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JURASSIC PARK 3 comments from Joe Johnston!
Hey folks, Harry here... Yesterday over at IMDB.Com they quoted William H Macy as describing JURASSIC PARK 3 as a $100 million dollar train wreck, and when this was picked up by some online... Joe Johnston decided to call the site with the foremost reputation of getting all the scoop on JURASSIC PARK... DAN'S JURASSIC PARK 3 PAGE... and called him up to straighten out all the confusion and havoc caused by Bill's sentence. Right now, all we have on JURASSIC PARK 3 is a rough idea of the film based on set reports and leaked plots... So far I've yet to hear of a test screening of the film... Nor have we seen any sort of script reviews by a reliable and frequent reviewer of scripts online. Around 2/3rds of the way shooting on JP3, Macy did an interview with CANAL PLUS television and was quite enthused about the production, but did complain a bit about how physical it all was. So, read the below transcription of Dan's conversation with Joe and then click over to DAN'S JURASSIC PARK 3 PAGE to read about when we may expect a trailer... what it'll contain and other details as well... Enjoy....
"Regarding the negative comments by Bill Macy, you have to keep in mind the incredible hardships the cast went through during the making of this film. They were in constant discomfort in rain, mud, cold night exteriors, and dangerous stunts, many of which were performed by the actors themselves. They had to work in close proximity to animatronic creatures that had a combined force of over 1300 horsepower, and that were frighteningly susceptible to errant radio waves. They had to be harnessed and hung from cables, sometimes upside down. They were dropped fifty feet into icy water. They were bruised, scraped, cut, knocked down and submerged under water in a closed cage. Conditions like this can wear anyone's patience to the breaking point and I think Bill was simply letting off a little steam, deservedly so. The entire cast was consistently professional under extremely difficult conditions. Not one member of the cast ever said, "I can't do another take". More often than not, they volunteered another take, in order to improve the scene. As for the snail's pace of production, Bill may be exaggerating a little. We went a very few days over schedule, due mostly to weather and unforeseen technical problems. Under the circumstances, I'm very happy with where we ended up, schedule-wise. The cast and crew made a truly heroic effort to bring the picture in on time and to make it something to be proud of, and I am. The movie is scary, funny, intense, moving, startling and contains just the right amount of barely-controlled chaos. As they say, you'll have to pay for the entire seat, but you'll only need the edge.
Hope you like it."
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Way to wipe up the spilled comments of William H. Macy, Joe!
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I do not know is this bodes well. I hope Johnston is trying to do some serious damage control.
Macy has worked with some of the best directors...and scripts. You gotta wonder if he is thinking this is going to be a big stinker! -
Seems Macy is distancing himself from JP3 already- maybe he should toughen up!!!! You'd think he'd wait for the end product before bagging it. If this movie is even remotely interesting I wonder what Willy will be saying then.
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Macy was having a little fun. If you knew anything about the man, you'd know that already. Tongue in cheek, Bruce Campbellish sarcasm...
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lowest form of wit, nuff said.
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I am of the idea that Spielberg can do magic sometimes,and sometimes not.I thought the first JP was good with the dinosaur scenes,but the acting was way too hammy.The 2nd film was mean spirited and I didn't care for the characters fates at all.Part 3 will be scary,funny and MOVING?Right.
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You know: Sam Neill and William Macy. Them guys is too old to be running around chased by big hairy robots...
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I wanna see JP3 SO bad! I can't wait to see Bill Macy and Mrs. Mulder getting attacked by smart dinos! I'm not looking for an oscar winner..I wanna have fun with this and no one can stop me...not even bill macy!! Mwa hahahahaaha
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Sarcasm is the highest form of wit. It takes a true intellectual to pull it off, effectively, you twit.
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Myself included.
