Congo - Caravan Of Garbage

The Weekly Planet

James

Tv & Film

5 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Michael Crichton is probably most famous for penning the novel that would go on to became 1993's Jurassic Park and the subsequent Park/World sequels. And in light of that a whole lot of different attempts have been made to adapt his work some before, like Westworld and some after like Westworld. Over the next three weeks we're going to take a look at some of the lesser known and lesser successful adaptations, starting with 1995's Congo. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravanagh Garbage, where because we're getting
0:04.2	more Jurassic World now and also forever, why don't we tank the algorithm by looking at some
0:10.5	Michael Crichton adaptations, which start, I was going to say, reasonably well known and then
0:16.2	descend into, I don't know what this is, what is this based on? They're all Michael Crichton,
0:20.3	all right? Well, I was going to say thank you for that intro, because I think a lot of people probably
0:23.5	don't even know that Jurassic Park was written originally by Michael Crichton.
0:27.6	Not at this point, I guess, yeah.
0:28.7	I mean, it was a hugely popular book, influential in the sense that everybody was talking
0:33.1	about dinosaurs, Mason.
0:34.3	Absolutely. Remember that bit in the book where they're doing computer stuff?
0:37.9	Yeah, it's the best part.
0:38.8	And he's like the little, he clicked the thing.
0:40.9	Yeah.
0:41.3	He opened the gates or whatever.
0:42.7	It's a good thing to put in a book.
0:44.3	I think so too.
0:45.2	Yeah.
0:45.6	Well, he also has a background in computer programming and that's going to come back around
0:49.2	at the end of this.
0:49.8	Let me tell you that, Mason. Oh, yes. And he also might have a background in putting a diamond in a laser and then cutting a gorilla's hand off.
0:56.6	Absolutely.
0:57.9	Don't we all?
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