@LucianDevine I will never forgive the sequel trilogy for that. Also, @TheMirandalorianReacts, this is the vindication I've scoured UA-cam for in terms of reacting to the brachiosaur scene.
@@GarrettJayChristian Fair on both counts. If there's one dinosaur that you desperately hoped made it off of that island, yes even more than Rexy, despite how much she's saved the day, it's that first Brachiosaurus.
12:05 It's John Williams. He does that. "Without John Williams: Bikes don't really fly. Nor do brooms in quidditch matches. Nor do men in red capes. There is no Force. Dinosaurs do not walk the earth. We do not wonder. We do not weep. We do not believe." -Steven Spielberg (at John Williams' AFI Life Achievement Award Ceremony in 2016)
Honestly, the relationship between Lex and Timmy is one of the most, if not THE most realistic sibling relationship I have seen in TV and cinema, the banter, the insults, even in a serious and extremely scary sutuation, but when it really comes down to it they would do anything to protect eachother, instead of just being lovey-dovey all the time. And, in the end, you can really tell how much they love and care for eachother, and how much they mean to eachother.
Child actors usually fall short massively, either with unreasonable reactions or just being generally unlikable - Timmy and Lex leap over that pitfall though. Not to mention that they aren't introduced till we get a fair bit into the movie, after the fundamental exposition has gotten out of the way.
@@doltBmB Why do people act like the 90s were 100 years ago? Women did have rights in the 90s you know, and even if what you're saying is true, the movie was just ahead of its time, and what's wrong with that? Besides, we're no longer in the 90s, so people shouldn't still be mad or confused over it.
To hell with watching this in theaters. Try being an 8 year old and seeing it at the drive-in. The T-Rex footsteps were shaking the entire lot. The roars were deafening. Little kids freaking out while their parents were mesmerized. A truly magical time. ...We'll never have that experience again.
I was 7 when my dad took me to theaters to see this. I had nightmares about dinosaurs till my late teens. Shit was terrifying. Fun to watch nowadays, but yeah.
I'm imagining seeing a Godzilla movie at a drive in theater I would love it like Godzilla Minus one for example I wouldn't mind seeing GxK while I'm at it and the 2022 Batman would be cool as well hearing the engine on the Batmobile and the whole chase scene with it in that film would be amazing
I'm jealous of people who got to watch this in the cinema. If I had a millions dollars, I'd build my own personal home movie theater, and this is the first movie I'd watch.
Which is insulting to the book. Hammond was an asshole who didn't really care about his grandchildren. Them being on the tour and trapped was more of him sending them away than them "testing" the park. Spoiler alert: He doesn't survive. They cast Richard Attenborough. The man was legendary as the loveable grandpa. Muldoon, the game warden, was the one who literally saved everyone because he spends every day with these animals and knows how they think. He's the reason they all survive. Yet in the movie he falls for the worst case of foreshadowing ever. And gets turned into a meme. With people's favorite quote ever. It's downright disrespectful.
@@Padfoot1985 Lmao, disrespectful. They changed the characters (as well as a lot of other stuff), it's not a 1:1 copy, it's an adaptation, deal with it. I have read the book and I have to say I like most of the changes the movie made, or at least understand why they made it.
@@TheAngelsHaveThePhoneBox You are right. Most of the changes were done somewhat properly. And they did incorporate scenes throughout other movies. But Muldoon, man. He got made into a meme. Cmon.
@@Padfoot1985 While I agree completely, it does nothing to detract from how great that line and it's delivery are (just stating, not saying that's what you meant). In fact, I would love to trade Hammond's survival for Muldoon somehow managing to survive that encounter in the brush. Lovable/loving grandpa or not, Attenborough's character in the movie is no less the villain than Wayne Knight's Dennis Nedry. Hammond, Nedry and Dogdson are generally considered to be the Villians of the story. To me, Hammond was always the worst of the, whether in the book or the movie.
I'll never forget seeing this in the theater. There was a disabled person a few rows up from us who had a service dog. During the quiet part of a particularly tense scene, that dog got up and shook off. Half the theater jumped 3 feet in the air. That movie was an experience, to say the least.
A movie from 1993 about dinosaurs is still making people emotional and awestruck today. I remember being 13 in the theater. Just completely and totally amazed. It was like magic was real. It's hard to explain. But I remember crying in the theaters 13 year old boy getting emotional seeing things we have never seen in a movie before. Even now I can't get the right words out. Greatest movie of all time.
I was 14 when I saw it in theaters and I was so enthralled and in edge that I cut my own hand with the strap off my purse. I had wrapped it around my hand so tight.
Same. I was 10 and Jurassic Park was the first "grown up" movie I ever saw in a theater I was terrified and absolutely fell in love with dinosaurs. Was obsessed with them for years.
I remember this movie coming out when I was 12. My dad was a car salesman at the time. And he told us (my mom and I) if he sold a car, we would all go out and watch Jurassic Park as a treat. And sure enough, he sold a car. And we all went out for dinner and a movie on a Friday night. I miss those days. I also miss my dad. 😢
I remember seeing 2 movies with my Dad. the HBO release of First Blood, which he related to as a vet. And then the only movie he and I saw in theaters, Back to the Future.
The "Welcome to Jurassic Park" sequence is the epitome of movie magic. The camera framing, the lighting, the acting, and ESPECIALLY the music. There's nothing quite like watching it for the first time.
A friend of mine said that the "seatbelt tying" scene was the dumbest scene ever. But when I told him it was the greatest foreshadowing ever because he made two females work together, he was shocked!
It is amazing that this movie still impresses people today and makes them cry when the dinosaurs are shown the first time. Now imagine it is 1993, there were no life-like CGI-animals in movies ever seen before. And you are a 12 year old boy who was a fan of dinosaurs, sitting in the theater, was not spoiled by thousands of trailers, reviews,... (there was not internet), and watch that. Oh, it was such a great time!
I agree. I was 25 at the time, and when I saw the Brachiosaurus scene I was like "How the hell did they get a REAL dinosaur?' lol I mean it looked so real. Incredible
Ah this is great, I normally feel old in the comments section! 😄I was 7, my uncle took me to the cinema - the effects and dinos blew my mind too. I remember the only scene they kept showing on TV previews was the Gallimimus stampede, so we were seeing pretty much all of it for the first time on that big screen.
They did Grant dirty in the movie version of this. In the book, Grant loved kids. And for good reason: Kids were the only people he'd met who were as enthusiastic about dinosaurs as he was.
Book spoilers: They also switched which kid liked dinosaurs, and made Gennaro the lawyer greedy and Hammond altruistic when they were the opposite in the book. The lawyer was cool, and survived, but Hammond was an a-hole and got eaten. I've always wondered about those changes, but they work for the movie.
@@wolf310ii Maybe, but in the book Gennaro was capable and helpful throughout. He knew he was beyond the safety of his office and did what was necessary to survive.
There is a bare hint of aging in the CGI, but the use of the practical effects alongside them was the perfect call even with as complicated and expensive as it was.
@@shawnpatrick1877 Phil Tippett was the animation supervisor for Jurassic Park and had previously pioneered the art of "Go-motion" which is where computers control the movement of puppet models filmed so that they move during the film exposure (producing realistic motion blur, for example.) When he found out that Spielberg had decided on using CGI animation Tippet thought that his profession had become extinct. Instead, he devised a genius technique for _reversing_ the go-motion process. Instead of using computers to control models, he used the physical jointed models as input devices to program the CGI characters. This way the computer animations could be "posed" virtually by experienced puppet animators manipulating real physical jointed puppets.
@@chrismaverick9828 I only learned last year, that the car in this scene at 30:57 was completely CGI in all the wide shots. Now I can't unsee it, but achieving this in 1993 was groundbreaking.
Perfect reaction to the first dinosaur reveal. This is all the elements in movies coming together. The score, the acting, the visuals, the dialog, the set up of two characters you like experiencing their wildest dream come true.
30:35 - "The dinosaur looks so real though." That's because it _IS_ real. Most of that sequence relied upon full-scale animatronics, not CGI. If part of any dinosaur in this movie is off-camera, it's animatronics. Rexy is a full-scale hydraulic robot puppet with a leg and everything from the chest up. And the rain played havoc with the technology.
I watched all of _Walking With Dinosaurs,_ and then _The Making Of Walking With Dinosaurs._ They used a lot of puppets and animatronics, and some of the effects were real video of a log being thrown into a river, with the jumping dinosaur spliced in over the log. The last part of the "making of" was about how the got them to walk properly, with all the calculations about joint stresses and muscle loads and how to move that shape most efficiently (personally, I still suspect they just motion-captured a pheasant), and the camera pulled back from the computer screen with the colour-coded frame and muscles on it to the fully CGI dinosaur watching itself be animated. It then kicked the animator's coffee cup off the desk, ran across the keyboard and hit among the stuff on the shelf.
Rexy would also short out with the fake rain soaking into the foam skin that she had. So randomly between takes or overnight she would move on her own. Apparently she would scare the shit out of the crew when she did that haha
@@grandpagohan1She was supposed to break through. It was planned and storyboarded. She just hit too hard and broke the plexiglass. Joseph (Tim) laughed as Rexy’s broken tooth landed in his lap, so they had to do another take. The broken piece disappeared between the shots
I believe they could rerelease this film in theaters every 10-20 years, and it would still kill at the box office. Watching this in the theater on release day was absolutely amazing. Special shout out to the scene with the first Brachiosaurus. Everyone in the theater gasped.
I wish they’d do that with lots of the big older movies: Star Wars OT, 2001, Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the third Kind, Jaws, The Matrix, Alien, Aliens…
My dislike of math had everything to do with me being bad at it 😂. Though I'm good with most science my forte is English, language and above all else history
The scene where we see the Brachiosaurus for the first time is such a cinematically significant moment. I saw it when it came out at the cinema- when the characters and the audience are in perfect sync- both seeing something incredible for the first time. Also the choice of aspect ratio allowed us to have the sense of scale and height, bravo Mr Spielberg.
I think it was a huge moment in movie history. For the first time, thanks to computer technology, we had the power to show anything that could be imagined. There were no limits. We take this for granted now (and perhaps rely on it too much) but it was revolutionary in 1993. In a way Spielberg was Hammond - he brought dinosaurs back to life for us.
