We’ve seen the ads for JP3 and of course the kids want to see it. I do, too, FWIW.
But…
I can’t for the life of me remember much about JP2. I remember it had Jeff Goldblum (only one from the first one?) and Julianne Moore as his photographer girlfriend, and his daughter.
I remember the trailers hanging off the side of the cliff, and the bald guy who was sort of running a hunting operation (right?).
I remember at the end they brought a momma dinosaur and her baby to San Francisco (San Diego? L.A.?) and the momma got loose and went rampaging through the streets.
And that’s about all.
Can anyone fill me in with a brief synopsis of JP2? How it ended?
Thanks!
They lured the T-rex back into the boat so it could feed the slimy businessman to its baby, then closed the roof on the boat and all was well with the world except they never explained how the people in the wheelhouse died (they died peacefully at the wheel of the boat, not a death commonly caused by rampaging T-rex’s, and besides, it was locked up…). My wife figured they got nibbled to death by the foot-tall dinosaurs, which scuttled off the boat when nobody was looking.
I thought the crew’s fate was left open to be explained in a sequel. I figured the next movie would be “Jurassic Park 3: Night of the Raptor”, and the story would be about some raptors that stowed away on the boat and are now loose on the mainland.
Either that, or the T-Rex got them. How? Tongue action, baby!
Does anyone know why they are going back? I know why they went there the first time, because back then it was an actual park. And I know the second time they went to investigate and Ian Malcolm went to find Sara Harding, and the bad guys went to capture dinosaurs.
Now that all this has happened, and on top of that, a T-Rex loose in Frisco, have the script writers devised a plausible reason for going back to the island? Not that I’d really care if it was an unreasonable explanation, I’m probably going to see it no matter what. Dinosaurs, man!!
Thanks everyone. I think I do ned to rent it so I am all caught up.
I guess my question should have been phrased, “How did the end of JP2 necessitate JP3?” Does that make sense?
I remember at the end of JP1, we knew that what’s-his-name (Wayne Knight) had stolen the eggs and they were dropped off into the water, and in JP2 (I think) wasn’t part of the reason for going back explained in that the first island was strictly the park, and this other island was the real breeding lab?
At the end of JP2’s first weekend, the box office had kachinged to the tune of ninety point two million smackers. That’s the only factor necessitating JP3. Everything else is just hand-waving.
I too saw the crew’s disappearance as the plot hole big enough to run a full-grown T-Rex through, and figured that any possible sequel would deal with that issue.
I get the impression that this newest installment has a bunch of rich dilettantes, escorted by Sam Niell’s char., going in for a look-see as a kind of thrill-seeker dare.
That’s just a general impression from the trailers (and we all know, trailers needn’t bear any resemblance to the actual movie as presented)
Firstly, the crew was eaten by the baby T-Rex, and the big T-Rex had already gotten loose on the boat but was retrapped by a crew member’s last ditch effort by his weirdly reanimated severed arm.
Secondly, JP3 is not a prequel at all, that was a rumour that turned out to be incorrect.
Thirdly, the reason they go back to the island is because of some joy riders hangglide over Site B and crash, and they need to be rescued.
I can’t remember why Sam Neill’s character has to return though.
Looks to me that Sam Neill et al are going to have to land on the island via emergency plane landing from one of the commercials. Could be a fly-by gone wrong type thing.
In other news, it also looks from the commercials that the movie is going to be a hodge-podge of things in the first book that didn’t make it into the movie (aviary). I’ll see it, because in the words of a very wise man (Zoggie) “Dinosaurs, man!!”.
Man? Hehe. I’m a girl! It’s all right. You’re one of a lot of dopers who think I’m male.
If it takes place before the second one, and it is rich dilenttantes, then…My GOD!! Those rich folk are in for a hell of a beating, you know. These movies really emphasize the whole man and hubris thing against nature.
And yeah, dinosaurs are great. Does it matter what fancy explanation they give? Not too much. But nothing, and I mean nothing, will equal the fear we felt when little Lex and Timmy were in the kitchen being chased down by two raptors. I get goosebumps just thinking about that one.
