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Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

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Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Starring: Laura Dern , John Diehl , Bruce French , Sonia Jackson , and Michael Jeter
Director: Joe Johnston
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B00003CXXS
Release Date: 2001-12-11

Product Description

Adventure runs wild when renowned palentologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neil) agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer (William H. Macy) and his wife (Tea Leoni) on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures. But when they're terrifyingly stranded, Dr. Grant discovers that his hosts are not what they seem, and the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more brutal than he ever imagined in this heart-stomping thriller.

Please Note: Consumers who wish to purchase Jurassic Park III who already own their preferred copies of Jurassic Park and The Lost World may receive a collectable slipcase and Bonus Disc allowing them to complete their own "Jurassic Park Complete Collection" via mail for only $6.95. This coupon will be inside the disc itself.

Features:
The Making Of Jurassic Park III
Feature Commentary with Special Effects Team
The New Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park III
Tour of Stan Winston Studio
A Visit To ILM: Witness 20 Different Stages in an Exclusive, Rare Step-by-Step Look at the Computer Graphics Created by ILM
Dinosaur Turntables: A Spectacular Three-Dimensional Look at the 12 Dinosaurs Created for the Film
Behind-The-Scenes
Storyboards to Final Feature Comparison
The Jurassic Park III Archives
Theatrical Trailers
Montana: Finding New Dinosaurs: A special visit to paleontologist Jack Horner's dinosaur dig with never-before-seen footage

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Starring: Michael Jeter, Tea Leoni, William H. Macy, Trevor Morgan, Sam Neill, and Alessandro Nivola.
Directed By: Joe Johnston
Running Time: 93 Min., Color.
This film is presented in "Widescreen" format.
Copyright 2001 Universal.

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Surpassing expectations to qualify as an above-average sequel, Jurassic Park III is nothing more or less than a satisfying popcorn adventure. A little cheesier than the first two Jurassic blockbusters, it's a big B movie with big B-list stars (including Laura Dern, briefly reprising her Jurassic Park role), and eight years of advancing computer-generated-image technology give it a sharp edge over its predecessors. While adopting the jungle spirit of King Kong, the movie refines Michael Crichton's original premise, and its dinosaurs are even more realistic, their behavior more detailed, and their variety--including flying pteranodons and a new villain, the spinosaurus--more dazzling and threatening than ever. These advancements justify the sequel, and its contrived plot is just clever enough to span 90 minutes without wearing out its welcome.

Posing as wealthy tourists, an adventurous couple (William H. Macy, Téa Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protégé (Allesandro Nivola) to act as tour guides on a flyover trip to Isla Sorna, the ill-fated "Site B" where all hell broke loose in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In truth, they're on a search-and-rescue mission to find their missing son (Trevor Morgan), and their plane crash is just the first of several enjoyably suspenseful sequences. Director Joe Johnston (October Sky) embraces the formulaic plot as a series of atmospheric set pieces, placing new and familiar dinosaurs in misty rainforests, fiery lakes, and mysterious valleys, turning JP3 into a thrill ride with impressive highlights (including a T. rex versus spinosaurus smack-down), adequate doses of wry humor (from the cowriters of Election), and an upbeat ending that's corny but appropriate, proving that the symptoms of sequelitis needn't be fatal. --Jeff Shannon

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awsome.......2007-06-10

ok if any one has ever enjoyed the frist too. this one is pretty good as well. oh though i kinda wished more people got eatten lol it waz very good. its not as long as the other two films but has more new and old dinos in it. its stilla great buy pluse it has alot more stuff on the dvd then the other two soo overall this is a good movie.

Worst Movie I Ever Saw!!.......2007-05-31

I loved Jurassic Park 1 and 2. But when i saw this i was so pissed that i didnt even want to see the next 1 the 4th Jurassic Park!

Dont buy this movie!!!!!

Jurassic Park 3 Takes a Bite .......2007-05-16

Jurassic Park 3 Takes a Bite
Released: 2001
Rated: PG-13

Picture two people a child and an adult parasailed and the boat driver magically disappeared into the fog. The people glide onto a mysterious island. Will they ever get off the island? Where did the boat driver go? This is best movie I have ever seen you should watch it too.

