@@mistingwolf about 1981(when i was 7) my aunt said go and collect the eggs... she forgot the rooster was not in his enclosement.... that thing wal almost as big as me and chased me all over the place till i reached a door... man i was terrified...
Several reactors have questioned why the kids are there in a potentially dangerous place. I have never seen any reactor catch on to what the chief miner tells Gennaro at the start explaining why Hammond isn't there. Hammond is supporting his daughter while she gets divorced. The kids are visiting grandpa to distract them from the divorce. It's also why Gennaro running away from their car affects Lex so much. Her father has left and then another authority figure man abandons them.
There's also the fact, that Hammond thinks the park is all set to go. It's just the investors that are questioning it. So for him, this isn't a potentially dangerous place. If it were up to him, bar some finalizing of stuff (Finish the visitors center, get the animation fully complete, etc.), he'd probly open it next week. Park's done, just gotta dot the i's.
@@yzskick Yesssss I will always vouch for folks to watch all of them even with the admittedly wonky story in the last two of the new trilogy. But I don’t watch Jurassic Park for a philosophical story as it always boils down to human stop being greedy and stupid and getting people killed because of your actions and I mainly watch Jurassic park for cool dinosaurs and watching tiny humans getting eaten by said dinosaurs~~~ I’m easily pleased when it comes to dinosaurs heh~~~
The old guy that Lucy found funny was played by the late actor Sir Richard Attenborough, he was the older brother of biologist and natural historian Sir David Attenborough, and I agree with Daniel the effects of this film still hold up even after all these years.
Don't forget to mention his other film credits as a producer and/or director...which I am sure you already know...so this is just for the algorithm. He produced and directed the films Ghandi (1982), Cry Freedom (1987) and Chaplin (1992)...that one starred Robert Downey Jr...and he directed one of the greatest historical war epics of all time, A Bridge Too Far (1977).
@@ptthatswhatshesaid I'm glad she likes JP :) It's my favorite movie! If you guys haven't already watched it, I recommend JW's Camp Cretaceous series (which, despite being more for kids, feels much more like a proper continuation of JP than the JW movies). Also, if you wanna learn about real dinos (which technically include birds), I highly recommend Darren Naish's "Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved" (the best adult intro to the whole story of dinos) & "Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore" (the best adult guide to dinos & their cultural impact since the 1970s).
'Because people like boobs.' might be the most accurate statement ever. It blows my mind that in the helicopter landing near the start, Dr Grant can only find two 'female' seatbelt ends and he ties them together to secure himself as best he can. And instead of this being just a humorous shot at his expense, it is also very subtle foreshadowing of the Jurassic Park engineers making only female dinosaurs and life 'finding a way' to make it work. The real lesson of Jurassic Park is that if you are going to let IT drive your business, don't under-invest in IT.
@@ptthatswhatshesaid He did too! But he had a team of one design his entire park automation system. That means you get all of that one person's bad habits and if they drop dead from heart attack or being eaten by a dinosaur you have a really big problem.
You might be reading too much into it. I thought it was to show Dr Grant can think quick on his feet and problem solve in an unconventional non technical way. Its kinda of a common anti-technology message you see in many movies. We celebrate the individual hero who can win the day through unconventional thinking.
@@petercofrancesco9812 It is definitely that as well and is there primarily for the purpose of a bit of levity and showing that he will work a problem, but it might be more. It certainly is a nice parallel regardless.
@@mattp6089 Don't get me wrong it was interesting take I never thought about. If it's well written we probably don't get half of the little things the writers put in there. That's ok as long as the story works.
When Grant takes his glasses off and the music swells, ooofff, just chills. I was 13 years old when my folks took me to see this movie at a drive in. Its 30 years later and I still get goose bumps.
I think Malcolm understands that “standing on the shoulders of giants” is how science works. His point is more about immediately grabbing a brand new type of knowledge and using it not for further understanding but instead exploiting it for profit without ethical considerations or thought for broader consequences.
@@artofsam I understand what you are saying and you are correct perhaps I did not phrase it the best way. What I meant to say is that the premise/events in this movie have nothing to do with the great questions it asks (That is not a better explanation but hopefully you understand what I am trying to say )
@@Karadjanov That's still wrong. The premise and events of the story help to highlight the questions the movie is trying to ask. The questions are asked through the events of the story.
The events of the movie are there to make an entertaining story. Those questions are raised and are somewhat related with the events but yeah, I agree that they are not there to be a direct example of the questions raised. Which I think its fine, ultimately, like someone else also pointed out, the movie does not need to preach a position.
True. Real life is recorded and shown on a 2D screen thousands of miles away on a different day. When it was first shown in the 1890s it blew people's minds.
Fun fact: according to the movie's sound director in an interview from 2015, most of the animal noises were made using recordings of baby animals, the T-rex raor is a baby elephant, the raptor's chirps are a combination of dolphin clicks and calls, and something else, i forget which though, but the real funny part, is that bark the one raptor made when it endtered the kitchen (and in the main hall of the visitor's centre), that is apparently the recording of a male tortoise during mating.
Jurassic Park is such an amazing movie, not only did the film herald a new era in computer-generated movie effects, it also revived the field of paleontology, with many museums seeing a rise in attendance and colleges saw an increase in paleontology degree seekers.
Great to see this reaction and that Lucy can admit she was wrong and can appreciate how Jurassic Park's 30 year old CGI and practical effects were extremely good and still hold up.
Lol its one of the biggest movies of all time and it's from 1993. It's a cultural touchstone. She thought it would be low budget and silly? @@ptthatswhatshesaid
@ptthatswhatshesaid I've seen a couple reactors who think it's a park for kids, graphics will match. It's a fair assumption, but I was super looking forward to her realization that these graphics were very good, especially being 30 years old.
"The fluffies need to eat!" 😂Excellent comedic timing. And I think Lucy might be the only person who's ever reacted to that velociraptor hatching with "It's so fluffy!" - congrats haha.
In 1993 I was 26 years old and had absolutely loved dinosaurs for about 23 years. I saw this in the theater and I felt like Dr. Grant at the first sight of the "giraffe" dinosaur (Brachiosaurus) when he had to sit down and try to breathe. Me too. Nothing had ever been like this. CGI was brand new and Hollywood had never used it on this scale so nobody had ever seen a movie like this. Today, we have millions of CGI movies so this is nothing special, but in 1993 the beauty and majesty of these amazing creatures that I had loved for nearly my whole life was overwhelming. I truly couldn't even breathe.
Movies today don't blend the CGI with practical effects to the extent that Jurassic Park did. There's only about 15-20 minutes of CGI in the entire movie. Most of the dinosaurs were animatronic
@@s.henrlllpoklookout5069this is why it holds up so well. CGI moves so fast that it looks dated so quickly. Well done practical effects and animatronics mixed with a little CGI to maybe smooth it out is so much better, imo.
"it's for dramatic pause like 'I will catch you'" - LMAO hahaha never thought of that till you said it. Now every time I see that scene I'm going to hear the raptor saying that 🤣
I saw this 6 times in theaters as a kid with different people almost every time. That's how epic it was. When CGI was brand new and blended beautifully with practical effects. Not completely depended on as it is now. I will never forget feeling the steps of the T-Rex as the water ripples...now that's chaos. One of the greatest cinematic experiences ever.
I saw this in theaters when it was first shown here in Denmark, when I was 11 years old, and I loved it. Now Im 42 and it is still my favorite movie from this franchise.
@@shanedaley6236 This is another one of those claims that doesn't actually have a basis in fact. It's just a very common legend. In fact, they used stunt doubles for the closeups of the Rex head and kids being shown in the same shot and when they cut to the kids' faces, they're actually completely safe. They did not film a scene with the kids actually fearing for their lives. There are far too many myths about the filming of this movie. In fact, the only thing about this scene that people get right is that the glass was supposed to fall through but not break. There was no real danger to anyone in that scene and the kids weren't even in the fucking car.
I remember having this movie on vhs and watching it over and over. When my little brothers were finally old enough to watch it with me it became a bonding moment watching their reactions for the first time 😂
15:52 “Just wondered how the hell is that possible”. John Hammond: “I’ll show you” 😂😂 I love seeing people watch Jurassic Park for the first time. So many of our reactions mirror the reactions of Grant/Sattler in the film. The awe at the brachiosaurus, the deep focus whilst the science is explained, the jump scares as the raptor appears. And I agree, the acting is exemplary. Particularly Richard Attenborough as John Hammond.
That is so true. As I was editing her reaction, I noticed that usually when she raised a question, it was adressed in that scene or the next 👌 and yeah, we ARE those characters 😂😂
One of the benefits of having the DVD when I was younger is being able to watch the behind-the-scenes/making of videos and whats amazing is that they CREATED the program for the cgi. They show what the cgi looked like when they started but they show how they developed it to truly give the dinosaurs a sense of immense weight. It was REVOLUTIONARY for the time and still holds up really well today, and the animatronics were also PHENOMENAL, like the idea that they made that giant T-Rex?? And the details, the dilation of the eyes in the window, just amazing. They DID run into issues with the t-rex, it kept malfunctioning in the rain, to the point that it almost crushed someone when it was being repaired I could gush more about the making of, if you guys have a chance to watch it DO IT, its just fascinating
In 1993 I was working at McDonald's when this movie came out in theaters. McDonald's had a special promotional super sized triple cheeseburger meal for it. It is the only time McDonald's has had a triple cheeseburger until recently when they added it back to the menu again.
