When Kabir called Jeff Goldblum "the guy from Guardians of the Galaxy" he wasn't wrong, but it hurt my soul and made me feel old. To me he'll always be the guy from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," or "The Fly."
So true. In fact, I feel like CGI has degraded since then because it tends to be so overdone, lazy, or both. But as for how good it looks? Better than any Hulk movie years later. For examples, "We're Back, a Dinosaur's Story" and "Prehysteria" came out the same year. Until Jurassic Park, that's what dinosaurs looked like.
The blend of animatronics and cgi with perfect lighting and filming makes this unreal. 6 year old me was convinced that they made real dinosaurs when I saw this in theaters.
Part of what made the effects good is they not only used CGI, but they also used hydraulic animatronics and puppets. The scene with the T-Rex attacking the kids from the top of the car for example, was a puppet. Also, small bit of fun for you, if you watch the scene with the Raptors in the kitchen, you can see a human hand reach out and grab the tail of the Raptor to stabilize the puppet.
My cat can open the door and I have a round doorknob. They specifically used lever knobs, in the movie, to make it plausible that a "problem-solving" Velaciraptor can do it.
Another Steven Spielberg classic to check out is Twister, which was filmed three years after Jurassic Park in 1996 and stars Bill Paxton (R.I.P.) and Helen Hunt and was directed by Jan De Bont, who was the director of Speed.
Still one of my fave reactions when somebody hasn't seen it. The effects are really great for the year it came out and I'm always loving to see the kid inside of the people come out.
It's more explicit in the book, but Nedry was not only being severely underpaid for the amount of extra work InGen was having him do outside the original contract, but they also threatened to essentially blacklist him if he backed out of the project. Now that doesn't at all excuse him putting everyone in danger, but it makes his motives a little more sympathetic.
On the CGI, this was a groundbreaking movie. There are 3 distinct eras of special effects: Pre Star Wars ( everything before 1977), Post Star Wars/Pre Jurassic Park (1977-1993), and Post Jurassic Park (1993-present).This movie was so beyond awesome to see in the theater as an 11 year old, there'd never been anything like it. I recommend watching (just on your own time) the Jurassic Park episode of The Movies That Made Us on Netflix to appreciate what it took to make this. There was also a behind the scenes short film/docu that was made at the time and shown on tv to promote the film, which is probably on RUclips somewhere.
I see people responding to your question about original movies saying studios aren’t willing to take the risk, and they’re not wrong, but it’s also worth noting Jurassic Park is also based off pre-existing property, there was a Jurassic Park novel written by Michael Crichton (who wrote the original Westworld and E.R.)
I think at a certain point we've also just used all the ideas. We've had movies about dinosaurs, aliens, space, super heroes, ghosts, mutants, zombies, etc. There are only so many topics available to humans. Want to make a dinosaur movie now? It's going to be compared to JP. Want to make a film about a tough explorer? Definitely Indiana Jones. Of course there are variations on a theme. Each movie is a bit different. But on average, they are not "original" ideas anymore.
I was 9 years old when this movie came out and I saw it in theaters with a bunch of my cousins. Let me say, sitting in a dark theater with thud and rumbles of the speakers shaking the whole theater with each footstep of the rex... getting closer, and closer, louder and louder. it felt like the rex was going to burst into the theater at any moment. It was the most thrilling movie experience I had as a child.
Very true. I saw it in the theater when it came out as well and it was SO loud. So yeah, every step that T Rex took you could feel in your whole body. It was a scary and thrilling experience.
When we lived in LA, surrounded by studios, a chopper flew over with a huge crate hanging from it, the head of a tyranasorus sticking half way out gave us quite a laugh. It was headed to Universal Studios. Quite a sight as it was HUGE! LOL!
In 1993, I took my daughter and my son, to see Jurassic Park at the movie theater. They were eight and six, respectively. A few weeks ago, we took her son, 8 and her daughter 6, to see “World Dominion,” at the theater. This franchise, transcends generations, and judging by the amount of money I’ve spent on “merch” since ‘93, and now for my g’kids, there’ll be no inheritance left for future generations. But hey, we’ve enjoyed it!
Dogs and cats open doors, why not dinos🤣 All the scientists went home the night before during the storm. It was the last ferry out. That's why the guy on the phone told Newman he couldn't promise he'd wait for him.
My theory is Newman is still alive but he's blinded and concussed. That wasn't blood it was just the tapatio sauce he carries. After the umbrella neck dinosaur realizes this he cleans him up and helps him forage for sticks and berries for shelter and food. Newman and his new dinosaur friends live a long happy isolated life on the island where they reenact Seinfeld episodes. Also Newman's weight loss since this movie can be explained by him switching to a six foot turkey diet
Most of the closer-up shots of the dinos are actually practical effects, often life-size animatronics. The full-body motion shots are CGI, and Spielberg does a masterful job at working around the limitations of the time. For example note how it's dark and rainy during the T-Rex attack to obscure it during the shot where it walks onto the road or when it roars at Grant (the reflectivity of rain apparently is helpful for CGI). Also, when the T-Rex kills the Galimimus (?) its feet are cleverly blocked by the angle of the shot with the actors in the foreground, as apparently it was difficult to make the feet and grass look realistic.
At the time CGI was "shiny". There were some practical pieces in those shots (they actually had a T-rex animatronic chasing the jeep and attacking the kids/Grant), so having them wet made them shiny to blend in with CGI elements better. Also having the haze from rainfall allowed them to blend out some stuff and add CGI haze.
But even with the daytime scenes of the brontosauruses eating leaves on the trees looked really good. Spielberg always does what's necessary to make it look as realistic as possible despite what limited effects there are for the time period.
That "rhino on steroids" is called a triceratops. It's one of the most iconic, recognizable and popular dinosaurs. This one along with the carnotaurus are two of my personal favorites.
This came out when I was 12. I saw it 16 times in theaters. My 13th birthday I got the soundtrack, VHS, and models of the dinosaurs. Welcome to Jurassic Park is the theme by John Williams. It is still my favorite pieces of music.
