One cool fact I like. When arriving in the helicopter at the park, Dr Gran't seatbelt has 2 female ends. It should be impossible to connect, but he finds a way, by tying them together.
The T-Rex roaring the first time was absolutely amazing on the big screen. The animal was basically life sized on screen, and the theater speakers made it a visceral experience.
We don't have much of an idea of what T. rex actually sounded like, but it was impressive. But why was it roaring? Celebrating its escape? Roaring out "feed me?" These dinos were much too noisy, unlike a lot of modern animals, except humans, that usually make noise only when they need to.
The "Mr. DNA" scene is probably the best exposition dump in movie history. Also, since it was discovered some dinosaurs had feathers, the Jurassic Park lore now says their dinosaurs don't have feathers because they used frog DNA.
Which even though they had add that information later, it's good exposition. Of course I didn't know that at the time but in that universe it completely fits. I really can't wait for dominions come out so we can see all the different stuff they're going to do, from the weaponized dinosaurs to the more accurate ones
read the book. Crichton clearly talks about dinos probably having feathers. He was 20 years ahead of the standard scientific dogma.... as he usually was.
@@Alexanderthegreat159 While it was SPECULATED that many, if not most dinosaurs had feathers or at least protofeathers, it was not until the 1990s explosion of fossils (mostly after this movie was produced), largely out of Mongolia and China, that we had clear and indisputable fossil evidence of the prevalence of fully feathered dinosaurs.
Hammond is played by Richard Attenborough, a truly great actor and director, brother of David Attenborough, the famous naturalist documentary maker, so his inclusion in this movie feels particularly apt.
The character of John Hammond as written in the original novel was indeed your stereotypical billionaire a$$h0le only interested in money and how much could be made by exploiting InGen's technology to create a theme park, and as was typical of the trope, died horribly by his own creation by the end of the book. But when Spielberg cast Richard Attenborough for the part, the director could not figure out a way to make this affable Santa Claus-like man into a villain and thus the character was changed to reflect more of Attenborough's actual personality, and as a result the character not only survives this film unscathed but is in some ways a background hero of the sequel film.
Yep, fun fact i used to work for david attenborough doing woodland conservation for aboutn12 years, i actually have a signed letter from him for exemplary service. Last i checked he was the only one of the three brothers still alive ☹
@@abrahamdiaz3648 Knighthood ends with death. He WAS Sir Richard Attenborough but the title doesn't persist after death. That is why people who wanted Jimmy Saville stripped of his title as a knight were disappointed, only living people are called Sir, so the grim reaper had already taken his title.
🙂 When he mentioned King Kong, he was making reference to the large wooden doors, which were similar to the wooden doors in the original King Kong movie.
4:29 George is correct! The "Velociraptors" in the movies are actually based on the much larger Deinonychus, which was considered a sub-species of Velociraptor when the original novel was written. They were actually designated their own species while the movie was under production, but at that point it was too late to change it. And also... "Velociraptor" sounds cooler!
@@TomVCunningham yeah they literally made up a dinosaur and then discovered it in Utah. Since the Utah raptor is closer then the Deinonychus to the movie
@@LocTsun Actually the Utahraptor was much larger in size than the movie Velociraptors, about as tall as a horse in fact. Meanwhile the move raptors are slightly shorter than full grown adult humans, putting them closer in size to the Deinonychus.
Most of the dinos in the movie are not accurate , but at that time it was what was assumed , now we know that T-Rex not only could smell humans from mile away they had better eyesight than humans , people can test with the animals most like dinos still left , those seem to be totally able to both see and smell humans .
If you heard about the scene where the T-rex head smashes through the roof of the suv, from the commentary you would know that the gear in the animatronic head of the T-rex broke at that moment and the fear in the children's faces was 100% real. 😱
I love how the 'Life finds a way' line is foreshadowed by Dr Grant having two 'female' parts to his seatbelt in the helicopter... and then finds a way by tying them together.
@DramatticDesigns It's not about two 'females' finding a way to make life, it's the fact the being they take DNA from (the frogs), naturally can, and do, change sex during their lifespan. This trait is inadvertently passed onto the dinosaurs in the film, allowing life to 'find a way' to continue.
I've seen this movie probably a dozen times and never made that connection. Thanks! That's totally intentional and I was just too busy ogling the dinos to notice it. Also realised after reading your comment that to tie a square knot like Grant uses you make a helix with the two ends, then loop the ends and make a second helix, then you tighten. A "double helix", if you will. That is a great multi-level metaphor!
The book actually details Dennis's death and it was more gruesome! After the dilo blinded him, it sliced his stomach open spilling his intestines. "Nedry stumbled, reaching blindly only to touch the ragged edge of his shirt, and then a thick slivery mass that was surprisingly warm, and with horror he suddenly knew he was holding his own intestines in his hands."
Doctor Wu also gets gutted by Raptors and in the beginning of the book, on the main land, a nurse hears churping coming from the nursery so goes to check it out and finds some of the compy's eating the face off of a baby.
The T-Rex gets demonized in this movie after (s)he did everything (s)he could to help the protagonists by 1) eating a lawyer 2) protecting Sam Neil and kids from stampeding dinos, 3) saving everyone from the velociraptors at the end of the movie. T-Rex is the true hero of this movie.
I was lucky enough to watch Jurassic Park on its opening weekend in the theaters back in 1993. It was one of the defining experiences of my childhood; imagine seeing those mindblowing special effects and hearing that incredible audio on the big screen. I'll never forget being pinned to my seat by the sheer sound during the T-Rex scene. It completely outclassed any other movie that was out at the time. I'm so glad that you finally watched it!
I was 13 when this came out. It was PG-13. I spent my allowance taking the bus to a theater and back ever week to catch this in a matinee showing all summer. I must have watched it a dozen times on the big screen.
Same here, it was actually pretty nuts. Small town, one theater, everyone showed up to watch, even the mayor. They actually had people sitting in the aisles despite it being a safety hazard.