It's important to keep in mind the kind of computers that were available to Hollywood to make this film. Computers weren't in the GHz range they are today, they were in the MHz range and rendering a single frame, let alone a single scene, took quite a bit of time. The fact that we can look at this film in 2024 and still be amazed by the quality is nothing short of a miracle in filmmaking in 1993. Your cellphone has more computational power than all the computers COMBINED that made this movie. They did incredibly well to make the dinosaurs convincing, even to this day. Oh, and the T-Rex will always be my favorite dinosaur. It's just 100% awesome. I'm glad you liked this film!
Jurassic park originally used stop frame animation for the dinosaurs as that was the tried and tested method for creatures for a very long time, it was only after some of the Sfx team members revealed they had been working in secret on a homemade CGI system and had prepared a demo reel which impressed Spielberg so much they made the switch, there is still some of the stop motion test footage out there like the Raptors in the Kitchen.
I remember the first time I watched it as a 12 year old I ran and hid behind the couch when the T-rex flipped the Ford Explorer lol looking back on it it makes me laugh remembering that and I laugh everytime during that scene
The funny thing is back in 1993 they advertised this as a happy dinosaur movie, especially with the toys so my father took me and my sister (7 and 5) during opening week. when the movie started off with the park employee being killed by the raptors he knew he might have made a mistake bringing kids to the movie. my sister was scared and a mess we had to leave early, we left just after Nedry got eaten in his Jeep during the storm.
Oh .. no.. 🤭🤭 Guess more people went to see the movie thinking it was a family adventure movie 😂 To be fair, I saw it with my family and younger sister when I was about 7 or 8. We all got scared but still had a lot of fun!
@@ptthatswhatshesaid definitely, it was during a time when dinosaurs were popular with kids with 'Land Before Time', 'Dinosaurs' TV Show, 'Denver the Last Dinosaur', and 'We're Back' the Dinosaur cartoon. Even the Power Rangers when they first came out were dinosaur themed. So I could see how a parent would mistake Jurassic Park as a family adventure movie.
My dad took my 4 year old sister out too when my family went to see it. During the T-rex first appearance. She's still never seen it fully. It's definitely fortunate to get a PG rating because of Speilberg.
Ahahaha! 😆 When she said she knew what the movie was about, then proceeded to describe it incorrectly, I just had to laugh. And then... "stop motion". Oh lol! 😂😂😂 With the bar that low, this definitely would blow her mind. 😄
@@andyf7027 Yes. Or... There is a video here on youtube entitled "Evolution of Cinema Dinosaurs (1920-2015)" if anyone is interested... I expect she imagined any of those stop motion movies before Jurassic Park. There is a comment on that video saying there are 2 categories: before and after Jurassic Park. Hehe. It is true. 😄
Jurassic Park is one of those movies that goes to a whole 'nother level in theaters where the dinosaurs look bigger. If you get the chance, watch it in a theater.
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Some theaters near me have a throwback night every week that shows older movies. Hopefully, one near you might do something similar to give you the chance.
2:39 she cant be more wrong. Precisely the think that made the first and second movie the best dinosaur movies in history is that they look f real, basically because they are. Jurassic world is garbadge compared to this. 14:54 exactly and thats cgi from 3 decades ago....when they use animatronics it is f incredible. Nowdays they dont do that everything is just cgi and its not the same impact
I think a lot of the inital hype came from Crichton's book firstly, and then the excitement that such (then) cutting edge adventure book was coming to the movie screen and being Steven Spielberg directing that just boosted the hype through the roof! Anyway fantastic reactions, thank you both!
Well, you have to remember kids (Gen Z and Gen Alpha or whatever they are called) were born either in the mid 90s to 2000 or so, or in the mid 2000s etc. and there are a ton of awesome movies from the 80s and 90s they may never have been shown as they grow up. Either their parents didn't want them to see it or didn't have the time etc. But yeah, it's very odd to me even younger kids that haven't seen Jurassic Park of all movies - same with Independence Day to be honest.
As a big Spielberg and dinosaur fan, this is one of my favorite movies. I read the Michael Crichton book when it was published and waited for the movie when it was announced. I think I saw it at least a dozen times in the theaters. The special effect were state of the art then and they still hold up. So was the story. Cloning was still a relatively new technology at the time. Dolly the sheep wasn't even cloned until 1996. In reality, there is no evidence that T-rex couldn't see you if you didn't move so, if you ever come across a T-rex, run! In real life, Velociraptors were about the size of wild turkeys. What they portray in the movie are closer to Deinonychus. I guess they decided that 'raptor' just sounded cooler. Also, dinosaurs would have a hard time surviving in today's world. The air in the Cretaceous period contained about 50% more oxygen than it does now, and the temperatures would have been 5-10 degrees warmer than today. That T-rex chasing the jeep would have had to stop every few steps to catch her breath. 😂 The Lost World:Jurassic Park II is pretty good too. You should watch it. JP3 isn't nearly as good, but it does complete the original trilogy.
Well, a lot of the real science was indeed sacrificed for entertainment value yeah But it is science fiction! And I think the movie can make you interested enough to go find out about the real science 😉
I think it's interesting to compare this to Jaws. Alex Kitner's death makes Jaws not a kid movie. Spielberg calibrated the violence of Jurassic Park nicely to make it a kid movie.
45:30 No, guys, you're forgetting this was a park. There are several employees working there. There are scientists, people who deal with dinosaurs, veterinarians, doctors, engineers, etc. If only the helicopter personnel escaped, there would have been several deaths.
The thing that I've noticed about most people who don't 'like' kids is that even if they don't like children, they do care about them. They still understand the importance of helping and taking care of them in dire situations despite not wanting to have any of their own.
Tell your girlfriend that being clever has one downside - no need to experience anything cause you can just imagine it. Thank God for people like the boyfriend who make her try new things. We all need people like this in our lives.
I really wish I could watch this movie for the first again because its characters are such a great reflection of the audience. Like even though these characters are experts in their field, they’re not 100% confident or sure about their surrounds or the choices the park has made. And yet it’s very natural and doesn’t degrade the characters, they’re asking questions any person would ask. And seeing your girlfriend interact with the movie, thinking along side the characters, and have her questions answered is just amazing to watch unfold
That is so true! I could see while I was editing that all the questions and feelings she was going through were answered or mirrored by the characters. You never really feel frustrated or lost watching this 👌🏻
The birds at the end were the Condors mentioned in the meeting going extinct so seeing a number of them showing they haven't died off due to Human intervention is what made him smile.
It doesn't matter how often I've seen Jurassic Park, that scene in the maintenance bunker when the Raptor shows up behind Ellie will always get me with the jumpscare. Side notes: The dinosaur sounds in this movie were made by combining sounds made by living animals and everyday objects. The Tyrannosaurus rex, affectionately known as Rexy, was a mix of elephant calf vocalizations (roar, snarls and growls), with koala, lion & tiger sounds and alligator gurgles thrown in and a dog playing with a rope toy (shaking the Gallimimus to death). The Dilophosaurus was a mix of hawk, swan, howler monkey and rattlesnake sounds. The adult Raptors were a mix of a walrus chest roar and dolphin mating scream, while the hatchling was a mix of owlet and fox kit sounds. The Brachiosaurus vocalizations were slowed down donkey brays, while the sneeze was a mix of an active fire hydrant and a whale breathing through its blowhole(s). (There's an "s" in parentheses because depending on whether or not whales have teeth or baleen plates (think of them as biological water filters) in their mouths, whales have either one or two blowholes) The Gallimimus's chief sound effect was made using the recorded calls of a mare (female horse) in heat, while their movements were inspired by those of ostriches. A good portion of this movie was shot on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Whenever I hear Hammond ask "Who's hungry?", my first reaction every time is "Not after hearing the Raptors rip the cow apart." Lego released 30th anniversary sets in honor of Jurassic Park and the one I have is based on Dennis Nedry's encounter with the Dilophosaurus.
I LOVE the sound effects in this movie! I think I did recognize a few of those sounds in the dino's sounds, but damn its such a great mix/blend of sounds 👌🏻
What no one ever seems to notice is, they DID have the park under control. It was Nedrick's sabotage that ruined everything. Einstein is a German name, and in German it's pronounced Ein-shtein. English speakers tend to pronounce it Ein-stein.
Too much dependency on computers and electronics. They needed something completely physical...electrified fence, but it's made of a material that can withstand dinosaur attacks even without being electrified.
The idea is that things go wrong. Small things get overlooked. Like using the frog DNA or having the extinct poisonous plants Ellie pointed out. These problems are impossible to predict, and small problems can sometimes have large consequences that can collapse an entire well-planned system. Because of that it's impossible to have total control, or even necessarily know how much control over things you truly have. I'm not saying I fully buy into the philosophy, but it's the basic idea Malcom was getting at.