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A Marvel Masterpiece by the late, great Jack Kirby. Sam Neil drags the Time Machine from the Warner Brothers movie from the back lot that's being used as a loan out for the film, starts it up and travels into the future, only to find a destroyed world where he meets "Doggo"; a talking dog that stands upright and dispenses wisdom along with a young wildman. They accidently overshoot their destination as they travel backwards through time ending up in the jurassic era where they meet a dinosaur; mean as the devil! Stars Brad Pitt as "Kamandi", 80's pop star Tiffany as "Weena", 90's rap star "Hot Chocolate" as "Doggo" and John Vernon as "The Mayor". That's my take.
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Ed Harris complained a lot about the Abyss and that turned out to be an excellent film. Still, every actor in it is BOX OFFICE POISON, the gee whiz factor is gone, Spielburg isn't directing, this Summer has a lot of big movies, the third sequel is almost always bad (Return of the Jedi, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Lethal Weapon 3, Alien 3, Jaws 3D, Friday the 13th 3D, etc., etc.), and the last film blew dead whales.
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Of course, the third film in the James Bond series, "Goldfinger" was the best in the series. (And the originator of the same formulaic plot for the next thirty years!)
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...is feeding the dinosaurs. I mean, let some characters die and be eaten. Show guts and blood! Red body fluids covers the silver screens! Sincerely, people, let's admit: "Lost World" absolutely sucked! "Carnosaur" was very fun, though.
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I think everyone wanted JP2 to have more action and chomping but instead we got basically a re-hash of the first. I think the change of director was a great start and hopefully we get plenty of terrifying dinosaurs with heaps of blood! And sarcasm is the lowest form of wit!
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Lethal Weapon 3 was cool...ah, i'm getting too old for this shit...
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Perhaps the actor from Oleanna, Fargo, and Magnolia wasn't prepared for something of this scale. He's made challenging films, but non of them were challenging productions.
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This should be a good sequel so here's hoping it is a lot of fun.
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Magnolia had the frogs which were a combo of CGI and handmade. So there....sarcasm is indeed the greatest form of wit there is, twit-twat.
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there is no such thing as a highest form of wit.
to billy bob inbred kicking someone in the balls might be the highest form of wit.
so jackass sarcasm may by the highest form of wit.
it is all relatively.
therefore there is no lowest form of wit.
it is open territory, do whatever you want and be as high and mighty or as low and slimy as you want. -
Macy was also in Mystery Men.
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Macy was misquoted, I think. Wasn't the whole comment in Premiere a couple of months ago? I read it in some magazine anyway, and he said they were all thinking 'Oh God, this is a $100 million train wreck of a movie' but then he saw an early assembly of 30 mins or so and now he's really hyped for it and says 'it rocks'. But perhaps this is a comment he's made in damage limitation after some original 'train wreck' comment? I don't know. P.S. the full phrase is "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit and the highest form of intelligence."
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Mar 09, 2001 6:05:03 AM CST
As they say, you'll have to pay for the entire seat, but you'll
by b a fett
Ummm...that sentence just turned me off from wanting to see this flick.
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I saw Bill Macy on Miller's show and when Dennis took the opportunity to take a cheap barb at JP3 with repsect to the crap that was churned out in JP2, Bill quietly corrected him with some very favorable comments about the production. Macy said, "I think it's going to be really special...people are going to love it." And he looked quite sinere and pleasantly reflective. I witnessed this with my own three eyes, folks, so screw what the IMDB is saying. Bill's comments and Joe Johnston's less egotistical approach to filmmaking than Spielberg led me to believe that this was something worth viewing.
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Man, it's a big mistake to criticize a film that you're starring in. Even if it is a "train wreck" it'll hurt Macy's career to say things like that. Why would a director feel 100% comfortable working with him if he's gonna go off and talk trash before the film's even done???
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The Lost World Sucked. I am a hard core, almost obsesive Jurrassic Park Fan. And the Lost World sucked!!!
There is no freakin way a 10 year old girl can beat a velociraptor!!!! Speilburg did a half%#$ Job.
The 3rd one is going to suck too. Reason Number 1:
1.Tea Lioni, the worst actress in the world!!!
