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[MagicJackBauer]

...and Bingo, dino DNA

fixed

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

I can't really think of any movie being enhanced in my mind simply because I saw it as a kid. A teenager, maybe, but I don't remember much of the kid stuff.

 

[Blair]

I was. 10 years old when it released, and I loved it. But Im not 10 anymore, and it doesnt hold that sense of wonder anymore, so I view it differently now, whether I want to or not. Cant be helped - same goes for all my childhood favorites - some hold up, some do not.

The childhood experience of this film blowing me away is far more important that picking it apart now i'm an adult 15 years on.

 

[JdFoX187]

Still break this movie out every once in a while to watch it. The third one? Not so much.

 

[Solo]

The childhood experience of this film blowing me away is far more important that picking it apart now i'm an adult 15 years on.

I assure, its not something I intentionally do.

 

[commish]

I found the 3rd better than the 2nd.

 

[mario ate my burger]

I love the movie, but I hate Bayern Munich.

 

[NotWii]

This was the first film I bugged my parents to see in cinemas, AND IT WAS SO AWESOME!

Also it spurred me onto a path of computing, computer graphics, film and science

...and BOOM, dino DNA

Bingo, not Boom!

 

[Blair]

I assure, its not something I intentionally do.

Nah, i do it aswell, it sucks.


The only film from my childhood i've rewatched recently that didn't dissapoint one bit was muppets christmas carol.


But jesus christ, i owned so many JP toys i could literally reenact the entire movie on my bedroom floor :lol

 

[VALIS]

meh

Yep. Some fun moments for sure, but like in most movies, the threat and tension of impending danger was a lot more exciting than the actual danger.

 

[bengraven]

Also, the novel is the best survival horror book that isn't post-apocalyptic or feature zombies. That is all.

NOTHING stands up to it. Nothing.

 

[Solo]

The only movie that I can recall vividly loving as a kid that I actually appreciate even more now is Die Hard. Loved it as a kid for the action and stuff, but now that you see just how well constructed it is, and just how far reaching its influence is, I appreciate it all the more.

 

[Spotless Mind]

It's such great suspense film. There's so many memorable and thrilling action set pieces. I used to watch it all the time when i was young and it would excite me every time. I haven't watched it in a few years, but i'm sure it still stands up.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

The only movie that I can recall vividly loving as a kid that I actually appreciate even more now is Die Hard. Loved it as a kid for the action and stuff, but now that you see just how well constructed it is, and just how far reaching its influence is, I appreciate it all the more.

Hook is my first and one of the fondest childhood movie experiences I have commited to memory. You needed to be a kid for that. The magic still lives whenever I watch it. Aladdin was another great childhood cinema memory.

 

[Solo]

Oh, good call - some of the Disney stuff holds up wonderfully!

It's such great suspense film. There's so many memorable and thrilling action set pieces. I used to watch it all the time when i was young and it would excite me every time. I haven't watched it in a few years, but i'm sure it still stands up.

I watched it recently, and yes, all the big set pieces hold up. There was no one better than Spielberg at that kind of thing during that era. Its everything between the action set pieces that is the problem for me.

 

[wenis]

That t-rex still looks more real than any $250 million blockbuster can do.

This.....
I don't do a lot of character modeling (Environments mostly), but when I see some of my mates work I go "So how does it compare to the T-rex?"....A sad look upon his face gazes up at me and I laugh :lol

 

[Pancakes]

Great movie (Hugs VHS tape, yes VHS!) and even better book imo. Twas a shame 2 and 3 couldn't follow through.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Oh, good call - some of the Disney stuff holds up wonderfully!



I watched it recently, and yes, all the big set pieces hold up. There was no one better than Spielberg at that kind of thing during that era. Its everything between the action set pieces that is the problem for me.

Ahem.
Tense set pieces? I think Spielberg was definitely there during that era, but you're forgetting somebody.

 

[gutter_trash]

the CG in Jurassic Park is still superior than all the crap we have been getting for the past 4 years

 

[MadraptorMan]

the CG in Jurassic Park is still superior than all the crap we have been getting for the past 4 years

.

