TGWTG "Nostalgia Critic" / Doug Walker, Rob Walker, Mike Michaud, Mike Ellis, Holly Christine Brown, et al - The Incompetent Predator-Protecting Upper Management of Channel Awesome, Doug Still Not That Funny

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Captain Syrup said:
Can someone else suffer through Doug’s review? I can’t even parse the tone from the thumbnail anymore.
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Captain Syrup said:
The movie is mid but the book wasn’t much better. Oh, come on! You don’t care about Dodgson? The guy with the shaving cream can?!

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The book was my teenage introduction to Crichton so it has a special place in my heart.
But even I have to admit, everyone was written pretty insufferable. The deaths were pretty good at least. The first book has better ones though, worth a read for anyone who likes the movie. Different enough you would get a new experience from the story too.

At least book's plot is a lot more coherent than the movie which decided to become Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World at the end for whatever reason. I guess to bank off of Godzilla, but it was weird to divert from the plot when Spielberg pushed Crichton to write a sequel to adapt in the first place. Ah well, at least we got a serviceable sequel in the end, the only other time I can think of an author being pushed to write a sequel was Hannibal Rising. And, well.... It certainly was a story that's for sure.
 
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Candidae said:
At least book's plot is a lot more coherent than the movie which decided to become Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World at the end for whatever reason. I guess to bank off of Godzilla, but it was weird to divert from the plot when Spielberg pushed Crichton to write a sequel to adapt in the first place. Ah well, at least we got a serviceable sequel in the end, the only other time I can think of an author being pushed to write a sequel was Hannibal Rising. And, well.... It certainly was a story that's for sure.
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I just got reminded that Spielberg got a sequel to Ready Player One to be rewritten. And whatever issues people had with Ernest Cline and his book, I’ve heard the sequel is even worse .
 
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Candidae said:
The book was my teenage introduction to Crichton so it has a special place in my heart.
But even I have to admit, everyone was written pretty insufferable.
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I haven’t read the book since I was like 16, so my memory might be foggy, but the best part is when Malcolm is zonked out on morphine during a dino siege and just starts singing “Dixie” for no reason.:story:

 
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Captain Syrup said:
I haven’t read the book since I was like 16, so my memory might be foggy, but the best part is when Malcolm is zonked out on morphine during a dino siege and just starts singing “Dixie” for no reason.:story:

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I think that was the first book as he was dying from his wounds and given copious drugs. A very amusing set of chapters of mania and Crichton self inserting to lecture the reader. It's understandable why Malcolm's death was reversed to bring him back as the main character for the sequel. Plus, enough time was spent with Dr Grant in the first book to not need more. Hell, there were enough scenes the 3rd movie only used what got cut aside from the intro and ending. Just changed the T Rex into the Spino and got a new kid. And Jeff Goldblum was very enjoyable in the role to me so it was nice to see more. I know Doug doesn't enjoy his schtick so much but I have a love for his Ian Malcom performance. And tangentially his performance in the Fly remake which starts off in a samey Goldblum way
 
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Candidae said:
I think that was the first book as he was dying from his wounds and given copious drugs.
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No, it was definitely the second one, I remember because while everyone else is screaming and fending off dinosaurs, Malcolm decides it’s the perfect time to dissociate to Texas and start warbling “AWAYYY, LOOK AWAYYY, LOOK AWAAAYYYY DOWN SOUTH” like he’s in a bad Civil War reenactment.

Still sort of mad it never made into the movie.

 
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