Then dinosaurs look so real. At some parts in this movie these dinosaurs look like they are coming right out of the TV screen.
This movie has a book to it and it is almost just like the movie. I have also read the book. This book was so good that I told every one that they should read it too. This movie is so good that I had to watch it more than once. I ended up watching this movie at the least seven times.

This movie is one of the best movies I have ever watched in my entire life. I recommend this movie to children thirteen and over because children under the age might get scared of the huge dangerous dinosaurs.
If you were on the island what you think you would see and if you were in this situation would you be scared.

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A much better sequel.......2007-03-26

I am a big fan of the original film, Jurassic Park, but found the first sequel, Jurassic Park: The Lost World to be poorly developed character- and plot-wise, with too much reliance on action and special effects. I was so disappointed with my first viewing of the first sequel, that I did not see it again for years, and did not see the third movie, Jurassic III, until very recently, when I bought the DVD version of the trilogy.

In Jurassic III, paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) has vowed to never set foot on Isla Sorna, the island near Costa Rica where InGen, a company owned by wealthy entrepreneur John Hammond, had staff use genetic engineering and DNA harvested from blood extracted from fossilized mosquitoes to clone dinosaurs and raise them. The dinosaurs were to be exhibited on nearby Isla Nublar, in the ultimate theme park, Jurassic Park, with the disastrous results shown in the first installment of the trilogy. After the debacle on Isla Nublar, InGen abandoned both islands, and they were quarantined, until the dinosaurs could die off. But, the dinosaurs flourished.

Now, an apparently rich, divorced couple has talked Dr. Grant into being their guide for an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, but they have a hidden agenda. I don't see this as a spoiler, as it is one of the first scenes in the movie: a man (the divorced woman's boyfriend) and a boy (the son of the divorcees) are stranded on Isla Sorna, after a parasailing trip goes badly. The divorced couple (William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) really want to rescue their son (Trevor Morgan) from Isla Sorna, with the help of Dr. Grant and his assistant (Alessandro Nivola), who do not know they are on a rescue mission, and Michael Jeter and his crew. Of course, the dinosaurs do not appreciate the intrusion, and see the humans as good snacking material.

The dinosaurs: Three dinosaur species were big attractions in this movie. A new "super-predator," Spinosaurus, was introduced, and it was bigger and meaner than Tyrannosaurus rex. A section of the island was set aside for pteronodons, and they were very interesting. And, of course, the Velociraptors were a big part of the film, with the premise being that, had the Earth not experienced a meteor-triggered climatic cataclysm, the Velociraptors might have ended up as the globe's dominant species. The theme of their communication skills was well-done and very interesting, and the portrayal of the animals has been updated, to match recent theories, by having them sport crests of primitive proto-feathers. One of the DVD's special features was a "dinosaur turntable," wherein the different species were presented as monochromatic three-dimensional models revolving on a platform, full-color models revolving in a real-life scene, and computerized models showing their locomotion. This educational feature was great, but could have been expanded, to include information on hunting, feeding, and social interaction facts, to the extent those are known.

Special effects: Amazing. Truly amazing. The movements of all the different animals are done very well, look natural (Right! As if I know how a Spinosaurus should move!), and blend very well with the real aspects of the scenes (like people and trees). The battles between the Spinosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus rex is amazing to watch and, in some bizarre way, I found myself sad about the outcome, which just points out how realistic these beasties seemed to me. The pterosaurs, in their odd manner of walking and graceful flight, were quite credible, and their final scene, reminiscent of the closing scene of Jurassic Park with the pelicans, was loaded with portent, suggesting that, if there ever were a Jurassic IV, it might portray a world where humanity was trying to keep itself off of the Endangered Species list.