 

[bengraven]

And the soundtrack. My god.

 

[madmook]

One of my top faves.

Can't wait to get a blu-ray version.

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

Ahem.
Tense set pieces? I think Spielberg was definitely there during that era, but you're forgetting somebody.

I'm watching this on Bravo right now, and I think I can swap Solo's opinion on JP with this. I'm at the mad melodramatic nuclear bomb on the playground dream sequence scene right now, SHIT'S ABOUT TO GET REAL OMG

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I'm watching this on Bravo right now, and I think I can swap Solo's opinion on JP with this. I'm at the mad melodramatic nuclear bomb on the playground dream sequence scene right now, SHIT'S ABOUT TO GET REAL OMG

Director's Cut?

 

[tak]

I love Jurassic Park. Great pacing and great characters. There are very few things I don't like about the movie.

I just wished they didn't pull a Matrix with the series. The second and third movie were trash compared to the first. It could have been a great series.

 

[StuBurns]

Director's Cut?

Last time I saw it was on TV and it was the theatrical cut I think, they actually cut the best scene in the whole film. Insane.

 

[Duki]

Director's Cut?

Do you prefer this version? I love all of Cameron's director's cuts better, especially Aliens, but T2 dc gets a lot of hate for some reason.

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

Director's Cut?

Doesn't seem like it, just the normal version. Does the DC cut actually cut anything from the film or does it only add to it?

 

[StuBurns]

Do you prefer this version? I love all of Cameron's director's cuts better, especially Aliens, but T2 dc gets a lot of hate for some reason.

The DC of the Abyss is worse. Really heavy handed.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Do you prefer this version? I love all of Cameron's director's cuts better, especially Aliens, but T2 dc gets a lot of hate for some reason.

T2 DC is infinitely superior to the theatrical cut. All of Cameron's director's cuts are the best versions of the films.

Stuburns - You're insane. The theatrical cut of The Abyss doesn't make any sense and plays horribly as a result of all the omitted scenes.

 

[atomsk]

The fact that we haven't got a recent, commercial release of a JP FPS is atrocious. Now is the time, now is the technology, fucking make it. Take Far Cry 2, add jungles and dinosaurs and set it on Site B/Isla Sorna. Let me find amber and dinosaur eggs. Let me drive in first person like FC2, with a side mirror that's reflective so as to see the dinosaur's jaws as they come toward me. Let me have a Winnebago with armor and a science kit inside to be my safehouse and have it be attacked by a Spinosaurus toward the end, forcing me to hoof it on foot. Let me call in new vehicles and health/food/weapons via cell phone. Let me choose my side: Biosyn mercs that airlift baby dinos to the mailand and shoot anyone on sight or InGen conservationists who collect scientific data.

Make it so, very quickly. I hunger for this game.

there is a Crysis mod being worked on

http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-world-returns

 

[BattleMonkey]

Shoot hurrrrrrr

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Doesn't seem like it, just the normal version. Does the DC cut actually cut anything from the film or does it only add to it?

Only adds to it. Though instead of Arnold simply saying 'The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn', they have an entire scene where they remove the chip in his head and change it from 'read only' so he can start learning.

 

[StuBurns]

Stuburns - You're insane. The theatrical cut of The Abyss doesn't make any sense and plays horribly as a result of all the omitted scenes.

It makes sense having seen the DC, and then you can watch it without the awful heavy handed crap.

 

[NotWii]

the CG in Jurassic Park is still superior than all the crap we have been getting for the past 4 years

Yep

 

[Dabookerman]

What's wrong with the odd popcorn hollywood two hour kiddie film? Not every film has to be Munich, he makes great kids films.

Was my post not clear enough?

Oh god sake.

 

[Jeff Albertson]

I remember seeing this on opening night when I was about 12, the opening scene with the Raptors in the crate terrified me.

Amazing film the scene with the Vista over the plains was breathtaking.

