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Ooooo space here! Great idea for a re-watch. I won't say best movie 🍿🎥 but I'll say one of the most perfect EVER made. So detailed like the DNA cartoon. When I was a kid and we watched a lot of films, one was on electricity called READY KILOWATT!! Great Job Yuze Two!! 🕊️☮️
You are probably my favorite reactors and I have seen countless. Because you're not reactors at all, you genuinely go in depth and care about the dynamics of film making. Not just going for shock value for likes. I have watched your Lord of the Rings videos a few times and love it. There's something about enjoying things vicariously. Keep up the great work. Godspeed!
By the way, there’s a good scene is James Cameron’s Sci-fi docuseries where he interviews Steven Spielberg and they discuss Jurassic Park. Cameron reveals that he read the advance copy of Jurassic Park and immediately tried to get the rights, but it turned out Spielberg had beaten him to it already. Cameron admitted he was briefly sore about it, but when he watched the film, he said Spielberg had the better vision for the adaptation. Cameron said he would have made it like Aliens with a hard R rating and bloody violence. When I heard that, I was like “yeah yeah yeah Spielberg made a classic, ok, so when does YOUR version go into production, Mr. Cameron?”
“Without John Williams, bikes don’t really fly. Nor do brooms in Quidditch matches. Nor do men in red capes. There is no Force. Dinosaurs do not walk the earth. We do not wonder. We do not weep. We do not believe.“ - Stephen Spielberg
John Williams is also pretty humble… One of my favorite stories/anecdotes about him is a story that Steven Spielberg likes to tell When he was making shadows list (consequently he was making it while making this film) he had asked John to score of the film… To which John Williams responded that “you really should try to find a brilliant Jewish composer for this film” (Paraphrasing of course) and Steven replied “yeah I know, but they’re all dead” Which to some kind of sound flippant lol… But the implication was that he was the greatest living composer for film and he literally couldn’t find anyone alive who could do it
@@DoughnutJelly55 lol, actually, your comment reminds me of when we'd set up a planc on a cinder block, like a ramp, and jump our bicycles -- doing our best Evel Knievel imitation! We didn't exactly 'fly', but for a fraction of a second, it sure felt like it! 😲😁
@@DoughnutJelly55 Tried during my youthful backyard wrestling and "Xtreme sports" phase. Most of those times ended in something akin to "Ah! My balls!" Or general shouts of pain.
Here's a fun fact that has been stuck in my head for 30 years. The iconic water cup was actually really difficult to create. They spent weeks trying to figure out how to get the perfect ripples. By accident it was discovered that placing the glass on a guitar and plucking the strings created the ripples, so they ran a guitar string from bottom of the glass to the bottom of the car and plucked it. Perfect ripples. One of those cool super simple solutions that just need someone to think of them.
@@DakotaMambaPrescott244 He is indeed the GOAT, but in this case the credit goes to special effects supervisor Michael Lantieri. He was playing guitar with his son when they discovered it.
One of my favorite bits I learned later as an adult is early on in the helicopter, when Grant can't fit the two Female ends together, he 'finds a way.' Great foreshadowing
The T-Rex scene… in the cinema… you felt the steps. Then the roar… went right through you. This is one of those blockbusters that’s made for cinema consumption 😊
Fun fact!: the reason why the trex roars for no reason sometimes is because its vision its based on movement (in the movie, not real life), so it roars to scare the creatures into moving.
While real the real T-Rex has excellent binocular vision, and are always silent, but made low frequency sounds similar to elephants, crocodiles and alligators, or emus, since it's a very large animal, and they have sensitive hearing.
@@fyrasfacts1855 you should check out Goji-Center and Beastopia. They have good videos that explain and analyze different creatures from media and real life.
@@emilywilhite5807 He said he was paid the salary of one employee but he was essentially doing the job of a small team of people. So even if he was paid "well", it still didn't measure up given the work he did.
The movie has space for speculation here. In the novel it is pretty clear, that Hammond was in fact underpaying, even blackmailing Nedry. Book-Hammond was much more evil. But even in the movie it should be clear that the park was not save at all also without Nedry. As Mr Arnold said "we have all the problems of a theme park and a zoo". Beginning with "no locking mechanisms" to "never tested an emergency restart of the system" to not considering what the frog dna can do. And even the sick Triceratop and a Brachiosaurus with a cold show that there is too much room for an epic fail. That does not make Nedry a nice guy. He put innocent people into danger for his greed (and revenge on Hammond) and of course started the actual brake down.
@@c.h.9223 yeah book Hammond is a real POS. After all these years i never clued in to the Brachiosaurus's cold being another sign of the dinosaurs poor health but it makes sense. I recall there being an unshot scene or deleted scene that answers the mystery of the sick Tryke
I love that you can vividly recall the wonder of that first moment seeing the dinosaurs from watching as a kid, but none of the plot details..... which makes sense, since in that moment as a child you were just as spellbound as the characters when first seeing REAL DINOS. Perfect example of how movies can truly transport you if they're done right!
My parents dragged me along to see this in theater when I was 6. Although my memories are fairly vague of that time, I vividly remember being like a scared puppy curled up against my mom whenever the T-Rex or Raptors were on screen, especially the paddock breakout scene.
@@joshnc101 Yeah that paddock scene scared the shit out of me too as a 7 year old. As Spielberg learned in Jaws, sometimes seeing almost nothing of the "monster" is scarier.
I was a teenager on a date when I watched this in the theaters. When the T Rex gets the dude on the toilet, kids started screaming, parents were picking their kids up and running out of the theater. It was wild. Seeing the bronto for the first time was “the” experience of a lifetime.
My aunt Linda took me to see it when I was 7. When the raptor jumped out of the tubes in the maintenance shed, she screamed and covered MY eyes. I tried to push her off, but she had a death grip on my face. Lol
There is not brontosaurus in this movie. I think you want to say Brachiosaurus. The apatosaurus (other name for brontosaurus) is first seen in jurassic world
@@deather6412 1). let's not be pedantic over this. We all knew what they were talking about. 2). Brontosaurus was deemed a valid genus of sauropod distinct from Apatosaurus in 2015.
@@bakedAK85 Exactly. And as long as we're gettin' all cerebral...travelin' down this intellectual road, it was ALSO the one that Fred Flintstone operated at the quarry! :)
This was an absolute shock in 93. Back in the 80s people said computer graphics would become so good that one day they would look like photography. And now here was this photo realistic Brachiosaur right there in the shot with people in the open sun. Unbelievable.
I love the layers of this film. As a kid, it was a cool dinosaur movie. As a teen, it's a scary movie. As an adult, it's a frightening dissection of wealth, hubris, and capitalism-first scientific exploration. There's a reason Dr. Oppenheimer has a photo cameo in this film. It's truly a timeless and essential movie.
It is an incredibly well executed film. From the plot to the action they nailed every aspect of it. As an adult the plot went way deeper than we recalled. The film had something to say and it does it in such an entertaining way.
It's funny as a kid I found the "lunch" scene boring as hell and would often skip it in my excitment for DINOS! As an adult, its easily the best scene in the movie lol
@KS-xk2so I can agree, it's the same for me too, I loved the action scenes as a kid and older I grew to appreciate the writing, cinematography, direction, of course the music, everything so much more! It got better! It was an A+ for me as a kid and as an adult it's still an A+ It's honestly what I would call "A Blockbuster Film" not a movie, a film, everything works so perfectly and its textbook how you make popcorn entertainment the right way, same as Jaws, Star Wars and others, also I love the Mr DNA scene, that should be taught in film school as a great way to deliver expososition without it being boring or cliche.
Both the movie and book it's based on is a story about the repercussions of trying to play God and mess with nature. An allegory for Frankenstein. The illusion of control and the consequences of treating your creation as a commodity.
Can't help but assume that Richard Attenborough (John Hammond) was inspired by his brother when playing this role... the lifetime Naturalist Sir David Attenborough. David went on to Narrate for Prehistoric planet and several other dinosaur series after Richard's passing... completing the circle.
@@thechad4485 Whilst i don't disagree... David's early life was helping stock zoo's so "everyone could experience wildlife". This is of course was a long time ago when it was considered normal and he quickly moved on to the "Wildlife must be left alone and watched from a distance" moto. So there is actually a lot of his Brother in John Hammonds character in both movies.
@@Ryne_Barrow and his daughter’s mother-in-law as well. I couldn’t imagine such a terrible loss to lose three loved ones in such a horrible act of nature.
John Williams' score in this film can't get praised enough. It's wondrous, dreadful, chilling, majestic and beautiful all in one. Bless him for all the musical achievements he has done for us.
