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What a thrill this film was!! I was so enthralled with the special effects and the soundtrack and the themes of meddling with power beyond our understanding and messing with the forces of nature. Incredible Movie! Enjoy :)
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[@chrisofstars]

Everyone says the lesson of this movie is don't play God, but the lesson to me just reaffirms what I already knew which is mosquitoes are evil.

[@sathvamp1]

LOL but humans are the ones that went and used the DNA they had stored... they were just trying to eat :P

[@lucihornsby]

lmaooo literally

[@nickp1987]

I take the lesson of "Don't build a piece-of-ship theme park with no redundancies that requires the power to be on to keep dangerous animals contained." Like come on, zoo's exist and usually manage to not let the tigers rampage about if the power goes out.

[@2Fangirl]

Maybe, but who decides what is and isn't playing God? I mean, where do we draw the line with scientific discovery? We cure diseases, extend lifespans, alter DNA of both plants and humans, and we march onward. So what is the line? Who gets to decide when we should stop? And even if it is "playing God" what is wrong with that? We act like it's a taboo thing, as if it's an excuse not to do something. Or as if some supreme being is the only one who has the right to mess with nature. You can't "play God" when you don't even believe there is one.

[@jenny_lee_87]

😂😂 right now they're attacking me

[@BrianStorm742]

"Spared no expense" *Only hired one IT guy*

[@volkerball85]

AND underpaid him. 😂

[@emilybennett6567]

Expenses were absolutely spared lol

[@MojiBeau]

Spared no expense, except when it comes to operational labour costs. Sounds about right for your average corporation

[@Grf1556]

He spared every expense.

[@Brannas86]

He clearly states he bid for the job. He chose his salary.​@@volkerball85

[@jessc.994]

My friend has a fun Jurassic Park story: when she was 4, her grandma accidentally showed her Jurassic Park instead of Land Before Time. She has no idea why or how. When her grandma realized this wasn’t the cute kids movie she expected, my friend was found rooting for the dinosaurs to eat people lol. She wasn’t terrified at all, and that started her love for this movie series and dinosaurs.

[@bidishah]

Such a fun story! 😂

[@lia.niuu06]

It's so cute to see, how one little accident or moment can give you a passion or interest

[@soramirez5473]

um land before time was SCARIER than Jurassic Park.. lol. atleast AS scary of a child.. brutal deaths, fight scenes, scary t rex.. animated movies can be just as traumatizing. my parents let us watch Plague Dogs and Cool Word cuz they were "cartoons". Fire and Ice also..

[@fox_trot0214]

i remember watching Jurassic Park for the first time very young, i was probably 4 or 5 and i love it too XD i even scared my dad on the couch by tickling him when he watched it with me

[@shereebuckley7208]

That's cute ❤

[@xejelah]

T Rex's eyesight was explained in the book, but not in the movie. The mixing of amphibian blood with the dino dna impaired T Rex's vision to only be able to see in movement. When he mentions it's vision capabilities in the car it's because they just finished learning about it in the lab. So, this wasn't meant to be a dino fact, but specific to Jurassic Park's T Rex.

[@typo1345]

Michael Crichton went into incredible detail into every facet of the book, and then he misnames the velociraptor (what those raptors really are are a species of raptor called deinonychus, not velociraptor)

[@MatthewJamesKalasky]

I remember an episode of Jimmy Neutron, Jimmy and his friends got sent back in time by one of his inventions, they ran into a T-Rex, Sheen told Carl not to move, with Jimmy retorting that that theory was "discredited", even though it never actually WAS one to begin wit.

[@beth-sophia]

​@@MatthewJamesKalasky I'm pretty sure it was "disproven" in a sequel book. So canon in the storyverse? It's been forever since I read any of the sequels, though. I just keep the paperback of the first book in my car for when I'm in waiting rooms where they actually enforce phones off for HIPAA reasons.

[@emilyrln]

@@beth-sophia I think it it's one of the characters in The Lost World who says it's not true

[@amypetty5013]

Yeah, no. You're missing a critical point. Think through that scene of Dr. Grant telling the kid that the T-Rex's vision is based on movement. For the movie, this hsa NOTHING to do with the frog DNA. Dr. Grant is basing this on his paleontological knowledge before he has any notion that Hammond has managed to create dinosaurs. So the movie doesn't just skip this explanation - it changes it completely for the movie's canon. It's nothing whatsoever to do with the frogs. That said, It was also later retconned because it was based on completely inaccurate information. It was a badly outdated theory known to be incorrect at the time Crichton wrote his book. Which is exactly why they have a character in a later book disparaging Dr. Grant's character for being an idiot.

[@bidishah]

Fun fact the sound of the Rex's roar was created by mixing the recorded vocals of a baby elephant, a tiger, and an alligator together!

[@damianfry2080]

Unless I'm mistaken, I think they also mixed in the sounds of chains being rattled and a chainsaw

[@Dylan_Platt]

The sound design on this movie is so fascinating. I remember hearing that the dilophosaurus noises included swans honking and a horse whinny played in reverse.

[@dive2drive314]

I literally wanted to be a T-rex after I saw this as a little boy. Lol

[@MichaelBond]

Yeah, unfortunately the studio had lost track of the live T-Rex they had gotten to record with. 😜

[@TheRodentSama]

Also a koala for bass as it's a lot deeper than all of those.

[@merchillio]

The seat belt scene in the helicopter is a good way to show Grant’s resourcefulness, but it took me years to realize that it’s foreshadowing: he has two female parts and still make it works.

[@kenlykkeslett7501]

That is the best foreshadowing in movie history

[@amypetty5013]

It's not foreshadowing. Sam Neill and other people involved in the film have repeatedly said it was purely coincidence.

[@vee7586]

i love that you picked up on Hammond's arrogance in creating the park. this movie really went soft on his character. in the book Hammond has an incredible ego and a literal God complex.