I think it's an issue of cutting things from the book for the movie. They had ALOT of problems before the group ever showed up. On top of that Hammond is a VILLIAN in the book. He's ruthless and money minded and that's all he cares about. Nedry bid on the job but the job posting was full of lies. When Nedry tried to get fair pay, Hammond threatened him both financially and professionally. Dr Wu was also lied to and trapped. He was told it was reptile cloning when it was actually avian. Hammond though employed him straight out of college so he felt he had no choice but to stay. The keepers routinely complained about the tools to recapture escaped animals (because it happened a lot) because they had shock sticks and nets, and that's about it. The movie is fantastic but unfortunately a lot of background and information was cut for time. The park was NOT running fine but Hammond refused any extra security or failsafes
@@thereisnopandemic He died according to every thing out there. "Jophery Brown was the gatekeeper of Jurassic Park's holding pen for the Raptors. His death lead the main investors of InGen to question the safety of the park. He only appears in the opening scene of the movie."
The real velosiraptor was not quite as big as you see in the movie. They weighed no more than 50lbs and were 2 ft high at the hip. They were also covered in feathers. Of such an animal would not generate the suspense that the movie velosiraptor generates.
Yeah, let's say that they get "kinda" of the original dinossaurs through the DNA replication method with enough mofifications for them to be extra scary
@@stephenmiller2544 Besides the T-Rex, the novel's author Crichton had originally considered making the other antagonistic threat be the Deinonychus, however he just loved how dramatic and evocative the name 'Velociraptor' reads and sounds in comparison. The movie similarly sticks with the Deinonychus depiction because it also just looks more threatening visually with that kind of weight and height, so both the novel and the films have chosen poetic licence over scientific accuracy and ended up fudging the differences between the two species of raptors.
Both Robert Bakker in "Raptor Red", and James I Kirkland in "Star Trek: First Frontier" recall in their respective novels that Spielberg had been asking around if it was POSSIBLE for a raptor to get as big as he intended to depict them. He was told by James Horner that "yes its possible, but we've never found a raptor that big". three months later Kirkland calls Robert and says, "we found spielberg's raptor". they had just uncovered the Utahraptor.
She thinks: 1. It's about a man and woman being chased by dinosaurs. 2. It's stop motion or poor quality animation. 3. It's bad because she doesn't like it even though she has no idea what the movie is about and hasn't seen it. I assume she is basically wrong about everything all the time.
"Always have to be a woman because people like boobs!" :D Starring Laura Dern ( 32B ) who wears a top that covers everything up to her neck and a jacket over it the whole time lol :D
I wasn't offended at all when she assumed it'd be bad effects, it just made me think "Oh you're gonna be so amazed". This was my favourite movie as a kid and it's still in my top 5 in my 30's.
It is great that Lucy picked up on the “robotic” feel of some shots. The close-up interactions with the actors were done with practical puppets and animatronics. The full-size dinosaurs were the first fully realized CGI dinosaurs and enabled the running and other movement that would have been stop motion prior to this film. There are some great documentaries about how this movie basically was the death of mainstream stop-motion animation.
My favorite moment in a movie theater was watching this movie and when Dr Grant and Dr Sadler first spot the Dino eating a tree, they do move in heards
Someone may have brought this to your attention already but Nedry was hurting financially, as evidenced in the movie by the lines said to him about not getting into another financial argument with him. He is also and egotistical piece of work. So, he took the bribe payoff from the competitor, through Dodgson, at the restaurant scene early in the movie. In the book he is just an arrogant butt who felt ‘undervalued’ for his contribution to the park’s systems creation.
Yeah, there is some truth to that. He had a shrewdness to him in the book that in the movie was shown as more of an oblivious determination. The way he was trying to move on to another iteration of the park in his mind after all that had happened already. I think what allowed this difference is how the story ends differently for him in the book versus the movie.
If you werent around when this came out, it's really hard to overstate just how huge of an event it was. This movie effectively re-oriented the entire movie industry. As a 6 year old, it scared the living shit out of me, but the ending with the T-Rex flexing on the raptors and saving the day softened the overall blow enough for me to not be given months of nightmares.
I don't care what anyone says this is the best dinosaur movie ever created. The atmosphere, The buildup of tension, The CGI looks pretty good and the practical effects our amazing and how they're able to switch from CGI to an animatronic seamlessly is incredible, And of course we cannot forget the music which is one of the most iconic parts of this movie. This movie set the tone for all dinosaur movies just like Jaws for all shark movies.
Was fortunate enough to see this on the big screen when I was 7. Was such a spectacle for the time. I was really into dinosaurs too at the time. It holds up pretty well after all these years.
Id love to know the reasoning behind "hating sci-fi". A lot of other people ive met and spoken to have simply cited "hating" sci-fi because its unrealistic, yet would then also go on to fall in love with those soppy true love stories, or Notebook type of movies that are just as far fetched, or some drivel like Twilight lol
I think those kind of people aren't what might be called "thinkers". They pretend they love or hate things because of realism, but they actually love or hate them based on how fuzzy and safe the movies make them feel. Safety from real danger, from judgement, perhaps from real responsibility.
We went to the movie bored with decades of stop-motion animation,..& our minds were BLOWN AWAY by the close up animatronics (the sick dino) & the CGI totally blew us away!
I love how through the whole movie, Ian's theories are proven right: in the beginning of the tour they get out of their seats without too much effort, Grant gets out of the car DURING the tour, the female dinosaurs who could never breed, did breed, nobody expected Nedry to do what he did, the animals were eating dangerous plants that nobody really knew about... they didn't have any control to basically anything that was happening at the park!
At the time i was a teenager at high school thinking nothing could beat Terminator 2 special effects and went to see Jurassic Park with my mates at the weekend to see it thinking we saw T2 only a couple years ago how could it be any better but boy i was wrong Jurassic Park was all we could talk about all week.
When Lucy is asked what she thinks the movie is about the plot that she describes is a bit more like 'The Lost World' by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle (which has also been adapted for the screen more than once). There is a blend of both animatonics and early CGI in the movie, I don't think there is actually any stop-motion. 11:32 Getting funding for Paleontology digs is notoriously difficult, that is why they are experimenting with other techniques that do no require digging. 23:07 We've seen that they are still hatching more Dinos so you would be more likely to see them later when there are more of them. 34:23 You really don't need the amphibian excuse, reptile genders are more flexible anyway. Crocodile genders are determined by what temperature the eggs are kept at. Some lizards are all female and successfully reproduce with no male input.
BTW birds are dinosaurs. The meteor wiped out all Non-avian dinos but some remained and became birds. There is so much more info from when they made this film. Dinos had feathers and most were believed not drab green or brown. Also they found out that TRex can still see you if you stay still.
My dogs learned how to open doors too, and draws and cabinets, we had to use child locks to keep them out of things, lol. We put them in a bedroom when leaving the house and we added a child gate with a locking latch, it was the only way to keep them in the room without them escaping.
When Lucy said she thought the dinosaurs would look really fake I just thought - Does she know who directed this film? Steven Spielberg is known for always providing quality entertainment.
When this movie was released, the CGI was state of the art. There was nothing else that came close and nothing to compared. Now, of course, there is much to compare and show how this first gen CGI is lacking. I saw this in the theater when it came out and it was amazing.
But it is still a very, VERY good use of it! In a lot of instances I would say it looks as good as many present day CGI. Plus, the use of practical effects in many, many shots kept things a lot more grounded I would say
Saw this with my friend at the cinema when we were 11 years old. I jumped so hard at the goat landing on the car 😆 Laughed so hard at "Must go faster". Think that's the great thing about it as appeals in so many ways.
The scene with Trex attacking the kids used an animatronic model that broke and fell, breaking the window which shpukdnt have happened, so the screaming of the kids was real.
Completely false. This ridiculous rumour originated from a tv interview with the actor who played Tim. He said during one take the plexi glass broke in the corner. That’s it. They screamed in every take. You’ve just copied the comment.
Deads: Arnold, the chief of engineers; Dennis Nedry, the computer guy; the guy from the beginning, opening the door to bring the velociraptor; Gennaro, the lawyer; Muldoon, the "hunter"; that makes 5. But I think we can asume that more people died around the island.
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Yeah, they said something about that but then you can see how an employee was serving Hammond his ice cream, right? Or was that in the book? In the book there's no evacuation at all, in fact, in the cargo ship that was going to land there were velociraptors. You should take a look at the book if you liked the movie. It's not so good as the movie but it has a lot of cool scenes and different deaths.
If you’re going to watch the entire Jurassic franchise, you need to watch it in this order: 1. Jurassic Park 2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park 3. Jurassic Park 3 4. Jurassic World 5. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 6. Battle at Big Rock 7. Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous 8. Jurassic World: Dominion (Extended Cut) 9. Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
You should check out the special features making of Jurassic Park! It’s very cool how they went about making this film as realistic as possible and even invented technology that allows modern visual spectacle movies like the marvel movies and avatar to be made today!
In the novel, there are mentioned reports of weird lizards in costa rica killing livestock kept near a kind of soybean that's rich in the amino acid lysine. The livestock eat the beans and the little dinosaurs eat the livestock, life finds a way.
one of very very few movies that can justify CGI. Alien didn't need it. Wizard of Oz didn't need it. chase, crash , repeat. have we done 90 min. yet ? that's modern filming.
