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.
15The 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.
12I'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.
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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.
5Having 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.
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I remember going to this at a drive in theater. It's was the first drive in I saw.
4That interview/review was adorable.
3Peter Mansbridge!
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