Jurassic Park (1993) Reaction & Review! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
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- Jurassic Park by Steven Spielberg was amazing. Not only were the performances, story and visuals engaging, the directing was spectacular complimented by the excellent script from Michael Crichton and the iconic score from John Williams. The good news is that all that gets overshadowed by the breathtaking scope of the production team’s ability to bring these dinosaurs to life. I’m happy that it brought a little bit of my childhood back and I have to admit that this was a landmark cinema when it comes to pure spectacle. Do let me know if the sequels are worth reviewing too.
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0:00 Intro
2:10 The Film
25:00 The Review
30:45 Outro
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My reaction and review to Jurassic Park (1993) for the first time. Hope you enjoy the video!
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The Neverending Story is very much worth watching. It is best experienced first as a child and then again as an adult. As the themes and plot are a rich and rewarding experience for both, but on very different levels.
@@c.krueger9530 the second one explains the second half ....its not so good but at least they made it.
I'll add my vote to that!
LOL! I was a big fan of Noah Hathaway, from his earlier role in 1978's Battlestar Galactica as the little boy Boxey, then he got to be in The Neverending Story. to this day when he appears at a comic con, he talks about how many times Wolfgang Peterson tried to kill him on the set every week of filming!
@@deg6788 Good thing there are only 2 movies...
"They look like big strong hands, don't they?" 😢
When Dr.Grant uses the two female ends of the seatbelt, and adapts by tying them together to buckle in... some of the best foreshadowing ever for the female dinosaurs adapting to breed.
"life finds a way"
My mind is blown…
The best line in this movie.
“You’re scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
No. The best line is the Great White Hunter's "Clever girl".
The monologue he gives in the book is even better:
_«You know what's wrong with scientific power? It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. It never fails._
_Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it’s your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline._
_Now what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting power changes the you so that you won't abuse it. But scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast. There is no discipline lasting many decades. There is no mastery: old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature. There is only a get-rich-quick, make-a-name-for-yourself-fast philosophy. Cheat, lie, falsify--it doesn't matter. Not to you, or to your colleagues. No one will criticize you. No one has any standards. They're all trying to do the same thing: to do something big, and do it fast. And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly. Yon don't even-know exactly what you have done, but already you have reported it; patented it, and sold it. And the buyer will have even less discipline than you. The buyer simply purchases the power, like any commodity. The buyer doesn’t even conceive that any discipline might be necessary.»_
Greatest movie experience of my life. I was eight years old. Obsessed with dinosaurs. Would draw them. Read about them. Dream about what it would be like to see one in real life. My parents would see PG-13 movies beforehand to make sure they were ok for me to see. They saw Jurassic Park on opening night. I waited with anticipation for them to come home and tell me if I could see it. When they came home and told me I could, I was beyond thrilled. The next morning they took me to see it. When the brachiosaurus appeared my dream came true. Wish I could’ve seen my face in that moment. The groundbreaking graphics, the beautiful music, pure heaven. I saw the movie six times in the theater. The magic of the movies.
Oh Lord, I was 19 and in college. My biology professor did a lecture on the possibility of this happening
I was 6. The 2nd movie I saw in theaters. The first was Aladdin.
same
Was a few years older than you, but same. Saw it six times in theater.
Same! I also was 8 and I can still vividly remember seeing it in the theater. My jaw was on the floor
The never ending story is definitely worth watching as an adult.
It's one of those rare films that works on different levels for kids and adults but it is a rich and rewarding experience for both.
John Williams delivers once again. As does Spielberg. This is just a magical film. IMO there never should have been any sequels made, this is as good as it gets for this type of film.
Several things make this movie exceptional.
The mix of cgi and animatronix that holds up extremely well even today
The great acting, mention to the two kids who do an outstanding job
And the tension, at times it goes very close to horror territory.
Of course, the score is just fantastic.
Agreed, the fact that the CGI is from '93 and still holds up is insane. Heck it's this movie that made people realize CGI could be used on a large scale.
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Because cgi is used right.
There to complete where practical can't.
Another example is Pan's Labyrinth.
The faun in it is entirely a costume, the cgi is just to erase the leg stool used to give the faun's legs that angle.
When everything is cgi it just doesn't work as well, the human subconscious isn't easily fooled.
"Can you imagine watching this in the theatres in 1993?"
Yes I can. I was 14 watching this in 1994 in a theatre and I was fascinated by the dinosaurs before so just imagine what was my reaction 😍
Love this movie.
As someone who was 11 years old in 1993 and saw this in theaters I can assure you it was the most mind blowing experience I have ever experienced when those dinosaurs first came on screen.
Landmark indeed. To a generation brought up on Harryhausen's stop-mo dinosaurs this is when cinema CGI came of age. Hard to imagine now, when anything is possible on the PC, in games and in cinema, the impact of seeing this, especially the first reveal, on the big screen in 1993
Oh that was magical at the time. Unfortunately, it's now old hat😢.
Another impressive aspect of this film is Spielberg was editing/finishing it at the same time he was filming Schindler's List. It's incredible how well both turned out.