I just love the fact that Sam L. has reached such an iconic status that when you spot him in a film the reaction may be “What?!” “Is that…” “I thought I heard HIS voice.” 😏
What is amazing about the T Rex Jeep chase is that Ellie has never seen the Rex before, nor was she aware that it had escaped his paddock. So the pure terror she displays is also mixed with complete surprise, and absolutely spot on
I don't recognize that Joe Mazello, who plays John Deacon from "Bohemian Rhapsody" was in this film as Tim Murphy. In 2018 when I was in fourth year high school, just watched in the theaters for the Freddie Mercury biopic and we we're obssessed with them because of their songs.
This was one of those films when it was released and after the first viewing you KNEW it would be an iconic game changer in the history of film, it just hit every single element perfectly and filled people with wonder. That is magic that never goes away.
I’ll never forget watching this in the theater on opening weekend one week before my ENTIRE family when to Universal Studios Hollywood for our big trip… like 60% of the park was FULLY decked out as Jurassic Park… I was 10 and it was incredible
I was 19 and a new immigrant. I had read about “THX Theaters” in magazines but never had the chance to watch a movie in one, until that summer in L.A. Wasn’t in a big cineplex, AMC Theaters in Old Town Pasadena, speakers all around, totally worth it just for the T-Rex intro alone.
I saw this in theaters when I was 8. My brother was 10, and My uncle took us because he was awesome. I specifically remember because the theater was at the Fairview Mall, just north of Toronto in Canada. The movie theater sits on top of the mall, so you have to take a specific escalator from the food court in order to get there. Things have gotten smaller since then, but that moment became my gold standard for going to the movies. I am certain that it is way better in my memory, but I only know of 2 people who can tell me otherwise.
The fact that Spielberg released Schindlers List that SAME YEAR is truly mindblowing. One has landmark visual effects and becomes the highest grossing movie at that time, while the other wins 7 Oscars including Best Director and Picture!
And he was physically and emotionally exhausted by the end of it. IIRC, he had Robin Williams' number on speed-dial for when he needed a break from it all, having met Williams while making _Hook_
Funfact: If you closely look at the outfits Dennis Nedrey wears in the movie (the hacker guy) youll notice he is cosplaying Goonies in the different scenes hes in. Thats always my favorite detail
The sound design was done by Gary Rydstrom, pretty much the protégé of Ben Burtt and he would go on to do sound work for many other legendary films, becoming a sound legend himself alongside Ben
When my sister and I saw this in theaters. She said " the T-Rex just came from there, how is it a cliff now." I never knew what she meant till I saw it on VHS.😮
There's kind of a cliff in the enclosure. The car didn't go over the railing exactly where the T-Rex broke out. There's a map of the park's enclosures somewhere that shows it pretty clearly.
I was 7 years old when I saw this in theater. That first introduction to the Dinos on the island truly was a something to behold. You could hear the fascination among the movie goers. God the 90s was a time to be alive
I remember being a kid seeing that scene, it still is burned into my head 20 years later. The only way I could improve on that moment is, funny enough, the Lego Jurassic Park game where you could walk up to the brachio in actual gameplay. I got the exact same feeling of heartswelling wonder.
Fun fact, the Triceratops scene was actually the FIRST dinosaur scene that they filmed. And the full-size animatronic worked so perfectly that it really set the standard for the rest of the dinosaur scenes in the film.
Incase you're wondering why the kitchen freezer floor was wet and slippery (and the door open) when Tim ran for it, think back to Hammond and Elle's conversation earlier at the table. What were they eating? Ice cream! Hammond had gone to the freezer to get the tub of ice cream and left the door open. One of my favorite details.
Wow, that’s a nice detail that’s truly new to me! Thanks. Having seen many Jurassic Park reactions, I’ve already read so many comments that share just the exact same cool observations and facts. But this one is new to me! I think this fits with the butterfly effect Malcolm was telling Ellie, too.
And just think, this is actually Lex’s *second* monster movie! Just a few years earlier, she was avoiding being eaten by giant worm monsters in the original Tremors.
I can gladly say that I would not be who I am today without this movie. My passion for prehistoric life, my drive to pursue animation as a career, and my love for film came from this. Thank you for giving this film another breath in modern media! The quality holds up so well and it showcases the balance between practical and computer effects! Would LOVE to see y'all react to the other Jurassic movies!
We will definitely continue this journey! This film impacted millions of people’s lives and it’s great to see so many of you share the love you have for this with us. Thank you for stopping by ❤️
30:48 fun fact about this scene when the T-Rex pushes through the top glass that wasn’t actually supposed to happen. There was a malfunction with the animatronic head and it broke through the top glass so the terror that is in the eyes of these children is true terror.
This franchise holds a special place in my heart it was the first movies i saw with my adopted family they heard that i like dinosaurs so they got me the first 3 on vhs
I'm so glad you didn't let the fact that you have already seen it stop you from reacting to this classic. Hard to think of any reactors better equipped to fully appreciate it.
My mom and grandmother took me and my 3 brothers to see this in the theater when it released. My brothers and I were ages 14, 12, 9, and 7, and we all LOVED it! We've rewatched it countless times since. I've always been captivated by dinosaurs and Ice Age animals/creatures.
Thanks for noticing "objects in the mirror are larger than they appear". You're the first reviewers I've seen to mention that. Sometimes it's the little things. Great reaction as always.
THIS MOVIE IS STILL AMAZING 31 YEARS LATER!!!!!!!! JOHN WILLIAMS AMAZING SCORE!!!!!! Last year Dad and I saw JURASSIC PARK IN THEATERS for its 30th ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!! It was awesome!!!!!!!!!
Dennis Nedry was cosplaying as The Goonies during the movie. First he was Chunk in his Hawaiian shirt, then he was Mouth in his Members Only jacket, then he was Mikey in his yellow rain jacket.
I went to a screening of this movie with a live orchestra playing the score and it was a phenomenal experience. John Williams never misses & the dinosaur thrills never get old.
on a side note: for all the kids who went to see this on the big screen, excited to see dinosaurs "irl" when they go in... and exhibiting signs of PTSD when they come out, traumatized. and the girl playing Lex, a few years earlier played Mindy, the girl on the pogo stick, in the movie Tremors.
The point is all those scenes are made so well that they work by themselves, and then they decide which ones not to have music (which would be distracting) and where to let John Williams work his magic and make them even better!
One of my favorite memories is watching this when I was young on my grandparents' old fat booty big screen TV after my grandpa left for his night shift. Grandma made some stovetop popcorn and we had the volume up loud. I remember her saying "I forgot how good of a movie this is!"
I've said this before in a comment, and I'll say it again - you guys have the best production quality of any reaction channel I've seen on UA-cam. Your lighting, clarity of video and audio, everything. You guys are pros, and it makes a difference.
Love your channel guys! This was one of my favorite movies as a kid and still is today. I've lost count of how many times I have seen this movie and Denise is right, pure nostalgia. 11:55-13:30 the soft music of the incomparable John Williams playing as they slowly reveal the brachiosaur and then Hammond resolutely declares "Welcome to Jurassic Park," and when the music swells, I get chills every time!
One of the things I absolutely love about this movie is the sense of wonder and awe evoked as we first see the dinosaurs along with Ellie and Alan Grant…John Williams’ score is just iconic and makes my heart soar in that scene…🥹
One amazing detail I wanted to point out if you guys ever rewatch this film is that the music cuts out during the T-Rex attack, and resumes once the jeep gets stopped by the giant branch temporarily with that booming trumpet. There is music between them, but when you put together the two action scenes themselves it is entirely silent. I believe that was done because it subtly added that feeling of something being seriously wrong but we are too focused on the scene to figure out what.
57:05 funny thing is, in the book by Michael Critchon, Hammond actually WAS a greedy, evil rich guy 😭 They changed him for the movie, not sure why exactly
In case you guys didn’t know, the first Jurassic Park movie as well as Jurassic World are both filmed in Hawaii and you can actually book ATV tour there as well.
"Your scientists, they were so worried if they could that they never stopped to think if they should" basically summarizes Disney's approach in making movies nowadays.
Crazy fun fact about the storm (hurricane) There was an ACTUAL hurricane that occured during the production of this film. The cast actually thought they were going to die. The film crew braved the storm just enough to get real footage of the storm into this film. A small bit but enough to make it feel real.
@@andrewcrowder4958 yes, hurricane Iniki.. in the Eastern Pacific they are still called hurricanes. Also, it is believed by some that the storm that became Iniki actually formed off the African coast and crossed over Central America.
