Jurassic Park (1993). A Theme Park with Teething Troubles.

[@RogueWJL]

I felt the same about the movie. I liked it, but through repeat viewings, I now love it. I think this is testament to all those involved in its making and realisation

[@bensneb360]

And so everyone learned their lesson and we never had to deal with a dinosaur theme park run amok again lol

[@petergivenbless900]

I appreciate the reference to 'Edge of Darkness'; still one of the best TV thrillers ever made!

[@CineG]

I was programming in the Unix O/S in 1993. The It's-Unix-I-Know-This line was a meme to all us programmers before memes was a thing. Good movie, tho.

[@ADR69]

quite possibly the best script to film translation ever. this movie was revolutionary and people have been chasing that feeling ever since.

[@FriedEgg101]

I was obsessed with this film at the age of 12. Saw it 3 times at the cinema, then got the vhs for christmas. Then when I was a bit older I read the book, which was about 10 times more terrifying. And then I read The Lost World, which was even more terrifying. Honestly, The Lost World is actually a better story in my opinion, and I highly recommend the book. Both books take a while to get going, there's lots of scene setting, but it pays off. Edit: Spielberg also did The Land Before Time, another great dino movie.

[@M0j0J0j0]

Same 😊

[@AbrasiousProductions]

I was obsessed with this film when I was 10

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

It was essentially a remake of "Westworld", and touching on the old theme of "man versus nature"(which Spielberg also touched upon in "Jaws"). It's a well made piece of escapism, but perhaps lack the more serious edge that "Westworld" had. Unlike modern blockbusters, the special effects serve the story rather than the other way around, and it should also be noted that it did use extensive animatronics(from Stan Winston).

[@electricmaster23]

dude, for the love of all things unholy, you are in your _right_ place. The way you mix well-researched analysis with unexpected one-liners works perfectly. you make me proud to be australian, bro. please keep it going up.

[@jonathanstempleton7864]

I made my nephew watch this when he was three. Scarred him for life 😅

[@TheRelaxingRide]

saw this at a matinee back in the day and it's one of the few cinema experiences i remember vividly because it just chewed through my expectations and spat them into the moon

[@XavierLignieres]

Still one of my favorite films despite everything , I just wish that one day we get a book accurate adaptation done in the style of the first season of Westworld as the book is absolutely brilliant.

[@Cafeman_2D]

I had read the novel, and was very anxiously awaiting the film on that Friday in June '93. Wife and I loved it so much we went back to the theater on Saturday too. I couldn't wait to hear John Williams' score and it didn't disappoint. In fact I'm still rewatching and relistening to both film and score. I'm glad the film was changed in various ways from the novel.

[@andrewmurray1550]

Alan and Jurassic Park and the kids is like Captain Picard stuck in the Enterprise turbo lift with kids on "Captian's Day"

[@jamesabernethy7896]

This is the first movie I ever saw at a cinema and it's still one of my favourites. Although I still think it is a terrific movie, I keep viewing the movie through the impact it had at the time on me. You do a lot of older content anyway, a lot of other content creators I follow have been on a massive nostalgia binge too and it's been great.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

How many new movies are worth investing all the time in to to do a fully researched video? Most movies in the past 7 years, maybe more, are soon forgotten and others we just try really hard to forget (Captain Marvel, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny we are talking to you!).

[@jamesabernethy7896]

@@TheRadioAteMyTV I recently came across someone reminding people that phases 1-3 were on the whole enjoyable movies. I really like them too but phase 4 and the series’ have been a woke and woeful disaster. She was responding to an comments that was worded in an unnecessarily obnoxious way. At the same time there was some truth to what was said. If I had to pick my 21 favourite movies, none of the would be a marvel movie and all would be older than 2008

[@JohnSmith-x8s5g]

"If you or a loved one is..."

[@dzilla2099]

🤔Is it bad I’d like to see a version of Jurassic Park with stop motion animated dinosaurs?

[@kaitlyn__L]

Me too. Those tests looked great! ILM was already the best in the industry at painstakingly plotting-out motion to avoid jerkiness or weird timing. I especially like that dino scratching itself like a dog in the test. The CG was undoubtedly great but I honestly wonder if it would’ve also recuperated people’s view of stop motion if they’d continued along that path.

[@6581punk]

I probably watched it at Christmas when big movies tended to get shown on TV. Never saw any of the sequels until recently and wish I hadn't bothered.

[@artyfartblast3289]

Bah bah bah... bah bah... Bah bah bah... bah bah...

