Jurassic Park Reaction FIRST TIME WATCHING Steven Spielberg

[@SpaceJesus2098]

I still maintain that the cutest convention cosplay I ever saw was an 8 year old in a dinosaur onesy walking around comic con with his grandpa dressed as Hammond - white suit, amber cane, everything.

[@LuanMower55]

Omfg i wanna see that irl now, sounds so freaking cool and cute!

[@chriskelly3481]

That made me happy. 😁

[@zacharyjoy8724]

You’re right! That’s beyond adorable! 😊

[@NoriMori1992]

Oh my gosh 😭❤

[@teejaykaye]

The reason there aren’t any other staff present is because they already went to the boats to avoid the incoming storm. That’s where Nedry was heading before he died. Hence why the whole building is so barren.

[@AnimatronicClover]

They probably forgot the whole "last shuttle leaves for the dock. drop what you're doing and leave now"

[@BuhoPnu]

I was about to say this comment, but decided to see if someone else had before me.

[@Sugers]

non ils était pas pour partir pour éviter la tempête mais juste pour partir en week-end !

[@Big_Tex]

Something to realize, there was a Star Wars-like effect when this came out, in that no one had EVER seen dinosaurs like this on the screen. All previous depictions were ridiculous claymation or wire frame contraptions. This was a world apart. Jaded people today immediately start criticizing and evaluating the CGI but at the time it was AWESOME.

[@NateKyng]

Kinda like how people when this movie came out criticize the claymation of movies of the past?

[@Big_Tex]

@@NateKyng no I wouldn’t say that. The best modern tech is only slightly better than Jurassic Park of 1993. Just refinements. In both cases it looks like the real thing, and people love to scrutinize it for any flaws. What came before JP as I say was just ridiculous. No one anywhere was thinking dinosaurs in “The Land of the Lost” or the original King Kong looked realistic.

[@paulwagner688]

Don't forget the magnificent animatronics

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

@@Big_Tex I totally disagree. The visual effects of the original King Kong were groundbreaking, and people accepted them as realistic at the time. Audiences weren't looking for matte lines or rear projection when they were state of the art visual effects. You only notice them when you're used to better VFX. JP's VFX still hold up beautifully today, and that's because there wasn't a 100% reliance on CGI. The mix of animatronics, go-motion, and CGI resulted in you never really focusing on the VFX. Your brain just accepts it. This was the first time living creatures were done in CGI. Before this state-of-the-art CGI characters had been amorphous blobs (The Abyss & Terminator 2: Judgment Day).

[@christopherbowers7236]

@BattleAngelFan i have to disagree. the T-rex scenes in particular look the best, especially as an example the part where grant waves the flare and it looks up at him, the sections where there is a real presence helps in multiple ways, firstly, the actors get to react to a real object in front of them (golden for when the roof glass broke and the kids started really screaming). secondly, it gives the shots that did need CGI a perfect reference for hundreds of small details like the light reflections on the skin to base their CGI (which at the time was in its infancy). third, it helps with the audience's suspension of disbelief in the CGI scenes if you've already physically seen part of the creature (first shot is of it eating the goat in Practical)

[@dopeylopey5768]

I think one of the most chilling lines in the movie that kinda goes underappreciated is when Muldoon says "Damn it, even Nedry knew better than to mess with the raptor fences" because even as self-centered as he was and how he didn't care if everyone else died, he still kept the power to the raptor fences fine because their intelligence made them that much more dangerous. He turned off the T-Rex fence without hesitation but wouldn't chance the raptors

[@Rainbow.Pegacorn.Cosplay]

I love that line from Ian Malcolm after Ellie and Muldoon find him under the remains of the outhouse: "Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend." AND the retort of "Yeah, John. But if Pirates Of The Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists."

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

LOL :P

[@glenncabacungan9269]

What about Malcolm’s line if “Please chance it”?

[@Rainbow.Pegacorn.Cosplay]

@@glenncabacungan9269 That's a good line, too.

[@rimasmuliolis1136]

Must go faster... Must go faster... He said that in Independence Day too.

[@robbob5302]

Then his other line "Must go faster!" Jeff liked it so much, he shoehorned it into Independence Day as well.

[@tosa2522]

17:49 “You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you wanna sell it.” With this quote, Jeff Goldblum very accurately describes what Jurassic World has done to the franchise.

[@JamailvanWestering]

Or every MCU movie past phase 2

[@andregon4366]

Or any cash grab ever made.

[@legrandmechantloup7983]

Or every movies since 2014

[@portalina]

The Jurassic World movies are miles better than Jurassic Park 3 and maybe even 2. 2 was good but it was almost the same as one except without the best parts of one.

[@joshuaedler7041]

I really don’t understand the hate Jurassic world gets. I watched the first three movies as a kid and now that I’ve grown up I loved the Jurassic world movies. Just like Jurassic park 3 it’s still an enjoyable movie

[@auntiee_m]

There's just something so magical and special about this movie. The way it captures the childlike excitement of these adults seeing dinosaurs for the first time ever is so wonderfully captured. You can't beat this classic although I enjoy some of the others from the franchise, this is the one I watch over and over again.

[@brigidtheirish]

I didn't grow up with this movie (thanks, Mom), but just *hearing* the theme brings on a feeling of wonder and nostalgia.

[@Floridad25]

Oh yeah sure, 'Ooooooooooh. Ahhhhhh! That's always how it starts...but then later there's running....and screaming...

[@johnny9000]

@@Floridad25 I see what you did there 😊

[@FrozenTundra88]

4:39 It's very true. Not only did Dinosaurs have similar bone structures, but many of them had feathers, contrary to the pop-culture image from the time of giant scaly lizards. A popular conclusion is that modern day birds are the evolution of dinosaurs.

