The T-Rex roaring the first time was absolutely amazing on the big screen. The animal was basically life sized on screen, and the theater speakers made it a visceral experience.
We don't have much of an idea of what T. rex actually sounded like, but it was impressive. But why was it roaring? Celebrating its escape? Roaring out "feed me?" These dinos were much too noisy, unlike a lot of modern animals, except humans, that usually make noise only when they need to.
Hammond is played by Richard Attenborough, a truly great actor and director, brother of David Attenborough, the famous naturalist documentary maker, so his inclusion in this movie feels particularly apt.
The character of John Hammond as written in the original novel was indeed your stereotypical billionaire a$$h0le only interested in money and how much could be made by exploiting InGen's technology to create a theme park, and as was typical of the trope, died horribly by his own creation by the end of the book. But when Spielberg cast Richard Attenborough for the part, the director could not figure out a way to make this affable Santa Claus-like man into a villain and thus the character was changed to reflect more of Attenborough's actual personality, and as a result the character not only survives this film unscathed but is in some ways a background hero of the sequel film.
Yep, fun fact i used to work for david attenborough doing woodland conservation for aboutn12 years, i actually have a signed letter from him for exemplary service. Last i checked he was the only one of the three brothers still alive ☹
@@abrahamdiaz3648 Knighthood ends with death. He WAS Sir Richard Attenborough but the title doesn't persist after death. That is why people who wanted Jimmy Saville stripped of his title as a knight were disappointed, only living people are called Sir, so the grim reaper had already taken his title.
I love how the 'Life finds a way' line is foreshadowed by Dr Grant having two 'female' parts to his seatbelt in the helicopter... and then finds a way by tying them together.
@DramatticDesigns It's not about two 'females' finding a way to make life, it's the fact the being they take DNA from (the frogs), naturally can, and do, change sex during their lifespan. This trait is inadvertently passed onto the dinosaurs in the film, allowing life to 'find a way' to continue.
I've seen this movie probably a dozen times and never made that connection. Thanks! That's totally intentional and I was just too busy ogling the dinos to notice it. Also realised after reading your comment that to tie a square knot like Grant uses you make a helix with the two ends, then loop the ends and make a second helix, then you tighten. A "double helix", if you will. That is a great multi-level metaphor!
🙂 When he mentioned King Kong, he was making reference to the large wooden doors, which were similar to the wooden doors in the original King Kong movie.
One cool fact I like. When arriving in the helicopter at the park, Dr Gran't seatbelt has 2 female ends. It should be impossible to connect, but he finds a way, by tying them together.
4:29 George is correct! The "Velociraptors" in the movies are actually based on the much larger Deinonychus, which was considered a sub-species of Velociraptor when the original novel was written. They were actually designated their own species while the movie was under production, but at that point it was too late to change it. And also... "Velociraptor" sounds cooler!
@@TomVCunningham yeah they literally made up a dinosaur and then discovered it in Utah. Since the Utah raptor is closer then the Deinonychus to the movie
@@LocTsun Actually the Utahraptor was much larger in size than the movie Velociraptors, about as tall as a horse in fact. Meanwhile the move raptors are slightly shorter than full grown adult humans, putting them closer in size to the Deinonychus.
Most of the dinos in the movie are not accurate , but at that time it was what was assumed , now we know that T-Rex not only could smell humans from mile away they had better eyesight than humans , people can test with the animals most like dinos still left , those seem to be totally able to both see and smell humans .
The "Mr. DNA" scene is probably the best exposition dump in movie history. Also, since it was discovered some dinosaurs had feathers, the Jurassic Park lore now says their dinosaurs don't have feathers because they used frog DNA.
Which even though they had add that information later, it's good exposition. Of course I didn't know that at the time but in that universe it completely fits. I really can't wait for dominions come out so we can see all the different stuff they're going to do, from the weaponized dinosaurs to the more accurate ones
read the book. Crichton clearly talks about dinos probably having feathers. He was 20 years ahead of the standard scientific dogma.... as he usually was.
@@Alexanderthegreat159 While it was SPECULATED that many, if not most dinosaurs had feathers or at least protofeathers, it was not until the 1990s explosion of fossils (mostly after this movie was produced), largely out of Mongolia and China, that we had clear and indisputable fossil evidence of the prevalence of fully feathered dinosaurs.
I'm pretty late to the game here, but in case nobody has pointed it out, the interface that Lex is using when they're trying to bring up the park systems was a real thing. It's basically just a graphic browser for the file system. When I worked at Origin Systems, we played with it on our SGIs. It's ridiculously slow and not at all useful, but it looked neat. I'm assuming it's probably in the movie because their CGI team played with it, too.
@@Eidlones Me as a kid in 1993 wondering why they're using that shit UI instead of just typing shit like they did in a previous scene. Trust me. It really wasn't easier for us to understand back then. We were just as perplexed as people are now why anyone would use that. Most people did, in fact, think it was fake. But yeah. It's a real thing. Heck. They altered Lex to make her into a "hacker" but don't show her showing off knowledge of computer use outside of just "scroll to file and click it". Why not show her doing the same things we saw Ray Arnold doing? It was an odd choice for sure.
If you heard about the scene where the T-rex head smashes through the roof of the suv, from the commentary you would know that the gear in the animatronic head of the T-rex broke at that moment and the fear in the children's faces was 100% real. 😱
The book actually details Dennis's death and it was more gruesome! After the dilo blinded him, it sliced his stomach open spilling his intestines. "Nedry stumbled, reaching blindly only to touch the ragged edge of his shirt, and then a thick slivery mass that was surprisingly warm, and with horror he suddenly knew he was holding his own intestines in his hands."
Doctor Wu also gets gutted by Raptors and in the beginning of the book, on the main land, a nurse hears churping coming from the nursery so goes to check it out and finds some of the compy's eating the face off of a baby.
I was lucky enough to watch Jurassic Park on its opening weekend in the theaters back in 1993. It was one of the defining experiences of my childhood; imagine seeing those mindblowing special effects and hearing that incredible audio on the big screen. I'll never forget being pinned to my seat by the sheer sound during the T-Rex scene. It completely outclassed any other movie that was out at the time. I'm so glad that you finally watched it!
I was 13 when this came out. It was PG-13. I spent my allowance taking the bus to a theater and back ever week to catch this in a matinee showing all summer. I must have watched it a dozen times on the big screen.
Same here, it was actually pretty nuts. Small town, one theater, everyone showed up to watch, even the mayor. They actually had people sitting in the aisles despite it being a safety hazard.
I think it's a testament to how well-written and -directed this movie is that basically every question you asked out loud was either answered by the next shot or literally expressed by a character in the scene.
@@Cheepchipsable No, that's the way they try to do it _today_ and it just doesn't work as well. _This_ is the work of a master artist who has huge amounts of _experience_ in what to put into movies. I could write a damn _book_ on the problems with this film, but the cinematography is _not_ one of them.
The "velociraptor" of Jurassic Park was called that due to the author, Michael Crichton, and what was known about raptors at the time. The Utahraptor, which is more like what the JP raptors resemble, were not properly described until the year Jurassic Park was released, so a raptor of that size and power DID exist, but because of the movies and book, is consistently called by the wrong name. Also there are several species of animals that are all female and will breed. There's ways to do it. In the movie they talk about a female spontaneously becoming male, which actually does happen. There's also another way where a female fertilizes herself through a process called Parthenogenesis, and essentially the babies are genetic clones of the mother. You can find this happening in species like the komodo dragon. Also that T-Rex is physical! She's mostly real and partially CGI, that whole bit of her head coming through the roof of the car trying to get the kids. That was 100% real. That was a GIANT animatronic chomping at them.
Those kids were short stunt people and if anything went wrong with that animatronic then those people would've been seriously hurt or killed as the T Rex was very heavy.
@@handsomeDRAC it wasn’t stunt people, it was the kids themselves, the “glass” also wasn’t supposed to break but ended up breaking after the animatronic hit it so many times. Kids screams were real durning that scene as they were scared from the glass having broke
Another species that can self reproduce is snakes. The was a boa that lashed fertilized eggs despite never coming into contact with a male. Every baby was a female however.
@@pickleboy6059 oh really, If that's the case then damn, Spielberg should've got in shit for that. Dangerous stunt especially involving a big heavy animatronic rig and kids. I would've used stunt people if I were him. I have kids so I wouldn't put them in harms way like that.
This was one of the first movies released with digital surround sound. The immersion was mind blowing to audiences at the time who were only used to standard stereo up front. You can only imagine how terrifying those dinosaur roars were in the theater.
Ha! I just mentioned DDSS too. I remember two things about that from the original theater release. The first was the water glass scene. Feeling that vibration come up through the floor was terrifying. The other was the very opening of the movie... the jungle sounds. Any time I hear that opening I get a chill. I didn't understand it when I first saw the movie because I didn't know what DDSS was or why it made a difference, but the immersion was intense and a game changer.
The DSS was so hyped that my parents bought a surround sound home theater and this was the first movie we watched. It was quite the event! It blew.our.minds! Some dinosaur roars from the left...then the right...wha??
Just FYI, there had been surround sound for a couple of decades before that. It wasn't usual, but some theaters were set up for it. The difference is that this one was digital, but the idea had been used for quite a while.
Notice that in the scene when they're in the chopper descending to the island and Grant can't tie his seatbelt, it's not just him being a klutz. His belt is defective, it has female couplings on both ends. But he makes it work anyway. Life finds a way. Just like the all female dinosaurs ended up reproducing. Foreshadowing.
His seat belt is not “defective.” He grabbed the left belt end from the seat to his right with his right hand. A mistake he probably would not have made in an airliner, with arm rests between seats so you can’t grab your neighbor’s belt ends by mistake.
Tremors might be another 'monster' movie you might enjoy. It is a cult classic, and as close to a "perfect" script as you can get. And also shares the 'stop after the sequel' recommendation as a lot of other franchises. Though like with the Jurassic Park movies, the Tremors sequels have their charm even as the budgets and quality went down.
" shares the 'stop after the sequel' recommendation" I never understood this logic. Honestly, all of the movies in the Jurassic Park series and the World movies are good enough. Not at all worth the hate they get. Well... JP3 was definitely weak and the World sequels miss the mark. That said. I generally find that Tremors 2 was the best and Tremors 3 is the only one you should really skip. Tremors was always a dumb B-Movie and the sequels still encapsulate that, perfectly.
You mentioned the actors being excellent portrayors of terror and fear. That's one of the beautiful things about this one that is lost increasingly as the movies continue. The newest reboots are the worst offenders with every character, kids including, being as calm, cool, and collected as an experienced navy seal. It made the movies feel more cartoonish without the fear that a character could actually die. Like three times you thought "holy crap did Spielberg just kill a kid??" That feeling is lost in the rest :(
I remember when I saw "Jurassic Park" when it first came out, and everyone in the theater all chanting in unison, "Get off the fence! Get off the fence! Get off the fence!" And we were all in such shock when Tim didn't get off the fence in time!
I also love that they allow the cast to actually get dirty. Like, Jurassic World when the two kids jump into the water for safety, they're dry with fluffy perfect hair not long after. I don't think the gasoline Owen covers himself in is visible in the immediate next scene he's in either, and there's no way it dried that quickly. I'm sure there's a million other instances of this in all modern action movies. But in the original Jurassic Park, the kids look ROUGH. When they're trapped in the car swallowed by mud, that mud stays on them through the whole thing. Tim even has dried blood on his ears from his electric shock! It's a scary experience, not a thrill ride, and they look appropriately roughed up.
It's sad, any time a performance portrays true terror or sorrow these days, sheltered, privileged idiots who've never felt fear in their lives call it "overacting."
I remember in the second one when Malcolms daughter calmly does a gymnastic routine and kicks a Raptor through the window I was done with that movie. It's when you know that now it's more about pandering to the young demographic and selling toys than making a memorable film
I agree, the characters feel real. I love the mixture of personalities too: scientists, businessmen, lawyer, technicians, kids. It makes the scenes interesting too, seeing them all respond to this situation.