Alan pretending to be electrocuted is such a nice moment in the film. He goes from disliking the idea of kids to being able to have a playful moment with them.
I'm 46 years old, I've seen this movie dozens of times and watched reactions many times. The scene when they first see the dinosaur still makes my eyes watery. It's really the music that does it
You got it right! Actor and Oscar winning director Lord Richard Attenborough was the older brother of natural historian and all round national treasure Sir David Attenborough 😊
Heck with national treasure, Sir David Attenborough is a global treasure. Don't care where you live, he should be on your 'I am grateful he exists' list.
@@JoeThornhill Yeah if he wanted it I’m sure he’d have gotten it. Worth noting that he’s in the Order of Merit too which is arguably the most exclusive order, only 24 living members at one time. Officially he has way more titles to his name than his brother did: Sir David Attenborough OM GCMG CH CVO CBE FRS FSA FRSA FLS FZS FRSGS FRSB
When I saw this in the theater when it first came out, that T-Rex roar literally shook the theater. It was so awesome. Those little ones you talked about are compsognathus ("compies"), and while present in the book, they don't show up until the second movie.
Fun fact: that storm immediately after the sick triceratops was real. It was a hurricane that they had to hunker down through until it was over. But they caught the beginning on camera, which is the shot of the ocean crashing against the land. They had to rebuild a LOT of their sets to continue filming.
When you see both feet and head, it's CGI. When you see just either one, it's an animatronic. But they cut back and forth, and it's seamless. It's marvelous! There's even one scene in the kitchen where one Raptor is CGI and one is animatronic in the same shot, and you can't tell the difference. Fantastic camera work.
The Nope Chicken is the evolutionary precursor to the Canadian Cobra Chicken. They share a lineage of sheer terror and brutality that is legendary unto eternity.
@@Spero_Hawk I haven't heard the term (single player only) but I was like 'sounds legit' because until I have enough tames or bolas, I run screaming from raptors
"is this sabatoge why?" it's sabatoge so he can commit corporate espionage. he turned off the power to the fences so he could get through them undetected. it's why he doesn't mess with the raptor fences, they're irrelevant to his goals of stealing embryos and driving to the dock and back. had the storm not happened it probably would have gone fine.
@@SubterrelProspector that's her trademark at this point: get overly hyped over nothing, miss critical plot points. You gotta love her enthusiasm tho I guess
@@frenchynoob Ah, so she's one of those that are more concerned with having a reaction, than reacting to the movie? The type of reactor that ignores the movie so that they can talk to the audience, and get back to the movie when they're finished.
Remember that this was shown in movie theaters in 1993! The quality of SFX in this movie was second to none for many many years forward. The whole movie has approximately 5 minutes worth of CGI graphics in total and everything else is puppets and animatronics.
"The whole movie has approximately 5 minutes worth of CGI graphics in total and everything else is puppets and animatronics." *And now we live in a world where movies have five minutes of practical effects, and everything else is CGI, we've fallen far.*
Exactly right. All the relatively young youtube reactors can't truly relate to how incredible the cgi dinosaurs in this film impacted the public at the time. Today of course, cgi is pervasive in films, so everyone takes it for granted.
Miranda’s being emotional over this movie has me being emotional over this movie all over again. I remember going to the theater to see this movie in 1993 and just being blown away. Love it!
Right? _Jurassic Park_ is one of those classics that makes me annoyed studios almost never bother to re-release movies. Instead of throwing loads of cash into spin-offs that are inferior in every conceivable way - looking at you, _Jurassic World_ - what would be wrong with remastering originals that are proven to be great and putting them back into cinematic release? There are so many classic films that really get their greatest benefit from being seen on the big screen, and even from a cold-heartedly capitalist perspective, the profit-to-cost ratio would be insane. I'd bet a pretty major body part that a cinematic re-release of _Jurassic Park_ would pull at least half a billion dollars
@rhonafenwick5643 Jurassic Park has actually been reshown in theaters a handful of times now. I got to see it in theaters for the 25 year anniversary and whoa boy was that a wonderful experience.
Great gag that a lot people miss when the T-Rex is chasing the jeep and you see his reflection filling up the side mirror, and the mirror has written on it "OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR"
I first saw this movie on VHS when I got it for Christmas when I was 8, and it was one of the most freaktastic movies I ever saw and the time, and I couldn't stop watching it multiple times afterwards.
I used to work at a big cat reserve. One weekend the keepers were busy with a sick Lion, and we had a 4-month-old Tiger cub that still needed constant care. So, I volunteered to watch it while they were busy with the Lion. Our Basset wasn't happy about it but quickly adjusted. We were chillin when Jurassic Park came on TBS. Everything was ok, until the T-Rex roared. The Tiger cub jumped up on the couch and hid between me and the back of the couch. There was something that they sampled for the T-Rex roar that scared the Tiger cub.😅
My cats were absolutely terrified by the sounds orcas made, despite the fact they've never been close to an ocean. Something in their brains just told them "dangerous predator. "
I was living in Hawaii (elementary school to date me) when Spielberg was filming this and Hurricane Iniki hit the islands. The footage of the storm surge hitting the shoreline is actual footage that Spielberg stuck around to get for the movie.
I saw this in theaters when I was 10 years old. I’m sure my parents were not prepared for how many subsequent times we’d watch it that summer, nor how many dinosaur toys they’d end up buying me and my brother 😅 31 years later and it still gets me
Yeah. The pupil contracting was what sold the shot. Up to that point, there’s that little bit of uncanny valley in the back of your brain, but that just erased it.
I distinctly remember my dad coming home from work and telling me we were going to the drive-in to see this. It was 1993, I was 11. Good times. RIP Dad.
im so glad someone else feels like i do about the brachiosaurus scene. everytime i see it i tear up a bit just thinking about how amazing it would be to have such stunning and amazing animals back. Saw it again in a flashback theater and was just overwhelmed.
I can confirm that seeing this movie in a theater IS a different experience than seeing it on a small screen &/or without full surround sound. The scene were you first see the Brachiosaurus & the first roar of T Rex were particularly powerful moments.
It was the first movie I ever saw in theaters as a 6 yr old kid and it not only sparked a lifetime love of film, it gave me an obsession with learning everything I could about dinosaurs that continues to this day.
I got the chance to see it in theaters in 2023 (they were re-showing a TON of movies due to the lack of material from the strikes), and I POUNCED. Fabulous opportunity, glad I took it.
Yep, a lot of the dinos were practical puppets. There's a little goof, when the raptor is entering the kitchen, you can briefly see one of the crew outside the door holding the puppet up as it moves.
To this day, the T-rex breaking out of the paddock is one of my favourite moments I experienced as a kid in theatres. I was just 7 years old. Blew my mind.
You are such a Sunshine. I love your reactions: the laughter and the terror. I've been watching your reaction videos for a long time and even though I have seen the movies you react to a million times, it is like I'm seeing them for the first time. Also, you notice little things I have missed in those million times. Keep it up, Angel-face.
Yes, David Attenborough is the man who narrates all the nature documentaries. Richard Attenborough was an actor, director and producer, also he was David's elder brother. Sadly we lost him in 2014.
Which makes it more amusing every time I watch the part where he talks about hiring Richard Kiley as the tour narrator... couldn't even give the job to his own brother.
Both brothers have the perfect voice for narration. If you listen to the the Hammond memoirs from Jurassic Park: Trespasser, Richard Attenborough puts his all into it.
This is making me so happy. Your pure, locked-in enthusiasm for even the small stuff, all the emotions, is taking me back to when I first saw it as a wide-eyed little boy. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. :)
There’s actually a theory going around the JP community recently saying that Muldoon (the hunter guy) may have actually survived his run in with the raptors, the evidence is VERY much speculation. What we know is that Muldoon is similar to that of Chris Pratt’s character in Jurassic world, Owen Grady, and that they both share the same job as Raptor wrangler. Both characters raised the raptors from hatchlings to full grown, and the belief is that it jumped on him playfully and that he just got back up and walked off somewhere. As unlikely as this theory sounds (and trust me, this sound like absolute bull when I first read it), the new Jurassic park horror game “Jurassic Park: Survival” leads us to believe that a female character is left behind on the island is the last one on the island, but finds help from someone, and the speculation is Muldoon, because who else could help someone survive Jurassic Park. AGAIN, THIS IS A THEORY AND PURE SPECULATION, just thought I’d share and get those cogs in your head turning. That is all. - Some Idiot with too much time
Pretty sure there's a deleted scene in The Lost World with Hammond's nephew speaking to the boardroom about InGen's financial troubles, in which he name drops Muldoon when talking about paying the multiple wrong death suits. It was originally a deleted scene which would imply that it's not canon, but it's also regularly added back to the movie whenever I catch it on TV, so it's anyone's guess.
Except the JW films are basically Marvel and Fast and Furious films but with dinosaurs. The raptors are cute little pets in those films. And Owen is some kind of super human and Raptor whisperer, apparently. Muldoon was simply the Raptor keeper, he didn't "raise them". Just kept them fed and contained. He got eaten. I try to forget Jurassic World even exists honestly, waked out of the theater during the first one while wearing my Jurassic Park shirt.
I don't know why they theorize that. In the book Muldoon survives, in the movie he is clearly dead because a human wasn't competing with velociraptor claws and teeth. It would also make zero sense because if Muldoon survived they'd still be hunting him instead of going after the other characters I mean there was a raptor just hanging out watching the big one rip Muldoon to shreds.
Jurassic Park has such a huge nostalgia hit for me. The music is perhaps the greatest movie music of all time. There is NOTHING more memorable except MAYBE the Star Wars intro music. Dude is a legend.
Uhm, Ennio Morricone, the Good the Bad the Ugly, Once upon a Time in the West, a Fistfull of Dollars, ... Movies i dont know the composer, Indiana Jones theme, Dances with Wolfes, Goldfinger, Life of Brian, ... TV, Detective Rockford, Magnum, Airwolf, Miami Vice, GoT, North and South, ...
Your comment about theme parks made me remember walking through Jurassic Park at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. It was dark and almost nobody was around (this was a winter school day, so attendance was very light). With the theme music playing, the experience of walking through that area was ominous and something I'll never forget.
