Animatronics is far superior to CGI and most of the shots done here with the dinosaurs was made with animatronics. It just looks way more real because it is.
This woman has the best reactions ever. It's actually not a shame that you've missed all these movies because it's extremely entertaining watching you watch them for the first time.
I agree with both of you. Cassie is by far the best reactor on UA-cam. I’ve seen this movie countless times and I’ve seen many reactions to it so I was kind of bummed at first to see this was her choice but, once again, Cassie made it like I was seeing it for the first time.
@@MetallicOpeth this is for Voltrons comment that I can't see here yet. Not even born yet? She looks to be in her early to mid 30's. I'm not going to ask her how old she is but I'm going to guess that she was alive in 1993.
My guess would be courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic. A legacy of Stan Winston. They've made animatronics & models for most major films. Half of the Mythbusters cast have worked for them.
I saw this in my twenties at a Drive-In. The audio for the film was broadcast on a radio frequency, and you tuned your car radio to it and listened to the film over your car's speakers. There was a light rain, which was PERFECT for this movie - and we had our drinks sitting on the dashboard. When they first introduce the T Rex with the "boom, boom, boom" and the water in the glass ripples, our car's speaker was making the whole dashboard vibrate with each boom, and the ice in our drinks would shake with a "chshhhh, chshhh, chshhh". WHO NEED VR?? Just bring back drive-ins!!
We actually still have one in my area. Sure your film is nice in the fancy theater we go to with dream loungers but drive ins really are a fun experience
way better than the overdone CGI of the rebooted trilogy. Dialogue was much more natural and funny too. The way they incorporated CGI sparingly and carefully while using practical effects for the rest really stands the test of time. Obviously during that era it was more of a cost/capability issue rather than an artistic choice because rendering abilities were so limited and expensive, but either way, it worked out very nicely.
@@user-vc5rp7nf8f Studios save money on it, that's why CGI from the 90's and 2k looks better than today's - it was done by people who were dedicated to it back then, nowadays it's done by anyone who learns how to work with those graphic software. Simply, if you see bad CGI, you see that it's bad, and you get the mental impression that all CGI is bad - because if you see good CGI, you can't tell it from reality, so you don't even realize it's CGI. Few examples here: Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't) ua-cam.com/video/bL6hp8BKB24/v-deo.html
"I bet you could feel that in the theater..." I worked in a movie theater when this movie came out. Thanks to the THX sound system, the dinosaur's footsteps and roars were insanely loud and realistic. Not only could you feel and hear it in the theater it was playing in, you could also feel and hear it in the surrounding theaters, the hall and the lobby. I once passed a guy in the hall next to the doors of the theater that was playing JP as he was coming back from the concession stand. Just at that moment the T-Rex roared and this poor guy jumped so bad he lost half of his popcorn on the floor. LOL
Sounds like when they were showing Midway in the theaters. The sound of the Japanese airplanes made the whole place shake, even when you were watching some other film!
@@UnoriginalEscobar it was rated 10 in Norway , some parents were not amused as some kids got scared.....anyway i loved it and the Topps candy eggs with dinos/candy in them , great nostalgia
Man, this kinda makes me jealous of my boyfriend, who works at a theater, being able to watch whatever on an empty screen after hours and not being able to bring me along with him. I was able to see all of the JP films from JP3 onward in theaters but didn't get to experience this masterpiece in cinema due to my age at the time
John Hammond: All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked! Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but, John, if The Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
No the standards were fine. Politicians just made certification worse and worse in order to justify allowing guns to continue killing people en masse in the US.
@@mnomadvfx So, let's get this straight: You think a group of mid 90's politician got together, formed an insidious plot to purposely increase gun violence (for reasons?), and decided the perfect vehicle to move their evil plans forward was a convoluted plot to mess with action movie ratings? That's some Dr. Evil level of obtuse plotting. Must be fun in your head.
The T-Rex paddock breakout scene has to be one of the best scenes ever in film the build up and climax THERE'S NO MUSIC JUST THE SOUNDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT ITS SO GOOD
The entire movie is a Compilation of Best Cinema Scenes; this one, the raptors in the the kitchen, the last at-Rex scene, even its first minutes are great
It's a great scene, but doesn't make any sense at all. The T-Rex was walking on an invisible platform or something because Dr. Grant and Lex go over the edge where it climbed over and it's a sheer cliff. makes no sense.
@@cuylshepherdton7437 I actually was reading about it and I guess it's actually not a mistake but a moat they built to keep the T-Rex isolated from the other dinosaurs?? I've always assumed it was a mistake but I'm not sure now. I saw some diagram explaining it.
@@scottc4199 I'm pretty sure they wanted that scene cuz it was so damn awesome in the book. However in the book it made sense but they didn't have the time to make it all work on film like it did in the book. The book explains the geography of the park in a way that the movie doesn't even attempt to do.
@@jkfozul2316 Agreed I have the books and both have really detailed maps of the island. The movie is iconic but the book was really fucking amazing. It was able to include so much more detail about the attacks and the DNA explanation
"I feel like they might be... nice dinosaurs?" I almost expected a butterfly land on your head at that moment. How adorable and authentic you and your sister are. I discovered you just today and this has already become my official movie reaction channel. Keep up the good, wholesome work, ladies!
for nice dinosaurs watch "The Land Before Time", or as some call it "Littlefoot" as that is the title character in it and the sequels :) true, it's an animated kid's film that most adults only saw because they were parents, but there's a reason there were FOURTEEN of them made
@@richardd3367I’ve only seen the original. But it’s debatable as to whether you can call it a kid’s movie. After all, it’s one of Don Bluth’s works, and he specializes in traumatizing children. Just look at Secret of NIMH.
The scene where the water shakes with the T-Rex walking has deep bass. You can feel it in the theater. The bass was so deep your seat rattled. Something so simple but it adds so much.
They wired a guitar string underneath the chassis of the car and plucked it in order to cause the concentric ripples in the water cups. Very simple effect to herald the coming of Rexy.
@@gokaury the head of production was banging his head against the wall to get the effect Spielberg wanted. Literally the day before the shoot by chance he saw that plucking the strings of a guitar did the job.
The part where Dr. Grant sees the dinosaur for the first time always puts a lump in my throat. He's spent his entire life digging up their remains and from that, trying to determine how they lived, hunted, mated, everything. He's even talking to himself going over what he thought he always knew about them. Super powerful and well acted if you ask me!
Sam Neill was actually disappointed by his own performance in the first movie. That's why he accepted the opportunity to star again in the third part. Because he wanted to do it "right this time", as he said.
Cassie has the mind of a film critic but the heart of a small girl. She really cares about the characters in a movie and she is so tender hearted about many of the things that happen to them. Her reactions are filled with genuine emotion and that helps me feel something more than I would alone. Thank you Cassie.🙂
@Necramonium "You mean multiple academy award winning John Williams and Spielberg? Sure mate." Spielberg I have mixed feelings about for reasons I won't get into. But Williams? At least 90% of his best stuff is straight plagiarised from older composers. Richard Strauss, Gustav Holst, Igor Stravinsky to name just a handful I've identified, but I haven't really dedicated any time to picking through his scores enough to find more, plus my own knowledge of classical music is fairly limited to the more popular pieces played on classical music radio. All the great film composers have done it at least a little bit. Williams did it A LOT. James Horner did it too for some of his most memorable scores - a piece of Aram Khachaturian called 'Gayane Adagio' used in 2001 A Space Odyssey (the intro of the Discovery, it's crew and HAL) was plagiarised by Horner in his scores for 'Aliens' and 'Patriot Games' to name just a couple, though he probably did it elsewhere too. More recently I heard a piece by the composer Alexander Borodin on the radio and linked it to several scores by the great Jerry Goldsmith, including Alien amongst others. Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because they got away with that plagiarism that it doesn't exist. Because believe me it really does.
I went to a john williams concert a few months ago. They started off with jurassic park, then went into hook, Harry Potter, and shcindlers list, a few others..I was hoping for Indiana jones...but still good..we all know what the last song was
@Maya Nightwolf In the scene where the Rex crashes through the car's glass roof, she loses a tooth. It's not missing in the rest of the movie but the animatronic lost a tooth and it can be seen if you skip through the individual frames of that moment. When she appears at the end of Jurassic World, she not only has the scars from the raptor fight, but she's also missing the tooth. It's a tiny detail, but it's so cool that they put it into the movie.
I was 13 when this came out. Hadn’t even seen ads for it. I was spending the night at a friends and she convinced me to go to the movies the next day. I literally sat down in the theater having ZERO idea what it was about. Hadn’t even seen the poster, just knew Jurassic was a period. The opening credits I saw it was based on a book. Man, immediately after the movie, I hit up Dalton books in the mall to buy the book. What a movie!
I was 10. Up to that point this was the scariest movie I ever saw. I just wasn't into scary films or monsters or anything, I watched cartoons and comedy. My mum had pre-watched it and told me there was only one scary bit when the guy gets eaten on the toilet by the t-rex. It was honestly such a thrilling watch and really changed the course of movies I watched after that :D
I was 5 or 6. I was super into Dinosaurs, so it's all I could think of till I saw it... 3 times... And thought a lot more. I'm now not a paleontologist.
I was 10 and I still remember reading some magazine on a train with pictures, but having no idea what this was about. I'm from Austria/Europe and back then, without internet and stuff, there just wasn't much known about what was coming from Hollywood. I was in my dinosaur phase and those pictures were burnt in my mind. I went to see the movie with my brother and mom. My mom fell asleep halfway through and I still remember jumping in the seat when the raptor almost got Lex' leg near the end of the movie. I also remember turning on all lights at home first thing because I was scared AF :-D 28 years later, this is still THE perfect movie for me and it will always be my favourite.
I'm 100% sure that they intentionally shot all the CG scenes with a soft, slightly out of focus look so that the VFX wouldn't show its imperfections. If you did the same for other films with VFX I guarantee you many of them would look better. Take away the pin sharp picture focus and people fill in the blanks themselves, our brains are wonderful little problem solvers even when we don't mean them to be.
Oh the set piece with the T-Rex is absolutely one of the most terrifying scenes ever put to film. It is SO well done and the stakes are so high. And you honestly have no idea where it's going to go. This film was unbelievable when it came out in theaters. This was something NO one had ever seen before. And it holds up nearly flawlessly to this day. This was one of the very first films to really use CGI. And they knew the limitations of it and used it in the right ways mixed with real fullsize animatronic dinosaurs. The mix sells the CG to your brain and it can get hard to tell sometimes which are which.
Also, the T-Rex roaring at the end, with the "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" banner floating down in front of it, is still one of the best climaxes ever.
@@jimballard1186 well i mean i get that in more recent movies where the CGI gets much closer to realistic looking, but in this movie? dont get me wrong, the CGI is great, but its easy to tell (at least to me) when it comes in. If youw ant to know how: Pay attention to the lighting and the shadows on the Dinosaurs as well as the animation fluidity. Thats usually the giveaway because realistic lightsimulation and microdetailed rigging wasnt that good back then.
Ok this was the most enjoyable half hour ish of UA-cam ever, I have seen this movie approx 800,395,294 times since I was 9 in 1993 and seeing someone experience all this for the first time was just so much fun!
I’ve said hundreds of times “I wish I could see Jurassic Park again for the first time”. So it was a blast watching you watch my favorite movie. You are a delight!