[@besupaaa]

Idk why but I've always related the way he dresses all in white with that god complex

[@typo1345]

​@@besupaaaand who dresses in all black? That's right, Ian. The one who didn't believe in the park from the beginning

[@sinfulsoul-2003]

​@@typo1345 oh, nice catch

[@aaron-jp8ib]

I never thought he was arrogant. He’s so likable. I was annoyed at this reactor for not liking him for no reason

[@BlahBlahWoofWoof12]

Fun fact: The scene in the car where the T-Rex attacks the kids, because of all the rain the water was constantly getting inside the animatronic head making it heavier than it was supposed to be & malfunction, so when it breaks through the glass on the sunroof it went down farther than it was supposed to, snapping the glass in half & chipping a tooth (which you can see happen in that scene) so the initial screams from the kids are real fear

[@bouboulroz]

Wasn't there also times the Rexy animatronic moved by itself because the water was messing with the electronics ? If true, that would have been so unnerving for the crew the first few times.

[@BlahBlahWoofWoof12]

@@bouboulroz Ya the water would get into the gears & she would start moving & shaking when she was supposed to be turned off so the crew would have to go in with towels to dry it all off so she would stop moving

[@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE]

Oh wow that's not a fun fact lol but a fact nonetheless

[@zammmerjammer]

Ugh. WHY do people keep repeating this nonsense and believing it's a fact? The head was always planned to come down and break the glass -- they STORYBOARDED the entire sequence beforehand. And the kids were not in the car for those shots. There is no way the studio or the insurance companies would allow the actual child actors to be in the car with a massive robot head swinging down at them. Go watch it again -- you only see the kids' faces on reverse shots. When the T-Rex head comes through the roof those are stunt performers.

[@besupaaa]

That's so not true ehehehe

[@wht-rabt-obj]

I love when people go into Jurassic Park thinking it's a kids movie. The book was straight up horror. 😂

[@reyganbriggs6785]

Depends on who your talking to. To me, it's a dream come true.

[@MissFlow]

Well, it's a lot more whimsical that's for sure. Movie is still quite intense but indeed, it's nothing compared to the book. Hammond dies, can't remember if Malcom does but he gets yeeted by Rexy, Gennaro and Muldoon survive and even find Nedry's body. Speaking of Nedry, that part of the book was nightmare fuel 0_0

[@mexi_the_cado_mado9262]

@@reyganbriggs6785same 😊😊😊

[@NulienTia]

One of the things I love about the first T-Rex attack scene is that, despite having the legendary John Williams as the movie's composer, that entire scene from start to finish has absolutely no music whatsoever. And it works so well.

[@christinamann3640]

‘Objects in mirror are closer than they appear’ 😂 I think you’re the only one who catches that. My friend and I laughed when we first saw it in the movie theatre.

[@kaytlinjustis5643]

Nope! Saw it too... and probably plenty more before me! ^^

[@julia.c.mcclure92]

And they reference it in Toy Story 2 lol

[@sathvamp1]

My mom caught that :D

[@amypetty5013]

LOL. Everyone catches that. It's an extremely well known gag and it's been parodied many times.

[@christinamann3640]

@@amypetty5013 I’ve watched a few of these reactions and none of them noticed or said anything about it

[@SephaiCosades]

"...treating him like some sort of villain." Of course, he's a lawyer.

[@heathergarnham9555]

In the book, the lawyer is a pretty decent bloke

[@bidishah]

Lmao the scene of shirtless Jeff Goldblum sitting majestically on his side is my Roman Empire. 😂😂😂 He was such a hottie at this time 😮

[@SubKween]

He's still hot today tbh

[@bidishah]

@@SubKween Oh I absolutely agree! His personality just adds to it all 😍

[@jenny_lee_87]

​@SubKween was going to say this hehe. He still hot and his voice so soothing 💜💜

[@katie8881]

This movie is one I point to when I argue that CGI can make a current movie look more convincing but it'll age it to a point of immersion-breaking whereas good practical effects may not be quite as realistic (relatively) but since it doesn't have to contend with the ever-harshening "uncanny valley" phenomenon, they can last far, FAR longer. I love this movie so much and to me it holds up beautifully.

[@demo2823]

The other day, I watched the mermaid movie Splash. It was such a relief on my eyes to see a movie for once where all the sets are real and not some sort of 3d greenscreen. They have some janky effects, 3 that I can count, that it could have done without. But the fact that they are actually being filmed on a beach in one scene. There's nothing like reality.

[@reptomicus]

The thing is the uncanny valley was originally used for human shaped robotics , so the problem was in practical effects long before it was in CG

[@toddjones1480]

There is way more CGI in this than you think there is.

[@cloudsn]

@@toddjones1480 I like when there's CGI and I can't even tell. These days I swear everything is CGI, and you can easily tell. Everything is just a little too smooth, too clean, and doesn't feel like it has the right movement or weight.

[@Randerson2409]

About 5 years back, I went to see this movie "In Concert", where the film was being played on a massive screen, with a live orchestra playing the entire score, and it is still to this day the most amazing film watching experience of my life

[@Dylan_Platt]

Oh damn, I bet that was incredible. I saw a marching band perform selections from the score in like 99 or so and even that was amazing.

[@dannykent6190]

They're still doing it. I saw it last year.

[@Randerson2409]

@@dannykent6190 I know that some places have it going, but it never seems to line up with my schedule. I keep an eye on it, though lol

[@BenBanjo87]

"Dr Grant, my dear Dr Satler...welcome... _to Jurassic Park."_ Chills every time with that immortal music 🥲🥲🎶🎶

[@dive2drive314]

I honestly feel bad for newer generations for not having been able to grow up when cinema like this was taking off. So many great films. Back when going to the local Blockbuster or movie store was a whole experience. I always looked forward to going to the movie store with my friends after school on a Friday night.. good times, sad they're gone.