I dunno man. There's still good stuff being made. It's just not as widely advertised as the slop. I've watched 2 decent movies this weekend (Godzilla minus one and door mouse)
It's all in how it's used. It's amazing when they can do things that wouldn't be possible or financially feasible with practical effects. It's bad when it's too much and the film relies on one CGI filled scene after another instead of actually having compelling characters and a good story.
Whole filming the t-rex attack the rex soaked up water and it made the animatronic jerky. It would sometimes move when it wasn't supposed to. When it breaks the glass on the car it was an accident. So the kids fear was real.
This girl reacting to it understood everything explained in the movie immediately. When I first saw the mosquito in the amber I was wondering why there’s a cockroach in gold until the explanation came along
I didn't understood it immediatly too, but then again (and this might be your case too) I saw it when I was still a kid, not and adult. Aaaand DNA subject was not that known at the time 😜
I honestly would put that to how perfect the script is in the movie, the moment when she naturally wondered so strongly about that is when the movie dvelves into the science of it! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Thank you for the response. So many reactors ask to leave a comment as it helps the algorithm. A simple thumbs up lets us know you read it. Also, be a good man, she is Way out of your league. Cheers. Looking forward to the next.
"That's way too small for a dinosaur." So she also knows nothing about dinosaurs in general. The average fully grown dinosaur was about the size of a small pony. Some dinosaurs were the size of a chicken. Only a few species were giant.
The book is scarier, Hammond is not such a nice man, and he dies. More to the point. some of the dinos escape to the mainland and some survive, despite the lysine contingency by eating crops rich in lysine. Ian Malcolm does not express his concerns in a good way, but coming up with new theories based on previous work, which is, as you say how science works, is different. Playing God on such a grand scale is asking for trouble.
Im sorry if I also didn't expressed myself very well 😅 I get the message that Dr Malcolm is trying to conveye of course (irresponsability). Just always thought that the way he put things was a bit wrong and simplistic, that's all. P.s. I really need to read the book, Im really intrigued by how different it is from the film
Dang, the tension in the original JP is _so good._ It's really been missing in the JW series (mostly lack of foreshadowing, but the intended payoff is still there, which ruins the scenes), but since the OG writer is coming back on for the newest installment, I'm hoping we'll get some good stuff like this again.
I’ve seen this movie a million times and it just occurred to me that they fed the T-Rex through underground access meaning there are at least places to hide underneath the enclosures or even potentially an underground tunnel system.
I'm old! I read the book back in the 90's. During the trailers at the cinema this came on. I immeadiately knew what it was even though I didn't know they had made a film out of the book. Can't describe just how excited I was and amazed when I watched it. For the time 1997? the effects were second to none.
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That child that said "That's not very scary it's more like a 6 ft turkey" Uhm, a modern turkey that is 6 feet tall would be darn scary in my opinion.
Being from Tenn and seeing wild turkeys this is correct
That kid would totally bail if he actually got chased by a turkey. Or a rooster.
Terrifying thought... 😱
@@mistingwolf about 1981(when i was 7) my aunt said go and collect the eggs... she forgot the rooster was not in his enclosement....
that thing wal almost as big as me and chased me all over the place till i reached a door...
man i was terrified...
@@Metzwerg74Roosters are absolutely terrifying, especially if they still have their spurs intact. Yikes!
Several reactors have questioned why the kids are there in a potentially dangerous place. I have never seen any reactor catch on to what the chief miner tells Gennaro at the start explaining why Hammond isn't there.
Hammond is supporting his daughter while she gets divorced. The kids are visiting grandpa to distract them from the divorce. It's also why Gennaro running away from their car affects Lex so much. Her father has left and then another authority figure man abandons them.
Oh, that is interesting 🤔 I really had not come to that realization
The number of times I have watched this, I didn't notice that. I really appreciate the point of view.
@@ptthatswhatshesaid It was spoken about in the book more.
There's also the fact, that Hammond thinks the park is all set to go. It's just the investors that are questioning it. So for him, this isn't a potentially dangerous place. If it were up to him, bar some finalizing of stuff (Finish the visitors center, get the animation fully complete, etc.), he'd probly open it next week. Park's done, just gotta dot the i's.
Never caught that! Neat info, thanks for commenting it.
“Thank god he did it on an island” *nervously looks at the second movie*
🤭🤭🤭
then the 3rd movie then the reboot/continuation trilogy
Lmao sure the stay on the island and they never try a park agian 😅
@@yzskick Yesssss I will always vouch for folks to watch all of them even with the admittedly wonky story in the last two of the new trilogy. But I don’t watch Jurassic Park for a philosophical story as it always boils down to human stop being greedy and stupid and getting people killed because of your actions and I mainly watch Jurassic park for cool dinosaurs and watching tiny humans getting eaten by said dinosaurs~~~ I’m easily pleased when it comes to dinosaurs heh~~~
@@stargazer99 i still think its awesome how they made 2 T-Rex robots for the movie
The old guy that Lucy found funny was played by the late actor Sir Richard Attenborough, he was the older brother of biologist and natural historian Sir David Attenborough, and I agree with Daniel the effects of this film still hold up even after all these years.
Don't forget to mention his other film credits as a producer and/or director...which I am sure you already know...so this is just for the algorithm. He produced and directed the films Ghandi (1982), Cry Freedom (1987) and Chaplin (1992)...that one starred Robert Downey Jr...and he directed one of the greatest historical war epics of all time, A Bridge Too Far (1977).
He was really great in this one 👌🏻👌🏻
Had no idea he was the director of A Bridge too Far! I really need to see that one, I've seen it recomended so many Times ☺️
@@ptthatswhatshesaid I'm glad she likes JP :) It's my favorite movie! If you guys haven't already watched it, I recommend JW's Camp Cretaceous series (which, despite being more for kids, feels much more like a proper continuation of JP than the JW movies). Also, if you wanna learn about real dinos (which technically include birds), I highly recommend Darren Naish's "Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved" (the best adult intro to the whole story of dinos) & "Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore" (the best adult guide to dinos & their cultural impact since the 1970s).
I had no idea!
'Because people like boobs.' might be the most accurate statement ever.
It blows my mind that in the helicopter landing near the start, Dr Grant can only find two 'female' seatbelt ends and he ties them together to secure himself as best he can. And instead of this being just a humorous shot at his expense, it is also very subtle foreshadowing of the Jurassic Park engineers making only female dinosaurs and life 'finding a way' to make it work.
The real lesson of Jurassic Park is that if you are going to let IT drive your business, don't under-invest in IT.
I thought he had spared no expenses.. 🤷🏻♂️
@@ptthatswhatshesaid He did too! But he had a team of one design his entire park automation system. That means you get all of that one person's bad habits and if they drop dead from heart attack or being eaten by a dinosaur you have a really big problem.
You might be reading too much into it. I thought it was to show Dr Grant can think quick on his feet and problem solve in an unconventional non technical way. Its kinda of a common anti-technology message you see in many movies. We celebrate the individual hero who can win the day through unconventional thinking.
@@petercofrancesco9812 It is definitely that as well and is there primarily for the purpose of a bit of levity and showing that he will work a problem, but it might be more. It certainly is a nice parallel regardless.
@@mattp6089 Don't get me wrong it was interesting take I never thought about. If it's well written we probably don't get half of the little things the writers put in there. That's ok as long as the story works.
When Grant takes his glasses off and the music swells, ooofff, just chills. I was 13 years old when my folks took me to see this movie at a drive in. Its 30 years later and I still get goose bumps.
So many scenes! Also the sound of the T-Rex coming... or the kitchen hide & seek scene...
Lmao "thats too small for a dinosaur" as if all dinosaurs were huge. A flock of Compys would like to have a word with her.
Hopefully they watch the sequel and find out what small dinosaurs can do.
Oh, they can be scary too yeah...
Forget the compys, the hummingbirds would like to have a word with her. XD
Compsognathus may just have been a baby of something else. It's one of the debates in paleontology. Still there's plenty of smaller dinosaurs.
Most avian dinosaurs were actually quite small, yeah.
That said: There are also plenty of big and small non-avian dinosaurs.
“If you play with fire, you eventually get burned!” - a wonderfully simple and accurate summary of the movie’s premise
Seeing as how they are now up to 5 or 6 movies...... I think some people are not listening/learning...... LoL......
It is a common theme in most of Michael Crichton's books.
If you play with dinosaurs, you rapidly get eaten.
I wouldn't say don't play with fire but definitely spare no expanses on security!!
You can wield fire, but you must also respect it, or you will burn...horribly.
I think Malcolm understands that “standing on the shoulders of giants” is how science works. His point is more about immediately grabbing a brand new type of knowledge and using it not for further understanding but instead exploiting it for profit without ethical considerations or thought for broader consequences.
Exactly.
Well said. This movie asks very good questions but makes very poor points.
@@artofsam I understand what you are saying and you are correct perhaps I did not phrase it the best way. What I meant to say is that the premise/events in this movie have nothing to do with the great questions it asks (That is not a better explanation but hopefully you understand what I am trying to say )
@@Karadjanov That's still wrong. The premise and events of the story help to highlight the questions the movie is trying to ask. The questions are asked through the events of the story.