I think it's a testament to how well-written and -directed this movie is that basically every question you asked out loud was either answered by the next shot or literally expressed by a character in the scene.
@@Cheepchipsable No, that's the way they try to do it _today_ and it just doesn't work as well. _This_ is the work of a master artist who has huge amounts of _experience_ in what to put into movies. I could write a damn _book_ on the problems with this film, but the cinematography is _not_ one of them.
I'm pretty late to the game here, but in case nobody has pointed it out, the interface that Lex is using when they're trying to bring up the park systems was a real thing. It's basically just a graphic browser for the file system. When I worked at Origin Systems, we played with it on our SGIs. It's ridiculously slow and not at all useful, but it looked neat. I'm assuming it's probably in the movie because their CGI team played with it, too.
@@Eidlones Me as a kid in 1993 wondering why they're using that shit UI instead of just typing shit like they did in a previous scene. Trust me. It really wasn't easier for us to understand back then. We were just as perplexed as people are now why anyone would use that. Most people did, in fact, think it was fake. But yeah. It's a real thing. Heck. They altered Lex to make her into a "hacker" but don't show her showing off knowledge of computer use outside of just "scroll to file and click it". Why not show her doing the same things we saw Ray Arnold doing? It was an odd choice for sure.
Notice that in the scene when they're in the chopper descending to the island and Grant can't tie his seatbelt, it's not just him being a klutz. His belt is defective, it has female couplings on both ends. But he makes it work anyway. Life finds a way. Just like the all female dinosaurs ended up reproducing. Foreshadowing.
His seat belt is not “defective.” He grabbed the left belt end from the seat to his right with his right hand. A mistake he probably would not have made in an airliner, with arm rests between seats so you can’t grab your neighbor’s belt ends by mistake.
This was one of the first movies released with digital surround sound. The immersion was mind blowing to audiences at the time who were only used to standard stereo up front. You can only imagine how terrifying those dinosaur roars were in the theater.
Ha! I just mentioned DDSS too. I remember two things about that from the original theater release. The first was the water glass scene. Feeling that vibration come up through the floor was terrifying. The other was the very opening of the movie... the jungle sounds. Any time I hear that opening I get a chill. I didn't understand it when I first saw the movie because I didn't know what DDSS was or why it made a difference, but the immersion was intense and a game changer.
The DSS was so hyped that my parents bought a surround sound home theater and this was the first movie we watched. It was quite the event! It blew.our.minds! Some dinosaur roars from the left...then the right...wha??
Just FYI, there had been surround sound for a couple of decades before that. It wasn't usual, but some theaters were set up for it. The difference is that this one was digital, but the idea had been used for quite a while.
The "velociraptor" of Jurassic Park was called that due to the author, Michael Crichton, and what was known about raptors at the time. The Utahraptor, which is more like what the JP raptors resemble, were not properly described until the year Jurassic Park was released, so a raptor of that size and power DID exist, but because of the movies and book, is consistently called by the wrong name. Also there are several species of animals that are all female and will breed. There's ways to do it. In the movie they talk about a female spontaneously becoming male, which actually does happen. There's also another way where a female fertilizes herself through a process called Parthenogenesis, and essentially the babies are genetic clones of the mother. You can find this happening in species like the komodo dragon. Also that T-Rex is physical! She's mostly real and partially CGI, that whole bit of her head coming through the roof of the car trying to get the kids. That was 100% real. That was a GIANT animatronic chomping at them.
Those kids were short stunt people and if anything went wrong with that animatronic then those people would've been seriously hurt or killed as the T Rex was very heavy.
@@handsomeDRAC it wasn’t stunt people, it was the kids themselves, the “glass” also wasn’t supposed to break but ended up breaking after the animatronic hit it so many times. Kids screams were real durning that scene as they were scared from the glass having broke
Another species that can self reproduce is snakes. The was a boa that lashed fertilized eggs despite never coming into contact with a male. Every baby was a female however.
@@pickleboy6059 oh really, If that's the case then damn, Spielberg should've got in shit for that. Dangerous stunt especially involving a big heavy animatronic rig and kids. I would've used stunt people if I were him. I have kids so I wouldn't put them in harms way like that.
You mentioned the actors being excellent portrayors of terror and fear. That's one of the beautiful things about this one that is lost increasingly as the movies continue. The newest reboots are the worst offenders with every character, kids including, being as calm, cool, and collected as an experienced navy seal. It made the movies feel more cartoonish without the fear that a character could actually die. Like three times you thought "holy crap did Spielberg just kill a kid??" That feeling is lost in the rest :(
I remember when I saw "Jurassic Park" when it first came out, and everyone in the theater all chanting in unison, "Get off the fence! Get off the fence! Get off the fence!" And we were all in such shock when Tim didn't get off the fence in time!
I also love that they allow the cast to actually get dirty. Like, Jurassic World when the two kids jump into the water for safety, they're dry with fluffy perfect hair not long after. I don't think the gasoline Owen covers himself in is visible in the immediate next scene he's in either, and there's no way it dried that quickly. I'm sure there's a million other instances of this in all modern action movies. But in the original Jurassic Park, the kids look ROUGH. When they're trapped in the car swallowed by mud, that mud stays on them through the whole thing. Tim even has dried blood on his ears from his electric shock! It's a scary experience, not a thrill ride, and they look appropriately roughed up.
It's sad, any time a performance portrays true terror or sorrow these days, sheltered, privileged idiots who've never felt fear in their lives call it "overacting."
I remember in the second one when Malcolms daughter calmly does a gymnastic routine and kicks a Raptor through the window I was done with that movie. It's when you know that now it's more about pandering to the young demographic and selling toys than making a memorable film
I agree, the characters feel real. I love the mixture of personalities too: scientists, businessmen, lawyer, technicians, kids. It makes the scenes interesting too, seeing them all respond to this situation.