 

[Spotless Mind]

Stuburns - You're insane. The theatrical cut of The Abyss doesn't make any sense and plays horribly as a result of all the omitted scenes.

Nah he's right. The Director's Cut version is really bad with its sledgehammering of messages. The theatrical cut ain't much better. The movie has a weak ending in both versions. That said, i've always thought it went completely off the rails after the hilariously awful revival scene.

 

[GSG Flash]

One of my favorite movies of all time. I watched it so many times back in the day I wore out the VHS.
The CG and effects still look good even today.




Now release on blu-ray

Was there even any CG in Jurassic Park? AFAIK, the reason why the dinosaurs looked so good is because they were animatronics and a lot of the animations were done using stop motion.

edit: Just checked, some of the t-rex scenes were CG, looks like you learn something new everyday

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

Only adds to it. Though instead of Arnold simply saying 'The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn', they have an entire scene where they remove the chip in his head and change it from 'read only' so he can start learning.

My biggest problem is Linda Hamilton/Sarah Connor. I think Linda can totally sell me on being this badass warrior woman, but whenever she's monologing about something like how the Terminator will be the father John never had and all, it just feels melodramatic and cheesy and even unnecessary. A lot of the things she says just kind of bludgeon the viewer over the head and really should go without saying. Just makes me cringe, I dunno why that kind of stuff felt necessary to Cameron.

 

[genjiZERO]

I have a personal hatred for this film because of the bad science it perpetuates.

 

[StuBurns]

Nah he's right. The Director's Cut version is really bad with its sledgehammering of messages. The theatrical cut ain't much better. The movie has a weak ending in both versions. That said, i've always thought it went completely off the rails after the hilariously awful revival scene.

It's the Cameron film that needs a 'Final Cut' style revisiting, sort that shit out. The end might as well be a still message for six minutes saying "James Cameron said war is bad".

 

[NotWii]

Was there even any CG in Jurassic Park? AFAIK, the reason why the dinosaurs looked so good is because they were animatronics and a lot of the animations were done using stop motion.

What?! No!

But that's how they were originally going to do the full body shots of the t-rex and stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KYWMUvfGYI

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Was there even any CG in Jurassic Park? AFAIK, the reason why the dinosaurs looked so good is because they were animatronics and a lot of the animations were done using stop motion.

Oh there was plenty of CG. Most of the full-motion dinosaurs were CG, with animatronics being used for close-up sequences that would require interaction with the actors. Stan Winston's amazing robotic T. rex used for the attack on the main being a perfect example.

ILM did an outstanding job on the graphics, though, and they were integrated so seamlessly that it's easy to mistake them for animatronics, even today.

 

[subzero9285]

Was there even any CG in Jurassic Park? AFAIK, the reason why the dinosaurs looked so good is because they were animatronics and a lot of the animations were done using stop motion.

It was a mix of animatronics and CGI, the Brachiosaurus scene for example, being the latter.

 

[Flying_Phoenix]

Was there even any CG in Jurassic Park? AFAIK, the reason why the dinosaurs looked so good is because they were animatronics and a lot of the animations were done using stop motion.

edit: Just checked, some of the t-rex scenes were CG, looks like you learn something new everyday

In some parts but a lot of the "epic" scenes were in CG. It's often used as a posterchild to how little CG has improved over the years in terms of pushing realism.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

The Velociraptor that attacks and kills Muldoon was a man in a suit, though!

 

[Ploid 3.0]

Yea I remember watching it on HBO or something a few months ago. So awesome, I should see if it's on blu ray.

 

[legend166]

Really good movie held back by atrocious editing.

I'd love Spielberg to go back and actually re-edit the thing whilst paying attention. It was rushed so he could go do Schindler's List.

 

[The Librarian]

I was. 10 years old when it released, and I loved it. But Im not 10 anymore, and it doesnt hold that sense of wonder anymore, so I view it differently now, whether I want to or not. Cant be helped - same goes for all my childhood favorites - some hold up, some do not.

What a shame.

Listening to the main theme in my car, I remember why I love the movie. Jurassic Park is my second favorite movie ever.