I took my nephew to see the digital re-release in IMAX a few years ago. He was aged 10. He was okay until the T-Rex scene, the 12,000 watt IMAX audio terrified him.
i heard about this movie, but never saw the ads. So i thought, "I like dinosaurs when I was a kid, I should just check it out see how they made the dinos look. I went midweek, mid-day, by myself. And...i almost crapped my pants at how good it was! For the next month, I was dragging everyone I know to see it with me again. Masterpiece. Steven Spielberg is a superb storyteller. Watching with Cassie was like watching it for the first time again, and I felt 19 again.
This movie has aged extremely well. I watched this in cinema when I was 14/15, and loved it. Now almost 30 years later I watched it with my own family and still love it. Thanks to Spielberg's choice of using practical effects, massive animatronic dinosaurs, and very limited use of CGI, I think it will be enjoyed by future generations too. A true classic.
He wanted to use more cgi, it was just not feasible. That few seconds of cgi took them months to render lol. Back in those days computers were slow as heck.
The moment the finance guy gets eaten by the T-Rex, both he and the dino are CGI. His face is turned away from the camera, and the scene is quite dark, which helps.
"I think I hope they're nice dinosaurs." 😂 Funniest line in this entire reaction. Jurassic Park was the most graphic family friendly horror movie I saw as a kid in the 90s. Scared the shit out of me.
The dinosaurs looked so real because for the most part, they were. Most of the close up shots of the dinosaurs were actually animatronic, while most of the wide shots where they're moving around a lot are CGI, which was groundbreaking at the time and still holds up even today!
The combination was really smart too. The shot where the T-Rex can be seen through the glass roof of Alan's and Ian's car is animatronic, then when the camera pans down to show the Rex walking towards the kid's car it's CGI, the transition masked by the beam that separates the car's glass roof from the windshield.
@@minnesotajones261 hmm, it holds up. I worked for the creator of CGI for many years. He’s a genius, bonafide. This was the first ever film using this technology, which films use to this day, updated of Course. It was a very big deal, he is very decorated for his pioneering 💁🏻♀️. But I appreciate your feelings, I’m definitely biased lol
Because of this movie, my wife and I didn't even look at the horizontal bar type of doorknob during two house designs. Can't give those velociraptors a way in! 😄
When I saw this in the theaters there was NO CONVINCING anyone that dinosaurs were not real. The CGI and effects were so beyond anyone’s imagination. It still holds up decades later.
And not just the sight of the dinosaurs but the sound, that "involuntary urination in your seat" inducing roar, like an angrier version of the dial-up Internet login sound from the same era, I'll never forget how it made me feel the first time I heard it bellowing out of the T-Rex, yikes!
Heck, someone took a picture of Spielberg next to that triceratops they had laying on the ground and put a "This poor dinosaur died during the filming of Jurassic Park!" caption and people literally got mad at Spielberg over it.
"The CGI looked so real!" That's because there wasn't much CGI. Only 14-15 minutes of the dinosaur scenes were computer generated. They used mostly animatronics for this movie
Your comment about the music was right on. John Williams never made a bad score. This music still gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it, even 30 years on.
Pretty amazing that there are people in 2021 that are suprised when Jurassic Park practically turns into a horror movie at the halfway point, but that was very entertaining to watch.
Even moreso when the novels were decisively not for kids as Crichton was told by the publishers to make these books sci-fi/horror and the books do not hold back on the gruesome deaths.
@@Webshooters1 I read that book when I was 7 and I loved it so much. It was very graphic but it sparked a love for reading in me that has lasted to this day.
Well the film is 30 years old, so with the flood of new media always coming out it's not surprising that good films older than 15 years or so might never be watched by people who weren't born or very young at the time of release.
When the T-rex broke the glass roof of the car and they were holding the glass with their hands and feet, that wasn't supposed to happen. The children actors were really screaming in fear during that moment.
So, to my understanding the glass panel was supposed to pop out. That part was planned. However, if you watch the panel itself breaks apart. That wasn't supposed to happen and that's what caused the real fear.
The music is so good because the music is by John Williams, probably the best film composer of all time. The man behind the music for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, the first two Harry Potter movies, Christopher Reeves' Superman, Hook, and so many more!
Williams is good, but I think he gets a little too much credit from those of us that grew up with his movie scores. He comes up with a couple good themes per movie and then just repeats the crap out of them. Other composers have a little more creativity. He's quite good, but definitely not the best - perhaps just the most famous.
@@falxonPSN I'd argue that repetition is the strength of his scores. Too many composers produce too much material for a two hour film and it all winds up having no meaning when it actually appears in the film. On the other hand, there's only so much meaningful thematic development you can do when the music isn't what the audience is focused on. Most musical forms beat the dead horse of their themes: sonatas, rondeaus, fugues, verse-chorus, etc.
@@colemanroberts1102 Yeah, I can see your point of view - there is an emotional impact when that BIG thematic element hits. I just prefer a little less rehashing in my scores. You may find it too busy, but that's my jam - I want some depth to it.
Thanks AdamRock. I agree wholeheartedly! He deserves as much recognition as anyone else. Spielberg has said many times how Johnny Williams music is at least 50% responsible for the success of his films.
@@Obreyze Admit it, you must live in a cave to never have watched this. I mean, she never rented DVDs/VHS to watch such movies with her boyfriend when she was a teen ? Come on ! It is at least aired once a year on TV since years.
its great to see that this incredible film still blows people away today just as it did back in 1993. the T Rex Breakout scene still blows me away every time i watch it!
That scene is one of the best in the history of film. Perfectly paced, incredibly suspenseful, and convincingly scary; even now I could convince myself that a 40 foot long killing machine once broke out of its pen, ate a lawyer, and threw a Ford over a huge wall
Yes… and that roar as well. It was scary and satisfying at the same time, and just a brilliant shot at the end with the real dino taking his place where the bones had been.
Remember, this came out in 1993, at the time all these dinosaurs in the movie BLEW MINDS, and it really says something that it holds up today, 30 years later! And the music! The music is beyond beautiful. This movie is cinema legend. Had fun watching you react! ☺️
"Can't they throw it a steak or something?" That's exactly how Tim dealt with the one raptor in the book. That scene in the film is more of a nod to The Shining.
I was 12 years old when I saw it in the theater, and the packed theater full of parents and children were all losing their minds. Everybody loved every moment of it .... everyone except a crying 2 year old and my mother.
Oh my… 40 year old me watched Jurassic World and definitely wanted a pet velociraptor like Blue! 😍😍😍😛 And then when we saw “footage” of baby Blue in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom I almost set up my own lab to try to genetically engineer her! 😜😉 Ok… I didn’t, but I think you get my point 😋
My husband and I went to see this in the theater. We lived up by Seattle, lots of trees, this movie was so real that on the way home we kept expecting a dinosaur to run across the road in front of us. Great movie!
Back when movie tie-ins meant something! The Demolition Man one from Taco Bell was pretty good. Mcdonalds got most of them though. Collectable glasses and toys, worth more than the food.
I did that, I was 9, my cousins and aunt snuck me in through the fire exit, we went to McDonald's after and I got a cup that had the Dilophosaurus about to eat Nedry on it. It was my cup, nobody else touch it, for years until it was basically white all over. The first movie to really show the magic and power of cinema
I'm glad you kept in most of the Flea Circus scene. For me, that's the core of the film. "You never had control: THAT'S the illusion. I was overwhelmed by the power of this place. But I didn't have enough respect for that power and it's out now."
I remember watching this in theaters in KC while a massive thunderstorm raged outside while the movie was playing. Watching dinosaurs come to life as a kid in 1993 before the internet or any tech we have now is & was an indescribable feeling.
Totally! I watched it as a kid in theatres and I didn’t even eat my popcorn, completely mind blowing, kids nowadays know everything is CGI, nothing surprises them, we were lucky… the movie has aged sooo well… not like me 😂
19:06 sam niell has become one of my favorite actors because of the power and command he had in his voice when he said “ian freeze” and the little smirk he had when he saw the trex in person
one of the best lines from a movie ever: "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
32:15 man you gotta feel sorry for Hammond his entire dream gone up in smoke. The way he looks at the island one final time with such sadness in his eyes. Total turnaround to how happy he was at the start.
The miniature elephant in the book is a good example. He's pretty much unconcerned for what he creates, rather the money it will make him. The minuture elephants are ill tempered, have a whole host of psychological and health problems, a miserable little creature.
@@LighthawkTenchi Ikr I'm so glad they made him more likable in the movie. This is one of the reasons that I legit like the movie better than the book. It feels like the characters have more humanity in them, and John Hammond being naive but so passionate about his project hits more closely to home than him being relatively uncaring or cruel.
I really like Alan Grant's character arc in this movie, which is all about him overcoming his fear of having children. At the start of the movie, he dismisses Ellie's suggestion of having kids, but through taking care of Lex and Tim, he gets on board with the idea. The final scene in the helicopter is Alan and Ellie silently agreeing to start a family. It's so beautiful.
"Wasn't a movie that was like deep and epic in the awards" Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing, Peoples Choice Award for Favourite Movie 1994, A hand full of BAFTA's, Japan Academy Award and even a Czech Lion Award for Best Cinema Attendance... So yeah in 1994 it cleaned up on Awards for sound, special effects and popularity.
And it has to be remembered this is a graphic interpretation of the computer systems back then. The novel extends the scene making it even slower with one simple element: the Opertaing System was not graphic; you could only navigate the files and execute them writing lines of code.
It was not so slow as people think, actually today computers are very slow. Most of 90s computers were based on DOS, it booted instantly and today software was well optimised, even in early 2000s software had similar speed like today or even faster on good computer. Everything is really badly optimised today, you have 8 core 5 GHz CPUs, 16GB RAM, SSDs and you are still converting movie to different codec whole night and still waiting for something, internet is slower and slowet even when we have very fast connection, but webpages are obese with crazy commercials everywhere. I really don't like this evolution. I think time between 1999 and 2005 was the best PC era, every new hardware, every new version of software was improvement back in the day, today it's vice versa, you are looking for way how to disable updates because you want to stay with something what is working.
it really is, and i think its popularity and association with being a kinds movie kinda undermines how great the movie actually is, theirs so much greatness in every scene.
Yeah, pretty much. Saw it as a child, was terrified by the raptors. Watching it again at 33, still holds up! This flick is GREAT! Edit: JP and Terminator... those are the heavy contenders bro!
The second movie, Jurassic Park: The Lost World actually isn't bad despite what most people say. Jurassic Park 3 on the other hand is hit and miss with some people, personally I say watch them, they're worth at least one watch I promise
2 is good 3 is the worst in the franchise jurassic world was good jurassic world 2 was better then people say but still only alright although still way better then jurassic park 3
"I feel like this is every 15 year old boy's dream movie." I first watched this movie when I was 6. And now 26 years later it's still in my top 5 favorite movies of all time. Jurassic Park is a timeless classic. And while I do have my issues with some parts, I always over look them because of how much this movie means to me.
I understand exactly what you mean. I saw it at 3, literally my youngest memory in life is watching this movie in the theater. (Clearly my parents didnt know what to expect) At 32, I still rank this as my favorite movie of all time.
Saw it for the first time when I was 8, have watched it dozens of times since. One of my favorite movies of all time. I wish I could have seen it for the first time in theaters
I'm only a little ways in, so you might have already figured this out, but: You know Dr. Grant from The Hunt for Red October. "I would have liked to have seen Montana."
I love this era of movies. Like late 80's and early 90's. They were still doing practical effects, but getting into CGI. It was used only when necessary. Wish films now kept that standard. What sucks is practical effects have gotten better, but we almost never see it.