Some fun facts:
1. The scene where the sick triceratops is laying in the grass, it was the first time the actors seen an animatronic that was full size. The reactions of the actors was not just acted but it was their actual reactions to it. Afterwards Laura commented her tears were real because she (the tric) looked so beautiful. Sam said he felt like a kid seeing it because he loved the trics growing up.
2. In the scene where Laura turns on the electricity and the raptor jumps at her and scares her. They actually filmed it without telling her the raptor was in place. So when it jumped at her, she said that was legit horror on her face as it quote "Scared the s**t out of me!" lol
3. The music is by John Williams. As of course you know from many movies. The day after I seen this in theaters (I was 11), I had my parents buy me the soundtrack!
4. The movie was filmed in Hawaii. And there actually was a hurricane during filming which shut things down for awhile. Gave them some good extra footage.
5. At the time many of the information was accurate about dinosaurs. But as we know now, some likely had feathers, like the raptors. Though the raptors in this movie were not big at all. More like turkey sized. However the Utah raptor is closer the velociraptor in size. And sadly the DNA thing wasn't feasible, not with ancient DNA from a mosquito as that DNA would not be useable/obtainable. Made me so sad to find out. Trexs vision is actually not based on movement, so in reality they would be dead.
6. Some critics loved the movie but didn't like Hammond because he was selfish. They missed the fact he was not in this to make money or to be selfish. He just wanted to bring joy to the world like he had as a child. And sadly his joy simply sort of blinded him to the dangers of bringing back dinosaurs. The lawyer though, obviously he was the one out for the money and selfishness of course.
7. The novel by Michael Crichton, is very different from the movie. It is super dark and would have earned a hard R rating for sure.
8. The graphics still hold up today. You know its fake, but it still feels more real then most CGI creatures you see today. Though as the movies go on, the CGI starts to feel a bit to modern and fakish. Not awful of course by any means. And they depend to much on CGI instead of a nice CGI/animatornic mix. It's what gave JP a very real feeling.
9. They got the idea for ripples to show in water from noticing when someone was playing a guitar, the low notes rippled water in a glass. Thus they set up speakers beneatd certain spots to cause water ripples in the movies.
10. The Trex sounds are a combo of a baby elephant's squeal, and alligator's gurgle, and a tiger snarl
I love the JP series. I even have the original 10 foot by 8 foot poster of a giant trex from the first movies premiere at our local theater. The first movie is the best of course, most agree. However the second one, Lost World, is my personal favorite. Without any spoilers I will simply size I enjoyed the scale of it. Of course the one that people never forget is a scene, again no spoilers, that was very.... "gym" like in nature. You will know it when you see it. Ugh.
11 year old me had a giant love of dinosaurs. I still do. Every time a new trailer came out for every movie, I got teary. Even with the Jurrasic World series. As I type this there's a Jurrasic Park musical event touring throughout he country. It goes to show how iconic and great the soundtrack was.
Amazing facts! Thank you for sharing !
One of Michael Crichton's best stories. He has nearly as many movies made from his books as Philip K Dick, but not as many blockbusters.
I heard somebody describe this movie as a horror story for kids. That seems about the right tone. More of a family action movie for adults.
I also like Looker (not well known) and Congo, based on Crichton's novels.
I turned 10 in the summer of '93. Seeing this in the theater was life changing. Still an all-time favorite.
It's definitely worth watching Neverending Story. There's a lot to appreciate as an adult, along with all the magic of watching it as a kid.
It's an almost indescribable feeling watching this in the theater upon it's release. Indeed that very first shot of the Brachiosaurus struck the audience in a way that has yet to be matched. You have to remember that two things were at play here, one is this is the first time that the world has truly seen a living, breathing dinosaur, not a fantastical one made of clay or a stylized one aimed at children like Barney, this is how they looked, moved and sounded.
Second, this was the first time that CGI had been used to create a living, organic creature, ILM had already done stylized things like the water tentacle in 'The Abyss' and liquid metal in 'Terminator 2', but this, this was a game changer and it's what ushered us into the era of filmmaking we have now.
Lastly, I saw the film eight times in the theater and I melted into my seat with awe everytime with not only that particular shot but several times throughout the film. Seek out a documentary called 'The Making of Jurassic Park' hosted by James Earl Jones, it's terrific.
The Never Ending Story is definitely worth watching as an adult, there's alot of metaphors and symbolism in the film that I never noticed as a kid but fully appreciate as an adult. 🙂
Classic. Jurassic Park works so well because it’s a great thriller first. As much as I like Spielberg’s The Lost World sequel, there really should’ve only been this one.
Sadly, I have to agree. The sequels, while inevitable, still cheapened the original experience.
I disagree. Although not as good as the first, I do think The Lost World was a worthy sequel to the first. People mostly just hate it because Dr. Grant is not in it, and they didn't understand the homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World in the final act.
Saw this film 10 times in the theater when it came out. I was 7 years old. I just spent the whole summer going to see Jurassic Park.