[@mitchdaytonam3]

The way Attenborough’s accent changes from Scottish to English throughout the film is hilarious.😂

[@ron8802]

Mr Christy has come a long way from boarding his victims into the walls.....lol

[@paulbrecken2136]

Very deep reference. Well done 👍

[@stephenevans6070]

great vid mate, googled Spielberg after watching, he seems to be responsible for every blockbuster done in the last 50 years

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

Jurassic Park is one of those major big budget special effects films that became cultural cornerstones, like King Kong & Star Wars before it & Iron Man after it. Speaking of King Kong, these days the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are almost as outdated as those in the '33 film. However, that doesn't stop both films from being enjoyable.

[@THEOUTCASTSCREATIVE]

Great video Stam!

[@clutch2827]

I thought the kids were hella annoying.

[@vortimer2351]

Didn't rate it at the time, but watched it on a re-release a few months ago, and it's a much, much better film than I remembered. It just seems to work. I might have been entering the pretentious stage of teenage life when it came out - dismissive of mainstream Hollywood and not as good as the book.

[@joneggelton]

That's exactly my experience too. I was probably a tad too old when this came out. I'd read the book a couple of times before seeing the film, and was disappointed it was more of a kids' film and not as violent as the original story. I think I was expecting something gorier, like Jaws. Over the years I've come to appreciate it more, especially having rewatched it with my own kids.

[@paulclarke7571]

I must have missed this one first time out. Along with that space ship battle one and that big sinking ship one. But I did enjoy that one about the big fish that ate everyone.

[@Trilaan]

You may indeed say things went "a little caca", Al.

[@kali3665]

Dr. Alan Grant: Mr. Hammond! After careful consideration, I've decided NOT to endorse your park! Hammond: So have I! And if THAT had been the end of it, we wouldn't have had forty-two so utterly unncessary sequels. The original is still the best, IMO, and, unlike the films to come, it had a point to make. Very well done. But then, without the original, we wouldn't have gotten Weird Al's take on it, and that would have been tragic.

[@torchwood00]

great video pal

[@rustyman678]

Teething troubles 😂

[@Halbared]

It spawned man sequels, for g....for bad and for bad.

[@michaelstaunton1632]

👍👍👍🎥

[@nigeldonaldson1647]

Have you read the actual novel? it's a VERY different animal (no pun meant) from this watered down sanitised film version, not showing the result of a giant Dinosaur attack was one problem, BUT the...Politics of the book is barely mentioned in this film - the dangers of tampering with the laws of nature, also environmental issues, - Corporate corruption, cynical greed & espionage all missing in any real detail, instead going only for bombastic spectacle & wonder, we could almost be in the garden of Eden. It would be great if one day there is a gutsy remake, (just like the reimagining of RISE OF APES, & BATMAN BEGINS) now that were into over kill with "CGI" also with actors that are neither - drippy, irritating, or wooden.

[@jayconstantine5928]

That kid going 'It's a veggisaur sis' had me grinding my teeth and wanting to leave the cinema there and then. . .

[@andrewmurray1550]

He didn't say that, he said "Vegisaurus" in otherwords a dinosaur that's a plant eater - Herbivore.

[@andrewmurray1550]

the "cringe" was the Doyouthinkhesawus" joke "What do you call a blind dinosaur"

[@jayconstantine5928]

I haven't watched the film again since I endured it at the pictures. It doesn't really matter to me whether he said that the Brachiosaurus was a vegan, those kids got on my tits for the entire film. Like eveyone else, I went to see the dinosaurs. Once I realised it was going to be a simple horror/chase film, I zoned out. 🦖@@andrewmurray1550

[@jasonblalock4429]

I'm in the "like, not love" camp. I've always thought the first half drags on for just a bit too long before the action finally starts, and then it basically speedruns the rest of the plot. I totally get that was due to expenses and technology and not being able to have dinosaurs onscreen *that* much, but it all feels a bit too choppy to me.

[@eyesofpicasso]

hahaha! "disarmed"! hahaha!

[@AbrasiousProductions]

as a religious guy I really appreciate jurassic park's message of not meddling with nature or god's creations

[@colormedubious4747]

Isn't that the girl who played Mindy in "Tremors?" Way to bury the lead, dude.

[@OneofInfinity.]

The video is twelve out of ten Goldblum's.

[@BrendanConnell]

I really must ask -- the music you have featured in the mix, I keep getting hints of something lovely. What would be the title? - take care, slainte chugat

[@StamFine]

It's music from our library of stock backing tracks.

[@RichardEKranz]

You should do Chriton's book/adaptation movie Coma.

[@titusmccarthy]

Crichton was a shitty writer but had good concepts.