[@alexmoreira876]

Movies don't feel this way anymore. It was a whole spectacle, even the experience of going to the theater.

[@Pinkielover]

it's still like that depends where you live. Here in Arizona could be just as fun especially the drive in .. I remember seeing this Jurassic Park release date with my friend when I was like 18

[@tree6787]

Ditto!

[@RowanMarshmallow]

Omg. I just realized our generations blockbuster is like past generations soda fountain 🥲💀

[@gazelle_diamond9768]

It's still like that, there's just a lot more movies nowadays, which means a lot more bad or mediocre movies as well. But just look at the releases of last year, with Oppenheimer and Barbie. Good movies are still being made.

[@nortski78]

Don't worry you get a LOT more of Jeff Goldblum in the 2nd movie.

[@Twinkler200]

Much more! Teehee

[@jenny_lee_87]

I love Jeff Goldblum and his character Malcom. His voice is so amazing 💜💜

[@crystalgemgirl731]

And, he's WAY more snarky.🤭

[@djyanno]

What today's generation does not realize watching this film is how ground breaking it was. The VFX were something never seen before and everybody was just totally amazed

[@RhetoricalThrill]

I saw this in the theater when it was released, I’ve seen it dozens of times since, but that John Williams score NEVER fails to put goosebumps on my arms.

[@pandapropsncostumes]

The travesty is that John Williams was not even nominated for best score for for Jurassic Park at the 1994 Oscars. Can you freaking believe that?!?

[@bouboulroz]

17:06 I don't think she loves his company that much at that point in time. She's just playfully going along with Dr. Sattler's plan of forcing him to interact with children, and just jumped at an opportunity to further mess with him. Edit: I also like the "spared no expenses" bit because of the irony behind that statement. Hammond repeats it like a motto as if to prove he's not doing it out of greed, yet the one expense we do see him spare is on Nedry's salary. Hammond spares no expenses on things that he can sell, or can help sell his park through a wow-factor, and the one expense he's willing to spare is onto one of his most essential workers. It wasn't just hubris, it was greed too, from all fronts, that made the park fail.

[@RhetoricalThrill]

Yep. No expense spared for Richard Kiley voiceovers, decorations, ice cream, etc. Shiny surface things, not boring stuff like safety and computer systems.

[@nathantaylor5400]

Spared no expense: Safety rails and a secure loading area for dino pens, to expensive. A basic underground network of tunnels for access to secured systems, to expensive. A non powered system to separate the dinos and keep them penned, to expensive, even though it's an island prone to heavy storms that knock out power.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Hammond "spared no expense" on the things the park's guests would see. He was just selling the dinosaurs as products, he didn't truly understand the science to create them and technology needed to contain them. Hence he spared expenses on what he didn't consider important... like paying his IT guy.

[@Ryne_Barrow]

Not-so-fun-quite-sad-fact; The guy in charge Hammond. In real life, he lost his daughter Jane and 15yo granddaughter in the Tsunami that hit Thailand in 2004. The true story of a family that went through it is a movie called The Impossible. Before he died in 2014. His last wishes were to be laid to rest with his girls.

[@henkebenke573]

Dis not know this. That was sad. Im glad he is with them again

[@cloudwatcher608]

That’s so sad. That movie breaks me every time I watch it or watch someone react to it. It’s basically an hour and a half of ugly crying.

[@d.w.strangeman4963]

Hammond is Played by Richard Attenborough, writer and director who's brother is Sir David Attenborough.

[@doctorsnakeeater1997]

@@d.w.strangeman4963I.. I always kind of thought they sounded just slightly similar..

[@d.w.strangeman4963]

@@doctorsnakeeater1997 not the only similarity. One made a film about dinosaurs, the other... made a film about dinosaurs😁👍

[@SlayQuinn08]

"Poor Moo Moo" why is he so adorable 😂❤

[@adrianhempfing2042]

Poor Moo Moo

[@mikey90802]

I also literally laughed out loud when he said that!!! 😂

[@TheHighvolt480]

I very highly suggest reading the book or listening to it. The character are very different except for Malcolm, he was honestly pretty spot on from the book. The book also focuses more on the science and technical aspects of the park than the film does which i love.

[@SJ19_998]

Agreed, the book is fantastic

[@SevenEllen]

The soundtrack is by the legendary John Williams. You had a reason to think it sounded like Star Wars at one point. 🙂

[@Br0nto5aurus]

35:13 "did he really imply that she was less capable?" I interpreted it as men believing that it's their responsibility to lay down their lives to protect women, not necessarily believing women are incapable. Men are also more expendable in a "repopulate the earth" scenario because they don't grow babies. This wasn't a "repopulate the earth" scenario, but I think people subconsciously consider that factor in any survival scenario on an instinctual level. I thought Hammond should go because he's older so he has fewer years left and this whole thing was his fault, BUT they aren't just choosing someone to die. There's a goal that person has to meet to save everyone, so they should send someone likely to succeed, which is not the pampered, elderly billionaire who walks with a cane.

[@TheRodentSama]

It's actually an old chivalry thing that the man lays his life down rather than the woman. Like, women and children first on a sinking ship or burning building. It comes from the millennia old evolutionary trait of human beings that leadership is role of males, that men tend to be physically stronger and more capable in a troubled scenario, and therefore in a dangerous situation are not expendable exactly, but are more capable. It's an outdated concept in today's society and modern sensibilities... but the "women and children first" thing has been the case for literally thousands of years dating back to our early ancestors. It was the men that did the hunting, fighting, warmongering and dangerous tasks. It's just evolution of our species. In contrast, lions are the other way round. It's the females that hunt, and gather... the males protect the pride only, and rarely take part in anything other than fighting rival males. The females will occasionally fight off a male, but it's rare... and when they do, they do it as a group, not one on one. --- In the case of Jurassic Park though between John and Ellie....... John's an old guy with a cane, and Ellie clearly outranks him in terms of physicality. She's also headstrong, physically strong and fit, and doesn't take crap from anyone which is why she politely shuts John down and simply gets on with the task, having no time to piss about with the women and children first chivalry bullsh*t that John, sweetly mind, is trying to portray. And also note, that Ellie Sattler is one of many strong female characters that isn't the godawful Mary Sue trope that has infected modern movies... and sadly she often gets forgotten when people mention characters like Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley.