I saw this in the theater at least 5 times in '93. It was a mind-blowing experience, not only the amazing visual effects but also the sound design. That T-Rex roar and footsteps on a theater sound system set the bar to this day.
In the book Hammond was more of a hidden villain, he was blackmailing the computer programmer into working for him for almost nothing... That's why the computer programmer turned on him.
Also in the book there were a lot more dinosaurs, and a lot more on their behavior.
When this film was released in theaters I was very fortunate to have a next door neighbor that worked for a local tv station in St. Louis. Their station was hosting a premiere party and had rented out one of the largest theaters in St. Louis for a private screening. My neighbor invited me to go along. I did not know what to expect from the film. Wow, what an event. They had the sound track cranked to 11. When it was over people stood and applauded. We had never seen seen cgi special effects like this before. The animals were so realistic.
I was 14 when I saw this movie in the cinema in 1993! What an experience!
I was 12. 👍
@@seanrosenau2088 My brother too.
Did you go to the re-releases?
19 👍
I was 16 and today i sometimes feel like a dinosaur myself. 🤣👍
I saw this in a packed theater in 1993 with my mom and my sister. It was more than just "going to the movies". It truly was an expirence. Exhilarating, fun and terrifying. They don't make movies like this anymore.
Fun fact: Ariana Richards (Lex) is now an accomplished artist. Her paintings are beautiful.
The roar of the T-Rex is fantastic. Very few know it was mixed with my mother yelling at me as 12yro and an Elephant
The animatronics are even more impressive when you watch the behind the scenes for the T-Rex. So much effort went into that. Same for the sound artists. They went and sampled dozens of animals and mixed them together to get the dinosaur noises.
I saw this 7 times when it was released in 1993 and then saw it again, when it was re-released in 2013 for the anniversary. It's not just the visual, but the audio was incredible as well. This was the first film to use this type of CGI and it was such a success. I love this film so much!
There are so many great scenes in this. Speilberg's a master. I was 26 years old and it still filled me with wonder and awe like a kid. The T Rex roar scene is still one of my greatest movie theater experiences.
I just saw Jurassic Park in a theatre with a live orchestra a couple months ago: the magic was so real.
I saw this in theaters in 199. When the first image of the brachiosaur came on the screen, the whole audience went "whoa"!
Jurassic Park trivia
This movie and the book generated so much interest in dinosaurs that the study of paleontology has had a record increase in students.
According to the behind-the-scenes book The Making of Jurassic Park: An Adventure 65 million Years in the Making, the infamous roar of The Tyrannosaurus' were a composite mix of a dog, penguin, tiger's snarl, alligators gurgle, and a baby elephants squeal . The very deep alligator vocals acted as the low-frequency element of the final roar. However, as Gary Rydstrom stresses, the key part of the sound is the high-frequency element: the baby elephant. Rydstrom describes how, during the recording session, the baby elephant only did the iconic "cute high-pitched scream" that forms the basis of every T. rex roar in the film once. "We kept trying to get it to do it again, and the handlers were saying, 'We never heard it do that before; that's a weird sound.'" As Rydstrom stresses, the introduction of the T. rex is a scene expressly planned around sound design. "I think maybe other directors would have had a shock moment where you see the T. rex show up out of the blue Spielberg was great in the T. rex scene by getting several minutes of tension because you knew what was coming. And you knew it because you heard it before you saw it it's nice when movies think about sound that way."
The T. Rex occasionally malfunctioned, due to the rain. Producer Kathleen Kennedy recalls, "The T. Rex went into the heebie-jeebies sometimes. Scared the crap out of us. We'd be, like, eating lunch, and all of a sudden a T. Rex would come alive. At first we didn't know what was happening, and then we realized it was the rain. You'd hear people start screaming."
When Hurricane Iniki hit, the cast and crew were all required to move into the ballroom of the hotel in which they were staying. Sir Richard Attenborough, however, stayed in his hotel room and slept through the entire event. When asked how he could possibly have done this, Attenborough replied, "My dear boy, I survived the blitz!"
Michael Crichton intended John Hammond to be "a dark Walt Disney". However, while possibly unintentional, the character is also similar to PT Barnum.
The guests' encounter with the sick Triceratops ends without any clear explanation as to why the animal is sick. Michael Crichton's original novel and the screenplay, however, include an explanation: the Stegosaurus/Triceratops lacked suitable teeth for grinding food, and so, like birds, would swallow rocks and use them as gizzard stones. In the digestive tract, these rocks would grind the food to aid in digestion. After six weeks, the rocks would become too smooth to be useful, and the animal would regurgitate them. When finding and eating new rocks to use, the animal would also swallow West Indian Lilac berries. The fact that the berries and stones are regurgitated explains why Ellie never finds traces of them in the animal's excrement.
(at around 25 mins) The Mr. DNA cartoon was Steven Spielberg's way of condensing much of the novel's exposition into a few minutes.