Because they knew the CGI wasn't good enough to do everything they needed, so they had to make sure everything matched up when they did use it. It doesn't age as bad because as some very recent movies do, because they made sure it integrated well with the practical effects.
@@alexmoreira876 Agreed. Though the new movies might technically have 'better' CGI , they dont hold up, because they make no effort to integrate them into the movie beyond spectacle. Like the Transformers movie they call attention to the effects rather than try to make you forget that they are effects. Ironically J3 probably does the best of holding up that standard of the first movie of combining practical and CGI almost seamlessly. For all its faults J3 had some of the best creature and set designs of the movies.
Fun fact. That T-rex cgi was actually revolutionary for the time, literally invented for the movie and changed cgi from there on out. If anyone is curious about it and wants to know more, disney released a the movies that made us that goes deeper into it
Should have paid him more money. Lol jokes aside, how was he planning on getting away with it? Even before escaping they knew it was him. He was just planning on never returning to the US or whatever? Just be a fugitive for life?
@@RootinrPootine he was supposed to drop off the samples with a contact at the dock, then hurry back fix things before they realized it wasn't a glitch. He mentions to Dodson that he had it all timed out, suggesting he had done practice runs already and they hadn't caught him, but the storm screwed up his timetable. In the book it is explained that he was a horrible worker, and would often disappear for long stretches, so they dont even realize that anything other than the normal system glitches is going on until he doesn't come back and they start digging into the system to try and fix things.
@@MandoWookie In the book his reasons are pretty understandable. He wasn't given enough information to make the various modules work right because of InGen's 'secrecy", and they then blame him for shoddy work and force him to fix it for no extra pay. I'd be upset too.
@@chrismaverick9828 Oh yeah, Nedrys base complaints are entirely legitimate, his bid for the contract was based on false information from InGen, but, he still underbid to get it, and Hammond held him to that lowball number despite knowing full well it was unreasonable. Nedry should have just quit, but Hammond made it personal and treated him like crap, despite also making him integral to the functioning of the park. So revenge was also part of his motivation for sabotaging the park. His plan was to steal the samples, get back to the command center, cover his tracks, get paid by Dodson, then quit right before the park grand opening, and probably screw the whole system when he left as a 'f*ck you' to Hammond. But Nedry still endangered(and got killed) a lot of people through his actions, and knowingly underbid his competition for the original contract, even with InGens original specs in mind, thinking he could demand a higher payout once he got the job. Once he realized how big the job was he was stuck, as he had underbid teams by thinking he was good enough to do it by himself. And this was his first major contract, so he couldn't just drop it, because Hammond would have made sure to make him unhireable.
@@MandoWookie also not to mention Nedry laid backdoors in the code so that he could hack the system when he wanted. He was a real POS. Also Malcolm was a douche bag too. Arrogant AF and it was all just chance and coincidence that his theory held true. I really hated his character. Best character by far was Genaro.
I took my brother and his friend to see this when they were 12, who were both big dinosaur lovers. I had seen it the week before, so when I took them, I found the biggest screen that was around and sat them middle center between the 2 giant speakers, and waited to watch their reaction for that first roar by the T.Rex. Their jaws dropped to the floor. Priceless.
This movie has my favorite bit of foreshadowing ever. At the start Grant can't get his belt on in the helicopter and it's played off as "oh, Grant and technology...". But if you look closely, his belt is defective. It has two female couplings so it was never going to click into place. But he found a way to fix it anyway by tying it all up. Later in the movie, the scientists say the dinosaurs will never breed because they're all female.....and yet...
It also doubles to show that Hammond is full of shit about "sparing no expense". He cut costs on security, safety, systems, and underpaid his staff but spends the whole film touting that they "spared no expense".
It would have been interesting had Crichton written JP today. The frog DNA explanation worked at the time, but now there is increasing evidence that many reptiles (and some sharks) can undergo parthenogenesis, where females produce fertile eggs via a genetic cloning mechanism, without mating with a male. At the time, this was only known to happen in whiptail lizards and a few amphibians after a hybridization event, because the chromosomes wouldn't line up correctly and so cell replication in the hybrid retained both sets. The hybrid can then produce fertile, cloned eggs without males- and these species are entirely female. We still don't know the genetic/chromosomal mechanisms involved in the non-hybrid form of parthenogenesis (or all the animals that can do it), but it raises major questions now about how JP would have worked in an all-female environment. Also, some of the species that do this have a ZZ/ZW sex chromosome system, where ZW is female and ZZ is male. In these, the only 'clone' eggs that survive are ZZ.... which means a female basically produces a clutch of males in a male-free environment. There's a pretty decent chance that at least one female would have popped out some clone eggs of her own.
Your first time watching reactions are the best. Especially for movies I've seen. I can anticipate your reactions based on what I saw my first time. Its like seeing a movie for the first time for me again.
"I bet you felt that in the theaters." This blew absolutely everyone away in the theaters. CGI was almost completely new. _NO ONE_ had seen anything like this. And when the T-Rex roared at the end you could feel it in your chest!!
This was honestly probably the greatest theatrical experience I ever had. It came at the perfect time in my life, on the perfect evening. I was 15, the line to see the movie was literally wrapped all the way around the building, and the theater was completely full - literally every seat was taken. It began storming outside right around the time that the amazing T-Rex set piece took place, making it difficult to tell whether the thunder we were hearing was from the film or just outside the doors. It added so much to the experience. And everyone in theater was into it - you could feel the electricity in the air. The atmosphere was so tense, people were jumping at all the right times, laughing at all the right times. And by the time it was over I think everyone left just utterly satisfied with having witnessed a roller coaster of a film. And what a film it is. From the aforementioned amazing set pieces to the stunning score (my actual favorite of John Williams' work, and one of his few scores not nominated for an Oscar) to the mind-blowing special effects and sheer power of sound and visuals, it was a landmark of filmmaking and such a joy to have been lucky enough to behold on the big screen (which I subsequently did several more times before it left theaters). I was surprised that the book is actually not as good. It's much more dry, pretty tedious in parts (there's an overly long sequence where Grant and the kids float down a river which seems to take forever), kills half the characters, and makes Hammond seem like a greedy asshole (he even blames his grandkids for the failure of his park at one point). Spielberg was smart enough to sense what worked in the book and focus on that rather than getting deep into the background of Dr. Wu or lengthy manifests of how many dinosaurs were in the park, etc. He made it a fun movie that still contained the core story that made it so interesting in the first place. Speaking of the book, funny thing: In the original story the roles of the kids are reversed: the boy is the older one and the girl is little more than a toddler who's constantly whining. It was difficult to read lines like "Lex said 'I'm hungwy!" without picturing an intellectually challenged version of this actress saying it. So yeah, amazing film. Shame that out of six movies this is the only truly great one, with Jurassic World being the only decent follow-up (itself way below the quality of the original) and your choice of which of the first two sequels - The Lost World or Jurassic Park III - was the more tolerable of the two. For my money JP III is actually the more entertaining film, even if that trailer sequence in The Lost World was breathtaking.
Cassie it was SO game changing when it came out. They looked SO REAL, as you said. It really does still hold up today based on your reactions. You were so dragged into this movie. Fantastic.
As a CGI-heavy film goes, it really DOES hold up today. You really have to look close to catch green screen lines around actors. The combination of models and CGI was groundbreaking in every way.
@@chrismaverick9828 Yeah, only about 4 minutes of CGI in this film. The rest is animatronics. Stan Winston and his team of animatronic SFX guys and gals really went all in on this one.
The reason most of it looks so good is because they mostly used animatronics and practical effects instead of CGI like you see today. Also glad that you recognized Sledge!
Actually it was a combination of the two. Netflix has a series called "The Movie That Made Us", and in Season 2, Episode 3, they talk about Jurassic Park. Very well done and entertaining to watch. They interview the set designers, the animatronics people, the two guys heading the CGI department, and a man that was to help with stop motion effects that ended up helping the CGI guys with movement and posture of the dinosaurs. It's definitely worth the watch.
Not really accurate because the film is best known for it's groundbreaking CGI effects. It was the first time truly lifelike creatures had been created using CGI. They were blended with some excellent practical effects (the velociraptors in particular are stunning), but the CGI is what sold the dinosaurs as real.
@@Timmayytoo Maybe I should've worded it differently, I just meant that they didn't completely rely on CGI like on a lot of movies (which often look terrible), but had practical/animatronics instead. There's about 14-15 minutes of dinosaurs from the runtime, and only 4-5 minutes of CGI. But you are correct, they used CGI to enhance what was there and it's the combination that was so effective.
JP is one of the very earliest films to use modern CGI. It was absolutely bleeding edge stuff at the time. They were doing things literally no one had ever done before. Which is part of what absolutely floored us watching it in 93. They were smart enough to recognize the limitations however and not try too hard to overdo it. Spielberg knows his tools and how to use them. Always has.
"I bet you would have felt that in the theaters." Yes lol. Also, that spitting one made me actually jump from my seat. I think I was 6 when it was in theaters.
Fun fact Samuel L Jackson was supposed to get a chase and death scene but the set they were supposed to work on got blown away by a real life hurricane
That's right! There was a hurricane that hit the island of Kawaii where this was filmed and the whole crew had to be evacuated. Some of the shots during the storm in the film were in that storm for real.
I **think** they literally sampled the audio from Jurassic Park and dubbed it into Independence Day as a kind of easter egg. So when you hear him say it in Independence Day, it's exactly the JP audio, he didn't re-record that line.
I like the wording in the rear view in the Jeep mirror at 22:30 that says " Objects in the mirror maybe closer than they appear." That T-Rex appeared pretty damn close enough for me if I was in that car. It was a well done set up !
This was originally was gonna be claymation and was started in 1990 but was put on hold for 3 years when they saw what they could do with improved CGI. I saw this in theaters in 1993. I was 10 and will never forget seeing that very real t Rex and hearing that roar in surround sound on all sides of you. It was both terrifying and awesome. To this day when I hear him roar even on a dusty vhs tape I still get a little shiver down my spine.
The hype leading up to this movie in 1993 was unreal. People were so jazzed for it. I remember looking at movie showtimes in the newspaper when it debuted and this movie had a full page dedicated to it. I was 13, now I'm 41 and I still remember it like it was yesterday. Well, maybe not yesterday but...ya know. Great reaction!
I was a 10-year-old, dinosaur-obsessed kid when I saw this movie for the first time opening weekend in June, 1993. It completely blew away us in the audience, and is still easily the single best movie-going experience I've had. Since then I've seen it so many times that I practically have it memorized. It was a delight to watch your reaction to seeing it for the first time, both because it shows that nearly 30 years later it still holds up extremely well and keeps you totally invested, and also because your reactions are a reminder of what it felt like to watch it when I didn't know what was coming next and had never seen anything like it. Also, I'm glad to see that raptor jump-scare still packs a punch! When that scene happened in the theater with an audience that was watching it for the first time, everybody was leaning forward in their chairs because of the suspense of Ellie turning on the power and Tim getting electrocuted. Then the raptor burst out, and everyone in the audience was literally thrown back into their seats in fright! It was an amazing thing to see!