The intangibles: Jurassic Park showed us some moments of movie magic, most notably the wonder of Drs. Grant and Sattler seeing the brachiosaurs for the first time, and realizing how their world had just turned upside-down, plus the primitive, terrifying glory of the triumphant Tyrannosaurus rex near the end, as she inescapably declared the world to belong to her. The Lost World had none of that wonder, charm, or emotional power.

What about Jurassic III? Trevor Morgan, William H. Macy, Tea Leoni, and Allesandro Nivola helped Sam Neill restore an element of human emotion and connectivity to the film, and the idea that the Velociraptors were even more advanced than previously thought, added an element of both terror and wonder (as in "I wonder what life will be like now?") to the story. This third installment in the series did not have as much emotional impact as did the original, but it came close enough to call it a worthy sequel.

Pros: Action, special effects, pterosaurs, a real story

Cons: It still lacks some of the wonder of the first film.

The Bottom Line: This is a better sequel to Jurassic Park than was The Lost World, with more story, better acting, and just as much action and great special effects.

Recommended: Yes

Viewing Format: DVD
Suitability For Children: Suitable for Children Age 13 and Older

This one is my favorite.......2007-01-29

Let's be honest, after "The Lost World" did anyone have high hopes for the third installment? I certainly didn't. I came late to the Jurassic Park movies, only seeing them a few years ago, so I don't have any real attachment to the first movie. I enjoyed it but I couldn't stand the child actors and enough with the Chaos Theory, Jeff Goldbum. For me, number three was the best. It was fun and entertaining. Don't get my wrong, I understand why the Emmys overlooked this movie. However, I thought that the actors were good; the story was well thought out and it was overall an enjoyable, exciting movie. Don't get caught up comparing it to the original, because odds are you like that one best. Feel free to compare it to the "The Lost World," because odds are you don't like that better... than anything. In closing, let me say this: "Jurassic Park III" is worth your time and money and at the very least it will get the horrible taste that is "The Lost World" out of your mouth.

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All you need to know about Robert Johnson
A wonderful DVD bringing together many people who at least tangentially, knew Robert Johnson.
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The Search for Robert Johnson
Starring: Robert Johnson
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ASIN: B000050IKX
Release Date: 2000-10-31

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Good Information.......2007-05-09

This documentary would have been much better, and shorter without the film maker inserting himself into the film with his singing and playing guitar. I like Robert Johnson, but the documentary maker is just not talented in those fields.

All you need to know about Robert Johnson.......2007-05-08

Great coverage of the man and his music. Enjoy it very much.

A wonderful DVD bringing together many people who at least tangentially, knew Robert Johnson. .......2006-09-05

This DVD offers a wealth of information about the life of Robert Johnson. We meet a girlfriend of Robert Johnson, who claims she knows where his actual burial ground is, and another girlfriend who had a song written about her by Robert (and who hears it for the first time on the DVD). A man is interviewed who claims to be Robert Johnson's son, along with a birth certificate showing that in fact this may be the case. Johnny Shines talks about how they would play the game of "cutting heads" in Helena, with Robert stealing away the audience every time. We get the insight that the person who poisoned Robert Johnson's drink admitted as such to one interviewer, after first presenting an alibi for a question which was never asked. We are also presented with three possible grave sites of Robert Johnson, though none of them can proven to be incontrovertible as such. In short, there is a lot of good information on this DVD about the enigmatic bluesman known as Robert Johnson (and pseudonyms in various other places). This DVD is clearly a window into the past which will slowly disappear as the years go on......Hammond does us all a great service by documenting Robert Johnson's life and that of his contemporaries.

The one complaint I would have is that at times Hammond (an excellent blues singer in his own right) himself is singing RJ's songs, and at the bottom of the screen it will have the name of Robert Johnson along with the songs title. This may leave those with little knowledge of the blues to conclude it is actually Robert Johnson who is singing, when in fact it is not. Also, there are montages throughout the film when they will be talking about Robert Johnson while at the same time showing pictures of blacks in bars and juke joints, without saying that in fact Robert Johnson is not in the photograph, as there are only two known photographs of him, and each one of these show him alone in the picture. To the novice blues fan, they may not know this and think they are actually seeing Robert Johnson, and I think this fact should have been made clear in the film.