My favorite little detail is at 10:40, when his seatbelt has two "female" fittings with no male fitting. But he just ties them together and makes it work anyways. Because life, uh, finds a way.
When he kept saying, "Spared no expense" throughout the movie, he wasn't saying, "Look at me, I'm rich," he was saying, "Only the best." So, only the best tech, only the best people (scientists), only the best tour voice-over, only the best food, etc.
My favourite film watching experience ever was about 5 years ago, where I went to see Jurassic Park: In Concert. Massive projector screen playing the movie, live orchestra playing the music for the whole film.
This is such an exceptionally well written film, and I think it truly exemplifies the "perfect" summer blockbuster. Every one of the characters has agency, has depth, they generally avoid playing into stereotypes. They communicate with each other like real, normal human beings do, and make decisions that any reasonable or rational person would make. Absolutely perfect character writing. My favorite bit is the incorpation of little character quirks in a way that both usually has payoff and gives some identity to the characters. Dr. Grant's weird little hate relationship with children, in particular, is wonderful. They spend half the movie showing how little he thinks of kids as a concept, and the story perfectly enables him to learn and grow through his interactions with the kids.
1. This is my favorite Spielberg movie as well as my #3 all-time favorite movie. 2. While the movie is faithful to the spirit of the book it's based on, nothing in the movie goes 100% exactly like how it went in the book. But the biggest detail they left out was they not only brought Grant, Satler, and Malcolm to the island to get their safety endorsement, but also their hypothesis on whether or not the island was escape-proof. Because there had been reports of Dino encounters on the mainland of Costa Rica, so they wanna know if some of them actually managed to escape. That's where the whole "Dinosaurs breeding in the wilds" thing came into play. And the book ended with the Costa Rican government bombing the island as our heroes are flown out via helicopter. 3. The special effects of this film have an interesting history, as Spielberg hired the best VFX maestros he could get at the time. -Stan Winston, for the life-sized animatronic Dinosaurs. -Phil Tippett, for dinosaur animation via stop-motion. -Denis Muren, for compositing. -Michael Lantieri, for on-set dinosaur interactive effects. The original plan was the wide shots of Dinosaurs were gonna be done via stop-motion and use the animatronics for the medium/close-up shots. But Spielberg was so intent on making the dinosaurs look real that he felt Tippett's efforts were not convincing enough. That was until Denis Muren offered a solution, as he was working at ILM supervising the effects of _Terminator 2: Judgement Day_ at the time and offered to do a test for Spielberg using CGI to make dinosaur shots. And the test they showed was so good that when Spielberg asked Tippett what he thought, the latter replied "...I think I'm extinct." (Which Spielberg loved that response so much that he had it written as a line in the script) But that didn't mean Tippett didn't have a place there anymore, as they made these armatures for specific dinosaurs with these input sensors on them that worked like a stop-motion puppet but translated the poses in the computer (so, think motion capture for stop-motion). But even then, Spielberg knew the CGI wasn't going to be 100% flawless. So, he approached it the same way he approached miniatures- using harsh directional lighting to obscure the details as much as possible. As put by the folks at *Corridor Crew,* the genius of the T-Rex paddock attack scene is the limited lighting and the rain obscured the details on the CG T-Rex that would've given away that it wasn't real.
Let's not also forget about how both Hammond and Malcolm die in the book and the lawyer survives plus the subplot about grant wanting to find the raptor nest and count the eggs
@@JasonKreider-eq8kp Ian, although assumed dead at the end of the first book didn't succumb to his injuries and survived. Which is a bit fishy but that's how it was written in book 2.
Best part of Ian Malcolm is when he stops being an insufferable know it all & puts his life on the line to save Tim & Lex. Also gotta love how Alan goes from "i don't like kids" to literally placing himself between the kids & the raptors
It's such a clever detail that the floor of the walk-in freezer is icy because the power had been off, so the frost melted, and now the power is back on so it was refreezing on the floor.
@JasonKreider-eq8kp by that point Ellie had restored power to the compound. The wet/defrosted floor in the freezer is probably due Hammond leaving the door open when he got the ice cream out.
You’re actually right. Watching movies from your childhood and then watching as an adult is a different experience because you’re actually paying attention to the plot, dialogue, characters, production, writing, and visuals vs just seeing the cool exciting parts as a kid.
Some foreshadowings in the movie: Alan Grant ties two female seatbelts together in the chopper. Genarro's face is obscured by the goat-leg blood right before he ditches Lex and Tim, signalling he's the first to die. Hammond says the infant dinos imprint on the first person they see. The raptor infant is looking at Alan the entire time, and he points to his own chest with a look of awe. Fun Fact: When the Rex comes down on the sunroof glass the second time, and it fractures across the top edge - that wasn't supposed to happen. Lex's face right after that was her genuine fear reaction, from the camera mounted in the Rex's mouth. Another Fun Fact: Dr Jack Horner was hired as a consultant for the film; he's an actual paleontologist, and if not for Spielberg, Crichton, and this film's budget, we would never know that Rex's have incredible eyesight, that dinosaurs were mostly warm-blooded, and that Utahraptors vocalization chambers rival that of dolphins and humans. Alan Grant's costume in the films is based on Dr. Jack Horner. He has been known to say that for all its inaccuracies about specific animals and bio/genetic-processes, the Jurassic Park films were the best thing to happen to the science of paleontology, because of the budget and awareness they brought to the field. I love yall's reactions, genuinely entertaining and insightful. I'd love to see yall watch Jessabelle, from LionsGate 2014. Set in Louisiana, and the main character is wheelchair-bound due to an auto accident. Takes "trapped in a haunted house" to a whole 'nother level.
I am obligated to scour every Jurassic Park reaction video to find this one comment, that inevitably exists in every comment section (specifically in reference to your “fun fact”). The rumor gets its origin from the fact that on the day of filming, there were intermittent rainstorms. Rexy’s latex skin was absorbing water, making her heavier. The hydraulics of her robotic form was very finely tuned to her weight. This caused her to judder and shake when moving. During the sunroof scene, she hit the plexiglass harder than expected and broke it into two pieces (as you pointed out), and broke one of her teeth. Joseph Mazzello (Tim) had Rexy’s tooth fall in his lap, and he began laughing uncontrollably. They had to do another take because of this. In the movie, they used the first shot of knocking the plexiglass in, second shot of her breaking the two pieces, and then cut to the third take where smaller broken piece of plexiglass was removed. They also made Rexy’s broken tooth canon, and it’s missing in toys, video games, and later movies. It was not real terror. It was acting. If it had been real, the insurance companies would have had a field day, and the movie would likely had its production shut down. But I can commend you for not pushing the idea that the plexiglass caving in was never supposed to happen, as so many people do. As it was storyboarded before filming even began.
Yessssss. So this is my favorite film, ever. My parents, bless their hearts, thought this was a children’s movie. I sunk into a giant theater chair, age 3, my neck bent back watching this amazing film unfold. The sounds of this film in that theater are some of my first real, solid memories. So many people don’t remember or even know that this was the first film released with DTS sound. Spielberg was a co-creator and he wanted every person to feel every step of those dinosaurs. I also still can’t get over the practical effects used in this film, building a large T-Rex and a T-Rex head was genius. The baby dinosaur, triceratops, and even some of the cuts of the raptors. Practicality wins every time in my book.
Watched all 3 JP movies with my nephew of 11 years old, he loved the movies so immensely he memorized the theme song and started to hum it before we started watching JW1 a few weeks later and said, "It is so epic"" Never thought a kid so invested in Fortnite could appreciate something so beautifull which we grew up with. 😇
My sister’s 5 little boys all love these films too. It’s so cute and I hope my son loves them too. He’s due Nov 7th and his nursery is fully decked in dinosaurs 😂 I attribute my love of dinosaurs to this film. 90s kids had some of the best movies and shows.
Yes. There are multiple some of them are not seen in movie. In the lost world we have Buck and Doe and their child Junior. And in jp3 there's Bull who is the biggest rex of isla sorna
Or as a lot of other fans still call her, "Rexie." 😁😁😁 She was my favorite dinosaur in the film franchise. Blue, is my second favorite. I saw this film with my late parents when I was 12 and holy crap, was it a wild experience!!! The whole theatre floor shook every time Rexie stomped onto the screen. Jumped when the damn raptors kept popping up out of nowhere and to this day, at 43, still CANNOT watch Dennis Nedry's death scene. Call me weird stupid, silly, whatever, but I stand by my choice. The first time I allowed myself to watch it for the first time was when I was in my 20's. I never made that mistake again!!! I was traumatized. Yikes!!! But everything else I'm cool with. I've seen this film, I don't, at least 100 times since I was 12. And I turn 44 in October. Yeah, you can say I love JP. 😂😂😂 The second JP film is called "Jurassic Park: The Lost World" and only one of the Core 3 returns. "Jurassic Park 3" which get waaay too much unnecessary hate but I happen to love it and think it's 100x better than Jurassic Park: The Lost World," has two members of the Core 3 in it but one get a lot more screen time than the other. As for the "Jurassic World(s)" movies in the Jurassic Park franchise...I'll wait on that!!! I think I may have overloaded you two with information...and scrambled my brains in the process!!! Great reaction!!!
