Something has evolved.

It is time to watch 2001's Jurassic Park III, the least liked of the five films. What do I think about it? I think it's fantastic and I'm going to tell you all about why.

You can mute #JurassicThreewatch if you wish to not see me talk about the film.
Oh no, Freddy Kreuger is in this one! #JurassicThreewatch
This is technically the first of the films not based on a Michael Crichton novel.

I say technically, because The Lost World is officially based on his novel, but it's 99.9% original content. #JurassicThreewatch
Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler are back! #JurassicThreewatch
As always, the film opened with death. Two people this time, on a boat. We did not see what got them.

What was the death count in The Lost World by the end? 21? Let's see if we beat it. #JurassicThreewatch
So, Grant gives us the general idea behind this sequel. Dinosaurs that have incredibly high intellect and communication abilities. #JurassicThreewatch
Specifically, Velociraptors could basically talk with each other. They had vocal chords far more advanced than even primates of today.

This is foreshadowing, but in Jurassic Park fashion it's going to be a bit clever about it down the line. #JurassicThreewatch
They're still pronouncing Isla in Islan Sorna wrong. Americans. #JurassicThreewatch
They're 3D-printing a Velociraptor resonance chamber. A full decade before 3D printing became commonplace. #JurassicThreewatch
With dinosaurs now known to the world, paleontology is becoming a dead science, meaning Grant can't get funding for his work. Which leads to him agreeing to go to fly over the island for a rich couple to get funding. #JurassicThreewatch
Again, this plays well into the anti-capitalist spirit of the original Jurassic Park novel, much like The Lost World did. #JurassicThreewatch
I like this set-up, as it makes good use of the outcome of The Lost World. They couldn't do another cover-up after all. #JurassicThreewatch
The Velociraptor on the plane was a nightmare, it's cheesy but serves to highlight how much the horrors of Jurassic Park still lingers with Grant eight years later. #JurassicThreewatch
The first dinosaurs we see are from a distance. Not really able to tell how the effects hold up. #JurassicThreewatch
It's interesting that they chose to have the Spinosaurus reveal in broad daylight like this. They grace the fin with the plane, splashing blood up on the window. #JurassicThreewatch
The grace cut the fuel and they crash into the jungle. And that's how they get stuck on Isla Sorna this time. #JurassicThreewatch
Spinosaurus is a carnivorous (duh) giant bipedal dinosaur that rivals the T-Rex in size, it's the perfect pick for the big bad of this film. #JurassicThreewatch
The effects are still practical for the most part as this is just before 3DCG fully took over movies. The puppetry holds up pretty well too. Not as well as the original, but it's good stuff.

Oh, uh, death count is at 4. #JurassicThreewatch
Spinosaurus has a much longer snout than the Tyrannosaurus Rex has, its the most distinguishing feature apart from the giant fin on its back. #JurassicThreewatch
Oh wow, he survived. Death count is only at 3 then. #JurassicThreewatch
NOW it's at 4. #JurassicThreewatch
RAAAAAAAWR!! :spinosaurus: #JurassicThreewatch
We get our first full body shot. The effects themselves are good enough, but the HD restoration is pretty bad, very blurry. I'm guessing this was shot digitally. #JurassicThreewatch
Look at that detail though. To think movies basically abandoned effects like this just about a year after this came out. #JurassicThreewatch
They lost the Spinosaurus, so now they're probably sa- Oh. #JurassicThreewatch
RAAAAAAAWR!! 🦖 #JurassicThreewatch
Grant, I know the others ran away, but you could have just stayed still. #JurassicThreewatch
And so we reach this scene.

I have been told this is the worst scene in the entire Jurassic Park canon by many people.

Spinosaurus vs T-Rex. #JurassicThreewatch
T-Rex bites into Spinosaurus' neck, I love the distinct colour choices here by the way, T-Rex is green and yellow while Spinosaurus is brown and white. #JurassicThreewatch
They wrestle for a bit, Spinosaurus gets free and then bites into T-Rex's neck. The switching between CGI and practical effects actually work really well here, the dinosaurs don't feel weightless like many CGI fights tend to. #JurassicThreewatch
And SNAP! Spinosaurus snapped T-Rex's neck.

T-Rex is dead.

And that's why people think this is the worst scene in all of dinosaur movie history.

Because they couldn't stomach seeing a T-Rex lose a fight to another big dinosaur. #JurassicThreewatch
People felt this made the T-Rex look weak, even though it held its own most of the fight, and that it was JP3 "killing" the first two films by having its new dinosaur win.

Which is so petty that it's kind of sad. #JurassicThreewatch
After this we find out why the rich couple *actually* wanted to go to the island.

At the start of the film, two boys were paragliding as the people driving the boat suddenly "disappeared."

One of those boys were their son, they're looking for him. #JurassicThreewatch
It adds a human element without detracting from the fact that, y'know, they're rich fuckers who could afford all this and whose son thought paragliding near the known dinosaur island was cool to do. #JurassicThreewatch
Unlike The Lost World where most of the cast exists to be unlikable so that you want to see them get eaten, teh cast in Jurassic Park III are a mix of decent and half-bad people, but most of the half-bad folks aren't so bad you'd wish death on them. #JurassicThreewatch
This makes the film notably less cynical than The Lost World, more in tone with the first film, while maintaining still the slasher mentality of "we need a larger cast so that we can kill off a good number without losing everyone." #JurassicThreewatch
It becomes sort of a bridge between Jurassic Park and The Lost World and I can't help but wonder if it had gone over better if that tone shift was gradual, with this film coming Before The Lost World, instead. #JurassicThreewatch
FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE (2010-Present) #JurassicThreewatch
And this is why you do your research first. #JurassicThreewatch
Oh right, the rich couple aren't a couple. They're divorced. I forgot that detail actually. #JurassicThreewatch
So, InGen provided a list of what dinosaurs they cloned.

Spinosaurus weren't on the list. #JurassicThreewatch
This is where the film's tagline comes into play.

The tagline was the first sentence of this thread if you missed it. #JurassicThreewatch
Of course, that doesn't answer the question of what happened to the people that drove the boat.

Remember the promise The Lost World ended on? I sure do. #JurassicThreewatch
"I*m Murray, the Demonic Talking Skull!" #JurassicThreewatch
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