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This movie literally changed the trajectory of my life when I saw it in the theater in 1993 when I was 7 years old. I became in instant nerd and have been obsessed with science and biology ever since.

I love the score by John Williams. It's so beautiful and majestic.

Dean Cundy was in the movie too. He was the guy on the dock in the storm talking to Nedry. " Captain says we gotta go, we gotta go !"

Jurassic Park is IONIC and TIMELESS!!! ❤

One of the best theater experiences ever! The screen and theatre was humming electric!

@StaticBlaster

Ай бұрын

I agree. I saw this for the first time on the big screen last year for its 30th anniversary.

I was 10 years old when it released. Could not have been a better age to see it: young enough to still be mad about dinosaurs, old enough to watch it in the cinema.

@dishsoap1

Ай бұрын

Same. Movie changed my little kid life. Coolest thing I ever saw. The idea that it could be possible to create dinosaurs in modern time blew my mind.

Jurassic Park is literally my best movie theater experience ever! Edge of my seat, eyes and mouth wide open. I was 9 years old at the time. And to this day the movie is still relevant. You're rightfully pointing out the things that made Steven Spielberg great, but for me it really is Stan Winston as well. Not just for his work on Jurassic Park, but also the Terminator, Aliens and Predator movies. It was literally these movies that made me a movie fan. Stan Winston + great director = movie magic!

Gotta love the 90s era. Great music and great films.

I resisted for years saying this is my all time favorite movie. As a movie buff, I kept trying to say it was some Italian neo post war introspective something something that made me seem cool and pretentious, but I kept coming back to the fact that there's no other movie that's brought me more joy, that I've watched more times, or had a bigger impact of my love of movies that Jurassic Park! Great review Jeff! Keep them coming!

@thischarminglovehound2376

Ай бұрын

Solid pick for a favorite! It's a perfect movie.

@JeffRauseo

Ай бұрын

No shame at all! It’s an incredible movie.

Still holds up today over the newer movies as far as visuals and storytelling

JP was the first big blockbuster I remember seeing at the cinema. I was obsessed with all things dinosaurs for a couple of years, and it remains one of my all time favourite films.

“Dotson! We got a Dotson here!!” Lol 😂

I love this movie to death, bro. One of the reasons I love this movie is because of the incredible themes it explores, which are more relevant today than ever before. For example, in the lunch conference room scene when Ian says: "I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it, you want to sell it!" and "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

I was born in 1993, and honestly, I feel like I was one of the only 90s kids to just not care for dinosaurs. I was too busy watching Cartoon Network and Disney movies... But let me tell you, my wife was born in 1994 and she LOVES this film. This is one of her top 3 films of all time. The only films that can compete are Gremlins and Aliens, so that'll probably demonstrate her taste in movies 🤣 Yeah, we've been together close to 13 years and she will drag me to the theatre whenever a new film comes out. I've seen Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom and Dominion with her, and while she always cared about them more than I did (except Dominion, she had nothing positive to say there...), I have grown to appreciate the original film for the fantastic special effects. We actually went to a limited 30th anniversary screening last year. As I expected, she couldn't pass it up, and she still to this day marvels at the scenes where we first see the Brachiosaurus reaching for those leaves in their first scenes and let's not forget about the T-Rex escaping her pen in the rain. In a world where we've been spoiled by CG monsters, it's amazing to think that was all practical animatronic work... So yeah, I still don't LOVE Jurassic Park, but objectively, it's easily a 10/10 film for what it is.

The first movie I saw at the drive-in in '93. Such a great experience. Twister and Jurassic Park is a great double feature. Both Amblin films too! 🔥

Hi Jeff, Just watched your Nightmare on Elm street video history and now this Jurassic video. Nice work, nice perspective, nice videos.

I remember being 5 years old sitting in the theater with my mom watching Jurassic Park and I felt like I was watching dinosaurs in real life. My mom didn't know what to think and was completely blown away by the visuals and she had to cover my eyes when the T-Rex ate Gennaro, but I ducked away from her hand so I could watch it. 🤣

I was 27 when this came out. I remember seeing it in the theater. It was groundbreaking when released. I got 2 window clings I put in my red jeep Cherokee in the rear side windows. 😂

One of my favourite movies too! Defined my childhood as a kid born in '89. Dinosaurs ruled the 90s! I still think the T-Rex reveal is one of the most iconic movie moments of all time, that with the water shaking in the cup...movie magic!

One of the best movies ever made period.

Hell yes Jeff, Jurassic Park was a formative film for me. I was 12, and JP was probably the best theatrical experience of my life. I'd already seen Return of the Jedi at 3, Batman and Ghostbusters 2 at 9, TMNT at 10, but this one topped them all. It made me dino-obsessed that summer. Read the book, got the soundtrack, read the Starlog magazine cover to cover. It was amazing.

