Comments on: Epic Win: Jurassic Park

By: Rebeccagrace

Rebeccagrace — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:40:33 +0000

I have to say…I was immensely entertained by the reenactment video. Loved it, and the movie too!

By: eeh

eeh — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:11:40 +0000

Man i saw this when i was younger im only 19 but this trailer looks so old bad CG and just style of a old movie, this is first thing that made me feel old.

By: Radioheadrocks

Radioheadrocks — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:42:12 +0000

*Stop wasting your life by changing channels.

Meh, I think I was drunk.

By: mary

mary — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:35:01 +0000

i think the absolute best part is the ending, when everyone is being chased by raptors and they’re sliding down the skeleton. it looks like doom and WHAM! in comes the t-rex to save the day, kill the raptors, and claim jurassic park for her own.

By: Radioheadrocks

Radioheadrocks — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:07:27 +0000

The effects are the only good things about Transformers. Long live Jurassic Park.

By: Radioheadrocks

Radioheadrocks — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:06:18 +0000

Stop wasting your by changing channels life and watch Jurassic Park. How old are you, 12?

By: Thunderwing

Thunderwing — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:36:14 +0000

This movie STUNK. The best thing about it is changing the channel to something ENTERTAINING.

By: C

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:26:32 +0000

Thanks to this, the Transformers films were awesome. They won’t exist without this.

I remember almost going deaf when the T rex first roared. So awesome.

By: MWahatten

MWahatten — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:15:51 +0000

RAPTORS CAN OPEN DOORS!

My son totally loved this movie, and when 3 came out, was in complete denial that there was actually any dinosaur that could beat his beloved T-Rex.

By: b5bartender

b5bartender — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:02:02 +0000

This was the first film screened in DTS surround…i still have the little pink flyer you got with your ticket explaining the new digital system.. awesome sound mix, they held off on the surrounds and super-punch bass until the “cups of water” scene.. talk about knocking you out of your seat!

By: MarthaK

MarthaK — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:31:49 +0000

spelling epic fail… crush

By: MarthaK

MarthaK — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:20:46 +0000

I saw it on a rainy day at a drive-in movie theater, so it was especially terrifying as it seemed 3d with the rain outside the car I was in as well as the movie.

Still can’t believe at 11 years old, I had a cruch on Jeff Goldblum, and still do.

By: Nightlyeclipse

Nightlyeclipse — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:29:26 +0000

Hey, I was 13 when this came out too! lol I got to go to this movie with just my girl friends and I remember being the one holding the popcorn. The raptors in the kitchen part scared me the most. I remember when the raptor blew on the window of the door, I accidentally threw the popcorn in the air all over us!

By: DoggySpew

DoggySpew — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:16:59 +0000

Jurassic Park was the first “grown up” movie I went to, and it still is my favourite. The CG dinosaurs in JP are still the best (Later dinosaurs were just plain monsters.)

By: Shoopoftheday

Shoopoftheday — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:57:11 +0000

and it completely shaped randal munroe to who he is.

By: Harui

Harui — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:20:30 +0000

I still like it, even though many of the dinosaurs are depicted incorrectly. At least they were realistic dinosaurs.

By: Zub

Zub — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:43:31 +0000

biggest WIN of all time! hands down.

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:46:08 +0000

I love Jurassic Park. I got the whole trilogy for 19$ at HMV…woo! But I was 14 when that came out…I musta went and saw that 3 times…loved it.

By: Sillyweasel

Sillyweasel — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:34:50 +0000

I did the same thing man, it was one of the most fantastic things I’d ever seen, and something that had lived inside my own head for soooo long. To be able to actually see it, oh man, wonderful memory.

By: ceallaig

ceallaig — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:05:03 +0000

Epic win — proved to the world what computers could do, proved that it did not all need to be computers (something many filmmakers seem to have forgotten), proved that you could give a message that is palatable (we can but maybe we shouldn’t, at least until we’re sure of the consequences) when it’s wrapped up in a butt-kicking story, and we got the most realistic looking dinosaurs EVER for the first time (and maybe even now, haven’t seen much to beat these guys) Still remember bursting into tears at the theatre when that beautiful brachiosaur thundered up, I knew just how Grant felt.

By: Sillyweasel

Sillyweasel — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:52:01 +0000

Hahaha the comic where he stands in as a sub teacher and pop quizzes them on the physics of how best to escape raptors is friggin’ priceless.

By: jinny_1909

jinny_1909 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:44:46 +0000

I always found it funny that in the book, their roles were switch. The brother was the older one interested in technology and she was the one interested in sports. I completely agree with you on the screaming!

By: Curbie

Curbie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:01:01 +0000

Screaming, annoying blonde girl = EPIC FAIL.

Any time I’ve ever watched this movie I pray the raptors will eat her.

They never do.

Other than her, I agree, this one is a win.

By: Miroku

Miroku — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:47:49 +0000

True. While there is only something like 13-15 minutes of CG in this film, it basically showed to other directors that CG was the future. Hell this movie apparently got George Lucas off his ass to make the prequel series. But I guess that’s sort of a double edged sword.

By: Stringman

Stringman — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:00:54 +0000

Actually this movie was a pivotal shift to CGI *from* animatronics. Early test footage was done with “go-motion” puppetry etc. but when the director (and even the puppet animators) were shown test footage done with early CGI modeling, they realized that everything was about to change, and decided to buy into the CGI big time.

