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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-18 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:16:58 -0800
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On 2/19/2025 1:41 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> I watched:
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>> What did you watch?
> 
> Hey, thanks for asking!
> 
> THE LOST WORLD JURASSIC PARK
> 
> I’d only ever watched this once. I hated the book which attempted to be a
> sequel to both the original wonderful book and the original not wonderful
> movie which made all sorts of stupid changes so people that died are alive
> again. It’s been four years and suddenly somewhere along the line, Malcolm
> has picked up a 12-year-old black daughter and whoever her mother is she’s
> not in his life. Anyway, they go back and have a very run-of-the-mill
> adventure with lots of big stupid written and (second unit) directed by one
> of the worst people working in Hollywood, even John Williams music is one
> of his poorest efforts.
> 
> Toby Ziegler gets eaten by a T-Rex!
> 
> The father of the little girl who gets attacked at the beginning is played
> by Ethan Rayne of BUFFY and IMDb says the actor died young. :-(
> IMDb also says the little girl grew up beautiful.
> 
> The incredibly protracted sequence with the RV hanging off the cliff is one
> of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen.
> 
> It never occurs to anybody that the fact that Julianne Nicholson is covered
> with baby T-Rex blood (not to mention why since it had a broken leg not a
> gaping wound) is probably bad if you’re trying not to have the adult T-Rex
> track you.
> 
> Later, Malcolm tells us that the T-Rex can only track the baby T-Rex by
> sound. That seems like it would be easy enough to take care of.  How does
> the adult even know the baby is in Sandy Eggo at all?
> 
> So the T-Rex rides the ship to Sandy Eggo. Malcolm and party go there in a
> helicopter. Despite the helicopter being 10 times faster than the ship they
> seem to get there at the same time.
> 
> On board the ship, the T-Rex gets out of the hold somehow and eats
> everybody, leaving lots of disembodied hands behind. Somehow it got into
> the wheelhouse and ate everybody except for their hands, and then managed
> to trap itself in the hold again, while the disembodied hand closed the lid
> over it and held it shut.  Another disembodied hand works the steering
> wheel and navigates from Costa Rica to Sandy Eggo, but there isn’t yet
> another disembodied hand on the throttle.
> 

Darn it, I was hoping you could explain how the dinosaur got back in the 
cargo hold in the time for the ship to dock.  :-/

> Somehow, inGen has built a giant Jurassic Park facility in the middle of
> San Diego complete with signage and nobody noticed.
> 
> The big game hunter waves his fee in order to kill an adult male
> Tyrannosaurus rex. What makes him think there’s a tyrannosaurus running
> loose on the island? If there is what makes him think it’s a male? Why
> would there be a male dinosaur on the island when the dinosaurs are all
> female?
> 

Because life, uh, finds a way?


> Just every moment is another layer of rancid onion burning away.
> 

This is one of those movies that's not even good background noise 
because it doesn't have a commentary track.  At least if it had a 
commentary I could turn it on and listen to the commentary while I did 
something else.


But it's been a few years since I last watched them, and now a new one 
is on the way.  I guess I'll go through them again.  Maybe I'll finally 
figure out how that dino got itself into the cargo hold if I pay extra 
close attention next time I watch.