[@8bitbee148]

@@TheRodentSamathe idea of chivalry originally came to be not that men are more capable, but women are more valuable (as the only one of the two able to make more humans), it then devolved into “men stronger” as society grew and both ideas became pretty archaic

[@8bitbee148]

I felt the same way about Hammond in that situation, but in the book he was a much bigger asshole and pretty dang sexist. I wonder if that was a nod to that

[@SevenEllen]

I remember thinking, when I was a kid, that he meant he should go because he was older, and was therefore saving more years of human life if he went, but he didn't correct Ellie when she said they could discuss gender later, so, I'm guessing he may have been trying to be a gentleman but it came out badly executed.

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

@@SevenEllen Yeah that's how I always took it. He was just trying to be a gentleman. I don't think he meant it in any bad or sexist way. I would never be offended if an elderly/disabled man who is obviously less capable than me wanted to take my place out of politeness/chivalry or just straight up human instinct to protect women. I'd honestly be the opposite of offended. I'd decline of course but hey, I'd think it was nice to just have the offer. 🤷🏻‍♀

[@riffranger]

The tyrannosaurus attack on the Jeeps is one of the best scenes in the history of film.

[@pieceofgosa]

I love how Dr Grant's wild, fringe science theory about dinosaurs evolving into birds is now just conclusively proven scientific fact.

[@gazelle_diamond9768]

Hold on, it was proven back then?!

[@pieceofgosa]

@@gazelle_diamond9768 No it wasn't. While the idea of dinosaurs evolving into birds is an idea that stretches back as far as the 1880s, it was still considered controversial when this movie came out in 1993. In 1996 a large amount of feathered dinosaur fossils were discovered in China & this seems to be the generally accepted point where the majority opinion began to turn but there was no broad consensus that birds belonged to the clade Theropoda until as late as 2007.

[@gazelle_diamond9768]

@@pieceofgosa Oh damn, that's awesome then! Now if only the same could happen for the Spinosaurus debate...

[@WitnessedMe]

@@gazelle_diamond9768 Spinofaarus enters the chat 😂😂😂

[@jasonutty52]

Dinosaurs didn't evolve into birds. Birds are still dinosaurs. Avian dinosaurs.

[@SevenEllen]

"That's nightmare material" You're not joking. I saw it in the cinema when I was nine and loved it, but, whoa! The T-Rex and Velociraptors gave me nightmares for years.

[@MonAhgasInsomniAroELF]

same lol, i was probably about 10/11 when i first saw it and i STILL have nightmares sometimes. but i can't help it, i love dinosaurs and i love the films. so i still watch them, just usually not at night haha 😂

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

I was 10 when it came out! I think. I can't remember what month it came out/we went to see it, but close to your age anyway. I just became absolutely OBSESSED with dinosaurs after I saw it!

[@SevenEllen]

I had always loved dinosaurs as a kid, so this was a serious treat for me, despite the nightmares! :D@@LadyBeyondTheWall

[@83gemm]

I’m 41. The raptors STILL turn up in my nightmares.

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

It doesn't matter how often I've seen Jurassic Park, that scene in the maintenance bunker when the Raptor shows up behind Ellie will always get me with the jumpscare. Side notes: The dinosaur sounds in this movie were made by combining sounds made by living animals and everyday objects. The Tyrannosaurus rex, affectionately known as Rexy, was a mix of elephant calf vocalizations (roar, snarls and growls), with koala, lion & tiger sounds and alligator gurgles thrown in and a dog playing with a rope toy (shaking the Gallimimus to death). The Dilophosaurus was a mix of hawk, swan, howler monkey and rattlesnake sounds. The adult Raptors were a mix of a walrus chest roar and dolphin mating scream, while the hatchling was a mix of owlet and fox kit sounds. The Brachiosaurus vocalizations were slowed down donkey brays, while the sneeze was a mix of an active fire hydrant and a whale breathing through its blowhole(s). (There's an "s" in parentheses because depending on whether or not whales have teeth or baleen plates (think of them as biological water filters) in their mouths, whales have either one of two blowholes) The Gallimimus's chief sound effect was made using the recorded calls of a mare (female horse) in heat, while their movements were inspired by those of ostriches. A good portion of this movie was shot on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Whenever I hear Hammond ask "Who's hungry?", my first reaction every time is "Not after hearing the Raptors rip the cow apart." Lego released 30th anniversary sets in honor of Jurassic Park and the one I have is based on Dennis Nedry's encounter with the Dilophosaurus.

[@damianfry2080]

Can you imagine how much darker the film would be if Nedry and the Dilophosaurus scene was closer to the book, yikes, actual nightmare fuel

[@Dinoslay]

@@damianfry2080 The Dilo in the book certainly wasn’t a small creature.

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

​@@DinoslayThe real one was estimated to be 10 ft in height and it's theorized that they did not have a frill or poison.

[@Saturnm0ss]

“Fun” fact: you wouldnt hear a T-rex. You would feel it. You would feel the rumbles from its throat vibrating the ground before you heard it, and if you hear it, it would be too late. They also likely were not scavengers like we used to think

[@davidpoole7098]

And apparently, they were also incredibly smart. Recent finds have shown a proportional brain cavity almost as big as a raptor. So, 2nd biggest proportional olfactory making for insane sense of smell, most likely having very sharp eyes (not based on movement), highly intelligent, and likely pretty stealthy in reality (fleshy feet dampening the sound and whatnot). Yup, if not for that meteor, we would still be shrews

[@scottb3034]

no they definitely were still scavengers, they were just also active predators....also no one really thought they were purely scavengers. Jack Horner--the biggest proponent of that--admitted he merely said that to generate discussion.