I was 8 years old when this movie came out. It literally changed my life. I still cannot watch it with a straight face all the way through. The spectacle of it a gets me in the feels every single time. Her reactions to the film are so enjoyable to watch. I would give literally ANYTHING to be able to see this for the first time again. The closest I've come to that was back in 2013 when they re-released it in 3D format. I felt like I was 8 years old again. 😊❤
I was 13 and it's one of the best movie going experiences I've ever had. This, The Matrix and of all things Unforgiven (the score and cinematography were so good, and that first time Eastwood appears at the doorway at the end and you think the devil has just appeared). Those movies left you feeling like you'd experienced something very special.
@@vando6679 I got in trouble at school for reading it because of the language and swearing. My 3rd grade teacher took it from me and hid it in her desk.
This movie came out when I was 6 (34 now). It immediately just wanted to be a biologist....couple decades later I became an evolutionary biologist and I put it all down to this film.
We forgot about any special effects because they were so good. The storyline and suspense carried our suspension of belief and we enjoyed the wild ride!
Seeing Sam Neil die saying "I would have liked to have seen Montana" in Hunt for Red October, then being introduced to his character in Jurassic Park in Montana always made me smile.
They never showed the dinosaurs in any of the movie trailers, so when the actors saw the dinosaurs for the first time, this was the same time the movie goers saw them...it was amazing! Keep in mind, this was before all of the CGI craziness of today, this was mind blowing for us in 1993! They looked so real! Have you reviewed "Twister" yet? Another great one!
There were lots of behind the scenes featurettes on E! Television (back when it was about movies and fashion and not reality TV), Movie Magic on the Discovery Channel, behind the scenes with Entertainment Tonight. But they didn't show the completed picture. Let me assure you, none of it prepared me for the complete work in the movie. It was wonderful.
They showed "bits" in trailers (like the TREX foot into the mud and the Raptor's claws on the door handle), but yeah, perfect action movie that still holds up amazingly today
"These things are gonna haunt my nightmares." - I was 13 when this movie came out and that kitchen scene _literally did_ haunt my nightmares for years after.
And yet, this movie set the limit at the time with CGI usage. Most of any movie up until this point. It was just all around the very definition of "big budget film" and Spielberg knew how to blend everything together like no one else could.
This film is magical. It was such a revelation when it came out. The effects where truly ground breaking. And once again John Williams made a masterpiece of a score.
This movie was so good in the theater. Then everyone bought it when it came out on VHS everyone bought it and watched with the volume turned up. We rode our bikes around the neighborhood listening to dinosaurs roar all night. Goooooood times.
this movie is almost THIRTY years old, and the CGI still looks better than a lot of modern films
Is it CGI though, or did they use robotic dinosaurs ?
@@SexyAlien2 both! CGI for the full-body shots and animatronics for the close-up interactions with the truck (looking through the window, etc.)
@@carlrs15 That's interesting, thanks!!
Animatronics is far superior to CGI and most of the shots done here with the dinosaurs was made with animatronics. It just looks way more real because it is.
Agreed. It's in my top 3 most favorite '90s movies!!!
This woman has the best reactions ever. It's actually not a shame that you've missed all these movies because it's extremely entertaining watching you watch them for the first time.
What's nice is she doesn't overly commentate like 99% of other reactors. it's as pure of a reaction as you can get imo
I agree with both of you. Cassie is by far the best reactor on UA-cam. I’ve seen this movie countless times and I’ve seen many reactions to it so I was kind of bummed at first to see this was her choice but, once again, Cassie made it like I was seeing it for the first time.
Agreed. I love being able to watch these movies for the first time again vicariously through her
“Mother Gosh!”
@@MetallicOpeth this is for Voltrons comment that I can't see here yet. Not even born yet? She looks to be in her early to mid 30's. I'm not going to ask her how old she is but I'm going to guess that she was alive in 1993.
fun fact: 80% of the dinosaurs were actually animatronics and only 20% was CGI. thats why it looks so good, because they used it sparingly
Like in Lotr. Bigatures make everything look much more authentic.
Spared no expense.... 😅
Are you sure? I might be misremembering but I always thought it was 14 minutes if dinosaurs in the movie and 6 minutes being CGI shots
@@geneticjen9312I think it means a lot of it was based on animatronic shots but fixed up with cgi
My guess would be courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic. A legacy of Stan Winston. They've made animatronics & models for most major films. Half of the Mythbusters cast have worked for them.
I saw this in my twenties at a Drive-In. The audio for the film was broadcast on a radio frequency, and you tuned your car radio to it and listened to the film over your car's speakers. There was a light rain, which was PERFECT for this movie - and we had our drinks sitting on the dashboard. When they first introduce the T Rex with the "boom, boom, boom" and the water in the glass ripples, our car's speaker was making the whole dashboard vibrate with each boom, and the ice in our drinks would shake with a "chshhhh, chshhh, chshhh". WHO NEED VR?? Just bring back drive-ins!!
Damn. Now I want that experience.
We actually still have one in my area. Sure your film is nice in the fancy theater we go to with dream loungers but drive ins really are a fun experience
This movie is almost 30 years old, but God damn the special effects are still good.
@Tacitus G. Kilgore Probably Stan Winston
@@VektusAlvoraan Yup, the GOAT Stan Winston. Original Predator suits still look 10x more realistic than the modern ones.
way better than the overdone CGI of the rebooted trilogy. Dialogue was much more natural and funny too. The way they incorporated CGI sparingly and carefully while using practical effects for the rest really stands the test of time. Obviously during that era it was more of a cost/capability issue rather than an artistic choice because rendering abilities were so limited and expensive, but either way, it worked out very nicely.
@@user-vc5rp7nf8f Studios save money on it, that's why CGI from the 90's and 2k looks better than today's - it was done by people who were dedicated to it back then, nowadays it's done by anyone who learns how to work with those graphic software.
Simply, if you see bad CGI, you see that it's bad, and you get the mental impression that all CGI is bad - because if you see good CGI, you can't tell it from reality, so you don't even realize it's CGI.
Few examples here:
Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't)
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Steven Spielberg: "Spare no expense." :)
"I bet you could feel that in the theater..." I worked in a movie theater when this movie came out. Thanks to the THX sound system, the dinosaur's footsteps and roars were insanely loud and realistic. Not only could you feel and hear it in the theater it was playing in, you could also feel and hear it in the surrounding theaters, the hall and the lobby. I once passed a guy in the hall next to the doors of the theater that was playing JP as he was coming back from the concession stand. Just at that moment the T-Rex roared and this poor guy jumped so bad he lost half of his popcorn on the floor. LOL
Sounds like when they were showing Midway in the theaters. The sound of the Japanese airplanes made the whole place shake, even when you were watching some other film!
This story is awesome lol
@@UnoriginalEscobar it was rated 10 in Norway , some parents were not amused as some kids got scared.....anyway i loved it and the Topps candy eggs with dinos/candy in them , great nostalgia
Man, this kinda makes me jealous of my boyfriend, who works at a theater, being able to watch whatever on an empty screen after hours and not being able to bring me along with him. I was able to see all of the JP films from JP3 onward in theaters but didn't get to experience this masterpiece in cinema due to my age at the time
Yep. Saw it in the theater when it came out and it was amazing.
“He’s like the Walt Disney of dinosaurs.”
“What could go wrong?”
You basically summed up the movie pitch! 😉
Much like modern Disney, a disaster
Hahaha yup
Love all her reviews, things like "I thought this was gonna be a happy dinosaur theme park movie!" You will never hear from anywhere.
If the woke killed Disney this is a bloodbath.
John Hammond: All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but, John, if The Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
"It's rated PG13, how scary can it be?" I love watching people not realize how tense this movie is
I saw this in the theater during its initial run when I was 13 and it’s STILL on the the most thrilling movies I’ve ever seen.
@trackatlas237 the only movie that has more tension than this is The Thing.
@@Styxswimmer great movie as well
Born in 1992, I'm pretty sure this was the first PG-13 I saw probably when I was 7 or 8 at home on VHS.
I saw it in theaters when I was 8 years old. Gave me nightmares for weeks!
"This is just PG-13, right? It can't be too scary..."
This is 90s PG-13, it did not have the same standards as it does today lol
Lmao so true!!
No the standards were fine.
Politicians just made certification worse and worse in order to justify allowing guns to continue killing people en masse in the US.
Was disney Bambi pg13?
@@mnomadvfx So, let's get this straight: You think a group of mid 90's politician got together, formed an insidious plot to purposely increase gun violence (for reasons?), and decided the perfect vehicle to move their evil plans forward was a convoluted plot to mess with action movie ratings? That's some Dr. Evil level of obtuse plotting. Must be fun in your head.
@SupremeKai88 H. "People kill people" So we should keep giving them the means to kill much easier? Your argument is awfully ignorant.
That final shot with the T rex and the falling banner is among the greatest moments in all of cinema
The theatre audience laughed uproariously at that!
I thought that was a really cool touch . . .
It's also the greatest plothole of the movie. No one heard the giant dino?
@@Gurra88 well to be fair they were being distracted by the raptors and all the stuff falling around them. I doubt they would have noticed
@@Gurra88
hollow bones 🤓duh
The T-Rex paddock breakout scene has to be one of the best scenes ever in film the build up and climax THERE'S NO MUSIC JUST THE SOUNDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT ITS SO GOOD
The entire movie is a Compilation of Best Cinema Scenes; this one, the raptors in the the kitchen, the last at-Rex scene, even its first minutes are great
It's a great scene, but doesn't make any sense at all. The T-Rex was walking on an invisible platform or something because Dr. Grant and Lex go over the edge where it climbed over and it's a sheer cliff. makes no sense.
@@cuylshepherdton7437 I actually was reading about it and I guess it's actually not a mistake but a moat they built to keep the T-Rex isolated from the other dinosaurs?? I've always assumed it was a mistake but I'm not sure now. I saw some diagram explaining it.
@@scottc4199 I'm pretty sure they wanted that scene cuz it was so damn awesome in the book. However in the book it made sense but they didn't have the time to make it all work on film like it did in the book. The book explains the geography of the park in a way that the movie doesn't even attempt to do.
@@jkfozul2316 Agreed I have the books and both have really detailed maps of the island. The movie is iconic but the book was really fucking amazing. It was able to include so much more detail about the attacks and the DNA explanation
"I feel like they might be... nice dinosaurs?" I almost expected a butterfly land on your head at that moment. How adorable and authentic you and your sister are. I discovered you just today and this has already become my official movie reaction channel. Keep up the good, wholesome work, ladies!
for nice dinosaurs watch "The Land Before Time", or as some call it "Littlefoot" as that is the title character in it and the sequels :)
true, it's an animated kid's film that most adults only saw because they were parents, but there's a reason there were FOURTEEN of them made
@@richardd3367I’ve only seen the original. But it’s debatable as to whether you can call it a kid’s movie. After all, it’s one of Don Bluth’s works, and he specializes in traumatizing children. Just look at Secret of NIMH.
"I feel like they might be. . . nice dinosaurs?"
. . . Morgan Freeman has joined the chat.
"They were, in fact, *not* nice dinosaurs."
The scene where the water shakes with the T-Rex walking has deep bass. You can feel it in the theater. The bass was so deep your seat rattled. Something so simple but it adds so much.
Wow I didn’t know it made your seet rattle but I knew it was a bass
They wired a guitar string underneath the chassis of the car and plucked it in order to cause the concentric ripples in the water cups. Very simple effect to herald the coming of Rexy.
Going to see this in the theatre was one of the coolest experiences.
That was an intense moment, it was BASS to the max
@@gokaury the head of production was banging his head against the wall to get the effect Spielberg wanted. Literally the day before the shoot by chance he saw that plucking the strings of a guitar did the job.