Director Steven Spielberg wanted the velociraptors to be about ten feet tall, which was taller than they were known to be. According to an artist involved in pre-production, Spielberg requested this change because he was unhappy with the size of what was considered the largest dromaeosaurid at the time, Deinonychus, and wanted it to be bigger. Another reason was to make the raptor more menacing. During filming, paleontologists actually uncovered ten-foot-tall specimens of raptors called Utahraptors. Spielberg also wanted the dinosaurs to be birdlike, for example, snapping to attention like a chicken. He wanted the Raptors to turn their heads so they could look behind the
Universal Pictures paid Michael Crichton $2 million for the rights to his novel before it was even published.
When Michael Crichton was asked why the novel has "Jurassic" in the title, and has a dinosaur from the Cretaceous period on the cover, he replied that had never occurred to him, and admitted "that was just the best looking design".
The job of animating the full dinosaurs was first given to Phil Tippett, who did several previsualizations with stop-motion animation (where models are slightly moved in between shooting separate frames). Motion blur would be digitally added to make the movements seem less jerky and more convincing. However, ILM visual effects artists Steve 'Spaz' Williams and Mark A.Z. Dippé suggested that most of the full-size dinosaurs could be fully animated on computer from head to toe, although their boss Dennis Muren told them that they could never do a better job than Tippett. They proceeded to create a test animation of a skeletal T-Rex anyway, which was shown to Kathleen Kennedy when she visited ILM. Kennedy informed Steven Spielberg, who was intrigued and ordered another test reel. He was blown away by the final result, where a fully fleshed T. Rex walks through a desert. He and Tippett looked at each other and Tippett said, "I think we're extinct". Spielberg liked the line and gave it to Jeff Goldblum to say to Sam Neill in the Visitor's Center. Tippett later stated that he was genuinely physically sick from feeling obsolete, and left the set for 10 days, but he was later hired to help design the computer-generated dinosaurs' movements.
Before the book was published, Michael Crichton demanded a non-negotiable fee of $1.5 million, as well as a substantial percentage of the gross.
All of the cast were given a Raptor model, signed by director Steven Spielberg as a gift. It looked very frightening, and Ariana Richards has it in her house to shock anyone coming in, like a guard at the gate. Jeff Goldblum's model has a prime spot in his house, and is a cherished object. Laura Dern put her Raptor model in her son's room near his crib. When he was older and saw it he screamed like never before. She had to put it in storage, but hopes one day, the two will be friends.
Steven Spielberg was in the very early stages of pre-production for the movie "ER" (based on a Michael Crichton novel) when he heard about the "Jurassic Park" book. He subsequently dumped what he was doing to make this movie. Afterwards, he returned to "ER" and helped develop it into the hit television series ER (1994).
Ariana Richards' audition consisted of standing in front of a camera and screaming wildly. Steven Spielberg "wanted to see how she could show fear." Richards remembers, "I heard later on that Steven had watched a few girls on tape that day, and I was the only one who ended up waking his sleeping wife off the couch, and she came running through the hallway to see if the kids were all right."
John Williams scored the movie at the end of February 1993 and recorded it a month later. He felt he needed to write "pieces that would convey a sense of awe and fascination, given it dealt with the overwhelming happiness and excitement that would emerge from seeing live dinosaurs."
If you would like more trivia here is a link www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/trivia/
I was around 20 yrs old when I saw this in the theaters and can still remember the experience to this day. The CGI dinosaurs were totally groundbreaking at the time and blew everyone away. That coupled with the amazing score and this was THE film to see at that time. Great reaction!
My favorite part of the movie is not a dinosaur, nor an action sequence, it's when Dr Grant taunts the kid with a Raptor claw.
The opening helicopter approach to Jurassic Park is on Kauai, Hawai'i. The waterfall is known as Manawaiopuna Falls or now just called Jurassic Falls due to its Hollywood fame.
This was filmed on Kauai and Oahu. When they were filming this movie, Hurricane Iniki hit Kauai and Oahu. So when you see the storm, it is real!
My sister and I saw this movie three times in the theater. We took our mother. One of the great theater experiences in my lifetime.
Some of John Williams' best work ever.
I did watch this in a theater in 1993, the largest theater in Stockholm seating 1100 people. It was absolutely insane. The T-Rex scene had me actually fearing for my life, and I loved every second of it. I was 19 by the way. o.O
I'm not sure I appreciated it at the time, but as I've gotten older, I find Grant's line "They're moving in heards. They DO move in heards." so emotional. In a scientific field where by necessity so much will remain speculation, he's finally getting confirmation for some of it.
What's truly amazing about Spielberg is that during a large portion of the shooting of this movie he was in Poland doing pre production work for Schindler's List tele conferencing about daily schedule and shot set ups
One of my favorite franchises. I've often thought of Jurassic Park as an updated Frankenstein-type story. Scientist uses the dead to create new life which then runs amok and chaos ensues.
It's funny you mention re-living your childhood. I think that's why I enjoy reactions so much. It's a way to make your childhood movies new again through someone else's eyes.
Great reaction as usual man.
Thanks 🙏
I saw this opening day and when the Dinosaurs were revealed people couldn't believe what they were seeing. I was stunned beyond words.