Yeah there's a reason this film is an alltime great. Before this if you look at big monsters in films it isn't anything close to what they achieved with Jurassic Park technologically. They made the t-rex look so damn real that it still holds up now with animatronics + CGI.
I remember my parents taking me to see this in the theater and I had that same expression on my face when I first saw the Brachiosaurus. The raptors scared me so bad that I had to peek into the theater restroom before going in because I thought one was waiting for me! I will never forget the feeling of the theater seats shaking when the T-rex was stomping around outside her paddock. Absolutely incredible memory.
You have a lot of joy Miranda, I really like your reaction videos; and it sounds like it's coming off the back of a lot of time spent in literature? Maybe that's why your reactions are so good 😉 Keep them coming!
This movie is actually one of the most frequently rereleased to theaters. I guarantee if you keep an eye out to whatever your semi-local area is, you'll be able to see it in theaters within the year. I go pretty much every time it comes near me. Also just went last year to a screening of it with a full orchestra accompaniment in a concert hall. Greatest movie of all time. (Possibly a shared title with Field of Dreams and the 10th Kingdom)
As someone who had to finally give up on getting my teeth fixed and had to get implants; your dental health and smile compliments your laugh in a wonderful way. RIP my O.G's from military service. But, I'm not shy to say your smile is a blessing.
I saw this back in 1993 when I was 5 years old in a drive in theater. I was both amazed and terrified lol. That T-Rex scene will forever be burned in my memory.
For the final product it is amazing. But when you rewatch a few times you can see the convoluted storylines they started and abandoned due to script rewrites during filming.
Its not a hidden gem, movies have just gotten markedly worse over the last 20+ years. So in hindsight it looks better now with our more recent piles of 💩 than it did back when it came out. But tell me more about how Grant talks to the Raptors.
Atleast the movies were still about dinosaurs back then. Now it's about Starlord kicking dinosaur ass, fake made up dinosaurs, human clones, giant bugs and other nonsense nobody cares about.
The music in this movie was absolutely phenomenal, and so amazingly beautiful, thank you Richard Attenborough so much for making this film so a success and an inspiration for so many people, I was so inspired by this movie when it came out in 1993. RIP Richard Attenborough!
17:45 Thats one of my favourite philosophical quotes from this movie "Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." Kudos for picking up on that early on.
Lord Richard Attenborough (yes, Lord Richard was made a Baron the same year he was in this film) and Sir David Attenborough were brothers. David went into nature TV and films while Richard became an actor and director. Richard is often overlooked, but he starred in, produced and directed some big films. He was in The Great Escape (1963) and The Sand Pebbles (1966) with Steve McQueen, and in Doctor Dolittle (1966) with Rex Harrison. Another good performance of his is "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965) co-starring with James Stewart. He'd taken a long break from acting throughout the 80's and early 90's until this film, then starred in a remake of "Miracle on 34th Street" as Santa. For directing he preferred to make biographical films. Two of his biggest films that he directed were "Shadowlands" (1993) starring Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis, and "Chaplin" (1992) starring Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin. He won an Academy Award for Best Director and for Best Picture (as producer) for "Gandhi" (1982). And besides all that, he also served on several film and TV boards and organizations, including as President of BAFTA.
Welcome to Jurrasic Park! One of the best lines ever, due to the significance of what it all meant. The concept of how could they bring dinosaurs back to life and could we see them, was so amazing at the time. I love this movie for we finally got to see dinosaurs roaming in the world again. Remember, this was the first one. The practical effects is what made this film! Welcome aboard!
Something I love about the small details here: Hammond keeps saying he "spared no expense", and yet the film constantly shows us examples of things breaking down or not working, often implied to be because they were made cheaply. The whole subplot with Nedry alone could have been avoided if he hired an actual technical team instead of underpaying a single man to run the entire park.
25:25 "She gets right in there" In the "Lego Jurassic World" game, the animation for characters who can analyze dino droppings, is literally them jumping full body in the pile, and rummaging through it. 😅
12 minutes in but subscribing. I was a giant dinosaur nerd as a kid (still am a bit at 28) and LOVED this movie so much. I had memorized all of the lines at one point. It’s just been so wholesome watching this through someone else’s eyes. And you’re adorable.
Hammond's biggest problem honestly was just ignoring basic park safety features that already exist in zoos and parks today. Sure, some of the dinos probably shouldn't have been bred (particularly so early before learning more about dinos and processes) but still. Park design was terrible. This is ofc well trodden on the interwebs and the movie just doesn't work if they did. Also, its not really the lesson we're supposed to take from the story lol
It's funny that the Park games made recently actually take jabs at that, too. 'Careful you don't lose TOO MANY park-goers!' As in 'You're playing with something deadly and you're killing innocent people just because Dinos are cool'. They lay the 'sometimes, things should be left alone' on pretty thick.
The issue is not the Park's design. It's Hammond's hubris in believing that nature can be controlled to this extent. And part of the problem lies in the very idea that it is even possible to learn sufficient knowledge about actual living creatures' behavior from their bones. One of the details that the movie, and subsequent sequels, don't really give enough attention to, is the fact that none of these animals are actual dinosaurs. The need to fill in "gaps" in their DNA with that of other creatures - frogs, no less - makes them chimeras - Frankenmonsters - who are categorically NOT at all the dinosaurs they ostensibly represent. The "facts" which you have to ignore because without it the movie doesn't work, isn't the Park's design. It's the actual fact that even if we did clone _real_ dinosaurs, they would not survive in the present-day climate. They literally wouldn't be able to breathe because oxygen today is significantly lower than it was during the Cretaceous period.
Eye size has nothing to do with it. Earlier Paleo data believed that the shape of the skull would mean part of the Occipital cortex would be under-developed based on a FROG brain. Now, we all know that frogs are not T-Rexes, and further studies were done. It is believed that they would have not only better sight than most birds nowadays, but would likely be quite intelligent and have fairly strong problem-solving skills. Not only was the original hypothesis wrong, but the theory has flipped almost 180 degrees. The Rex was the 'King' for a reason. Those bad boys likely were so hard to escape from that the only option would be to have spiny coverings on your body and a stout frame to knock them off you, like certain dinosaurs did.
It's funny that in The Lost World novel, a character believing that being still would save him from a T-Rex, but it doesn't for all of the obvious reasons.
The main thing I love about the movie is that it still holds up today. I also love that we have physical animatronics, not just CG, as the animatronics give some realism to the scenes. A really good artist on youtube did pictures to follow along with the chapter with the Dilophosaurus scene with Nedry. The Dilophosaurus(original creature and book)are about twice as tall as the raptors. Reading Nedry's death from his perspective as he's blinded, gutted and his skull crushed by the Dilo's jaws is terrifying(only read the original book recently, the movie was my main focus!) Telltale Games made a video game that takes part during the same time period as the movie, with some people being sent to get back the shaving cream can. Also introduces an absolutely terrifying dino not included in the movies... From my personal thoughts: I never really thought Hammond was being sexist to Ellie when he wanted to go, more that he should risk himself since he felt guilty for what was happening(it's a little ironic, given the majority of the dino's up to this point were female.) Two things I love about the ending: The shot of the "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth"banner fluttering as Rexy roars makes me tear up every time(even watching you react to it just made my eyes leak), along with Hammond's look at the island before leaving with Grant. Richard Attenborough is the brother of David Attenborough(who is the voice over person).
I was eight when I saw this movie and it blew my f*cking mind. I thought....This is IT. Like, the pinnacle of human achievement was this movie about dinosaurs.
You weren't far off. It certainly is part of the zeitgeist that looks like now, will probably be the pinnacle of human society. Kinda looks like we're over the peak and heading back down the last 2 decades, and picking up steam. 🤷♂️😊
The T-Rex scenes were split between animatronic and CGI. I believe Stan Winstons team made a 12000lbs life size hydraulic T-Rex. I believe there are videos on UA-cam that show behind the scenes of it. As the T-Rex was the star of the first movie and has a lot of love from the fans of the movie
@@jannette771 Combe Martin is that Devon ? I believe I went on a holiday there with my parents when I was a kid at a caravan park I think or near by. I haven’t been to Devon Cornwall area for about 5 years
Rexy wasn't meant to break the car roof in, though. It had absorbed loads of water and had become much heavier, so instead of stopping where it was meant to, it smashed through the car. The kids' screams of terror were genuine!!
@@matthewpengelly761 It was planned and starboarded for Rexy to break through the plexiglass. However, there WAS a malfunction. While it was planned for her to go through the roof, the rain messed with the weight-based fine tuning of hydraulics of Rexy’s body as her latex skin absorbed the water. She ended up hitting the plexiglass a lot harder than expected, and cracked it into two pieces. One of her teeth broke off and landed in Joseph (Tim) Mozzello’s lap, and he started uncontrollably laughing. So they had to do another take. The smaller piece of broken plexiglass appears after she hits for about a second, and is gone in the next shot. The screaming is not real, just great acting. The rumor started as a misunderstanding of Joseph’s explanation of the experience during an interview, while he was promoting his HBO show, The Pacific. As a fun reference, Rexy’s broken tooth appears in her toy and video game adaptations, and even in the new movies for eagle-eyed enthusiasts.
First-time commenter here, I just have to say I LOVED your Arkham playthrough! Seeing you fall in love with the Batman universe in the same ways I did in my adolescence, it just made me so, so happy. I didn’t think it could get better than finding your movie reactions; but now I find out you’re an Ark player and dropping Ark lingo?! I mean this as humbly and non-parasocial as possible… but you’re awesome and I love you. Speaking of Ark, Dilophosaurs are taken 100% from this movie. Since the real ones (and the ones in the original book) are 10ft tall, with no frills or poison; And you know how they drop the “Nerdy glasses” when you kill them? It’s a reference to the character that got killed by one, Dennis Nedry.
And allegedly led to the first ever digital face replacement effect in a movie, as the stunt double accidentally looked up and it was for too long a shot to get away with it, so they had to compose Ariana Richards' face over hers.