[@emmaconnolly5738]

​@davidpoole7098 the 'based on movement' theory is the fault of the movie. In the book it's explained that the frog DNA was to blame for the T Rex's poor eyesight, so when he makes the 'movement' statement in the car it's because they've just learned about it in the lab! Because the movie skips that bit it sounds like he's talking about the species in general, not just this one particular T Rex! Everyone that saw it then took it as fact and it rolled from there!

[@malice9240]

Fun fact: Nedry in the book actually intended to go back to the control room to fix everything after delivering the embryos. But more time passed then he wanted, because he made a wrong turn. He never wanted to ruin the park, he just wanted to get out of the business because John Hammond, and ingen screw him over. The money Lewis Dodson agreed to give him, would allow him to quite jurassic park.

[@minnesotajones261]

Yes, he turned off the stuff that allowed him access to the embryos as well as the fences so he could sneak quickly thru the park to the pier and hand off the Barbasol Can, then turn it all back on. But that didn't work out quite well for him... Chaos Theory baby!

[@jaylinnell5251]

9:06 No, Hammond is giving them the VIP tour, which he would likely be present for each time. But the standard tour would likely be much more basic. More akin to a guided tour of a famous building, rather than a Backstage Pass for a concert sort of deal like these guys are getting. Edit: You definitely ought to watch the sequels as well.

[@wnepper]

Your enthusiasm is contagious. I really enjoy your reactions.

[@faidragalaxy]

What's also amazing is Spielberg, despite the stress and struggles he went through back then, managed to deal with the production for this AND Schindler's List at the same time.

[@lay-dee]

Ross Geller: A hundred million people went to see a movie about what I do. I wonder how many people would go see a movie called "Jurassic Parka"

[@katsukirenka1629]

Fun fact for a fellow Aussie: all the noises the dinosaurs make are mixtures of living animals, I think we all know that. Some of those included animals were our very own koalas. From what I can figure, koala noises were used for some of the t-rex's vocalisations (not the roar, more of the grumbling/purring noises) and potentially similar for the raptors. On that note, I highly recommend showing tourists videos of koalas bellowing because nobody expects something that cute to make noises like that! Gives more credibility to dropbears! Also, something I only recently clocked onto - so many things end up going wrong. The opening scene with the worker, the difficulty with the power even after Nedry does his thing, escaping dinosaurs, no locks on the car doors, how the toilet hut collapses, and everything else. What is one of the first ten or so lines we hear in the films? "Hammond hates inspections" I'm willing to bet it wasn't just inspections from lawyers he was talking about. I'll also add some commentary as someone who studied archaeology - a fully funded dig for three years? Especially if that's on top of the timeline they already had with InGen? PRACTICALLY UNHEARD OF. You jump at funding. Funding is hard and is the main reason things don't get done no matter how many archaeologists/paleontologists/geologists etc are excited about it. And as someone who also did some zookeeper training (I've tried a lot of things okay) - oh my lord, this is actually probably one of the better films in the franchise when it comes to animal husbandry and peoples safety. At least here they have Muldoon! If you want to make anyone who works with animals, particularly in zoos, mad then show them Jurassic World. I saw it in cinemas with my cohort and we pissed everyone off screaming "HEALTH AND SAFETY INFRINGEMENT!" multiple times. I'll leave it there as I have been on my soapbox long enough 😅

[@rebeccagibbs4128]

in the novel is greatly implied that Hammond is just a charlatan/conman, and the dinosaurs are in fact not actual dinosaurs scientifically, which is how they are able to reproduce to start with. I liked that the movie changed his character into a more childlike enthusiastic dreamer, rather than a eccentric con man. The movie Hammond invites the scientists to show off and share his giddiness, the book Hammond is trying to run his con successfully on the most difficult audience- experts, before opening up the con to the world. there's a little hint of that left over in Hammond's "flea circus" anecdote, but otherwise i think it was the right choice cinematically. Fun tidbit, the actor who plays him is the real life brother of renowned beloved animal documentarian sir David Attenborough! Love your reactions and always shocked at how you aren't popping off yet with the numbers here. Looking forward to seeing future videos and much more love here in the reaction community

[@SkwithOv]

there's modern lizards that are parthenogenic - all mourning geckos are female, and yet they reproduce just fine and other animals too, like some species of isopods (dwarf whites are the main ones, they're FAMOUS for easily taking over an entire bin and outcompeting the other isopods, just by one accidentally finding a way into it)

[@TKHaines]

Here Hammond comes across like an excited child, too thrilled about what he's doing to take the risks seriously. In the book, he is flat out an asshole. More of the characters die and he blames everyone else for it. Hammond even blames his grandkids for the park failing, simply because they were there. If you like the movie, don't read the book.

[@joshfacio9379]

true. this is another instance where spielberg improves the character/movie. the other is jaws, alot of the characters in the book were assholes lol.

[@Anwelei]

I was 11 when I read the book after I saw the movie. I remember thinking the whole book world was very depressing.

[@discretelyobvious]

14:03 - Hammond proudly claiming he "spared no expense" whenever he can. Except for when it came to paying his staff and that was the downfall. If he had just paid Dennis better (and he definitely could afford to) Dennis wouldn't have shut off the systems to steal from the company. Bear in mind Dennis was significant in that he was the ONLY one who could make and work that program and basically ran the entire park and had even come from a company all the way in Cambridge to work on Hammonds project.