Saw this movie in the theaters with my son, who was 4 at the time. It terrified, awed, and thrilled him more than anything else in his life until that day.
26:35 - it pronouced Kep. In 90s was on his top form. Year before Jurassic Park co-wrote Death Becomes Her and after then wrote or co-wrote scripts for movies like Carlito's Way (also 1993 directed by Brian De Palma), first Mission Impossible, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (sequel to this movie but not that good), first Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. Recently wrote script for thriller Kimi directed by Steven Soderberg in this year.
I was 9 years old and saw this in theaters. When the T-rex came, you could feel the whole theater shake with each footstep, louder and louder the stronger the shaking became, it felt like that Rex was gonna burst from the theater wall at any moment. it was my most intense theater experience.
"Must drive faster!"
What made this movie the groundbreaking flick that we know today, was the use of Practical Effects with CGI mixed in. If this movie was made today, CGI would have been used for everything and it wouldn't have looked good.
Fun Fact: Michael Crichton said that his views on science and genetic engineering are largely expressed by Ian Malcolm. Steven Spielberg saw many parallels to himself in the character of John Hammond. Fittingly, he cast a fellow filmmaker in the role, who begins his tour of the park by showing a movie in which he also acts. While Malcolm is dressed entirely in black, Hammond wears all white.
Lost In Adaptation Fact: The Mr. DNA cartoon was Steven Spielberg's way of condensing much of the novel's exposition into a few minutes.
Not The Virus Fact: The guests' encounter with the sick Triceratops ends without any clear explanation as to why the animal is sick. Michael Crichton's original novel and the screenplay, however, include an explanation: the Stegosaurus/Triceratops lacked suitable teeth for grinding food, and so, like birds, would swallow rocks and use them as gizzard stones. In the digestive tract, these rocks would grind the food to aid in digestion. After six weeks, the rocks would become too smooth to be useful, and the animal would regurgitate them. When finding and eating new rocks to use, the animal would also swallow West Indian Lilac berries. The fact that the berries and stones are regurgitated explains why Ellie never finds traces of them in the animal's excrement.
I was 15 when this came out and saw it in the theater and it was amazing. Man, when that T-Rex let out that roar for the first time, damn. Back then, they built this as a kids movie. We left the theater thinking, this is no kids movie.
8:24 I don't have to imagine. I was there. Dinos were my and my best friend's THING in the 80's. You can bet we saw this opening night! Utterly unforgettable experience.
Did you notice that the blond girl in this movie also played the little girl (with the pogo stick) in Tremors?
I was 11 when this movie was released, and living in the UK. It was huge. I remember watching documentaries on how they did the effects long before I actually saw the film in the cinema, but I was still blown away watching it on the big screen. It was like nothing I had ever seen before - that level of realism just hadn’t really existed until then. Such a special movie.
My family and I went to see this on the big screen in 93, I was 10 at the time and it remains to this day one is my all time favourite films
That first dinosaur scene 8 minutes in was absolutely mind-blowing back in 1995. Nobody had ever done anything remotely like it before with CGI. Cinema audiences gasped. I know I did.
I was 24 in 93, when I saw this in the theater. Me and my girlfriend. I was blown away. I had high expectations but nothing could prepare you for that experience. Not sure on the NeverEnding Story. I don't remember it at all but I plan on checking it out. Fun to watch this again with you!
I was 14 years old watching this in the theater. 🤯 I went home and told my parents that they needed to see this immediately.
Michael Crichton was a Hollywood powerhouse as far back as the 1970s. Before 'Jurassic Park', he explored many of the same themes in the film 'Westworld' which he wrote and directed and starred Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, and James Brolin. The HBO series was based on the film. His work was always cautionary tales about the pros and cons of scientific advancement and the way complex systems pathologically break down, usually at the worst possible moment.
As a writer and a director, Crichton also made the films:
- 'Runaway' (1984) with Tom Selleck, the late Kirstie Alley, and KISS member Gene Simmons
- 'Looker' (1981) with Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn (as an aside, it also featured Crichton's then-girlfriend Terri Welles, Playboy Playmate of the Month, December 1980 and Playmate of the Year 1981 in a minor role)
- 'The Great Train Robbery' (1978) with Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Lesley-Anne Down...adapting the screenplay from his own novel.
- 'Coma' (1978) with Genevieve Bujold and Michael Douglas...he adapted the screenplay from a novel by Robin Cook.
The novels by Crichton that were made into films, but not adapted and directed by Crichton (but occasionally co-written by him):
- 'Congo' (1995) with Laura Linney
- 'The 13th Warrior' (1999) with Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif...directed by John McTiernan (Based on the novel 'Eaters of the Dead')
- 'Sphere' (1998) with Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L.Jackson...directed by Barry Levinson
- 'Disclosure' (1994) with Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, and Donald Sutherland...directed by Barry Levinson
- 'Rising Sun' (1993) with Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Mako, Tia Carrera, and Harvey Keitel...directed by Philip Kaufman
- 'Timeline' (2003) with Gerard Butler, Paul Walker, and Billy Connolly...directed by Richard Donner
- 'Lost World: Jurassic Park' (1997) with Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, and Arliss Howard...directed by Spielberg (Personal opinion...I hated this one. And I don't hate any Spielberg films...but, I hated this one!)
