DINO-MITE SATURDAY!

Updated on November 4, 2010 By Ken Begg 16 Comments

As I noted before, my friends at the Portage Theater will be doing dinosaur movies this month. Sadly, they aren’t doing their show actually on my birthday anymore (the venue wasn’t available that day), but they are doing it only a week later, on Nov 27th. So I should be able to gull / browbeat some of the locals into buying my ticket for me and attending with me.

What a line-up! (As soon as they get the poster art available, I’ll post it.) And to make the show extra kid friendly, they are wisely starting it in the afternoon.

2:00 Destroy All Monsters. Hell, that’s worth $10 right there. (Kids are $5 for the day)
4:00 The Beast of Hollow Mountain Fun stop-motion dinosaur & cowboy movie. Too little dino action before the climax (those boots!), but the end makes up for it. And hell, it’s only 81 minutes.

5:45 The Land Unknown It says something about how much I love this film that I MAY be more excited about this one than Destroy All Monsters.

7:30 Jurassic Park 3 Not great, but a huge step up from the retarded second film. The 92 minute running time (probably not any longer than Beast from Hollow Mountain when you remove the now much, much longer end credits) certainly helps in that regard. I’ll undoubtedly bug out before then, but even so the hell.

Again, how’s that for a ten spot?

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  • John Campbell

    You are incredibly lucky sir! There’s never anything like this here.

  • geeze Ken, there is not one single second of Land Unknown that is superior to any single second of Destroy All Monsters, which latter is blessed with the greatest title of all filmdom.

  • We must agree to disagree. On the other hand, we can all agree that I am right and that you are wrong.

  • KeithB
  • Rock Baker

    Beast of Hollow Mountain in a theater…. I could almost drool (but that would be really, really sad). And followed by The Land Unknown! (Now I can drool and it isn’t sad at all!)

  • I think my favorite thing about The Land Unknown is their globe of the earth.

  • BeckoningChasm

    If you are a fan of tarsiers or slow lorises, “The Land Unknown” might prove a bit disturbing.

  • Elizabeth

    JP3 has an appealing Monster Island feel to it, but I really kind of hate Tea Leoni and wanted her to be eaten.

    Since now everybody’s doing remakes of things that only happened a little while ago, I’d like to see a faithful adaptation of the novel. Spielberg’s movie will always have a place in my heart, but I wanna see raptor carnage.

  • BeckoningChasm

    Tea Leoni was actually kind of like the young granddaughter (Alex?) in the first film as portrayed in the book. As I recall, in the book she did nothing but endanger everyone, constantly, by doing the stupidest possible thing at the worst possible moment.

  • Wait, aren’t you thinking of Julianne Moore in the second film?

  • BeckoningChasm

    …there is that, too.

  • No One of Consequence

    I’d love to see JP2 redone to more closely follow the book… or hell, even to just resemble the book. Mostly, though, I just want the chameleon dinosaurs.

  • I didn’t like the book all that much, and felt the movie was far better. Crichton was far more interested in chaos theory than dinosaurs per se. He didn’t even have an adult tyrannosaur running around, just a young one. I don’t think Crichton “gets” why dinosaurs are great. But Spielberg did.

  • Yeah, but he lost interest pretty quick, certainly before he made JPII. The T-Rex in San Fransisco stuff was fun, but you can almost hear Spielberg straining against that “I’m a serious artist!” voice in his head now whenever he deigns to make a popcorn movie. I still can’t get over the fact that the guy who made Jaws made Last World.

    Of course, the answer is that he *isn’t* the same guy anymore.

  • TongoRad

    I hope it’s OK to piggyback on this post-

    Those of us in the Northern ‘burbs of NYC should try heading over to the Lafayette Theater in Suffern, NY this weekend for their Horror-Thon, featuring a salute to Universal Horror on Saturday. Details here:
    http://www.bigscreenclassics.com/horrorthon2010.html