@adamsteinbacher2629

Ай бұрын

Also has to have one of the best scores of all time. John Williams, man.

Jurassic Park is great. I got to see it for the first time last year when a local cinema was showing it for its 30th anniversary.

Et, the best alien, boy and his friend movie ever made. The film score soundtrack made me truly emotional, it is such a beautiful soundtrack. Jurassic Park has to be in the top 20 pieces of cinema all time. A true masterpiece and truly the perfect time in history. Dinosaur mania came about because of it at that time. The amount of merchandise created because of that film, can literally never be enumerated. Billions and billions of dollars worth. And millions and millions of pieces of merch. Truly love this film. And I am a sucker, I even like part 3 and 2 to a degree.

10:45 I love how often this happens. Historically important and damn good movies at the time always have people that say it could be better lol.

Jurassic Park is in my list of favorite movies for sure. We are the same age and I actually remember seeing Lost World first. Great movies.

Watched it last night. Such a perfect film

Awesome vid damn I feel old… I saw it in theaters my dad shopped around for the theaters that had DTS… this was the first digital surround sound movie and I was blown away.

Thank you Jeff. 🙏🏻

This is the movie the got me into movies.

@StaticBlaster

Ай бұрын

This movie, Jaws, E.T., T2, and The Matrix all had profound effects on me and catapulted me into the world of cinema.

First movie I saw in theaters! Love this

Loved this episode, thanks Jeff!

Chaos theory has been pretty cool. For those of you who discredit media because it's animation or geared towards kids. Don't skip this one it's fun

My local theater company has a classic cinema in our downtown area, they've changed to exclusively showing classic cinema this year. They're showing Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, and Ghibli's Arrietty this weekend. Had E.T. and Jaws all week. They've shown the Harry Potter films the last two months, Iron Giant, Spirited Away, and more.

My first true cinema experience, I was 6 my mum was such a movie fan herself. it was the first time DTS was being used at my local odeon in South West London.

The Best evil Semi-Truck movie.

I'm in agreement with Jeff on the 3D version: It's the best of the legacy 3D post-conversions and makes a more effective use of the format than a large number of the modern era's post-converted - and natively shot - 3D movies.

I was really struggling at the time Jurassic park came out. My autism was getting the better of me and diden't know what to do. But after seeing that wonderful movie it all changed! I became obsessed basically and my whole life started revolving around JP. Now my name is Rex John Hammond after my two favorite characters in the movie. I'm glad I can basically change my name to anything over here in Sweden 😊

I havent watched this series in a while; i'm giving it a go tonight!

In my top 10 favorite films of all time.

I bought thr 30th anniversary 4k with the book and film cell also I remember seeing in summer of 93 when dts was first used and I remember the vhs home video version didn't come out til Oct 1994 so like 14months before u could own it

This was my very first theatre experience

Great Films

I've been to the ranch in Oahu while on vacation with my wife where they've done a lot of filming there including most famously the JP films.

@thechairman74

Ай бұрын

It's called Kualoa Ranch. Definitely a place to take the family if you ever go on holiday to Hawaii.

I think another reason the VFX still holds up is it's very grounded. They don't make the dinosaurs do anything OTT and beyond what's believable. People point the finger at Marvel because the characters don't look realistic and are often doing insane stunts which break what's physically possible. They are meant to be extraordinary and that's what breaks the illusion. In reality, today, CGI is often used to recreate real world environments and objects and people are completely unaware they're seeing CGI. Dune is a great example, despite being sci-fi, there's nothing which is beyond what's believable and you don't think about the fact you're looking at CGI. Top Gun Maverick is also full of CGI but most people don't realise. This one succeeds because they did real world photography as a basis and then built upon that. If you shoot real environments instead of in green screen, the CGI becomes invisible

I've never seen Jurassic Park. I guess I got some catching up to do🤔

I’m pretty sure this movie was my first vhs tape that wasn’t Disney

Here in country Jurassic Park is streaming in HD on prime video(wite subscription)

Jeff, I may be wrong here, but wasn't there issues with the 4K version that made the Blu-Ray the better pick? I've held off on getting the 4K version because I thought I remember that but would be happy to learn otherwise

Don't forget the road rage creature.

Do forget about the land before time movies

It's lesser Spielberg. A bunch of set pieces in search of a script.

I respect Ebert's reviews for the most part but when I hear about him giving a lukewarm review for a classic such as Jurassic Park, I think about when Anaconda came out and Siskel & Ebert gave that horrible movie 'Two Thumbs Up'. 🤮

Shark movie true. Dinosaur movie true. Alien movie... Uh no... Alien is far superior, as is Aliens. Best family alien film, sure maybe.

@JeffRauseo

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Stay tuned to the podcast for Aliens… 👽