Except we in Hungary were taught the Queen's English at that time in elementaty school, so our angry letters addressed him as "ya cunt". Other than that, 100% accurate
I still say that if they cut the San Diego stuff and ended it as soon as they left the island, it would be much better. The movie was dumb but fun while they were on the island. But then got shoved off a cliff by a T-Rex once they left the island.
My favorite part in this movie is at the beginning when the parents come to the rescue of the girl getting attacked, and the mom screams and suddenly it’s yawning Jeff Goldblum.
It's hard to believe that dinosaurs can't make about 15 hours of movie plots very interesting. Those 165 million years that they were alive must have been boring as hell.
This movie has one of my favorite silly lines in it, when they're searching for Sarah and someone shouts her full name Ian says "How many Sarahs you think are on this island?"
Congratulations on the marriage Mason, and thanks for taking time out of your special day to bring us Caravan of Garbage on a great Jurrassic Park film.
This!! Totally agree. “He didn’t make it…Ajay”. He’s not disappointed, he’s mourning. For all the thrills and danger the hunt promised, he finally met a beast that took a life from him.
I remember being like 9 and my sister and I saw the trailer for Lost World at my grandmas. We begged her to take us. This is my favourite Jurassic Park. Such a great cast. Definitely the second best Jurassic Park movie. The trailer scene is possibly the most tense and best scene in any of the movies.
I completely agree!! Second only to the first!! This is one of my favorite movies of all time…I love the action and suspense!! Maybe it’s just nostalgia talking but I love the film haha-
THANK YOU! I remember watching this when I was a kid and absolutely LOVING it. I think the scene in the trailer with VV reaching for the camera and JM on the splintering glass introduced me to pure anxiety. This film gets crapped on a lot, but it’s nice to know there are other fans out there :)
I haven’t watched this video but you know what I have watched? Snake eyes, and so should you so that way when this weeks podcast comes out on Monday you can hear James and Masons twin brother (not featured in this video) share their thoughts on the instant hasbro classic
I'm now reimagining that scene with the little girl on the beach, but instead of getting attacked, Mason shows up from the bushes and spends two minutes berating her for thinking the obvious dinosaur was a bird, BUT THEN, Dr. Grant shows up with his velociraptor claw to berate Mason for forgetting that birds are a type of dinosaur. (Smash cut to credits / closing, swelling score)
You know what I love about this film? They made the decision to take Ian Malcom (the character that arguably everyone loved) and made him the main character, cause why not?
Every time I tell myself, "nah, they're gonna change it up, they don't want the bit to get stale" and every time I laugh harder because it turns out their stubborn refusal to change the bit no matter how far we get away from Green Lantern *is* the bit.
@@CEWThree you are aware that these guys have been pulling the same James Bond has no time to die, but can we please finally give him his time to die bit for at least a year, right?
@@starwarsnerd100 for the mobile phone moment alone, the third one is the best of the entire series other than the first one. Genuine cinema-in-uproarious-laughter moment.
To this day, I still can't tell if that opening shot of the implication of a child being horribly mutilated by little dinosaurs being quickly edited to showing a bored Jeff is supposed to be funny or not. I saw that as a kid and was remarkably confused.
Something I truly appreciate about James is that he'll say a random thing a single time in a random video like "green trivia" during the Green Lantern episode and then continue saying it in every video forever
I agree, that entire sequence is great at establishing tension. That moment where Julianne Moore is trying not to crack the glass is so wonderfully tense.
Except that one bit…where um, Nick is trying to open the RV door before it falls, and then Malcolm comes up behind him, and also tries to open the door…I think they should have revised the, um, framing and implications of that shot Ah, just find a video of it and you’ll see what I mean 😂
Spielberg is definitely correct about Pete Postlethwaite being an incredible actor. His performance as Sergeant Hakeswill in the Sharpe series was brilliant, such a well-acted evil bastard.
@@mf8736 Kevin Spacey gave an incredible performance as a bad guy in The Usual Suspects. It's hard to believe that he isn't a complete monster in real life, that's how bloody great of a performance he gave.