I am a palaeontological research associate in a Canadian research-oriented museum. Jurassic Park opened two days before I turned 10, and I went to see it four times in theaters that summer. Hmmm... Could there be a link between these observations, I wonder?
@@ptittannique5621 I took a course in college on archaeology which had a lab aspect to it, but more often than not you're just surveying land that needs to be built on for permits and nothing all that interesting sadly.
Tremors might be another 'monster' movie you might enjoy. It is a cult classic, and as close to a "perfect" script as you can get. And also shares the 'stop after the sequel' recommendation as a lot of other franchises. Though like with the Jurassic Park movies, the Tremors sequels have their charm even as the budgets and quality went down.
" shares the 'stop after the sequel' recommendation" I never understood this logic. Honestly, all of the movies in the Jurassic Park series and the World movies are good enough. Not at all worth the hate they get. Well... JP3 was definitely weak and the World sequels miss the mark. That said. I generally find that Tremors 2 was the best and Tremors 3 is the only one you should really skip. Tremors was always a dumb B-Movie and the sequels still encapsulate that, perfectly.
The T-Rex eclosure scene still makes me sweat with anxiety. It's done so well. And the kids are really good, thought that's unsurprising considering Spielberg is/was great with this kid actors.
the poor kids screamed for their lives when the t-rex broke the glass roof!that shit wasnt supposed to happen, thats why the screams were so realistic, it was supposed to nudge the car a bit down, not brake the roof!
@@bernhardtsen74 while that's a common myth, and make for a fun behind the scenes story it's not really true, the scene was supposed to go exactly like that and the kids screaming for their lives is just very, very convincing acting and directing. You can find story boards of that specific scene and it clearly shows the glass was always meant to break like it does.
It’s partially a myth and partially true. The T-Rex was suppose to break through the glass roof, what wasn’t expected was that a piece of the glass breaks off in the scene as the T-Rex first breaks through the roof.
@@spirittammyk not really, that's Arianna richards, Spielberg specifically requested her for the role as she is an amazing actress, he even switched the ages of the children around just so he could cast her in the role
"This is a UNIX system. I know this". Believe it or not the 3D graphic interface "flying" around the file system was a real thing. The girl is sitting at an SGI IRIX work station running its File System Navigator, or FSN, pronounced "Fusion". It was experimental, never went into actual production status, but was nevertheless real, and kinda worked.
Imagine seeing this movie in 1993 when it was released in theaters. It was an extraordinary experience and the craze for dinosaurs exploded. For me this remains the only true Jurassic Park
As far as I know, T-Rex actually had great vision and an amazing sense of smell. In the book, it's explained that because the dinosaurs had the holes in their DNA that were filled with frog-DNA, they have a lot of froggy flaws. Like for example, the movement-based vision. The vast majority of frogs have a specialized movement-based vision to help catch fast insects like flies and dragonflies and such with their tounges but in exchange are practically blind to anything that doesn't move. However, they put a lot of weird and outright incorrect information in the first movie. Probably to make it less confusing for casual viewers (less science stuff) and/or more marketable ( like giving wrong dino information, you are right that velociraptor was tiny, Utahraptor though, now that's a biggens). They are retconning a lot of stuff in the newer JW movies.
We actually have no idea how dinosaurs saw or smelt or hunted. There's no consensus on the overall lifestyle of reptilians so long ago. The make up of the atmosphere and it's effects on life forms is even heavily debated. Modern reptiles of any size live incredibly stationary lifestyles. I mean we don't even know if reptiles were warm or cold blooded back then. Almost no data on dinosaur behavior irl combined w frog splicing in the movie and it's a blue print to have whatever traits the writer wants to give them. It's what the indominus rex so pointless, they were already all hybrids capable of any traits you want to give them. Velocitaptor was a marketing choice, they knew what raptors grew to which sizes but in Hollywood fashion they picked the coolest name to give to the biggest raptors.
They actually didn't discover Utahraptor until after this movie was announced. When they dug it up, someone said, "Congratulations, you found Spielberg's raptor."
@@Agent719 well that's why I didn't say ultra raptor.. the denonychus was the one they based the size of in the movies. Again they knew which raptors which size and based theirs off the biggest on record w a name they liked. If ULTRA raptor was a name on the table I bet they woulda picked that over veloci
@@bryansmith1691 We have enough information from fossils that we found, dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurus and other extinct reptiles were much different animals than modern reptiles. Warm bloodless is basically confirmed, and with well preserved fossils we can actually find out how good sense animals have.
I'm kind of surprised how many reactors who've never seen Jurassic Park before apparently think it's a children's movie. George definitely isn't alone in that. That being said, when it was first released in 1993 most kids wanted to go see it because, well, dinosaurs. Also, you guys/George should definitely react to Land Before Time, Secret of NIMH and An American Tail. He needs to experience peak-era Don Bluth movies. There's also no such thing as flying dinosaurs. Pteranosaurs are considered a different animal group.
To be fair, it's the first movie I can ever remember seeing in theaters from my childhood. Though it must have been a special screening a few years later, cause I was only 2 when it came out
Although even in 1993 he'd made more grown up fare, at that time I suspect a lot of parents only knew Steven Spielberg from Indiana Jones and E.T. and assumed he only did family movies and PG-level light action films.
some dinosaurs might've been able to fly, Microraptor for instace. while older theories had it as a glider only there are some newer ones that it might've been capable of powered flight. then of course there are birds which are technically dinosaurs.
Fun fact: the weird CGI computer scene was REAL there was a REAL operating system in the early 90s that used that kind of 3D file monitor gui. Can’t remember which distro of Unix it was though.
"Ohh that's Crazy!" "It looks so real though" Guys it WAS real, Jurassic park was mostly filmed with Animatronics and that Triceratops was a real life size model. The body, the eye movements and the breathing was NOT CGI it was an actual prop the actors could work with, that is why the film is so realistic, they actually made everything including the T-Rex.