[@markfoshee4768]

Nerdy apparently thought it was enough initially since he's working for Hamond at the start of the movie. If he didn't think it was enough, then he should've negotiated for more during the hiring process or found another job that would pay him more

[@joshuah9109]

Random Trivia: In '82, Spielberg's E.T. was a phenomenon. It would surpass STAR WARS to become the highest grossing film worldwide. E.T. lost both Best Picture & Director that year to GANDHI. The director of GANDHI himself said publicly that he thought E.T. was the better film and (while extremely honored) thought E.T. should have won Best Picture and that Spielberg deserved the Best Director honor. Spielberg was flattered and the two remained friendly over the years. When Spielberg was casting JURASSIC PARK (about 10yrs later) he wanted only one man to play John Hammond, Richard Attenborough: the man who directed GANDHI. Attenborough had acted in the past, but gave it up to direct. But Spielberg was relentless and Attenborough finally agreed. That year Attenborough would see his good friend, Spielberg finally win the Best Director Oscar for SCHINDLER'S LIST (released the same year as JP) along with the film winning Best Picture. Meanwhile, Spielberg would see his dear friend come out of (acting) retirement to star in JP, the movie that would surpass E.T. as the highest grossing film worldwide. ☺️

[@fastertove]

Hard to overstate how great Spielberg was back then. Jurassic Park and Schindler's List the same year - it is insane. So many incredible movies he has had a hand in making.

[@joshuah9109]

@@fastertove Agreed 😁.

[@mehmetsancak2984]

I was 5 years old when I first watched this movie. You may not believe it, but I watched this movie in the cinema. At the age of 5, my father took me into a secret movie. I was very impressed by the movie. It came into my dreams for 2 weeks😁 I was 35 years old now. I think it's one of the best movies ever. A great movie that won the Oscar in all categories.

[@poppletop8331]

In the room where Lex is hacking into the system, Alan and Ellie are trying to reach the gun why not just shout over to Timmy to get it, he's just standing around doing nothing.😆

[@scottb3034]

can't have a 7 year old pick up a full auto hunting shotgun on film. Also grant says something to ellie or tim just before tim leaves them.

[@milesbradshaw6643]

If you felt Dr. Malcolm was sidelined, you're going to love the sequel.

[@DgShadowChocolate]

Let’s all appreciate the dinosaurs we still have; birds and alligator/crocodiles/sharks! Who needs raptors when you have CASSOWARIES?!

[@hettbeans]

Birds are dinosaurs - those others are prehistoric, but not dinosaurs.

[@jasonutty52]

Alligators, crocodiles, and sharks are not dinosaurs...

[@fantasyaj6510]

An amazing classic of a movie that stills holds up 30+ years later. The original JP book by Crichton is also an incredible read. Also one hilarious blooper I love is that when you look at the cryogenic DNA storage containers, they actually misspelled Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus! 😂

[@typo1345]

you missed the real kicker about that blooper detail: they misspell those, but they spell metriocanthosaurus correctly

[@AlexHdz6]

The acting of those kids was amaaaaazing

[@continuallyblessed44]

My 8th grade self about had a panic attack in the theater when you could hear the T-Rex walking and vibrating the water cups. I don’t think I blinked that whole scene lol.

[@keithmartin4670]

In the book, Grant likes kids from the start. He says something like, “how could you not like people who love dinosaurs so much?”

[@mariacavanaugh1010]

I worked two jobs when this film came out...one, at the theater, and another at a small software firm which wrote its code in UNIX...I had a great feeling when I knew what Ellie meant as she said, "This is a UNIX system, I now this." Jeff Goldblum is a fine actor and has many interesting roles, first known for The Big Chill, and then made a remake of The Fly, and an indy-film: The Favour, The Watch, and the Very Big Fish. He's also done television - including Friends, Will and Grace, and Law & Order.

[@thedrunkenelf]

I always thought she said it’s a eunuch system lol

[@davidpoole7098]

"Worst guardian ever" You have NO idea...

[@zoew_]

it always blows my mind that people haven’t seen this, but i only watched harry potter a couple years ago bc i want allowed as a kid so 🤷🏾‍♀️ it’s not that crazy i guess 😂 the kitchen scene with the raptors is by far my favorite scene in the whole movie

[@otter011]

It always blows my mind when people haven’t watched any movies that I consider classics. But I also found out a month ago that my best friend in high school didn’t watch A Very Potter Musical although she’s the biggest Potterhead I’ve ever met and I discovered it when we still lived like 15 minutes apart and apparently didn’t tell her about it🤣

[@damianfry2080]

Hold up, a Very Potter Musical?! What?! Where can I find it? I know a couple of Potter heads that need to see it

[@otter011]

@@damianfry2080 I think my reply got lost somehow: it’s on KZbin for free (as well as two sequels), originally by college kids in 2009 (very low budget) who went unexpectedly viral and then started a musical company & KZbin channel called StarKid. Some jokes don’t land anymore but most do, the characters are great caricatures of the books and Voldemort is the best! There’s a remastered version from 2022 from another channel - which I’d recommend because the sound and video quality wasn’t good in their earlier productions. But they’ve created subtitles for all their musicals :)

[@serenitytoepper]

I really hope that you plan to add more of these Jurassic films to the channel.

[@jh4533]

The one thing most people forget about horror movies is no matter how dark it is on screen, it is supposed to be darker for the characters. It has been brightened for the viewer. So it is the natural response of a kid, its dark and there is a monster outside you can't really see, so you get a light.

[@hluancbo]

you are the warmest comfiest person ive ever watched, thanks for making my days so much better just by being who you are ! :,)

[@alphagaming7494]

23:37 fun fact about this scene in the movie. The animatronic T-Rex was not originally supposed to go down that low it was a malfunction. So when it came to the point when it broke out Those kids were genuinely terrified and they left it in the movie.

[@marauderdz]

"Life finds a way," he says of the creatures originally wiped out by a freak meteorological event.

[@Fernando-dt8je]

I think you misjudged the old man. He was just fascinated by that. The line about money, for me, was more like "I am investing a lot to make it amazing". I never perceived the character as "trying to be some sort of god". Not at all. He obviously had no idea what he was getting into.