My favorite movie of all time. The books are awesome as well. Read them multiple times. Couldn't even begin to imagine how many times I've watched this.
Fun fact: The kid that Dr Grant is traumatizing in the beginning was the kid from the Nightmare on Elm St movies. He plays the unborn baby. That kid creeped me tf out lmao…
"Where are all the other scientists?" --> You know, I've seen this movie 20-30+ times, and it never once occurred to me to ask that question. I guess the assumption is they left on the boat when the storm was arriving.
They did. Arnold announced on the intercom that the boat for the mainland will leave soon, so everyone should finish up and board ASAP before the storm hits.
I saw this in theaters too and have checked every building I enter for potential raptor entry points ever since. Also, in the scene the T rex was chasing the car, Malcom knocked it out of 4th gear when he leaned back out of the way of angry rex, so that's why they weren't going any faster. For those who haven't owned or driven a stick shift, Jeep or otherwise, you have to change gears manually via the gear stick. 1st gear is at the top far right and goes to about 10-15 mph, 2nd is bottom right and goes to about 25, 3rd is middle up and goes to about 35, 4 is straight down and goes to 45, and 5th is for everything else. If you're between gears, the car makes a hideous grinding noise and starts to slow down if not die entirely, sometimes in very dangerous places...like the exact middle of an intersection, or the train tracks, or while you're being pursued by a tyrannosaurus....and T-rex eats whatever she wants lol
I always liked the fact that Hammond keeps saying that "we spared no expense", and yet they don't have power locks on the Ford Explorers, in a dinosaur zoo.
As a mom, one of the jokes I love using is a reference to this film. As soon as my kids are old enough to open a door all by themselves, I say they're velociraptors now.
Someone mentioned Twister. Twister is a very good movie that shows the glory and devastation of tornadoes in each stage from 1-5 but in a way that shows their beauty, not just their destruction. This move and it both involved director Steven Spielberg, as well as one called E.T. which you might enjoy as well about an alien and a kid who finds it.
This movie was one of the first, if not the first to use computer graphics CG in movies. They looked into stop motion, but they were introduced to computer graphics and were sold. Now everyone uses it.
one of the first. CGI dates back to Star Wars in 1977 and started becoming sophisticated by the late 80s. Jurassic Park was the first one to create photorealistic living organisms so it is a watershed moment in film history.
The ending where the T Rex saves everybody was not the original ending. But they figured it would be cool and exciting to have that happen. John Williams composed the theme for Jurassic Park. He is a musical genius for movie themes. Not only did he compose the Jurassic Park theme, he composed the themes for jaws, ET, Star Wars, Raiders of the lost Ark, superman, close encounters of the third kind, Home alone, saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s list, And the first three harry potter movies just to name a few. He is amazing.
The CGI in this movie is flawless. And, not unrelated (although slightly ironic), the reason movies of this era are better is they do not rely on CGI. Even in a CGI-heavy movie like this one over half the effects are practical.
actually it is more like the reason CGI is "better" back then is most of the main figures involved in ILM back then had background in other departments of film. Dennis Muren, the head of ILM's CG division at the time and supervisor on JP, started out as a stop-motion and regular film cinematographer so he had to know how to properly light, composite and matte scenes convincingly before he ever got into CGI. It then translated to that work and is why it can look seamless or like the CGI is actually there. It did also kind of had to do with the smaller workloads back then but crews were smaller as well.
And someone else would facepalm you and say that's the guy from the Big Chill or the Fly or Independence Day or from Earth Girls are Easy or any plethora of other movies. Just because he identified him from something else doesn't mean he doesn't deserve respect. Unless you want the same done to you.
@@Beltran15x No, he isn't. In fact depending on who you asked Independence Day and the Fly are what he's most known for. His reappearance in Fallen Kingdom is what stoked the memories of his character from JP back into the public consciousness. It should be quite telling that you can't even spell Jurassic Park right. As I said, don't be a jerk to others unless you want people to do it back to you.
I saw the original the first week it was out. Everyone left the theatre sort half believing the T-Rex was ever real. As we exited into the lobby there was a 4.5 foot long real skull of the T.Rex borrowed from the states's Natural History Museum up the road. Everyone studied the thing and those massive 6 inch teeth. What we had just seen become fixed even more forcefully and with clarity and authenticity. You could imagine that real skull tearing you limb from limb without hesitation or delay. It was a masterful pairing of movie and artifact. Glad my first airing (4 in the theatre and a dozen since on TV) was so powerful.
John Williams is the composer of the score. He’s the master of movie scores. He did Jaws, Indiana Jones, Superman, ET, Home Alone, and Star Wars, just to name a few
First time I saw this film was in the movie theater. The theater was so full I had to sit in the second row. Imagine watching the chasing with the tea Rex in the jeep in the second row. Scared the crap out of me. But still it’s one of my favorite movies in the series. Thanks for the reaction.
Kabir, thanks for doing this channel and these videos. Your videos have helped me get through a lot this last year. I been going through a lot and your videos have been a great diversion. Thanks bro!
This was amazing in the theater! And it's really cool that they did have a lot of practical effects as well as CGI, which honestly still looks good today. Looked and sounded good enough that the first T-Rex attack had several kids running out of the theater. XD
The Triceratops had indeed ingested the psychoactive berries. The keepers didn't realize it, because the berries were being stored in the animal's crop and used to grind up tougher food, just like many birds. So every so often, the trikes would get high, then recover.
How did you learn that? I always thought maybe she was in heat or some other type of distress from not being able to mate with males or maybe issues with laying eggs.
@@catgirl6803 the west indian lilac was meant to be the clue and eventually Tim pieces it together. there is a still image of the deleted scene of Ellie and Alan celebrating the confirmation of the gizzard stones (the stones that animals use for digestion and thus when swallowed also brought lilac berries with it, poisoning the triceratops) being a thing in dinosaurs out there. The two are basically holding hands in a high-five position and smiling at each other.
The musical score is given to us by the great John Williams, who brings chills to all those who listen to them. (i.e. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Jaws, E.T. and much more).