@@fakecubed wide shots generally. Most of the closeups were real physical objects. You can even see the puppet techs in some of the raptor in the kitchen scenes. The breakdown was of the 15 or so minutes of Dino screen time about 11 were animatronic and 4 or so were CGI.
Something that's left out from the book (or at least not emphasized in the movie) is that the "spared no expense" line is a joke in the book because Hammond repeatedly cut corners. Which is why Nedry makes less sense here to George. Hammond is saving money by having ONE PERSON do the job of 15. And it repeatedly bites them in the butt.
To be fair in the movie Dennis mentioned that he bid for his contact, he most likely bid low to undercut his competition. So in the movie it’s less Hammond cutting corners and more “me and this man agreed on his pay before I hired him and now he keeps asking for more money”.
@@inarar5334 Yeah LOL and remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids! He thinks he's hidden then SUPRISE LOL Rexy 🦖 She found him and Bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
@@hyperrustynail But in the movie they portray Hammond as a kindly old gent and Nedry as a cartoon villain, so like a lot of Spielberg movies, it's dumbed down for the audience.
I love Hammon's portrayal, especially his monologue about the flea circus. He felt like a fraud and wanted to make something laudable. It just happened to be a teensy bit lethal to humans. The other movies never improve on the original but they're still fun to watch.
The biggest problem with Hammond's arc in this movie is that its forced and incomplete. He screams at Grant not to shoot his raptors and then the very next time we see him he agrees with Grant not endorsing his park. They should have just made him the villain he was in the book and killed him instead of half-assing his character arc. Genero is another problem, his job is to find out if the park is safe on the behalf of the investors his law firm works for. He doesnt actually stand to make any money from the park whether its profitable or not, so him having dollar signs in his eyes doesnt make any sense. The writers of the movie just took all of Hammond's negative traits and dumped them on Genero, who is actually one of the more heroic characters in the book.
@@nathanpapp432 Well... Maybe it's because of the french interpretation (cause I had watched it mainly in french for years before starting to watch it in english with subtitles), But it always seemed to me that he was shouting not out of anger against Grant cause he shot the raptors, but out of worry to not know what's happening (considering his two grandchildren are in the same room, it' s kinda logical he's been worrying they might be attacked)
the first reveal of the dinosaurs still is great today... but in 1992 that was the level of special effects you havent seen before and the awe when you looked at it was corresponding to the awe of the actors when they saw the dinosaurs
I was 10 years old and watched this with my older sister, and several cousins in an old VW mini van at a drive-in movie. My family, we’re chicanos, so our sound system was….stoopid. When that first water shaking moment occurs as the T-Rex is finally about to make his long anticipated appearance - our windshield was rattling. We were screaming. It was the best movie going experience in my life. Until I took my then 6 year old daughter to watch the My Little Pony movie a couple of years back now. She danced during every musical number.
Your reaction when you saw the first live dinosaur was perfect. That scene has never failed to bring tears to my eyes. That would be an incredible experience to unexpectedly look across and see a beast from millions of years ago just being itself in the wild, especially something so incredibly massive.
the 3D file system on the computer was a real program, all the computers in the control room were Silicon Graphics Inc workstations running on Unix operating systems. they cost a small fortune in the 90s costing many thousands and were specialized in creating 3D graphics. The 3D sprites in the Donkey Kong Country games on the SNES were created using their machines, by creating 3D animations them rendering them as 2D sprites
I could be wrong, but I swear I read somewhere that it was the same kind of computer used by ILM in the making of this very movie. (Like: maybe they just borrowed them from ILM for a day of shooting? It's been years, so I no longer recall the details.)
I had an SG machine on my desk in the 90's and yes, that 3D file system program was one of the demo programs they included with their Irix OS to show off the real time 3D graphics chops of the SG machines.
It’s fun to see someone who’s never seen this reacting to some of the most iconic lines for the first time. “Life… uh” and “whether they should” “they do move in herds” etc. It’s so fun!
This movie was so masterful with the limited CGI technology available at the time. Obscuring the CGI T-rex behind high contrast shadows and diffuse rain while occasionally illuminating it via lightning really helped ground it to the environment and hide the limitations of the technology. They also did a great job seamlessly integrating it with the animatronics - 19:37 close up of the life-size animatronic T-rex, then the camera pans down, and then the fully CGI Rex enters the frame. It still looks better than the newer films.
newer movies could honestly take a note from the older stuff like jurassic park. it holds up and looks better because it IS real.. enhancing special effects with cgi is just going to work better than trying to make cgi photorealistic (unfortunately our brains can still tell theres something off with it).
Much of this was filmed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Beautiful place! The scenes showing a large storm are actual footage of Hurricane Iniki, which hit the island during filming.
Actually they were trying to tempt him over to the fence so the guests could see him by feeding him. T-Rex is like any carnivore. They are opportunistic hunters just like a lion. They hunt not because they want to, but because they need to hunt. If they can steal a kill they will. If they can find a dead carcass they like then they will eat it. If you drop a live or dead animal that they like they will eat it. Even if they do not like it and they are hungry they will try to kill it.
Nevertheless it was fed when the rex ate the goat. If they were just trying to tempt the rex, why not put it into a very strong cage? Not as cruel either, though still terrifying to the gate. I guess Costa Rica was supposed to have pretty lax animal protection laws.
@@zammmerjammer Whilst you are correct (Maybe. The sex may have changed.) In the book they did explain that they always called the big Rex a "he". I know that's not entirely relevant but it seems everyone refers to the Rex as a He.