22:31 According to the book, Dennis is being a lax computer operator because he's an a$$hole. He's actually one of Hammond's highest paid employees. He KNOWS that Hammond could afford to pay more. Dennis is just a money hungry guy.
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The 90s was the perfect decade for dinosaur kids. Dinosaurs were everywhere; VHS documentaries, TV shows, costumed sitcoms, school projects, silver-screen movies... What a time to be alive!
Which is probably why I am doing my son’s nursery in dinosaurs. 😂 I have been obsessed with dinosaurs since this film came out and it’s lasted a lifetime. I saw this in theaters again recently as a local theater replayed it. It was just as awesome as ever!
Just wanted to let the Knights know that my wife and I love your insights and commentary. The lens through which you view cinema shapes the light in your eyes every time you critique a new film or an old favorite. We look forward to all of your future releases. Best wishes!
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you revisiting Jurassic Park like this reminds me of when I was in high school and we had to read through Julius Ceasar or Romeo and Juliet in class 🙄. then many years later, I decided to get a copy of each of those books and read through them again just for myself, and I got so much more out of them than I ever would have in school.
That is such a true feeling, it has happened to us many times where revisiting something when you're more mature, the meaning just resonates so much deeper. It's a wonderful thing to reread books/rewatch movies after a long time and see what you can learn from it this time around!
As soon as that theme comes in...man oh man! If Steven Spielberg has not attributed at LEAST 23% of his success to John Williams, that is just a crime.
You guys rock, I had so much funn watching...your take on the background things, like the score, the different shot angles and character breakdown is top tier... I Applaud ya'll 🤙🏽🌊🙏🏾😁
Jurassic Park is one of my absolute favorite movies. I really have to praise you. You at Media Knights offer great content and you are my favorite channel for movie reactions. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Germany.
I love watching the behind the scenes making of video for this- especially when it comes to the animators trying to figure out how to make the CGI dino's move so it look real. The fact that they filmed themselves running with their hands up to their chests and hopping over stuff, just to get it right, was so cool, and I love the dedication they had to their craft.
This film was what convinced me to study genetics at uni when it came out lol - and weirdly Attenborough was the alumni at Sussex University graduation in 1998 who gave me my degree :)
It’s so ironic that this film was praised for how groundbreaking the CGI was that the practical effects never got any recognition. 31 years later everyone discusses the perfect balance of you using both art mediums.
Ah yes 5 year old me jumping around the couch for dinosaurs was everything 😂 Side note the trex attacked the car thinking it was a dinosaur,like how it flipped the car to expose its"belly"
I saw this 6 times in theaters as a kid with different people almost every time. That's how epic it was. When CGI was brand new and blended beautifully with practical effects. Not completely depended on as it is now. I will never forget feeling the steps of the T-Rex as the water ripples... One of the greatest cinematic experiences. Don't forget Spielberg was working on Schindler's List at the same time as this...now that's chaos.
John Williams is simply a genius. The way how he can emotionally elevate the movies with his music! Just think about them: Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Schindler's List, Memoirs of a Geisha... The moment you think about these films you hear his music in your head and you have an instant emotional reaction. For me at least the biggest composer in Hollywood.
I find it funny that talk about spare no expense yet they didn’t put backup generators on the raptor pens in case the power goes out, nor did they make the ride jeeps capable of running off its own batteries in case the electric track shorts out.
This is why Spielberg is one of my favorite directors: simply for his ability to create true cinema magic. The sense of wonder and amazement in his films still touches me in the heart.
To think that this came out the year i was born 31 years ago, as a kid a lot of things went over my head, as an adult I've grown to appreciate every single detail its crazy. I love every single reaction from you two ❤
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Can you please make a reaction to this movie? War of the Worlds Goliath.
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Ooooo space here! Great idea for a re-watch. I won't say best movie 🍿🎥 but I'll say one of the most perfect EVER made. So detailed like the DNA cartoon. When I was a kid and we watched a lot of films, one was on electricity called READY KILOWATT!! Great Job Yuze Two!! 🕊️☮️
You are probably my favorite reactors and I have seen countless. Because you're not reactors at all, you genuinely go in depth and care about the dynamics of film making. Not just going for shock value for likes. I have watched your Lord of the Rings videos a few times and love it. There's something about enjoying things vicariously. Keep up the great work. Godspeed!
By the way, there’s a good scene is James Cameron’s Sci-fi docuseries where he interviews Steven Spielberg and they discuss Jurassic Park. Cameron reveals that he read the advance copy of Jurassic Park and immediately tried to get the rights, but it turned out Spielberg had beaten him to it already. Cameron admitted he was briefly sore about it, but when he watched the film, he said Spielberg had the better vision for the adaptation. Cameron said he would have made it like Aliens with a hard R rating and bloody violence.
When I heard that, I was like “yeah yeah yeah Spielberg made a classic, ok, so when does YOUR version go into production, Mr. Cameron?”
“Without John Williams, bikes don’t really fly. Nor do brooms in Quidditch matches. Nor do men in red capes. There is no Force. Dinosaurs do not walk the earth. We do not wonder. We do not weep. We do not believe.“ - Stephen Spielberg
Oh wow! That is deep!
John Williams is also pretty humble… One of my favorite stories/anecdotes about him is a story that Steven Spielberg likes to tell
When he was making shadows list (consequently he was making it while making this film) he had asked John to score of the film… To which John Williams responded that “you really should try to find a brilliant Jewish composer for this film” (Paraphrasing of course) and Steven replied “yeah I know, but they’re all dead”
Which to some kind of sound flippant lol… But the implication was that he was the greatest living composer for film and he literally couldn’t find anyone alive who could do it
I don't think you have tried hard enough to make a bike fly.
@@DoughnutJelly55 lol, actually, your comment reminds me of when we'd set up a planc on a cinder block, like a ramp, and jump our bicycles -- doing our best Evel Knievel imitation! We didn't exactly 'fly', but for a fraction of a second, it sure felt like it! 😲😁
@@DoughnutJelly55 Tried during my youthful backyard wrestling and "Xtreme sports" phase. Most of those times ended in something akin to "Ah! My balls!" Or general shouts of pain.
Here's a fun fact that has been stuck in my head for 30 years.
The iconic water cup was actually really difficult to create. They spent weeks trying to figure out how to get the perfect ripples. By accident it was discovered that placing the glass on a guitar and plucking the strings created the ripples, so they ran a guitar string from bottom of the glass to the bottom of the car and plucked it. Perfect ripples. One of those cool super simple solutions that just need someone to think of them.
That's why Spielberg is the GOAT.
@@DakotaMambaPrescott244 He is indeed the GOAT, but in this case the credit goes to special effects supervisor Michael Lantieri. He was playing guitar with his son when they discovered it.
@@JakobBerry I always like learning about the background things on movies. I like looking at the imdb pages for things like this
@@rainbowpegacornstudios I think you might have responded to the wrong comment.
@@JakobBerry I did. Sorry. I lost a comment that said "Brontosaurus" and I meant to put *Brachiosaurus there.
One of my favorite bits I learned later as an adult is early on in the helicopter, when Grant can't fit the two Female ends together, he 'finds a way.' Great foreshadowing
HOLY COW THAT IS GENIUS!!! Great catch!!
@@OfficialMediaKnights Jurassic Park sequels and franchises did Jurassic Park 3 is the best
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Oh my God
Holy shit...🤯
The T-Rex scene… in the cinema… you felt the steps. Then the roar… went right through you.
This is one of those blockbusters that’s made for cinema consumption 😊
15:34 "Wow. The amount of effort they put into all of this... look at this!"
Spared no expense.
Fun fact!: the reason why the trex roars for no reason sometimes is because its vision its based on movement (in the movie, not real life), so it roars to scare the creatures into moving.
Wow cool
While real the real T-Rex has excellent binocular vision, and are always silent, but made low frequency sounds similar to elephants, crocodiles and alligators, or emus, since it's a very large animal, and they have sensitive hearing.