[@spikedpsycho2383]

More conclusive analysis depicts many dinosaurs didnt have feathers....But appendages resembling feathers. More likely these were vessel holes.

[@thetriplejjj0177]

I wonder would they taste like chicken then

[@0okamino]

Particularly, coelursaurian theropods.

[@arthurbarbosadelira7505]

Most, if not all, modern birds have all characteristics that defines dinosaurs, so, they're technically dinosaurs, the closest ones (most primitives) being chickens, ostrichs and other similar birds.

[@6666Imperator]

don't they also share the same "bird bone" I think somewhere in the hip area?

[@Pointillax]

A bit of trivia, just because I paused at that moment ( 9:08 ) Dr. Grant tries to put his seatbelt on with two "female" ends. After a moment of trying, he ends up tying them together, achieving what he wanted in the first place. This foreshadows the fact that even though Jurassic Park's scientists engineered their dinosaurs to be all female "life always finds a way"

[@danielmillward9947]

I just took it as the first sign John did not actually spare any expenses

[@ChrissonatorOFL]

Well, life didn't really find a way, the genetics they gave the faux dinosaurs simply allowed said form of reproduction to be possible.

[@gregstewart6973]

That's a reach.

[@Lokear]

@@gregstewart6973 People keep saying that, but then why put so much focus on it? Yeah, it's a small moment, but it references the same themes as everything else in the movie, and they spend too much time on it for it to JUST be a throwaway gag. Movies have small details like that all the time that seem unimportant but are actually referencing the themes in a subtle or different way, why is this example so unbelievable?

[@Karamarika]

​@@Lokearit wasn't actually intended to foreshadow the dinosaurs breeding. It was just meant to show how Grant doesn't care about getting things perfectly - he just wants to get the job done as simply as possible. They had the whole thing about him hating technology in the beginning. This was just an extension of that to show his personality and character more.

[@JRMilward]

It's worth remembering that when this film came out in 1993, the theory that birds and therapod dinosaurs were related was still quite controversial. Also, no one - NO ONE - had ever seen CGI used to create realistic-looking living creatures before. The most we'd seen was stylised metal or plastic (like the T1000 in T2: Judgement Day) or cartoon-ish shorts in advertising; anything else was restricted to stop-motion (or go-motion) or puppets. Everything else - backgrounds, props, vehicles, the works - was shot in camera. It's impossible to overstate the impact this film had when it was first released; it was groundbreaking in so many ways.

[@jeffallen7417]

ILM actually used the computer code for the water creature in The Abyss for the broken fence when the T-Rex broke out. They also used the code for the T-1000 when the T-Rex ate the lawyer (put shorts on it and everything). So a T-Rex CAN beat a T-1000 🤪

[@Zodia195]

I was 11 when this movie came out (and yeah I did see it on the big screen, it was incredible) and I do remember also around that time you did have the subject of cloning. I can't remember the year exactly, but it was around that era that the first cloned animal, a sheep named Dolly, came about and it was very controversial too. I heard some years ago it would be impossible to find "dino dna" in mosquitos because the DNA wouldn't have lasted that long.

[@NZBigfoot]

@@Zodia195 Yeah its one of the things people who werent alive at the time of films like this release dont really understand about them or cant appreciate them since all of it is so common now days... These films were benchmarks in many ways, after this, films went full on into CGI and the field advanced rapidly (Little to far in some movies), this was the point in time when paleontology changed drastically and birth of possible sciences that until that time was just science fiction but had become real only a few years earlier along with all the implications said sciences could bring. There was the world pre JP, then the world post JP. Saw JP in the cinema as a young teen, was a time to be alive and feel privileged to have lived through the 90's... hell wasnt even a couple of years latter that the first real cellphones came about, CD's became a thing blowing up computer storage radically, GPUs, the Internet went from being BBS to what we use today... Post 2000 young adults and kids dont realize how little's happened since then. Oh and i think they have actually found DNA from around that time in the last decade, couldnt clone a dino from it but DNA samples in rare instances can be acquired.

[@thorguff]

@@NZBigfoot furthermore, for those around in the early 1980s, the release of "Jurassic Park" had a nostalgic element because there hadn't been an original, crowd-pleasing, hugely successful summertime Spielberg blockbuster film with a John Williams soundtrack since then.

[@drknstrmynyte]

I saw this in the theatre and I remember walking out half expecting there to be dinosaurs in the parking lot. It was and still remains a very engrossing movie!

[@Karamarika]

It's a movie that gets you lost in the world and feel like it actually exists. It's still such a magical movie experience.

[@sandi8362]

This was shot in Hawaii on the island of Kauai. My husband and I go every year on vacation. They have a Jurassic Park tour pretty much showing you filming locations. It's so beautiful there.

[@scottb3034]

Oahu and Maui as well.

[@nickstark8640]

30 years ago watching this in the theaters was epic. The special effects were extremely realistic for that time. I remember hearing the kids in the theatre absolutely losing it in several scenes. Talk about Jump Scares.

[@jackiehuff7736]

The scene where lexi falls through the ceiling, when she looks up really quickly is a cgi face. I believe it was the first time someone had cgi'd a face of an actor over a stunt double like that. It's obvious when you look for it, but in the heat of the moment it's easy to miss

[@TheRealRodent]

Saw this opening weekend 1993 when i was 11. My dad somehow managed to get 4 tickets, so me, my sister, my best friend, and my sister's best friend all went together. Most magic weekend ever :D No movie since has matched the wonder of that weekend.

[@daved2352]

I wish I had gotten to see it at the cinema. I don't know why but we never did and I had to watch it on TV. I assume my parents were broke at the time as was so often the case.

[@elizabethparker4511]

Cats can open doors with handles like the ones in the movie. There's no doubt those velociraptors could as well, even if they were the original smaller size.