Thanks for letting me experience this again vicariously through you! It is, and always will be my favourite movie of all time. I still get a big dumb smile on my face for the Brachiosaurus scene, even when I've likely seen this film a hundred times. As well as the first appearance of the Rex, there's something about that scene that always made me sit still and stop breathing for a second, especially the first time I saw this as a child. It is absolutely amazing what they accomplished by using a mix of animatronics and CGI here, it holds up to this day! I always felt a lot of sympathy for John Hammond as a character, but my general opinion was, it would have worked if he just cloned the herbivores. 😅
Fun Dinosaur facts! The Dinosaurs seen in this move, by order of appearance are: Brachiosaurus (Jurassic, Macronarian Sauropod from North America). Parasaurolophus (Seen but not mentioned, crested Hadrosaur from Cretaceous North America, this is the only dinosaur which we know what it sounded like). Triceratops (a Ceretopsian dinosaur from late Cretaceous North America). Tyrannosaurus rex (The largest Theropod Dinosaur by body mass, needs no introduction) Dilophosaurus (an early Jurassic Therepod, the real life animal did not have a frill and was MUCH larger, reaching 20 feet in length and being as tall as the average person) Gallimimus (an ornitomomid from late Cretaceous Mongolia. This dinosaur, a herbivore is more closely related to Velociraptor than to other herbivores seen in the move) Velociraptor (a Dromaeosaur Theropod from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. The dinosaur show in the movie is actually probaby nor Velociraptor, which were only about 3 feet tall at the largest. Rather it is probaby Deinonychus, a larger Dromeaosaur from North America). Second, you are, fortunatly wrong. Dinosaurs still very much exist in our world today. You can even keep them as pets. Birds are Maniraptoran Thereopods in the Paraves Family, and are a Sister Taxon to Dromaeosaurs. Since you cannot evolve out of a clade, Birds never stopped being Dinosaurs. Velociraptors are more closely related to a street Pigeon than to any of the other Dinosaurs in this move. If this is hard to believe I urge you to look into Cassowaries. With the exception of the Dilophosaurus and Velociraptor, the depictions of the dinosaurs in this movie are very, very good, even today. The few issues are mostly with the Tyrannosaurus and the Paralophosaurus. Tyrannosaurus would have been bulkier than depicted, and would hold its hands inwards, not downwards. Parasaurolophus would have probaby walked primarily on 4 legs, running on 2 legs. These are minor issues however. Richard Attenborough was David Attenborough's brother. Not a Dinosaur fact, but definitly relevent. David Attenborough narrates an utterly fantastic documentary series about late Cretaceous Dinosaurs called Prehistoric Planet. Would be a bit of a change of pace, but would also be a great reaction. You should definitly watch the other 5 movies in the series. I don't think they every really capture the magic of the first one but its hard to make something about Dinosaurs not entertaining. Frontier Entertainment makes a Jurassic Park park builder game called Jurassic World Evolution 2. You dont need to play the first game, but its definitly worth checking out.
You mostly have it. Just a slight addition: Crighton's velociraptors *are* deinonychus. He consulted with a paleontologist friend for the book, then before it published, he apologized and said he changed the name creative purposes. Ironically, however, The Big One/Clever Girl, is actually *not* a deino, but a much larger dromaesaurid. The creative team wanted her bigger, bulkier, more powerful looking. Here's why "ironically." Around the same time they were making her, a raptor with pretty much her same design and size was discovered in Utah. They unknowingly created Utahraptor at the same time its fossils were found.
@@Masterfighterx The large bony crest on it's head served as a resonating chamber that funneled air through various channels to produce a very loud call. Since this resonating chamber was made of bone it was preserved and palaeontologists have been able to recreate the sound by making models of it and blowing air through
YESS, Miranda.. Watch the others.. I love your reactions, your " TIM "-reference and all your quirky mannerisms.. You're such a delight, a good-hearted Nerd and a beautiful person,, and I absolutely LOVE your sweet laughter
Thanks for including this! Watching it actually helped me decide what business I wanted to get into (VFX Animation). Nowadays you see CG creatures everywhere but when this first came out in 93, nobody had ever seen animation that realistic. It's definitely stood the test of time!
31 years later and I still get emotional when the Brachiosaurus is first seen. Everything John Williams writes is classic.
It's so crushing when it meets it's end in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
@LucianDevine I will never forgive the sequel trilogy for that. Also, @TheMirandalorianReacts, this is the vindication I've scoured UA-cam for in terms of reacting to the brachiosaur scene.
@@GarrettJayChristian Fair on both counts. If there's one dinosaur that you desperately hoped made it off of that island, yes even more than Rexy, despite how much she's saved the day, it's that first Brachiosaurus.
Me too
@@LucianDevine JW 1-2-3 are crushing in general b.c. it's so bad.At least its better than JP3 but i still don't like it that much.
12:05 It's John Williams. He does that.
"Without John Williams: Bikes don't really fly. Nor do brooms in quidditch matches. Nor do men in red capes. There is no Force. Dinosaurs do not walk the earth. We do not wonder. We do not weep. We do not believe."
-Steven Spielberg (at John Williams' AFI Life Achievement Award Ceremony in 2016)
But on the flip side would sharks not eat people? 😂
@@jamescurrall9341 They still would, but at least we know when it's about to happen. lol
@@magic8ball1982 it is helpful to know when it's time to make a swift exit from the water. Good public safety measure
"John Williams is the man" - Moosebutter
(Lipsync tribute)
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Yeah, and on that note, Nazis wouldn't meet fiery deaths.
Honestly, the relationship between Lex and Timmy is one of the most, if not THE most realistic sibling relationship I have seen in TV and cinema, the banter, the insults, even in a serious and extremely scary sutuation, but when it really comes down to it they would do anything to protect eachother, instead of just being lovey-dovey all the time. And, in the end, you can really tell how much they love and care for eachother, and how much they mean to eachother.
Child actors usually fall short massively, either with unreasonable reactions or just being generally unlikable - Timmy and Lex leap over that pitfall though.
Not to mention that they aren't introduced till we get a fair bit into the movie, after the fundamental exposition has gotten out of the way.
too bad they swapped the genders from the book so the teenage girl is now the "hacker" computer nerd, which makes no sense
@@doltBmBWhy is that "too bad"? It literally makes no difference. It does make sense, girls can be into technology aswell, sexist.
@@lannyoneill3489 not in 1993
@@doltBmB Why do people act like the 90s were 100 years ago? Women did have rights in the 90s you know, and even if what you're saying is true, the movie was just ahead of its time, and what's wrong with that? Besides, we're no longer in the 90s, so people shouldn't still be mad or confused over it.
To hell with watching this in theaters. Try being an 8 year old and seeing it at the drive-in. The T-Rex footsteps were shaking the entire lot. The roars were deafening. Little kids freaking out while their parents were mesmerized. A truly magical time.
...We'll never have that experience again.
I was 7 when my dad took me to theaters to see this.
I had nightmares about dinosaurs till my late teens.
Shit was terrifying. Fun to watch nowadays, but yeah.
I'm imagining seeing a Godzilla movie at a drive in theater I would love it like Godzilla Minus one for example I wouldn't mind seeing GxK while I'm at it and the 2022 Batman would be cool as well hearing the engine on the Batmobile and the whole chase scene with it in that film would be amazing
@SwatchVault come to Michigan, we have US23 a drive in theater
I'm jealous of people who got to watch this in the cinema. If I had a millions dollars, I'd build my own personal home movie theater, and this is the first movie I'd watch.
I took my kids to see it at a drive in a few years ago! It was raining and felt just like the night with the T-Rex. So perfect.
"Mooing in fear"
That cow is a professional actor.
Spielberg personally worked with that cow to get the moo of fear just right.
Granted, their previous acting experience was in moosicals.
@@otterpoet i was so exited to hear they were going to be part of this moo-vie!
She later worked with the late Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in "Twister"
@@BlankSpace83Yeah, but she was just a moo-ive extra there
She also worked in Lake Placid with Betty White. She's a 'being suspended' expert stunt cow.
"Clever Girl..." - Still one of my favorite movie lines of all time. The pure emotion and realization conveyed in those two words, and the pause... :D
Which is insulting to the book.
Hammond was an asshole who didn't really care about his grandchildren. Them being on the tour and trapped was more of him sending them away than them "testing" the park. Spoiler alert: He doesn't survive.
They cast Richard Attenborough. The man was legendary as the loveable grandpa.
Muldoon, the game warden, was the one who literally saved everyone because he spends every day with these animals and knows how they think. He's the reason they all survive.
Yet in the movie he falls for the worst case of foreshadowing ever. And gets turned into a meme. With people's favorite quote ever.
It's downright disrespectful.
@@Padfoot1985 Lmao, disrespectful. They changed the characters (as well as a lot of other stuff), it's not a 1:1 copy, it's an adaptation, deal with it.
I have read the book and I have to say I like most of the changes the movie made, or at least understand why they made it.
@@TheAngelsHaveThePhoneBox You are right. Most of the changes were done somewhat properly. And they did incorporate scenes throughout other movies.
But Muldoon, man. He got made into a meme. Cmon.
I love that line too. He was the only one who seemed to have the proper respect for them.. at least until the others came 😅
@@Padfoot1985 While I agree completely, it does nothing to detract from how great that line and it's delivery are (just stating, not saying that's what you meant).
In fact, I would love to trade Hammond's survival for Muldoon somehow managing to survive that encounter in the brush. Lovable/loving grandpa or not, Attenborough's character in the movie is no less the villain than Wayne Knight's Dennis Nedry. Hammond, Nedry and Dogdson are generally considered to be the Villians of the story. To me, Hammond was always the worst of the, whether in the book or the movie.
lol that Spinosaurus messed homegirl up for life
Try watching it in theaters on acid after just coming home out of the Army lol.
What’s crazy is the spinosaurus is actually a very recent find when the movie came out.
@@mikeaninger7388 Spinosaurus was discovered in 1912.
@@kenjutsukata1o1 can you imagine how old that movie is!!! lol
I still remember when I saw it in theaters with my sister and mom, and during that scene my mom reached over with both arms and covered our eyes🤣
I'll never forget seeing this in the theater. There was a disabled person a few rows up from us who had a service dog. During the quiet part of a particularly tense scene, that dog got up and shook off. Half the theater jumped 3 feet in the air. That movie was an experience, to say the least.
🤣🤣🤣
that's so funny, wish I was there haha
Which scene?
@@saagabragi6938 I’m afraid my memory from 30 years ago isn’t quite that detailed.
I love the look on Alan's face as he says "You bred raptors?", like he really wants to ask Dr Wu,
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!?".