@@mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449 fascinating!
@@fyrasfacts1855 you should check out Goji-Center and Beastopia. They have good videos that explain and analyze different creatures from media and real life.
@@mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449to be fair tho, the dinosaurs were made with a bit of frog DNA, so it was a bit messed up (i think)
The irony is that John Hammond says that they spared no expense but underpaying Dennis Nedry is what caused all of their problems 😂
Underpaid according to Nedry. I’m sure he was asking for something astronomical. He was probably paid quite well.
@@emilywilhite5807 He said he was paid the salary of one employee but he was essentially doing the job of a small team of people. So even if he was paid "well", it still didn't measure up given the work he did.
@@patrickt49 is what he said.
a lot of robers blame society for being angy but then buy alcol and drugs.
The movie has space for speculation here. In the novel it is pretty clear, that Hammond was in fact underpaying, even blackmailing Nedry. Book-Hammond was much more evil.
But even in the movie it should be clear that the park was not save at all also without Nedry. As Mr Arnold said "we have all the problems of a theme park and a zoo". Beginning with "no locking mechanisms" to "never tested an emergency restart of the system" to not considering what the frog dna can do. And even the sick Triceratop and a Brachiosaurus with a cold show that there is too much room for an epic fail.
That does not make Nedry a nice guy. He put innocent people into danger for his greed (and revenge on Hammond) and of course started the actual brake down.
@@c.h.9223 yeah book Hammond is a real POS. After all these years i never clued in to the Brachiosaurus's cold being another sign of the dinosaurs poor health but it makes sense. I recall there being an unshot scene or deleted scene that answers the mystery of the sick Tryke
I love that you can vividly recall the wonder of that first moment seeing the dinosaurs from watching as a kid, but none of the plot details..... which makes sense, since in that moment as a child you were just as spellbound as the characters when first seeing REAL DINOS. Perfect example of how movies can truly transport you if they're done right!
My parents dragged me along to see this in theater when I was 6. Although my memories are fairly vague of that time, I vividly remember being like a scared puppy curled up against my mom whenever the T-Rex or Raptors were on screen, especially the paddock breakout scene.
@@joshnc101 Yeah that paddock scene scared the shit out of me too as a 7 year old. As Spielberg learned in Jaws, sometimes seeing almost nothing of the "monster" is scarier.
I was a teenager on a date when I watched this in the theaters. When the T Rex gets the dude on the toilet, kids started screaming, parents were picking their kids up and running out of the theater. It was wild. Seeing the bronto for the first time was “the” experience of a lifetime.
My aunt Linda took me to see it when I was 7. When the raptor jumped out of the tubes in the maintenance shed, she screamed and covered MY eyes. I tried to push her off, but she had a death grip on my face. Lol
There is not brontosaurus in this movie. I think you want to say Brachiosaurus. The apatosaurus (other name for brontosaurus) is first seen in jurassic world
@@deather6412 1). let's not be pedantic over this. We all knew what they were talking about. 2). Brontosaurus was deemed a valid genus of sauropod distinct from Apatosaurus in 2015.
@@bakedAK85 Exactly. And as long as we're gettin' all cerebral...travelin' down this intellectual road, it was ALSO the one that Fred Flintstone operated at the quarry! :)
@@bakedAK85hahaha 😂thats hilarious.
This was an absolute shock in 93. Back in the 80s people said computer graphics would become so good that one day they would look like photography. And now here was this photo realistic Brachiosaur right there in the shot with people in the open sun. Unbelievable.
I love the layers of this film. As a kid, it was a cool dinosaur movie. As a teen, it's a scary movie. As an adult, it's a frightening dissection of wealth, hubris, and capitalism-first scientific exploration. There's a reason Dr. Oppenheimer has a photo cameo in this film. It's truly a timeless and essential movie.
It is an incredibly well executed film. From the plot to the action they nailed every aspect of it. As an adult the plot went way deeper than we recalled. The film had something to say and it does it in such an entertaining way.
It's funny as a kid I found the "lunch" scene boring as hell and would often skip it in my excitment for DINOS! As an adult, its easily the best scene in the movie lol
@KS-xk2so I can agree, it's the same for me too, I loved the action scenes as a kid and older I grew to appreciate the writing, cinematography, direction, of course the music, everything so much more! It got better! It was an A+ for me as a kid and as an adult it's still an A+ It's honestly what I would call "A Blockbuster Film" not a movie, a film, everything works so perfectly and its textbook how you make popcorn entertainment the right way, same as Jaws, Star Wars and others, also I love the Mr DNA scene, that should be taught in film school as a great way to deliver expososition without it being boring or cliche.
Both the movie and book it's based on is a story about the repercussions of trying to play God and mess with nature. An allegory for Frankenstein. The illusion of control and the consequences of treating your creation as a commodity.
Can't help but assume that Richard Attenborough (John Hammond) was inspired by his brother when playing this role... the lifetime Naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
David went on to Narrate for Prehistoric planet and several other dinosaur series after Richard's passing... completing the circle.
His depiction of the character in The Lost World was more based off of his brother, where he becomes more of a wildlife activist for the dinosaurs.
Sad fact. Richard lost his daughter and granddaughter in the tsunami that hit Thailand in 2004. That movie the impossible talks about it
@@thechad4485 Whilst i don't disagree... David's early life was helping stock zoo's so "everyone could experience wildlife". This is of course was a long time ago when it was considered normal and he quickly moved on to the "Wildlife must be left alone and watched from a distance" moto.
So there is actually a lot of his Brother in John Hammonds character in both movies.
@@Ryne_Barrow I did not know that...
@@Ryne_Barrow and his daughter’s mother-in-law as well. I couldn’t imagine such a terrible loss to lose three loved ones in such a horrible act of nature.
John Williams' score in this film can't get praised enough. It's wondrous, dreadful, chilling, majestic and beautiful all in one. Bless him for all the musical achievements he has done for us.
It was magnificent seeing it with a live orchestra in the royal Albert hall 😍
"I love that Hammond is not the typical rich evil guy with a plan". Anyone who read the novel: "👀 uhm... Yeah 👀"
I love that this film is different to the cliche.
I'm glad everyone survived! Anyone who read the book: uhuh, yeah...
I just love the fact that Sam L. has reached such an iconic status that when you spot him in a film the reaction may be “What?!” “Is that…” “I thought I heard HIS voice.” 😏
"Say what again!"
@@bodhitree33sadly he didn’t say mother fucker
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'I've had it with these motherfucking raptors on this motherfucking island!'
What is amazing about the T Rex Jeep chase is that Ellie has never seen the Rex before, nor was she aware that it had escaped his paddock. So the pure terror she displays is also mixed with complete surprise, and absolutely spot on
I mean, she clearly saw the torn up fence.
Fun Fact: The child actor playing Tim appears in the film "Bohemian Rapsody" as John Deacon, the bassist in the band "Queen".
He also played Eugene Sledge in The Pacific, one of the best and most emotional arcs in that WW2 series
I don't recognize that Joe Mazello, who plays John Deacon from "Bohemian Rhapsody" was in this film as Tim Murphy. In 2018 when I was in fourth year high school, just watched in the theaters for the Freddie Mercury biopic and we we're obssessed with them because of their songs.
@@robcain8865 Yep, and his dog was named Deacon. How ironic is that!
And little Lex is in Tremors with the Bacon-man.
And also played Dustin Moskovitz in "The Social Network"
This was one of those films when it was released and after the first viewing you KNEW it would be an iconic game changer in the history of film, it just hit every single element perfectly and filled people with wonder. That is magic that never goes away.
I’ll never forget watching this in the theater on opening weekend one week before my ENTIRE family when to Universal Studios Hollywood for our big trip… like 60% of the park was FULLY decked out as Jurassic Park… I was 10 and it was incredible
Wow! That sounds amazing. What a cool memory to have!
Islands of adventure, the Jurassic park water ride, is instilled into my childhood memory.
I was 19 and a new immigrant. I had read about “THX Theaters” in magazines but never had the chance to watch a movie in one, until that summer in L.A.
Wasn’t in a big cineplex, AMC Theaters in Old Town Pasadena, speakers all around, totally worth it just for the T-Rex intro alone.
I'm from India and that was the first film that I watched in theaters with my mom and brother as kid ❤ and Still got attached with those franchise 🎉
I saw this in theaters when I was 8. My brother was 10, and My uncle took us because he was awesome. I specifically remember because the theater was at the Fairview Mall, just north of Toronto in Canada. The movie theater sits on top of the mall, so you have to take a specific escalator from the food court in order to get there. Things have gotten smaller since then, but that moment became my gold standard for going to the movies. I am certain that it is way better in my memory, but I only know of 2 people who can tell me otherwise.