Can't believe you have never seen this one before. LOL!! You been living under a rock? It is good. 😀 If I recall correctly (and I probably don't) I think there was only 4 minutes of CGI in the first one. The computing power just wasn't there in 1993. But with clever puppeting they made it work.
There is a fan theory that has NOT been dismissed by the producers or writers that the young boy traumatized at the beginning grows up to be Chris Pratt's character. The age fits
I used to be in love with horses as a kid. Until one sneezed on me. I was so grossed out. 🤢 It cured me real fast of my deep longing for one. I didn't hate them. I still admired their beauty. But I was more or less fine with not owning one from them on. Dilophosaurus (dy - lof - oh - sor - us) is the one with the "fins that spits venom". It was the 1st attraction on the tour, that was described to them, but it was hiding so they didn't get to see it. And you said, "we haven't seen the velociraptors have we. We've only seen the T-Rex & the one with the fins that spits poison." But by this point you didn't see them attack because they are plant eaters, but you also saw the bracheosauruses, & the triceratops. At 20:31 I'm pretty sure Dr. Grant was trying to see if his head ( & body), would fit through the electric fence, not trying to bite it. Yeah just nuke or napalm the island. Sounds good to me. 👍
Jurassic Park set new standards in many ways, not only in terms of special effects. There simply wasn't anything like it before. You simply had never seen anything like it. (There was no internet either...) People ran like mad to the cinemas back then. A milestone in film history and in my opinion one of the best movies ever made.
This is one of the rare cases where you can watch the movie before reading the book and get even more enjoyment out of it. The second book is really good as well. And when you read the books and it really dives into the science you start to understand how Creighton was such a genius and why he had a PhD.
I intentionally saved the book until after I watched the movie in the theater when it came out. I wanted to enjoy the movie and thought I’d be disappointed if I read the book first. I’m so glad I did that because I love both.
They do make great original films these days. There are alot of talented writer out there. You just have to know where to look, sweetie and not be trapped in a 90s bubble.
Brachiosaur: The tops of trees are the tasty bits Tyrannosaur: The wishbone is the tasty bit Not a nuke! ... That creates Go-Zi-Ra! In cartoon mockery of this movie, the Velociraptors have learned English, and try to BS the humans into opening the door ;-))
They used CGI and practical for the trex. Also the glass was not supposed to fall on the kids when the trex came down, however the reaction in the scene was so good they kept it. The scientist from before made it off the island on that ship that was at the east dock. John Williams was the composer for the songs.
Because he was rarely an actor in his later years. most of his famous acting gigs were as a younger, slightly different sounding man--otherwise his name only pops up as a director. What gets me is they don't see his name and ask or confuse him for his famous brother that's done stuff continuously on film for 50 years.
Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movie series! One of the first movies I remember seeing in theaters is The Lost World: Jurassic Park (I was like 5, the first one came out when I was 1), they're very dear to me. That being said, you should definitely read the books they're based on, there's only two, or listen to the audiobooks, they're fantastic -- Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors, Jurassic Park and his other book Timeline are two of my all-time favorite books. Timeline was also made into a movie it has Paul Walker and Gerard Butler in it, it's ok, but it's not nearly as good as the book.
This is one of my favorite movies. It is definitely a legendary movie and franchise for sure. This movie is almost 30 years old and the CGI and Animatronics look amazing. I completely agree with you when you say older movies seem better than new movies. People are just out of ideas nowadays and just reboot everything. Also you seriously need to watch more Jeff Goldblum movies😂
I went to Universal Studios Island of Adventure in Orlando and rode the Jurassic Park River ride. It was as close to real as the movie. So much fun. And I agree with an earlier post that you would love the movie Twister. The park used to have the set where they made an actual mini tornado (about 6 meters tall?) inside the studio to film.
Yes, it is believabe raptors could figure out how to use handle doors. It is hypothesized that raptors were very intelligent and had their own language. some even hypothesized they may have become a dominant species if given time to continue evolving. It was hinted twice in the movie they were highly intelligent, using themselves as distractions to hunt and flank their pray or that they were testing the fences, never testing the same spot twice.
Ever since this movie came out little sentence that says... things may be closer than they appear in this mirror.. that's on the side of your car mirror, has never been the same for me.
Since scientists include the descendants of a family of animals in that family, birds are, in fact, dinosaurs. I used to raise chickens, and I have no trouble at all believing it :)
Why do so many people in these comments not know anything about this film? Saying it has no CGI is stupid cause it clearly does for one and two...this movie is FAMOUS for having photo real CGI dinosaurs. No one had seen anything like it at the time.
Kabir, many comments are claiming no CGI was used in this movie. Those people happen to be wrong. George Lucas' company Industrial Light & Magic was involved, blending CGI with practical effects. There are plenty of documentaries online that explain how it was all done. Folks, if you hate CGI in movies so much, than I ask you to throw out or delete any copies of Toy Story you may have. Fun fact: Toy Story was made using CGI, which stands for Computer Generated Imagery.
Your Toy Story argument doesn't work. Toy Story is an animation. The people you are referring to are not complaining about animated movies. They're complaining about the use of CGI in live action movies. Where it is frequently implemented poorly, is jarring, and overused in situations where a practical effect might have required the same or less amount of effort and money. That's not to say all live action movies use CGI poorly. Jurassic Park is an example where it implemented where it needs to be. Dinosaurs in wide shots are CGI while close ups utilize puppets.
Toy Story was made by a company that used to be owned by Lucas as a branch of ILM but due to philosophical differences Lucas sold them off to Steve Jobs and became their own studio.
@@bagnome "...in situations where a practical effect might have required the same or less amount of effort and money"---this does not exist. CGI is so cheap and "effortless" that it trumps practical in almost every way in those regards. that isn't to say it is always better but you don't have to pay an entire special effects crew, insure them and the set and spend time (thus also money) to set up the shot properly. There is almost no shot where practically done it requires equal to less effort and money. practically done effects is done purely for style you want the film to convey and personal preference. that's all.