[@sherigrow6480]

Yes, my large housecats can open doors like this. Also open the screen door from the outside, perched on the railing. I believe octupi can also perform similarly, like open screw jars and latches. No stretch for the raptor to be able to,

[@malcolmrowe9003]

Some dogs learn to open doors as well.

[@sawanna508]

Do you know what a fitted Stove from Austria/Germany looks like? It's made of tiles and has two small iron doors one to set the fire and a smaller one underneath to feet air to the fire. The doors are shut with sort of a lever that hooks into place (i don't know how to descripe that better). One of our cats is able to open the doors of one of our fittet stove. (which is not dangerous because we don't use that stove anymore.)

[@Drummer4President]

We had a cat that learnt to open our windows.

[@staciepoole8161]

I went on a first date with this guy and we went to see this movie. It was the most incredible cinematic experience I ever had. The movie held up much better than the date (LOL), but it was a great memory.

[@brigidtheirish]

Wow. My parents went on a date to an earlier Spielberg movie, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Mom was so terrified that Dad stayed up with her until 2am playing Scrabble so she could calm down. They married a year later, so I guess it went well enough. She *forbade* me from watching that movie until I was an adult and she couldn't enforce that rule anymore, though.

[@vbvermont]

Great reaction! Love the line, “If the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don’t eat the tourists!”

[@poppletop8331]

I'm so pleased you said, "have the boy hand you the gun". I was literally wanting to shout that out in the cinema.🤣

[@scottb3034]

grant told timmy to get away from them, that's why timmy didn't do it. if you listen closely you can hear grant's line.

[@seanduncan3624]

The kitchen scene and the car scene, both with the kids are still the scariest scenes I've ever seen. They r so well done

[@brigidtheirish]

The car scene is particularly effective because the kids were *legitimately* scared. The animatronic Rexie kept malfunctioning and doing things it wasn't supposed to, like squish the kids under the sunroof.

[@blacktronlego]

Many children like dinosaurs because they are very big (some of them, at least), very scary, but also very dead, so no danger to them. I've read the book and it's pretty close, but in the film Hammond is nicer, Lex is older and no Dinos escape to the mainland. If it were closer to the book they would probably have to increase the rating and lose many of their viewers.

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

Many of those scenes were repurposed for the sequels. The opening of the procompsognathus attacking a girl on the beach and the T-Rex attack in the cave behind the waterfall were used in The Lost World. The aviary scene was used in Jurassic Park III.

[@wwoods66]

In the book, Lex is pretty useless. Spielberg gave her the hacker skillz.

[@blacktronlego]

@@wwoods66 Yes, but she was significantly younger.

[@melodramatic7904]

Lex was younger and the brother was older. There were also two T-Rexes.

[@Frightspear]

Probably the greatest blockbuster ever made! And Spielberg did this and Schindler's List in the SAME YEAR. Also the whole soundtrack is just wonderful (John Williams). This was the first movie to really really utilize CGI to this level. Btw, you were right about location: they filmed this in Hawaii and during filming a hurricane hit Hawaii so the cast and crew had to hunker down in the hotel, Spielberg apparently played games with the two kids to keep their minds off the hurricane. The storm destroyed some of the sets and they wrote the hurricane into the movie. When this was first released in theaters a lot of parents brought their small children to see the great dinosaur movie. The loud shrieks and screams were almost deafening at some points.

[@daved2352]

The hurricane destroying sets meant they couldn't shoot the scene where Samuel L Jacksons character dies so had to do a quick rewrite and have his severed arm land on Ellies shoulder.

[@lillianbarbieri7771]

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I remember the awe I felt when I first saw it and it is marvelous that a movie from early 90's can still look that amazing to this day. I love that they used real dinosaur animatronics and suits combined with cgi to get it to look THAT real. I love dinosaurs and this movie captures the horror of the situation but still the joy and awe of seeing creatures like that alive up close. The soundtrack is amazing as well and all the actors did an amazing job. About the staff, they evacuated the island due to the storm so there is only a handful there to finish the tour and wait for them to return.

[@idhunepijl1404]

At the time this came out it as a kid it actually introduced me to a lot of concept Ive never heard of before, the whole genetics thing, vegetarianism, how computers were gonna change everything. So well done. And that one scene in the car with the spitting dinosaur legit scared the shit out of me to the point where I was hiding in my old mans arms😆 (I was like 6/7 when I saw this in the theatre)

[@LadyTmuzikal1]

The fact that Spielberg directed "Jurassic Park" while making "Schindler's List" is a testament to his creativity and genius. He also teamed with one of my favorite composers John Williams once again for the main score which they worked together for the main score for Spielberg's 1975 "Jaws" film. Williams also composed the score for "Star Wars" which is all why all 3 movies have a similar unassuming jovial sound despite the thilling and menacing nature of the action. Great reaction ❤

[@Fonny222]

I heard that this movie has the first instance of CGI face replacement in a major motion film. I think it was when Lex falls out of the vent they used a stunt double and added the actor that played Lex’s face to the stunt double.

[@illengustavo]

42:35 "Huh? It means that the frog had sex with the dinosaur? What?" That might be the clueless moment I've ever seen in any reaction on KZbin 😂😂😂

[@angelobrewster6293]

Originally the Raptors were Deinonychus but Spielberg decided to change the named to Velociraptor because it sounded more threatening. It real life Velociraptors are actually the size of a turkey and Deinonychus are roughly the size of how you see in Jurassic Park.

[@lanewaldon6450]

It was Michael Crichton the author of the book this movie was based on was the one who picked the name Velociraptor over Dienonycus as it sounded fiercer it was bigger than Velociraptor at the time

[@TheRussian13]

Not Spielberg, that was Creighton's decision. He even wrote an explanation into the book of how the velociraptors were mislabeled by the scientists that were cloning them. It was one of many subtle signs of incompetence that lead to the larger examples that Malcolm called them out for when determining that Jurassic Park actually has no control over the dinosaurs at all.