2.Tea Leoni, she sucks twice as bad as any of the other actors.
3.Sam Neil, what a freakin sellout, this movie is going to suck but your out of work actor has to get a job.
4.No Book to be based on, micheal cricton didn't write a 3rd, although I hope he would, it could be about them going back to get the dinosaurs and thrash the island, becuase they can't just nuke it, because then it would up set the foreign dudes!!
5.Speilburg, as much as the 2nd sucked, it still had one good part, I doubt the 3rd will have any.
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1) The IMDB is a notoriously unreliable source for movie news, 2) Bill Macy, a wonderful actor, gets a little cranky every now and then, 3) Marlon Brando called THE FRESHMAN a "stinker," while Ed Harris, as mattun noted above, never missed an opportunity, pre-release, to badmouth James Cameron and THE ABYSS -- both films turned out just fine (even though neither one was particularly profitable, but they weren't the third sequel in one of the most popular franchises in film history, were they?) For now, I'll give the benefit of the doubt to Joe Johnston, and assume Macy was just bein' ol', irritable Bill Macy.
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I wouldn't call JP one of the most successful franchises in film history. Biggest-grossing franchises yes, but to be successful in my book requires another dimension: quality of product. The first one was fun, the second one was lame. That's a .500 average, great for the majors but lousy for Hollywood. Beef jerky?
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funkin-a..hes right..its a made to be fun dino flick..What do you over critical asshole snobs want??, Schindlers list with a velociraptor?? How bout' a much anticipated movie with an annoying-ass jamaican space amphibian with a speech impediment??(hehe..couldn't resist)..come on and lightin up and wait see. And quit mentally masturbating you big hard intelects...you'll go blind!!.
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Please tell me she's naked through the whole movie. She runs naked, she screams naked, she swings from a vine onto a t-rex back naked.ahhhhh
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Aside from Ian Malcolm and the
dinosaurs, nothing really got me
too hooked on Lost World. And as
far as the plot goes, it's as simple as this: Dr. Grant and company are on a plane that crashes on Isla Nublar(or Sorna) and they have to run from the dinosaurs and make their way to the radio room at the Visitor's Center to call for help. All the while being stalked by the raptors, t-rex, and the spinosaurus(which is either a
dino that Hammond didn't mention
or it's some new, evolved raptor
that's really good at camoflauge.
Anyhow, that's it in a nutshell.
Snoogans. -
I've worked on projects before, both professionally and with friends, that I knew were just wrong. Wrong direction, wrong concept, wrong reason for doing it in the first place, just wrong. Most of the time you try to make the best of the situation (especially if you're getting paid, and also especially if you are close to the other people involved). You really hope for the best even though your gut tells you something else. You will even try to put a positive spin on things if questioned. Not to be dishonest, but because you really hope for the best for something you've invested in. But sometimes, no matter how much you try to polish the turd, you just can't escape the fact that it is shit. Maybe your inclination is to keep that fact to yourself, but afterall, we're all only human and sometimes we just can't help ourselves: we speak our mind. Now, with that in mind, I see Macy's comments as having the ring of truth. He's a professional. Even if he was uncomfortable most of the time on the set, he'd still know the difference between a worthwhile project and a load of raptor droppings. I think we can take him for his word on this. The Lost World was pointless and boring. Who out there really thinks that the world needs another Jurassic Park outing? Not me, and apparently, not Macy.
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Ooh, Sam Neil - the most exciting man who ever lived. His raw sexual charisma just makes me break out in cold sweats (***SARCASM***). Actually he reminds me of the man my mum warned me to stay away from when I was a kid.
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Don't get me wrong, I admire Macy as an actor...but how much is he getting paid? More than the average drama student working in a cafe, I'd imagine. How many man-hours go into making a film? THOUSANDS...if not hundreds of thousands...and I can't believe this ungrateful asshole wastes production money on picking up a fatass fee only to slag off something that many others have put serious effort into. If you think you've made a turkey, keep your mouth shut for your colleagues sake. There's a million wannabe actors who'd have given half their lives to star in a sequel to the biggest sci-fi of the nineties, and not ruined other's careers in the process, so either quit complaining or quit your profession. PS if, as someone said he was quoted out of context and the imdb article is false, I take it all back.