The part where Dr. Grant sees the dinosaur for the first time always puts a lump in my throat. He's spent his entire life digging up their remains and from that, trying to determine how they lived, hunted, mated, everything. He's even talking to himself going over what he thought he always knew about them. Super powerful and well acted if you ask me!
Sam Neill was actually disappointed by his own performance in the first movie. That's why he accepted the opportunity to star again in the third part. Because he wanted to do it "right this time", as he said.
@@gabe6550 That's a shame, I thought he did a great job.
@@jdneilso So did I
@@jdneilso think everyone did. Apart from himself. Which is usually the case with most things anyone does. 😅
@@tailssonicteam1604 well, we are our own harshest critics after all
"I bet you felt that in the theaters", yes I did, and it was fucking glorious.
What still gets me is the raptors tapping with their claws almost like Morse code
Yes, it was amazing!
This movie loses so much on the small screen. Seeing the t-rex lifesized in the theater was an experience!
Cassie has the mind of a film critic but the heart of a small girl. She really cares about the characters in a movie and she is so tender hearted about many of the things that happen to them. Her reactions are filled with genuine emotion and that helps me feel something more than I would alone. Thank you Cassie.🙂
On top of everything else, music by John Williams.
Everything he touches is magic.
@@KevyNova He's grossly overrated...like Spielberg.
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@Necramonium "You mean multiple academy award winning John Williams and Spielberg? Sure mate."
Spielberg I have mixed feelings about for reasons I won't get into.
But Williams?
At least 90% of his best stuff is straight plagiarised from older composers.
Richard Strauss, Gustav Holst, Igor Stravinsky to name just a handful I've identified, but I haven't really dedicated any time to picking through his scores enough to find more, plus my own knowledge of classical music is fairly limited to the more popular pieces played on classical music radio.
All the great film composers have done it at least a little bit.
Williams did it A LOT.
James Horner did it too for some of his most memorable scores - a piece of Aram Khachaturian called 'Gayane Adagio' used in 2001 A Space Odyssey (the intro of the Discovery, it's crew and HAL) was plagiarised by Horner in his scores for 'Aliens' and 'Patriot Games' to name just a couple, though he probably did it elsewhere too.
More recently I heard a piece by the composer Alexander Borodin on the radio and linked it to several scores by the great Jerry Goldsmith, including Alien amongst others.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because they got away with that plagiarism that it doesn't exist.
Because believe me it really does.
I went to a john williams concert a few months ago. They started off with jurassic park, then went into hook, Harry Potter, and shcindlers list, a few others..I was hoping for Indiana jones...but still good..we all know what the last song was
"They're being chased by a car, down a tree" never thought I'd hear a sentence so silly yet so accurate😂😂😂
lol
Was also lough hehe
It was so pure and not wrong :O
I came looking for this comment. Lol
Trust me. Seeing the T-Rex roaring on the big screen is an entirely different experience from seeing it on a television. 😱
Ah yes, the whole theatre rumbled everytime it was on screen. It was amazing.
And the footsteps.
@Maya Nightwolf In the scene where the Rex crashes through the car's glass roof, she loses a tooth. It's not missing in the rest of the movie but the animatronic lost a tooth and it can be seen if you skip through the individual frames of that moment.
When she appears at the end of Jurassic World, she not only has the scars from the raptor fight, but she's also missing the tooth. It's a tiny detail, but it's so cool that they put it into the movie.
It was a religious experience for 4 year old me.
Oh yes 😍
“No, we can’t. Because we’re being hunted.” Is still one of the best lines to me.
Philosoraptor: "Clever girl."
Hunters instinct.
Can you timestamp that part pls? I don't remember where it was in the video
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I was 13 when this came out. Hadn’t even seen ads for it. I was spending the night at a friends and she convinced me to go to the movies the next day. I literally sat down in the theater having ZERO idea what it was about. Hadn’t even seen the poster, just knew Jurassic was a period. The opening credits I saw it was based on a book. Man, immediately after the movie, I hit up Dalton books in the mall to buy the book. What a movie!
That's awesome, I was 9 when it came out and already obsessed with Dinosaurs before hand, yeah. BEFORE hand
I was 10. Up to that point this was the scariest movie I ever saw. I just wasn't into scary films or monsters or anything, I watched cartoons and comedy. My mum had pre-watched it and told me there was only one scary bit when the guy gets eaten on the toilet by the t-rex. It was honestly such a thrilling watch and really changed the course of movies I watched after that :D
I was 5 or 6. I was super into Dinosaurs, so it's all I could think of till I saw it... 3 times... And thought a lot more.
I'm now not a paleontologist.
I was 10 and I still remember reading some magazine on a train with pictures, but having no idea what this was about. I'm from Austria/Europe and back then, without internet and stuff, there just wasn't much known about what was coming from Hollywood. I was in my dinosaur phase and those pictures were burnt in my mind. I went to see the movie with my brother and mom. My mom fell asleep halfway through and I still remember jumping in the seat when the raptor almost got Lex' leg near the end of the movie. I also remember turning on all lights at home first thing because I was scared AF :-D 28 years later, this is still THE perfect movie for me and it will always be my favourite.
I had done the reverse. If been on a Crichton reading may for a year and I remember waiting for each scene to play out.
Hasn't JP aged so well?! 28 years old movie that would still outdo everthing put out today
@@trhansen3244 dont you mention marvel trash in presence of real movies
The new jurassic movies seem like a midsized SUV commercial for the moms who are dragged there by their kids to watch that shit mixed with pokemon.
@@trhansen3244 Yes. Go back to shadow.
But I still have a louder fart
I'm 100% sure that they intentionally shot all the CG scenes with a soft, slightly out of focus look so that the VFX wouldn't show its imperfections.
If you did the same for other films with VFX I guarantee you many of them would look better.
Take away the pin sharp picture focus and people fill in the blanks themselves, our brains are wonderful little problem solvers even when we don't mean them to be.
Oh the set piece with the T-Rex is absolutely one of the most terrifying scenes ever put to film. It is SO well done and the stakes are so high. And you honestly have no idea where it's going to go. This film was unbelievable when it came out in theaters. This was something NO one had ever seen before. And it holds up nearly flawlessly to this day. This was one of the very first films to really use CGI. And they knew the limitations of it and used it in the right ways mixed with real fullsize animatronic dinosaurs. The mix sells the CG to your brain and it can get hard to tell sometimes which are which.
a lot of directors should take note and not overuse CGI, because CGI done right can be amazing
Also, the T-Rex roaring at the end, with the "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" banner floating down in front of it, is still one of the best climaxes ever.
The T-Rex kept short circuiting in the rain and would startup on its own in between takes. Lol
I know there are people who can spot when the practical effects end and the CGI begins, but I'm not one of them. I don't get how people do it.
@@jimballard1186 well i mean i get that in more recent movies where the CGI gets much closer to realistic looking, but in this movie? dont get me wrong, the CGI is great, but its easy to tell (at least to me) when it comes in. If youw ant to know how: Pay attention to the lighting and the shadows on the Dinosaurs as well as the animation fluidity. Thats usually the giveaway because realistic lightsimulation and microdetailed rigging wasnt that good back then.
Ok this was the most enjoyable half hour ish of UA-cam ever, I have seen this movie approx 800,395,294 times since I was 9 in 1993 and seeing someone experience all this for the first time was just so much fun!
You'd have to watch this movie non stop for 193,398.4 years lmao.
I’ve said hundreds of times “I wish I could see Jurassic Park again for the first time”. So it was a blast watching you watch my favorite movie. You are a delight!
I took my nephew to see the digital re-release in IMAX a few years ago. He was aged 10. He was okay until the T-Rex scene, the 12,000 watt IMAX audio terrified him.
Watching JP in 3D was like watching it again for the first time
@@Brono25 Same for me when I saw it in IMAX.
i heard about this movie, but never saw the ads. So i thought, "I like dinosaurs when I was a kid, I should just check it out see how they made the dinos look. I went midweek, mid-day, by myself.
And...i almost crapped my pants at how good it was!
For the next month, I was dragging everyone I know to see it with me again.
Masterpiece.
Steven Spielberg is a superb storyteller.
Watching with Cassie was like watching it for the first time again, and I felt 19 again.
@@slchance8839 Same for me. I first heard about it from a colleague at work who was raving about the deafening roar of the T-Rex.
Her: "I hope they're nice dinosaurs"
Me: *maniacal laughter intensifies*
Weird Al Yankovic: "..And they sure don't act like Barney..."😂
Don't you love it when reactors who haven't seen these movies, WALK into these land mines.
@@tonyyul703 yes, yes I do
Don’t move!
She can’t see us if we don’t move
Her poor sweet innocent soul gets shattered
"I hope they're nice dinosaurs"
Hahaha, seeing your optimism getting crushed is as heartbreaking as it is hilarious ;-)
This sure ain’t Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
I thought this too. I laughed so hard when she said it 🤣
@@danielschaeffer1294 Seem about how I remembered him.
Watching Paranormal Activity, “I hope they’re friendly ghosts.”
"I hope they're nice dinosaurs"
Hahaha
This is EXACTLY what I was about to type.
I remember Toy Story 2 doing a parody of the T-Rex chasing the jeep and it's still hilarious all these years later
"Dinosaur overBOOOARD!" 😆
Agreed. Plus the whole "Objects in the mirror..." Wheeze. Classic.
This movie has aged extremely well. I watched this in cinema when I was 14/15, and loved it. Now almost 30 years later I watched it with my own family and still love it. Thanks to Spielberg's choice of using practical effects, massive animatronic dinosaurs, and very limited use of CGI, I think it will be enjoyed by future generations too. A true classic.
Ur math is off
He wanted to use more cgi, it was just not feasible. That few seconds of cgi took them months to render lol. Back in those days computers were slow as heck.
Spielberg is a creative genius. I was very lucky to randomly meet him in my small Canadian town 10 years ago.
@@mitchwells4990 what math is off lmao
The moment the finance guy gets eaten by the T-Rex, both he and the dino are CGI.
His face is turned away from the camera, and the scene is quite dark, which helps.
"I think I hope they're nice dinosaurs." 😂 Funniest line in this entire reaction. Jurassic Park was the most graphic family friendly horror movie I saw as a kid in the 90s. Scared the shit out of me.
Never been more greatful that comet hit earth 65 million years AGO
I don't think she realized this was from the time when all movies weren't made like a Disney movie lol.
Imagine if they did the movie MUCH closer to the book
That would've been a 100% horror movie
I remember being 5 years old and getting scared shitless at the nedry death scene
@@ДмитрийГусарев-ж8ъ they should have done a remake closer to the book instead of the god aweful Jurassic world movies.
The dinosaurs looked so real because for the most part, they were. Most of the close up shots of the dinosaurs were actually animatronic, while most of the wide shots where they're moving around a lot are CGI, which was groundbreaking at the time and still holds up even today!
Yup. You see "part" of a dino, that's animatronic. You see the whole thing, that's CGI. They should have continued that with all the sequels.
It doesn't QUITE hold up. The CGI is a bit cartoony. Good for its time though.
The combination was really smart too. The shot where the T-Rex can be seen through the glass roof of Alan's and Ian's car is animatronic, then when the camera pans down to show the Rex walking towards the kid's car it's CGI, the transition masked by the beam that separates the car's glass roof from the windshield.
