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I’m old enough to have seen this in the cinemas as a kid … holy fucking hell that shit was awesome … and scared the shit out of me. I like horror movies and I’m never really “scared”, though I get the horror or whatever. But my child brain was not remotely ready to watch a giant T-Rex eat someone after knocking down the toilet they were hiding in.
I don’t think my mum knew what she was doing taking us to see that. I had an even younger sibling in the cinema (he probably should not have been allowed in) … and at one point he just got up and ran out.
Not for a second did I question how real that shit was.
And even as a kid … I knew that Williams score was awesome. That crescendo as the field of dinosaurs is revealed … that’s burnt into my brain … that’s in my soul’s dictionary definition of “cinema”.
For a 90s kid like me, this and the Matrix 6 years later, and then LotR 2 years after that … they were our “Star Wars” cinema experiences … and not to start a flame war or anything … but I’m pretty happy to have grown up in that moment of cinema.
Interestingly, I rewatched JP last year on its 30th anniversary … and obviously it still holds up, but I found it easy to forget how quietly but clearly “woke” older hollywood would be. The anti-corporate and even “humans are the real predators” messages in JP were pretty clear IMO. EG, the sequence that goes from the velicoraptors being fed to the dinner debate with Dr Malcolm’s “should you” and “life finds a way” arguments … I’m pretty sure the directing clearly draws parallels between the way raptors and humans eat meat/beef/cows.
The anti-corporate and even “humans are the real predators” messages in JP were pretty clear IMO. EG, the sequence that goes from the velicoraptors being fed to the dinner debate with Dr Malcolm’s “should you” and “life finds a way” arguments … I’m pretty sure the directing clearly draws parallels between the way raptors and humans eat meat/beef/cows.
You really should read the original book by Michael Crichton. The story is way darker. For more Dr. Malcolm’s goodness, also go for The Lost World. He really shines there.
Makes sense! Thanks! Not sure it can ever compete with the viewing experience I had as a kid though!
Oh, I wasn’t in any way dissing your viewing experience at all. I am probably either the same age or a little older, since I was a teenager when it was originally released in the theatre.
No dissing interpreted! All good.
Yea I wasn’t a teenager yet, so definitely still young.
It took so long for the movie to be released on VHS that I bought the book and read it 2 times in a row when I was in grade 7.
I reread it again recently and realized that Nedry was a pioneer in my current field of Bioinformatics. It talked a lot more about him and the work he had to do as well as why he was open to corporate espionage. The computer problems he had to tackle was amusing to read about especially as our computers are so much more advanced today. “You can’t analyze DNA using a computer. The molecule is just too big!”
You can’t analyze DNA using a computer. The molecule is just too big!
LOL.
Though, TBF, last time I was in contact with bioinformatics (as a researcher in another field), they were talking about how DNA sampling rates were now high enough and getting higher that there was a compute bottle neck again. This was about 10 years ago. Don’t know how things are now.
I’m old enough to have watched it as a kid. I had read the novel with a friend sharing his book and reading it together.
Both where awesome. I distinctively remember hearing a baby crying in the theater and thinking about those stupid parents.
It was a monumental achievement, and I have seen it more times than I can count. I read the book 3 times.
Unpopular Opinion: It doesn’t hold up as well as I would like, and I would be all about a remake that stayed true to the book.
Having read it again not too long ago, I was actually surprised by how much of it was not good.
The framework was interesting, but much of the actual writing wasn’t nearly as good as I had thought.
Maybe it’s because I had read it in a Dutch translation the first couple of times, and the translator had had improved the prose without intending to, or maybe it’s because it was many years ago.
Whatever the reason, I felt like it needed another pass of the editor.
The movie, on the other hand, still thrills me every time I see it.
I remember going to this at a drive in theater. It’s was the first drive in I saw.
That interview/review was adorable.
Peter Mansbridge!
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