[@GaiusIntrepidus]

@@TheRussian13 reminds me alot of the misidentification in American Psycho, it's obvious yet subtle but already tells you alot about what the movie is about

[@gawainethefirst]

was also the fact that around the time they were making the movie, in Utah, they had just discovered a new type of raptor that was about that big.

[@WarWolfeX]

Utahraptor was discovered when the movie came out, and they are the largest Raptor of the species. They would most likely fit with the size of the ones depicted in the film. Of course they didn’t know that at the time. Cool stuff tho

[@pieceofgosa]

The "dinos to birds" fringe science from this movie is now science fact. Birds evolved from the theropods, the same group that contained T-Rex.

[@thereisnopandemic]

So it’s devolution instead?

[@bigdream_dreambig]

@@thereisnopandemic In biology, there's no such thing as "devolution."

[@AzureFlameVirus]

One of my favorite movies of all time. Love dinosaurs.

[@xqiuvmah]

My dad's best friend worked on the set of this movie. He was one of the people to help open the giant wooden doors. Yes, those doors are not motorized, they just had a few dozen people pushing and pulling

[@philiphamel8504]

To answer what happened to the staff of the park, they left before the storm hit. It was a tropical storm (akin to a hurricane) and left for the mainland where they could be safe. Nedry was trying to get the embryos to a mole on the ship to drop them of with Dodgeson.

[@Doubledeepfried]

If a girl told me "I am not into dinosaurs" it would be a major disappointment.

[@mintphoenix2112]

The score for the movie is just beautiful. John Williams is an incredibly gifted person.

[@shainewhite2781]

My favorite movie of all time!! Before Speilberg was picked to direct, Tim Burton, Richard Donner, James Cameron and Joe Dante were considered. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas Tom Hanks Sam Shepard, Pierce Brosnan, Nick Nolte, Kurt Russell, Jeff Bridges, Alec Baldwin, Richard Dreyfuss, Dennis Quaid, Tom Selleck, Michael Biehn, Tom Sizemore and William Hurt were considered for Alan Grant. Julia Roberts, Linda Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman, Melanie Griffith, Brooke Shields, Kyra Sedgwick, Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Geena Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, Kelly McGillis, Juliette Lewis, Helen Hunt, Genevieve Bujold, Christina Applegate, Sarah Jessica Parker, Joan Cusack, Debra Winger, Juliette Binoche, Sandra Bullock, Kim Raver, Mariska Hargitay, Teri Hatcher, Elizabeth Hurley, Sherilyn Fenn, Heather Graham, Lisa Rinna, Renee Zellweger, and Kim Basinger were considered for Ellie Satler. Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Bruce Campbell, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Michael J Fox, and Bill Paxton were considered for Ian Malcolm. Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Ian Bannen, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando, and Jon Pertwee were considered for John Hammond. Brian Cox, Geoffrey Rush, Bob Hoskins, and Jeffrey Jones were considered for Robert Muldoon. The film won 3 Oscars: Best Visual Effects Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing It made $1 billion dollars ($1.8 billion dollars today) against a $65 million dollar budget. It's now considered to be one of the greatest Sci-fi Action Adventure films ever made.

[@darkaoshi27]

Don't forget. Sean Connery was considered for Alan Grant as well.

[@scottb3034]

@@darkaoshi27 connery was considered for Hammond, not Grant. Also Spielberg was the only choice for director. the other studios might have pitched a director and offer but crichton was lifelong friends with spielberg who had the inside track.

[@lordtrigon1733]

Bruce Campbell as Ian Malcolm? That would’ve been something... 😂

[@dipperjc]

A lot of people think the lesson in this is not to mess with nature. The real lesson is not to mess with the IT guy.

[@austinverlinden2236]

You had mentioned " I wish we could see dinosaurs in real life". I remember watching a documentary on bringing dinosaurs back to life. While we can't use DNA to bring dinosaurs back, we can however change the genetic code of certain birds to give them dinosaur characteristics. We could reverse enough to have a similar like T REX by 2050

[@LudmilaRamirez7]

Dont give them ideas 😸 i think humans dont learn the lesson

[@anangelcalledtoday8750]

Pretty sure this movie explains the many reasons why we shud NOT do that! 😂 😂

[@15blackshirt]

This and its sequel, The Lost World, are based on the Michael Crichton novels of the same name. There are four direct sequels, a short film and Netflix animated series. Steven Spielberg also directed Schindler's List that same year

[@DJSpike-ft9yw]

Yes, we see dinosaurs everyday. All birds came from dinosaurs and technically are dinosaurs. Dinosaur behavior should be considered more bird-like and less lizard or crocodile-like when it comes to the theropod (carnivorous) dinosaurs.

[@LuanMower55]

Up.

[@thereisnopandemic]

Macro evolution is a flawed unproven Theory, Birds have existed since the creation of earth.

[@GaiusIntrepidus]

Aren't birds and crocodiles closely related?

[@foxxtitan7028]

@@GaiusIntrepidus Birds ARE reptiles actually, and so dinosaurs survivors, not evolved ones.

[@toodlescae]

All of the other employees evacuated because of the storm. Samuel L. Jackson was announcing the last boat leaving earlier before Dennis booked it out of there with the stolen samples.to catch the boat. Electric shock stopped Tim's heart so yes CPR was appropriate to restart it.

[@taracsallo6175]

Was just about to write about y there was no other employees glad i scrolled down and saw your comment. Seriously what is the point of posting reactions like this if u don't pay attention to the movie?