I am a big fan of the Jurassic Park movies! I just wanted to comment about how you said the CGI looks so well. Believe it or not, there was a lot of animatronics of the dinosaurs used in the move! The rainy scene with the T-rex and the kids stuck in the car had a lot of the animatronic T-rex. The closeup shots of the t-rex was the mechanical one, and the full body shots were CGI. Because they had a rainy scene with it, the animatronic t-rex would constantly stop working due from being too wet that they'd have to wipe it dry to get the shot again. There were roughly 18 animatronic dinosaurs used in the movie.
Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park: "Must go faster..." Jeff Goldblum Independence Day: " Must go FASTER!" P.S. This movie was so epic I literally saw it 6 times, with different people each time as a kid in theaters.
The T-Rex was actually an animatronic for a lot of the scenes. Even made the actors scared lol. I think my fav part was he (Sam Neill) was asked if he wanted kids and then ended up being a parent to a bunch of them.
I wonder what you would make of my favorite Spielberg movie, Empire of the Sun. As an enticement to get you to watch it, I'd point out the heavy British involvement. A screenplay by Tom Stoppard, adapted from a book by J.G. Ballard - who swore for a while that it was an accurate memory of his childhood - and starring a very young Brit named Christian Bale.
Guy gets out of car and hides in bathroom leaving kid's to fend for themselves, You: Good plan! . Did not feel bad for the lawyer. You asked for it? They are children! Kid's don't always have the common sense needed to stay safe. Especially when scared. Not all dinosaurs ate meat. And if you listened earlier in the film There is a scene where Hammond orders an evacuation by boat. Nedry is actually trying to get to it after stealing the Dino DNA. Nedry also talks to the boat captain demanding that they wait for him and the captain reluctantly agreeing to the demands.xx
If you have The Movies that Made Us on your Netflix you should watch the Jurassic Park episode and it goes over how they incorporated CGI, because they weren't originally planning it. This is the first film that uses CGI for life forms. I remember seeing this in the theaters and it was so impressive.
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum...I must suggest watching these actors from earlier films like Sam Neill's "Reilly Ace of Spies", Jeff Goldblum's "The Fly", and Laura Dern's "Blue Velvet" or "Mask".
I did a book report in the 2nd grade to Jurassic Park, and the movie took it's liberties. Also Dilophosorus was 20 feet tall and velociraptor was a chicken.
20 feet long* 20 feet tall would make it taller than t. rex. The sources that JP used had multiple species for Velociraptor...including Deinonychus antirrhopus and Achillobator giganticus (which were the real inspirations in the novel and film). Crichton helped write this movie, he encouraged changes because he knew from experience that films and novels are different mediums and don't translate.
John Williams did the score. The rest of the park staff evacuated because of the hurricane (it's mentioned a few times early).
If it's a Spielberg or Lucas movie, the music is usually composed by John Williams
"The guy from Guardians of the Galaxy..."😂😂😂 Someone needs to watch more Jeff Goldblum movies ha
The Fly!!!
Meh lolz this one’s enough
Inde-fricken-pendence Day????
Lol it always tickles me to see where people know Jeff Goldberg from....the man is a legend.
We all gotta start somewhere I guess!
Or just more movies in general XD
When Kabir called Jeff Goldblum "the guy from Guardians of the Galaxy" he wasn't wrong, but it hurt my soul and made me feel old. To me he'll always be the guy from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," or "The Fly."
Same
And “Earth Girls are Easy”!!
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Transylvania 6-5000, Independence Day, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent
He was in Guardians of the Galaxy? I thought he was in Thor Ragnarok, not Guardians?
But he wasn't in Guardians (except the credits in 2). He was in Ragnarok.
“The CGI looks really good here.” It does - but it was mind-blowing in 1993. We had never seen anything remotely like it.
They likely had a great breaststroke with those arms.
The effects still hold up.
So true. In fact, I feel like CGI has degraded since then because it tends to be so overdone, lazy, or both. But as for how good it looks? Better than any Hulk movie years later. For examples, "We're Back, a Dinosaur's Story" and "Prehysteria" came out the same year. Until Jurassic Park, that's what dinosaurs looked like.
@@davek12 it was all animatronics in the original trilogy for the most part
The blend of animatronics and cgi with perfect lighting and filming makes this unreal. 6 year old me was convinced that they made real dinosaurs when I saw this in theaters.
Part of what made the effects good is they not only used CGI, but they also used hydraulic animatronics and puppets. The scene with the T-Rex attacking the kids from the top of the car for example, was a puppet. Also, small bit of fun for you, if you watch the scene with the Raptors in the kitchen, you can see a human hand reach out and grab the tail of the Raptor to stabilize the puppet.
Idk there was cgi in jurassic Park just jurassic world I thought Park was all animatronics
My cat can open the door and I have a round doorknob. They specifically used lever knobs, in the movie, to make it plausible that a "problem-solving" Velaciraptor can do it.
Another Steven Spielberg classic to check out is Twister, which was filmed three years after Jurassic Park in 1996 and stars Bill Paxton (R.I.P.) and Helen Hunt and was directed by Jan De Bont, who was the director of Speed.
Yes. Do it. Twister is in my top five favorite movies and might be the most quotable movie of all time. “I gotta go Julia, we got cows!”
I was obsessed with that movie as a kid
Twister is fun, but really, really stupid. Like a James Cameron movie.
I wouldn't call that a Spielberg movie. He was just one of the several producers of that movie.
@@6891x He wasn't even really a producer per se. He just fronted cash and loaned out his production company.
I was 12 years old when this came out and saw it in the movie theater. I still watch it every time it's on tv. One of my favorite movies ever!
One of the greatest horror sci fis of all time
I was so impressed by the special effects, the dinosaurs looked amazing
Still one of my fave reactions when somebody hasn't seen it. The effects are really great for the year it came out and I'm always loving to see the kid inside of the people come out.
I was 18
I saw this when it came out. As I was driving home that night, I just KNEW a dino was going to come out from behind a billboard!!!