I guess I have to be the party pooper, and pipe up as the requisite Jurassic Park hater.
The first movie was ok, I saw it twice. I liked the graphics (amazing), and though the movie was pretty action-packed and exciting the first time, the second time it was really boring. I noticed it was just a long string of unrealistic close calls and ridiculous narrow escapes from impossible situations.
Here’s my synopsis of the JP formula:
Frame 1: Death is close at hand. Zoom on dinosaur.
Frame 2: it’s closing in. More dinosaurs.
Frame 3: there’s no escape!! Secondary character eaten! Show more dinosaurs.
Frame 4: But in the nick of time, somehow our heroes survive.
Repeat from frame 1, and apply dinosaurs liberally.
I read the book after I saw the movie, and loved it.
JP2 I hated. I didn’t walk out of it because I had paid $8 to see it, and I’ll be damned if I’m giving those people my hard-earned cash without taking up a seat! Hell, if I left, they could have sold my seat a second time, so I kept $8 out of their hands. but it was really hard to sit through. This time I had read the book first, and was appalled at what I saw. The movie had nothing to do with the book except a few of the characters and 4 cartoonish scenes. I got forced to see it again with my girlfriend, because she didn’t believe me when I told her how bad it was, and we ended up both walking out and getting refunds.
As much as I love dinosaurs, I can’t stomach the thought of a third movie. Though I might read the book if there’s one.
I’m 99% sure that the T-Rex ran around San Diego in JP2.
At the end of JP2, the T-Rexs are returned to the island. The general public knows about the dinosaurs and the Jurassic Park, but the island is basically supposed to be a nature preserve.
I can’t wait for the new JP movie. I got the thrill of being in Universal Studios when they were filming it. I didn’t see anyone, but I was there!
But anywho–I saw the first two after I had read the books and spent the whole movie going “But, that’s not how the book went!” This one, no book for it to live up to! Yay! Also, from the looks of the previews–No annoying damn children to fake-cute up the screen! Yay! I prayed Tim and Lex and Malcom’s whiney little kid would get eaten.
But… but… In the book, wasn’t the island in the Caribbean near the Yucatan Peninsula? Didn’t they get sequestered in Cuba or the Dominican Republic or something when they finally got off the island? BOOK SPOILER[sub][sup]Didn’t the raptors appear in southern Mexico at the end?[/sup][/sub]
So how the HELL did the ship get to San Diego so quick if they were in the Gulf of Mexico / Caribbean / Yucatan Gulf?
So I’m the only one who thinks that this entire movie series is stupid, huh?
Okay, I’ll admit, I didn’t see the second film and I have no plans to see the third, but I can only wear the horns of disbelief for so long and the first film made them just fall off (WARNING: SPOILERS!!!):
The scene with the brontosaur (a dinosaur that never even existed!) “He’s won’t hurt us- he’s a plant-eater!” Tell that to the hippopotamus, the elephant and the rhinoceros.
The kid gets shocked by a 40,000-volt electric fence, gets recessutated by CPR and is somehow able to defy the cracked sternum and other problems to run non-stop from raptors for the next 20 minutes.
(Problem with both the movie and the book) If you’re going to devote a huge amount of time talking about how much dinosaurs are like birds, it’s a really lame attempt to fill a plot hole to explain the gender-switching due to the patching of dino DNA with that of an amphibian. LAME LAME LAME LAME LAME
Raptors were just not that big. I kept envisioning these little chicken dinos chasing after them. Why not just use a carnivore that WAS that big?
I FRIGGIN’ HATE MOVIES WHERE THE ADULTS ARE CLUELESS BUT THE KIDS KNOW EVERYTHING! HATE THEM! HATE! HATE HATE HATE!
The scene with the guy getting killed while on the toilet was needlessly gratuitous and obviously just there for some extremely lowbrow humour.
The T-Rex had lips. Why the hell would it evolve lips? Does snarling serve an evolutionary function? Come on, just give it a big, open, gaping maw of a mouth. Much scarier.
And finally…
I really liked Jurassic Park when it starred Yul Brynner and was known as Westworld (also written by Michael Chrichton).