A movie from 1993 about dinosaurs is still making people emotional and awestruck today. I remember being 13 in the theater. Just completely and totally amazed. It was like magic was real. It's hard to explain. But I remember crying in the theaters 13 year old boy getting emotional seeing things we have never seen in a movie before.
Even now I can't get the right words out.
Greatest movie of all time.
I was 14 when I saw it in theaters and I was so enthralled and in edge that I cut my own hand with the strap off my purse. I had wrapped it around my hand so tight.
Same. I was 10 and Jurassic Park was the first "grown up" movie I ever saw in a theater I was terrified and absolutely fell in love with dinosaurs. Was obsessed with them for years.
* one of the greatest movie ever made 😏
I remember this movie coming out when I was 12. My dad was a car salesman at the time. And he told us (my mom and I) if he sold a car, we would all go out and watch Jurassic Park as a treat. And sure enough, he sold a car. And we all went out for dinner and a movie on a Friday night.
I miss those days. I also miss my dad. 😢
he sees you. ❤
That's a great story! Thank for sharing
Beautiful
I remember seeing 2 movies with my Dad. the HBO release of First Blood, which he related to as a vet.
And then the only movie he and I saw in theaters, Back to the Future.
@@SeanBlader actual loss not seeing JP
The "Welcome to Jurassic Park" sequence is the epitome of movie magic. The camera framing, the lighting, the acting, and ESPECIALLY the music. There's nothing quite like watching it for the first time.
A friend of mine said that the "seatbelt tying" scene was the dumbest scene ever. But when I told him it was the greatest foreshadowing ever because he made two females work together, he was shocked!
😅
Damn that's a find
life...finds a way
@@mitchyv1980 so?
Like she can't tie those together.
That's hilarious 🤘🤘
It is amazing that this movie still impresses people today and makes them cry when the dinosaurs are shown the first time. Now imagine it is 1993, there were no life-like CGI-animals in movies ever seen before. And you are a 12 year old boy who was a fan of dinosaurs, sitting in the theater, was not spoiled by thousands of trailers, reviews,... (there was not internet), and watch that. Oh, it was such a great time!
I agree. I was 25 at the time, and when I saw the Brachiosaurus scene I was like "How the hell did they get a REAL dinosaur?' lol I mean it looked so real. Incredible
Are...are you me?
I was 4 and it was my first movie in the theater. Scared the crud out of me but hey I still like dinosaurs.
Ah this is great, I normally feel old in the comments section! 😄I was 7, my uncle took me to the cinema - the effects and dinos blew my mind too. I remember the only scene they kept showing on TV previews was the Gallimimus stampede, so we were seeing pretty much all of it for the first time on that big screen.
I was 10, my Dad got tickets to Free Willy in front of my mom, then when she left us, he said lets go see Jurassic Park instead! I love my Dad.
John Williams is everyone’s childhood, it’s crazy. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jaws, Jurassic Park, the Olympics theme, Indiana Jones, etc. Legend
Greatest modern composer, and IMHO Jurassic Park is his absolute best. Just beautiful powerful music!
Not to mention his role as "Little Enos" in 'Smokey and the Bandit', sporting that dwarf suit..lol
And in the 60s, like "Lost in Space."
They did Grant dirty in the movie version of this. In the book, Grant loved kids. And for good reason: Kids were the only people he'd met who were as enthusiastic about dinosaurs as he was.
Book spoilers: They also switched which kid liked dinosaurs, and made Gennaro the lawyer greedy and Hammond altruistic when they were the opposite in the book. The lawyer was cool, and survived, but Hammond was an a-hole and got eaten. I've always wondered about those changes, but they work for the movie.
@@doomsdayng The change of the lawyer was a good choice, a cool lawyer is total unrealistic.
i think it was a good change, as it added character growth.
@@wolf310ii Maybe, but in the book Gennaro was capable and helpful throughout. He knew he was beyond the safety of his office and did what was necessary to survive.
@@robertvenegas6113 A greedy bloodsucker doesnt becomes an action hero just because he is outside of his office
Back in 93 there really wasn't something of this quality around. Something that still looks damn amazing today.
There is a bare hint of aging in the CGI, but the use of the practical effects alongside them was the perfect call even with as complicated and expensive as it was.
I still remember when they used clay animation. This was the first movie that made dinosaurs looked like real animals. Amazing movie.
@@shawnpatrick1877 Phil Tippett was the animation supervisor for Jurassic Park and had previously pioneered the art of "Go-motion" which is where computers control the movement of puppet models filmed so that they move during the film exposure (producing realistic motion blur, for example.)
When he found out that Spielberg had decided on using CGI animation Tippet thought that his profession had become extinct. Instead, he devised a genius technique for _reversing_ the go-motion process. Instead of using computers to control models, he used the physical jointed models as input devices to program the CGI characters. This way the computer animations could be "posed" virtually by experienced puppet animators manipulating real physical jointed puppets.
@@shawnpatrick1877 Yeah, stop motion. I still say this is the first film that made dinosaurs look real.
@@chrismaverick9828 I only learned last year, that the car in this scene at 30:57 was completely CGI in all the wide shots. Now I can't unsee it, but achieving this in 1993 was groundbreaking.
Perfect reaction to the first dinosaur reveal. This is all the elements in movies coming together. The score, the acting, the visuals, the dialog, the set up of two characters you like experiencing their wildest dream come true.
30:35 - "The dinosaur looks so real though."
That's because it _IS_ real. Most of that sequence relied upon full-scale animatronics, not CGI. If part of any dinosaur in this movie is off-camera, it's animatronics. Rexy is a full-scale hydraulic robot puppet with a leg and everything from the chest up. And the rain played havoc with the technology.
And some of the raptors are guys in rubber suits. You can't even tell!
I watched all of _Walking With Dinosaurs,_ and then _The Making Of Walking With Dinosaurs._ They used a lot of puppets and animatronics, and some of the effects were real video of a log being thrown into a river, with the jumping dinosaur spliced in over the log. The last part of the "making of" was about how the got them to walk properly, with all the calculations about joint stresses and muscle loads and how to move that shape most efficiently (personally, I still suspect they just motion-captured a pheasant), and the camera pulled back from the computer screen with the colour-coded frame and muscles on it to the fully CGI dinosaur watching itself be animated. It then kicked the animator's coffee cup off the desk, ran across the keyboard and hit among the stuff on the shelf.
Poor girl had the shakes. Also, I love how she wasn't actually supposed to crash through the car roof. Rexy was just THAT powerful.
Rexy would also short out with the fake rain soaking into the foam skin that she had. So randomly between takes or overnight she would move on her own. Apparently she would scare the shit out of the crew when she did that haha
@@grandpagohan1She was supposed to break through. It was planned and storyboarded. She just hit too hard and broke the plexiglass. Joseph (Tim) laughed as Rexy’s broken tooth landed in his lap, so they had to do another take. The broken piece disappeared between the shots
I believe they could rerelease this film in theaters every 10-20 years, and it would still kill at the box office.
Watching this in the theater on release day was absolutely amazing. Special shout out to the scene with the first Brachiosaurus. Everyone in the theater gasped.
I'd love to see this in the cinema again!!
I wish they’d do that with lots of the big older movies: Star Wars OT, 2001, Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the third Kind, Jaws, The Matrix, Alien, Aliens…
They rereleased it in 3-D like 8 years ago didn't they? With remastered sound too, I think? Anyway, I saw it in the theater again at that time.
@@itzakpoelzig330that was my first time seeing it in theaters as I was around 3 when it was first released.....Jurassic Park was my Barney 😂
It loses so much on the small screen.
i love how this movie makes viewers feel the absolute astonishment and amazement as alan and ellie and the others for example the brachiosaurus scene
As a math teacher, I love that Ian Malcom is presented as a "cool" mathematician. The character was an early influence on my love of mathematics.
@andrewstrom8157 Just remember, math makes people have nervous breakdowns and lose their hair!!!😬
Total chaos theory.
@@justinedse8435 i gained 2 bald spots in middle school I will choose to believe this
Cool, but talked a load of bullshit. Chaos theory has nothing to do with running a theme park or genetic resurrection.
My dislike of math had everything to do with me being bad at it 😂. Though I'm good with most science my forte is English, language and above all else history
I based my entire MA portfolio on chaos/complexity theory due to this film/book.
The scene where we see the Brachiosaurus for the first time is such a cinematically significant moment. I saw it when it came out at the cinema- when the characters and the audience are in perfect sync- both seeing something incredible for the first time. Also the choice of aspect ratio allowed us to have the sense of scale and height, bravo Mr Spielberg.
Yep there is a good video on UA-cam comparing it to a similar scene in the recent movies and it just doesn't compare.
I think it was a huge moment in movie history. For the first time, thanks to computer technology, we had the power to show anything that could be imagined. There were no limits. We take this for granted now (and perhaps rely on it too much) but it was revolutionary in 1993.
In a way Spielberg was Hammond - he brought dinosaurs back to life for us.
Alan pretending to be electrocuted is such a nice moment in the film. He goes from disliking the idea of kids to being able to have a playful moment with them.
Richard Attenborough (RIP) was David Attenborough's brother. David celebrated his 98th birthday last week.
So much talent. Their parents did a good job with these brothers.
From my home city Richard was a great actor 😢
Wow! I didn’t know that!! Thanks for info
Feeling emotional is the correct response to that first proper view of the dinosaurs. Even 30 years later, I still tear up with that music and scene.
I'm 46 years old, I've seen this movie dozens of times and watched reactions many times. The scene when they first see the dinosaur still makes my eyes watery. It's really the music that does it
You got it right! Actor and Oscar winning director Lord Richard Attenborough was the older brother of natural historian and all round national treasure Sir David Attenborough 😊
Heck with national treasure, Sir David Attenborough is a global treasure. Don't care where you live, he should be on your 'I am grateful he exists' list.
@@billmcdonough3950 Wait, how is Richard a Lord but David is only a Sir? Don't tell me it's some stupid age thing.
@@JoeThornhill Arguably because David wouldn't want it. Which is quite understandable. You have parliamentary responsibilities as a Lord.
@@ciarangallagher2729 Oh, yeah ok.