@@minnesotajones261 hmm, it holds up. I worked for the creator of CGI for many years. He’s a genius, bonafide. This was the first ever film using this technology, which films use to this day, updated of
Course. It was a very big deal, he is very decorated for his pioneering 💁🏻♀️. But I appreciate your feelings, I’m definitely biased lol
@@caralayne503 I completely agree! I think you meant that towards Joker JAK... (wink)
Because of this movie, my wife and I didn't even look at the horizontal bar type of doorknob during two house designs. Can't give those velociraptors a way in! 😄
When I saw this in the theaters there was NO CONVINCING anyone that dinosaurs were not real. The CGI and effects were so beyond anyone’s imagination. It still holds up decades later.
And not just the sight of the dinosaurs but the sound, that "involuntary urination in your seat" inducing roar, like an angrier version of the dial-up Internet login sound from the same era, I'll never forget how it made me feel the first time I heard it bellowing out of the T-Rex, yikes!
Heck, someone took a picture of Spielberg next to that triceratops they had laying on the ground and put a "This poor dinosaur died during the filming of Jurassic Park!" caption and people literally got mad at Spielberg over it.
@@ProtusMose I remember that! That was hilarious that so many people got fooled by that
A big thank you to Stan Winston.
It was about the highest point of pre-digital special effects and breakthroughs in CGI tech. True masterpiece
"they wouldn't, they wouldn't!!
....THEY WOULD!!!!!!"
-the entire movie in a nutshell
"The CGI looked so real!"
That's because there wasn't much CGI. Only 14-15 minutes of the dinosaur scenes were computer generated. They used mostly animatronics for this movie
That's not entirely accurate. The T-Rex and a few other dinosaurs were paid actors.
@@fad2679 I did say mostly.
You mean animatronics
@@jarosbodytko6462 Yes. Thank you. Didn't realize the autocorrect error. Editing now.
Correction. There were only around 15 minutes of dinosaurs. Only around 5 minutes of that were CGI.
Your comment about the music was right on. John Williams never made a bad score. This music still gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it, even 30 years on.
Pretty amazing that there are people in 2021 that are suprised when Jurassic Park practically turns into a horror movie at the halfway point, but that was very entertaining to watch.
Its kinda cool to see people still experiencing it for the first time
Even moreso when the novels were decisively not for kids as Crichton was told by the publishers to make these books sci-fi/horror and the books do not hold back on the gruesome deaths.
in reality, the movie tells you exactly what it is in the first scene.
@@Webshooters1 I read that book when I was 7 and I loved it so much. It was very graphic but it sparked a love for reading in me that has lasted to this day.
Well the film is 30 years old, so with the flood of new media always coming out it's not surprising that good films older than 15 years or so might never be watched by people who weren't born or very young at the time of release.
When the T-rex broke the glass roof of the car and they were holding the glass with their hands and feet, that wasn't supposed to happen. The children actors were really screaming in fear during that moment.
Yep. I wont say why that really happened but yeah they weren't acting. They where really scared.
@@Roger-hp1yg Was that by accident, or accidentally on purpose? Stanley Kubrick, The Shining like?
So, to my understanding the glass panel was supposed to pop out. That part was planned. However, if you watch the panel itself breaks apart. That wasn't supposed to happen and that's what caused the real fear.
@@Outrider85 if i'm not wrong the trex animatronic aciddentally fell with his head on the pannel
Spielberg loooovers to put children in danger and scare them
look into Heather O'Rourke
he is a peeedo chiild keeler
The music is so good because the music is by John Williams, probably the best film composer of all time. The man behind the music for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, the first two Harry Potter movies, Christopher Reeves' Superman, Hook, and so many more!
That’s the lead singer in Smashmouth?
Williams is good, but I think he gets a little too much credit from those of us that grew up with his movie scores. He comes up with a couple good themes per movie and then just repeats the crap out of them. Other composers have a little more creativity. He's quite good, but definitely not the best - perhaps just the most famous.
@@falxonPSN I'd argue that repetition is the strength of his scores. Too many composers produce too much material for a two hour film and it all winds up having no meaning when it actually appears in the film. On the other hand, there's only so much meaningful thematic development you can do when the music isn't what the audience is focused on. Most musical forms beat the dead horse of their themes: sonatas, rondeaus, fugues, verse-chorus, etc.
@@colemanroberts1102 Yeah, I can see your point of view - there is an emotional impact when that BIG thematic element hits. I just prefer a little less rehashing in my scores. You may find it too busy, but that's my jam - I want some depth to it.
Thanks AdamRock. I agree wholeheartedly! He deserves as much recognition as anyone else. Spielberg has said many times how Johnny Williams music is at least 50% responsible for the success of his films.
I love that Malcom repets the "must go faster" line in Independence Day.
It's actually all of his lines in the jeep scene but they are in reverse order
Your reaction reminded me what it was like watching this in the 90s as a kid. 🙂 I really hope you watch the others too!
She was certainly a kid like you at that time, so the fact that she never seen that movie is so strange that I think it's actually fake.
@@jemlesvideo huh
@@Obreyze Admit it, you must live in a cave to never have watched this. I mean, she never rented DVDs/VHS to watch such movies with her boyfriend when she was a teen ? Come on ! It is at least aired once a year on TV since years.
@@DocRobotnik She's 35-40 or a bit more at least !
@@jemlesvideo ok
its great to see that this incredible film still blows people away today just as it did back in 1993. the T Rex Breakout scene still blows me away every time i watch it!
That scene is one of the best in the history of film. Perfectly paced, incredibly suspenseful, and convincingly scary; even now I could convince myself that a 40 foot long killing machine once broke out of its pen, ate a lawyer, and threw a Ford over a huge wall
"I bet you would've felt that in the theaters" - I watched Jurassic Park in theaters....and yes it was very loud.
I remember it too. In a THX theater the T-Rex was deafening.
Yes… and that roar as well. It was scary and satisfying at the same time, and just a brilliant shot at the end with the real dino taking his place where the bones had been.
Remember, this came out in 1993, at the time all these dinosaurs in the movie BLEW MINDS, and it really says something that it holds up today, 30 years later! And the music! The music is beyond beautiful. This movie is cinema legend.
Had fun watching you react! ☺️
It's funny... when they talk eating dinner back then was so boring, i was a kid so i just wanted dinosaurs... as an adult it is now fascinating!!!
Well the dinosaur effects were much better than older movies. Spielberg could get lots of money back then.
Practical effects really, REALLY put the fear of God in you. The T-REX'S EYE CONTRACTS, FOR GOD'S SAKE.
The dinosaurs were ten times better than any before. And actors who really could act was a real bonus.
"Can't they throw it a steak or something?" That's exactly how Tim dealt with the one raptor in the book. That scene in the film is more of a nod to The Shining.
@@nsasupporter7557 CE3K and AI
"They are going to haunt my nightmares"
- 8 years old me : "I want a velociraptor"
10 year-old me: Nightmares
It's literally the only fiction that has ever given me nightmares. Loved it.
8 yr old me: "Would it be illegal to smash all the velociraptor fossils?"
I was 12 years old when I saw it in the theater, and the packed theater full of parents and children were all losing their minds. Everybody loved every moment of it
.... everyone except a crying 2 year old and my mother.
Oh my… 40 year old me watched Jurassic World and definitely wanted a pet velociraptor like Blue! 😍😍😍😛 And then when we saw “footage” of baby Blue in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom I almost set up my own lab to try to genetically engineer her! 😜😉 Ok… I didn’t, but I think you get my point 😋
It would have been EPIC to show up at school riding a velociraptor.
My husband and I went to see this in the theater. We lived up by Seattle, lots of trees, this movie was so real that on the way home we kept expecting a dinosaur to run across the road in front of us. Great movie!
It is Too Real :D
but these saurs can be so sneaky...like one who get that hunter mmm bon apetit
That sexy shot of Jeff Goldbloom with his shirt open is now iconic.
He always seemed to find a way to show his chest in movies in the 90s (this, The Fly, Independence Day) 😂
and the laugh...
Loved the Rifftrax joke for this. "Are we breaking in on his Tom of Finland photo shoot?" 😆
Imagine seeing it as an 8 year old in theatres, then going to McDonalds for Dino Sized meals. Man I want time travel to happen..
living the dream
Back when movie tie-ins meant something! The Demolition Man one from Taco Bell was pretty good. Mcdonalds got most of them though. Collectable glasses and toys, worth more than the food.
@@PopcornInBed fun fact the little boy is actually the same actor as sledge from the pacific
Jurassic Park Meal. My brother and I eat those before the movie and could help calling the lawyers death that
I did that, I was 9, my cousins and aunt snuck me in through the fire exit, we went to McDonald's after and I got a cup that had the Dilophosaurus about to eat Nedry on it. It was my cup, nobody else touch it, for years until it was basically white all over. The first movie to really show the magic and power of cinema
I'm glad you kept in most of the Flea Circus scene. For me, that's the core of the film.
"You never had control: THAT'S the illusion. I was overwhelmed by the power of this place. But I didn't have enough respect for that power and it's out now."
I remember watching this in theaters in KC while a massive thunderstorm raged outside while the movie was playing. Watching dinosaurs come to life as a kid in 1993 before the internet or any tech we have now is & was an indescribable feeling.
You can’t overstate how much people lost their entire minds when the first big Dino shot came on the screen.
Totally! I watched it as a kid in theatres and I didn’t even eat my popcorn, completely mind blowing, kids nowadays know everything is CGI, nothing surprises them, we were lucky… the movie has aged sooo well… not like me 😂
@@deedeestardust2535 you are alright..people scares you same after 30 years ^^
19:06 sam niell has become one of my favorite actors because of the power and command he had in his voice when he said “ian freeze” and the little smirk he had when he saw the trex in person
36:47 The fact that you immediately identified him as Newman just made my day! 😀
Me too, I always refer to him as newman rather than wayne knight
He is down to 200lbs now though.
@@NinjaZXRR I usually think of him as the guy sweating while Sharon Stone uncrosses her legs in Basic Instinct.
one of the best lines from a movie ever: "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Deep.
32:15 man you gotta feel sorry for Hammond his entire dream gone up in smoke.
The way he looks at the island one final time with such sadness in his eyes. Total turnaround to how happy he was at the start.
In the book, he’s not nearly as nice, and in fact dies on the island
The miniature elephant in the book is a good example. He's pretty much unconcerned for what he creates, rather the money it will make him. The minuture elephants are ill tempered, have a whole host of psychological and health problems, a miserable little creature.
@@LighthawkTenchi Ikr I'm so glad they made him more likable in the movie. This is one of the reasons that I legit like the movie better than the book. It feels like the characters have more humanity in them, and John Hammond being naive but so passionate about his project hits more closely to home than him being relatively uncaring or cruel.
@@johnlime1469 i find him believable in the film. The character in the book is a stereotype.
It was a good movie 🎥
I really like Alan Grant's character arc in this movie, which is all about him overcoming his fear of having children. At the start of the movie, he dismisses Ellie's suggestion of having kids, but through taking care of Lex and Tim, he gets on board with the idea. The final scene in the helicopter is Alan and Ellie silently agreeing to start a family. It's so beautiful.
I like how respected he is too. Notice when there watching the raptors eat Hammond only wants to see his reaction
Cassie: "I hope it will be a fun theme park movie!"
T-Rex: "Oh it will be fun....for some."
Well for T-Rex at least
Gennaro (the lawyer): “Maybe we’ll have a coupon day, or something“.