The events of the movie are there to make an entertaining story. Those questions are raised and are somewhat related with the events but yeah, I agree that they are not there to be a direct example of the questions raised. Which I think its fine, ultimately, like someone else also pointed out, the movie does not need to preach a position.
That raptor jump scare in the maintenance shed gets every first time watcher 🤣
Yes, that one I know it never fails!!
I love how people who don't like science fiction and fantasy films can change their minds. Movies are founded on fantasy and the impossible.
Couldn't agree more!
True. Real life is recorded and shown on a 2D screen thousands of miles away on a different day. When it was first shown in the 1890s it blew people's minds.
Fun fact: according to the movie's sound director in an interview from 2015, most of the animal noises were made using recordings of baby animals, the T-rex raor is a baby elephant, the raptor's chirps are a combination of dolphin clicks and calls, and something else, i forget which though, but the real funny part, is that bark the one raptor made when it endtered the kitchen (and in the main hall of the visitor's centre), that is apparently the recording of a male tortoise during mating.
The sound design is just in another level in this movie 👌🏻👌🏻
@@ptthatswhatshesaid that sound effect will also be used for Trandoshans (Bosk’s species) in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
the dilophosaurus hissing is a hawk fighting a rattlesnake
Jurassic Park is such an amazing movie, not only did the film herald a new era in computer-generated movie effects, it also revived the field of paleontology, with many museums seeing a rise in attendance and colleges saw an increase in paleontology degree seekers.
I get it! I wanted to study paleontology when I was a kid just because of it 😁
Sam Jackson likes to think his character survived and is living on the island with one arm, riding a Velocraper lol
100% the canon in my head.
I believe it lol. If anyone could it'd be him
That is the truth! Period.
Headcanon accepted.
I believe it
Great to see this reaction and that Lucy can admit she was wrong and can appreciate how Jurassic Park's 30 year old CGI and practical effects were extremely good and still hold up.
Yeah, I think she had a much more silly low budget type of movie in her mind 😂😂😂 she had no idea xD
Lol its one of the biggest movies of all time and it's from 1993. It's a cultural touchstone. She thought it would be low budget and silly? @@ptthatswhatshesaid
I think she thought it was more a kids movie 🤷🏻♂️😅
@ptthatswhatshesaid I've seen a couple reactors who think it's a park for kids, graphics will match. It's a fair assumption, but I was super looking forward to her realization that these graphics were very good, especially being 30 years old.
"The fluffies need to eat!" 😂Excellent comedic timing. And I think Lucy might be the only person who's ever reacted to that velociraptor hatching with "It's so fluffy!" - congrats haha.
Ahahah yeah, they are not exactly "fluffy" 😂😂😂
Thank you ☺️
And recent versions show them with feathers.
Someone who still associates dinosaurs with stop motion in 2024 is a rare treasure who simply MUST be shown this film live on camera :)
In 1993 I was 26 years old and had absolutely loved dinosaurs for about 23 years.
I saw this in the theater and I felt like Dr. Grant at the first sight of the "giraffe" dinosaur (Brachiosaurus) when he had to sit down and try to breathe.
Me too.
Nothing had ever been like this.
CGI was brand new and Hollywood had never used it on this scale so nobody had ever seen a movie like this.
Today, we have millions of CGI movies so this is nothing special, but in 1993 the beauty and majesty of these amazing creatures that I had loved for nearly my whole life was overwhelming.
I truly couldn't even breathe.
Really brand new technology used RIGHT!
Movies today don't blend the CGI with practical effects to the extent that Jurassic Park did. There's only about 15-20 minutes of CGI in the entire movie. Most of the dinosaurs were animatronic
@@s.henrlllpoklookout5069this is why it holds up so well. CGI moves so fast that it looks dated so quickly. Well done practical effects and animatronics mixed with a little CGI to maybe smooth it out is so much better, imo.
"it's for dramatic pause like 'I will catch you'" - LMAO hahaha never thought of that till you said it. Now every time I see that scene I'm going to hear the raptor saying that 🤣
Believe me, those dinosaurs love to over-act as much as humans 😂
I saw this 6 times in theaters as a kid with different people almost every time. That's how epic it was. When CGI was brand new and blended beautifully with practical effects. Not completely depended on as it is now. I will never forget feeling the steps of the T-Rex as the water ripples...now that's chaos. One of the greatest cinematic experiences ever.
I always love the T-Rex jeep scene that part of the roof and screaming from the kids is real the rain caused the robot to malfunction
I saw this in theaters when it was first shown here in Denmark, when I was 11 years old, and I loved it.
Now Im 42 and it is still my favorite movie from this franchise.
That IS such a scary creepy scene... You just KNOW something huge and dangerous is coming ...
@@shanedaley6236 This is another one of those claims that doesn't actually have a basis in fact. It's just a very common legend. In fact, they used stunt doubles for the closeups of the Rex head and kids being shown in the same shot and when they cut to the kids' faces, they're actually completely safe.
They did not film a scene with the kids actually fearing for their lives. There are far too many myths about the filming of this movie. In fact, the only thing about this scene that people get right is that the glass was supposed to fall through but not break. There was no real danger to anyone in that scene and the kids weren't even in the fucking car.
I remember having this movie on vhs and watching it over and over. When my little brothers were finally old enough to watch it with me it became a bonding moment watching their reactions for the first time 😂
Same thing here with my younger cousins 😋
15:52 “Just wondered how the hell is that possible”. John Hammond: “I’ll show you” 😂😂
I love seeing people watch Jurassic Park for the first time. So many of our reactions mirror the reactions of Grant/Sattler in the film. The awe at the brachiosaurus, the deep focus whilst the science is explained, the jump scares as the raptor appears. And I agree, the acting is exemplary. Particularly Richard Attenborough as John Hammond.
That is so true. As I was editing her reaction, I noticed that usually when she raised a question, it was adressed in that scene or the next 👌 and yeah, we ARE those characters 😂😂
One of the benefits of having the DVD when I was younger is being able to watch the behind-the-scenes/making of videos and whats amazing is that they CREATED the program for the cgi. They show what the cgi looked like when they started but they show how they developed it to truly give the dinosaurs a sense of immense weight. It was REVOLUTIONARY for the time and still holds up really well today,
and the animatronics were also PHENOMENAL, like the idea that they made that giant T-Rex?? And the details, the dilation of the eyes in the window, just amazing.
They DID run into issues with the t-rex, it kept malfunctioning in the rain, to the point that it almost crushed someone when it was being repaired
I could gush more about the making of, if you guys have a chance to watch it DO IT, its just fascinating
Did just watch a video showing the animatronic of the T-Rex.. amazing!!
In 1993 I was working at McDonald's when this movie came out in theaters. McDonald's had a special promotional super sized triple cheeseburger meal for it. It is the only time McDonald's has had a triple cheeseburger until recently when they added it back to the menu again.
It's important to keep in mind the kind of computers that were available to Hollywood to make this film. Computers weren't in the GHz range they are today, they were in the MHz range and rendering a single frame, let alone a single scene, took quite a bit of time. The fact that we can look at this film in 2024 and still be amazed by the quality is nothing short of a miracle in filmmaking in 1993. Your cellphone has more computational power than all the computers COMBINED that made this movie. They did incredibly well to make the dinosaurs convincing, even to this day. Oh, and the T-Rex will always be my favorite dinosaur. It's just 100% awesome. I'm glad you liked this film!
Just mindblowing what you just said that my cellphone has more computational power than all the computers used to make this movie 😬😬😬 damn..
Jurassic park originally used stop frame animation for the dinosaurs as that was the tried and tested method for creatures for a very long time, it was only after some of the Sfx team members revealed they had been working in secret on a homemade CGI system and had prepared a demo reel which impressed Spielberg so much they made the switch, there is still some of the stop motion test footage out there like the Raptors in the Kitchen.
I think because the had a very restrained use of CGI made it work so well
Sees goat eaten: "Aaaaaah nooooo!"
Sees lawyer eaten: "I guess the investors aren't gonna know what happened..."
Figure that one out! 🤷♂😂
So glad you showed her this film! It is my all time favorite movie! Still holds up today! Classic!
Hope you enjoy the video! 😜 Its such a great film 👌🏻
I've seen the movie many times. But the build-up to the intro of the T-Rex is something I STILL find scary.
You just feel in your soul that something huge is coming...
I remember the first time I watched it as a 12 year old I ran and hid behind the couch when the T-rex flipped the Ford Explorer lol looking back on it it makes me laugh remembering that and I laugh everytime during that scene
The funny thing is back in 1993 they advertised this as a happy dinosaur movie, especially with the toys so my father took me and my sister (7 and 5) during opening week. when the movie started off with the park employee being killed by the raptors he knew he might have made a mistake bringing kids to the movie. my sister was scared and a mess we had to leave early, we left just after Nedry got eaten in his Jeep during the storm.
Oh .. no.. 🤭🤭
Guess more people went to see the movie thinking it was a family adventure movie 😂
To be fair, I saw it with my family and younger sister when I was about 7 or 8. We all got scared but still had a lot of fun!