I am a palaeontological research associate in a Canadian research-oriented museum. Jurassic Park opened two days before I turned 10, and I went to see it four times in theaters that summer. Hmmm... Could there be a link between these observations, I wonder?
@@ptittannique5621 I took a course in college on archaeology which had a lab aspect to it, but more often than not you're just surveying land that needs to be built on for permits and nothing all that interesting sadly.
The T-Rex gets demonized in this movie after (s)he did everything (s)he could to help the protagonists by 1) eating a lawyer 2) protecting Sam Neil and kids from stampeding dinos, 3) saving everyone from the velociraptors at the end of the movie. T-Rex is the true hero of this movie.
"This is a UNIX system. I know this". Believe it or not the 3D graphic interface "flying" around the file system was a real thing. The girl is sitting at an SGI IRIX work station running its File System Navigator, or FSN, pronounced "Fusion". It was experimental, never went into actual production status, but was nevertheless real, and kinda worked.
As far as I know, T-Rex actually had great vision and an amazing sense of smell. In the book, it's explained that because the dinosaurs had the holes in their DNA that were filled with frog-DNA, they have a lot of froggy flaws. Like for example, the movement-based vision. The vast majority of frogs have a specialized movement-based vision to help catch fast insects like flies and dragonflies and such with their tounges but in exchange are practically blind to anything that doesn't move. However, they put a lot of weird and outright incorrect information in the first movie. Probably to make it less confusing for casual viewers (less science stuff) and/or more marketable ( like giving wrong dino information, you are right that velociraptor was tiny, Utahraptor though, now that's a biggens). They are retconning a lot of stuff in the newer JW movies.
We actually have no idea how dinosaurs saw or smelt or hunted. There's no consensus on the overall lifestyle of reptilians so long ago. The make up of the atmosphere and it's effects on life forms is even heavily debated. Modern reptiles of any size live incredibly stationary lifestyles. I mean we don't even know if reptiles were warm or cold blooded back then. Almost no data on dinosaur behavior irl combined w frog splicing in the movie and it's a blue print to have whatever traits the writer wants to give them. It's what the indominus rex so pointless, they were already all hybrids capable of any traits you want to give them. Velocitaptor was a marketing choice, they knew what raptors grew to which sizes but in Hollywood fashion they picked the coolest name to give to the biggest raptors.
They actually didn't discover Utahraptor until after this movie was announced. When they dug it up, someone said, "Congratulations, you found Spielberg's raptor."
@@Agent719 well that's why I didn't say ultra raptor.. the denonychus was the one they based the size of in the movies. Again they knew which raptors which size and based theirs off the biggest on record w a name they liked. If ULTRA raptor was a name on the table I bet they woulda picked that over veloci
@@bryansmith1691 We have enough information from fossils that we found, dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurus and other extinct reptiles were much different animals than modern reptiles. Warm bloodless is basically confirmed, and with well preserved fossils we can actually find out how good sense animals have.
Fun fact: the weird CGI computer scene was REAL there was a REAL operating system in the early 90s that used that kind of 3D file monitor gui. Can’t remember which distro of Unix it was though.
I'm kind of surprised how many reactors who've never seen Jurassic Park before apparently think it's a children's movie. George definitely isn't alone in that. That being said, when it was first released in 1993 most kids wanted to go see it because, well, dinosaurs. Also, you guys/George should definitely react to Land Before Time, Secret of NIMH and An American Tail. He needs to experience peak-era Don Bluth movies. There's also no such thing as flying dinosaurs. Pteranosaurs are considered a different animal group.
To be fair, it's the first movie I can ever remember seeing in theaters from my childhood. Though it must have been a special screening a few years later, cause I was only 2 when it came out
Although even in 1993 he'd made more grown up fare, at that time I suspect a lot of parents only knew Steven Spielberg from Indiana Jones and E.T. and assumed he only did family movies and PG-level light action films.
some dinosaurs might've been able to fly, Microraptor for instace. while older theories had it as a glider only there are some newer ones that it might've been capable of powered flight. then of course there are birds which are technically dinosaurs.
Your reaction when you saw the first live dinosaur was perfect. That scene has never failed to bring tears to my eyes. That would be an incredible experience to unexpectedly look across and see a beast from millions of years ago just being itself in the wild, especially something so incredibly massive.
I was 10 years old and watched this with my older sister, and several cousins in an old VW mini van at a drive-in movie. My family, we’re chicanos, so our sound system was….stoopid. When that first water shaking moment occurs as the T-Rex is finally about to make his long anticipated appearance - our windshield was rattling. We were screaming. It was the best movie going experience in my life. Until I took my then 6 year old daughter to watch the My Little Pony movie a couple of years back now. She danced during every musical number.
Imagine seeing this movie in 1993 when it was released in theaters. It was an extraordinary experience and the craze for dinosaurs exploded. For me this remains the only true Jurassic Park
I don't have to imagine. I was 10 and I saw it with a group of my friends. It was just mindblowing. And even today, whenever we manage to meet up, we might pop JP into the BluRay player and have a few beers.
This movie was so masterful with the limited CGI technology available at the time. Obscuring the CGI T-rex behind high contrast shadows and diffuse rain while occasionally illuminating it via lightning really helped ground it to the environment and hide the limitations of the technology. They also did a great job seamlessly integrating it with the animatronics - 19:37 close up of the life-size animatronic T-rex, then the camera pans down, and then the fully CGI Rex enters the frame. It still looks better than the newer films.
newer movies could honestly take a note from the older stuff like jurassic park. it holds up and looks better because it IS real.. enhancing special effects with cgi is just going to work better than trying to make cgi photorealistic (unfortunately our brains can still tell theres something off with it).
I love Hammon's portrayal, especially his monologue about the flea circus. He felt like a fraud and wanted to make something laudable. It just happened to be a teensy bit lethal to humans. The other movies never improve on the original but they're still fun to watch.
The biggest problem with Hammond's arc in this movie is that its forced and incomplete. He screams at Grant not to shoot his raptors and then the very next time we see him he agrees with Grant not endorsing his park. They should have just made him the villain he was in the book and killed him instead of half-assing his character arc. Genero is another problem, his job is to find out if the park is safe on the behalf of the investors his law firm works for. He doesnt actually stand to make any money from the park whether its profitable or not, so him having dollar signs in his eyes doesnt make any sense. The writers of the movie just took all of Hammond's negative traits and dumped them on Genero, who is actually one of the more heroic characters in the book.
@@nathanpapp432 Well... Maybe it's because of the french interpretation (cause I had watched it mainly in french for years before starting to watch it in english with subtitles), But it always seemed to me that he was shouting not out of anger against Grant cause he shot the raptors, but out of worry to not know what's happening (considering his two grandchildren are in the same room, it' s kinda logical he's been worrying they might be attacked)
Something that's left out from the book (or at least not emphasized in the movie) is that the "spared no expense" line is a joke in the book because Hammond repeatedly cut corners. Which is why Nedry makes less sense here to George. Hammond is saving money by having ONE PERSON do the job of 15. And it repeatedly bites them in the butt.
To be fair in the movie Dennis mentioned that he bid for his contact, he most likely bid low to undercut his competition. So in the movie it’s less Hammond cutting corners and more “me and this man agreed on his pay before I hired him and now he keeps asking for more money”.
@@inarar5334 Yeah LOL and remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids! He thinks he's hidden then SUPRISE LOL Rexy 🦖 She found him and Bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
@@hyperrustynail But in the movie they portray Hammond as a kindly old gent and Nedry as a cartoon villain, so like a lot of Spielberg movies, it's dumbed down for the audience.
"Ohh that's Crazy!" "It looks so real though" Guys it WAS real, Jurassic park was mostly filmed with Animatronics and that Triceratops was a real life size model. The body, the eye movements and the breathing was NOT CGI it was an actual prop the actors could work with, that is why the film is so realistic, they actually made everything including the T-Rex.
@@fakecubed wide shots generally. Most of the closeups were real physical objects. You can even see the puppet techs in some of the raptor in the kitchen scenes. The breakdown was of the 15 or so minutes of Dino screen time about 11 were animatronic and 4 or so were CGI.
the first reveal of the dinosaurs still is great today... but in 1992 that was the level of special effects you havent seen before and the awe when you looked at it was corresponding to the awe of the actors when they saw the dinosaurs
the 3D file system on the computer was a real program, all the computers in the control room were Silicon Graphics Inc workstations running on Unix operating systems. they cost a small fortune in the 90s costing many thousands and were specialized in creating 3D graphics. The 3D sprites in the Donkey Kong Country games on the SNES were created using their machines, by creating 3D animations them rendering them as 2D sprites
I could be wrong, but I swear I read somewhere that it was the same kind of computer used by ILM in the making of this very movie. (Like: maybe they just borrowed them from ILM for a day of shooting? It's been years, so I no longer recall the details.)
I had an SG machine on my desk in the 90's and yes, that 3D file system program was one of the demo programs they included with their Irix OS to show off the real time 3D graphics chops of the SG machines.
4:55 Yes, velociraptors were only the size of turkeys. This was deliberately changed for the film because Crichton (the author of the original book) liked them as a threat. They also had feathers, but that actually wasn't known at the time the book was written. 20:01 Fun fact: the plexiglass roof wasn't supposed to pop off like that. The prop department didn't secure it in place very well, and the animatronic T. Rex broke it by accident, *actually* scaring the child actors. 20:27 "Movement-based vision" isn't a real thing, but Crichton thought it was, so he put it in the book, so Spielberg put it in the movie. After the book was published, fans wrote in correcting him. So, in later novels, he retconned the T. Rex's behavior as "she actually could see them just fine, but she'd just eaten, and so wasn't hungry, and was more curious than anything".
In the book it was explained that the vision thing for the t rex got it from the frog dna They did know they had feathers But didn't knew Deinonycus (This movie's raptor) had
@@gergopiroska5749 What on Earth are you talking about? I honestly have no idea what that has to do with anything at all. I own the original novel. I read it long before the movie was even announced. Guess what? *THAT DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING.*
Well, _all_ animals, including human beings, find it _much_ easier to spot something moving than the same object when stationary. Though when the Rex is literally _nose-to-nose with them,_ that's clearly more about her not being hungry. Which is honestly better anyway, the dinosaurs are at their best when they are portrayed as animals rather than as monsters who are trying to kill people for no reason.
It’s fun to see someone who’s never seen this reacting to some of the most iconic lines for the first time. “Life… uh” and “whether they should” “they do move in herds” etc. It’s so fun!
This movie has two of my favorite scenes of all time. The discussion ethics and implications of creating the park at lunch and the scene with Dr. Sattler and Hammond discussing control. Also, I believe that velociraptors were a smaller member of the raptor family. However, the raptors in this film would be more in line (proportion wise) with the Utahraptor. I believe they used the name velociraptor because they are well known and information on Uhtahraptors at that time was scarce. Robert Bakker a renowned paleontologist helped work on Jurrasic park. In his book, Raptor Red, the preface explains his involvement on the film. It's also a good read if anyone is interested. It follows a female Utah raptor for a part of her life.
The lunch scene bothers me. When Malcolm is berating JP scientists for reading what others had done and taking the next step, his argument is hypocritical nonsense: that's literally how ALL new knowledge in ANY field is acquired, including mathematics.
I think i did a short book report on Raptor Red, it was really fun reading about the Utah Raptor and a portion of its life. I enjoyed it so much that I wanted more.
@@Tantalus010 Thanks for the reply. You have a good point. I do agree with you that when conducting research you have to use previous research, especially for a research proposal. What I like about the scene is that it calls to attention the implications of the park itself. I focus more on the idea that the scientists knew that they could create the animals but didn't think about if they should. I see it as they took what other people had done and took the next step without contemplating the dangers of that next step. It is easy for researchers at time to get caught up in the magnificence of what they are doing and downplay the negatives. Again, I see where your coming from and I agree with the idea that knowledge is built upon previous knowledge. I thank you for replying. It's always nice to see someone else's point of view.
When you guys get to The Pacific, the successor series to Band Of Brothers, you'll recognize Timmy. He plays one of the major characters, Eugene Sledge.