@@Zombie_Finger_Blades It’d be nice to have the budget for the battles to contain more than a hundred or so extras but I genuinely don’t think it’d work without Sean Bean as Sharpe. Bernard Cornwell even started writing the character differently in the books to make it more like Sean’s performance, since he thought it was that perfect. Can’t imagine anyone else capturing Hakeswill correctly either, for that matter.
That Ship to Shore reference blew my mind. That must have been shown over here in the UK on Sunday mornings or something back in the 90's because every now and then that fucking irrepressible theme song just asserts it's presence in my head. Drives me round the twist. Have you ever felt like this?
I showed my child the "berries and cream" starburst commercial from the late 1990s where he sings about being a little lad who loves berries in cream. They were not as impressed as I still am over that little ditty.
Sorry to leave this comment a year later, but man I'm amazed someone in the UK even knows that show! It was filmed near where I grew up in Perth. That tune and the tune from Round the Twist (which I know was also popular in the UK) are so embedded in every Australian's consciousness. I had no idea Ship to Shore aired in the UK too.
I had a feeling that ending was tacked on and wasn't the original plan. It just felt really shoehorned in to the end of the movie and like it came out of nowhere, but I don't mind it because it's a pretty great sequence.
OH MY GOD, hearing you two sing the "Ship to Shore" has made my freaking YEAR!! That theme song has been living in my head rent free for the last 25 years, I'm so glad I'm not the only one!
This is because Jurassic World Dominion, which brought back many nostalgic elements of the previous films, neglected to bring back what I assume is ever rational person's favorite character from The Lost World, the sadistic and violent Nick Van Owen, who kills many and drives a van called the Van Owen, as is revealed by the Jurassic World LEGO game.
Jurassic World Films definitely brought out my love for the entire Franchise a lot more. Especially how the newer Films play out more of the Novel's story telling and using more of the Novels' source material.
I was amazed at one point in the movie when John Hammond turned around and Morbius drop-kicked a T-Rex while blasting Immigrant Song, totally unexpected.
While it’s flawed, I have liked The Lost World since I was young. Yeah, it’s not as good as the first one but I think it’s the only good sequel to the first that I don’t mind rewatching from time to time. I liked the dinosaur chase through the game trail, when they wreck the camp, the T-Rex attacks and Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore.
For me this is one of those movies that you grew up liking it, and you thought you were with the majority, and once you started getting into the movies side of the internet you're surprised finding out that a lot of people don't like it and it has bad reviews. Yes, it's far from perfect and has a very high bar to reach following the first one. But that doesn't make it bad at all, the script may not be as good, but the film certainly benefits from still having Spielberg's vision, unlike the rest of the saga. And I'll never understand those who prefer the third one over this one, 3 has a much stupider story and visually looks like from the SyFy channel. I may be in the minority but for me, this is the last really good one in the franchise, especially after watching Dominion...
This movie is the definition of underrated. Following your points, the score to this movie feels primal (like very jungle-like and mysterious), the set pieces look amazing (very dirtied up and with great attention to detail), the VFX I would argue rival the ones from the first movie and still hold up better than many of the modern Hollywood mega budget blockbusters that end up looking dated after just a couple of years, and the look of the dinosaurs is just so good. This movie is flawed, no doubt especially the T-Rex in San Diego, but it's an overall pretty alright movie
It's a way more bloated movie than the original and that's to its detriment. Like the San Diego sequence as a whole feels like a tacked on fourth act after the movie's plot had basically already ended. It's fun, but I get the mixed reception Jurassic Park 3 is a much more streamlined movie so it has that going for it and it's the only movie where I feel like the cgi genuinely lives up to the animatronics while also having a good balance of both to make the movie as a whole feel more real unlike the newer ones. But at the same time the characters all feel like they belong in a cartoon and the plot requires a lot of logical leaps in order to make sense because of it. And it's definitely the movie where they took the turn from the dinosaurs feeling like wild animals to feeling like horror movie monsters. Both have their issues and as a whole I'd put them on the same level.