4:55 Yes, velociraptors were only the size of turkeys. This was deliberately changed for the film because Crichton (the author of the original book) liked them as a threat. They also had feathers, but that actually wasn't known at the time the book was written. 20:01 Fun fact: the plexiglass roof wasn't supposed to pop off like that. The prop department didn't secure it in place very well, and the animatronic T. Rex broke it by accident, *actually* scaring the child actors. 20:27 "Movement-based vision" isn't a real thing, but Crichton thought it was, so he put it in the book, so Spielberg put it in the movie. After the book was published, fans wrote in correcting him. So, in later novels, he retconned the T. Rex's behavior as "she actually could see them just fine, but she'd just eaten, and so wasn't hungry, and was more curious than anything".
In the book it was explained that the vision thing for the t rex got it from the frog dna They did know they had feathers But didn't knew Deinonycus (This movie's raptor) had
@@gergopiroska5749 What on Earth are you talking about? I honestly have no idea what that has to do with anything at all. I own the original novel. I read it long before the movie was even announced. Guess what? *THAT DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING.*
Well, _all_ animals, including human beings, find it _much_ easier to spot something moving than the same object when stationary. Though when the Rex is literally _nose-to-nose with them,_ that's clearly more about her not being hungry. Which is honestly better anyway, the dinosaurs are at their best when they are portrayed as animals rather than as monsters who are trying to kill people for no reason.
As somebody born in ‘85, it’s so curious to me watching people react to “old movies” for the first time and watch you speculate about what the movie is about.
I love when ppl have the informed take of new dinosaurs discoveries that didn't exist in movies or real life at the time (they were theories) . I like George but he tends to forget not everything exists during your era . watch without obvious bias. don't be too analytical for art. tbf you have done better now and days but you definitely have a logic centered brain
I saw this in the theater, and I was floored when they show that first dinosaur standing on it's hid legs and eating the tree. I still feel a little of that every time I watch it since then.
I saw this when it came out with a bunch of friends, one of which had brought his 12 yo cousin who had grown up way, way out beyond the boonies, and was visiting the big city for the first time... It was absolutely breathtaking, of course! In the car on the way back from the cinema, the young girl was saying how impressed she was that they were able to keep the T-Rex from hurting those children! She was a bit puzzled when after a brief moment of silence, we all burst out laughing! The poor innocent child had no clue that it was not a real dinosaur! lol One of my favorite after-movie moments ever!
@@zammmerjammer I dunno, she was barely 12, and I have no idea what level of science was being taught in schools in The Middle of Nowhere, New Brunswick in the early 90's... I had just met the kid. Who knows, maybe she was tired and wasn't thinking straight. Or maybe she was just an idiot. All I know is that it was funny as shit (and, at the same time, a little sad).
and the funniest part from reading the comments is, she was sorta right. People saying during the filming the animatronics broke and it also broke the glass which wasn't supposed to happen when it was going at them.
This movie has two of my favorite scenes of all time. The discussion ethics and implications of creating the park at lunch and the scene with Dr. Sattler and Hammond discussing control. Also, I believe that velociraptors were a smaller member of the raptor family. However, the raptors in this film would be more in line (proportion wise) with the Utahraptor. I believe they used the name velociraptor because they are well known and information on Uhtahraptors at that time was scarce. Robert Bakker a renowned paleontologist helped work on Jurrasic park. In his book, Raptor Red, the preface explains his involvement on the film. It's also a good read if anyone is interested. It follows a female Utah raptor for a part of her life.
The lunch scene bothers me. When Malcolm is berating JP scientists for reading what others had done and taking the next step, his argument is hypocritical nonsense: that's literally how ALL new knowledge in ANY field is acquired, including mathematics.
I think i did a short book report on Raptor Red, it was really fun reading about the Utah Raptor and a portion of its life. I enjoyed it so much that I wanted more.
@@Tantalus010 Thanks for the reply. You have a good point. I do agree with you that when conducting research you have to use previous research, especially for a research proposal. What I like about the scene is that it calls to attention the implications of the park itself. I focus more on the idea that the scientists knew that they could create the animals but didn't think about if they should. I see it as they took what other people had done and took the next step without contemplating the dangers of that next step. It is easy for researchers at time to get caught up in the magnificence of what they are doing and downplay the negatives. Again, I see where your coming from and I agree with the idea that knowledge is built upon previous knowledge. I thank you for replying. It's always nice to see someone else's point of view.
Hammond is nice in the movie because he is a Spielberg stand-in. The actor who plays Hammond is also a director (most notably, the Oscar-winning Gandhi.) The book has Hammond die in the end.
I saw this in theaters when it first came out in 1993. I was only 10 at the time. Damn-near 30 years later, that first Brachiosaurus shot still usually gets me teary-eyed, since it's the first dinosaur shot of the franchise.
When you guys get to The Pacific, the successor series to Band Of Brothers, you'll recognize Timmy. He plays one of the major characters, Eugene Sledge.
@@jdavis9684 He also played John Deacon in Bohemian Rhapsody if you saw that. Which kinda makes Rami Malek's casting in The Pacific kinda hilarious if you ask me!
I've seen this movie hundreds of times only realizing now that the little girl didn't hack into the unix system, it was rebooted which was the main reason for them shutting everything down. I always tht in that scene she "hacked" and I was trying to figure out how she did it.
Fun fact (not so fun, actually): when the T-Rex attacks the car, the glass wasn't supposed to break, but the robot was a liiiitle bit unbalanced, so it broke the window. The kids were screaming for real.
The reason it was unbalanced was because the skin would soak up water, which would mess up the preset balance that the gyroscope and computers were set to expect. It would also cause the trex to shake and shiver, and to abruptly move for no apparent reason. They would have to beat it with towels between shots to dry it out so they would have more time of predictable motion. The people said they were terrified of it.
Oh, you have to have him watch the first Land Before Time. That movie is my favorite to this day. My grandmother got me stuffed Little Foot thats16-18" tall. I got it when I was a year old and still have it to this day. The only thing I've managed to hold on to through moves, homelessness, etc..