@@jdavis9684 He also played John Deacon in Bohemian Rhapsody if you saw that. Which kinda makes Rami Malek's casting in The Pacific kinda hilarious if you ask me!
Much of this was filmed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Beautiful place! The scenes showing a large storm are actual footage of Hurricane Iniki, which hit the island during filming.
I saw this in theaters when it first came out in 1993. I was only 10 at the time. Damn-near 30 years later, that first Brachiosaurus shot still usually gets me teary-eyed, since it's the first dinosaur shot of the franchise.
Hammond is nice in the movie because he is a Spielberg stand-in. The actor who plays Hammond is also a director (most notably, the Oscar-winning Gandhi.) The book has Hammond die in the end.
I would say its worth it to watch the other two. They’re shot slightly differently well the third one is I think. The second one is probably my favorite. But there are 3 movies in the Jurassic Park franchise and then it moves into Jurassic World which explore Hammonds park dreams actually coming to reality.
The other movies are a waste of time and effort. The original novel got ignored as far as a plot for next books/movies. Dino's appeared on the mainland at the end of the original novel. The additional movies were just a cash grab redoing the same old story of Man meddling with nature.
The film still holds up well today, I remember seeing it in theaters when I was 16, and it was incredible. A lot of the film was shot in Hawaii, some of the storm scenes authentic as a hurricane was passing through. Kualoa Ranch on Oahu, has a Jurassic tour that takes you to the field where Grant & the kids ran with the Gallimimus herd.
I've seen this movie hundreds of times only realizing now that the little girl didn't hack into the unix system, it was rebooted which was the main reason for them shutting everything down. I always tht in that scene she "hacked" and I was trying to figure out how she did it.
They've made 5 films so far. This one will always hold a space in my heart. One of my favorites of all time. Oh and Laura Dern ( Sadler) and Jeff Goldblum actually started dating irl while filming this movie. And the others are worth watching.
27:57 "What is it with movies and cakes?" We often forget that in practically every shot - especially any shot where there's principal actors - there's a catering table. The caterer is always on the producer's speed dial. So if they need something pretty to dress the set, food is very easy to come by. Next time you watch a film, remember that for practically every shot, there's tables with food on it just off camera.
This is one of those movies like The Matrix, where it's so immersive that you had to check reality coming out of the theater. It was tiring in a good way going through it. I remember when I saw those birds flying next to the helicopter, there was a sense of...relief, seeing normal animals again, like coming out of an alternate reality. It was only somewhat recently that I realized the subtle joke. With the exception of the mosquito, if one considers that birds *are* dinosaurs, there are *only* dinosaurs in this film.
John Williams composed the music for Jurassic Park, the same year as The Schindler's List, for which he won an Oscar. Otherwise I probably would have won it with this soundtrack, which is absolutely great.
I saw this when it came out with a bunch of friends, one of which had brought his 12 yo cousin who had grown up way, way out beyond the boonies, and was visiting the big city for the first time... It was absolutely breathtaking, of course! In the car on the way back from the cinema, the young girl was saying how impressed she was that they were able to keep the T-Rex from hurting those children! She was a bit puzzled when after a brief moment of silence, we all burst out laughing! The poor innocent child had no clue that it was not a real dinosaur! lol One of my favorite after-movie moments ever!
@@zammmerjammer I dunno, she was barely 12, and I have no idea what level of science was being taught in schools in The Middle of Nowhere, New Brunswick in the early 90's... I had just met the kid. Who knows, maybe she was tired and wasn't thinking straight. Or maybe she was just an idiot. All I know is that it was funny as shit (and, at the same time, a little sad).
and the funniest part from reading the comments is, she was sorta right. People saying during the filming the animatronics broke and it also broke the glass which wasn't supposed to happen when it was going at them.
Yep. Gennaro was a good guy who, obviously cared about his investment, but he was a good guy who did what was right. Hammond, on the other hand, was all about the money. He had a whole speel about not wanting to lower prices so that everyone could see it. He wanted it to be a luxury for people with money. Henry Wu was also a better character with more lines in the book. The book is so different to the movie but I'm still somewhat happy that both versions exist. Having two fantastic versions of an already good premise is a win-win.
If you are into old school computers.... those systems are real. The stack of white boxes on the desk are I think Sun 4 workstations... the OS she uses and says this is a UNIX system is a SGI graphics workstation running IRIX(based of System V UNIX and with bits of BSD thrown in)... and the flashing red light box in the background is a Thinking Machine Connect super computer. All of that equipment back then was probably worth half the budget of that movie.
I saw this movie for the first time when I was 4, and mum said I laughed when the t-rex ate the lawyer 😅 I also had a cassette tape of Jurassic Park that I used to listen to all the time while I was falling asleep, which caused me to have a recurring nightmare about being chased by the t-rex. I had it so often that I knew when I was in the dream, and would figure out ways to outsmart Rexy and survive. I did get eaten a lot though 😂 Didn't stop me listening to it!
Yeah LOL definitely 💯 that really mean old Greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids!! What did you think was more funny about that? The way Rexy 🦖 She bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up 😋?? Or did you just think it's funny because he deserves it?
I was 5 when I first saw it. Also had the book and a cassette. Good times. I remembered liking Gennaro in the book so I was a little bummed that they made him into a greedy stereotype who only exists to be eaten.
I saw this in the theater, and I was floored when they show that first dinosaur standing on it's hid legs and eating the tree. I still feel a little of that every time I watch it since then.
Actually they were trying to tempt him over to the fence so the guests could see him by feeding him. T-Rex is like any carnivore. They are opportunistic hunters just like a lion. They hunt not because they want to, but because they need to hunt. If they can steal a kill they will. If they can find a dead carcass they like then they will eat it. If you drop a live or dead animal that they like they will eat it. Even if they do not like it and they are hungry they will try to kill it.
Nevertheless it was fed when the rex ate the goat. If they were just trying to tempt the rex, why not put it into a very strong cage? Not as cruel either, though still terrifying to the gate. I guess Costa Rica was supposed to have pretty lax animal protection laws.
@@zammmerjammer Whilst you are correct (Maybe. The sex may have changed.) In the book they did explain that they always called the big Rex a "he". I know that's not entirely relevant but it seems everyone refers to the Rex as a He.
Fun facts. The novel is comparatively different from the film as they nearly changed everything in some sort of way like the story beats, the characters, (Hammond is portrayed as a rich evil guy) the violence was described in graphic horrific detail along with the deaths but I can see why they changed so much as they wanted to appeal to a wider audience. It became a huge hit and sat at the top of the box office for weeks on end and became one of the highest grossing films ever made. Pop culture wise, everyone was into dinosaurs at the time too. Won an Oscar for special effects.
Btw I think the 3D-style OS in the computers is an actual OS. Can't recall which one, but something pretty obscure. It was addressed on some retro IT channel.
The idea of the dinosaurs being vulnerable to more recent genera of plants and animals brought to mind another notion I heard somewhere, about time travel: That is, that a time traveler from the, let's say, present, travelling to the past, would have antibodies for diseases that native live would not...but could by the same token, be carrying new diseases that the past-people were entirely unprepared for. An interesting story might include the bubonic plague as retrograde/futuroid contamination from time travelers.
The same issue would arise if we ever traveled to other planets with life. We would have no antibodies against the indigenous pathogens and bacterias, and vice-versa, and could never be in contact with that world until inoculations can be made for just about everything, which could take a while... If you recall, it's essentially what happens to the aliens in the movie War of the Worlds (2005), the common cold killed them - which makes this super advanced alien species too stupid to actually exists and subsequently ruins the movie as a result. /shrugs
@@xen0bia LOL Ok, you got me....This thought actually occurred to me, watching the ID4 video, but this one seemed a bit more fitting, considering the dinosaurs.
I read the book first by Michael Chrichton which was pretty good so I went into the theatre knowing the source material. I was blown away by the special effects which were at the time ground breaking and hold up pretty well to this day.
On a realistic note with getting zapped by high voltage (electric fences and electrocution in general), your muscles can convulse at full strength, and depending on the muscle groups, can launch a person. I was able to verify that particular detail with a 277 volt circuit going to ground. Dry skin made the amp draw through my body rather low, but still caused all my arm muscles to pull, which really hurt my elbows more than anything. Electric fences usually operate with very low amperage but high voltage to "startle" anything not meant to get around it.
This movie was a game changer for vfx in the 90s as was Cameron‘s Avatar in 2000s. I clearly remember talking to a classmate in 12th grade who watched it on opening night, on the next morning. He was so blown away and couldn’t stop talking about it
In the book there is a good reason Nedry could not simply be fired for acting like he was (he was also a bit more likeable), but it is not quite the same or at least explained in the film. The short version is he was basically bidding on a job without knowing what was expected of it, but them being cheap he wound up practically being the only programmer responsible for almost everything and had no choice but to comply or lose reputation amongst his peers (also to try and keep it more secret/less people involved until the park opened)
Yeah, the book makes the case against unregulated capitalism (and Critchon's undying hate of theme parks) a lot more clear than the film, mainly because of how likeable Hammond appears in the latter. Still my favourite film
I'd say it's a family movie. Yes, it got thrills, suspense and horror, but it's fine as long as they make it out! Jurassic Park has been my favorite movie since I was 5-6 and I wanted to be like Dr. Grant when I grew up abd dig up Dinosaurs myself haha. It's a fun trillride of a movie! The effect in this movie is amazing as well! The CGI was groundbreaking and so are the animatronics! Rexy's animatronic is a masterpiece! Plus I never see enough people talk about the sound design. It's fantastic! Deserved that Oscar! Watching the movie in a cinema with the right sound is a treat! And the music, man.. *Chef's kiss* nostalgia!
The thing about T-Rex's not being able to see things that don't move is a holdover from the book. The book goes into more detail about the frog DNA used to plug the holes in the dinosaurs DNA strands, and the effects that had on the final resulting animal. In the book, the T Rex only sees movement because some of its DNA is swapped in from a type of frog that only sees movement. While I absolutely love the movie, it's always kinda bugged me that they never explain that part.
I saw this movie in the theater when I was 13. It was a magnificent experience, and frankly it has been every time I have seen it since. This is a masterpiece of a movie.
I was on the Russian River the day this came out. We rounded a bend that was next to the a theater, and the trees parted, and for MILES there was a line next to the river.
Oh, you have to have him watch the first Land Before Time. That movie is my favorite to this day. My grandmother got me stuffed Little Foot thats16-18" tall. I got it when I was a year old and still have it to this day. The only thing I've managed to hold on to through moves, homelessness, etc..
8:25 I love the RiffTrax for this scene: "Hey, you know we're here too!" "You guys should really look _slightly_ to the left more often! You pick up on a lot of neat stuff that way!"
I rewatched this movie in a theater having only ever watched it on dvd/vhs. I cried when I saw the Brachiosaurus scene because of how amazing it was to see something I idolized as a child how it was meant to be watched and all the childhood nostalgia flooding back.
I legitimately love how as any movie starts, before waiting for the movie to just show you what's happening and provide any answers, George will just start throwing out the craziest hypothesis he can come up with to guess what is actually going on. "Maybe it's set on an Earthlike planet but everyone has extrasensory powers they're not aware of because no one knows that they're not *actually* breathing oxygen but instead the fumes of the rotting corpses buried miles below their feet and they're aliens from ANOTHER planet that's entirely populated with beings not unlike the X-Men and we're gonna see them awaken to that fact and figure out what they're all capable of" but five to ten minutes later it's like "okay, no, this character is just basically a superhero, got it." I'm telling you, I LOVE IT. Never stop.
Saw this with friends when I was 14 on opening weekend. Still one of the best theater experiences of my life. The T-Rex roaring was insane. Saw it again with my family a few days later. My younger sister walked out when they started to lower the cow in to the raptor pen and has still never seen the rest of the movie.
To be fair, Pg-13 rating is well deserved here (it is PG-13 right?), so if she was younger than you and younger than 13, it's understandable the movie traumatised her.