It's more explicit in the book, but Nedry was not only being severely underpaid for the amount of extra work InGen was having him do outside the original contract, but they also threatened to essentially blacklist him if he backed out of the project. Now that doesn't at all excuse him putting everyone in danger, but it makes his motives a little more sympathetic.
On the CGI, this was a groundbreaking movie. There are 3 distinct eras of special effects: Pre Star Wars ( everything before 1977), Post Star Wars/Pre Jurassic Park (1977-1993), and Post Jurassic Park (1993-present).This movie was so beyond awesome to see in the theater as an 11 year old, there'd never been anything like it. I recommend watching (just on your own time) the Jurassic Park episode of The Movies That Made Us on Netflix to appreciate what it took to make this. There was also a behind the scenes short film/docu that was made at the time and shown on tv to promote the film, which is probably on RUclips somewhere.
Star wars changed everything for the movie industry it changed how movies were made forever.
I see people responding to your question about original movies saying studios aren’t willing to take the risk, and they’re not wrong, but it’s also worth noting Jurassic Park is also based off pre-existing property, there was a Jurassic Park novel written by Michael Crichton (who wrote the original Westworld and E.R.)
I think at a certain point we've also just used all the ideas. We've had movies about dinosaurs, aliens, space, super heroes, ghosts, mutants, zombies, etc. There are only so many topics available to humans. Want to make a dinosaur movie now? It's going to be compared to JP. Want to make a film about a tough explorer? Definitely Indiana Jones. Of course there are variations on a theme. Each movie is a bit different. But on average, they are not "original" ideas anymore.
I was 9 years old when this movie came out and I saw it in theaters with a bunch of my cousins.
Let me say, sitting in a dark theater with thud and rumbles of the speakers shaking the whole theater with each footstep of the rex... getting closer, and closer, louder and louder. it felt like the rex was going to burst into the theater at any moment. It was the most thrilling movie experience I had as a child.
I read the book a couple years before the movie came out. Sitting in the theater with those practical and sound effects was thrilling.
Very true. I saw it in the theater when it came out as well and it was SO loud. So yeah, every step that T Rex took you could feel in your whole body. It was a scary and thrilling experience.
That scene where all the letters are projected on the raptor is genius. The letters are a sequence of amino acids in their DNA.
"Imagine how expensive it would be to open a park like this"
Me: Luckily, he spared no expense
🤣🤣🤣🤣
When we lived in LA, surrounded by studios, a chopper flew over with a huge crate hanging from it, the head of a tyranasorus sticking half way out gave us quite a laugh. It was headed to Universal Studios. Quite a sight as it was HUGE! LOL!
"Must go faster!" Great line that me and my kids used to say all the time. Lol
In 1993, I took my daughter and my son, to see Jurassic Park at the movie theater. They were eight and six, respectively. A few weeks ago, we took her son, 8 and her daughter 6, to see “World Dominion,” at the theater. This franchise, transcends generations, and judging by the amount of money I’ve spent on “merch” since ‘93, and now for my g’kids, there’ll be no inheritance left for future generations. But hey, we’ve enjoyed it!
Dogs and cats open doors, why not dinos🤣
All the scientists went home the night before during the storm. It was the last ferry out. That's why the guy on the phone told Newman he couldn't promise he'd wait for him.
My theory is Newman is still alive but he's blinded and concussed. That wasn't blood it was just the tapatio sauce he carries. After the umbrella neck dinosaur realizes this he cleans him up and helps him forage for sticks and berries for shelter and food. Newman and his new dinosaur friends live a long happy isolated life on the island where they reenact Seinfeld episodes. Also Newman's weight loss since this movie can be explained by him switching to a six foot turkey diet
Most of the closer-up shots of the dinos are actually practical effects, often life-size animatronics.
The full-body motion shots are CGI, and Spielberg does a masterful job at working around the limitations of the time. For example note how it's dark and rainy during the T-Rex attack to obscure it during the shot where it walks onto the road or when it roars at Grant (the reflectivity of rain apparently is helpful for CGI). Also, when the T-Rex kills the Galimimus (?) its feet are cleverly blocked by the angle of the shot with the actors in the foreground, as apparently it was difficult to make the feet and grass look realistic.
At the time CGI was "shiny". There were some practical pieces in those shots (they actually had a T-rex animatronic chasing the jeep and attacking the kids/Grant), so having them wet made them shiny to blend in with CGI elements better. Also having the haze from rainfall allowed them to blend out some stuff and add CGI haze.
But even with the daytime scenes of the brontosauruses eating leaves on the trees looked really good. Spielberg always does what's necessary to make it look as realistic as possible despite what limited effects there are for the time period.
One of the best franchises out there.
I have watched this movie so many times. I knew exactly what scene you were watching just by your comments
That "rhino on steroids" is called a triceratops. It's one of the most iconic, recognizable and popular dinosaurs. This one along with the carnotaurus are two of my personal favorites.
I grew up on this movie. It is well done and it holds up!
it was so good, the special effects are so impressive for the time!
This came out when I was 12. I saw it 16 times in theaters. My 13th birthday I got the soundtrack, VHS, and models of the dinosaurs.
Welcome to Jurassic Park is the theme by John Williams. It is still my favorite pieces of music.
"What's he up to?... something dodgy... yeaaaah... he's smuggling secrets..." 😂💀🤣
My favorite movie of all time. The books are awesome as well. Read them multiple times. Couldn't even begin to imagine how many times I've watched this.
Fun fact: The kid that Dr Grant is traumatizing in the beginning was the kid from the Nightmare on Elm St movies. He plays the unborn baby. That kid creeped me tf out lmao…
This movie was so popular the then expansion Toronto NBA team named themselves the Raptors after the dinosaurs in this movie.
"Where are all the other scientists?" --> You know, I've seen this movie 20-30+ times, and it never once occurred to me to ask that question. I guess the assumption is they left on the boat when the storm was arriving.
That was the implication.
They did. Arnold announced on the intercom that the boat for the mainland will leave soon, so everyone should finish up and board ASAP before the storm hits.
They literally say this stuff in the film several times.
