Binge Movie Aftertaste – Jurassic Park Retrospective w/Jim Law and Nate Peterson: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
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.
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