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene that really mean old greedy lawyer guy who selfishly abbonond those poor kids trying to save himself! But Whoops LOL Rexy she 🦖 found him and bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
Another stellar score from John Williams. Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, E.T, Superman, the theme from the Olympics and the the theme from the NBC Nightly News. He's incredible! This particular soundtrack theme is very emotional. You're absolutely right. I played it in high school. Lucky for me John Williams to like giving a lot of attention to horn and trumpet for his main melodies, having playing both instruments.
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old Greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids he's trying to save himself! But Whoops LOL Rexy 🦖 She found him and Bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
That ending scene as they fly away is one of my favorites in all of cinema. Also, this is the best horror movie I have seen. Great reaction. As for the other movies, they are not terrible, but none are as good as this one. (although I have not seen any of the new ones with Chris Pratt)
I recommend watching all the movies in this series, you have some better then others, but none of them are bad movies. Also I remember watching this movie in theaters when i was younger and everyone was stunned at the visuals of the dinos at the time, people had either tears or moisture in their eyes at the wonder they were seeing.
@@b.u.l.1734 Almost the perfect list but The Lost World and Jurassic World could be swapped, same with Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
Great reaction, guys. Now you can both appreciate why Simone couldn’t watch it the first time around. There’s a recent video by Corridor Crew (they do CGI for a living) where they attempted to recreate that iconic scene where the T Rex chews through the wires. Despite having modern day computer technology at their disposal, they were still unable to render something comparable to the original. Even though this movie was one of the first attempts at creating photo realistic creatures, it still holds up nearly 30 years later. Fun fact - that pose by Jeff Goldblum (the one Simone didn’t mind at all) was recreated as a giant sculpture (like, 20 feet high) by a British artist and placed by the Thames river a few years back, exposed nipple and all… I’m sure Mr. Goldblum was very proud. And yes, watch the rest. There are 2 more ‘Park’ movies, then 2 “Jurassic World” movies, with another one on the way. They’re all entertaining, even if the wonder of the original can’t really be recreated (you’ve already seen the dinosaurs).
I think the "it can only see us if we move" is more like about the dinosaur reacting differently to very apparent movement (like the thrown glow stick) than if you sort of "blend in" with your surroundings almost like a camouflage... if it is already focused on you, and you stop moving, it will still recognize you. Might not be accurate, but I think it makes sense for a big animal with a small brain, etc.
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids he's trying to hide! But Whoops LOL Rexy 🦖 She found him and Bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
I saw this in 1993 when I was in 5th grade. This to date the most impressive movie I have ever seen in the theaters given the time. It was like some generational leap in effects and sound at the time and looked incredible real given the film projectors that help mask this. Also not kidding the sound at my theater still to date is the loudest I've heard in any movie. Back in 93 they debuted DTS sound which had the audio for the movie stored on CD so it wasnt analog. 1000 theaters got this setup and a new one built near me had it and I am not kidding when I say it was loud to the point there it hurt your ears when the t rex was making noise.
Yup, I found out that night that I had auditory processing disorder, even tho it took another 20 years to realize it. 😅 The sound during that T-rex scene had me in a complete tailspin.
A lifelong favourite, I was 9 years old when this came out and have loved it ever since. One of Spielberg's best, and one of John Williams' greatest scores.
As somebody born in ‘85, it’s so curious to me watching people react to “old movies” for the first time and watch you speculate about what the movie is about.
I love when ppl have the informed take of new dinosaurs discoveries that didn't exist in movies or real life at the time (they were theories) . I like George but he tends to forget not everything exists during your era . watch without obvious bias. don't be too analytical for art. tbf you have done better now and days but you definitely have a logic centered brain
Since you mentioned your Jurassic Park trauma, I'll share mine. My sister and I were also too young but my parents didn't know that and the auto-view always shows two movies. JP was the second movie that night. Yes, you read that right, I said auto-view. That is an important detail because we were in the front row so the screen took up the whole windshield AND, the cherry one top, it was a full on thunderstorm that night. That T-Rex scene takes on an extra depth when you're viewing it through a windshield in a storm. (Also, some people were wondering around between the cars during the kitchen scene) When we left, my sister was sheet white and 30 years later still won't watch any movies where people get eaten.
I've watched a lot of reactions of people watching Jurassic Park and they have all said they thought this was a family film. I'm not sure how the movie got that reputation, but it's always funny to see people shocked from the first scene.
13:20 the "king kong" line makes a lot more sense if you have seen King Kong :P And the whole "She cant see us when we dont move" makes a lot more sense in the book, instead of a "racial trait" that he somehow seems to "know" from the Fosils (which makes barely any sense), he notices that this particular Rex is short sighted during a confrontation with the animal
The dinosaur sounds in this movie were made by combining sounds made by living animals and every day objects. The Tyrannosaurus rex (known by fans as Rexy) was a mix of elephant calf vocalizations (roar, snarls and growls), lion sounds and a dog playing with a rope toy (shaking the Gallimimus to death). The Dilophosaurus was a mix of hawk, swan, howler monkey and rattlesnake sounds. The adult Raptors were a mix of a walrus's chest cavity roar and a male dolphin's mating scream recorded with a hydrophone, while the hatchling was a mix of owlet and fox kit sounds. The Brachiosaurus vocalizations were slowed down donkey calls, while the sneeze was a mix of an active fire hydrant and a whale breathing through its blowhole(s). The Gallimimus's chief sound effect was made using the recorded calls of a mare (female horse) in heat. And yes, that Raptor popping up right behind Ellie is always a major jumpscare...especially for me with my autism and anxiety. And most of this movie was filmed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
"How could they leave?" *lights pipe* The other raptors and I have constructed a crude suspension bridge to Venezuela. Once there, I shall lie low and assume odd jobs under the name Mr. Pilkington. But perhaps I've said too much... (The Critic remains the most underrated series in television history)
I think kids were a bit different when this movie came out. We were used to seeing stuff like this and kids weren’t protected as they are today. Even Sesame Street that I used to watch now has a parental warning on the front dvd cover. Stephen King TV miniseries, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Shark Week made this movie seem magical
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old Greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids he's trying to hide! But Whoops LOL Rexy 🦖 She found him and bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
Yes you're right, velociraptors were smaller than the film portrays them. And had feathers. Kudos for calling that out! If you'd like to take a deep dive into velociraptors' anatomy, I highly recommend the channel "Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong", a series where the host examines dino toys sent by viewers and discusses what the toy-makers got correct and what they missed. Here's the velociraptor episode: ua-cam.com/video/y-3bImbSJCM/v-deo.html Their size is discussed at the 15-minute mark.
Considering this movie came out in 1993, the special effects hold up so well. And those kids did an insane job acting. That kitchen scene still gives me anxiety.
You're right, Veloceraptors were pretty small. But there were other Dromeosauridae that were as large as the ones shown in the movie (Utahraptor for example) even though they were heavily feathered^^
No animals were harmed in the making of this movie lol 7:27 they named that waterfall "Jurassic Falls" it's in Hawaii and you can take a helicopter tour to see it 8:17 the best line of the movie "Welcome, to Jurassic Park" 17:12 another great line lol 18:30 this sequence is incredible it still holds up 30 years later Arianna Richards is amazing as this as Lex 26:00 that was the very first day of shooting lol 27:16 that was a real reaction from her 27:51 "Clever Girl" 30:03 iconic roar lol
The T-Rex roaring the first time was absolutely amazing on the big screen. The animal was basically life sized on screen, and the theater speakers made it a visceral experience.
Funny fact: my poor grandmother slept through it.
Spielberg recreating his famous 1975 Jaws moment
It made me feel like I was actually there, it was phenomenal.
yeah was 6 when my mom took me to see this.
and that moment to this day is awe inspiring!
We don't have much of an idea of what T. rex actually sounded like, but it was impressive. But why was it roaring? Celebrating its escape? Roaring out "feed me?" These dinos were much too noisy, unlike a lot of modern animals, except humans, that usually make noise only when they need to.
Hammond is played by Richard Attenborough, a truly great actor and director, brother of David Attenborough, the famous naturalist documentary maker, so his inclusion in this movie feels particularly apt.
The character of John Hammond as written in the original novel was indeed your stereotypical billionaire a$$h0le only interested in money and how much could be made by exploiting InGen's technology to create a theme park, and as was typical of the trope, died horribly by his own creation by the end of the book. But when Spielberg cast Richard Attenborough for the part, the director could not figure out a way to make this affable Santa Claus-like man into a villain and thus the character was changed to reflect more of Attenborough's actual personality, and as a result the character not only survives this film unscathed but is in some ways a background hero of the sequel film.
Yep, fun fact i used to work for david attenborough doing woodland conservation for aboutn12 years, i actually have a signed letter from him for exemplary service.
Last i checked he was the only one of the three brothers still alive ☹
SIR Richard Attenborough please. He was a Knight of the British Empire
david .... did a BBC natural history programme ,on amber encased insects
@@abrahamdiaz3648 Knighthood ends with death. He WAS Sir Richard Attenborough but the title doesn't persist after death. That is why people who wanted Jimmy Saville stripped of his title as a knight were disappointed, only living people are called Sir, so the grim reaper had already taken his title.
Fun fact: the kids audition was just screaming loud at Spielbergs house and his wife freaked out for real as she thought they were in danger
I love how the 'Life finds a way' line is foreshadowed by Dr Grant having two 'female' parts to his seatbelt in the helicopter... and then finds a way by tying them together.
@DramatticDesigns It's not about two 'females' finding a way to make life, it's the fact the being they take DNA from (the frogs), naturally can, and do, change sex during their lifespan. This trait is inadvertently passed onto the dinosaurs in the film, allowing life to 'find a way' to continue.
I've seen this movie probably a dozen times and never made that connection. Thanks! That's totally intentional and I was just too busy ogling the dinos to notice it.
Also realised after reading your comment that to tie a square knot like Grant uses you make a helix with the two ends, then loop the ends and make a second helix, then you tighten. A "double helix", if you will. That is a great multi-level metaphor!
@@ThePFranny the level of detail is superb
It's a neat coincidence but both Neill and Spielberg confirmed it was just that - a coincidence and nothing intentional.
🙂 When he mentioned King Kong, he was making reference to the large wooden doors, which were similar to the wooden doors in the original King Kong movie.
Exactly!
The reference went way over their heads!
And that movie also had dinosaurs!
they WERE the doors from King Kong... Which Spielberg paid extra for
@@Cubs-Den-Reactions NICE!!!!
One cool fact I like. When arriving in the helicopter at the park, Dr Gran't seatbelt has 2 female ends. It should be impossible to connect, but he finds a way, by tying them together.
Life finds a way.
Alan finds a way.
🤯
Lesbians find a way. To marriage? Eh that was a stretch.
Have watched this movie tens of times and never made that connection
4:29 George is correct! The "Velociraptors" in the movies are actually based on the much larger Deinonychus, which was considered a sub-species of Velociraptor when the original novel was written. They were actually designated their own species while the movie was under production, but at that point it was too late to change it. And also... "Velociraptor" sounds cooler!
And Utahraptor was discovered while the movie was being filmed!
@@TomVCunningham yeah they literally made up a dinosaur and then discovered it in Utah. Since the Utah raptor is closer then the Deinonychus to the movie
@@LocTsun Actually the Utahraptor was much larger in size than the movie Velociraptors, about as tall as a horse in fact. Meanwhile the move raptors are slightly shorter than full grown adult humans, putting them closer in size to the Deinonychus.
Most of the dinos in the movie are not accurate , but at that time it was what was assumed , now we know that T-Rex not only could smell humans from mile away they had better eyesight than humans , people can test with the animals most like dinos still left , those seem to be totally able to both see and smell humans .
The atmosphere was denser millions of years ago and likely dinosaurs brought back wouldn't likely be able to breath today.
The "Mr. DNA" scene is probably the best exposition dump in movie history. Also, since it was discovered some dinosaurs had feathers, the Jurassic Park lore now says their dinosaurs don't have feathers because they used frog DNA.
Which even though they had add that information later, it's good exposition. Of course I didn't know that at the time but in that universe it completely fits. I really can't wait for dominions come out so we can see all the different stuff they're going to do, from the weaponized dinosaurs to the more accurate ones
read the book.