- 'The Andromeda Strain' (1971) with James Olson, Arthur Hill, and Kate Reid...directed by Robert Wise
The film 'Twister' (1996) starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt was based on a story he wrote.
He created the long-running medical drama 'E.R.' which lasted from 1994 to 2009 and had among its revolving main cast members George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, Noah Wylie, Ming-Na Wen, Linda Cardellini, Mekhi Pfeifer, Alex Kingston, Parminder Nagra, and Angela Bassett.
He was a Harvard-trained Medical Doctor who didn't practice medicine. It was his experiences as an intern that formed the basis of 'E.R.'
He was 6 feet 9 inches tall.
He died in 2008.
Can I imagine what it was like to see this movie in the theater when it first came out? I don’t need to.
Did you notice the Goonies nod in this film? Nedry not only wears Chunks floral shirt in his first scene but also Mike’s yellow hood jacket in his death scene. All thanks to Spielberg of course!
I saw this in the cinema back in 1993. Although we weren't quite queueing _all the way_ around the block, it was easily the longest queue for a film I have ever been in.
I had recently gotten my driver's license when this came out. I had read the book about a year before the movie released. First movie I ever took a girl out to see.
I was living in Las Vegas when it was released and was working at a movie theater and we were lucky enough to see a midnight showing the day before it was released, it was fantastic in a big theater.
Let's thank Steve "Spaz" Williams for the CGI because originally, the studio was dead set on using stop motion animation for the dinosaurs. But, for Steve Williams, it was an act of rebellion and sneakily did it anyway and was warned not to do it. The story goes that some film producers were touring ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) Studios and in the background of Spaz's computer screen, there was a fully digital T. Rex walking in the background. They were shocked on how fluid it looked and told Spielberg about it.
"Can you imagine watching this in theatres in 1993?". I did! I was 20 years old, and it was unlike anything we'd ever seen before. My biggest memory is that during the T-Rex breakout scene, my girlfriend at the time was squeezing my hand so hard I thought she might break my fingers.
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Watch "Forrest Gump" (if you haven't seen it yet)..... It's one of the best and most beautiful movies I've ever seen, here's my tip....
"Can you imagine watching this in the theaters in 1993?"
Yes I can. It's my favorite theater moment of ALL TIME.
Jurassic Park came out on my birthday, June 11th, and I got to see it.
Keep in mind that special effects like this had never been seen before. The best we'd ever gotten of dinosaurs was some clunky animatronics, or claymation. The trailers wisely did not show much of the dinosaurs themselves. Hype was at an all time high. People didn't know exactly what to expect, other than it would be good. There were talk shows where they showed a clip of the scientists meeting the brachiosaur (the first reveal), but cleverly edited so it cut off just BEFORE the actual dinosaur reveal. They did NOT show off the power of their SFX beforehand.
I think 20-30 minutes of the movie goes by before you see your first dinosaur. And then it's done in the most SPECTACULAR way. That first shot of the brachiosaurus, everyone stopped talking and you heard a collective wave of emotion wash over the audience. Everyone just said "oooh... wow." I have never been in a large group of people just overawed in the moment before or since. It was a magical moment.
The initial T-Rex attack gave us a similar reaction, though everyone was stiff, silent, shocked. When that scene ended and we went back to the control center with Sam Jackson pouring over the code, everyone let out their breath and chuckled. I've never been in a theater before where the emotions of the audience were so skillfully played.
I was a kid (around 7 or 8) when I saw this film and stills remains one of my most memorable theatrical experiences!
2:58 - yes, it made 900 milion dollars in cinemas. Also 200 million dollars on home video.
Never ending Story is definately worth a watch!
I think you nailed the reasons why this is such a timeless classic. The Subplot is only there generally to give reason for the dinosaurs to escape.
The writing, and everything is on top Par. The exposition is given to the cast as part of the plot as it also gives to audience.
I love that you enjoyed it when you were a youngster, but now, you see it with different appreciation to the filmmaking, use of scores and dialogue, special effects etc.
Quick Edit: I think Lost World is a good one, yes it has some flaws, and there are things in the novel(s) that could have been used but it is a good sequel.
Part III, is reasonable. It isn't as good as the first one.
As for Speilberg films and practical effects, You may have seen "Raiders of The Lost Ark" and its sequels? I think that is John Williams score too, yes?
24:30 Right here Shan, Michael Crichton wrote a story (1969) made into an awesome and much older movie I hope you haven't seen. "The Andromeda Strain" (1971) is a scifi you should do without any research because of the story idea and how it relates to the present day. Robert Wise directed, it's a very different style of movie here and the only advise I would give is closely read the text and dates given as you watch the drama. At the time it came out, some of us wondered if it was based on an actual event and covered up. 🖖👽
I could literally describe to you in detail every single leaf that moves in this movie.