I saw this in theaters too and have checked every building I enter for potential raptor entry points ever since. Also, in the scene the T rex was chasing the car, Malcom knocked it out of 4th gear when he leaned back out of the way of angry rex, so that's why they weren't going any faster. For those who haven't owned or driven a stick shift, Jeep or otherwise, you have to change gears manually via the gear stick. 1st gear is at the top far right and goes to about 10-15 mph, 2nd is bottom right and goes to about 25, 3rd is middle up and goes to about 35, 4 is straight down and goes to 45, and 5th is for everything else. If you're between gears, the car makes a hideous grinding noise and starts to slow down if not die entirely, sometimes in very dangerous places...like the exact middle of an intersection, or the train tracks, or while you're being pursued by a tyrannosaurus....and T-rex eats whatever she wants lol
T Rex actually was a good swimmer. They recently found their bones were actually quite buoyant. They could travel short distances across sea.
In the Jurassic Park novel one of the most memorable scenes involves the T-Rex swimming after Grant & the kids as they ride on a raft down the river.
Why is that supremely terrifying to me?
So much fun! Loved this one. Good reaction Kabir
John Williams did the music...he's amazing at creating iconic themes...
I always liked the fact that Hammond keeps saying that "we spared no expense", and yet they don't have power locks on the Ford Explorers, in a dinosaur zoo.
They did actually build animatronics that toured various countries...they actually had a short stint in Oxford Street (London) some years later.
Kabir on the raptors getting out: This is a big problem!
Me: Kabir has no idea.
Quick trivia note: the computer guy Nedry was given that name as an anagram for *nerdy* because it made Crichton grin when he wrote it.
As a mom, one of the jokes I love using is a reference to this film. As soon as my kids are old enough to open a door all by themselves, I say they're velociraptors now.
10:34 They're not married. Just work colleagues.....lol
no, they were dating. they were much more than colleagues.
Someone mentioned Twister. Twister is a very good movie that shows the glory and devastation of tornadoes in each stage from 1-5 but in a way that shows their beauty, not just their destruction. This move and it both involved director Steven Spielberg, as well as one called E.T. which you might enjoy as well about an alien and a kid who finds it.
This movie was one of the first, if not the first to use computer graphics CG in movies. They looked into stop motion, but they were introduced to computer graphics and were sold. Now everyone uses it.
one of the first. CGI dates back to Star Wars in 1977 and started becoming sophisticated by the late 80s. Jurassic Park was the first one to create photorealistic living organisms so it is a watershed moment in film history.
The ending where the T Rex saves everybody was not the original ending. But they figured it would be cool and exciting to have that happen. John Williams composed the theme for Jurassic Park. He is a musical genius for movie themes. Not only did he compose the Jurassic Park theme, he composed the themes for jaws, ET, Star Wars, Raiders of the lost Ark, superman, close encounters of the third kind, Home alone, saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s list, And the first three harry potter movies just to name a few. He is amazing.
I've seen many other reactors seeing this for the first time and they showed 300% more of the actual movie.
I was only 1 year old when Jurrassic Park came out and I still love watching it every time it come on tv.
The CGI in this movie is flawless.
And, not unrelated (although slightly ironic), the reason movies of this era are better is they do not rely on CGI. Even in a CGI-heavy movie like this one over half the effects are practical.
im curious here may i ask what year you where born and its probably 88 but i don't want to assume
@@streetracer1086 I was a serious hockey player and my number was/is 88.
@@Mr-gg8ek UH great thats not the question i asked
actually it is more like the reason CGI is "better" back then is most of the main figures involved in ILM back then had background in other departments of film. Dennis Muren, the head of ILM's CG division at the time and supervisor on JP, started out as a stop-motion and regular film cinematographer so he had to know how to properly light, composite and matte scenes convincingly before he ever got into CGI. It then translated to that work and is why it can look seamless or like the CGI is actually there.
It did also kind of had to do with the smaller workloads back then but crews were smaller as well.
My favorite movie growing up
I face-palmed so hard when he said that's the guy from guardians of the galaxy, no that's the guy from jurassic park.
And someone else would facepalm you and say that's the guy from the Big Chill or the Fly or Independence Day or from Earth Girls are Easy or any plethora of other movies. Just because he identified him from something else doesn't mean he doesn't deserve respect. Unless you want the same done to you.
@@scottb3034 he's known most for jurrasic Park lmfao that's no dispute
@@Beltran15x No, he isn't. In fact depending on who you asked Independence Day and the Fly are what he's most known for. His reappearance in Fallen Kingdom is what stoked the memories of his character from JP back into the public consciousness.
It should be quite telling that you can't even spell Jurassic Park right.
As I said, don't be a jerk to others unless you want people to do it back to you.
@@scottb3034 i can handle bullies, i'm not soft like you who can't handle people with a different opinion.😂
@@Beltran15x says the moron that couldn't handle someone knowing goldblum from a marvel movie instead of jurassic park. you are a CLOWN. 😆 Loser.
I was 7 when this came out and I was listening to Grant in the theater every time the T rex came back I focused on not moving so it wouldn't see me. 😆
I see this reaction spared no expense 🤣
I saw the original the first week it was out. Everyone left the theatre sort half believing the T-Rex was ever real. As we exited into the lobby there was a 4.5 foot long real skull of the T.Rex borrowed from the states's Natural History Museum up the road. Everyone studied the thing and those massive 6 inch teeth. What we had just seen become fixed even more forcefully and with clarity and authenticity. You could imagine that real skull tearing you limb from limb without hesitation or delay. It was a masterful pairing of movie and artifact. Glad my first airing (4 in the theatre and a dozen since on TV) was so powerful.
John Williams is the composer of the score. He’s the master of movie scores. He did Jaws, Indiana Jones, Superman, ET, Home Alone, and Star Wars, just to name a few
First time I saw this film was in the movie theater. The theater was so full I had to sit in the second row. Imagine watching the chasing with the tea Rex in the jeep in the second row. Scared the crap out of me. But still it’s one of my favorite movies in the series. Thanks for the reaction.