[@thecocoacouch]

I think it’d be a shame if the script didn’t make that have some deeper meaning. I love the idea that he carries around the thing that symbolises new life. Maybe he doesn’t think he’s a god necessarily but he definitely wields the power with arrogance.

[@Fernando-dt8je]

@@thecocoacouch hehe ok. Maybe it's just the perspective of watching this movie as a child x as an adult :-). I like your reactions, though.:-). I still think the old man was just fascinated hahaha 🤣😂🤣 :-P . Don't be mad. Hahaha

[@thecocoacouch]

Oi he probably was 😅love these discussions. Cheers@@Fernando-dt8je

[@otter011]

😄 I remember watching it as a child and some adult immediately went "he’s playing God", so I never thought otherwise

[@Fernando-dt8je]

@@otter011 there you go hahaha

[@serenitytoepper]

These are my all-times favorites movies. I am sucker for Dinosaur movies.

[@josefinelagerstrom2643]

Steven Spielberg made this AND Schindler's List in THE SAME YEAR. He's a legend!

[@justinlinarez6757]

In the kitchen scene, the boy got so scared IRL that he threw water on the anamatronic. Got his pay reduced by like 20k.

[@joshfacio9379]

i couldnt find any info on this, source please? if true thats crazy lol

[@hyperspace3022]

Pls watch them all, im sure you'll have fun watching them. And paleontology and archeology needs so much history and biology and chemistry studies. But some are amateurs who end up world famous. Timmy says about a book written by Bob Baker who was an actual palaeontologist who helped the directors to make the dinos more real in the movie

[@rw4487]

Timmy played by Joseph Mazello also as sn adult played the bass player in bohemian rhapsody

[@ReadingOne]

And he also wrote, produced and directed Undrafted, a movie about his brother John not getting drafted to the MLB.

[@cloudsn]

The reason Dennis was driving so fast with the embryos was because the boat was leaving early due to the storm. Also "it really looks like they're in the middle of the forest" is such an interesting comment. Because my first thought was "of course, they're really in a forest!" But maybe I'm showing my age here. Possibly younger people are used to everything being shot with green screen, but this was all real, on location. It was filmed in Hawaii, and an actual hurricane passed by so some shots include real footage of Hurricane Iniki.

[@joshhignett8186]

Your attention to detail is great. Picking up on Oppenheimer and the lion roar in the trex roar is incredible.

[@davidandniko3428]

This movie's effects really hold up well even today. I remember seeing it for the first time seeing the dinosaurs cgi and animatronics my jaw dropped.

[@portugalgamermanel3404]

Steven Spielberg is a genius. i watch this movie maybe 10 times. still makes me scare after 30 years. insane

[@morcellemorcelle618]

What if I told you that the book is evan more brutal and gory?😂

[@dorat.88]

'I'm fairly alarmed here' my favorite Malcolm line. I love this movie so much, and the novel, too. Thank you for the awesome reaction, you were picking up on a lot of details right away. It was really enjoyable to watch

[@DarkSister.]

The part where Grant can't fasten his seatbelt is a clever detail...he was trying to fasten 2 female buckles together, but couldn't do it, so he tied it. Life finds a way 😉

[@kenouk6183]

Good thing it doesn’t happen irl in humans tho right?

[@andreduarte8372]

Out of all the 65 million Jurassic Park reactions on KZbin, yours was hands down my favorite! You spotted every little detail that first-time watchers usually don't catch, and got all of the movie's best moments in! Great job! Please keep going with this franchise, I just KNOW you're gonna love the dino droppings out of The Lost World! 😁

[@gggooding]

The ripple in the cup of water - no way to CGI that. They couldn't figure out how to get it just "right". An FX dude wired guitar strings to the truck and strummed them to get the ripple looking perfect.

[@buddy3167]

22:47 yes close the door because you know the T-Rex might claim inside

[@rockon4853]

Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex): The iconic roar of the T-Rex was created by combining the sounds of lions, elephants, and alligators. Velociraptor: The sounds of the velociraptors were a mixture of eagles, hawks and other birds. Dilophosaurus: This small, poisonous dinosaur had a characteristic hissing sound that was made by combining sounds from different animals, including a swan and a turkey.

[@dcemerald70]

Jurassic Park is my absolute favorite of the entire saga! I still have memories when I went a local movie theater, and it had famous scenes from movies framed on the wall. They had a framed shot of the scene of the T-Rex roaring as the Jurassic Park banner falls. 🦖🖤💛❤️

[@ThatDamnPandaKai]

Actual Velociraptors were about the size of a turkey 😅

[@kylewestlake982]

The shot of Alan, Elle, and Hammond looking out over the park will always leave me in awe.

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

So, fun recent discovery note! After finding a mummy of a triceratops we now know that they were Coated in spines, most of them smaller like the undercoat of a porcupine or a hedge hog, although scaled up, but, some larger (mainly along the spine and tail) that would have been huge spearlike defensive structures.

[@juliant]

It's actually not uncommon for people to say something witty or weird after being injured. I was in a coma for 3 days, and when I woke up, I turned to my mum and asked for a jacket potato of all things, lol

[@divinelangene6813]

😂😂😂😂

[@scribblersvale4830]

Fun fact, a mosquitos digestive enzimes would've still digested and destroyed any blood inside it, after getting trapped in the tree resin/amber. A mosquito trapped in tree resin would've likely died slowly enough for it to continue to digest its last meal, well before the resin eventually becomes amber with the mosquito inside.

[@scottb3034]

additionally amber is porous meaning it lets oxygen and water in which are the two most destructive forces to DNA. Water especially. The DNA would have broken down incredibly quick regardless.

[@ashleyh7073]

Youve gatta watch Jurassic park the lost world and jurassic park 3! The lost world (basically jurassic park 2) is all about Ian Malcolm, Jeff Goldblums character you loved in this movie. So youd get more of him!!