@@ptthatswhatshesaid definitely, it was during a time when dinosaurs were popular with kids with 'Land Before Time', 'Dinosaurs' TV Show, 'Denver the Last Dinosaur', and 'We're Back' the Dinosaur cartoon. Even the Power Rangers when they first came out were dinosaur themed. So I could see how a parent would mistake Jurassic Park as a family adventure movie.
My dad took my 4 year old sister out too when my family went to see it. During the T-rex first appearance. She's still
never seen it fully. It's definitely fortunate to get a PG rating because of Speilberg.
Hilarious to think that she stuck through the T-Rex breakout sequence but the Dilophosaurus was too much for her!
Ahahaha! 😆
When she said she knew what the movie was about, then proceeded to describe it incorrectly, I just had to laugh. And then... "stop motion". Oh lol! 😂😂😂
With the bar that low, this definitely would blow her mind. 😄
Well yeah! 😂😂
Its like, no its not that, its actually One of the best made movies ever xD
It sounded as of she was imagining the old Godzilla movies where it was stop motion
@@andyf7027 Yes. Or...
There is a video here on youtube entitled "Evolution of Cinema Dinosaurs (1920-2015)" if anyone is interested...
I expect she imagined any of those stop motion movies before Jurassic Park.
There is a comment on that video saying there are 2 categories: before and after Jurassic Park. Hehe. It is true. 😄
When we as teenagers first watched this film in 1993, we were shocked at how realistic the dinosaurs were.
It was as if suddenly dinosaurs where real 😱
Jurassic Park is one of those movies that goes to a whole 'nother level in theaters where the dinosaurs look bigger. If you get the chance, watch it in a theater.
I wish I had seen it in theater when it came out! 😫 Was too young though..
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Some theaters near me have a throwback night every week that shows older movies. Hopefully, one near you might do something similar to give you the chance.
@@sifumode9460 That sounds amazing! Here its really not common unfortunately 😔😔 only know of a few instances where that happened
2:39 she cant be more wrong. Precisely the think that made the first and second movie the best dinosaur movies in history is that they look f real, basically because they are.
Jurassic world is garbadge compared to this.
14:54 exactly and thats cgi from 3 decades ago....when they use animatronics it is f incredible. Nowdays they dont do that everything is just cgi and its not the same impact
That's why I said that they kinda got lazy with the technical part 🤷🏻♂️ it is so good in the first 2 movies
I think a lot of the inital hype came from Crichton's book firstly, and then the excitement that such (then) cutting edge adventure book was coming to the movie screen and being Steven Spielberg directing that just boosted the hype through the roof!
Anyway fantastic reactions, thank you both!
Thanks a lot ☺️
Im hyped to read the book now actually xD
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Oh and the sequel book (that came out before the sequel movie too!)
The fact that there are people who have never seen this movie is flabbergasting to me.
Well, you have to remember kids (Gen Z and Gen Alpha or whatever they are called) were born either in the mid 90s to 2000 or so, or in the mid 2000s etc. and there are a ton of awesome movies from the 80s and 90s they may never have been shown as they grow up. Either their parents didn't want them to see it or didn't have the time etc. But yeah, it's very odd to me even younger kids that haven't seen Jurassic Park of all movies - same with Independence Day to be honest.
Which is why, as soon as they are old enough, I'll show my nephews as much great movies as possible! Same with my own kids 😋
As a big Spielberg and dinosaur fan, this is one of my favorite movies. I read the Michael Crichton book when it was published and waited for the movie when it was announced. I think I saw it at least a dozen times in the theaters. The special effect were state of the art then and they still hold up. So was the story. Cloning was still a relatively new technology at the time. Dolly the sheep wasn't even cloned until 1996.
In reality, there is no evidence that T-rex couldn't see you if you didn't move so, if you ever come across a T-rex, run! In real life, Velociraptors were about the size of wild turkeys. What they portray in the movie are closer to Deinonychus. I guess they decided that 'raptor' just sounded cooler. Also, dinosaurs would have a hard time surviving in today's world. The air in the Cretaceous period contained about 50% more oxygen than it does now, and the temperatures would have been 5-10 degrees warmer than today. That T-rex chasing the jeep would have had to stop every few steps to catch her breath. 😂
The Lost World:Jurassic Park II is pretty good too. You should watch it. JP3 isn't nearly as good, but it does complete the original trilogy.
Well, a lot of the real science was indeed sacrificed for entertainment value yeah
But it is science fiction! And I think the movie can make you interested enough to go find out about the real science 😉
I think it's interesting to compare this to Jaws. Alex Kitner's death makes Jaws not a kid movie. Spielberg calibrated the violence of Jurassic Park nicely to make it a kid movie.
45:30 No, guys, you're forgetting this was a park. There are several employees working there. There are scientists, people who deal with dinosaurs, veterinarians, doctors, engineers, etc.
If only the helicopter personnel escaped, there would have been several deaths.
I've never seen someone who is so correct and so wrong about what a movie is about at the same time.
Ahahah, its not wrong and not right at the same time!
The thing that I've noticed about most people who don't 'like' kids is that even if they don't like children, they do care about them. They still understand the importance of helping and taking care of them in dire situations despite not wanting to have any of their own.
Yes, only a complete heartless sociopath would just not care and abandone a kid to die
Tell your girlfriend that being clever has one downside - no need to experience anything cause you can just imagine it. Thank God for people like the boyfriend who make her try new things. We all need people like this in our lives.
We are having a lot of fun with all those movies I've been showing her 😋
I really wish I could watch this movie for the first again because its characters are such a great reflection of the audience. Like even though these characters are experts in their field, they’re not 100% confident or sure about their surrounds or the choices the park has made. And yet it’s very natural and doesn’t degrade the characters, they’re asking questions any person would ask. And seeing your girlfriend interact with the movie, thinking along side the characters, and have her questions answered is just amazing to watch unfold
That is so true! I could see while I was editing that all the questions and feelings she was going through were answered or mirrored by the characters. You never really feel frustrated or lost watching this 👌🏻
The birds at the end were the Condors mentioned in the meeting going extinct so seeing a number of them showing they haven't died off due to Human intervention is what made him smile.
I'm reasonably certain those were pelicans.
@@johnpooky84 Maybe they didn't have a budget for it as they were supposed to be the condors as far as I was aware.
I haven't read the book but pelicans have always reminded more people than just me of pterodactyls.
Those were definitely Pelicans at the end of the movie. Condors look VERY different too (and yes, I have seen both birds live…)
@@emmyfischer307 Ahh, makes more sense they were flying over water, not sure why he was smiling at them then.
It doesn't matter how often I've seen Jurassic Park, that scene in the maintenance bunker when the Raptor shows up behind Ellie will always get me with the jumpscare.
Side notes:
The dinosaur sounds in this movie were made by combining sounds made by living animals and everyday objects.
The Tyrannosaurus rex, affectionately known as Rexy, was a mix of elephant calf vocalizations (roar, snarls and growls), with koala, lion & tiger sounds and alligator gurgles thrown in and a dog playing with a rope toy (shaking the Gallimimus to death).
The Dilophosaurus was a mix of hawk, swan, howler monkey and rattlesnake sounds.
The adult Raptors were a mix of a walrus chest roar and dolphin mating scream, while the hatchling was a mix of owlet and fox kit sounds.
The Brachiosaurus vocalizations were slowed down donkey brays, while the sneeze was a mix of an active fire hydrant and a whale breathing through its blowhole(s). (There's an "s" in parentheses because depending on whether or not whales have teeth or baleen plates (think of them as biological water filters) in their mouths, whales have either one or two blowholes)
The Gallimimus's chief sound effect was made using the recorded calls of a mare (female horse) in heat, while their movements were inspired by those of ostriches.
A good portion of this movie was shot on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Whenever I hear Hammond ask "Who's hungry?", my first reaction every time is "Not after hearing the Raptors rip the cow apart."
Lego released 30th anniversary sets in honor of Jurassic Park and the one I have is based on Dennis Nedry's encounter with the Dilophosaurus.
I LOVE the sound effects in this movie! I think I did recognize a few of those sounds in the dino's sounds, but damn its such a great mix/blend of sounds 👌🏻
@@ptthatswhatshesaid They truly made for some convincing dinosaur ear candy/jumpscares
What no one ever seems to notice is, they DID have the park under control. It was Nedrick's sabotage that ruined everything.
Einstein is a German name, and in German it's pronounced Ein-shtein. English speakers tend to pronounce it Ein-stein.
Except "life finds a way."
Too much dependency on computers and electronics. They needed something completely physical...electrified fence, but it's made of a material that can withstand dinosaur attacks even without being electrified.
Based on the thickness of that cable it really shouldve, but then no raptors.
The idea is that things go wrong. Small things get overlooked. Like using the frog DNA or having the extinct poisonous plants Ellie pointed out. These problems are impossible to predict, and small problems can sometimes have large consequences that can collapse an entire well-planned system. Because of that it's impossible to have total control, or even necessarily know how much control over things you truly have. I'm not saying I fully buy into the philosophy, but it's the basic idea Malcom was getting at.
I think it's an issue of cutting things from the book for the movie. They had ALOT of problems before the group ever showed up.
On top of that Hammond is a VILLIAN in the book. He's ruthless and money minded and that's all he cares about.
Nedry bid on the job but the job posting was full of lies. When Nedry tried to get fair pay, Hammond threatened him both financially and professionally.