Even with the above provisos, this was an excellent documentary on Robert Johnson's life....Hammond clearly has a deep love for the blues and the early musicians of the delta.

**** 1/2 stars.

An eccentric and informative film.......2006-08-08

What I loved most about this film was how it gave a window into the culture that produced Robert Johnson. When a woman who'd been a girlfriend of Robert Johnson's was asked whether she thought that Robert Johnson had really sold his soul to the devil, she replied "that's what people say." But then she said, (and I paraphrase her), "Why are you asking me? You're a musician, you know how these things work." When John Hammond then said, "I didn't sell my soul." Her reply was an unbelieving "Um-hmm!" Also, when the story was told of how the man who'd poisoned Robert Johnson finally admitted to the deed, his response was "I never thought there'd be all this trouble by killing that man." As though killing most men didn't cause much trouble at all! Anyway, the production is nice, having been shown on the BBC. It's not flashy Hollywood special effects, but for those interested in classic blues its a great trip through the Mississippi Delta.

Spectacular DVD.......2006-02-25

This is definitely for any music enthusiast. Experience the old stomping grounds of pure Delta Blues. Robert Johnson was an extraordinary musician that died under unexplained circumstances. No one really knows for sure how he died, and there is still a lingering mystery of where he is buried. This DVD literally takes you back to the time when Robert Johnson started a new revolution in Blues music. The birth of the Delta Blues is embedded in the narration of this DVD.

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Peepers, Creepers
Peeper the sleeper

Peeper
Starring: Michael Caine , Natalie Wood , Kitty Winn , Michael Constantine , and Thayer David
Director: Peter Hyams
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Release Date: 2006-10-17

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Painful.......2007-06-23

There are some stylish production touches and the DVD looks good, but this is nearly unwatchable. Is it screwball or noir? The jokes fall flat and there's no real tension. Caine and Wood are okay, but everyone else is playing to the back row. (The climax's eerie foreshadowing of Wood's death doesn't exactly add to the enjoyment.)

Never had a chance.......2007-04-07

Every man has a wonderful idea that absolutely will not work. Judging by his track record, director Peter Hyams has had several.

As the film itself strongly implies and as the attached interviews with Hyams make explicit, "Peeper" was intended as a loving re-creation of a noir-ish hard-boiled detective film. The screenplay, originally titled "Fat Chance," was based on a Keith Laumer novel of the same name. It so happens that I have never come across that book, but I certainly know Laumer's work. He was a good, sound wordsmith. His business was telling fast-moving stories and he was good at it. I'd be willing to bet that the book version of "Fat Chance" was swift of foot, peppered with lean, mean dialogue and generally smarter than its pulpish bloodlines might suggest.

As I sit here typing these comments, I find myself coming around to believing that many of the same things might be said about the screenplay written for "Fat Chance." I can't speak about the book, but it is clear that the particular hard-boiled detective the screenwriter had in mind was Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and the specific noir film he was channeling was "The Big Sleep." Marlowe's greatest film outing. Marlowe and "The Big Sleep" are gold standard stuff. Having chosen to be derivative, neither the screenwriter nor the director could have picked better models to rip off.

The intentions were good. The screenplay was sound. From that point, everything else went straight into the dumpster. The first appalling error was the tone chosen for the film: self-mocking and ironic. Self-mockery and irony are the very antitheses of film noir. Whatever a noir film may be, it is serious about it, deadly serious. As Edward G. Robinson's Keyes says not once but twice in "Double Indemnity," noir-ish protagonists are "on the streetcar bound straight to the cemetery." Marlowe can be ironic: "I counted seven lies in that statement and had high hopes for more" or this reply to a man who said he didn't like his manners: "Neither do I. I grieve for them." But Marlowe's irony is always verbal and never situational. Marlowe may be tattered and battered, but he's a born white knight and he knows it.