I would say its worth it to watch the other two. They’re shot slightly differently well the third one is I think. The second one is probably my favorite. But there are 3 movies in the Jurassic Park franchise and then it moves into Jurassic World which explore Hammonds park dreams actually coming to reality.
The other movies are a waste of time and effort. The original novel got ignored as far as a plot for next books/movies. Dino's appeared on the mainland at the end of the original novel. The additional movies were just a cash grab redoing the same old story of Man meddling with nature.
In the book there is a good reason Nedry could not simply be fired for acting like he was (he was also a bit more likeable), but it is not quite the same or at least explained in the film. The short version is he was basically bidding on a job without knowing what was expected of it, but them being cheap he wound up practically being the only programmer responsible for almost everything and had no choice but to comply or lose reputation amongst his peers (also to try and keep it more secret/less people involved until the park opened)
Yeah, the book makes the case against unregulated capitalism (and Critchon's undying hate of theme parks) a lot more clear than the film, mainly because of how likeable Hammond appears in the latter. Still my favourite film
The dinosaur sounds in this movie were made by combining sounds made by living animals and every day objects. The Tyrannosaurus rex (known by fans as Rexy) was a mix of elephant calf vocalizations (roar, snarls and growls), lion sounds and a dog playing with a rope toy (shaking the Gallimimus to death). The Dilophosaurus was a mix of hawk, swan, howler monkey and rattlesnake sounds. The adult Raptors were a mix of a walrus's chest cavity roar and a male dolphin's mating scream recorded with a hydrophone, while the hatchling was a mix of owlet and fox kit sounds. The Brachiosaurus vocalizations were slowed down donkey calls, while the sneeze was a mix of an active fire hydrant and a whale breathing through its blowhole(s). The Gallimimus's chief sound effect was made using the recorded calls of a mare (female horse) in heat. And yes, that Raptor popping up right behind Ellie is always a major jumpscare...especially for me with my autism and anxiety. And most of this movie was filmed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
27:57 "What is it with movies and cakes?" We often forget that in practically every shot - especially any shot where there's principal actors - there's a catering table. The caterer is always on the producer's speed dial. So if they need something pretty to dress the set, food is very easy to come by. Next time you watch a film, remember that for practically every shot, there's tables with food on it just off camera.
This is one of those movies like The Matrix, where it's so immersive that you had to check reality coming out of the theater. It was tiring in a good way going through it. I remember when I saw those birds flying next to the helicopter, there was a sense of...relief, seeing normal animals again, like coming out of an alternate reality. It was only somewhat recently that I realized the subtle joke. With the exception of the mosquito, if one considers that birds *are* dinosaurs, there are *only* dinosaurs in this film.
John Williams composed the music for Jurassic Park, the same year as The Schindler's List, for which he won an Oscar. Otherwise I probably would have won it with this soundtrack, which is absolutely great.
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene that really mean old greedy lawyer guy who selfishly abbonond those poor kids trying to save himself! But Whoops LOL Rexy she 🦖 found him and bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
The film still holds up well today, I remember seeing it in theaters when I was 16, and it was incredible. A lot of the film was shot in Hawaii, some of the storm scenes authentic as a hurricane was passing through. Kualoa Ranch on Oahu, has a Jurassic tour that takes you to the field where Grant & the kids ran with the Gallimimus herd.
I rewatched this movie in a theater having only ever watched it on dvd/vhs. I cried when I saw the Brachiosaurus scene because of how amazing it was to see something I idolized as a child how it was meant to be watched and all the childhood nostalgia flooding back.
They've made 5 films so far. This one will always hold a space in my heart. One of my favorites of all time. Oh and Laura Dern ( Sadler) and Jeff Goldblum actually started dating irl while filming this movie. And the others are worth watching.
Considering this movie came out in 1993, the special effects hold up so well. And those kids did an insane job acting. That kitchen scene still gives me anxiety.
I saw this movie for the first time when I was 4, and mum said I laughed when the t-rex ate the lawyer 😅 I also had a cassette tape of Jurassic Park that I used to listen to all the time while I was falling asleep, which caused me to have a recurring nightmare about being chased by the t-rex. I had it so often that I knew when I was in the dream, and would figure out ways to outsmart Rexy and survive. I did get eaten a lot though 😂 Didn't stop me listening to it!
Yeah LOL definitely 💯 that really mean old Greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids!! What did you think was more funny about that? The way Rexy 🦖 She bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up 😋?? Or did you just think it's funny because he deserves it?
I was 5 when I first saw it. Also had the book and a cassette. Good times. I remembered liking Gennaro in the book so I was a little bummed that they made him into a greedy stereotype who only exists to be eaten.
8:25 I love the RiffTrax for this scene: "Hey, you know we're here too!" "You guys should really look _slightly_ to the left more often! You pick up on a lot of neat stuff that way!"
The idea of the dinosaurs being vulnerable to more recent genera of plants and animals brought to mind another notion I heard somewhere, about time travel: That is, that a time traveler from the, let's say, present, travelling to the past, would have antibodies for diseases that native live would not...but could by the same token, be carrying new diseases that the past-people were entirely unprepared for. An interesting story might include the bubonic plague as retrograde/futuroid contamination from time travelers.
The same issue would arise if we ever traveled to other planets with life. We would have no antibodies against the indigenous pathogens and bacterias, and vice-versa, and could never be in contact with that world until inoculations can be made for just about everything, which could take a while... If you recall, it's essentially what happens to the aliens in the movie War of the Worlds (2005), the common cold killed them - which makes this super advanced alien species too stupid to actually exists and subsequently ruins the movie as a result. /shrugs
@@xen0bia LOL Ok, you got me....This thought actually occurred to me, watching the ID4 video, but this one seemed a bit more fitting, considering the dinosaurs.