I think this is the best sequel and then followed by Jurassic World for me! Jeff Goldblum once again does a phenomenal job as Malcolm and he makes the film enjoyable, he brings a nice balance of humour but also seriousness to the role and the special effects still hold in this sequel!
I mean to be fair I could just watch Jeff Goldblum twiddle his chest hair for 90 minutes while looking seductively at the camera and I would be entertained. No homo.
Sure it's inferior to the '93 JP, but I always absolutely adored The Lost World and JP3 as a kid. Rewatched the shit out of the trilogy vhs set. I'll happily say they are still very rewatchable and wayyyy better than the Jurassic World movies
@@hollandscottthomas I feel like people gas light themselves into believing that, cause they grew up watching 2 and 3, and were more "hardcore critical thinkers" by the time World came out
JP3 is not better as a whole than JW, but I would certainly watch JP3 any day before ever watching Fallen Kingdom, I mean one makes the dinosaurs be too monster-like and FK makes them so cartoony it's awful
@@JCOdrjones It's not like that at all. I'm one to not put too much critical thought into movies because essentially they are mostly supposed to be dumb fun. Hence why 80s/90s movies will always be my go to before modern movies, they just seem to not take themselves so seriously. The ironic thing about the JW movies is that they feel very corporate, like they gotta tick the boxes. They're just boring to me
Fun fact: The scene in the beginning of The Lost World with the little girl and the compys is actually the opening of the original Jurassic Park novel. Compys featured heavily in the first book. Compys are what kill Hammond in the first book.
Ever so often the theme tune for Ship to Shore plays in my head unprompted. I don't think the reference is *too* niche. I have suffered through many Australian TV shows that made it to the UK.
Ship to Shore was filmed near where I grew up, in Perth. I'm stunned that it aired in the UK. I had absolutely no idea but I did know Round the Twist was shown in the UK.
@@tdb7992 No way! Honestly, quite a lot of Aussie shows made it's way over here... I watched Round the Twist, Ship to Shore, The Tribe, Heartbreak High, Genie from Down Under and Ocean Girl (which was called Ocean Odyssey in the UK) from what I recall.
The camp attack is wild for several reasons. First of all, the T Rex is somehow completely silent until it reaches the camp. And also Sarah early on lectures them about not leaving food out, how to bathe, and that T Rex has a strong sense of smell. Then she leaves the bloody jacket AND open food all over the tent.
Even as a child I was always annoyed by the contrivances these movies would come up with to prevent people from just shooting all the dinosaurs with high-powered rifles, because that *would* work, they are just animals.
I know, right? And it hasn’t come out yet but the trailers for the third one are trying to make us believe dinosaurs in the wild could lead to human extinction. They’re not bullet proof. And a T.Rex is for sure gonna lose in a fight against a tank or military helicopter.
The things i remember from this movie - trailer hanging off a cliff and everyone having to climb up to get out, gymnastics vs raptors and the bit at the end about the T-rex having a nice stroll through the streets that feels extra tact on for no clear reason... Still better than the Jurassic world movies imo. Those manage to be incredibly boring despite how I love me a villain that thinks raptors are better for war than guns or drones.
Funny enough the only reason the T. rex is rampaging in the city at the end is because Spielberg wanted to have a dinosaur in the city it’s not like a logical next step in the plot for a reason lol
I'm mentally preparing myself to get upset over how much they will trash JP 3. Weird visual, awful human characters, some really goofy stuff, but I love that movie fr fr
The story in the lost world novel is not great. It's the scientific discourse and action that carries it. I would give the edge to the book in discourse but the action of the movie beats the book.
My favorite part of this movie is when Vince Vaughn's character takes the bullets out of one guy's gun just to be a dick and the guy only learns about it when all of his hunter friends are being torn apart by a tyrannosaurus and he realizes he has nothing to defend himself with. Because that's what heroes do, take away the villains one means of defense and just leave them to be eaten by dinosaurs. What a fucking asshole.