Crichton clearly talks about dinos probably having feathers. He was 20 years ahead of the standard scientific dogma.... as he usually was.
@@Alexanderthegreat159 While it was SPECULATED that many, if not most dinosaurs had feathers or at least protofeathers, it was not until the 1990s explosion of fossils (mostly after this movie was produced), largely out of Mongolia and China, that we had clear and indisputable fossil evidence of the prevalence of fully feathered dinosaurs.
Not all dinosaurs had feathers.
and world doesn't have them because people now expect them not too.
This movie is truly an achievement in cinema. Nearly 30 years later and the mixture of cgi and animatronics still holds up
Way more than 90% of modern movies.
It's timeless
In 200 years they will still hold up.
lost world way better tho
I'm pretty late to the game here, but in case nobody has pointed it out, the interface that Lex is using when they're trying to bring up the park systems was a real thing. It's basically just a graphic browser for the file system. When I worked at Origin Systems, we played with it on our SGIs. It's ridiculously slow and not at all useful, but it looked neat. I'm assuming it's probably in the movie because their CGI team played with it, too.
Plus it's more interesting, and easier for a 1993 crowd to understand than Lex typing on a computer.
@@Eidlones Me as a kid in 1993 wondering why they're using that shit UI instead of just typing shit like they did in a previous scene. Trust me. It really wasn't easier for us to understand back then. We were just as perplexed as people are now why anyone would use that. Most people did, in fact, think it was fake. But yeah. It's a real thing.
Heck. They altered Lex to make her into a "hacker" but don't show her showing off knowledge of computer use outside of just "scroll to file and click it". Why not show her doing the same things we saw Ray Arnold doing? It was an odd choice for sure.
A little note on the "it looks so real", this movie also made use of animatronics. So, in those cases, it was real.
It was more like 70/30, with the majority being CGI.
CGI was used in all the wideshots, but most closeups were done using animatronics.
If you heard about the scene where the T-rex head smashes through the roof of the suv, from the commentary you would know that the gear in the animatronic head of the T-rex broke at that moment and the fear in the children's faces was 100% real. 😱
@@mgmg116 Other way around, there were about 15 minutes of dinosaurs, only 5 of those minutes were CGI
it wasn't animatronics, they used auto-erotica
Stan "the man" winston at his finest
The book actually details Dennis's death and it was more gruesome! After the dilo blinded him, it sliced his stomach open spilling his intestines.
"Nedry stumbled, reaching blindly only to touch the ragged edge of his shirt, and then a thick slivery mass that was surprisingly warm, and with horror he suddenly knew he was holding his own intestines in his hands."
Brilliant. I loved this book.
Dilophosaurus was also around 7ft tall which works better for that scene I think.
Doctor Wu also gets gutted by Raptors and in the beginning of the book, on the main land, a nurse hears churping coming from the nursery so goes to check it out and finds some of the compy's eating the face off of a baby.
I couldn't stand Hammond In the book and was so happy when he died.
The movie was kids play compared to the book.
I was lucky enough to watch Jurassic Park on its opening weekend in the theaters back in 1993. It was one of the defining experiences of my childhood; imagine seeing those mindblowing special effects and hearing that incredible audio on the big screen. I'll never forget being pinned to my seat by the sheer sound during the T-Rex scene. It completely outclassed any other movie that was out at the time. I'm so glad that you finally watched it!
Me too, except I saw it at the local drive-in. The first T-Rex scene was pretty intense, what with my being a kid in a car and all.
I was 13 when this came out. It was PG-13. I spent my allowance taking the bus to a theater and back ever week to catch this in a matinee showing all summer. I must have watched it a dozen times on the big screen.
Same here, it was actually pretty nuts. Small town, one theater, everyone showed up to watch, even the mayor. They actually had people sitting in the aisles despite it being a safety hazard.
Oh i envy you
I was scared by the raptors and i watched it on my television
Of they re-released it again i would be the first in line to watch it.
same here, i was 8 years old...good times
I think it's a testament to how well-written and -directed this movie is that basically every question you asked out loud was either answered by the next shot or literally expressed by a character in the scene.
Probably huge amounts of research into audience reactions to develop a formula to know what to put into movies.
@@Cheepchipsable No, that's the way they try to do it _today_ and it just doesn't work as well. _This_ is the work of a master artist who has huge amounts of _experience_ in what to put into movies. I could write a damn _book_ on the problems with this film, but the cinematography is _not_ one of them.
@@WJS774not to mention he also had Crichton work with him on parts of the movie. Also helps that Jurassic Park is one of the best books ever written.
The "velociraptor" of Jurassic Park was called that due to the author, Michael Crichton, and what was known about raptors at the time. The Utahraptor, which is more like what the JP raptors resemble, were not properly described until the year Jurassic Park was released, so a raptor of that size and power DID exist, but because of the movies and book, is consistently called by the wrong name.
Also there are several species of animals that are all female and will breed. There's ways to do it. In the movie they talk about a female spontaneously becoming male, which actually does happen. There's also another way where a female fertilizes herself through a process called Parthenogenesis, and essentially the babies are genetic clones of the mother. You can find this happening in species like the komodo dragon.
Also that T-Rex is physical! She's mostly real and partially CGI, that whole bit of her head coming through the roof of the car trying to get the kids. That was 100% real. That was a GIANT animatronic chomping at them.
Those kids were short stunt people and if anything went wrong with that animatronic then those people would've been seriously hurt or killed as the T Rex was very heavy.
They say that they used amphibian DNA in reconstructing the DNA. Some frog species can change sex so it makes sense the dinos could.
@@handsomeDRAC it wasn’t stunt people, it was the kids themselves, the “glass” also wasn’t supposed to break but ended up breaking after the animatronic hit it so many times. Kids screams were real durning that scene as they were scared from the glass having broke
Another species that can self reproduce is snakes. The was a boa that lashed fertilized eggs despite never coming into contact with a male. Every baby was a female however.
@@pickleboy6059 oh really, If that's the case then damn, Spielberg should've got in shit for that. Dangerous stunt especially involving a big heavy animatronic rig and kids. I would've used stunt people if I were him. I have kids so I wouldn't put them in harms way like that.
This was one of the first movies released with digital surround sound. The immersion was mind blowing to audiences at the time who were only used to standard stereo up front. You can only imagine how terrifying those dinosaur roars were in the theater.
Ha! I just mentioned DDSS too. I remember two things about that from the original theater release. The first was the water glass scene. Feeling that vibration come up through the floor was terrifying. The other was the very opening of the movie... the jungle sounds. Any time I hear that opening I get a chill. I didn't understand it when I first saw the movie because I didn't know what DDSS was or why it made a difference, but the immersion was intense and a game changer.
Yup. This movie scared me as a kid!
The DSS was so hyped that my parents bought a surround sound home theater and this was the first movie we watched. It was quite the event! It blew.our.minds! Some dinosaur roars from the left...then the right...wha??
Stereo in cinemas isn't 2.0 stereo, it's matrix encoded, played back as 4 channel LCRS
Just FYI, there had been surround sound for a couple of decades before that. It wasn't usual, but some theaters were set up for it. The difference is that this one was digital, but the idea had been used for quite a while.
Notice that in the scene when they're in the chopper descending to the island and Grant can't tie his seatbelt, it's not just him being a klutz. His belt is defective, it has female couplings on both ends. But he makes it work anyway. Life finds a way. Just like the all female dinosaurs ended up reproducing. Foreshadowing.
Spielberg is one of the masters of the Chekov's Gun trope.
@@benschultz1784 So the seatbelt goes off in the 3rd act?
His seat belt is not “defective.” He grabbed the left belt end from the seat to his right with his right hand. A mistake he probably would not have made in an airliner, with arm rests between seats so you can’t grab your neighbor’s belt ends by mistake.
@@Ryan_Christopher Exactly. It's just meant to be a bit of humour. You can also see Ellie looking at him like: "That's mine!" :D
Tremors might be another 'monster' movie you might enjoy. It is a cult classic, and as close to a "perfect" script as you can get. And also shares the 'stop after the sequel' recommendation as a lot of other franchises. Though like with the Jurassic Park movies, the Tremors sequels have their charm even as the budgets and quality went down.
" shares the 'stop after the sequel' recommendation"
I never understood this logic. Honestly, all of the movies in the Jurassic Park series and the World movies are good enough. Not at all worth the hate they get. Well... JP3 was definitely weak and the World sequels miss the mark.
That said. I generally find that Tremors 2 was the best and Tremors 3 is the only one you should really skip. Tremors was always a dumb B-Movie and the sequels still encapsulate that, perfectly.
You mentioned the actors being excellent portrayors of terror and fear. That's one of the beautiful things about this one that is lost increasingly as the movies continue. The newest reboots are the worst offenders with every character, kids including, being as calm, cool, and collected as an experienced navy seal. It made the movies feel more cartoonish without the fear that a character could actually die. Like three times you thought "holy crap did Spielberg just kill a kid??" That feeling is lost in the rest :(
I remember when I saw "Jurassic Park" when it first came out, and everyone in the theater all chanting in unison, "Get off the fence! Get off the fence! Get off the fence!" And we were all in such shock when Tim didn't get off the fence in time!
I also love that they allow the cast to actually get dirty. Like, Jurassic World when the two kids jump into the water for safety, they're dry with fluffy perfect hair not long after. I don't think the gasoline Owen covers himself in is visible in the immediate next scene he's in either, and there's no way it dried that quickly. I'm sure there's a million other instances of this in all modern action movies.
But in the original Jurassic Park, the kids look ROUGH. When they're trapped in the car swallowed by mud, that mud stays on them through the whole thing. Tim even has dried blood on his ears from his electric shock! It's a scary experience, not a thrill ride, and they look appropriately roughed up.
It's sad, any time a performance portrays true terror or sorrow these days, sheltered, privileged idiots who've never felt fear in their lives call it "overacting."
I remember in the second one when Malcolms daughter calmly does a gymnastic routine and kicks a Raptor through the window I was done with that movie.
It's when you know that now it's more about pandering to the young demographic and selling toys than making a memorable film
I agree, the characters feel real. I love the mixture of personalities too: scientists, businessmen, lawyer, technicians, kids. It makes the scenes interesting too, seeing them all respond to this situation.
I am a palaeontological research associate in a Canadian research-oriented museum. Jurassic Park opened two days before I turned 10, and I went to see it four times in theaters that summer.
Hmmm... Could there be a link between these observations, I wonder?
Guess you were one of many kids whose future was determined by this movie :D
Ross Geller, is that you?
@@willvr4 Might as well be--I got that so often, back in the day...
@@ptittannique5621 I took a course in college on archaeology which had a lab aspect to it, but more often than not you're just surveying land that needs to be built on for permits and nothing all that interesting sadly.
Were dinosaurs just giant chicken?
The T-Rex gets demonized in this movie after (s)he did everything (s)he could to help the protagonists by 1) eating a lawyer 2) protecting Sam Neil and kids from stampeding dinos, 3) saving everyone from the velociraptors at the end of the movie. T-Rex is the true hero of this movie.
Her name is Rexy
She. They are females remember?)
@@danzansandeev6033 thank you, comment corrected in edit
don't forget, the lawyer the T-Rex ate was a "bloodsucking" lawyer - I hear those are the most deadly variety! :P
True protagonist energy
13:15
Jeff was making a joke about the gate which was modeled after the huge gate in the 1933 movie "King Kong."
"This is a UNIX system. I know this". Believe it or not the 3D graphic interface "flying" around the file system was a real thing. The girl is sitting at an SGI IRIX work station running its File System Navigator, or FSN, pronounced "Fusion". It was experimental, never went into actual production status, but was nevertheless real, and kinda worked.