Kabir, thanks for doing this channel and these videos. Your videos have helped me get through a lot this last year. I been going through a lot and your videos have been a great diversion. Thanks bro!
This was amazing in the theater! And it's really cool that they did have a lot of practical effects as well as CGI, which honestly still looks good today. Looked and sounded good enough that the first T-Rex attack had several kids running out of the theater. XD
The Triceratops had indeed ingested the psychoactive berries. The keepers didn't realize it, because the berries were being stored in the animal's crop and used to grind up tougher food, just like many birds. So every so often, the trikes would get high, then recover.
How did you learn that? I always thought maybe she was in heat or some other type of distress from not being able to mate with males or maybe issues with laying eggs.
@@catgirl6803 Jurassic Park was a best-selling novel before Spielberg got the rights and made it a movie. The novel had more information.
@@catgirl6803 It was explained in the original novel.
@@leeneufeld4140 it is also a deleted scene in the film.
@@catgirl6803 the west indian lilac was meant to be the clue and eventually Tim pieces it together. there is a still image of the deleted scene of Ellie and Alan celebrating the confirmation of the gizzard stones (the stones that animals use for digestion and thus when swallowed also brought lilac berries with it, poisoning the triceratops) being a thing in dinosaurs out there. The two are basically holding hands in a high-five position and smiling at each other.
No CGI with T rex all practical effects
Wrong, the T-Rex was a combination of practical and CG.
The musical score is given to us by the great John Williams, who brings chills to all those who listen to them. (i.e. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Jaws, E.T. and much more).
Can't believe you have never seen this one before. LOL!! You been living under a rock? It is good. 😀 If I recall correctly (and I probably don't) I think there was only 4 minutes of CGI in the first one. The computing power just wasn't there in 1993. But with clever puppeting they made it work.
There is a fan theory that has NOT been dismissed by the producers or writers that the young boy traumatized at the beginning grows up to be Chris Pratt's character. The age fits
If he actually was it would of been made relevant in the last movie, but it wasn’t so he’s not because it’s dumb. Just like every other ‘fan theory’
One movie that I say everyone should see once in their lifetime is Schindler's List, which is a Spielberg movie
I used to be in love with horses as a kid. Until one sneezed on me. I was so grossed out. 🤢
It cured me real fast of my deep longing for one. I didn't hate them. I still admired their beauty. But I was more or less fine with not owning one from them on.
Dilophosaurus (dy - lof - oh - sor - us) is the one with the "fins that spits venom". It was the 1st attraction on the tour, that was described to them, but it was hiding so they didn't get to see it.
And you said, "we haven't seen the velociraptors have we. We've only seen the T-Rex & the one with the fins that spits poison." But by this point you didn't see them attack because they are plant eaters, but you also saw the bracheosauruses, & the triceratops.
At 20:31 I'm pretty sure Dr. Grant was trying to see if his head ( & body), would fit through the electric fence, not trying to bite it.
Yeah just nuke or napalm the island. Sounds good to me. 👍
Mike Tyson vs Raptor…. To funny!!
The mother bleeping T-rex. 🦖
i'd hate to run into one 😅
I saw this movie for the first time in a drive-in movie theatre in my small town, it was just perfect. One of my favourite movie experiences
Jurassic Park set new standards in many ways, not only in terms of special effects. There simply wasn't anything like it before. You simply had never seen anything like it. (There was no internet either...) People ran like mad to the cinemas back then. A milestone in film history and in my opinion one of the best movies ever made.
When it first came out it was AMAZING! Now, as you pointed out, its rinse & repeat!
Jeff Goldblum is just 🤌 magnifique in this!!!
must go faster!
Your running commentary was hysterical! You should go into comedy, LOL!
The book was excellent.... and when this movie came out nobody had ever seen chi special effects... It was amazing on a big screen.
I went to the midnight showing of it on its first day and it is still, by far the best moving going experience I have ever had!
This is one of the rare cases where you can watch the movie before reading the book and get even more enjoyment out of it. The second book is really good as well. And when you read the books and it really dives into the science you start to understand how Creighton was such a genius and why he had a PhD.
I intentionally saved the book until after I watched the movie in the theater when it came out. I wanted to enjoy the movie and thought I’d be disappointed if I read the book first. I’m so glad I did that because I love both.
just want to point out it is "Crichton", just so people know who to look for.
What is this "book" thing you are talking about?
j/k 😂
They do make great original films these days. There are alot of talented writer out there. You just have to know where to look, sweetie and not be trapped in a 90s bubble.
Brachiosaur: The tops of trees are the tasty bits
Tyrannosaur: The wishbone is the tasty bit
Not a nuke! ... That creates Go-Zi-Ra!
In cartoon mockery of this movie, the Velociraptors have learned English, and try to BS the humans into opening the door ;-))
They used CGI and practical for the trex. Also the glass was not supposed to fall on the kids when the trex came down, however the reaction in the scene was so good they kept it. The scientist from before made it off the island on that ship that was at the east dock. John Williams was the composer for the songs.
The glass was supposed to fall down. stop parroting the myth that it wasn't.
How is that no-one ever recognizes Sir Richard Attenborough?
Because he was rarely an actor in his later years. most of his famous acting gigs were as a younger, slightly different sounding man--otherwise his name only pops up as a director. What gets me is they don't see his name and ask or confuse him for his famous brother that's done stuff continuously on film for 50 years.
Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movie series! One of the first movies I remember seeing in theaters is The Lost World: Jurassic Park (I was like 5, the first one came out when I was 1), they're very dear to me. That being said, you should definitely read the books they're based on, there's only two, or listen to the audiobooks, they're fantastic -- Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors, Jurassic Park and his other book Timeline are two of my all-time favorite books. Timeline was also made into a movie it has Paul Walker and Gerard Butler in it, it's ok, but it's not nearly as good as the book.
This is one of my favorite movies. It is definitely a legendary movie and franchise for sure. This movie is almost 30 years old and the CGI and Animatronics look amazing. I completely agree with you when you say older movies seem better than new movies. People are just out of ideas nowadays and just reboot everything. Also you seriously need to watch more Jeff Goldblum movies😂
Your reactions are great! You make me want to watch it again. I haven't seen it in years.