Fun facts. The novel is comparatively different from the film as they nearly changed everything in some sort of way like the story beats, the characters, (Hammond is portrayed as a rich evil guy) the violence was described in graphic horrific detail along with the deaths but I can see why they changed so much as they wanted to appeal to a wider audience. It became a huge hit and sat at the top of the box office for weeks on end and became one of the highest grossing films ever made. Pop culture wise, everyone was into dinosaurs at the time too. Won an Oscar for special effects.
To George's question, the movie was shot in Hawaii. Interestingly enough, the hurricane was _real_ - the production actually got caught in one. In fact, Mr. Spielberg and a couple of camera people went out to get the storm footage that appears in the film.
I recommend watching all the movies in this series, you have some better then others, but none of them are bad movies. Also I remember watching this movie in theaters when i was younger and everyone was stunned at the visuals of the dinos at the time, people had either tears or moisture in their eyes at the wonder they were seeing.
@@b.u.l.1734 Almost the perfect list but The Lost World and Jurassic World could be swapped, same with Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
I read the book first by Michael Chrichton which was pretty good so I went into the theatre knowing the source material. I was blown away by the special effects which were at the time ground breaking and hold up pretty well to this day.
I was 11 when this film first came out and I don’t think I can explain just how revolutionary the dinosaur effects were at the time. The hype beforehand was huge (even in the UK where I was living) and we were blown away by the realism. We’d never seen anything quite like it before. It’s so fun watching reactors see it for the first time and enjoy it too!
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids he thinks he hidden but whoops lol Rexy she 🦖 found him and bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up 😋 it's actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agre
A lifelong favourite, I was 9 years old when this came out and have loved it ever since. One of Spielberg's best, and one of John Williams' greatest scores.
I'd say it's a family movie. Yes, it got thrills, suspense and horror, but it's fine as long as they make it out! Jurassic Park has been my favorite movie since I was 5-6 and I wanted to be like Dr. Grant when I grew up abd dig up Dinosaurs myself haha. It's a fun trillride of a movie! The effect in this movie is amazing as well! The CGI was groundbreaking and so are the animatronics! Rexy's animatronic is a masterpiece! Plus I never see enough people talk about the sound design. It's fantastic! Deserved that Oscar! Watching the movie in a cinema with the right sound is a treat! And the music, man.. *Chef's kiss* nostalgia!
(Not so) fun fact: in the t-rex scene the t-rex head wasn't supposed to go through the car roof, it was an accident due to the animatronic malfunctioning. So the kids screams are real, they almost got crashed
Fun fact: This is not a fact. I have no idea where this silly little urban legend started, but there are storyboards of the T-Rex crashing through the glass, along with multiple subsequent shots that show the roof busted out and only work if the roof is missing. The kid who plays Tim once mentioned the T-Rex head coming down too far in one take and that seems to be the genesis of this idea.
@@zammmerjammer I don't know. I looked it up again to see if maybe I dreamed it, but I found a couple of websites confirming it. Then again, we could be all just repeating a lie. Most websites just take an existing article and change a few words here and there.
@@zammmerjammer I just found the storyboard. My bad. I guess eight people are gonna go and tell that "fun fact" to all of their friends until one of them goes "that's bullshit! You suck! You've always sucked!". What have I done?
There was a malfunction. While it was planned for it to go through the roof, the rain messed with the weight-based fine tuning of hydraulics of Rexy’s head as her latex skin absorbed the water. She ended up hitting the plexiglass a lot harder than expected, and broke the plexiglass. One of her teeth broke off and landed in Joseph (Tim) Mozzello’s lap, and he started uncontrollably laughing. So they had to do another take. The broke piece of plexiglass appears as she hits for maybe half a second, and is gone in the next shot. The screaming is not real, just great acting. The rumor started as a misunderstanding of Joseph’s explanation of the experience during an interview while he was promoting his HBO show, The Pacific. As a fun reference, Rexy’s broken tooth appears in her toy and video game adaptations, and in the new movies.
16:50 It isn't mentioned again in the movie but the book goes on to explain why the triceratops keeps getting sick. Triceratops would swallow small rocks to help break down tough vegetation in their stomachs. Similar to how birds today have gizzards. The rocks wear down over a few weeks and are pooped out. When the triceratops would swallow more rocks, it would also eat the berries and get sick.
13:20 the "king kong" line makes a lot more sense if you have seen King Kong :P And the whole "She cant see us when we dont move" makes a lot more sense in the book, instead of a "racial trait" that he somehow seems to "know" from the Fosils (which makes barely any sense), he notices that this particular Rex is short sighted during a confrontation with the animal
I saw this movie in the theater when I was 13. It was a magnificent experience, and frankly it has been every time I have seen it since. This is a masterpiece of a movie.
I was on the Russian River the day this came out. We rounded a bend that was next to the a theater, and the trees parted, and for MILES there was a line next to the river.
The thing about T-Rex's not being able to see things that don't move is a holdover from the book. The book goes into more detail about the frog DNA used to plug the holes in the dinosaurs DNA strands, and the effects that had on the final resulting animal. In the book, the T Rex only sees movement because some of its DNA is swapped in from a type of frog that only sees movement. While I absolutely love the movie, it's always kinda bugged me that they never explain that part.
This movie was a game changer for vfx in the 90s as was Cameron‘s Avatar in 2000s. I clearly remember talking to a classmate in 12th grade who watched it on opening night, on the next morning. He was so blown away and couldn’t stop talking about it
Saw this with friends when I was 14 on opening weekend. Still one of the best theater experiences of my life. The T-Rex roaring was insane. Saw it again with my family a few days later. My younger sister walked out when they started to lower the cow in to the raptor pen and has still never seen the rest of the movie.
To be fair, Pg-13 rating is well deserved here (it is PG-13 right?), so if she was younger than you and younger than 13, it's understandable the movie traumatised her.