Those unix workstations were able to display real 3D graphics unlike the simple computers today ;-)
Wow that’s really interesting! Thank u
As far as I know, T-Rex actually had great vision and an amazing sense of smell. In the book, it's explained that because the dinosaurs had the holes in their DNA that were filled with frog-DNA, they have a lot of froggy flaws. Like for example, the movement-based vision. The vast majority of frogs have a specialized movement-based vision to help catch fast insects like flies and dragonflies and such with their tounges but in exchange are practically blind to anything that doesn't move. However, they put a lot of weird and outright incorrect information in the first movie. Probably to make it less confusing for casual viewers (less science stuff) and/or more marketable ( like giving wrong dino information, you are right that velociraptor was tiny, Utahraptor though, now that's a biggens). They are retconning a lot of stuff in the newer JW movies.
We actually have no idea how dinosaurs saw or smelt or hunted.
There's no consensus on the overall lifestyle of reptilians so long ago.
The make up of the atmosphere and it's effects on life forms is even heavily debated. Modern reptiles of any size live incredibly stationary lifestyles.
I mean we don't even know if reptiles were warm or cold blooded back then.
Almost no data on dinosaur behavior irl combined w frog splicing in the movie and it's a blue print to have whatever traits the writer wants to give them.
It's what the indominus rex so pointless, they were already all hybrids capable of any traits you want to give them.
Velocitaptor was a marketing choice, they knew what raptors grew to which sizes but in Hollywood fashion they picked the coolest name to give to the biggest raptors.
They actually didn't discover Utahraptor until after this movie was announced. When they dug it up, someone said, "Congratulations, you found Spielberg's raptor."
@@Agent719 well that's why I didn't say ultra raptor.. the denonychus was the one they based the size of in the movies. Again they knew which raptors which size and based theirs off the biggest on record w a name they liked.
If ULTRA raptor was a name on the table I bet they woulda picked that over veloci
@@bryansmith1691
You didn't. Gnork did.
@@bryansmith1691 We have enough information from fossils that we found, dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurus and other extinct reptiles were much different animals than modern reptiles. Warm bloodless is basically confirmed, and with well preserved fossils we can actually find out how good sense animals have.
Fun fact: the weird CGI computer scene was REAL there was a REAL operating system in the early 90s that used that kind of 3D file monitor gui. Can’t remember which distro of Unix it was though.
I'm kind of surprised how many reactors who've never seen Jurassic Park before apparently think it's a children's movie. George definitely isn't alone in that. That being said, when it was first released in 1993 most kids wanted to go see it because, well, dinosaurs.
Also, you guys/George should definitely react to Land Before Time, Secret of NIMH and An American Tail. He needs to experience peak-era Don Bluth movies.
There's also no such thing as flying dinosaurs. Pteranosaurs are considered a different animal group.
Don't forget All Dogs Go to Heaven. Bring tissues.
To be fair, it's the first movie I can ever remember seeing in theaters from my childhood. Though it must have been a special screening a few years later, cause I was only 2 when it came out
Although even in 1993 he'd made more grown up fare, at that time I suspect a lot of parents only knew Steven Spielberg from Indiana Jones and E.T. and assumed he only did family movies and PG-level light action films.
some dinosaurs might've been able to fly, Microraptor for instace. while older theories had it as a glider only there are some newer ones that it might've been capable of powered flight.
then of course there are birds which are technically dinosaurs.
@@MisterHPlays what’s mine is yours. What’s yours is mine.
Your reaction when you saw the first live dinosaur was perfect. That scene has never failed to bring tears to my eyes. That would be an incredible experience to unexpectedly look across and see a beast from millions of years ago just being itself in the wild, especially something so incredibly massive.
I was 10 years old and watched this with my older sister, and several cousins in an old VW mini van at a drive-in movie.
My family, we’re chicanos, so our sound system was….stoopid. When that first water shaking moment occurs as the T-Rex is finally about to make his long anticipated appearance - our windshield was rattling. We were screaming. It was the best movie going experience in my life. Until I took my then 6 year old daughter to watch the My Little Pony movie a couple of years back now. She danced during every musical number.
Imagine seeing this movie in 1993 when it was released in theaters. It was an extraordinary experience and the craze for dinosaurs exploded. For me this remains the only true Jurassic Park
I was there. It was an epic experience. And yes, this is the only one I enjoy through and through
Because it is the only true Jurassic park
I don't have to imagine. I was 10 and I saw it with a group of my friends. It was just mindblowing. And even today, whenever we manage to meet up, we might pop JP into the BluRay player and have a few beers.
The scene that intros the T-Rex. All these years later, and I STILL find it scary - the mark of a very very well-done piece of filming.
Rexy escaping still unnerves me to this day.
This movie was so masterful with the limited CGI technology available at the time. Obscuring the CGI T-rex behind high contrast shadows and diffuse rain while occasionally illuminating it via lightning really helped ground it to the environment and hide the limitations of the technology. They also did a great job seamlessly integrating it with the animatronics - 19:37 close up of the life-size animatronic T-rex, then the camera pans down, and then the fully CGI Rex enters the frame. It still looks better than the newer films.
newer movies could honestly take a note from the older stuff like jurassic park. it holds up and looks better because it IS real..
enhancing special effects with cgi is just going to work better than trying to make cgi photorealistic (unfortunately our brains can still tell theres something off with it).
I love Hammon's portrayal, especially his monologue about the flea circus. He felt like a fraud and wanted to make something laudable. It just happened to be a teensy bit lethal to humans.
The other movies never improve on the original but they're still fun to watch.
The biggest problem with Hammond's arc in this movie is that its forced and incomplete. He screams at Grant not to shoot his raptors and then the very next time we see him he agrees with Grant not endorsing his park. They should have just made him the villain he was in the book and killed him instead of half-assing his character arc.
Genero is another problem, his job is to find out if the park is safe on the behalf of the investors his law firm works for. He doesnt actually stand to make any money from the park whether its profitable or not, so him having dollar signs in his eyes doesnt make any sense. The writers of the movie just took all of Hammond's negative traits and dumped them on Genero, who is actually one of the more heroic characters in the book.
@@ThreadBomb Lol, I dont buy that for a second.
then you get book hammond... lul
@@nathanpapp432 Well... Maybe it's because of the french interpretation (cause I had watched it mainly in french for years before starting to watch it in english with subtitles), But it always seemed to me that he was shouting not out of anger against Grant cause he shot the raptors, but out of worry to not know what's happening (considering his two grandchildren are in the same room, it' s kinda logical he's been worrying they might be attacked)
@@67Daidalos He shouts "Dont!" when he hears the gunshots. It's clear he's shouting at Grant not to shoot his Raptors.
Something that's left out from the book (or at least not emphasized in the movie) is that the "spared no expense" line is a joke in the book because Hammond repeatedly cut corners. Which is why Nedry makes less sense here to George. Hammond is saving money by having ONE PERSON do the job of 15. And it repeatedly bites them in the butt.
To be fair in the movie Dennis mentioned that he bid for his contact, he most likely bid low to undercut his competition. So in the movie it’s less Hammond cutting corners and more “me and this man agreed on his pay before I hired him and now he keeps asking for more money”.
@@hyperrustynail he underbids it in the book, too, but it also makes it clear Hammond/InGen takes full advantage of it and really are screwing Nedry.
@@inarar5334 Yeah LOL and remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids! He thinks he's hidden then SUPRISE LOL Rexy 🦖 She found him and Bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
@@hyperrustynail But in the movie they portray Hammond as a kindly old gent and Nedry as a cartoon villain, so like a lot of Spielberg movies, it's dumbed down for the audience.
"Ohh that's Crazy!" "It looks so real though"
Guys it WAS real, Jurassic park was mostly filmed with Animatronics and that Triceratops was a real life size model. The body, the eye movements and the breathing was NOT CGI it was an actual prop the actors could work with, that is why the film is so realistic, they actually made everything including the T-Rex.
Yes, they're real dinos.
Some of it is definitely CGI.
@@fakecubed wide shots generally. Most of the closeups were real physical objects. You can even see the puppet techs in some of the raptor in the kitchen scenes. The breakdown was of the 15 or so minutes of Dino screen time about 11 were animatronic and 4 or so were CGI.
An animatronic is not a real dinosaur.
@@sumelar That’s just what the paleontologists want you to think.
the first reveal of the dinosaurs still is great today... but in 1992 that was the level of special effects you havent seen before and the awe when you looked at it was corresponding to the awe of the actors when they saw the dinosaurs
1993 but yeah. You're right that it was some pretty ground breaking stuff. (Pun intended)
I almost cried haha
"It can't see us if we don't move"
"Is that true?"
It has been disproven since then, but it was believed to be true at the time.
No, it was explained in the book that it was due to the frog dna. They just never elaborated on it in the film for some reason.
@@shoemy89 Fair enough. I just read the book and don't remember that, but I didn't memorize it, so you're probably right
@@shoemy89 If it was just due to the frog DNA, why would Alan have known that and talked about it like one of his dino facts?
@@ElaMongrella because they just didn't want to elaborate on it in the film? or blame everything on the frog dna for the sake of the movie? who knows
T-Rex is believed to have had binocular vision. And couldn’t run that fast, it’s bone structure wouldn’t have supported it’s body at that speed.
the 3D file system on the computer was a real program, all the computers in the control room were Silicon Graphics Inc workstations running on Unix operating systems. they cost a small fortune in the 90s costing many thousands and were specialized in creating 3D graphics. The 3D sprites in the Donkey Kong Country games on the SNES were created using their machines, by creating 3D animations them rendering them as 2D sprites
I could be wrong, but I swear I read somewhere that it was the same kind of computer used by ILM in the making of this very movie. (Like: maybe they just borrowed them from ILM for a day of shooting? It's been years, so I no longer recall the details.)
I had an SG machine on my desk in the 90's and yes, that 3D file system program was one of the demo programs they included with their Irix OS to show off the real time 3D graphics chops of the SG machines.
"Did Spielberg just kill an 8-year-old kid?"
Your commentary is superbly delivered.
Also, see Jaws.
@@BlunderMunchkin that poor Kintner kid.
4:55 Yes, velociraptors were only the size of turkeys. This was deliberately changed for the film because Crichton (the author of the original book) liked them as a threat. They also had feathers, but that actually wasn't known at the time the book was written.
20:01 Fun fact: the plexiglass roof wasn't supposed to pop off like that. The prop department didn't secure it in place very well, and the animatronic T. Rex broke it by accident, *actually* scaring the child actors.
20:27 "Movement-based vision" isn't a real thing, but Crichton thought it was, so he put it in the book, so Spielberg put it in the movie. After the book was published, fans wrote in correcting him. So, in later novels, he retconned the T. Rex's behavior as "she actually could see them just fine, but she'd just eaten, and so wasn't hungry, and was more curious than anything".
In the book it was explained that the vision thing for the t rex got it from the frog dna
They did know they had feathers
But didn't knew Deinonycus (This movie's raptor) had
@@gergopiroska5749 As I said, "Movement-based vision" isn't a real thing. This includes a frog's vision. That's why he had to retcon it in the books.
@@HiddenWindshield the book came before the movie dude
Read it
Its in it somewhere (i read it like 5 years ago)
@@gergopiroska5749 What on Earth are you talking about? I honestly have no idea what that has to do with anything at all.
I own the original novel. I read it long before the movie was even announced. Guess what? *THAT DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING.*
Well, _all_ animals, including human beings, find it _much_ easier to spot something moving than the same object when stationary. Though when the Rex is literally _nose-to-nose with them,_ that's clearly more about her not being hungry. Which is honestly better anyway, the dinosaurs are at their best when they are portrayed as animals rather than as monsters who are trying to kill people for no reason.
It’s fun to see someone who’s never seen this reacting to some of the most iconic lines for the first time. “Life… uh” and “whether they should” “they do move in herds” etc. It’s so fun!
This movie has two of my favorite scenes of all time. The discussion ethics and implications of creating the park at lunch and the scene with Dr. Sattler and Hammond discussing control.
Also, I believe that velociraptors were a smaller member of the raptor family. However, the raptors in this film would be more in line (proportion wise) with the Utahraptor. I believe they used the name velociraptor because they are well known and information on Uhtahraptors at that time was scarce.
Robert Bakker a renowned paleontologist helped work on Jurrasic park. In his book, Raptor Red, the preface explains his involvement on the film. It's also a good read if anyone is interested. It follows a female Utah raptor for a part of her life.