The character played by Vince Vaugh is called Nick Van Owen, who the Jurassic World LEGO game reveals drives a van called the Van Owen, a fact I consider important enough to comment on any discussion that even remotely alludes to the character so that as many people as possible learn it.
Even with all of our scientific advancements we are still unable to verify what type of vegetable the dinosaurs were made of. The movie took an educated guess that it was potatoes
Jeff Goldblum is the closest a man can get to being perfect in my opinion. He’s a badass, smooth-talker, comic genius, intellect. In jurassic park alone. He’s a very cool guy
Fun fact. When Ian Malcolm is on the cliff, he's given binoculars to view the helicopters and equipment being brought; he looks through them completely backwards. Lol
This is my favorite of the franchise. I know it has it's flaws and isn't as good as the first, but it is just an awesome movie and I love it being more Malcolm-centric and seeing his character grow from happy go lucky jester to traumatized and reluctant hero. All the characters are just really cool to me, especially Roland Tembo and Eddy Carr. The darker more suspenseful tones and dangerous jungle atmosphere just really pulled me in as a kid and they haven't let me go since. I even like the little gymnastics bit Kelly does, it's set up so it doesn't come out of nowhere and it isn't unfeasible to kick a raptor out of a dilapidated window.
The pachycephelosaurus, the "ramming" dino, actually had a porous skull dome, meaning it was likely full of blood vessels meaning if two butted heads they'd both instantly die. It's now thought it was used to change colours for mating and other communication, hence the blood vessels.
No, no this is not at all the scientific consensus, where'd you get this from. Was it that contrarian Jack Horner? He said that, I know he said that, he's a contrarian and says a lot of dumb things like how Tyrannosaurus is a scavenger, which was so stupid he even backtracked on it. There's literally a Torosaurus skull with a healed bite mark of a T. rex. Bones don't heal on dead animals. Skull lesions in pachycephalosaur specimens aren't rare and are consistent in their nature to having been caused by penetrations of the overlying tissue by an external object, which is just one of several pieces of evidence for headbutting. Their skullroofs were also capable of healing very quickly and were very thick. If you want to read about it, here's an actually peer reviewed study on the matter, unlike the sensationalist articles Horner gets written for his stuff like that news article that said "Triceratops isn't real??? Awoooga wooga?" despite the fact that a) Torosaurus and Triceratops are far from similar enough for that suggestion to float, b) their ranges don't even overlap entirely, which they should if they were the same animal: Torosaurus appears to be spread further South, which would mean the Horner's synonymy suggestion also implies that we have only found very old specimens there and none in at any other age despite their incredible abundance elsewhere, and c), Triceratops has seniority over Torosaurus, meaning that Torosaurus would become a synonym, not Triceratops. And even if Torosaurus had seniority, there's no way the scientific community would not just make it a senior synonym for Triceratops, a taxon on which a good hundred papers were published. "Common Functional Correlates of Head-Strike Behavior in the Pachycephalosaur Stegoceras validum (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) and Combative Artiodactyls" www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125168/
@@thegloriouskingkronk8422 It was in fact from memory, and an old one at that. Can't remember the source. I appreciate making an actual response WITH a source so I'm more than happy to admit I was wrong. It's rare to see someone point out a mistake without just calling a name and never correcting it, so thanks for that. I sometimes do similar things and usually just get crap responses but you've spoken to the right person today and I've learned something new. Have a good one, and keep up the rational discussion, always refreshing to see, even when I'm on the receiving end lol.
@@davejones9469 Happy to hear it. Horner's complete bs has become something of a particular pain point to me since I decided I wanted to do science communication (not professionally yet though haha) because he makes outlandish claims that are picked up by news outlets because they make for great headlines which people read and remember, even if it doesn't at all reflect on current studies. Horner has been right about a thing like this I believe. Might've been him that suggested that Dracorex, Stygimoloch, and Pachycephalosaurus represented different growth stages of the same animal, which wound up being true (though Stygimoloch may actually yet be a relative). It's just that most of what he says otherwise is largely contrarian nonsense. Also, fun fact, pachycephalosaurs are most closely related to ceratopsians. Hard to see the family resemblance, right? Well, the hindfeet of even giant ceratopsids like Triceratops or Torosaurus still look similar to those of their bipedal relatives, pachycephalosaurs included, and the head butting behavior is shared in both groups in some capacity, although I don't believe that it is ancestral since basal ceratopsians like Psittacosaurus bear no structures indicating such behavior.