Dr Wu was also lied to and trapped. He was told it was reptile cloning when it was actually avian. Hammond though employed him straight out of college so he felt he had no choice but to stay.
The keepers routinely complained about the tools to recapture escaped animals (because it happened a lot) because they had shock sticks and nets, and that's about it.
The movie is fantastic but unfortunately a lot of background and information was cut for time. The park was NOT running fine but Hammond refused any extra security or failsafes
Fun one, you two! Glad you enjoyed it so much. It was a lot of fun rewatching this with you. Thanks for sharing it. 🙂
Thank you! ☺️ We're glad you had fun, we certainly did 😋
5 deaths. The worker, Nedry, The Lawyer, Samuel L. Jackson, and the game warden.
Ah! So it was only 5 deaths! Somewhat lower than I remembered it 😅
It was 4 deaths, the worker attacked by the raptor “ shoot her” he did not die. He didn’t die in Michael Crichton book either.
@@thereisnopandemic He died according to every thing out there. "Jophery Brown was the gatekeeper of Jurassic Park's holding pen for the Raptors. His death lead the main investors of InGen to question the safety of the park. He only appears in the opening scene of the movie."
Is the game warden referring to muldoon?
@@NayakaElfayyadh yes
The real velosiraptor was not quite as big as you see in the movie. They weighed no more than 50lbs and were 2 ft high at the hip. They were also covered in feathers. Of such an animal would not generate the suspense that the movie velosiraptor generates.
Yeah, let's say that they get "kinda" of the original dinossaurs through the DNA replication method with enough mofifications for them to be extra scary
its called deinonychis, it was a 6 ft tall raptor.
@@stephenmiller2544 Besides the T-Rex, the novel's author Crichton had originally considered making the other antagonistic threat be the Deinonychus, however he just loved how dramatic and evocative the name 'Velociraptor' reads and sounds in comparison. The movie similarly sticks with the Deinonychus depiction because it also just looks more threatening visually with that kind of weight and height, so both the novel and the films have chosen poetic licence over scientific accuracy and ended up fudging the differences between the two species of raptors.
I believe that, while the movie was being made, scientists discovered Utahraptor, which was even bigger than Deinonychus.
Both Robert Bakker in "Raptor Red", and James I Kirkland in "Star Trek: First Frontier" recall in their respective novels that Spielberg had been asking around if it was POSSIBLE for a raptor to get as big as he intended to depict them. He was told by James Horner that "yes its possible, but we've never found a raptor that big". three months later Kirkland calls Robert and says, "we found spielberg's raptor". they had just uncovered the Utahraptor.
She thinks:
1. It's about a man and woman being chased by dinosaurs.
2. It's stop motion or poor quality animation.
3. It's bad because she doesn't like it even though she has no idea what the movie is about and hasn't seen it.
I assume she is basically wrong about everything all the time.
"Always have to be a woman because people like boobs!" :D
Starring Laura Dern ( 32B ) who wears a top that covers everything up to her neck and a jacket over it the whole time lol :D
Yes and also kinda right about it xD people do get chased by dinosaurs and it is a zoo of sorts
😂😂😂
I wasn't offended at all when she assumed it'd be bad effects, it just made me think "Oh you're gonna be so amazed".
This was my favourite movie as a kid and it's still in my top 5 in my 30's.
Still one of my favourite also 👌🏻
i got trigered when she said 'oh its way to small to be a dinosaur' 6:34
Its like, they don't HAVE to be huge 😅
It is great that Lucy picked up on the “robotic” feel of some shots. The close-up interactions with the actors were done with practical puppets and animatronics. The full-size dinosaurs were the first fully realized CGI dinosaurs and enabled the running and other movement that would have been stop motion prior to this film. There are some great documentaries about how this movie basically was the death of mainstream stop-motion animation.
I mean yeah, after seeing this, it's kinda difficult to suspend your disbelief watching stop-motion dinosaurs 😋
My favorite moment in a movie theater was watching this movie and when Dr Grant and Dr Sadler first spot the Dino eating a tree, they do move in heards
❤mine too!
As a kid this movie blew my mind when it first came out. I saw it 7 times in the theater.
This movie still holds up to this day.
Absolutely 👌🏻
Lex in the book was younger than her brother, but Ariana Richards stunned everyone during her audition and they aged the role for her
Well, its a change that doesn't really affect the story so its fine 😋
Someone may have brought this to your attention already but Nedry was hurting financially, as evidenced in the movie by the lines said to him about not getting into another financial argument with him. He is also and egotistical piece of work. So, he took the bribe payoff from the competitor, through Dodgson, at the restaurant scene early in the movie.
In the book he is just an arrogant butt who felt ‘undervalued’ for his contribution to the park’s systems creation.
Yeah, people have told us that in the book Hammond is also a bit more of a jerk
Yeah, there is some truth to that. He had a shrewdness to him in the book that in the movie was shown as more of an oblivious determination. The way he was trying to move on to another iteration of the park in his mind after all that had happened already. I think what allowed this difference is how the story ends differently for him in the book versus the movie.
If you werent around when this came out, it's really hard to overstate just how huge of an event it was. This movie effectively re-oriented the entire movie industry. As a 6 year old, it scared the living shit out of me, but the ending with the T-Rex flexing on the raptors and saving the day softened the overall blow enough for me to not be given months of nightmares.
Yeeeess , I had a much similar ezperience! 😁
I don't care what anyone says this is the best dinosaur movie ever created. The atmosphere, The buildup of tension, The CGI looks pretty good and the practical effects our amazing and how they're able to switch from CGI to an animatronic seamlessly is incredible, And of course we cannot forget the music which is one of the most iconic parts of this movie. This movie set the tone for all dinosaur movies just like Jaws for all shark movies.
Completely agree 👌🏻
Was fortunate enough to see this on the big screen when I was 7. Was such a spectacle for the time. I was really into dinosaurs too at the time. It holds up pretty well after all these years.
I wish I had been old enough to see it in theaters when it came out! 😩
Id love to know the reasoning behind "hating sci-fi". A lot of other people ive met and spoken to have simply cited "hating" sci-fi because its unrealistic, yet would then also go on to fall in love with those soppy true love stories, or Notebook type of movies that are just as far fetched, or some drivel like Twilight lol
I think those kind of people aren't what might be called "thinkers". They pretend they love or hate things because of realism, but they actually love or hate them based on how fuzzy and safe the movies make them feel. Safety from real danger, from judgement, perhaps from real responsibility.
Yeah, I would say most of the time the reasoning is usually more "I dont like sci-fi, except if I like the movie" 😂
Or the "I hate sushi" people who've never tried it mentality.
Or the "I hate sushi" people who've never tried it mentality.
We went to the movie bored with decades of stop-motion animation,..& our minds were BLOWN AWAY by the close up animatronics (the sick dino) & the CGI totally blew us away!
Excellente use of a new technology
I love how through the whole movie, Ian's theories are proven right: in the beginning of the tour they get out of their seats without too much effort, Grant gets out of the car DURING the tour, the female dinosaurs who could never breed, did breed, nobody expected Nedry to do what he did, the animals were eating dangerous plants that nobody really knew about... they didn't have any control to basically anything that was happening at the park!
At the time i was a teenager at high school thinking nothing could beat Terminator 2 special effects and went to see Jurassic Park with my mates at the weekend to see it thinking we saw T2 only a couple years ago how could it be any better but boy i was wrong Jurassic Park was all we could talk about all week.
Damn, that would have been so great, such great movies at the time!
When Lucy is asked what she thinks the movie is about the plot that she describes is a bit more like 'The Lost World' by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle (which has also been adapted for the screen more than once).
There is a blend of both animatonics and early CGI in the movie, I don't think there is actually any stop-motion.
11:32 Getting funding for Paleontology digs is notoriously difficult, that is why they are experimenting with other techniques that do no require digging.
23:07 We've seen that they are still hatching more Dinos so you would be more likely to see them later when there are more of them.
34:23 You really don't need the amphibian excuse, reptile genders are more flexible anyway. Crocodile genders are determined by what temperature the eggs are kept at. Some lizards are all female and successfully reproduce with no male input.
BTW birds are dinosaurs. The meteor wiped out all Non-avian dinos but some remained and became birds. There is so much more info from when they made this film. Dinos had feathers and most were believed not drab green or brown. Also they found out that TRex can still see you if you stay still.
This movie made it difficult for me to imagine dinosaurs with feathers 😅
Michael Crichton actually retconned the trex thing in the second book. in a very amazing way. lol
She’d just love the original “Land of the Lost” TV show. The puppet dinosaurs would drive her crazy
🎶 Now we’ve crossed the line, fallen through time, Living in the Land Of The Lost 🎶
ha i loved that show,
I literally think that's what she was thinking of when she was describing what she thought this movie was going to be.
Yeah, kinda sounds that it was something like that She was thinking 😅
Was kinda bummed the Will Ferrell movie didn’t really do it justice. No “family” to speak of, just a bunch of numbnuts lost in another world.
**about to watch the greatest movie ever made**
"What do you think this movie is about?"
"It's gonna be terrible."