@@JoeThornhill Yeah if he wanted it I’m sure he’d have gotten it. Worth noting that he’s in the Order of Merit too which is arguably the most exclusive order, only 24 living members at one time. Officially he has way more titles to his name than his brother did: Sir David Attenborough OM GCMG CH CVO CBE FRS FSA FRSA FLS FZS FRSGS FRSB
This was an event movie back in the day. I have no idea how many times I've watched it over the last 30 years, but it never gets old.
The amount of Rizz displayed by The Goldblum in this film, is legendary.
When I saw this in the theater when it first came out, that T-Rex roar literally shook the theater. It was so awesome.
Those little ones you talked about are compsognathus ("compies"), and while present in the book, they don't show up until the second movie.
Fun fact: that storm immediately after the sick triceratops was real. It was a hurricane that they had to hunker down through until it was over. But they caught the beginning on camera, which is the shot of the ocean crashing against the land. They had to rebuild a LOT of their sets to continue filming.
Yep hurricane Iniki on Kuaui
The shot of the waves crashing on the shore as the group attempts to head back is a shot of Hurricane Iniki
When you see both feet and head, it's CGI. When you see just either one, it's an animatronic. But they cut back and forth, and it's seamless. It's marvelous! There's even one scene in the kitchen where one Raptor is CGI and one is animatronic in the same shot, and you can't tell the difference. Fantastic camera work.
As a geologist, whose undergrad specialized in paleontology, I've never heard nope chicken. stealing that.
she probably got it from Ark:Survival Evolved, that's where I got it from
Easy, mister chicken, easy... (guess where this line is from)
The Nope Chicken is the evolutionary precursor to the Canadian Cobra Chicken. They share a lineage of sheer terror and brutality that is legendary unto eternity.
Same here. I laughed so hard lol
@@Spero_Hawk I haven't heard the term (single player only) but I was like 'sounds legit' because until I have enough tames or bolas, I run screaming from raptors
"is this sabatoge why?" it's sabatoge so he can commit corporate espionage. he turned off the power to the fences so he could get through them undetected. it's why he doesn't mess with the raptor fences, they're irrelevant to his goals of stealing embryos and driving to the dock and back. had the storm not happened it probably would have gone fine.
I feel like she wasn't really listening to some of the dialogue early on...
Yeah, the comedic antics of Wayne Knight with shaving cream distracted her from the very important plot being discussed. Happens to the best of us.
@@SubterrelProspector that's her trademark at this point: get overly hyped over nothing, miss critical plot points. You gotta love her enthusiasm tho I guess
she just completely missed that
@@frenchynoob Ah, so she's one of those that are more concerned with having a reaction, than reacting to the movie? The type of reactor that ignores the movie so that they can talk to the audience, and get back to the movie when they're finished.
10:50 Seeing that in theatres in 1993 was something special. This was the same year as Carnosaur and the Mario Bros. movie.
Remember that this was shown in movie theaters in 1993! The quality of SFX in this movie was second to none for many many years forward.
The whole movie has approximately 5 minutes worth of CGI graphics in total and everything else is puppets and animatronics.
"The whole movie has approximately 5 minutes worth of CGI graphics in total and everything else is puppets and animatronics."
*And now we live in a world where movies have five minutes of practical effects, and everything else is CGI, we've fallen far.*
Also the reason they needed the budget they did - worth every damn penny spent though
DTS was the best of the best back then.
@@Dusk.EighthLegion Five minutes of practical effects IF WE'RE LUCKY.
Exactly right. All the relatively young youtube reactors can't truly relate to how incredible the cgi dinosaurs in this film impacted the public at the time. Today of course, cgi is pervasive in films, so everyone takes it for granted.
Miranda’s being emotional over this movie has me being emotional over this movie all over again. I remember going to the theater to see this movie in 1993 and just being blown away. Love it!
Right? _Jurassic Park_ is one of those classics that makes me annoyed studios almost never bother to re-release movies. Instead of throwing loads of cash into spin-offs that are inferior in every conceivable way - looking at you, _Jurassic World_ - what would be wrong with remastering originals that are proven to be great and putting them back into cinematic release? There are so many classic films that really get their greatest benefit from being seen on the big screen, and even from a cold-heartedly capitalist perspective, the profit-to-cost ratio would be insane. I'd bet a pretty major body part that a cinematic re-release of _Jurassic Park_ would pull at least half a billion dollars
@rhonafenwick5643 Jurassic Park has actually been reshown in theaters a handful of times now. I got to see it in theaters for the 25 year anniversary and whoa boy was that a wonderful experience.
"It's the music"
Welcome to John Williams and the power of an Orchestra.
You were right about the great music, very few movie scores can compare with Jurassic Park.
Thank you John Williams.
Great gag that a lot people miss when the T-Rex is chasing the jeep and you see his reflection filling up the side mirror, and the mirror has written on it "OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR"
Thank you! I was hoping someone would point that out!
"The T-Rex may apear to be ten feet away when in truth it's about seven feet away"
They parodied/referenced this scene in toy story 2
I don’t think that gag is missed a lot, considering it gets referenced all the time
LOL - nobody misses that gag. It's the whole point of the scene and it's been widely parodied for decades.
I first saw this movie on VHS when I got it for Christmas when I was 8, and it was one of the most freaktastic movies I ever saw and the time, and I couldn't stop watching it multiple times afterwards.
I used to work at a big cat reserve. One weekend the keepers were busy with a sick Lion, and we had a 4-month-old Tiger cub that still needed constant care. So, I volunteered to watch it while they were busy with the Lion. Our Basset wasn't happy about it but quickly adjusted. We were chillin when Jurassic Park came on TBS. Everything was ok, until the T-Rex roared. The Tiger cub jumped up on the couch and hid between me and the back of the couch. There was something that they sampled for the T-Rex roar that scared the Tiger cub.😅
I wanna say that I read that one of the sounds used for the T-Rex roar was an elephant so maybe that was it! 😂
Well, there's a bit of lion...some elephant...and metal on metal scraping along.
I mean, it was probably just the unexpected and loud noise.
My cats were absolutely terrified by the sounds orcas made, despite the fact they've never been close to an ocean. Something in their brains just told them "dangerous predator. "
“Nope Chickens” 🤣🤣 never change, Miranda
I was living in Hawaii (elementary school to date me) when Spielberg was filming this and Hurricane Iniki hit the islands. The footage of the storm surge hitting the shoreline is actual footage that Spielberg stuck around to get for the movie.
Spielberg made jurassic park and Schindlers list in the same year, so amazing, probably the greatest director who ever lived
Akira korusawa, trust me steven would agree.
@@MitchClement-il6iqand kurosawa would say it was john ford
I saw this in theaters when I was 10 years old. I’m sure my parents were not prepared for how many subsequent times we’d watch it that summer, nor how many dinosaur toys they’d end up buying me and my brother 😅
31 years later and it still gets me
I like that you're educated enuf to know what imprinting is. Kudos to you. Hi from Russia.
i still love the closeup on the T-rex eye reacting to the light. it's so real and gives credit to the sheer amount of elbow grease put into the film.
That's my favorite shot of the movie lol
I think you also forgot blood sweat and tears.
@@draygontaygen677pretty sure that’s what was implied
Yeah. The pupil contracting was what sold the shot. Up to that point, there’s that little bit of uncanny valley in the back of your brain, but that just erased it.
So scary too because of how real it looks 👏🏻😅
I distinctly remember my dad coming home from work and telling me we were going to the drive-in to see this.
It was 1993, I was 11. Good times.
RIP Dad.
im so glad someone else feels like i do about the brachiosaurus scene. everytime i see it i tear up a bit just thinking about how amazing it would be to have such stunning and amazing animals back. Saw it again in a flashback theater and was just overwhelmed.
I can confirm that seeing this movie in a theater IS a different experience than seeing it on a small screen &/or without full surround sound. The scene were you first see the Brachiosaurus & the first roar of T Rex were particularly powerful moments.
To this very day, I still have the original copy on VHS.
It was the first movie I ever saw in theaters as a 6 yr old kid and it not only sparked a lifetime love of film, it gave me an obsession with learning everything I could about dinosaurs that continues to this day.
I got the chance to see it in theaters in 2023 (they were re-showing a TON of movies due to the lack of material from the strikes), and I POUNCED. Fabulous opportunity, glad I took it.
"Could you imagine bringing those back tho?"
Miranda....the ENTIRE FRANCHISE is showing exactly why that's a BAD idea, LMAO!
THAT'S A REALLY BAD IDEA!
Jurassic World: "Genetically alter them to make them stronger and smarter, you say? Sounds like a GOOD idea!"
Can we just bring back the small cute ones
@@TheYakusoku
Nope
@@itsmxtwistno, we already have small and cute animals.
Yep, a lot of the dinos were practical puppets. There's a little goof, when the raptor is entering the kitchen, you can briefly see one of the crew outside the door holding the puppet up as it moves.
To this day, the T-rex breaking out of the paddock is one of my favourite moments I experienced as a kid in theatres. I was just 7 years old. Blew my mind.
"All ladies on one island. What can go wrong?" I lost it. LOL
You are such a Sunshine. I love your reactions: the laughter and the terror. I've been watching your reaction videos for a long time and even though I have seen the movies you react to a million times, it is like I'm seeing them for the first time. Also, you notice little things I have missed in those million times. Keep it up, Angel-face.
I saw this movie in the theater when I was a kid. I can still remember the shock and awe it gave me.
Yes, David Attenborough is the man who narrates all the nature documentaries. Richard Attenborough was an actor, director and producer, also he was David's elder brother. Sadly we lost him in 2014.
Which makes it more amusing every time I watch the part where he talks about hiring Richard Kiley as the tour narrator... couldn't even give the job to his own brother.
@@dannykent6190 No, He couldn't, because Steven Spielberg dicided to hire the Narrator that was written into the original Novel.
Both brothers have the perfect voice for narration. If you listen to the the Hammond memoirs from Jurassic Park: Trespasser, Richard Attenborough puts his all into it.