"Wasn't a movie that was like deep and epic in the awards" Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing, Peoples Choice Award for Favourite Movie 1994, A hand full of BAFTA's, Japan Academy Award and even a Czech Lion Award for Best Cinema Attendance... So yeah in 1994 it cleaned up on Awards for sound, special effects and popularity.
"I feel like this computer is really slow" -- welcome to the 90's.
And it has to be remembered this is a graphic interpretation of the computer systems back then. The novel extends the scene making it even slower with one simple element: the Opertaing System was not graphic; you could only navigate the files and execute them writing lines of code.
Back when you needed a dedicated video card just to run the GUI.
It was not so slow as people think, actually today computers are very slow. Most of 90s computers were based on DOS, it booted instantly and today software was well optimised, even in early 2000s software had similar speed like today or even faster on good computer. Everything is really badly optimised today, you have 8 core 5 GHz CPUs, 16GB RAM, SSDs and you are still converting movie to different codec whole night and still waiting for something, internet is slower and slowet even when we have very fast connection, but webpages are obese with crazy commercials everywhere. I really don't like this evolution. I think time between 1999 and 2005 was the best PC era, every new hardware, every new version of software was improvement back in the day, today it's vice versa, you are looking for way how to disable updates because you want to stay with something what is working.
this!!! hahaha
Remember when you'd hit to boot up your computer, then go to make a drink while you waited? Ah, fun times.
I remember the biggest laugh in the cinema was for "I really hate that man..."😂
One of the greatest films ever made. Period.
it really is, and i think its popularity and association with being a kinds movie kinda undermines how great the movie actually is, theirs so much greatness in every scene.
That tends to happen with Spielberg.
Yeah, pretty much. Saw it as a child, was terrified by the raptors. Watching it again at 33, still holds up! This flick is GREAT! Edit: JP and Terminator... those are the heavy contenders bro!
A golden movie
For sure the best book adaptation to cinema ever
This is by far one of the best Jurassic Park reactions out there. Genuine. Heartfelt. Almost like I’m watching it for the first time again! Thank you!
Casey. Is that you?!? Lol. Don’t comment on your own reaction video, freako! Lol!
The second movie, Jurassic Park: The Lost World actually isn't bad despite what most people say. Jurassic Park 3 on the other hand is hit and miss with some people, personally I say watch them, they're worth at least one watch I promise
Yeah, I love The Lost World, but the third movie is definitely pretty "meh".
2 is good 3 is the worst in the franchise jurassic world was good jurassic world 2 was better then people say but still only alright although still way better then jurassic park 3
Nah take that back JP3 is awesome you can’t tell me the Spinosaurus wasn’t menacing and scary 😟
2 would have been better if it had followed the book towards the end. Its end is just ridiculous. The rest are pretty crap, IMO.
The end of the lost world jumps the shark so badly, I forgot what happened in the first two acts. It's terrible.
"I feel like this is every 15 year old boy's dream movie."
I first watched this movie when I was 6. And now 26 years later it's still in my top 5 favorite movies of all time. Jurassic Park is a timeless classic. And while I do have my issues with some parts, I always over look them because of how much this movie means to me.
I understand exactly what you mean. I saw it at 3, literally my youngest memory in life is watching this movie in the theater. (Clearly my parents didnt know what to expect) At 32, I still rank this as my favorite movie of all time.
I watched it when I was 4
Ha, yeah I saw it when I was 5, also the first movie I remember seeing at the cinema.
please, for the sake of humanity, stop trusting hollywood
Saw it for the first time when I was 8, have watched it dozens of times since. One of my favorite movies of all time. I wish I could have seen it for the first time in theaters
Yes, that's a John Williams music score; he's one of the best (Star Wars, E.T., Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc. Etc.)
I'm only a little ways in, so you might have already figured this out, but:
You know Dr. Grant from The Hunt for Red October.
"I would have liked to have seen Montana."
One ping only
I love this era of movies. Like late 80's and early 90's. They were still doing practical effects, but getting into CGI. It was used only when necessary. Wish films now kept that standard. What sucks is practical effects have gotten better, but we almost never see it.
Strongly agree
It is my favorite era of movies because of that. Everything looks so good because of the mix between the two and the movies have a certain charm.
Because they knew the CGI wasn't good enough to do everything they needed, so they had to make sure everything matched up when they did use it. It doesn't age as bad because as some very recent movies do, because they made sure it integrated well with the practical effects.
@@MandoWookie Totally. I still think the effects in Jurassic Park are better than Jurassic World to be honest.
@@alexmoreira876 Agreed. Though the new movies might technically have 'better' CGI , they dont hold up, because they make no effort to integrate them into the movie beyond spectacle. Like the Transformers movie they call attention to the effects rather than try to make you forget that they are effects. Ironically J3 probably does the best of holding up that standard of the first movie of combining practical and CGI almost seamlessly. For all its faults J3 had some of the best creature and set designs of the movies.
Fun fact. That T-rex cgi was actually revolutionary for the time, literally invented for the movie and changed cgi from there on out. If anyone is curious about it and wants to know more, disney released a the movies that made us that goes deeper into it
"Spare no expense"
Hires only 1 guy who can run the systems.
Should have paid him more money. Lol jokes aside, how was he planning on getting away with it? Even before escaping they knew it was him. He was just planning on never returning to the US or whatever? Just be a fugitive for life?
@@RootinrPootine he was supposed to drop off the samples with a contact at the dock, then hurry back fix things before they realized it wasn't a glitch. He mentions to Dodson that he had it all timed out, suggesting he had done practice runs already and they hadn't caught him, but the storm screwed up his timetable. In the book it is explained that he was a horrible worker, and would often disappear for long stretches, so they dont even realize that anything other than the normal system glitches is going on until he doesn't come back and they start digging into the system to try and fix things.
@@MandoWookie In the book his reasons are pretty understandable. He wasn't given enough information to make the various modules work right because of InGen's 'secrecy", and they then blame him for shoddy work and force him to fix it for no extra pay. I'd be upset too.
@@chrismaverick9828 Oh yeah, Nedrys base complaints are entirely legitimate, his bid for the contract was based on false information from InGen, but, he still underbid to get it, and Hammond held him to that lowball number despite knowing full well it was unreasonable. Nedry should have just quit, but Hammond made it personal and treated him like crap, despite also making him integral to the functioning of the park. So revenge was also part of his motivation for sabotaging the park.
His plan was to steal the samples, get back to the command center, cover his tracks, get paid by Dodson, then quit right before the park grand opening, and probably screw the whole system when he left as a 'f*ck you' to Hammond.
But Nedry still endangered(and got killed) a lot of people through his actions, and knowingly underbid his competition for the original contract, even with InGens original specs in mind, thinking he could demand a higher payout once he got the job. Once he realized how big the job was he was stuck, as he had underbid teams by thinking he was good enough to do it by himself. And this was his first major contract, so he couldn't just drop it, because Hammond would have made sure to make him unhireable.
@@MandoWookie also not to mention Nedry laid backdoors in the code so that he could hack the system when he wanted. He was a real POS. Also Malcolm was a douche bag too. Arrogant AF and it was all just chance and coincidence that his theory held true. I really hated his character. Best character by far was Genaro.
I took my brother and his friend to see this when they were 12, who were both big dinosaur lovers. I had seen it the week before, so when I took them, I found the biggest screen that was around and sat them middle center between the 2 giant speakers, and waited to watch their reaction for that first roar by the T.Rex. Their jaws dropped to the floor. Priceless.
Youza GOOD Brother!
This movie has my favorite bit of foreshadowing ever. At the start Grant can't get his belt on in the helicopter and it's played off as "oh, Grant and technology...". But if you look closely, his belt is defective. It has two female couplings so it was never going to click into place. But he found a way to fix it anyway by tying it all up. Later in the movie, the scientists say the dinosaurs will never breed because they're all female.....and yet...
you're right! well spotted! i'm gonna use that next time we watch JP and look like a genius!!!!
That is *subtle*! Well spotted indeed!
and yet...
Life uh... finds a way.
It also doubles to show that Hammond is full of shit about "sparing no expense". He cut costs on security, safety, systems, and underpaid his staff but spends the whole film touting that they "spared no expense".
It would have been interesting had Crichton written JP today. The frog DNA explanation worked at the time, but now there is increasing evidence that many reptiles (and some sharks) can undergo parthenogenesis, where females produce fertile eggs via a genetic cloning mechanism, without mating with a male. At the time, this was only known to happen in whiptail lizards and a few amphibians after a hybridization event, because the chromosomes wouldn't line up correctly and so cell replication in the hybrid retained both sets. The hybrid can then produce fertile, cloned eggs without males- and these species are entirely female.
We still don't know the genetic/chromosomal mechanisms involved in the non-hybrid form of parthenogenesis (or all the animals that can do it), but it raises major questions now about how JP would have worked in an all-female environment. Also, some of the species that do this have a ZZ/ZW sex chromosome system, where ZW is female and ZZ is male. In these, the only 'clone' eggs that survive are ZZ.... which means a female basically produces a clutch of males in a male-free environment. There's a pretty decent chance that at least one female would have popped out some clone eggs of her own.
Your first time watching reactions are the best. Especially for movies I've seen. I can anticipate your reactions based on what I saw my first time. Its like seeing a movie for the first time for me again.
"I bet you felt that in the theaters." This blew absolutely everyone away in the theaters. CGI was almost completely new. _NO ONE_ had seen anything like this. And when the T-Rex roared at the end you could feel it in your chest!!
SOOooo good. It was the first movie I ever saw in the the theaters. All the other shit after made think movies were a scam.
"This is good music!"
Yeah, as I'm sure you'll learn, John Williams does that. A lot.
Sam Neill is here digging up dinosaurs and rescuing kids instead of getting a pick-up truck and moving to Montana.
I even didn't have to scroll that far 😂
He did a dig in montana. And sent his daughter to a "horse whisperer" in montana
I feel like we all wait in baited breathe for Cassie to recognize actors. I was waiting for her to recognize Sam L Jackson from Pulp Fiction.
She didn't even recognize Jewels lol. Never mind Dr. Alan Grant
@@English_MoFo I was a bit surprised.
This was honestly probably the greatest theatrical experience I ever had. It came at the perfect time in my life, on the perfect evening. I was 15, the line to see the movie was literally wrapped all the way around the building, and the theater was completely full - literally every seat was taken. It began storming outside right around the time that the amazing T-Rex set piece took place, making it difficult to tell whether the thunder we were hearing was from the film or just outside the doors. It added so much to the experience. And everyone in theater was into it - you could feel the electricity in the air. The atmosphere was so tense, people were jumping at all the right times, laughing at all the right times. And by the time it was over I think everyone left just utterly satisfied with having witnessed a roller coaster of a film.
And what a film it is. From the aforementioned amazing set pieces to the stunning score (my actual favorite of John Williams' work, and one of his few scores not nominated for an Oscar) to the mind-blowing special effects and sheer power of sound and visuals, it was a landmark of filmmaking and such a joy to have been lucky enough to behold on the big screen (which I subsequently did several more times before it left theaters).
I was surprised that the book is actually not as good. It's much more dry, pretty tedious in parts (there's an overly long sequence where Grant and the kids float down a river which seems to take forever), kills half the characters, and makes Hammond seem like a greedy asshole (he even blames his grandkids for the failure of his park at one point). Spielberg was smart enough to sense what worked in the book and focus on that rather than getting deep into the background of Dr. Wu or lengthy manifests of how many dinosaurs were in the park, etc. He made it a fun movie that still contained the core story that made it so interesting in the first place.
