Binge Movie Aftertaste – Jurassic Park Retrospective w/ Jim Law and Nate Peterson: Jurassic Park III (2001)
Waiting for a good, realistic looking dinosaur movie as a kid was like waiting to grow up. It couldn’t happen soon enough. Specials and educational programs of dinosaurs, as well as books and puzzles galore decorated every little boy’s room, just waiting for that movie that didn’t look like stop motion to come sweep us off our feet. And no, dinobots do NOT count. Little did we know, five movies about these very creatures would soon roam our theaters, all overseen by the director who had already changed cinema forever the decade before.
After 1997’s The Lost World Jurassic Park came and went, the sour taste that film left in peoples’ mouths made it seem like a sequel might never reach our cinemas. But money talks, and Universal knew that a new movie would bring in some more cash. But after two films from behind the helm, Steven Spielberg decided that he was out as director. Enter his longtime behind the scenes collaborator Joe Johnston.
With a rather unimpressive directorial resume up to this point (though I would bat for 1994’s The Rocketeer), Johnston would seem to be a hack whom Spielberg threw a bone to in order to keep his franchise in the limelight. But here we stand, without Jeff Goldblum. This time with William H Macy, Tea Leoni, and a returning Sam Neill. Could the third movie in the series be the creative answer to an all podcaster on this show agreed upon dismal second film?
Join me, Jim Law, and an exhausted Nate Peterson to find out the answer, while also bearing witness to another Binge sparring match with threats of tapping out of the entire series. After all, what would a series of podcasts on this network be without at least one of those? And no, it has nothing to do with killing kids.
Listen below, and be sure to tune in next week as all of us dreadingly return to Jurassic World, and then come back the week after to review Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
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