This is making me so happy. Your pure, locked-in enthusiasm for even the small stuff, all the emotions, is taking me back to when I first saw it as a wide-eyed little boy. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. :)
There’s actually a theory going around the JP community recently saying that Muldoon (the hunter guy) may have actually survived his run in with the raptors, the evidence is VERY much speculation. What we know is that Muldoon is similar to that of Chris Pratt’s character in Jurassic world, Owen Grady, and that they both share the same job as Raptor wrangler. Both characters raised the raptors from hatchlings to full grown, and the belief is that it jumped on him playfully and that he just got back up and walked off somewhere. As unlikely as this theory sounds (and trust me, this sound like absolute bull when I first read it), the new Jurassic park horror game “Jurassic Park: Survival” leads us to believe that a female character is left behind on the island is the last one on the island, but finds help from someone, and the speculation is Muldoon, because who else could help someone survive Jurassic Park. AGAIN, THIS IS A THEORY AND PURE SPECULATION, just thought I’d share and get those cogs in your head turning. That is all.
- Some Idiot with too much time
Pretty sure there's a deleted scene in The Lost World with Hammond's nephew speaking to the boardroom about InGen's financial troubles, in which he name drops Muldoon when talking about paying the multiple wrong death suits.
It was originally a deleted scene which would imply that it's not canon, but it's also regularly added back to the movie whenever I catch it on TV, so it's anyone's guess.
Except the JW films are basically Marvel and Fast and Furious films but with dinosaurs. The raptors are cute little pets in those films. And Owen is some kind of super human and Raptor whisperer, apparently. Muldoon was simply the Raptor keeper, he didn't "raise them". Just kept them fed and contained. He got eaten. I try to forget Jurassic World even exists honestly, waked out of the theater during the first one while wearing my Jurassic Park shirt.
I don't know why they theorize that. In the book Muldoon survives, in the movie he is clearly dead because a human wasn't competing with velociraptor claws and teeth. It would also make zero sense because if Muldoon survived they'd still be hunting him instead of going after the other characters I mean there was a raptor just hanging out watching the big one rip Muldoon to shreds.
@@dark_ritI think there was plans to have Muldoon survive but be extremely injured. Face mauling. Might have even been in the comics or something.
@@Bluesit32 You might be thinking of Ludlow, who does come back completely disfigured in some Comic
Jurassic Park has such a huge nostalgia hit for me. The music is perhaps the greatest movie music of all time. There is NOTHING more memorable except MAYBE the Star Wars intro music. Dude is a legend.
I don't know what the greatest movie score ever is but I know John Williams wrote it.
Uhm, Ennio Morricone, the Good the Bad the Ugly, Once upon a Time in the West, a Fistfull of Dollars, ...
Movies i dont know the composer, Indiana Jones theme, Dances with Wolfes, Goldfinger, Life of Brian, ...
TV, Detective Rockford, Magnum, Airwolf, Miami Vice, GoT, North and South, ...
Your comment about theme parks made me remember walking through Jurassic Park at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. It was dark and almost nobody was around (this was a winter school day, so attendance was very light). With the theme music playing, the experience of walking through that area was ominous and something I'll never forget.
NO ONE had seen anything close to looking like a realistic dinosaur before this movie.
Not even in the classic Dr Who episode Invasion of the Dinosaurs! Now those looked totally real! (heh!)
Yeah there's a reason this film is an alltime great. Before this if you look at big monsters in films it isn't anything close to what they achieved with Jurassic Park technologically. They made the t-rex look so damn real that it still holds up now with animatronics + CGI.
Technically we didn't see realistic dinosaurs in this movie either. They just looked like what we thought dinosaurs looked like at the time.
@@Bluesit32 That's why I said "close to."
@@Bluesit32 That was also explained in the movie since they had to fill in the gaps with frog dna. So right there they said they were hybrids. :)
I remember my parents taking me to see this in the theater and I had that same expression on my face when I first saw the Brachiosaurus. The raptors scared me so bad that I had to peek into the theater restroom before going in because I thought one was waiting for me! I will never forget the feeling of the theater seats shaking when the T-rex was stomping around outside her paddock. Absolutely incredible memory.
You have a lot of joy Miranda, I really like your reaction videos; and it sounds like it's coming off the back of a lot of time spent in literature? Maybe that's why your reactions are so good 😉 Keep them coming!
John Williams is a genius. Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Superman, Harry Potter and Schindler's List just to name a few.
The Mozart of our day! But don't forget Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Hans Zimmer...
Plagiarised all his music ua-cam.com/video/mfKmS74WueY/v-deo.htmlsi=BkNl8UAJDNAysn9g
Jaws.
Close Encounters, Home Alone
His son Joseph is the lead singer of Toto
This movie is actually one of the most frequently rereleased to theaters. I guarantee if you keep an eye out to whatever your semi-local area is, you'll be able to see it in theaters within the year. I go pretty much every time it comes near me. Also just went last year to a screening of it with a full orchestra accompaniment in a concert hall. Greatest movie of all time. (Possibly a shared title with Field of Dreams and the 10th Kingdom)
Yesss! You gotta watch the other two as well! Nothing will top the magic of the first but the others two are great fun as well!
This movie is such a classic, I remember this was the first movie I ever went to see opening night at a midnight showing when I was 13
As someone who had to finally give up on getting my teeth fixed and had to get implants; your dental health and smile compliments your laugh in a wonderful way. RIP my O.G's from military service. But, I'm not shy to say your smile is a blessing.
That music .. god bless John Williams and all other phenomenal composers.
I saw this back in 1993 when I was 5 years old in a drive in theater. I was both amazed and terrified lol. That T-Rex scene will forever be burned in my memory.
Five! Did your parents not like you?!
😅 Are there no age restrictions in your countries cinemas!?
The scene you were frightened by is in JP3, an underrated gem.
For the final product it is amazing. But when you rewatch a few times you can see the convoluted storylines they started and abandoned due to script rewrites during filming.
I suppose it's hard to not be underrated when you're considered to be rock bottom.
@@EvanG529until Dominion that is
Its not a hidden gem, movies have just gotten markedly worse over the last 20+ years. So in hindsight it looks better now with our more recent piles of 💩 than it did back when it came out. But tell me more about how Grant talks to the Raptors.
Atleast the movies were still about dinosaurs back then. Now it's about Starlord kicking dinosaur ass, fake made up dinosaurs, human clones, giant bugs and other nonsense nobody cares about.
The music in this movie was absolutely phenomenal, and so amazingly beautiful, thank you Richard Attenborough so much for making this film so a success and an inspiration for so many people, I was so inspired by this movie when it came out in 1993. RIP Richard Attenborough!
17:45 Thats one of my favourite philosophical quotes from this movie "Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." Kudos for picking up on that early on.
Lord Richard Attenborough (yes, Lord Richard was made a Baron the same year he was in this film) and Sir David Attenborough were brothers. David went into nature TV and films while Richard became an actor and director. Richard is often overlooked, but he starred in, produced and directed some big films. He was in The Great Escape (1963) and The Sand Pebbles (1966) with Steve McQueen, and in Doctor Dolittle (1966) with Rex Harrison. Another good performance of his is "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965) co-starring with James Stewart. He'd taken a long break from acting throughout the 80's and early 90's until this film, then starred in a remake of "Miracle on 34th Street" as Santa. For directing he preferred to make biographical films. Two of his biggest films that he directed were "Shadowlands" (1993) starring Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis, and "Chaplin" (1992) starring Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin. He won an Academy Award for Best Director and for Best Picture (as producer) for "Gandhi" (1982). And besides all that, he also served on several film and TV boards and organizations, including as President of BAFTA.
I'm so glad that UA-cam recommended your channel. We have similar tastes in movies and sense of humor. You have a new subscriber.
'I'd give up the internet, dead serious' you sholud definitely watch JW Camp Cretacious after the other movies! It fits that idea really well 🤪
Welcome to Jurrasic Park! One of the best lines ever, due to the significance of what it all meant. The concept of how could they bring dinosaurs back to life and could we see them, was so amazing at the time. I love this movie for we finally got to see dinosaurs roaming in the world again. Remember, this was the first one. The practical effects is what made this film! Welcome aboard!
Something I love about the small details here: Hammond keeps saying he "spared no expense", and yet the film constantly shows us examples of things breaking down or not working, often implied to be because they were made cheaply. The whole subplot with Nedry alone could have been avoided if he hired an actual technical team instead of underpaying a single man to run the entire park.
12:00 “😭 It’s the music.”
John Williams is the man!
25:25 "She gets right in there"
In the "Lego Jurassic World" game, the animation for characters who can analyze dino droppings, is literally them jumping full body in the pile, and rummaging through it. 😅
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12 minutes in but subscribing. I was a giant dinosaur nerd as a kid (still am a bit at 28) and LOVED this movie so much. I had memorized all of the lines at one point.
It’s just been so wholesome watching this through someone else’s eyes.
And you’re adorable.
Hammond's biggest problem honestly was just ignoring basic park safety features that already exist in zoos and parks today. Sure, some of the dinos probably shouldn't have been bred (particularly so early before learning more about dinos and processes) but still. Park design was terrible. This is ofc well trodden on the interwebs and the movie just doesn't work if they did. Also, its not really the lesson we're supposed to take from the story lol
It's funny that the Park games made recently actually take jabs at that, too. 'Careful you don't lose TOO MANY park-goers!'
As in 'You're playing with something deadly and you're killing innocent people just because Dinos are cool'. They lay the 'sometimes, things should be left alone' on pretty thick.
If he just cloned the plant eaters, things would have been all right
@@SJHFoto Not necessarily. Herbivores can be dangerous too. Just look at mooses. They're extremely aggressive.
Unfortunately, billionaires running companies without any experience in that field and making rookie mistakes is an all-too-common sight.
The issue is not the Park's design. It's Hammond's hubris in believing that nature can be controlled to this extent. And part of the problem lies in the very idea that it is even possible to learn sufficient knowledge about actual living creatures' behavior from their bones. One of the details that the movie, and subsequent sequels, don't really give enough attention to, is the fact that none of these animals are actual dinosaurs. The need to fill in "gaps" in their DNA with that of other creatures - frogs, no less - makes them chimeras - Frankenmonsters - who are categorically NOT at all the dinosaurs they ostensibly represent.
The "facts" which you have to ignore because without it the movie doesn't work, isn't the Park's design. It's the actual fact that even if we did clone _real_ dinosaurs, they would not survive in the present-day climate. They literally wouldn't be able to breathe because oxygen today is significantly lower than it was during the Cretaceous period.
T rex actually had the largest eyes of any terrestrial land animal on the Earth. Basically it wouldn't give a shit if you stayed still.