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

I only wanted Malcolm to survive.

[@Blindgenxgamer]

The novel was much better...good movie, though.

[@XavierLignieres]

I wish we get a book accurate series similar to the first season of Westworld that would not hold back on the darkness of it all ..... Nedry's death in the book still makes me feel uneasy the fact Chrichton was a medical doctor and knew what animal mauling injuries looked like probably means he got very accurate for that part.

[@alanhouston5874]

Hard to think of a better year for a Hollywood film maker than Schindlers list and Jurassic Park Still think Jurassic Park is great, but not quite as good as Jaws. Ironic to think that is the special effect technology for the two was switched, both films would be significantly worse. Not seeing Jaws is a staple of film schools and Seeing a real T. rex is the before / after moment you mentioned

[@bluewinds10]

I though the film was ok, (apart from being totally overrated) but I could never work out why they made a million sequels with exactly the same storyline.

[@GetUPIWantToGetDown]

Great job. Thank you.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

FYI Stam Fine, Universal is NOT in Burbank. It certainly comes close but it does not touch it. Universal is its own city with with it's own fire department, police, and zip code. It borders Los Angeles and suburb Toluca Lake, which is not really a lake but a pond in a golf course that can be seen from the upper lot of Universal Studios Hollywood theme park. And it's where the not as rich celebrities live in a fake Beverly Hills esq lay out minus the far cooler weather, horrid traffic and actual hills.

[@StamFine]

fair enough.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

@@StamFine It's not easy getting everything perfect. No matter how hard you try.. Kind of the point of the movie Jurassic Park too. Now that's one way to align with your video! Your jokes were top notch in this video. I fashion my history and science video's after your style on my other channel, but I am still a cheap knock off compared the real thing, you.

[@flashrobbie]

I just watched it and remembered the better things those actors have been in.

[@torchwood00]

sliders Park

[@Halbared]

At ats!

[@brendancaulfield970]

I'm in the "love it" camp. As for the sequels, The Lost World is actually pretty great, in my opinion. Jurassic World was not good, but it did manage to tap into my dormant inner 7 year old with the scenes of the kids arriving at the park. I also saw merit in the haunted house sequel film. I haven't watched Dominion yet.

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

#ThePiratesDontEatTheTourists #WeSparedNoExpense

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

#SeeNobodyCares

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

And how did he forget that he was the anti-christ in the first place?

[@TheBeird]

It’s one of the best films ever made. For me tho, it has lost some of its power. This is down to a) me overdosing on it as a kid, wearing out my VHS tapes and b) the images and ideas within being diluted by those shitty sequels. Especially the latter ones Is that fair against THIS film? No, and it don’t matter what I think really cause Jurassic Park will always be one of the most highly regarded movies ever. It’s just . . . we tend to kill the things we love by over exposing them, don’t we? At least for me that’s the case.

[@americansupervillain4595]

Jurassic Park was way overrated, and the characters were so bad I wanted them all to be eaten.

[@hiridavidfeign]

Great episode. I've never liked this movie. It starts out with the stereotypical trope of a Black man being killed and then manipulates the audience over which virtuous Aryan characters deserve to live (the one Jewish guy gets saved). It's deeply racist and that was a choice Spielberg made. I've never respected him since.

[@tomsenior7405]

One of the worst films I have ever seen. Seriously, I was bored out of my mind. We saw it once. Never again. I know there is a huge fan base, but I felt the same when I saw ET - The Extra Testicle. The majority of people love this film and often become angry to learn that not everyone enjoyed the damn thing. If you are a fan, good for you. Go away and watch it instead of trying to offend those who do not.

[@TurboRumble]

I don't agree with you but 'ET - The Extra Testicle' got me chortling 😂

[@tomsenior7405]

@@TurboRumble That is very sporting of you. Cheers.

[@titusmccarthy]

You mad, bro?

[@tomsenior7405]

@@titusmccarthy "Go away and watch it instead of trying to offend those who do not".

[@titusmccarthy]

@@tomsenior7405 Are you ass-burgers or just a regular run of the mill sociopath?

[@RichardEKranz]

God I hated this movie. Yes, yes, yes, effects and score and all that is wonderful, but Christ JAWS is a superior film then is slop.

[@titusmccarthy]

Of course Jaws is better but this is still a DAMN FINE FILM.

[@RichardEKranz]

@@titusmccarthy Its poorly constructed, and doesn't know what it wants to be. The scene where Grant makes believe he was being electrocuted in front of the already traumatized kids makes me ask who said this was funny and that it was worth filming.

[@titusmccarthy]

@@RichardEKranz That was great!