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ yeah sure xD
My dogs learned how to open doors too, and draws and cabinets, we had to use child locks to keep them out of things, lol. We put them in a bedroom when leaving the house and we added a child gate with a locking latch, it was the only way to keep them in the room without them escaping.
In our case it was our cats that learned how to open doors 😅 just had to lock the doors with a key
He apparently did spare an expense.
Back up generators.
And security 😂😅
Love your Soms of Anarchy shirt! Also, she is adorable lol! The way she says Dinner-saurs and that line “Because everyone likes boobs.” 🤣
Ahahah well it was a great show
Sometimes she doesn't think before She speaks 🤷🏻♂️😂😂
Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park: "Must go faster..." 🦖
Jeff Goldblum Independence Day: "MUST go FASTER! 👽
Just Jeff Goldblum being Jeff Goldblum 😂
When Lucy said she thought the dinosaurs would look really fake I just thought - Does she know who directed this film? Steven Spielberg is known for always providing quality entertainment.
I assume it's your first time.
ahahah yop, once I said his name her posture on what she thought the movie was gonna be changed!! 😂
When this movie was released, the CGI was state of the art. There was nothing else that came close and nothing to compared.
Now, of course, there is much to compare and show how this first gen CGI is lacking.
I saw this in the theater when it came out and it was amazing.
But it is still a very, VERY good use of it! In a lot of instances I would say it looks as good as many present day CGI. Plus, the use of practical effects in many, many shots kept things a lot more grounded I would say
Saw this with my friend at the cinema when we were 11 years old. I jumped so hard at the goat landing on the car 😆 Laughed so hard at "Must go faster". Think that's the great thing about it as appeals in so many ways.
Agree, It has EVERYTHING!! 😜
The scene with Trex attacking the kids used an animatronic model that broke and fell, breaking the window which shpukdnt have happened, so the screaming of the kids was real.
Oh God, poor kids! And + that animatronic looks so damn real!!
Completely false. This ridiculous rumour originated from a tv interview with the actor who played Tim. He said during one take the plexi glass broke in the corner. That’s it. They screamed in every take. You’ve just copied the comment.
@@nissy9220 A lot of people commented that. So is it really just an exaggerated story?!
@@ptthatswhatshesaid yes. Just an exaggerated myth that won’t die
I love when people say that they look realistic, when no humans have ever seen a dinosaur. 😊
ahahah ok, the best way to say it would be "they look very credible" xD
The old guy was the brother of the famous biologist/natural world presenter Sir David Attenborough
Of the movies he directed I think I've only seen Gandhi 🤔
Great point about how the story incorporates the exposition dumps in a logical and acceptable way which doesn't jar.
And doesn't slow down the movie, instead everything is always moving ☺️
I don't think there are "sci-fi haters," only people who haven't seen the good sci-fi.
Or that think sci-fi is just one thing
I just love the fact that man who introduces dinosaurs to us is played by the real-life brother of David Attenborough.
👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
"Cause people like boobs" She knows people well lol
Everyone likes boobs 😂
Deads: Arnold, the chief of engineers; Dennis Nedry, the computer guy; the guy from the beginning, opening the door to bring the velociraptor; Gennaro, the lawyer; Muldoon, the "hunter"; that makes 5. But I think we can asume that more people died around the island.
Thankfully pretty much everyone had evacuated the island! 🫡
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Yeah, they said something about that but then you can see how an employee was serving Hammond his ice cream, right? Or was that in the book?
In the book there's no evacuation at all, in fact, in the cargo ship that was going to land there were velociraptors.
You should take a look at the book if you liked the movie. It's not so good as the movie but it has a lot of cool scenes and different deaths.
"Spared no expense" except when it came to the guy who had control over it all.
Yeah, absolutely!
Jurassic Park is my favorite movie, and consequently, my favorite to watch reactions to, and the raptor jump scare gets EVERYONE. XD
Absolutely!! There has never been a person that didn't jump the first time they saw it!
If you’re going to watch the entire Jurassic franchise, you need to watch it in this order:
1. Jurassic Park
2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
3. Jurassic Park 3
4. Jurassic World
5. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
6. Battle at Big Rock
7. Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
8. Jurassic World: Dominion (Extended Cut)
9. Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
You made the last 4 up... I hope
@@23GreyFox Nope. They’re real.
@@cezannejimenez7164 Holy shit, i had no idea. They milking the franchise worse than Tony Hawk.
You should check out the special features making of Jurassic Park! It’s very cool how they went about making this film as realistic as possible and even invented technology that allows modern visual spectacle movies like the marvel movies and avatar to be made today!
It was really hard of its time in terms of technology! 😱
In the novel, there are mentioned reports of weird lizards in costa rica killing livestock kept near a kind of soybean that's rich in the amino acid lysine. The livestock eat the beans and the little dinosaurs eat the livestock, life finds a way.
That is so interesting 🤔 really need to check out the book
it becomes pretty obvious which dinos they were, too. lol also, yeah. the book is great, but very different in a lot of small ways.
18:30 As a kid, I thought it was a T Rex that they were feeding. Until I saw a comment somewhere saying it was Raptors
The game warden guy always called the head raptor. "Her."
I just love that we don't see them in early scenes... Makes it way more scary and the last part of the movie more impactful
one of very very few movies that can justify CGI. Alien didn't need it. Wizard of Oz didn't need it. chase, crash , repeat. have we done 90 min. yet ? that's modern filming.
I dunno man. There's still good stuff being made. It's just not as widely advertised as the slop.
I've watched 2 decent movies this weekend (Godzilla minus one and door mouse)
CGI can be justified in any movie, if used right.
Tons of modern movies need CGI, or they’d look like they were made 50 years ago.
Yop, its also true that a lot of movies use CGI and you don't even notice it, its that seemless
It's all in how it's used. It's amazing when they can do things that wouldn't be possible or financially feasible with practical effects. It's bad when it's too much and the film relies on one CGI filled scene after another instead of actually having compelling characters and a good story.
Whole filming the t-rex attack the rex soaked up water and it made the animatronic jerky. It would sometimes move when it wasn't supposed to. When it breaks the glass on the car it was an accident. So the kids fear was real.
Not sure its the shot they used, but I've heard that story yeah
This girl reacting to it understood everything explained in the movie immediately. When I first saw the mosquito in the amber I was wondering why there’s a cockroach in gold until the explanation came along
I didn't understood it immediatly too, but then again (and this might be your case too) I saw it when I was still a kid, not and adult. Aaaand DNA subject was not that known at the time 😜
“Huh. Kinda looks like Samuel L Jackson.”
…
“It Is Samuel L Jackson.”
“…heh..” 🫥😂
People say he is still alive in that island, one-armed riding velociraptors 😎
The perfect reaction and editing. Lucy asking " How do you do that? " and Attenborough answering " I'll show you. "
I honestly would put that to how perfect the script is in the movie, the moment when she naturally wondered so strongly about that is when the movie dvelves into the science of it! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Thank you for the response. So many reactors ask to leave a comment as it helps the algorithm. A simple thumbs up lets us know you read it. Also, be a good man, she is Way out of your league. Cheers. Looking forward to the next.
"That's way too small for a dinosaur." So she also knows nothing about dinosaurs in general. The average fully grown dinosaur was about the size of a small pony. Some dinosaurs were the size of a chicken. Only a few species were giant.
If by a few you mean hundreds upon hundreds? Better to say that the majority of them were small, not that just 'a few' were big.
Yeah, dinosaurs were of all sizes, and, like today, most animals are small sized
The book is scarier, Hammond is not such a nice man, and he dies. More to the point. some of the dinos escape to the mainland and some survive, despite the lysine contingency by eating crops rich in lysine.
Ian Malcolm does not express his concerns in a good way, but coming up with new theories based on previous work, which is, as you say how science works, is different. Playing God on such a grand scale is asking for trouble.
Im sorry if I also didn't expressed myself very well 😅 I get the message that Dr Malcolm is trying to conveye of course (irresponsability). Just always thought that the way he put things was a bit wrong and simplistic, that's all.
P.s. I really need to read the book, Im really intrigued by how different it is from the film
Dang, the tension in the original JP is _so good._ It's really been missing in the JW series (mostly lack of foreshadowing, but the intended payoff is still there, which ruins the scenes), but since the OG writer is coming back on for the newest installment, I'm hoping we'll get some good stuff like this again.
In addition to the writing, you also had a top tier filmmaker behind the camera! 😋
@@ptthatswhatshesaidTrue!
I’ve seen this movie a million times and it just occurred to me that they fed the T-Rex through underground access meaning there are at least places to hide underneath the enclosures or even potentially an underground tunnel system.
Oh yeah...
Well, Hammond spared no expenses!
This was the first time we'd seen photo-realistic dinosaurs. Before this film, it was stop-motion or animated. This was HUUUUUUUGE.
And it was then impossible to go back :p
I'm old! I read the book back in the 90's. During the trailers at the cinema this came on. I immeadiately knew what it was even though I didn't know they had made a film out of the book. Can't describe just how excited I was and amazed when I watched it. For the time 1997? the effects were second to none.
I still need to read the book! 🫣 but this summer I will
Just wonder if you found the movie too different from the book?
i think it feels more real because it's a lot more grounded than the new movies
Yeah, it kinda feels like it takes place in reality xD