Happy Life Day everyone! Law and Pete celebrate the release of The Rise of Skywalker by recording a commentary for the highly acclaimed Star Wars Holiday Special.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone. Jim Law and Pete sit down and record a drinking game commentary for National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
As part of our perks for Better Call Binge, donators to a certain level were given the option of joining me and Law on a commentary of their choosing. The one and only NateP gave us some film options, one of those being Guy Ritchie’s Snatch. It was just the right movie for the right guest for the right mood (we were really drunk).
So enjoy this commentary the way Bricktop enjoys hurting people, Mickey enjoys pooping and Turkish enjoys drinking milk (why).
Jim Law returns to record a commentary with Pete for The Thing. Many things are discussed in this commentary: Canine things, sexual things, ski dozer things, alien things, sequel things, etc. Now go grab your copy of The Thing and join us. Enjoy!!!
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 Jurassic World came out in 2015 and proved with its over $1 billion take that people were indeed still thirsty for dinosaurs, producer Steven Spielberg once again got the ball rolling on another sequel. Though with previous director Colin Trevorrow writing the script and stepping off the director’s chair, Spielberg once again had to choose a new face to head his franchise. Enter Juan Antonio Bayona (pronounce Bah-Jona). He had proven himself a director of talent with the tear jerkers A Monster Calls and The Impossible. Yet, he was yet another director armed with a hefty budget that he had never played with before. How did he do?
Join me, Nate, and Law as we answer that question, and subsequently finish (for now) our Jurassic Park series of podcasts. This was a hell of a series to go through, and I would once again like to thank my co-hosts, as well as those who listened. Stay tuned, more retros to come.
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.
Fourteen years after Jurassic Park III came and went with little more than a whimper, producer Steven Spielberg was ready to once again tackle the world of dinosaurs. But instead of bringing in someone known for big blockbuster entertainment like he did with Michael Bay and Transformers, he brought in Colin Trevorrow. Who the hell is Colin Trevorrow, you may ask. He was the director of a little 2012 Sundance highlight called Safety Not Guaranteed. Based off that film, which was by no means a showcase of visual effects, the gamble on Trevorrow paid off as Jurassic World ended up making over $1 billion. But how do we feel about it?
Join me, Law, and Nate as all three of us revisit Jurassic World for the first time since theaters. All of us were initially dead set against its machinations and unending nuances back in 2015. But will the three of us feel the same way now?
Download below to find out, and be sure to tune in next Tuesday as we dissect the new release Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, and I give the Binge Aftertaste schedule for the remainder of summer.
Note: There were a few technical difficulties spread throughout this episode. Sorry about that. Please don’t make us extinct as a result.
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.
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 a 1993 where Jurassic Park arrived to wide spread acclaim and box office success, followed by Schindler’s List‘s garnering Steven Spielberg some Oscar gold, the director felt he had accomplished all he needed to accomplish in his career, and took four years off to contemplate what he wanted to do next. Would he spend the rest of his career as just a producer and/or mentor? Would he altogether retire from the business and concentrate on being a father and husband?
Nope. Rumblings of a Jurassic Park sequel were happening all the way back to the end of 1993, and Spielberg was secretly having meetings with author Michael Crichton and screenwriter David Koepp, coming up with a plan of producing the inevitable sequel. But he loved the world of dinosaurs so much that he felt he needed to come back as director. After telling future Jurassic Park III director Joe Johnston to wait his turn, Spielberg did just that, throwing almost all the ideas from Crichton’s 1995 sequel novel out the window and coming up with a story of his own for 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park. But how do we feel about it?
Me, Nate, and Law gather once again to talk some Jurassic Park. And after my so-called blood thirst from that first film’s podcast, will I be ok with a more ways than one darker sequel, and will Nate’s wish for more Jeff Goldblum be one he lives to forget? Download below to find out, and keep checking back as we lead to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)
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.
Welcome, to Jurassic Park. Or in this case, three assholes who talk about all five films in the series, starting with this tent pole of a film. Coming months before he finally gained critic’s respect with Schindler’s List, director Steven Spielberg once again unleashed a blockbuster that defined blockbusters. Jurassic Park is, and always will be, the film without James Cameron’s name attached -though listen to find out how THAT almost happened here too- that set the standard for realistic looking computer generated effects. Armed with a T-Rex and his special weapon Jeff Goldblum, Spielberg’s film would go on to gross over $1 billion at the box office. But how do we feel?
Join Law, Nate, and myself as we begin our journey into the Jurassic age, and make ado with whether or not after this film, to just tap out of the entire rest of the series.