The lunch scene bothers me. When Malcolm is berating JP scientists for reading what others had done and taking the next step, his argument is hypocritical nonsense: that's literally how ALL new knowledge in ANY field is acquired, including mathematics.
I think i did a short book report on Raptor Red, it was really fun reading about the Utah Raptor and a portion of its life. I enjoyed it so much that I wanted more.
The Utahraptor hadn't been discovered yet at the time the movie was filmed. The velociraptors of the movie were based more closely on Deinonychus.
@@Tantalus010 Thanks for the reply. You have a good point. I do agree with you that when conducting research you have to use previous research, especially for a research proposal.
What I like about the scene is that it calls to attention the implications of the park itself. I focus more on the idea that the scientists knew that they could create the animals but didn't think about if they should. I see it as they took what other people had done and took the next step without contemplating the dangers of that next step. It is easy for researchers at time to get caught up in the magnificence of what they are doing and downplay the negatives.
Again, I see where your coming from and I agree with the idea that knowledge is built upon previous knowledge. I thank you for replying. It's always nice to see someone else's point of view.
I’ve read raptor red and I really enjoyed it. Would love to read it again
When you guys get to The Pacific, the successor series to Band Of Brothers, you'll recognize Timmy. He plays one of the major characters, Eugene Sledge.
Also the girl Lex went on to be in the movie Angus! One of those high school movies about the weird "loser" kid.
@@jdavis9684 He also played John Deacon in Bohemian Rhapsody if you saw that. Which kinda makes Rami Malek's casting in The Pacific kinda hilarious if you ask me!
Much of this was filmed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Beautiful place! The scenes showing a large storm are actual footage of Hurricane Iniki, which hit the island during filming.
I saw this in theaters when it first came out in 1993. I was only 10 at the time.
Damn-near 30 years later, that first Brachiosaurus shot still usually gets me teary-eyed, since it's the first dinosaur shot of the franchise.
Hammond is nice in the movie because he is a Spielberg stand-in. The actor who plays Hammond is also a director (most notably, the Oscar-winning Gandhi.) The book has Hammond die in the end.
I would say its worth it to watch the other two. They’re shot slightly differently well the third one is I think. The second one is probably my favorite. But there are 3 movies in the Jurassic Park franchise and then it moves into Jurassic World which explore Hammonds park dreams actually coming to reality.
The other movies are a waste of time and effort. The original novel got ignored as far as a plot for next books/movies. Dino's appeared on the mainland at the end of the original novel. The additional movies were just a cash grab redoing the same old story of Man meddling with nature.
@@Jay-ate-a-bug Lost World is a wonderful film.
@@MasterBetty69 I agree. I've always liked The Lost World and don't understand the hate it gets.
@@Jay-ate-a-bug Agree, the original sequels and the reboots where all bad.
@@creaturecore13 But much of JW2 is set in Canada, so you know, of added interest for a couple of Canadian viewers.
The film still holds up well today, I remember seeing it in theaters when I was 16, and it was incredible. A lot of the film was shot in Hawaii, some of the storm scenes authentic as a hurricane was passing through. Kualoa Ranch on Oahu, has a Jurassic tour that takes you to the field where Grant & the kids ran with the Gallimimus herd.
I've seen this movie hundreds of times only realizing now that the little girl didn't hack into the unix system, it was rebooted which was the main reason for them shutting everything down. I always tht in that scene she "hacked" and I was trying to figure out how she did it.
They've made 5 films so far. This one will always hold a space in my heart. One of my favorites of all time. Oh and Laura Dern ( Sadler) and Jeff Goldblum actually started dating irl while filming this movie. And the others are worth watching.
27:57 "What is it with movies and cakes?" We often forget that in practically every shot - especially any shot where there's principal actors - there's a catering table. The caterer is always on the producer's speed dial. So if they need something pretty to dress the set, food is very easy to come by. Next time you watch a film, remember that for practically every shot, there's tables with food on it just off camera.
This is one of those movies like The Matrix, where it's so immersive that you had to check reality coming out of the theater. It was tiring in a good way going through it. I remember when I saw those birds flying next to the helicopter, there was a sense of...relief, seeing normal animals again, like coming out of an alternate reality. It was only somewhat recently that I realized the subtle joke. With the exception of the mosquito, if one considers that birds *are* dinosaurs, there are *only* dinosaurs in this film.
The soundtrack for this movie was one of the first CDs I bought for myself. Absolutely epic and so memorable.
John Williams composed the music for Jurassic Park, the same year as The Schindler's List, for which he won an Oscar. Otherwise I probably would have won it with this soundtrack, which is absolutely great.
I saw this when it came out with a bunch of friends, one of which had brought his 12 yo cousin who had grown up way, way out beyond the boonies, and was visiting the big city for the first time... It was absolutely breathtaking, of course! In the car on the way back from the cinema, the young girl was saying how impressed she was that they were able to keep the T-Rex from hurting those children! She was a bit puzzled when after a brief moment of silence, we all burst out laughing! The poor innocent child had no clue that it was not a real dinosaur! lol
One of my favorite after-movie moments ever!
She had never attended a single science class in 12 years?
@@zammmerjammer I dunno, she was barely 12, and I have no idea what level of science was being taught in schools in The Middle of Nowhere, New Brunswick in the early 90's... I had just met the kid. Who knows, maybe she was tired and wasn't thinking straight. Or maybe she was just an idiot. All I know is that it was funny as shit (and, at the same time, a little sad).
and the funniest part from reading the comments is, she was sorta right.
People saying during the filming the animatronics broke and it also broke the glass which wasn't supposed to happen when it was going at them.
Funny thing about Hammond not falling into the evil rich guy trope, I've heard in the novels he was exactly that.
Hammond was definitely more of an evil rich guy in Crichton’s “Jurassic Park”. He also dies in the novel.
Yep. Gennaro was a good guy who, obviously cared about his investment, but he was a good guy who did what was right. Hammond, on the other hand, was all about the money. He had a whole speel about not wanting to lower prices so that everyone could see it. He wanted it to be a luxury for people with money. Henry Wu was also a better character with more lines in the book.
The book is so different to the movie but I'm still somewhat happy that both versions exist. Having two fantastic versions of an already good premise is a win-win.
@@Unethical.FandubsGames I really need to find and read the books.
If you are into old school computers.... those systems are real. The stack of white boxes on the desk are I think Sun 4 workstations... the OS she uses and says this is a UNIX system is a SGI graphics workstation running IRIX(based of System V UNIX and with bits of BSD thrown in)... and the flashing red light box in the background is a Thinking Machine Connect super computer. All of that equipment back then was probably worth half the budget of that movie.
I saw this movie for the first time when I was 4, and mum said I laughed when the t-rex ate the lawyer 😅 I also had a cassette tape of Jurassic Park that I used to listen to all the time while I was falling asleep, which caused me to have a recurring nightmare about being chased by the t-rex. I had it so often that I knew when I was in the dream, and would figure out ways to outsmart Rexy and survive. I did get eaten a lot though 😂 Didn't stop me listening to it!
Yeah LOL definitely 💯 that really mean old Greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids!! What did you think was more funny about that? The way Rexy 🦖 She bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up 😋?? Or did you just think it's funny because he deserves it?
I was 5 when I first saw it. Also had the book and a cassette. Good times. I remembered liking Gennaro in the book so I was a little bummed that they made him into a greedy stereotype who only exists to be eaten.
I saw this in the theater, and I was floored when they show that first dinosaur standing on it's hid legs and eating the tree.
I still feel a little of that every time I watch it since then.
14:57 -- they weren't trying to FEED the Rex, they were trying to tempt him over to the fence so the guests could see him.
Actually they were trying to tempt him over to the fence so the guests could see him by feeding him. T-Rex is like any carnivore. They are opportunistic hunters just like a lion. They hunt not because they want to, but because they need to hunt. If they can steal a kill they will. If they can find a dead carcass they like then they will eat it. If you drop a live or dead animal that they like they will eat it. Even if they do not like it and they are hungry they will try to kill it.
*her
By offering food, or in laymans terms "feeding it".
Nevertheless it was fed when the rex ate the goat. If they were just trying to tempt the rex, why not put it into a very strong cage? Not as cruel either, though still terrifying to the gate. I guess Costa Rica was supposed to have pretty lax animal protection laws.
@@zammmerjammer Whilst you are correct (Maybe. The sex may have changed.) In the book they did explain that they always called the big Rex a "he". I know that's not entirely relevant but it seems everyone refers to the Rex as a He.
Fun facts. The novel is comparatively different from the film as they nearly changed everything in some sort of way like the story beats, the characters, (Hammond is portrayed as a rich evil guy) the violence was described in graphic horrific detail along with the deaths but I can see why they changed so much as they wanted to appeal to a wider audience. It became a huge hit and sat at the top of the box office for weeks on end and became one of the highest grossing films ever made. Pop culture wise, everyone was into dinosaurs at the time too. Won an Oscar for special effects.
Btw I think the 3D-style OS in the computers is an actual OS. Can't recall which one, but something pretty obscure. It was addressed on some retro IT channel.
It's always fun seeing people's first reactions to this film- it makes me feel better putting it up on my favorite films list.
The idea of the dinosaurs being vulnerable to more recent genera of plants and animals brought to mind another notion I heard somewhere, about time travel: That is, that a time traveler from the, let's say, present, travelling to the past, would have antibodies for diseases that native live would not...but could by the same token, be carrying new diseases that the past-people were entirely unprepared for. An interesting story might include the bubonic plague as retrograde/futuroid contamination from time travelers.
A parallell is the diseases that europeans brought to the "new world". Many native americans died after contracting them.
The same issue would arise if we ever traveled to other planets with life. We would have no antibodies against the indigenous pathogens and bacterias, and vice-versa, and could never be in contact with that world until inoculations can be made for just about everything, which could take a while... If you recall, it's essentially what happens to the aliens in the movie War of the Worlds (2005), the common cold killed them - which makes this super advanced alien species too stupid to actually exists and subsequently ruins the movie as a result. /shrugs
@@xen0bia LOL Ok, you got me....This thought actually occurred to me, watching the ID4 video, but this one seemed a bit more fitting, considering the dinosaurs.
@@xen0bia And the novel from, y'know, 1897 :).
(OK, _strictly_ the novel talks about bacteria - colds are caused by viruses - but the point holds)
@@xen0bia Not just the 2005 War of the Worlds movie, but also the 1953 film, and 1898 novel it's based on.
I read the book first by Michael Chrichton which was pretty good so I went into the theatre knowing the source material. I was blown away by the special effects which were at the time ground breaking and hold up pretty well to this day.
On a realistic note with getting zapped by high voltage (electric fences and electrocution in general), your muscles can convulse at full strength, and depending on the muscle groups, can launch a person.
I was able to verify that particular detail with a 277 volt circuit going to ground. Dry skin made the amp draw through my body rather low, but still caused all my arm muscles to pull, which really hurt my elbows more than anything.
Electric fences usually operate with very low amperage but high voltage to "startle" anything not meant to get around it.
This movie was a game changer for vfx in the 90s as was Cameron‘s Avatar in 2000s. I clearly remember talking to a classmate in 12th grade who watched it on opening night, on the next morning. He was so blown away and couldn’t stop talking about it
In the book there is a good reason Nedry could not simply be fired for acting like he was (he was also a bit more likeable), but it is not quite the same or at least explained in the film. The short version is he was basically bidding on a job without knowing what was expected of it, but them being cheap he wound up practically being the only programmer responsible for almost everything and had no choice but to comply or lose reputation amongst his peers (also to try and keep it more secret/less people involved until the park opened)
Hammond was pretty much blackmailing Nedry to finish the job, he was gonna destroy nedry's reputation so he wouldn't be able to get anymore clients.
Yeah, the book makes the case against unregulated capitalism (and Critchon's undying hate of theme parks) a lot more clear than the film, mainly because of how likeable Hammond appears in the latter. Still my favourite film
I'd say it's a family movie. Yes, it got thrills, suspense and horror, but it's fine as long as they make it out! Jurassic Park has been my favorite movie since I was 5-6 and I wanted to be like Dr. Grant when I grew up abd dig up Dinosaurs myself haha. It's a fun trillride of a movie!