Yeah I don't know why they even tried to make that a thing
If I recall correctly, it’s vision would have exceeded that of modern birds of prey.
Eye size has nothing to do with it. Earlier Paleo data believed that the shape of the skull would mean part of the Occipital cortex would be under-developed based on a FROG brain. Now, we all know that frogs are not T-Rexes, and further studies were done. It is believed that they would have not only better sight than most birds nowadays, but would likely be quite intelligent and have fairly strong problem-solving skills.
Not only was the original hypothesis wrong, but the theory has flipped almost 180 degrees. The Rex was the 'King' for a reason. Those bad boys likely were so hard to escape from that the only option would be to have spiny coverings on your body and a stout frame to knock them off you, like certain dinosaurs did.
It's funny that in The Lost World novel, a character believing that being still would save him from a T-Rex, but it doesn't for all of the obvious reasons.
@@Floridad25Because it's a Sci Fi film, same reason they made cloning dinosaurs from mosquitoes and frogs a thing.
The main thing I love about the movie is that it still holds up today. I also love that we have physical animatronics, not just CG, as the animatronics give some realism to the scenes.
A really good artist on youtube did pictures to follow along with the chapter with the Dilophosaurus scene with Nedry. The Dilophosaurus(original creature and book)are about twice as tall as the raptors. Reading Nedry's death from his perspective as he's blinded, gutted and his skull crushed by the Dilo's jaws is terrifying(only read the original book recently, the movie was my main focus!)
Telltale Games made a video game that takes part during the same time period as the movie, with some people being sent to get back the shaving cream can. Also introduces an absolutely terrifying dino not included in the movies...
From my personal thoughts: I never really thought Hammond was being sexist to Ellie when he wanted to go, more that he should risk himself since he felt guilty for what was happening(it's a little ironic, given the majority of the dino's up to this point were female.)
Two things I love about the ending: The shot of the "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth"banner fluttering as Rexy roars makes me tear up every time(even watching you react to it just made my eyes leak), along with Hammond's look at the island before leaving with Grant.
Richard Attenborough is the brother of David Attenborough(who is the voice over person).
I was eight when I saw this movie and it blew my f*cking mind. I thought....This is IT. Like, the pinnacle of human achievement was this movie about dinosaurs.
You weren't far off. It certainly is part of the zeitgeist that looks like now, will probably be the pinnacle of human society. Kinda looks like we're over the peak and heading back down the last 2 decades, and picking up steam. 🤷♂️😊
You say that like you now think that this movie *isn't* the pinnacle of human society, which it absolutely is.
There are a few movies that rise to a higher level. Jurassic Park and The Lord of the Rings trilogy are two on a very short list.
The T-Rex scenes were split between animatronic and CGI. I believe Stan Winstons team made a 12000lbs life size hydraulic T-Rex. I believe there are videos on UA-cam that show behind the scenes of it. As the T-Rex was the star of the first movie and has a lot of love from the fans of the movie
That life size T-Rex is now in England at Combe Martin Dinosaur Park. Close to where I live
@@jannette771 Combe Martin is that Devon ? I believe I went on a holiday there with my parents when I was a kid at a caravan park I think or near by. I haven’t been to Devon Cornwall area for about 5 years
@@johnfullbrook628 yes it is.
Rexy wasn't meant to break the car roof in, though. It had absorbed loads of water and had become much heavier, so instead of stopping where it was meant to, it smashed through the car.
The kids' screams of terror were genuine!!
@@matthewpengelly761 It was planned and starboarded for Rexy to break through the plexiglass. However, there WAS a malfunction. While it was planned for her to go through the roof, the rain messed with the weight-based fine tuning of hydraulics of Rexy’s body as her latex skin absorbed the water. She ended up hitting the plexiglass a lot harder than expected, and cracked it into two pieces. One of her teeth broke off and landed in Joseph (Tim) Mozzello’s lap, and he started uncontrollably laughing. So they had to do another take. The smaller piece of broken plexiglass appears after she hits for about a second, and is gone in the next shot. The screaming is not real, just great acting. The rumor started as a misunderstanding of Joseph’s explanation of the experience during an interview, while he was promoting his HBO show, The Pacific. As a fun reference, Rexy’s broken tooth appears in her toy and video game adaptations, and even in the new movies for eagle-eyed enthusiasts.
First-time commenter here, I just have to say I LOVED your Arkham playthrough! Seeing you fall in love with the Batman universe in the same ways I did in my adolescence, it just made me so, so happy. I didn’t think it could get better than finding your movie reactions; but now I find out you’re an Ark player and dropping Ark lingo?!
I mean this as humbly and non-parasocial as possible… but you’re awesome and I love you.
Speaking of Ark, Dilophosaurs are taken 100% from this movie. Since the real ones (and the ones in the original book) are 10ft tall, with no frills or poison; And you know how they drop the “Nerdy glasses” when you kill them? It’s a reference to the character that got killed by one, Dennis Nedry.
"You're gonna need a bigger goat."
😂😂😂
It already had 5 legs though
Did you like the scene when Lex fell through the (literal) drop ceiling? An adult stunt woman was used for the swinging and climbing up part!...
And allegedly led to the first ever digital face replacement effect in a movie, as the stunt double accidentally looked up and it was for too long a shot to get away with it, so they had to compose Ariana Richards' face over hers.
Thanks for letting me experience this again vicariously through you! It is, and always will be my favourite movie of all time. I still get a big dumb smile on my face for the Brachiosaurus scene, even when I've likely seen this film a hundred times. As well as the first appearance of the Rex, there's something about that scene that always made me sit still and stop breathing for a second, especially the first time I saw this as a child. It is absolutely amazing what they accomplished by using a mix of animatronics and CGI here, it holds up to this day! I always felt a lot of sympathy for John Hammond as a character, but my general opinion was, it would have worked if he just cloned the herbivores. 😅
Fun Dinosaur facts!
The Dinosaurs seen in this move, by order of appearance are:
Brachiosaurus (Jurassic, Macronarian Sauropod from North America).
Parasaurolophus (Seen but not mentioned, crested Hadrosaur from Cretaceous North America, this is the only dinosaur which we know what it sounded like).
Triceratops (a Ceretopsian dinosaur from late Cretaceous North America).
Tyrannosaurus rex (The largest Theropod Dinosaur by body mass, needs no introduction)
Dilophosaurus (an early Jurassic Therepod, the real life animal did not have a frill and was MUCH larger, reaching 20 feet in length and being as tall as the average person)
Gallimimus (an ornitomomid from late Cretaceous Mongolia. This dinosaur, a herbivore is more closely related to Velociraptor than to other herbivores seen in the move)
Velociraptor (a Dromaeosaur Theropod from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. The dinosaur show in the movie is actually probaby nor Velociraptor, which were only about 3 feet tall at the largest. Rather it is probaby Deinonychus, a larger Dromeaosaur from North America).
Second, you are, fortunatly wrong. Dinosaurs still very much exist in our world today. You can even keep them as pets. Birds are Maniraptoran Thereopods in the Paraves Family, and are a Sister Taxon to Dromaeosaurs. Since you cannot evolve out of a clade, Birds never stopped being Dinosaurs. Velociraptors are more closely related to a street Pigeon than to any of the other Dinosaurs in this move. If this is hard to believe I urge you to look into Cassowaries.
With the exception of the Dilophosaurus and Velociraptor, the depictions of the dinosaurs in this movie are very, very good, even today. The few issues are mostly with the Tyrannosaurus and the Paralophosaurus. Tyrannosaurus would have been bulkier than depicted, and would hold its hands inwards, not downwards. Parasaurolophus would have probaby walked primarily on 4 legs, running on 2 legs. These are minor issues however.
Richard Attenborough was David Attenborough's brother. Not a Dinosaur fact, but definitly relevent.
David Attenborough narrates an utterly fantastic documentary series about late Cretaceous Dinosaurs called Prehistoric Planet. Would be a bit of a change of pace, but would also be a great reaction.
You should definitly watch the other 5 movies in the series. I don't think they every really capture the magic of the first one but its hard to make something about Dinosaurs not entertaining.
Frontier Entertainment makes a Jurassic Park park builder game called Jurassic World Evolution 2. You dont need to play the first game, but its definitly worth checking out.
Parasaurolophus. How do we know what it sounded like?
You mostly have it. Just a slight addition:
Crighton's velociraptors *are* deinonychus. He consulted with a paleontologist friend for the book, then before it published, he apologized and said he changed the name creative purposes.
Ironically, however, The Big One/Clever Girl, is actually *not* a deino, but a much larger dromaesaurid. The creative team wanted her bigger, bulkier, more powerful looking. Here's why "ironically." Around the same time they were making her, a raptor with pretty much her same design and size was discovered in Utah. They unknowingly created Utahraptor at the same time its fossils were found.
Can we please not tell the pigeons any of this?
@@Masterfighterx The large bony crest on it's head served as a resonating chamber that funneled air through various channels to produce a very loud call. Since this resonating chamber was made of bone it was preserved and palaeontologists have been able to recreate the sound by making models of it and blowing air through
Fact: Few time after JP, the Utahraptor was discovered, the biggest Raptor and the same size of the raptors of the movie.
1) The movie you saw a scene of as a kid was Jurassic park 3
2) Your explanation of Ark is valid 😂
YESS, Miranda.. Watch the others.. I love your reactions, your " TIM "-reference and all your quirky mannerisms.. You're such a delight, a good-hearted Nerd and a beautiful person,, and I absolutely LOVE your sweet laughter
Thanks for including this! Watching it actually helped me decide what business I wanted to get into (VFX Animation). Nowadays you see CG creatures everywhere but when this first came out in 93, nobody had ever seen animation that realistic. It's definitely stood the test of time!
27:20 "Find Nedry. Check the vending machine. Remember that time he got himself stuck in there?"
Nedry are you just holding on to the can?
@@Donjeur"Your point being?"
Haha, you legend!
Oh my god. Thank you for showing me I’m not the only personal who gets emotional and even cries during the brachiosaurus scene
For me it’s when they see all the dinos together. Looks so real 🥰🤧
To this day, I still don't know if Newman or the Barbasol can made that squeek sound 🤣
Newman.
I legit only knew him as Newman until I was about 30. 🤣