.........I was almost fifteen when this came out and I STILL glance at every door of every house/building I walk into, internally and automatically registering whether or not it is "raptor proof"
...................................................this coming after year of checking every toilet I was about to sit down on, internally and automatically registering whether or not Jaws was lurking anywhere in the immediate vicinity.
My younger self had a very complicated relationship with Steven Spielberg's work.
Trivia bit: Did you notice that the baby dino footprints looked exactly like the adult velociraptor footprints?
MY #1 FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME!
Before Sam Neill was cast as Alan Grant, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Biehn, Tom Selleck, Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte, Kurt Russell, Robin Williams, Dylan McDermott and Tom Sizemore were considered.
Before Laura Dern was cast as Ellie Satler, Kelly McGillis, Julia Roberts, Bridget Fonda, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman Melanie Griffith, Brooke Shields, Kyra Sedgwick, Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Geena Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Christina Applegate, Kim Raver, Mariska Hargitay, Juliette Binoche, Sandra Bullock, Sherilyn Fenn, Heather Graham, Lisa Rinna, Renee Zellweger, Kim Basinger, Genevieve Bujold, Juliette Lewis, and Linda Hamilton were considered
Before Jeff Goldblum was cast as Ian Malcolm, Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Bruce Campbell, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Michael J Fox, and Bill Paxton were considered.
Before Richard Attenborough was cast as John Hammond, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Ian Bannen, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando, and Jon Pertwee were considered.
Jeffrey Jones, Bob Hoskins, Brian Cox and Geoffrey Rush were considered for Robert Muldoon.
Before Speilberg was picked to direct the film, James Cameron, Richard Donner, Tim Burton, and Joe Dante were considered.
The film was a box office and critical success, making $1 billion dollars ($2.3 billion dollars today) against a $65 million dollar budget.
It won 3 Oscars:
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
It's now considered to be one of the best Sci-fi Action Adventure films ever made.
This movie is definitely in my top 5 movies of all time. I was 3 years old when this came out but I believe I didn't watch it until I was about 5 or 6 but I also remember getting to see it in theatres for the first time in 2013 at the Imax which was awesome. I cannot listen to that main score, especially during the scene when they all see a dinosaur for the first time, without getting emotional because it's such a beautiful piece of music that rally captures the awe and wonderment of the situation.
A few facts:
The shots of the storm hitting the island is real footage of hurricane Iniki that struck Kauai during filming of this movie which is where most of the outdoor scenes were filmed including the scene where the helicopter first arrives and lands on the island next to Manawaiopuna Falls also called Jurassic Park Falls.
Samuel Jackson was suppose to film his death scene, but the hurricane prevented them from filming it. Honestly though, I felt the way they did his death in the final cut made it better and made the raptor jump scare much more effective which still gets me to this day.
For the T-Rex sounds, they combined the sounds of a baby elephant, a dog tearing up a toy, a tiger, and an alligator. For the Raptors, they used the sounds of turtles mating, horses, and I believe they also used dolphin sounds.
As for the practical raptor effects, it was half animatronic, and half of it was people in raptor suits from the neck down.
Love your reactions and reviews and looking forward to the next one.
I think the movie introduced a lot of people to Jeff Goldblum, prior to this he was in movies like the remake of "The Fly", "The Big Chill", "Silverado", "Vibes" and a very brief bit in "Death Wish".
Just imagine, seeing this in a theater on a huge screen where the dinosaurs really Tower above you, and if you happen to have a drink with you, the Dolby sound made ripples in your drink when the T-Rex approaches, just like the drink in the movie
This film changed how we make movies. Computer effects had never been used to such an extent. Originally the dinosaurs were supposed to be stop motion. Then someone made a few seconds with a t-rex moving on a computer, showed it to Spielberg, and said "how about this?". And the rest is history.
In the book Hammond is a lot more unscrupulous but here, while there's some hints they play him much more sympathetically (since Spielberg put a lot of himself in the part) and Richard Attenborough's wonderful performance helps.
He really feels like someone so wrapped up in the dream that he's tragically overlooked many vital things, and what the full implications of what they've done, to see it realized.
While I am VERY much looking forward to watching you watch this one - I cannot imagine it will have the impact it had when it was released.
When I saw this in the theatre, back in 1993, I had basically NO reference to dinosaurs in movies (except maybe from King Kong 1933). And when that first shot finally arrived, with the camera panning right and FILLING the 70ft cinema screen with a gigantic moving, living and breathing Bracchiosaurus - I lost the ability to close my mouth. 100% true story. I sat there, front row, 19 years old, not realizing my mouth was hanging open until I accidentally drooled on myself.
This is one of those cinema experiences I will remember until the day I die.
Spielberg directed the most memorable stories of my childhood, and John Williams scored them.
Neverending Story 1 and 2 are worth it ...and lets not forget about the rest of the Star Trek movies too!
The Never-Ending story yes, the sequel ... no.
This movie taught me that no one is in control, and never play god, never mess with something that will end taking lives
You must watch the rest of this franchise; it keeps telling the story and must be watched in order. And despite what someone else said, they do not go down in quality as they go along. Each one is more awesome than the one before it: The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Jurassic World: Dominion. These should not be missed!