The fact that Spielberg released Schindlers List that SAME YEAR is truly mindblowing.
One has landmark visual effects and becomes the highest grossing movie at that time, while the other wins 7 Oscars including Best Director and Picture!
And he was physically and emotionally exhausted by the end of it. IIRC, he had Robin Williams' number on speed-dial for when he needed a break from it all, having met Williams while making _Hook_
Funfact: If you closely look at the outfits Dennis Nedrey wears in the movie (the hacker guy) youll notice he is cosplaying Goonies in the different scenes hes in. Thats always my favorite detail
He’s also , most famously, NEWMAN!!!! from Seinfeld 😂
didnt know that. thanks for posting. I'll be on the lookout
Thank you for unlocking a new challenge! So far I see Mouth and Mikey...
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@@TheDivayentaWorst mail man!! No soup for him!
Btw, the actor that plays Hammond is Richard Attenborough, David Attenborough’s older brother!
This won three Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, and Sound Effects Editing.
Ben Burtt sound effects wonder
Well earned
Very deservedly so, especially for the sound. The screeches of the velociraptors and the roar of the T-Rex are absolutely blood-curdling, to this day.
The sound design was done by Gary Rydstrom, pretty much the protégé of Ben Burtt and he would go on to do sound work for many other legendary films, becoming a sound legend himself alongside Ben
And Steven Spielberg won Best Director and John Williams won for Best Score...for a TOTALLY different movie!
When my sister and I saw this in theaters. She said " the T-Rex just came from there, how is it a cliff now." I never knew what she meant till I saw it on VHS.😮
There's kind of a cliff in the enclosure. The car didn't go over the railing exactly where the T-Rex broke out.
There's a map of the park's enclosures somewhere that shows it pretty clearly.
Whats vhs?
I've seen this film hundreds of times now and I STILL get that emotional swell every single time.
How could you not!? With that incredible score and the awe inspiring visuals😄
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I was 7 years old when I saw this in theater. That first introduction to the Dinos on the island truly was a something to behold. You could hear the fascination among the movie goers. God the 90s was a time to be alive
I swear, when you combine Steven Spielberg with John Williams' music, you get cinema magic. That Brachiosaurus scene still blows my mind.
The warmth of that score will always move me, it's like a cuddle in a bath during winter
I remember being a kid seeing that scene, it still is burned into my head 20 years later. The only way I could improve on that moment is, funny enough, the Lego Jurassic Park game where you could walk up to the brachio in actual gameplay. I got the exact same feeling of heartswelling wonder.
Nobody does awe and wonder quite like Williams.
Fun fact, the Triceratops scene was actually the FIRST dinosaur scene that they filmed. And the full-size animatronic worked so perfectly that it really set the standard for the rest of the dinosaur scenes in the film.
Incase you're wondering why the kitchen freezer floor was wet and slippery (and the door open) when Tim ran for it, think back to Hammond and Elle's conversation earlier at the table. What were they eating? Ice cream! Hammond had gone to the freezer to get the tub of ice cream and left the door open. One of my favorite details.
Huh, I just figured that the freezer went off when they lost power, hence the wet floor. I guess two things can be true.
And they were in a warm climate, so it wouldn't necessarily take too long for things to warm up and melt.
Wow, that’s a nice detail that’s truly new to me! Thanks.
Having seen many Jurassic Park reactions, I’ve already read so many comments that share just the exact same cool observations and facts. But this one is new to me!
I think this fits with the butterfly effect Malcolm was telling Ellie, too.
And just think, this is actually Lex’s *second* monster movie! Just a few years earlier, she was avoiding being eaten by giant worm monsters in the original Tremors.
I can gladly say that I would not be who I am today without this movie. My passion for prehistoric life, my drive to pursue animation as a career, and my love for film came from this. Thank you for giving this film another breath in modern media! The quality holds up so well and it showcases the balance between practical and computer effects!
Would LOVE to see y'all react to the other Jurassic movies!
We will definitely continue this journey! This film impacted millions of people’s lives and it’s great to see so many of you share the love you have for this with us. Thank you for stopping by ❤️
30:48 fun fact about this scene when the T-Rex pushes through the top glass that wasn’t actually supposed to happen. There was a malfunction with the animatronic head and it broke through the top glass so the terror that is in the eyes of these children is true terror.
This franchise holds a special place in my heart it was the first movies i saw with my adopted family they heard that i like dinosaurs so they got me the first 3 on vhs
That's heartwarming
I'm so glad you didn't let the fact that you have already seen it stop you from reacting to this classic. Hard to think of any reactors better equipped to fully appreciate it.
Media Knights: I remember this guy, yeah wasn't he a meme?
Me: (in my best Jerry Seinfeld voice) Hello Newman 😅
My mom and grandmother took me and my 3 brothers to see this in the theater when it released. My brothers and I were ages 14, 12, 9, and 7, and we all LOVED it! We've rewatched it countless times since. I've always been captivated by dinosaurs and Ice Age animals/creatures.
I forgot to say, I love love love your reactions to this movie! 🥰
Thanks for noticing "objects in the mirror are larger than they appear". You're the first reviewers I've seen to mention that. Sometimes it's the little things. Great reaction as always.
Meatloaf - objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.
The biggest compliment you can pay Jurassic Park is that if they remade the movie today, it wouldn't look any better than the original.
It would if they still use animatronics but better CGI b.c. the CGI rly dosn't look good in every scene
THIS MOVIE IS STILL AMAZING 31 YEARS LATER!!!!!!!! JOHN WILLIAMS AMAZING SCORE!!!!!! Last year Dad and I saw JURASSIC PARK IN THEATERS for its 30th ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!! It was awesome!!!!!!!!!
John Williams absolutely killed it! I mean the man has got some serious talent to the point we cannot decide which one of his scores is our favorite.
@@OfficialMediaKnights RIGHT!?!?!? He is one of the GREATEST OF ALL TIME COMPOSERS!!!!!!
@@OfficialMediaKnights FYI THE MARIO CHARACTER YOSHI IS A VELOCIRAPTOR
@@OfficialMediaKnights YOU NEED TO WATCH THE MOVIE THE ABYSS
WHY ARE WE SCREAMING?
32:30 Ian lit the second flare because he knew Grant wouldn't get the kids out in time without a proper distraction.
Dennis Nedry was cosplaying as The Goonies during the movie. First he was Chunk in his Hawaiian shirt, then he was Mouth in his Members Only jacket, then he was Mikey in his yellow rain jacket.
Thank u for the classical reaction 😊 and i love that part of "you pay extra premium for that experience" when the t-rex was chasing the jeep 😅
I went to a screening of this movie with a live orchestra playing the score and it was a phenomenal experience. John Williams never misses & the dinosaur thrills never get old.
The first scene, when the characters see the dinosaurs, never gets old. I'm right there with them, when i saw it in the theater, and am in awe.
56:33 "I'll take Words That Didn't Age Well for 200, Alex." 😂
on a side note: for all the kids who went to see this on the big screen, excited to see dinosaurs "irl" when they go in... and exhibiting signs of PTSD when they come out, traumatized.
and the girl playing Lex, a few years earlier played Mindy, the girl on the pogo stick, in the movie Tremors.
😅 never knew that have to rewatch those
Just saw that in a Dawn Marie reaction to that movie. 🙂
And the boy, Tim is played by Joseph Mazzello, who amongst other roles, played John Deacon in Bohemian Rhapsody.
No music during the T-Rex breakout. Brilliant! I love when people go into Jurassic Park thinking it's a kids movie, the book was straight up horror 😂
The point is all those scenes are made so well that they work by themselves, and then they decide which ones not to have music (which would be distracting) and where to let John Williams work his magic and make them even better!
One of my favorite memories is watching this when I was young on my grandparents' old fat booty big screen TV after my grandpa left for his night shift. Grandma made some stovetop popcorn and we had the volume up loud. I remember her saying "I forgot how good of a movie this is!"
Also, the book this film is based on is really, really good and really, really brutal.
That’s a sweet memory! Thank you for sharing with us. Love seeing how much this film means to people ❤️
I spent a pretty good amount of my youth saying "Dino-sawer!" Gotta love Mr DNA.
I love to rewatch movies because you always notice something you missed before
I've said this before in a comment, and I'll say it again - you guys have the best production quality of any reaction channel I've seen on UA-cam. Your lighting, clarity of video and audio, everything. You guys are pros, and it makes a difference.
