Jurassic Park is a true masterpiece

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just watched it again with some friends. damn, it's a fucking awesome movie. even today.

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the story is awesome and the characters are memorable. especially jeff goldblum as ian malcom. he nailed this one.

i can't believe this movie is already 15 years old.
 
I went to see it opening night, was quite an incredible experience. I think it's held up a lot better than the sequels, which were trash. I don't think it's a masterpiece, but it's good.
 
Best popcorn flick of all time. Seeing this in the theaters at 12 was legendary.
 
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 :(
 
I love the lighting and tightly crafted dialog, but I usually start to get bored with all the dinosaur shit once it starts going down. The first half is all kinds of great
 
stuburns said:
I went to see it opening night, was quite an incredible experience. I think it's held up a lot better than the sequels, which were trash. I don't think it's a masterpiece, but it's good.
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The same.

I need to watch it again though, for some reason I can only remember vague stuff. And that one scene in the OP.
 
I vaguely remember seeing it in the theater... I was 7 D: But I do remember my 3 year old brother trying to run out during the opening scene :lol
 
Dabookerman said:
No, ARE YOU KIDDING??

This movie is AWFUL.

Uhh.. It's so HOLLYWOOD and whatever fucking reason people will come up with..

..ITT
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What's wrong with the odd popcorn hollywood two hour kiddie film? Not every film has to be Munich, he makes great kids films.
 
Dabookerman said:
No, ARE YOU KIDDING??

This movie is AWFUL.

Uhh.. It's so HOLLYWOOD and whatever fucking reason people will come up with..

..ITT
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I know. It wasn't even the best dinosaur movie of 1993.

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Kagari said:
The book, sure.

Well, maybe not. The Jurassic Park novel was pretty damn good.
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Lost world book was better? You are out of your mind. They aren't in the same universe.
 
Its not even his best blockbuster, nor in the top 10 of Spielberg's filmography alone....

(in case someone asks, his best blockbuster is Jaws, and those 10 in chrono order would be Duel, Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders, ET, Empire of the Sun, Schindler, SPR, AI and Munich)
 
Yup great movie, except for the kids and samuel l. jackson, it's perfect.

If you think of what Sam Neil said in hunt for red october, you can laugh cause he is from Montana in this movie.
 
Jurassic Park left a lasting impression on me, and I still enjoy seeing it.

It's by no means the most sophisticated piece of fiction ever committed to film, and I don't give a flying fuck. For sheer spectacle it remains unmatched as far as I'm concerned. At least it conveyed something of the wonder and majesty of seeing dinosaurs walk the Earth again, while the sequels degenerated into mindless monster movies.
 
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.
 
To clarify my previous post, Im not calling the movie bad or anything (this isnt HOOK we're talking about!), but rather that Ive never felt it was among Spielberg's upper echelon. The two memorable things about the movie for me are the effects and the score.
 
Solo said:
To clarify my previous post, Im not calling the movie bad or anything (this isnt HOOK we're talking about!), but rather that Ive never felt it was among Spielberg's upper echelon. The two memorable things about the movie for me are the effects and the score.
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You needed to be a kid.
 
Blair said:
You needed to be a kid.
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Yeah, I think so. Munich, Close Encounters, Schindler's List etc are of course, far better movies, but as a kid who loved Dinosaur crap, it was incredible.
 
My only regret about the two JP movies (3 doesnt count) is that they never captured the chaotic nature of the velociraptor nesting areas as the second book did. That was always the sticking image in my mind.
This is where I mention that velociraptors were really only 3 feet tall and couldnt disembowel people

I think there is still heaps of room for a good new JP movie. In the same way that movies/stories like Planet of the Apes or the Time Machine still resonate with people, the fear and amazement of Dinosaurs would easily be watchable if done well.
 
Blair said:
You needed to be a kid.
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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.
 
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