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

The novel was written by Michael Crichton, who also wrote Westworld. The novel goes much more in depth on the technical aspects of the park, and the application of chaos theory. An awesome scene in the novel, which I wish they had in the movie, is with one of the security measures: a counting system to make sure none had escaped. (The opening of the Jurassic Park novel was actually used as the opening of The Lost World). After the eggs were found, a flaw was discovered in the system. It was set up to count up to the expected number of dinosaurs, and stopped when it reached that number. When the limit was set higher, it counted more dinosaurs than were created, proving they were actually breeding in the wild.

[@mentalpsycosis3367]

They changed a lot, like the part where Grant had no idea the rex couldn't see him if he didn't move, or that Henry Wu was supposed to die, and Muldoon was supposed to live... Sigh at least they did better than the lost world

[@Jiff321]

“I’m not a fan of dinosaurs” is the strangest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say lol.

[@rleutz13]

I tour a movie tour in Hawaii and was at the "They are migrating towards us" place. so cool!

[@lizcatty9281]

Hey Thor & Jessy! Thanx 4 reactin 2 this, I love this movie! Very much enjoyin it so far!👌 I just had 2 stop 2 say u should totally look @ a comparison between Velociraptors & Cassowary's ( very large Aussie birds) coz the similarities are incredible! In relation to 4:38. Much love from Australia🥰 💚 🇦🇺

[@captainchaos3667]

44:24 - "what happened to the other staff on the island" - they left before the storm. Remember Samuel Jackson making that announcement for the last ferry?

[@seasickviking]

In terms of the science itself, the movie was relatively dead on. They skipped a few steps in regards to how the cloning process works (mainly because it would require using the closest living relative, such as Alligators or Lizards, as an incubator of sorts) but the overall explanation of process and theory is correct. We have used the same overall process to create genuine clones of animals (Dolly the Sheep, the first clone animal, was born only a few years after the book first issued) and while bringing back dead animals (De-Extinction, as its called) has a few more steps, its still the same basic idea.

[@Damalatorian]

Yeah.. I were 11 years old when this movie came out and I still have the same magical reaction everytime... This movie still holds up today.

[@brigidtheirish]

I was ten and Mom wouldn't let me see it. Even though I was the kid drawing gruesome pictures of Tyrannosaurs messily devouring their prey on the back of my homework. Maybe she was worried the movie would give me ideas. Then again, she also forbade me from seeing Indiana Jones. Didn't get to see that until I was in *college.* All because she saw it on a date with Dad and was terrified. Like, Mom, *have you seen what I draw?*

[@sawanna508]

@@brigidtheirish My mother too. I was 11 then. I didn't draw dinosaurs but we already had one book from the time when "A Land before time" came out. But she never came to like dinosaurus to the point she told us she would get rid of all our toy dinosaurs if we buy just one more.

[@brigidtheirish]

@@sawanna508 Wow. My mom never went that far, possibly because she bought all the toys we had.

[@babygoblingamer]

the raptors in Jurassic Park we’re actually based off of Utah raptors as they were discovered right as the first movie was released velociraptors were about the size of a turkey Utah raptors on the other hand were about a foot taller than person

[@Cau_No]

This movie was a first timer in many things: First time CGI animals. The SFX guy working on the models after seeing the new technology was like "I'm out of my job now". (Models are still in use, but often scanned for the CGI textures) First time face replacement. The stuntwoman for Lex by accident looked right into the camera when hanging from the ceiling, so they put Ariana Richard's face over it. Also the first movie that used the dts 5.1 surround sound system. There were some changes made to the original novel. That had Malcolm dead, the lawyer surviving and Hammond being left behind on the island. A lot of the plot with the science lab going out of control was reminicent of another story based on Michael Crichton_s work: The first movie of Westworld, which was later adapted into a new show.

[@WelcomeToTheRunaways]

I would absolutely love to see you guys react to the sequels! This was such a fun reaction, it also gave me a nice sense of nostalgia :) Jurassic Park is such a classic and an absolute staple for those of growing up in the early 90’s. Thanks so much for reacting to this film!

[@brigidtheirish]

The second movie is so stupid. I have some fondness for it because I managed to see it with my dad near the end of it's original run so we had the theater to ourselves for our riff track. It was also the *first* Jurassic Park movie I saw because Mom thought I was too young or something when the first one came out. Was so unimpressed with the second that I was well into adulthood before I saw the first.

[@eighthdoctor]

44:21 - the other staff had all left on the last ferry/ferries before the tropical storm hit the island.

[@JFrazer4303]

Reactors never pause it while they're talking, and miss things that later they think is a plot hole.

[@MySerpentine]

Moral of this story is 'pay your fucking IT guy more' LOL

[@xqiuvmah]

The traitor, nedry, was the chief programmer for the entire park. He spent months of work designing the entire parks computer system, but was then underpaid. Basically he signed a bad contract and then wanted more money later, but Hammond refused so he sold the embryos

[@Fonny222]

I read the book for the first time recently and Hammond threatened to basically make him unemployable if he quit by going after any future clients and so he had no choice but to work at a loss. It pretty much showed how desperate he was to stick it to Hammond and make some cash.

[@mistybenefield5796]

@@Fonny222 Yeah, the cuddly film version of John Hammond bears little resemblance to the cut-throat literary version.

[@foxxtitan7028]

@@mistybenefield5796 resemblance but not the same, Nedy is the greedy bastard in the film when in the book it's Hammond who act greedy to him making him betrayed Hammond, in the movie it's more blurry. To me in movie it's Nedry who's hell greedy and have no morale.