[@DrakengardGirl]

I remember when this came out, I was still pretty young and my mom was afraid I’d be scared. But I loved it!! Inspired my love for dinosaurs and archaeology! Still one of my fav movies too

[@nickgrisso1416]

I’ve loved these movies since I was a kid. We had the first 2 on VHS tapes. I watched them all the time when I was like 5-7. They are still one of my favorite movie franchises

[@jeremiahrose4681]

I saw this when it first came out in the theater and was in awe. I remember there was so much merchandise for this movie out there when this came out, it was insane.

[@jenniferri7735]

this came out summer 1993. in december of that year, spielberg released schindler’s list, a completely different genre and even more incredible. really cemented his talent as a filmmaker (as if it needed it).

[@candidwings5609]

A theater new me brought it back for the movie's 30th anniversary and I took my kids. So much fun and it still holds up so well

[@pomziepou]

The T-rex paddock turning into a drop off is a major plot hole 😂

[@christinamann3640]

I’m glad it wasn’t just me

[@tvlitreview5378]

I thought the drop-off was on the other side of the road from the t-Rex enclosure.

[@8bitbee148]

They had a map of the area in concept art, the drop off is at a different part of the pen

[@joyhudspeth9547]

Exactly! I've been pointing that out for years.

[@notamberp]

@@joyhudspeth9547…did you not read the comment directly above yours??…

[@rbrainsop1]

At 35:03 when Hammond suggested he should go instead of Laura Dern's character, I don't think he meant to imply that she was less capable. I'm pretty sure he was just trying to be chivalrous- risking his own life rather than asking her to risk hers

[@shainewhite2781]

My #1 Favorite Movie Of All Time! I'm watching this on Blu Ray tonight! Lol, I was just thinking about this movie since this morning!

[@magnusbaier7633]

My favorite movie as well. Rewatched it just the other day, and it's still as great as i remember.

[@Crite_Wrangler]

YES!!! This is my favorite movie of all time! I saw it 14 times in the theater when it was first released then once again when they re-released it for it’s 25th anniversary. I’m so glad to see you reacting to it!

[@antoinetteserrano3082]

You’re gonna love this franchise. Also my theory about why the triceratops was sick was because she was pregnant but they didn’t realize it because they were too arrogant in their engineering the animals as females.

[@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE]

I saw this in theaters when I was 8. The first dinosaur and T-Rex scenes were amazing! Then I fell asleep somewhere after Lex got sneezed on and woke up to the kids hiding from the Raptors in the kitchen. Sidenote: I remember in 1999 I think when the first sheep was cloned and named Dolly or something. Not far off from this movie.

[@VBSuper]

It's funny you said the effects reminded you of Alien. Stan Winston is the effects guy for both movies. And also Predator, The Thing, Terminator, and a lot of other known movies.

[@ewan0801]

as a fan of rain scenes in movies, this is one of the best movies ever

[@abigailmallett9985]

Looooove this movie. Still holds up with the effects better than some today

[@RainyDays2790]

fun facts. Rexy was prone to shortages and would turn one WHILE the person controlling her was in the dino, thus having to keep her mostly dry during the rainy scenes. If she moved at the wrong time there was a VERY real risk of her killing the person in her back. the "velociraptors" are actually Utah raptors but the film peeps kept the name bc they said it sounded more intimidating. the sound they make is actually turtles making baby turtles while rexy is a mixture of lions, tigers, one specific baby elephant (i think, bc rexy and toothless have a similar story as to how the got their iconic roars i always mix the two up). at the time rexy was the most scientifically accurate rex. Actual Vraptors are about the size of a chicken while the Dilo was more the size of these raptors irl and didnt have a frill. Also he closest we can maaaybe bring back is mamathos, sabers and such. dino dna is much too degraded to do this. basically nature gave us snapshots of the animals. sorry this was a long comment coffee was consumed and i love this franchise almost as much as i love how to train your dragon

[@Pridam]

Actually the Velociraptors were based off of Deinonychus, NOT Utahraptor as many people believe. Utahraptor was discovered AFTER they already started directing the film. Utahraptor was actually bigger that the Jurassic Park raptors

[@RainyDays2790]

ah my bad i misremembered that@@Pridam

[@Pridam]

@@RainyDays2790 Oh no it's not your fault. This is a fact that many people get wrong

[@themourningstar338]

@@Pridam Technically, the first Utahraptor fossils were found in 1975 near Moab Ut, but weren't further studied or classified until after the fossils from 1991 were discovered in the same area. Filming for Jurassic Park didn't begin until 1992, though they'd been in pre-production since 1990. So yes, Deinonychus was the main inspiration for the movie Velociraptors, but the Utahraptor gave credence to and confirmed the existence of bigger Dromaeosaurid "raptor" species. Since Utahraptor was officially discovered and classified as a new species while they were making the movie, that is probably where the confusion comes from.

[@scottb3034]

@@Pridam Incorrect. Utah Raptor was discovered BEFORE the movie and then rediscovered DURING production of the movie but was only named and described AFTER the movie. They even negotiated to have it named after Spielberg but it fell through. Regardless, the raptors in Crichton's book are based on Achillobator and Deinonychus, the film raptors are based on the book. Achillobator is actually the closest comparison though since Deinonychus was too small and Utah too big.

[@cazzle80]

When I was about 13 I was at a church social & someone chucked on this movie for the kids/teens (or whoever else wanted to watch) Our new youth minister paused it during the t-rex eating the lawyer scene & smiling said that "this is what will happen to you teens who don't come to youth services" We laughed & threw popcorn at him 😛

[@barbara832001]

I saw this as a kid at the theater. It's a really good movie to watch with a crowd, everyone was jumping and having fun. I read the book in high school, and it's crazy how much was changed for the movie. They're both good in their own way though.