I went to Universal Studios Island of Adventure in Orlando and rode the Jurassic Park River ride. It was as close to real as the movie. So much fun. And I agree with an earlier post that you would love the movie Twister. The park used to have the set where they made an actual mini tornado (about 6 meters tall?) inside the studio to film.
Music was by John Williams. He did Star Wars and a million other iconic movie scores.
Yes, it is believabe raptors could figure out how to use handle doors. It is hypothesized that raptors were very intelligent and had their own language. some even hypothesized they may have become a dominant species if given time to continue evolving. It was hinted twice in the movie they were highly intelligent, using themselves as distractions to hunt and flank their pray or that they were testing the fences, never testing the same spot twice.
Ever since this movie came out little sentence that says... things may be closer than they appear in this mirror.. that's on the side of your car mirror, has never been the same for me.
Very good, you are giving them advice.
Since scientists include the descendants of a family of animals in that family, birds are, in fact, dinosaurs. I used to raise chickens, and I have no trouble at all believing it :)
Why do so many people in these comments not know anything about this film? Saying it has no CGI is stupid cause it clearly does for one and two...this movie is FAMOUS for having photo real CGI dinosaurs. No one had seen anything like it at the time.
you will enjoy this movie you will enjoy the other Jurassic movies that follow this one as well
Kabir, many comments are claiming no CGI was used in this movie. Those people happen to be wrong. George Lucas' company Industrial Light & Magic was involved, blending CGI with practical effects. There are plenty of documentaries online that explain how it was all done.
Folks, if you hate CGI in movies so much, than I ask you to throw out or delete any copies of Toy Story you may have. Fun fact: Toy Story was made using CGI, which stands for Computer Generated Imagery.
Your Toy Story argument doesn't work. Toy Story is an animation. The people you are referring to are not complaining about animated movies.
They're complaining about the use of CGI in live action movies. Where it is frequently implemented poorly, is jarring, and overused in situations where a practical effect might have required the same or less amount of effort and money.
That's not to say all live action movies use CGI poorly. Jurassic Park is an example where it implemented where it needs to be. Dinosaurs in wide shots are CGI while close ups utilize puppets.
Toy Story was made by a company that used to be owned by Lucas as a branch of ILM but due to philosophical differences Lucas sold them off to Steve Jobs and became their own studio.
@@bagnome "...in situations where a practical effect might have required the same or less amount of effort and money"---this does not exist. CGI is so cheap and "effortless" that it trumps practical in almost every way in those regards.
that isn't to say it is always better but you don't have to pay an entire special effects crew, insure them and the set and spend time (thus also money) to set up the shot properly. There is almost no shot where practically done it requires equal to less effort and money. practically done effects is done purely for style you want the film to convey and personal preference. that's all.
Awesome choice, the GOOD Jurassic Park movie. Will never hesitate to watch this when given the chance.
there's only one bad one
@@alaxbird4954 there's 4 bad ones....unless you don't count the jurassic world trilogy.
Hard to believe you've never seen the original.amazing movie.
I am a big fan of the Jurassic Park movies! I just wanted to comment about how you said the CGI looks so well. Believe it or not, there was a lot of animatronics of the dinosaurs used in the move! The rainy scene with the T-rex and the kids stuck in the car had a lot of the animatronic T-rex. The closeup shots of the t-rex was the mechanical one, and the full body shots were CGI. Because they had a rainy scene with it, the animatronic t-rex would constantly stop working due from being too wet that they'd have to wipe it dry to get the shot again. There were roughly 18 animatronic dinosaurs used in the movie.
John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, etc.) composed the score.
Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park: "Must go faster..."
Jeff Goldblum Independence Day: " Must go FASTER!"
P.S.
This movie was so epic I literally saw it 6 times, with different people each time as a kid in theaters.
The T-Rex was actually an animatronic for a lot of the scenes. Even made the actors scared lol.
I think my fav part was he (Sam Neill) was asked if he wanted kids and then ended up being a parent to a bunch of them.
*Parental figure
I wonder what you would make of my favorite Spielberg movie, Empire of the Sun. As an enticement to get you to watch it, I'd point out the heavy British involvement. A screenplay by Tom Stoppard, adapted from a book by J.G. Ballard - who swore for a while that it was an accurate memory of his childhood - and starring a very young Brit named Christian Bale.
Guy gets out of car and hides in bathroom leaving kid's to fend for themselves, You: Good plan! . Did not feel bad for the lawyer. You asked for it? They are children! Kid's don't always have the common sense needed to stay safe. Especially when scared. Not all dinosaurs ate meat. And if you listened earlier in the film There is a scene where Hammond orders an evacuation by boat. Nedry is actually trying to get to it after stealing the Dino DNA. Nedry also talks to the boat captain demanding that they wait for him and the captain reluctantly agreeing to the demands.xx
You should watch e.t. next time it's by Steven spielberg back in 1982
If you have The Movies that Made Us on your Netflix you should watch the Jurassic Park episode and it goes over how they incorporated CGI, because they weren't originally planning it. This is the first film that uses CGI for life forms. I remember seeing this in the theaters and it was so impressive.
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum...I must suggest watching these actors from earlier films like Sam Neill's "Reilly Ace of Spies", Jeff Goldblum's "The Fly", and Laura Dern's "Blue Velvet" or "Mask".
I did a book report in the 2nd grade to Jurassic Park, and the movie took it's liberties. Also Dilophosorus was 20 feet tall and velociraptor was a chicken.
20 feet long* 20 feet tall would make it taller than t. rex. The sources that JP used had multiple species for Velociraptor...including Deinonychus antirrhopus and Achillobator giganticus (which were the real inspirations in the novel and film).
Crichton helped write this movie, he encouraged changes because he knew from experience that films and novels are different mediums and don't translate.
The kiddos were the grandkids of John Hammond, aka the rich old man. So that's they there were there by themselves.