The effect in this movie is amazing as well! The CGI was groundbreaking and so are the animatronics! Rexy's animatronic is a masterpiece!
Plus I never see enough people talk about the sound design. It's fantastic! Deserved that Oscar! Watching the movie in a cinema with the right sound is a treat!
And the music, man.. *Chef's kiss* nostalgia!
" I wanted to be like Dr. Grant when I grew up "
Same.
The thing about T-Rex's not being able to see things that don't move is a holdover from the book. The book goes into more detail about the frog DNA used to plug the holes in the dinosaurs DNA strands, and the effects that had on the final resulting animal. In the book, the T Rex only sees movement because some of its DNA is swapped in from a type of frog that only sees movement. While I absolutely love the movie, it's always kinda bugged me that they never explain that part.
5:14 "Who is this guy" That's notable and respected English actor and director Sir Richard Attenborough. Brother to Sir David Attenborough.
I saw this movie in the theater when I was 13. It was a magnificent experience, and frankly it has been every time I have seen it since. This is a masterpiece of a movie.
I was on the Russian River the day this came out. We rounded a bend that was next to the a theater, and the trees parted, and for MILES there was a line next to the river.
Oh, you have to have him watch the first Land Before Time. That movie is my favorite to this day. My grandmother got me stuffed Little Foot thats16-18" tall. I got it when I was a year old and still have it to this day. The only thing I've managed to hold on to through moves, homelessness, etc..
8:25 I love the RiffTrax for this scene: "Hey, you know we're here too!"
"You guys should really look _slightly_ to the left more often! You pick up on a lot of neat stuff that way!"
I rewatched this movie in a theater having only ever watched it on dvd/vhs. I cried when I saw the Brachiosaurus scene because of how amazing it was to see something I idolized as a child how it was meant to be watched and all the childhood nostalgia flooding back.
Same dude, even today, i get a lump in my throat when the camera pans round and the John Williams score kicks in.
This film holds the record for the longest time in theatres, 1.5 years making a total of over $900 million.
Lucky to make it 1.5 weeks now lol
I legitimately love how as any movie starts, before waiting for the movie to just show you what's happening and provide any answers, George will just start throwing out the craziest hypothesis he can come up with to guess what is actually going on. "Maybe it's set on an Earthlike planet but everyone has extrasensory powers they're not aware of because no one knows that they're not *actually* breathing oxygen but instead the fumes of the rotting corpses buried miles below their feet and they're aliens from ANOTHER planet that's entirely populated with beings not unlike the X-Men and we're gonna see them awaken to that fact and figure out what they're all capable of" but five to ten minutes later it's like "okay, no, this character is just basically a superhero, got it." I'm telling you, I LOVE IT. Never stop.
Saw this with friends when I was 14 on opening weekend. Still one of the best theater experiences of my life. The T-Rex roaring was insane. Saw it again with my family a few days later. My younger sister walked out when they started to lower the cow in to the raptor pen and has still never seen the rest of the movie.
To be fair, Pg-13 rating is well deserved here (it is PG-13 right?), so if she was younger than you and younger than 13, it's understandable the movie traumatised her.
While 3 isn't a masterpiece, you can definitely watch and enjoy the whole first trilogy of Jurassic Park movies. They're all fun.
This movie is such a good movie and a classic. The effects still hold up to this day
the moment, in theatres, when they first see the first dinosaur, was jawdropping. Nothing like it had been seen before
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene that really mean old greedy lawyer guy who selfishly abbonond those poor kids trying to save himself! But Whoops LOL Rexy she 🦖 found him and bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
Another stellar score from John Williams. Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, E.T, Superman, the theme from the Olympics and the the theme from the NBC Nightly News. He's incredible! This particular soundtrack theme is very emotional. You're absolutely right. I played it in high school. Lucky for me John Williams to like giving a lot of attention to horn and trumpet for his main melodies, having playing both instruments.
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old Greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids he's trying to save himself! But Whoops LOL Rexy 🦖 She found him and Bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
That ending scene as they fly away is one of my favorites in all of cinema. Also, this is the best horror movie I have seen. Great reaction. As for the other movies, they are not terrible, but none are as good as this one. (although I have not seen any of the new ones with Chris Pratt)
I recommend watching all the movies in this series, you have some better then others, but none of them are bad movies. Also I remember watching this movie in theaters when i was younger and everyone was stunned at the visuals of the dinos at the time, people had either tears or moisture in their eyes at the wonder they were seeing.
For me:
Jurassic Park > Jurassic World > The Lost World: Jurassic Park > Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom > Jurassic Park III.
I like all of them.
@@b.u.l.1734 Good order. Although I sometimes swap the 2nd place between The Lost World and Jurassic World, depending on my mood.
@@b.u.l.1734 Almost the perfect list but The Lost World and Jurassic World could be swapped, same with Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
Great reaction, guys. Now you can both appreciate why Simone couldn’t watch it the first time around.
There’s a recent video by Corridor Crew (they do CGI for a living) where they attempted to recreate that iconic scene where the T Rex chews through the wires. Despite having modern day computer technology at their disposal, they were still unable to render something comparable to the original. Even though this movie was one of the first attempts at creating photo realistic creatures, it still holds up nearly 30 years later.
Fun fact - that pose by Jeff Goldblum (the one Simone didn’t mind at all) was recreated as a giant sculpture (like, 20 feet high) by a British artist and placed by the Thames river a few years back, exposed nipple and all…
I’m sure Mr. Goldblum was very proud.
And yes, watch the rest. There are 2 more ‘Park’ movies, then 2 “Jurassic World” movies, with another one on the way. They’re all entertaining, even if the wonder of the original can’t really be recreated (you’ve already seen the dinosaurs).
Congratulations; you made me look. 🙈 One Google Image Search later, and I can say that the sculpture wasn't a very good likeness.
@@bigdream_dreambig Still recognizable though…
@@scottstevens7639 Oh yes. There's no mistaking that pose!
I think the "it can only see us if we move" is more like about the dinosaur reacting differently to very apparent movement (like the thrown glow stick) than if you sort of "blend in" with your surroundings almost like a camouflage... if it is already focused on you, and you stop moving, it will still recognize you. Might not be accurate, but I think it makes sense for a big animal with a small brain, etc.
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids he's trying to hide! But Whoops LOL Rexy 🦖 She found him and Bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
Fun fact: Tim is played by Joe Mazzello. He would later play Queen bassist John Deacon in "Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018).
And Eugene "Sledgehammer" Sledge, one of the main characters in "The Pacific"
The movie was filmed largely in Kuai, one of the Hawaiian islands.
The shots of the Storm at the start include footage of a hurricane that struck the island during filming.
Hawaiian island of Kauai
I saw this in 1993 when I was in 5th grade. This to date the most impressive movie I have ever seen in the theaters given the time. It was like some generational leap in effects and sound at the time and looked incredible real given the film projectors that help mask this. Also not kidding the sound at my theater still to date is the loudest I've heard in any movie. Back in 93 they debuted DTS sound which had the audio for the movie stored on CD so it wasnt analog. 1000 theaters got this setup and a new one built near me had it and I am not kidding when I say it was loud to the point there it hurt your ears when the t rex was making noise.
Yup, I found out that night that I had auditory processing disorder, even tho it took another 20 years to realize it. 😅 The sound during that T-rex scene had me in a complete tailspin.
A lifelong favourite, I was 9 years old when this came out and have loved it ever since. One of Spielberg's best, and one of John Williams' greatest scores.
As somebody born in ‘85, it’s so curious to me watching people react to “old movies” for the first time and watch you speculate about what the movie is about.
I love when ppl have the informed take of new dinosaurs discoveries that didn't exist in movies or real life at the time (they were theories) . I like George but he tends to forget not everything exists during your era . watch without obvious bias. don't be too analytical for art. tbf you have done better now and days but you definitely have a logic centered brain
Since you mentioned your Jurassic Park trauma, I'll share mine. My sister and I were also too young but my parents didn't know that and the auto-view always shows two movies. JP was the second movie that night. Yes, you read that right, I said auto-view. That is an important detail because we were in the front row so the screen took up the whole windshield AND, the cherry one top, it was a full on thunderstorm that night. That T-Rex scene takes on an extra depth when you're viewing it through a windshield in a storm. (Also, some people were wondering around between the cars during the kitchen scene) When we left, my sister was sheet white and 30 years later still won't watch any movies where people get eaten.
I've watched a lot of reactions of people watching Jurassic Park and they have all said they thought this was a family film. I'm not sure how the movie got that reputation, but it's always funny to see people shocked from the first scene.
I think it's Spielberg's reputation more than anything.
Probably because it has always been very popular with children as well as adults. People didn't bubblewrap their kids so much in the 90s.
13:20 the "king kong" line makes a lot more sense if you have seen King Kong :P
And the whole "She cant see us when we dont move" makes a lot more sense in the book, instead of a "racial trait" that he somehow seems to "know" from the Fosils (which makes barely any sense), he notices that this particular Rex is short sighted during a confrontation with the animal
The dinosaur sounds in this movie were made by combining sounds made by living animals and every day objects.
The Tyrannosaurus rex (known by fans as Rexy) was a mix of elephant calf vocalizations (roar, snarls and growls), lion sounds and a dog playing with a rope toy (shaking the Gallimimus to death).
The Dilophosaurus was a mix of hawk, swan, howler monkey and rattlesnake sounds.
The adult Raptors were a mix of a walrus's chest cavity roar and a male dolphin's mating scream recorded with a hydrophone, while the hatchling was a mix of owlet and fox kit sounds.
The Brachiosaurus vocalizations were slowed down donkey calls, while the sneeze was a mix of an active fire hydrant and a whale breathing through its blowhole(s).
The Gallimimus's chief sound effect was made using the recorded calls of a mare (female horse) in heat.
And yes, that Raptor popping up right behind Ellie is always a major jumpscare...especially for me with my autism and anxiety. And most of this movie was filmed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
That's super cool, thanks for the share.
"How could they leave?"
*lights pipe* The other raptors and I have constructed a crude suspension bridge to Venezuela. Once there, I shall lie low and assume odd jobs under the name Mr. Pilkington. But perhaps I've said too much...
(The Critic remains the most underrated series in television history)
I think kids were a bit different when this movie came out. We were used to seeing stuff like this and kids weren’t protected as they are today. Even Sesame Street that I used to watch now has a parental warning on the front dvd cover. Stephen King TV miniseries, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Shark Week made this movie seem magical
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old Greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids he's trying to hide! But Whoops LOL Rexy 🦖 She found him and bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
It was rated PG 13, but I think parents were more lax, and maybe reassuring to their kids.
I pity anyone not able to experience this in the theater for the first time. One of the best movies ever
Yes you're right, velociraptors were smaller than the film portrays them. And had feathers. Kudos for calling that out!
If you'd like to take a deep dive into velociraptors' anatomy, I highly recommend the channel "Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong", a series where the host examines dino toys sent by viewers and discusses what the toy-makers got correct and what they missed. Here's the velociraptor episode: ua-cam.com/video/y-3bImbSJCM/v-deo.html
Their size is discussed at the 15-minute mark.
Umm, the film was made in the 90's from an older book, so I think it's a bit much to compare it to knowledge on the 2020's
Considering this movie came out in 1993, the special effects hold up so well. And those kids did an insane job acting. That kitchen scene still gives me anxiety.
You're right, Veloceraptors were pretty small. But there were other Dromeosauridae that were as large as the ones shown in the movie (Utahraptor for example) even though they were heavily feathered^^
No animals were harmed in the making of this movie lol
7:27 they named that waterfall "Jurassic Falls" it's in Hawaii and you can take a helicopter tour to see it
8:17 the best line of the movie "Welcome, to Jurassic Park"
17:12 another great line lol
18:30 this sequence is incredible it still holds up 30 years later
Arianna Richards is amazing as this as Lex
26:00 that was the very first day of shooting lol
27:16 that was a real reaction from her
27:51 "Clever Girl"
30:03 iconic roar lol