@@thegloriouskingkronk8422 Obviously you've put the work in and know your stuff. I also read the part about stymiglioch etc being different growth stages (in Jurassic World Evolution, a pretty fun game, they're all separate dinos you can make lol) and it does make some sense. There's nothing stopping you from becoming a "professional" science communicator, especially with RU-vid. One of my favorite guys is Anton Petrov, and he couldn't cut it in school and in about 5 years he's I think getting near a million subs *(double checked, just hit 1 mil) plus patron and merch. You can see how basic he started, and his format is super simple. I'd recommend you check him out as a simple way to get started on something you actually love. Mine is astrophysics because I'm an aspiring sci fi writer, so I write similar rants in comments on those subjects too lol. My cousin is a physicist too so I can ask him all kinds of dumb questions and not feel bad.
From the bottom of my heart I have to thank you for that mention of Sliders. I thought I made up a show in my head where a T-Rex got its head blown off from when I was a kid. I tried to find this series, but all I had to go on was "T-Rex head explosion". I feel completely validated and today is a good day.
I'm A Lost World guy I hate Jurassic Park 3 I enjoy Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom is hilarious I love the original but to me, The Lost World is the BEST It is cool that you did a video on my favorite Jurassic Park movie today on my Birthday.
Happy to hear that Nick Mason's essentially identical in every way brother Nick Mason got married, we haven't known him for long but he already seems much more successful than that other fella
There wasn’t supposed to be raptors on the boat, common misconception. There was actually supposed to be a sequence showing how the Rex got loose then trapped in the cargo hold. You can’t see it but the wall opposite the severed hands has a giant hole in it. The T Rex crashed its head through and pulled out the captain (pilot? navigator? whatever the bot driver is called), hence the leftover hands. It was only storyboarded and was cut to give some suspense. There should be images of the storyboards that you can find
Speaking of marriage, this is one of my wife's favorite movies. I used to make fun of her all of the time because I thought it was the worst in the series. But it looks like she has the last laugh.
My favorite part of this movie is that all the tension and death in the movie is directly caused by Vince Vaughn and Julian Moore's characters. They kill something like 50 innocent people in this movie, including their friend, and are really just a pair of self-righteous dingbats about the whole thing.
I remember seeing this movie on the last day of Junior year of high school. I thought the movie was fine, but my friends HATED it. The T-Rex through San Diego was hilarious.
My stepdad was playing bass at a bar in the Gaslamp District of San Diego unknowingly when this was being filmed. Mid-set he watched the T Rex go by outside. I can only imagine how surreal that must have been.
I mean, honestly, this IS a good movie. Yes it has many flaws incoherent things in it (like how the hell no one noticed Ian's daughter in that trailer for DAYS) and the raptor looking back when she calls... Yeah that's dumb. But comparing to how dumb the Jurassik World sequels are, this is pure gold. And Jeff Goldblum is great (and was always right haha)
@ExtremeMadnessX It's to show that Ian is the only sensible one there and the rest are flawed. Not everyone is a perfect human being who can do no wrong and bad consequences will happen for them trying to do the wrong thing.
I love love love the use of ‘Ship To Shore’ and it as the backing track for Green Trivia. Please include more obscure 90s Australian TV references lmao
Mason: "Ladybug?" @BenChinapen, suddenly very obviously the editor of this video: *cracks his knuckles and gets to work making the single greatest frame in any RU-vid video, past or future* CJ must be very happy with you.
In the original ending Roland and Ludlow stay behind after the helicopter rescue to catch a t rex. Roland is outsmarted and Ludlow is lured into their nest where a baby t rex hunts him down. Instead of the hot turd boat scene that we got.