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it's the pun that's the lowest form of humor. sarcasm is among the highest. nitwit.
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Mar 09, 2001 3:21:05 PM CST
Do we really need to see this once promising series go out with
by moonwatcher
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Mar 09, 2001 3:30:25 PM CST
Do we really need to see this once promising series go out with
by moonwatcher
Jurassic Park left me exhilarated and thrilled - here was the dinosaur movie we really wanted to see, the one that finally made us forget about the adolescent charms of Irwin Allen's THE LOST WORLD (1960). Spielberg's LOST WORLD was joyless and totally bereft of spontaneity - at least 1941 had some originality and humor, despite its' flaws. JP2 just left me cold, with characters I couldn't care about and the most ludicrous appearance by a T-rex in a modern city ever filmed. Joe Johnston has been fun to watch, and Tea Leoni still comes across as fresh and wholesome to this movie fan, so maybe there will be hope for this project, yet. But it's a long way up from JP2 (sorry about the second posting - hit the wrong key the first time).
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lost worls was good. and i have hopes for jp3....but no julianne moore????....mmmmmm julianne moore.........
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. . . was the best in the series.
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One thing that the filmmakers of Jurassic Park 3 must learn is....the bloody Raptors aren't bullet proof! In JP one and two,it doesn't matter how many people the raptors kill,nobody fires one single shot at them.The producers cannot continue to insult the viewers intelligence.Let one of the people shoot some raptors down in a heroic defence.
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Lickalotapussy!
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Mar 10, 2001 6:30:29 AM CST
"You'll only need the edge." What's U2's guitarist got to do wit
by 221b
On all the pictures I've seen of the dinosaurs so far, their lips look too red!
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Ian Malcome tackeling numerous narky Dinos, Ian Malcome driving ATVs over undulating hills, Ian Malcome lockin' and loadin' sophisticated looking weaponry...Naked! This film will sink without Ian. I want, no, i need Ian. Did I mention ...Naked?
And, by the way, the original line is that sarcasm is the lowest form of *intended* wit, and the traditional rejoinder is "Only if you can't do it right." -
Jurassic Park did not need a sequel . I t certainly doesn't need two. JOe Johnston is not a very good director. H e makes Chris Columbus look like Bergman. THe film is packed with people I like, but they need paychecks too. The film WILL NOT be gory, so you can put that out of your minds. Gore will not move Happy Meals. Face Front, this film will make money but still suck. Sad but true.
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has the acting talent of a trained streetwalker chimp and the looks of a skanky heroin addicted whore!
2) You guys so overrating Bill Macy! Geez! get a grip, I think it's because he's always playing such a loser; you can relate. But that wouldn't explain why you're all so willingly volenteer to suck his dick...mmm...
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Can somebody tell me where I can find some pictures of the JP3 dinosaurs? Someone in the talkback mentioned them previously and I'd like to check them out.
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You haven't seen the movie yet, and all you people do is just sit here in front of your computers with nothing to go on for the film except the title and a teaser poster, having not the faintest idea of the plot, and you just sit here complaining and thinking up ways of how these movies are going to be awful. Geez. With pessimistic attitudes like that how on earth do you expect the director appease you? My advice is to get up, and go outside for one thing. Second, just chill out, and wait until the movie comes out, take some friends, get some popcorn and a soda, and just go enjoy the movie instead of just saying "Well, it's suck no matter what!" If you don't think it will be good...there is a solution.....JUST DON'T GO SEE IT. Period. I mean, there is more to life than a stinkin' movie. Chill.
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and then comes the running.
newsflash people. The original JP is a shitty movie also. It was just the first time man has seen a moving photoreal dinosaur that made it great.
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