I lost it when Denise said "boop the snoot." Lolol. Great reaction, guys, just like always! As an aside, you now must watch "Crocodile Dundee!"
"That's not a knife. THIS is a knife." :D
Love your channel guys! This was one of my favorite movies as a kid and still is today. I've lost count of how many times I have seen this movie and Denise is right, pure nostalgia. 11:55-13:30 the soft music of the incomparable John Williams playing as they slowly reveal the brachiosaur and then Hammond resolutely declares "Welcome to Jurassic Park," and when the music swells, I get chills every time!
One of the things I absolutely love about this movie is the sense of wonder and awe evoked as we first see the dinosaurs along with Ellie and Alan Grant…John Williams’ score is just iconic and makes my heart soar in that scene…🥹
One amazing detail I wanted to point out if you guys ever rewatch this film is that the music cuts out during the T-Rex attack, and resumes once the jeep gets stopped by the giant branch temporarily with that booming trumpet. There is music between them, but when you put together the two action scenes themselves it is entirely silent. I believe that was done because it subtly added that feeling of something being seriously wrong but we are too focused on the scene to figure out what.
When the Music kicks just tears of nostalgia 🥲
So effective! Btw, cool profile pic! Did you check out the DLC yet? 😄
@@OfficialMediaKnights Ty 😊 yeah im in the middle of it , exploring the shadow realm. Its so much fun!
57:05 funny thing is, in the book by Michael Critchon, Hammond actually WAS a greedy, evil rich guy 😭 They changed him for the movie, not sure why exactly
The creepy choir when the raptor opens the kitchen door literally burned into my mind
Its like what you seeing is something "unholy"
In case you guys didn’t know, the first Jurassic Park movie as well as Jurassic World are both filmed in Hawaii and you can actually book ATV tour there as well.
"Your scientists, they were so worried if they could that they never stopped to think if they should" basically summarizes Disney's approach in making movies nowadays.
Can't wait for that Seven Dwarfs remake, huh? 😂
@@Reclining_Spuds*seven mythical creatures
Crazy fun fact about the storm (hurricane)
There was an ACTUAL hurricane that occured during the production of this film. The cast actually thought they were going to die.
The film crew braved the storm just enough to get real footage of the storm into this film.
A small bit but enough to make it feel real.
A hurricane? In the Pacific?
@@andrewcrowder4958 yes, hurricane Iniki.. in the Eastern Pacific they are still called hurricanes. Also, it is believed by some that the storm that became Iniki actually formed off the African coast and crossed over Central America.
My favorite little detail is at 10:40, when his seatbelt has two "female" fittings with no male fitting. But he just ties them together and makes it work anyways. Because life, uh, finds a way.
When he kept saying, "Spared no expense" throughout the movie, he wasn't saying, "Look at me, I'm rich," he was saying, "Only the best." So, only the best tech, only the best people (scientists), only the best tour voice-over, only the best food, etc.
Only the best frog DNA: none of those ordinary amphibians from your backyard. No, no, no: we spared no expense and got fancy sex-switching ones!
My favourite film watching experience ever was about 5 years ago, where I went to see Jurassic Park: In Concert. Massive projector screen playing the movie, live orchestra playing the music for the whole film.
This is such an exceptionally well written film, and I think it truly exemplifies the "perfect" summer blockbuster.
Every one of the characters has agency, has depth, they generally avoid playing into stereotypes. They communicate with each other like real, normal human beings do, and make decisions that any reasonable or rational person would make. Absolutely perfect character writing.
My favorite bit is the incorpation of little character quirks in a way that both usually has payoff and gives some identity to the characters. Dr. Grant's weird little hate relationship with children, in particular, is wonderful. They spend half the movie showing how little he thinks of kids as a concept, and the story perfectly enables him to learn and grow through his interactions with the kids.
1. This is my favorite Spielberg movie as well as my #3 all-time favorite movie.
2. While the movie is faithful to the spirit of the book it's based on, nothing in the movie goes 100% exactly like how it went in the book. But the biggest detail they left out was they not only brought Grant, Satler, and Malcolm to the island to get their safety endorsement, but also their hypothesis on whether or not the island was escape-proof. Because there had been reports of Dino encounters on the mainland of Costa Rica, so they wanna know if some of them actually managed to escape. That's where the whole "Dinosaurs breeding in the wilds" thing came into play. And the book ended with the Costa Rican government bombing the island as our heroes are flown out via helicopter.
3. The special effects of this film have an interesting history, as Spielberg hired the best VFX maestros he could get at the time.
-Stan Winston, for the life-sized animatronic Dinosaurs.
-Phil Tippett, for dinosaur animation via stop-motion.
-Denis Muren, for compositing.
-Michael Lantieri, for on-set dinosaur interactive effects.
The original plan was the wide shots of Dinosaurs were gonna be done via stop-motion and use the animatronics for the medium/close-up shots. But Spielberg was so intent on making the dinosaurs look real that he felt Tippett's efforts were not convincing enough.
That was until Denis Muren offered a solution, as he was working at ILM supervising the effects of _Terminator 2: Judgement Day_ at the time and offered to do a test for Spielberg using CGI to make dinosaur shots. And the test they showed was so good that when Spielberg asked Tippett what he thought, the latter replied "...I think I'm extinct."
(Which Spielberg loved that response so much that he had it written as a line in the script)
But that didn't mean Tippett didn't have a place there anymore, as they made these armatures for specific dinosaurs with these input sensors on them that worked like a stop-motion puppet but translated the poses in the computer (so, think motion capture for stop-motion).
But even then, Spielberg knew the CGI wasn't going to be 100% flawless. So, he approached it the same way he approached miniatures- using harsh directional lighting to obscure the details as much as possible. As put by the folks at *Corridor Crew,* the genius of the T-Rex paddock attack scene is the limited lighting and the rain obscured the details on the CG T-Rex that would've given away that it wasn't real.
Let's not also forget about how both Hammond and Malcolm die in the book and the lawyer survives plus the subplot about grant wanting to find the raptor nest and count the eggs
@@JasonKreider-eq8kp Ian, although assumed dead at the end of the first book didn't succumb to his injuries and survived. Which is a bit fishy but that's how it was written in book 2.
Best part of Ian Malcolm is when he stops being an insufferable know it all & puts his life on the line to save Tim & Lex. Also gotta love how Alan goes from "i don't like kids" to literally placing himself between the kids & the raptors
It's such a clever detail that the floor of the walk-in freezer is icy because the power had been off, so the frost melted, and now the power is back on so it was refreezing on the floor.
What do you mean? The power wasn't even on yet when Tim was in the freezer
@JasonKreider-eq8kp by that point Ellie had restored power to the compound. The wet/defrosted floor in the freezer is probably due Hammond leaving the door open when he got the ice cream out.
36:05 “That’s a horrible way to go dude”
Oh that’s not even the worst…you should see how he dies in the novel
You’re actually right. Watching movies from your childhood and then watching as an adult is a different experience because you’re actually paying attention to the plot, dialogue, characters, production, writing, and visuals vs just seeing the cool exciting parts as a kid.
You have no idea how much I love you guys, just seeing a new video makes me smile. Thank you.
My grandma took me to see this in the theater on my 8th birthday. It'll always be special to me because of that.
Some foreshadowings in the movie:
Alan Grant ties two female seatbelts together in the chopper.
Genarro's face is obscured by the goat-leg blood right before he ditches Lex and Tim, signalling he's the first to die.
Hammond says the infant dinos imprint on the first person they see. The raptor infant is looking at Alan the entire time, and he points to his own chest with a look of awe.
Fun Fact: When the Rex comes down on the sunroof glass the second time, and it fractures across the top edge - that wasn't supposed to happen. Lex's face right after that was her genuine fear reaction, from the camera mounted in the Rex's mouth.
Another Fun Fact: Dr Jack Horner was hired as a consultant for the film; he's an actual paleontologist, and if not for Spielberg, Crichton, and this film's budget, we would never know that Rex's have incredible eyesight, that dinosaurs were mostly warm-blooded, and that Utahraptors vocalization chambers rival that of dolphins and humans. Alan Grant's costume in the films is based on Dr. Jack Horner. He has been known to say that for all its inaccuracies about specific animals and bio/genetic-processes, the Jurassic Park films were the best thing to happen to the science of paleontology, because of the budget and awareness they brought to the field.
I love yall's reactions, genuinely entertaining and insightful. I'd love to see yall watch Jessabelle, from LionsGate 2014. Set in Louisiana, and the main character is wheelchair-bound due to an auto accident. Takes "trapped in a haunted house" to a whole 'nother level.