[@danhalstead705]

Spielberg is famous for a lot of things (great pacing, characters, shot selection, music), but one thing he's uniquely known for is getting the most out of his child actors. E.T. and Poltergeist are both great examples of this too

[@AkaNovaChan]

Seeing your reaction of this made me so happy! It's my all-time favourite movie series. Please tell me you're going to watch the other ones as well, because I'd surely look forward to it! Also, I highly recommend giving the book a read! Some things are quite different and will surprise you, and the beginning can be a bit slow, but it's an overall amazing story to read. I would say reading the book will give you the same feeling like the movie did when you watched the movie for the very first time. So, definitely go for it, if you're feeling like it! :D

[@Stephie_L]

I'm half way so I'll try to finish the rest later, but super fun reaction guys. I honestly wish I could've watched this in the cinema as a kid because I know this must have been mind blowing if even now Jessie (and even I) can see how realistic the dinosaurs/ T-Rex looks. I actually managed to catch this at my retro cinema but I know the film so well already. It was still great and I will go again if I get the chance because the sound of the T-Rex roaring made the floor shake a bit and for that scene alone, it's totally worth watching it on the big screen. I like a lot Spielberg films but the script is so tight on this one and the music, the suspense and as you guys said, the characters are so fun too! As for 18:07 - I dunno. I can see the appeal of using science to bring dinosaurs back, especially if you have a great interest in them...but I have to agree Ian (Jeff Goldblum). Tampering with nature is dangerous. It doesn't matter how advance science gets, one mistake and people can die...And since humans are not infallible (even technology for that matter) so I just think it's quite risky. "Control" in general is very contrary to nature (humans included)...so I just don't see a way they could do something like Jurassic Park that wouldn't endanger people in some way.

[@chriskelly3481]

Yep. JP was MINDBLOWING in the cinema in 93. 😁👍

[@lawrencezimmerman8769]

I watched it with my parents when it was released, I think I was about 10 at the time. I had never seen a movie this realistic looking up until this point. It totally scared the crap out of me back then. Great movie!

[@NetanelWorthy]

If somebody was shocked to that extent, yes, you immediately start performing CPR. Their heart has stopped. You need to get it going again. Supply airflow, and do chest compressions.

[@JFrazer4303]

In general, without a few certain contraindications, whenever anybody's not breathing, you blow into them, and do chest compression only if the heart isn't beating. Almost never will they recover and get up, usually not coming conscious, but you don't stop as long as you can keep going (unlike in movies where they dramatically give up).

[@genesfel]

I seem to remember reading somewhere, that the kids reaction at 31:10 is genuine, bc the animatronic t-rex wasnt supposed to come THAT far down through the roof

[@johan7170]

For quite some time, when people used to ask me for my favorite movie, my answer was "Jurassic Park". I saw this in theaters when I was 13 and it blew my mind. About Spileber a lot of people would recommend Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's Liist. I'd have a different take, 'cause I think one needs to see the more poetic and innocent aspect of Spielberg so my pick would be E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial

[@nlemieur7516]

One thing that they changed, which I think Thor knows, is that Hammond is killed by one of his dinosaurs.

[@trevor3013]

I love that she started almost pessimistic about watching it to loving it. It's honestly a historic movie that will be remembered for years

[@bigdream_dreambig]

38:27 That "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" is so funny in this context. 😝

[@andreashummelshjj.8165]

27:45 Nedry isn't trying to put the sign back; he's trying to figure out which way to go to get to the boat. ;)

[@ambersmith1018]

41:50 "Relax girl, he's gay" about the dinosaur I died lmaooo

[@nickreacts6394]

I laughed so hard when I reached this part in the edit hahaha

[@steven95N]

13:35 it's all based in reality, the problem is, DNA degrade so quickly, there's no viable samples of dinosaur DNA. Mosquitos fossilized in Amber exists but the DNA they once contained decomposed long ago, when the dinosaur species they fed on were still alive. DNA doesn't last long at all.

[@TothanCrawk]

As a kid watching this on VHS on older TVs, the animatronics and CGI was indistinguishable to me, I thought I was seeing real animals!

[@captainchaos3667]

I don't think they filmed in the rain to hide flaws in the visual effects. On the contrary, the rain caused massive problems for it, because it soaked the animatronics' foam skin and made them too heavy.

[@redpillfreedom6692]

It would be more accurate to say they filmed _at night_ to hide any flaws. Even without rain, they would have filmed at night.

[@captainchaos3667]

27:52 - "Please!" - OMG 🤯 I've seen this movie a dozen times and it took your reaction to notice that he's yelling the magic word!

[@krisfrederick5001]

This movie was so epic I saw it 6 times in theaters as a kid, with different people every time. It was a brilliant use of CGI and animatronics which is a lost art. Literally feeling the steps of the T-Rex as the water ripples is a cinematic experience you can never forget.

[@christhompson6010]

To me it's less about being a fan of dinosaurs and more about being a fan of the works of Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park the book is a masterpiece of Horror addressing what could go wrong if that were possible. This movie did a great job of catching the spirit of the book that gives an even more gruesome detail of what happens in the story. Remember reading it back in high school in the 70,s and had to do it during the day or with the lights on 😂

[@OrdemDoGraveto]

About the velociraptors size: When Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park he did some research. And in his researches he came across a recently publish papper that had Deinonichus and Velociraptor as part of the same genus: Vecoliraptor Mongoliensis and Velociraptor Deinonichus. The specie that's in the book whas the deinonichus, wich is larger then the mongolienses. That papper was later discredited, and the two species became separated genus again, with Mongoliensis being the only Velociraptor species. But the movie has an excuse for all inacuracies: The dinossaurs are genetically modified. They have frog DNA and then, and other modifications (like the one to ensure they are all females). So if they are different then the real animal was, that's why.

[@davidbennett1357]

good info, and correct....I'd like to add that years later, a species called utahraptor was discovered that is very close in size to the faux velociraptors in the film....life imitating art imitating life.......

