Hold On to Your Butts: A Jurassic Park Rewatch Podcast
Hold On to Your Butts: A Jurassic Park Rewatch Podcast
Podcast Description
God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God created Man. Man created a podcast about dinosaurs.
Hold On to Your Butts is a Jurassic Park rewatch podcast about how the biggest show on Earth lost its bite. Join Paul Karolyi and JD Lopez as they revisit the entire Jurassic franchise -- from InGen to BioSyn and Grant to Grady -- ahead of the release of Jurassic World: Rebirth in July 2025. Paul and JD will attempt to figure out if pod can, uhhhhhhhh, find a way.
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The podcast centers on the Jurassic franchise, focusing on particular films while discussing the cultural implications of dinosaurs in society. Examples include in-depth analyses of 'Jurassic World: Dominion' with discussions about the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs, and 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' which features themes of horror and ethics in science. Other topics include the evolution of the franchise, character development, and audience reception.
God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God created Man. Man created a podcast about dinosaurs. And then, the podcasters just kept going.
Hold On to Your Butts started as a Jurassic Park rewatch podcast about how the biggest show on Earth lost its bite. But now that “Rebirth” has been birthed, Paul Karolyi and JD Lopez are revisiting other great franchises that once dominated the cultural landscape and now, well, don’t.
For season two, we tackled Indiana Jones because Disney is rebooting it, apparently without Harrison Ford, and we have feelings about that. And now in season three, it’s time for our most-maligned franchise yet — Predator. They’ve made nine movies, and we’re still asking: what the heck even is a Predator?
JD and Paul take on Predator: Killer of Killers, the animated anthology from Dan Trachtenberg that sends the Predator hunting across centuries of human history.
This time, a Viking warrior, a samurai, and a World War II pilot each face their own Yautja hunter before being brought together for a Predator gladiator battle. JD thinks Killer of Killers contains some of the best and most inventive action in the entire franchise. Paul thinks animation might fundamentally prevent him from caring about any of it. So naturally, things get contentious.
We break down the three stories, the wildly different Predator designs, the new Yautja Codex and language, the film’s animation, its historical settings, the samurai showdown, the aerial Predator battle, the final arena sequence, and what Dan Trachtenberg seems to understand about this franchise that so many previous filmmakers didn’t.
Subscribe for the final episode of What the Hell Are You? I A Rewatch of Everything Predator.
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