Speaking of the book, funny thing: In the original story the roles of the kids are reversed: the boy is the older one and the girl is little more than a toddler who's constantly whining. It was difficult to read lines like "Lex said 'I'm hungwy!" without picturing an intellectually challenged version of this actress saying it.
So yeah, amazing film. Shame that out of six movies this is the only truly great one, with Jurassic World being the only decent follow-up (itself way below the quality of the original) and your choice of which of the first two sequels - The Lost World or Jurassic Park III - was the more tolerable of the two. For my money JP III is actually the more entertaining film, even if that trailer sequence in The Lost World was breathtaking.
Favorite lines of Ian Malcolm:
“Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend…”
“Boy do I hate being right all the time.”
"There might be Dinosaurs on this Dinosaur tour, right?"
"God creates dinosaur. God destroys dinosaur. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaur."
“Bigger, why do they always have to be bigger?”
@@markjuarez1791 lol
Man is god hehe
@@SweetCandyDragon rofl ^^
Cassie it was SO game changing when it came out. They looked SO REAL, as you said. It really does still hold up today based on your reactions. You were so dragged into this movie. Fantastic.
As a CGI-heavy film goes, it really DOES hold up today. You really have to look close to catch green screen lines around actors. The combination of models and CGI was groundbreaking in every way.
@@chrismaverick9828 Yeah, only about 4 minutes of CGI in this film. The rest is animatronics. Stan Winston and his team of animatronic SFX guys and gals really went all in on this one.
The reason most of it looks so good is because they mostly used animatronics and practical effects instead of CGI like you see today. Also glad that you recognized Sledge!
Actually it was a combination of the two. Netflix has a series called "The Movie That Made Us", and in Season 2, Episode 3, they talk about Jurassic Park. Very well done and entertaining to watch. They interview the set designers, the animatronics people, the two guys heading the CGI department, and a man that was to help with stop motion effects that ended up helping the CGI guys with movement and posture of the dinosaurs. It's definitely worth the watch.
Not really accurate because the film is best known for it's groundbreaking CGI effects. It was the first time truly lifelike creatures had been created using CGI. They were blended with some excellent practical effects (the velociraptors in particular are stunning), but the CGI is what sold the dinosaurs as real.
@@Timmayytoo Maybe I should've worded it differently, I just meant that they didn't completely rely on CGI like on a lot of movies (which often look terrible), but had practical/animatronics instead. There's about 14-15 minutes of dinosaurs from the runtime, and only 4-5 minutes of CGI. But you are correct, they used CGI to enhance what was there and it's the combination that was so effective.
JP is one of the very earliest films to use modern CGI. It was absolutely bleeding edge stuff at the time. They were doing things literally no one had ever done before. Which is part of what absolutely floored us watching it in 93. They were smart enough to recognize the limitations however and not try too hard to overdo it. Spielberg knows his tools and how to use them. Always has.
This movie is iconic. Impressive how the VFX still look amazing 30 years later. I was lucky to see this in the theaters when it came out.
"I bet you would have felt that in the theaters."
Yes lol. Also, that spitting one made me actually jump from my seat. I think I was 6 when it was in theaters.
After seeing JP, getting a bowl of water to replicate the water ripples at home during the T-Rex became a thing for home theater owners.
Yeah the Dilophosaurus was the one that got me too
@@whitecourt83 Same
Shame they didn't go with the Dilophosaurus's real height, which was 6 feet tall.
@@Razgriz85 could have been a juvenile
Fun fact Samuel L Jackson was supposed to get a chase and death scene but the set they were supposed to work on got blown away by a real life hurricane
Yeah, really sad, makes it feel like they did him dirty just killing him off like they did in the movie lol
@@Masterfighterx the severed arm was a belter but Samuel L Jacksons character deserved a send off but real life events caused his death to be cut.
That's right! There was a hurricane that hit the island of Kawaii where this was filmed and the whole crew had to be evacuated. Some of the shots during the storm in the film were in that storm for real.
@@Masterfighterx For the longest time I didn't know who's arm that was supposed to be because it looks like a white man's arm lol
I never knew how much i wanted to hear ssamuel l jackson call a t rex a motherfucker till this moment
You may have noticed that Jeff Goldblum reused the “must go faster” line from this movie in Independence Day.
Other way around. JP was first, but it’s still a great call back!
@@cardiac19 Read nrkgalt's sentence again. That's what he said.
I **think** they literally sampled the audio from Jurassic Park and dubbed it into Independence Day as a kind of easter egg. So when you hear him say it in Independence Day, it's exactly the JP audio, he didn't re-record that line.
I like the wording in the rear view in the Jeep mirror at 22:30 that says " Objects in the mirror maybe closer than they appear." That T-Rex appeared pretty damn close enough for me if I was in that car. It was a well done set up !
@@MatthewPettyST1300 that’s always been one of my favorite shots from the movie. Such an amazing small touch
This was originally was gonna be claymation and was started in 1990 but was put on hold for 3 years when they saw what they could do with improved CGI. I saw this in theaters in 1993. I was 10 and will never forget seeing that very real t Rex and hearing that roar in surround sound on all sides of you. It was both terrifying and awesome. To this day when I hear him roar even on a dusty vhs tape I still get a little shiver down my spine.
The hype leading up to this movie in 1993 was unreal. People were so jazzed for it. I remember looking at movie showtimes in the newspaper when it debuted and this movie had a full page dedicated to it. I was 13, now I'm 41 and I still remember it like it was yesterday. Well, maybe not yesterday but...ya know. Great reaction!
I still remember watching it as a kid - it might seem strange to call it magical, but it really opened my eyes to the possibility of cinema.
I have a 'feeling' that I had watching the trailer in tv... when I was 6. And it's more powerful than my 'christmas' feeling.
You have create taste in comedians and movies!
I was a 10-year-old, dinosaur-obsessed kid when I saw this movie for the first time opening weekend in June, 1993. It completely blew away us in the audience, and is still easily the single best movie-going experience I've had. Since then I've seen it so many times that I practically have it memorized.
It was a delight to watch your reaction to seeing it for the first time, both because it shows that nearly 30 years later it still holds up extremely well and keeps you totally invested, and also because your reactions are a reminder of what it felt like to watch it when I didn't know what was coming next and had never seen anything like it.
Also, I'm glad to see that raptor jump-scare still packs a punch! When that scene happened in the theater with an audience that was watching it for the first time, everybody was leaning forward in their chairs because of the suspense of Ellie turning on the power and Tim getting electrocuted. Then the raptor burst out, and everyone in the audience was literally thrown back into their seats in fright! It was an amazing thing to see!
I was 8 years old when this movie came out. It literally changed my life. I still cannot watch it with a straight face all the way through. The spectacle of it a gets me in the feels every single time. Her reactions to the film are so enjoyable to watch. I would give literally ANYTHING to be able to see this for the first time again. The closest I've come to that was back in 2013 when they re-released it in 3D format. I felt like I was 8 years old again. 😊❤
Same. I was 12 and still remember thinking, I just witnessed something special.
I was 13 and it's one of the best movie going experiences I've ever had. This, The Matrix and of all things Unforgiven (the score and cinematography were so good, and that first time Eastwood appears at the doorway at the end and you think the devil has just appeared). Those movies left you feeling like you'd experienced something very special.
Ya but have you read the book? Cant call yourself a true fan unless you've read the book.
@@vando6679 I got in trouble at school for reading it because of the language and swearing. My 3rd grade teacher took it from me and hid it in her desk.
I love how Alan and Ellie are trying desperately to hold the door and reach the shotgun and Tim is over there just chilling.
Kids aren't the most reliable in a crisis lol.
@@mattkandel2449 especially when the are recovering from a major car wreck and electrocution.
@@DJBell1986 Yeah, they were giving Tim a minute; he was still sparking.
This movie is full of famous plot holes and that's just one of them. But none of us care cuz it's freaking awesome
@@sahityabk ikr
When they decide to show this again in theaters, i will watch it without hesitation. ❤
30th anniversary this year!
I watched the 3d version in theaters about 10 years ago
I watched the 3D re-release in theaters. Watching Rexy break out and give that first bellowing roar… gives you goosebumps… so worth it
The irony of the story was Hammond spared no expense, except for perhaps his most important employee that caused the entire story.
In the book, Hammond was a cheap bastard, and the "spared no expense" line was straight up marketing lies.
@@MandoWookie yeah they changed a lot. Wasn't Timmy the hacker nerd in the book as well, not Lex?
@@callmeshaggy5166 Yep. And Tim was the older sibling as well. Lex was a tomboyish sports nut.
This movie came out when I was 6 (34 now). It immediately just wanted to be a biologist....couple decades later I became an evolutionary biologist and I put it all down to this film.
cool read
I was like this when I watched batman 89... Still hoping one day
So, when will you release the dinos?
"hello Newman" makes me love Cassie's channel 100% more than I did before
We forgot about any special effects because they were so good. The storyline and suspense carried our suspension of belief and we enjoyed the wild ride!
“Can he throw it a steak or something?”
In the book that’s almost exactly what he does.
That was Sam Niel. You saw him in Hunt for Red October: "I should like to have seen Montana"
A bit of an Easter egg that three years later he would be digging up dinos in. . . . Montana
He's also in Event Horizon.
Seeing Sam Neil die saying "I would have liked to have seen Montana" in Hunt for Red October, then being introduced to his character in Jurassic Park in Montana always made me smile.
He's a wonderful actor. I've loved him since way back in Reilly: Ace of Spies.
They never showed the dinosaurs in any of the movie trailers, so when the actors saw the dinosaurs for the first time, this was the same time the movie goers saw them...it was amazing! Keep in mind, this was before all of the CGI craziness of today, this was mind blowing for us in 1993! They looked so real! Have you reviewed "Twister" yet? Another great one!
There were lots of behind the scenes featurettes on E! Television (back when it was about movies and fashion and not reality TV), Movie Magic on the Discovery Channel, behind the scenes with Entertainment Tonight. But they didn't show the completed picture. Let me assure you, none of it prepared me for the complete work in the movie. It was wonderful.
I can remember plainly on the movie trailer the jeep trex chase scene and the end trex scene.
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They showed "bits" in trailers (like the TREX foot into the mud and the Raptor's claws on the door handle), but yeah, perfect action movie that still holds up amazingly today
I cannot WAIT for Cassie to react to Twister. One of my all-time favourite movies.
"These things are gonna haunt my nightmares." - I was 13 when this movie came out and that kitchen scene _literally did_ haunt my nightmares for years after.
I noticed that Alan didn’t like Tim in the beginning
But at the end, he’s like family.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
The CGI is so good because there's relatively little of it. Prior to the 2000s studios used to build sets and props and etc.
I remember watching this movie back in 86, called Flight of the Navigator, and had neat looking special affects for it's time.
@@spirittammyk I'll take a look. Jason and the Argonaughts, if you haven't seen it.
And yet, this movie set the limit at the time with CGI usage. Most of any movie up until this point. It was just all around the very definition of "big budget film" and Spielberg knew how to blend everything together like no one else could.
the opening brachiosaur was kinda garbage. looked bad even back then. the rest was beautiful.
This film is magical. It was such a revelation when it came out. The effects where truly ground breaking. And once again John Williams made a masterpiece of a score.
This movie was so good in the theater. Then everyone bought it when it came out on VHS everyone bought it and watched with the volume turned up. We rode our bikes around the neighborhood listening to dinosaurs roar all night. Goooooood times.