[@OrdemDoGraveto]

@@davidbennett1357 Yeah. But Utah Raptor is also not a Velociraptor. It's not even closely ralated if I'm not mistaken. In the book, the specie is indeed Deinonichus, just under the velociraptor genus. And it's the proper size. In the movie, it's actually a velociraptor mongoliensis, and it's bigger then the deinonichus would be. But it being bigger and not having feathers is covered by the frog DNA hehe

[@davidbennett1357]

@@OrdemDoGraveto directly from wikipedia: 'Utahraptor (meaning "Utah's predator") is a genus of large dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America during the Early Cretaceous period.' and 'Velociraptor, a dromaeosaurid, gained much attention after it was featured prominently in the 1993 Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park. However, the dimensions of the Velociraptor in the film are much larger than the largest members of that genus'

[@OrdemDoGraveto]

@@davidbennett1357 Yeah, they are all dromeosaurids. But diferent genus. And not closely related (within dromeosaurus that is).

[@davidbennett1357]

@@OrdemDoGraveto I'm interested to hear what you are basing the statement 'they are not closely related' on

[@leonardomotta1143]

I watched this at 9. I was so scared and at the same time so riveted. Them putting the kids there, and having a tone that appeals to kids was a triumph. No wonder it was such a instant classic.

[@sandimcalisterblood2675]

Great reaction. I love how you thoroughly enjoyed the movie and didn’t make jokes during the entire film. The sequels are definitely worth watching😊

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

Definitely read the book. It is so engrossing that I read it in one day. Michael Crichton is a great author who does his scientific research. It makes his stories feel that much more real. Jurassic Park 2 brings back Ian Malcolm and Jurassic 3 brings back Grant. I highly recommend watching both.

[@chacheekent8604]

There was an actual major hurricane that hit Hawaii during the filming of this movie. It was Hurricane Iniki and it was a category 4.

[@dcemerald70]

Great reaction! I remember seeing this movie as a kid and being so fascinated by the dinosaurs. Also when I was a kid I used to go to this movie theater and they had famous scenes from movies framed on the wall, and one of them was the picture of the T-Rex roaring as the banner fell. Please keep reacting to the entire franchise! It would be amazing to see you guys react to the rest of it! Also for Jessie if she loves dolphins, I highly recommend Dolphin Tale 1-2, Flipper (1997), and Zeus and Roxanne. 🦖🦕🐬

[@richkarter1916]

29:47 when i first rewatched this after a decade and a half, i didn’t remember like half of this scene. I remembered the “when you gotta go, you gotta go” and I remembered the car with the kids getting attacked, I didn’t remember the guy getting eaten by the dinosaur, I thought it was just implied that it happened cuz he never showed up again

[@HildegardActual]

The staff evacuated due to the tropical storm. Those that stayed were a skeleton crew in order to serve the tour group and ensure nothing went wrong.... boy did that go well!

[@erikstensaas1202]

In the book, Dr. Sattler is engaged to a doctor in Chicago and Dr. Grant was her teacher and a widower

[@penzorphallos3199]

31:05 in this scene the trex robot was not supposed to drop so far down and punch through the roof. The kids were screaming for real. Thankfully the roof window is just plexiglass and they weren't hurt.

[@nissy9220]

They screamed in every take, it wasn’t real at all. The actor said during one take the corner of the plexiglsss broke. That’s it. Complete exaggerated myth that won’t die

[@scottb3034]

@@nissy9220 exactly. it was also in the script.

[@kyleenglot9184]

Even in Crichton's book when the T-Rex attacks the vehicle they don't have glass roofs, but It does smash out the windshield with its head trying to get to the kids that are ducked under the dash board.​@@scottb3034

[@scottb3034]

@@kyleenglot9184 exactly.

[@scottb3034]

Michael Crichton (author of the book and co-screenwriter) was the first person to have the #1 book, show and movie at the same with this movie, ER show and Disclosure book. during the embryo stealing various dinosaur names were misspelled: Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus were spelled wrong. When nedry is at the JP gate, the scene was actually filmed in the day time with a night/blue lens filter to simulate nighttime.

[@richmckinney7231]

my favorite scene in this movie is at 38:28; the mirror has written on it "objects in mirror are closer than they appear",and all you see in the mirror is the teeth!!!!

[@deadmanlnc2215]

Random fact: during the filming of this movie a hurricane/typhoon hit the island trapping the film crew and cast, in that time Spielberg played games with the kids keeping them calm throughout.

[@scottb3034]

additional fun fact: richard attenborough slept through it all in his room and didn't know there was a storm until after it had passed.

[@ryanhighberg4662]

Iconic, enough said

[@Ruimas28]

What was very real at the cinema back then was the very same excitement you see on the actors. We were all like that :) This was a movie which for the time really could take us there. I was a teenager who enjoyed science and I had this book....I actually knew what was going around about the raptor :p That it was in reality a big deinonychus or something like that....still from the raptor family but not what is called a velociraptor (those are indeed smaller and do not look the same). Anyway....to this day this movie´s soundtrack triggers a sense of awe, inspiration, magic inside me. Just the tune. So much so I have used that tune in corporate meetings as a grown up :p To send a message that we expect to deliver stuff that others may think impossible. That´s what a movie like this does to a teenager :) Effects wise, this movie together with Terminator 2 were the big game changers.

[@kennethcook9406]

@ 2:41, the movie premiered on June 11th 1993. I got to see the movie with my Aunt on opening day, as my 12th birthday present. (My birthday was the day before, June 10th) And as a newly 12 year old boy, I was immediately fantasising about 13 ? (she looked 11) year old Lex (probably short for Alexa or Alexandra.) The hacker girl.

[@larryconnerjr1835]

As someone who was in the 5th grade when this movie came out this was easily the best movie of my childhood I an my generation had never seen graphic real looking dinosaurs in a movie before this it was groundbreaking at that time and any young boy in particular was blown away by how real the dinosaurs looked on screen definitely a classic 👍🏽

[@paulobrien9572]

I love how Spielberg used Richard Kiley to do the voice of the guide to narrate their trip in the SUVs. Sparing no expense to use such an accomplished documentary voice over to give the park some credibility

[@scottb3034]

it was also a nod to the novel who ALSO used Kiley fictionally as the tour guide voice.

