Jaws Vs. Jurassic Park (Ep. 0004)
Episode Summary: Film is often a canvas that can be used for so many things. They reflect the politics of the time. They often reflect the issues that people faced. Artists embody those by reflecting them onto the big screen But you also have movies like Jaws and Jurrasic Park. Two movies that can only be described as downright adventures. In the heaviness of any time period, leisure can be had in the form of pure entertainment. At a base level, film exists to transport us. It transports us to a time that we didn’t experience or tickles our imagination to wrap our minds around something we can’t comprehend on our own. Nothing accomplishes this like these two films. During randos, the guys talk about what it took to make these films, the struggles of the mechanical shark, the CGI of JP, Steven Spielberg’s desire to walk on making Jaws, and the improvised acting moments that often get buried by the action of Jaws.
Movie Wars Scorecard
Best Top Bill Cast
Best Supporting Cast
Who would you rather be eaten by?
Dino CGI Vs Practical Jaws
Tastiest characters
Jaws Vs T Rex
Best Spielberg
Best score
Best pet for a millionaire?
Quint Vs a Dinosaur
Best intro kill scene
Best Kills/deaths
Which sets up for the best franchise?
Film Summaries
Jaws: When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing that the loss of tourist revenue will cripple the town. Ichthyologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and grizzled ship captain Quint (Robert Shaw) offer to help Brody capture the killer beast, and the trio engage in an epic battle of man vs. nature.
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Producer:
David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck
Writer:
Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Howard Sackler, John Milius, Robert Shaw
Release Date (Theaters):
Jun 20, 1975 Wide
Release Date (Streaming):
Jul 22, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA):
$260.9M
Runtime:
2h 4m
Production Co:
Universal Pictures, Zanuck/Brown Productions
-Summary and info courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jaws)
Jurassic Park: In Steven Spielberg's massive blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park's mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt.
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Producer:
Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen
Writer:
Michael Crichton, David Koepp, Malia Scotch Marmo
Release Date (Theaters):
Jun 11, 1993 Wide
Release Date (Streaming):
May 18, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA):
$401.8M
Runtime:
2h 6m
Production Co:
Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment
-Summary and film info provided by Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jurassic_park)