By: Pugiron

Pugiron — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:32:04 +0000

Don’t move, they can’t see you. Its because the T-Rex is not a dinosaur, its a spider!

Thats exactly how Oscar Schindler got all those people to safety, right Stevie? The Nazi’s can’t see you if you don’t move!

By: Meg-Meg

Meg-Meg — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:57:56 +0000

The first weird al song I heard XD

By: Radioheadrocks

Radioheadrocks — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:06:07 +0000

I love this movie.

By: Sir "Not-appearing-in-this-film"

Sir "Not-appearing-in-this-film" — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:27:42 +0000

First movie I ever saw in the theater (I was six when it came out). The most vivid part I can remember wasn’t the T-Rex or anything like that…it was the beginning scene where the guy gets eaten by the raptor.

By: jinny_1909

jinny_1909 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:33:04 +0000

I love that movie! The first time I saw it as a kid I was messing with my earring for some reason and then the raptor jumped through the wall I almost ripped the earring out (O_O)
I have to love the movies separately from the book because they’re so different. Basically they took the book and made it into 3 movies. I don’t care much for #2, but I love #1 and #3
And despite it having been about 6 years? They are still trying to make that fourth JP movie!

By: jinny_1909

jinny_1909 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:30:13 +0000

Ditto. So does the xkcd guy!

By: hee hee

hee hee — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:19:35 +0000

I think it made it’s point. The ‘reenactment’ above pretty much spells the moral for you.

By: hee hee

hee hee — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:16:11 +0000

WEIRD AL WIN!!!!!
I loved JP it was awesome!!!! …and the Weird Al parody video!

By: OneHappyAtheist

OneHappyAtheist — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:54:54 +0000

Loved the movie, and despite the flack I’ll get for saying it, I even liked the other two as well. (The first was the best, but even so.)

I also must say I quite liked that re-enactment! Especially when he’s doing Goldblum’s part.

By: TheNinjaBassist

TheNinjaBassist — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:27:08 +0000

~Shudder~

I first saw this movie while I was being babysat at my Aunt’s house. It was from behind the back of the couch. For at least 2 years I had an unnatural fear of raptors hiding in dark places. To this day, I still fear them.

By: bean

bean — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:07:03 +0000

LOVE LOVE LOVE this move! And the book, which I read after seeing the movie. I did find the book was better, but the movie stands fine on it’s own. MC’s Lost World book however… I really didn’t care for it, at all. The movie sequels were pretty much awesome, the third I could do without but still not terrible… I’m rambling.

ps- I still play JP and JP Rampage Edition on my Sega Genesis! 15 years later!

By: esoR

esoR — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:44:04 +0000

i LOVE jurassic park.. the only problem i really had with the second and third ones were that the adorable little kids weren’t in it…. yes i know they were in the second one for about a minute but still.. and doctor grant wasn’t in it! the third one i enjoyed a lot though. overall great series… great music… great. freaking. idea.

By: Tyche

Tyche — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:32:09 +0000

I don’t think it totally missed the boat. I think the moral was still there but maybe some viewers didn’t notice it because of all the action and scary dinosaurs. Too subtle maybe. At any rate, this was way way better than the sequels or Timeline. I read both Jurassic Park and Timeline before seeing the movies (in the theater) and JP did not disappoint while Timeline…. ugh. The scene with the cars and Tyrannosaurus was still terrifying even when you knew what was coming. Ramming the moral down our throats would have ruined it, I think. Most people probably got the idea that bringing back the dinos did not turn out so well.

By: Chass

Chass — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:58:55 +0000

I remember the tyrannosaurus head shapped cup lids the Cinemark had when we went to go see it. I also remember re-enacting the dino-trying-to-eat-the-kids-through-the-sunroof scene in the forts my sister and I would build. We’d knock over one of the chairs holding up the blanket roof, then hold the chair above us and scream.

By: kirby

kirby — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:48:22 +0000

win win and more win. I was a big reader as a kid and never wanted to read Jurassic Park for fear of ruining the movie. I STILL cannot pass it up whenever it is on TV.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:29:31 +0000

Movie totally missed the boat that Michael Crichton was getting at. We can but we shouldn’t. They shelved the moral for pricey special effects. Reading the first chapter of the book nearly made me throw up. This is an absolute fail!

By: boaks

boaks — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:22:40 +0000

Some of my favorite John Williams music! I love the main theme for this movie!

By: kat

kat — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:08:07 +0000

Ha ha! My middle school band played the Jurrasic Park theme song! (this was like, 14-15 years ago, too!)

By: Skyfire

Skyfire — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:28:34 +0000

♪Jurassic Park is frightening in the dark
All the dinosaurs are running wild!♪

By: Miroku

Miroku — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:24:13 +0000

Loved this film. I remember as a kid (at age 6) this was the first film that I recall that had lines down the block to see it.

But simply put, if you where a kid in the 90’s, and you didn’t see this film in the theaters you where either too young, or your parents didn’t love you.

By: Marekatt

Marekatt — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:07:32 +0000

When I was like 13 I found JR1 more terrifying than “the Hitcher” (’cause of the raptors in the kitchen).

By: MUBNUT

MUBNUT — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:06:27 +0000

First movie I was allowed to see in the theater without parents. Terrifying. Epic win to the crazy little dinosaur with the collar who sprayed Newman with poison.