movie.

I laughed so hard that when Rich missaid usurper I corrected him in my head and then Mike made sure and humiliated him for it for me.

0:42 |If you didn't know the movie was called Jurassic Park, you might not know what was in that crate" - I was 9 years old when my aunt took me to see JP, but only said it's a "movie about dinosaurs" and I was expecting some kind of feature-length documentary. When this opening scene played, I was sure we're still watching trailers and previews. Then the rest of the movie happened and I was traumatised for a few good weeks. I leved it, though.

Jays story about the two younger girls who were on their phones the whole time and then said “that was the most boring movie ever” is very familiar to me. I tried to get my younger sister to watch Inglorious Bastards when she was in high school because she was really interested in the Holocaust and WW2 at the time because of school… She made it maybe 45 minutes before she said this movie is boring and left. I dont think her head ever looked up from her phone the whole time. Soooo annoying. Now shes an adult and the other day I heard her telling my GF how Inglorious Bastards is one of her favorite movies. Im like… Excuse me b***h????

"This is what they used to call a movie." My sides are in orbit.

I really enjoyed JP II. I think it had enough of the sentiment of the first (the awe of the beasts) to work. Ian Malcolm really gives it to John Hammond regarding his carelessness, yet he can't deny that the genie is out of the bottle at this point so he can't completely consider the animals as monsters, either. And when the T-Rex walks down the suburban street...well it kind of answers the question, "What might happen if a T-Rex got loose in a city."

4:57 - That's my favorite comment from Mike during this whole commentary. Too funny.

Regarding snapping necks, it is something that many predators use to subdue their prey, similar to the use of snake venom. but the main examples I can think of are Cats and some lizards. Cats usually try to bite the back of the neck at least enough to paralyze the prey but some lizards, particularly monitors will try to break its preys neck.

Love hanging with my best friends watching movies!

I feel like they kind of missed the point of the Petticoat Lane dialog, but, if they had been on the mark, it would have been a great riff! It also took me a minute to figure out the dinosaur confusion Jay and Rich had about JPIII. Jay was talking about the raptors going Agent 47 on Udeski, and Rich was thinking of the spinosaurus having a Nash Festival in its stomach. In any case the conversation highlighted the number of neck breakings in that movie, which I had never considered. Come to think of it, I think Billy is wearing a neck brace when they find him on the military chopper at the end!

Love the Dahmer reference, bit of Milwaukee humour there.

I love Carinsores!

You guys are a wonderwall of wonderful wonderment with mental wonders and wanderings without waiver...and it is ALWAYS an enjoyment. 😁👍✌❤🎥

Saw the whole movie for the first time in easily 25 years a few weeks ago, at a movie theater as well. T rex roar was max nostalgia feels. Also underatood a lot more of the philosophical points.

Jurassic Park and Terminator 2 are the 2 films I use as examples of how to use CGI minimally and effectively to support and compliment the story/narrative, instead of placing the emphasis on big and loud CG special effects to mask a horribly shallow story.

The continuity errors are part of the story… a wonderful portrayal of the control slipping from them.

The only continuity error that I noticed in the theater was the weird part where the T-rex walks out of the paddock, then the car is pushed into the paddock and there's suddenly a huge cliff....

13:53 Did Jay completely forget he made his "neck breaking" point earlier? Hahaha

TBF, I think The Lost World still treats them as animals, but that movie is also directed by Spielberg!

"This is what they used to call a movie"..."This is the music"

12:31 my favorite scene of this ENTIRE franchise... 😍😍😭👍

It always bothered me that no one touched the chilean sea bass that the chef prepared for them...

The more time passes the better this film becomes

I watched this movie so many times in theaters when I was a kid, and is what got me into reading when i saw there was a book

When the Jolt Cola moment happened, and Jay said "Sorry to go off track...on a Jurassic Park commentary" - - *chefs finger kiss* - - I really hope he was alluding to the fact that that's what happens in the movie lol (8m20sec)

"This is boring" what?!!! I saw this in the theater as a kid and it blew our minds man

The cgi in this movie looks better than the cgi in any of the prequels

5:10 - I love when Mike makes Rich laugh.

Snapping the neck in the same way a human would is I agree over the top but the idea of finishing off prey with a killing blow is something we see in nature. Tigers, Jaguars, and other big cats are smart enough to go for the neck so to me if it did something like that I wouldn't see an issue but I do remember the way the dino snapped his neck and it was like we would, total nonsense.

My favorite commentary. Mike is so drunk.

There's another continuity error that I never noticed until much later. The cliff that the trex pushes the car over is the same wall that the trex steps over to terrorize the stranded vehicles.

The 'it's just an animal, it doesn't have an arc' argument does fall apart a bit with the T Rex showing up in the nick of time at the end there. Lol why would he be anywhere near the visitor centre when he could be chasing Gallimimus around the park

Rich predicting the future like always.

I keep waiting for SLJ to reappear in one of the sequels and berate the cast for thinking that was his arm just because he’s black

Bless you RLM highlights because im too lazy to search for this on their site

The minus 1 rep on this video is probably James Cameron because of the ripping on CGI. Edit: The rex head through the sunroof was planned. In the making-of... there's a scene filmed about a year before filming took place, where Spielberg is talking about that scene with the kids encapsulated in the glass bubble.

Another continuity error in the lab scene is at the start the actor playing the scientist is clearly bd Wong. But during the shot they replaced him with Michael wong, and nobody noticed

I agree with Jay that the dinos should be animals and not monsters, which is why I don't understand why he thinks the opposite about Terminators, that they should be monsters and not robots.

The typical movie magic at the 2:00 mark. Standard 8 foot wide travel trailer (no slide outs back then), but when they go to the interior shot it's a good 14 feet in width.