The subplot of the stolen embryos was a story thread that was more focused on in the original novel, as well as that novel's sequel, The Lost World. The movie adaptation of Lost World completely omits that story thread.
I got to see it in theater in 1993. The only drawback was because the theater was so full, my mother, stepfather, friend and I had to sit at the very front and crane our necks to see the screen. I was 17, almost 18.
Fun fact: Actually Sir Richard was the older brother of David A. :)
I was a teen in the early 90s and the whole topic of genes and Genetics was just huge back then. This was the time when the human genome project got started and everybody was freaking out about what you could do once a whole gene sequence is plotted. Turns out that you need quite a bit more to alter or even create an organism, but they didn't know that yet. Also the whole idea of Dino DNA in moskito fossils was a big thing.
I did see it on the big screen in 1993, and certain theaters used subsonic speakers, so that when the T-Rex was stomping around, you felt it in your seat!
and the girl that played Lex, a few years earlier was in the movie Tremors with Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, she was the girl on the pogo stick.
For me this movie still holds up and remains among my 10 best movies of all time.
I grew up loving dinosaurs. Books, Games, stuffed animals, all of it. This came out when I was 13, and the very day I went to see it with my friends, I also got my braces. So I was already on edge from a sore mouth, and this freaked me out and I was on the edge of my seat. In the power shed jump scare, I clenched my teeth and then winced because of the pain. It was AWESOME. I had the posters, still have the Making Of book, and a handful of trading cards.
But my favorite dinosaur wasn't in this, so I was a little bummed. Especially because later I learned in the book it was supposed to be in it. It's okay, the Lost World, while that movie was nowhere close, did have an appearance.
6:33 "I wonder where they're shooting at." It's in Hawaii. Spielberg shoots there frequently; in fact, the opening scene to Raiders of the Lost Ark was partially shot in the same location as the galliminus scene here.
I saw this movie on opening night, the lines for it were around the block. Literally. Half mile long lines to see it on opening day, and for weeks afterward. It was the highest grossing movie of ALL time for A-G-E-S.
And it still holds up 30 years later.
It has two of the MOST iconic cinematic sequences of all time with both "The T-rex escape" sequence and "When dinosaurs ruled the Earth" as well as the brachiasaurus sequence. The T-rex escape being one of the most parodied and homaged sequences of all time (2nd only to "It's alive ... ALIVE!!!" from the original Frankenstein). This movie was a cultural phenomenon the likes of which even the MCU has yet to compete with.
one of things that makes this movie so suspenseful, is that the majority of the tense stuff happens to the kids. you have a little with Ellie and the adults to show no-one is safe but most of it happens to Tim and Lex, and no-one likes seeing kids being put through the wringer. Steven Spielberg uses this to pull at your heart strings and get sucked into the terror.
The look on your face when T Rex saves the day was awesome!
Just a couple more observations:
1) A lot of little, harmless things go wrong in the beginning of the movie. A faulty seatbelt, electric cars that stop, etc. Great foreshadowing that even in this hyper-controlled environment, small things still go wrong. (Which suggests that even larger things can go awry, too...)
2) Real velociraptors were apparently turkey sized. What the movie calls velociraptors are actually some other kind of dinosaur. (ie: the name was cool, so they gave it to something larger and more menacing)
3) The final scene on the dino skeleton looks very much like a similar scene in a 1938 comedy with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn called, "Bringing Up Baby". (Minus velociraptors, of course.) No one can convince me that that wasn't a deliberate callback.
Jurassic Park was also the first movie to use the DTS (Digital Theater Sound) sound system. For years after theaters and even newspaper showtimes would list if a movie was in DTS or Dolby Digital in a particular auditorium.
Yes i can imagine watching it in the theater. It changed everything. Great as always. I dont comment much aymore but watch all your vids. Keep it up.
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Remember seeing this movie in theaters back in the days. It was outstanding and even from todays point of view the cgi and the animatronics hold up on a very high level
They didn't know this at the time, but the frog DNA explains any differences between these dinos and what we later find out about them, such as the feathers on many of them.
One minor detail I liked about the movie was the bruises, cuts and bleeding of the kids during the movie. Hear me out. Most movies with kid actors shield the kids with so much plot armor that they go through tons of stuff and come out squeaky clean and unhurt on the other side. These kids, when they walk back into the Jurassic Park building look like they went through Hell and back. If I remember correctly, some people thought it was wrong to show kids actually being injured by all the crap that happens to them in a movie or tv show. I say it adds to the movie, and really helps you relate to them so much more strongly.
went to the midnight premier showing of this movie. back in the days when you could smoke in a cinema. what an amazing experience.
I still recall being so immersed that when they were flying away from the island all I could think was how strange the Pelicans looked.
As an 8 year old girl this scared the utter hell out of me in the cinema, when this released. Still fantastic.
Jurassic Park was one of my favourite childhood movies, too. Sometimes I wonder why I dont remember being scared by certain scenes xD The movie is really one of the best of all time. Really enjoyed your reaction :)