Mockery and irony are distancing; already the production team had taken one giant step away from the movie they had intended to make. The gap widened with the casting decisions. Michael Caine is a superb screen actor, as good as anyone might hope to get for a whole host of things, and he starred in the best equivalents to film noir ever shot on color stock, the Harry Palmer spy films. Nevertheless, Caine is dead wrong as a 1947 Los Angeles private eye. A few lines were interpolated into the screenplay to explain his highly unlikely presence. They only serve to make it more absurd. The effect is much the same as might be achieved by casting John Cleese as Babe Ruth: undoubtedly interesting, even fascinating, but dead wrong. Consistent with hard-boiled detective story practice, there is an ongoing patter from the detective's stream of consciousness. Words that would have emerged quite naturally from Bogart, Dick Powell or even James Garner, sound downright odd when pronounced in Caine's Alfie/Harry Palmer accent.

The casting error was compounded when Natalie Wood, of all people, was put in the Lauren Bacall/Barbara Stanwick part as the infinitely attractive, infinitely dangerous spider-lady role. Woods was a good looking woman and she could act a little, but she absolutely was not a spider-lady.

The errors were not limited to attitude and casting. The cinematographer completely missed the boat--or rather the film noir tramp steamer. Film noir is more than shadows. It is the people in those shadows and the shadows in those people. The great films noir are built of one- and two-shots. Offhand, the only wide-angle shot that comes to mind from "The Big Sleep" involve Marlowe's car arriving at the little bungalow in the Hollywood Hills. The only one I recollect from the hard-boiled "Maltese Falcon" is the hotel lobby scene where Spade calls the house dick over to point out that Wilmer the gunsel is lowering the tone of the joint.

In this film, wide-angle shots abound, in the conservatory scene, for instance. The concept is lifted straight out of "The Big Sleep." If only y had done the same thing with the camera set-ups. What was written as a claustrophobic sequence is shot widely enough to be a danger to those with agoraphobia. A standard set-piece in many a film noir is the mansion of the spider-lady and her endangered family. Here they shot at Harold Lloyd's classic movie star house. There are plenty of nice wide shots to show it off nicely and certainly enough to spoil the pace and visual style of the film. The same may be said of the sequences aboard the cruise ship.

(Let's not even bother with the fact that the concept of "cruise ship" instead of "liner" dates from a good twenty years or more after the notional 1947 date of this film. Or the fact that color film is not as contrasty as black and white stock and produces much warmer images, so that what would have been cool and crisp in a true noir film inevitably becomes, dim, unfocused and uncomfortably tepid here.)

Finally, there is the title. The studio lost faith in the picture as a noir vehicle. The self-mockery and irony triumphed with the change from "Fat Chance" to "Peeper." It didn't work. I vaguely remember the original theatrical releasee. It lasted about a week, impressed nobody at all, disappeared and was quickly forgotten.

Too bad. With rational casting and with a director who had the sense to see what actually lay within the screenplay as well as the ability to carry it out, this might have been a quietly impressive film. As it is, "Peeper" never had a chance, fat or otherwise.

Three stars.

Peepers, Creepers.......2007-02-07

I am a huge Michael Caine AND Natalie Wood fan since the Mid-Sixties and I have never heard of this movie til it came out on DVD. How could such an ideal movie match-up escape me? This looks on the outset that it could rival the chemistry of Gambit. Our stars do deliver: Caine is still slim and Harry Palmerish and Natalie is stunningly beautiful. No question they work great together. But the problem about this mystery is the plot: the scenes keep going by and I don't really know what is the point. Caine is trying to solve something about which lady is the missing twin, I think, and for what purpose, I'm not sure. I lay the blame at Hyam's feet. In his interview, he admits the film tested badly, but doesn't seem to know why. Obviously, audiences were too baffled by the murky plot to fully enjoy the Caine/Wood combo. Fans of either should watch this, but don't expect the cleverness of a Gambit.

Peeper the sleeper.......2006-09-29

The is an underappreciated movie starring Michael Caine as the private detective (Peeper) and the always stunning Natalie Wood. Give it a try.

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