I am obligated to scour every Jurassic Park reaction video to find this one comment, that inevitably exists in every comment section (specifically in reference to your “fun fact”).
The rumor gets its origin from the fact that on the day of filming, there were intermittent rainstorms. Rexy’s latex skin was absorbing water, making her heavier. The hydraulics of her robotic form was very finely tuned to her weight. This caused her to judder and shake when moving. During the sunroof scene, she hit the plexiglass harder than expected and broke it into two pieces (as you pointed out), and broke one of her teeth. Joseph Mazzello (Tim) had Rexy’s tooth fall in his lap, and he began laughing uncontrollably. They had to do another take because of this. In the movie, they used the first shot of knocking the plexiglass in, second shot of her breaking the two pieces, and then cut to the third take where smaller broken piece of plexiglass was removed. They also made Rexy’s broken tooth canon, and it’s missing in toys, video games, and later movies.
It was not real terror. It was acting. If it had been real, the insurance companies would have had a field day, and the movie would likely had its production shut down.
But I can commend you for not pushing the idea that the plexiglass caving in was never supposed to happen, as so many people do. As it was storyboarded before filming even began.
Yessssss. So this is my favorite film, ever. My parents, bless their hearts, thought this was a children’s movie. I sunk into a giant theater chair, age 3, my neck bent back watching this amazing film unfold. The sounds of this film in that theater are some of my first real, solid memories. So many people don’t remember or even know that this was the first film released with DTS sound. Spielberg was a co-creator and he wanted every person to feel every step of those dinosaurs. I also still can’t get over the practical effects used in this film, building a large T-Rex and a T-Rex head was genius. The baby dinosaur, triceratops, and even some of the cuts of the raptors. Practicality wins every time in my book.
Watched all 3 JP movies with my nephew of 11 years old, he loved the movies so immensely he memorized the theme song and started to hum it before we started watching JW1 a few weeks later and said, "It is so epic""
Never thought a kid so invested in Fortnite could appreciate something so beautifull which we grew up with. 😇
My sister’s 5 little boys all love these films too. It’s so cute and I hope my son loves them too.
He’s due Nov 7th and his nursery is fully decked in dinosaurs 😂 I attribute my love of dinosaurs to this film. 90s kids had some of the best movies and shows.
In all the other movies, Parks and Worlds, there is never a dino quite as iconic sounding as the Momma Rex.
Which is why its great that every movie featured Rexy.
Even paleontologists who debunk the dinosaur vocals admit these movies were fantastic.
@@Knightcowboy89Pretty sure they were different Rex's in 2 and maybe 3, no? Remember there are 2 islands.
Yes. There are multiple some of them are not seen in movie. In the lost world we have Buck and Doe and their child Junior. And in jp3 there's Bull who is the biggest rex of isla sorna
Or as a lot of other fans still call her, "Rexie." 😁😁😁 She was my favorite dinosaur in the film franchise. Blue, is my second favorite. I saw this film with my late parents when I was 12 and holy crap, was it a wild experience!!! The whole theatre floor shook every time Rexie stomped onto the screen. Jumped when the damn raptors kept popping up out of nowhere and to this day, at 43, still CANNOT watch Dennis Nedry's death scene. Call me weird stupid, silly, whatever, but I stand by my choice. The first time I allowed myself to watch it for the first time was when I was in my 20's. I never made that mistake again!!! I was traumatized. Yikes!!! But everything else I'm cool with. I've seen this film, I don't, at least 100 times since I was 12. And I turn 44 in October. Yeah, you can say I love JP. 😂😂😂 The second JP film is called "Jurassic Park: The Lost World" and only one of the Core 3 returns. "Jurassic Park 3" which get waaay too much unnecessary hate but I happen to love it and think it's 100x better than Jurassic Park: The Lost World," has two members of the Core 3 in it but one get a lot more screen time than the other. As for the "Jurassic World(s)" movies in the Jurassic Park franchise...I'll wait on that!!! I think I may have overloaded you two with information...and scrambled my brains in the process!!! Great reaction!!!
22:31 According to the book, Dennis is being a lax computer operator because he's an a$$hole. He's actually one of Hammond's highest paid employees. He KNOWS that Hammond could afford to pay more. Dennis is just a money hungry guy.
You two are by far the best movie reators I've come across, been watching you guys for just over a year now ☺
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This movie is the perfect example of "they don't make them like they used to" this movie just keeps getting better all the way until the end.
The 90s was the perfect decade for dinosaur kids. Dinosaurs were everywhere; VHS documentaries, TV shows, costumed sitcoms, school projects, silver-screen movies...
What a time to be alive!
Power Rangers (which their zord was based on dinosaurs) came out a month after this film was released. So 1993 was the year of the dinosaurs.
And Nickelodeon started airing reruns of Land Of The Lost
Which is probably why I am doing my son’s nursery in dinosaurs. 😂 I have been obsessed with dinosaurs since this film came out and it’s lasted a lifetime.
I saw this in theaters again recently as a local theater replayed it. It was just as awesome as ever!
The foreshadowing or Grant tying the seatbelt ends together is such clever writing. “Life finds a way.”
John Williams is to Steven Spielberg what Danny Elfman is to Tim Burton.
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you revisiting Jurassic Park like this reminds me of when I was in high school and we had to read through Julius Ceasar or Romeo and Juliet in class 🙄. then many years later, I decided to get a copy of each of those books and read through them again just for myself, and I got so much more out of them than I ever would have in school.
That is such a true feeling, it has happened to us many times where revisiting something when you're more mature, the meaning just resonates so much deeper. It's a wonderful thing to reread books/rewatch movies after a long time and see what you can learn from it this time around!
As soon as that theme comes in...man oh man! If Steven Spielberg has not attributed at LEAST 23% of his success to John Williams, that is just a crime.
I'm thinking of the ERB line from Spielberg vs Hitchcock, "Half your billions should go to John Williams!"
You guys rock, I had so much funn watching...your take on the background things, like the score, the different shot angles and character breakdown is top tier... I Applaud ya'll 🤙🏽🌊🙏🏾😁
Jurassic Park is one of my absolute favorite movies. I really have to praise you. You at Media Knights offer great content and you are my favorite channel for movie reactions. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Germany.
I love watching the behind the scenes making of video for this- especially when it comes to the animators trying to figure out how to make the CGI dino's move so it look real. The fact that they filmed themselves running with their hands up to their chests and hopping over stuff, just to get it right, was so cool, and I love the dedication they had to their craft.
This film was what convinced me to study genetics at uni when it came out lol - and weirdly Attenborough was the alumni at Sussex University graduation in 1998 who gave me my degree :)
It’s so ironic that this film was praised for how groundbreaking the CGI was that the practical effects never got any recognition. 31 years later everyone discusses the perfect balance of you using both art mediums.
Ah yes 5 year old me jumping around the couch for dinosaurs was everything 😂
Side note the trex attacked the car thinking it was a dinosaur,like how it flipped the car to expose its"belly"
Yeah bit the tires aka it's legs so it couldn't run or fight back
The girl when she is running to close the door: WHY I DOING THIS WITH MY LIFEEEEEE!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
I saw this 6 times in theaters as a kid with different people almost every time. That's how epic it was. When CGI was brand new and blended beautifully with practical effects. Not completely depended on as it is now. I will never forget feeling the steps of the T-Rex as the water ripples... One of the greatest cinematic experiences. Don't forget Spielberg was working on Schindler's List at the same time as this...now that's chaos.
Spielberg said that water ripple was one of the hardest of the effects to figure out. They ended up strumming a guitar string under the dashboard.
Your closing remarks/analyses are always so good - it's the main reason I watch your channel. Keep up the great work.
John Williams is simply a genius. The way how he can emotionally elevate the movies with his music! Just think about them: Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Schindler's List, Memoirs of a Geisha... The moment you think about these films you hear his music in your head and you have an instant emotional reaction. For me at least the biggest composer in Hollywood.
I find it funny that talk about spare no expense yet they didn’t put backup generators on the raptor pens in case the power goes out, nor did they make the ride jeeps capable of running off its own batteries in case the electric track shorts out.
This is why Spielberg is one of my favorite directors: simply for his ability to create true cinema magic. The sense of wonder and amazement in his films still touches me in the heart.
To think that this came out the year i was born 31 years ago, as a kid a lot of things went over my head, as an adult I've grown to appreciate every single detail its crazy. I love every single reaction from you two ❤
6:47, RIP, Richard Attenborough, 1923-2014.