[@dracoargentum9783]

Fun fact: the children's screams when the T-rex busts through the skylight was genuine: the were not told it was going to bust through, they were told it was just going to snap at them from outside the car.

[@JeffOfTheMountains]

The scenes filmed in the rain and storms were due to Hurricane Iniki, which struck Hawaii during filming of the movie. Sir Richard Attenborough (Hammond) slept through the whole thing, and when asked (I think by Spielberg) how he managed when everyone else couldn't sleep, his response was thus: "Dear boy, I survived The Blitz."

[@blackbird8192]

44:50 at the time this was made the only velociraptors known were small, bout the size of a turkey, but not long after this came out (same year i think) a raptor was discovered, Utah-raptor, that was slightly larger than the ones in JP, 6+ feet tall and about 20 feet long.

[@aaronjl18]

44:18 The rest of the staff evacuated. It's where the programmer was trying to go when he crashed.

[@danielbilodeau9045]

2:41 1993 4:04 Yes, it was based on the book of the same name by Michael Crichton, published in 1990. 4:41 Yup. The evidence connecting birds and dinosaurs is now so strong that it's now understood that birds actually *are* dinosaurs. 5:37 Sort of. For starters, the evidence for pack hunting in raptors is pretty shaky. They were certainly social animals, but whether they hunted as a coordinated team as opposed to a disorganized mob is up in the air. Secondly, the claws weren't used for slashing as the underside lacked a cutting edge. Nowadays it's thought that raptors used a technique called "raptor prey restraint", where they used their claws to pin their prey to the ground and tear it apart with their jaws while it was still alive. 22:06 While it's important to give captive animals stimulus, carnivores will take an easy meal any day. 38:48 Yeah, T. rex was surprisingly fast for such a big animal, but it didn't have the best stamina. 44:28 They all left on the boat. 44:51 Okay, story time. When Crichton was writing his book, one of his main references was _Predatory Dinosaurs of the World_ by Gregory S. Paul. In that book, Paul proposed that another type of raptor dinosaur called Deinonychus was just a larger species of Velociraptor. This proposal was not accepted by other paleontologists and for good reason; not only was Deinonychus roughly twice the size of Velociraptor and more robust, but it also live a good *thirty million years earlier on a completely different continent* (North America instead of Asia). Crichton, unaware of this discrepancy, incorporated the name change into his book. (He reportedly later apologized to John Ostrom, the scientist who discovered Deinonychus, for using the wrong name.) Spielberg would later carry over the name change to the movie simply because he thought Velociraptor sounded cooler. In summation, the reason as to why Jurassic Park's Velociraptors are so big (as well as have the wrong head shape and have their fossils shown being dug up in Montana instead of Mongolia) is because they're actually Deinonychus suffering an identity crisis.

[@scottb3034]

bravo, someone that gets the facts right.

[@gailjohnston1248]

First time I saw the trailer for this, I was thrilled out of my mind! I'd fallen in adoration of Dinosaurs when I was in 3rd grade and stationed in Riverside CA. Growing up the usually only fairly decent depictions of Dinosaurs were done in animation form. I always hated the Claymation or anything like it, or even worse....stuff like they did in the 60ties Sci fi cheaper movies and have an iguana or some other bigger lizard with like a fin tied to their back, to be a Dinosaur like animal. I just knew that somehow that being SFX being so much better after movies like- Star Wars and etc., the Dinos had to look as real as possible. And when I first saw it, I had goosebumps of sheer happiness at how awesome the movie was! I honestly hadn't heard of Velociraptors, or 2 other types they used in the movie. I knew of a few other types like T-Rex, stegosaurus, Triceratops, etc. And just FYI- Even though generally the Raptors bones that had been found before the movie tended to be around Turkey sized or a bit bigger, SS said that while they were filming one of the paleontologist they had consulted beforehand, had called Steven and told him that they had found a new type of Raptor and it was about 6 ft tall. 😁 SS was thrilled to hear it lol. Was fun watching your reactions to this Nick. ☺

[@kwadwotuffour5529]

So fun watching you and your friend, Jesse reacting to this. She was a pleasure to watch as well.

[@Falconer1128]

Hey Thor! Been a fan of your channel for almost a year. I really enjoy your commentary and your love of these movies I grew up with is touching. I must say, the child actors in this are two of the best actors I've seen. Among all actors, not just children. They do both have an appearance in 2 or 3, I can't remember which, but disappointingly it was just an appearance. I had hoped to see them again in bigger roles. Jesse is so damn cute. You guys have amazing personalities, as does Domi. You three would be amazing friends to have. Thank you for your channel. I'm off to check out your Indiana Jones vids. Oh.... p.s. I realize that many people hated the third in this original trillogy, (not sure why) but I really like 3, a lot. Much more than the second one. But the second one is worth the watch. I hope you two will do both.

[@damaniqphillip2756]

Awesome 👏

[@KindredKeepsake]

This movie ages like wine~ Iconic and timeless forever!

[@itsturniptime3699]

Fun Fact! Originally the kids were promised that the glass roof wouldn’t be breached by the Trex during the scene at 31:08 and they would be completely fine. These were genuine screams of terror!

[@andrews.5212]

I'm a '92 soo my childhood was fantasia, the land before time, 4 dyno in newyork and Jurassic park.. :D I even used to have the vhs with the behind the scene docu

[@SCharlesDennicon]

Bro, one of the messages of the movie is that dinosaurs had their time and we weren't meant to exist in the same era, and it makes sense, let's... respect the will of nature on that one.