Great reaction, guys. Now you can both appreciate why Simone couldn’t watch it the first time around. There’s a recent video by Corridor Crew (they do CGI for a living) where they attempted to recreate that iconic scene where the T Rex chews through the wires. Despite having modern day computer technology at their disposal, they were still unable to render something comparable to the original. Even though this movie was one of the first attempts at creating photo realistic creatures, it still holds up nearly 30 years later. Fun fact - that pose by Jeff Goldblum (the one Simone didn’t mind at all) was recreated as a giant sculpture (like, 20 feet high) by a British artist and placed by the Thames river a few years back, exposed nipple and all… I’m sure Mr. Goldblum was very proud. And yes, watch the rest. There are 2 more ‘Park’ movies, then 2 “Jurassic World” movies, with another one on the way. They’re all entertaining, even if the wonder of the original can’t really be recreated (you’ve already seen the dinosaurs).
I legitimately love how as any movie starts, before waiting for the movie to just show you what's happening and provide any answers, George will just start throwing out the craziest hypothesis he can come up with to guess what is actually going on. "Maybe it's set on an Earthlike planet but everyone has extrasensory powers they're not aware of because no one knows that they're not *actually* breathing oxygen but instead the fumes of the rotting corpses buried miles below their feet and they're aliens from ANOTHER planet that's entirely populated with beings not unlike the X-Men and we're gonna see them awaken to that fact and figure out what they're all capable of" but five to ten minutes later it's like "okay, no, this character is just basically a superhero, got it." I'm telling you, I LOVE IT. Never stop.
Since you mentioned your Jurassic Park trauma, I'll share mine. My sister and I were also too young but my parents didn't know that and the auto-view always shows two movies. JP was the second movie that night. Yes, you read that right, I said auto-view. That is an important detail because we were in the front row so the screen took up the whole windshield AND, the cherry one top, it was a full on thunderstorm that night. That T-Rex scene takes on an extra depth when you're viewing it through a windshield in a storm. (Also, some people were wondering around between the cars during the kitchen scene) When we left, my sister was sheet white and 30 years later still won't watch any movies where people get eaten.
I saw this in 1993 when I was in 5th grade. This to date the most impressive movie I have ever seen in the theaters given the time. It was like some generational leap in effects and sound at the time and looked incredible real given the film projectors that help mask this. Also not kidding the sound at my theater still to date is the loudest I've heard in any movie. Back in 93 they debuted DTS sound which had the audio for the movie stored on CD so it wasnt analog. 1000 theaters got this setup and a new one built near me had it and I am not kidding when I say it was loud to the point there it hurt your ears when the t rex was making noise.
Yup, I found out that night that I had auditory processing disorder, even tho it took another 20 years to realize it. 😅 The sound during that T-rex scene had me in a complete tailspin.
You are correct about the size of a velociraptor. For the first couple movies, like many movies based on "science" in the 90s and before, it's best just to go along for the ride. Like Independence Day, it doesn't make the most sense if you think about it too hard. Also people not listening to Goldblum in the 90s is a staple of his roles from that era. It's like he learned his lesson from that whole messy fly business in the 80s.
This comment is incorrect. Classification is always in progress. "Velociraptor" used to be a catch-all term for the whole _genus._ So, for the time, calling those _velociraptors_ *WAS* correct. Nowadays, we have discovered and classified several different raptors, and yes, the one species we call Velociraptor *TODAY* is smaller than a turkey, but there are _raptors_ of many sizes... including as big as the ones in the movie... and *BIGGER.* Pro tip: never assume you're the smart one and the hundreds of people who worked on a movie and were paid to get it right are all morons. Chances are that the exact same opposite is true. It's sheer math. PS: The unscientific part, here, is not the size of the raptors, but their lack of feathers. The fact that a lot of dinosaurs had feathers hadn't still been confirmed at the time they made this movie.
@@happyslapsgiving5421 Not really. Those dinosaurs were first called Deinonychus both in the novel and in the early screenplays of the movie (Crichton and Spielberg cooperated quite early, before the book was even published). Crichton was even in contact with the paleontologist John Ostrom who was one of the leading researchers for the Deinonychus. Both Crichton and Spielberg decided to use the name Velociraptor instead, because it sounded cooler and more dramatic. No other reason. Doesn't matter how many people worked on that movie (if it really were 'hundreds' most of them would be extras and crew and nobody would've ask them, so it's a bit strange to argue that way), it was mainly Chrichtons and Spielbergs choice. Also: The movie came out in 1993. The mentioned John Ostrom was a strong proponent of the idea that birds were the descendants of dinosaurs since 1969. A lot of the fossils that would absolutly conclude this were found in the 1990s, that's correct. But the main reason why they didn't use feathered dinosaurs was probably to make the CGI easier. To be fair, it's even stated in the movie that the dinosaurs are not perfect, because a part of their DNA was filled in with frog DNA. So that could easily explain why they don't have feathers.
@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei Incorrect. Deinonychus is a specific species. Once again, they did *NOT* use a term for a specific species, because (ironically) they didn't want smartasses to say that they got the reconstruction wrong. *ONCE AGAIN,* they used a *GENERIC* term that included several species and, at the time, did *NOT* belong to one single species (even though now it does). They did *NOT* portray a Deinonychus did *NOT* named it a Deinonychus. You're the only one thinking about a Deinonychus. The Deinonychus is not seen nor mentioned in the movie. The Deinonychus is a lie. Also? Look up the meaning of the word "confirmed". Your reply tells me you don't know what it means. I didn't say it hadn't been theorized yet. I *SPECIFICALLY* said it hadn't been confirmed, to *PREVENT* similar responses. 🙄 It doesn't matter that you looked up when was the first time one person theorized something, we're talking about when the idea was commonly accepted in the scientific community and when the notion was taught in schools. And that's very, *VERY* recently. PS: No, a bunch of people worked at the movie, and rest assured the list of consulents alone is very long. This might come as news for you, but people who take decisions generally consult others who know the subject more than them, before taking said decision. Even if they have all the decision making power. But *REGARDLESS,* my point stands: even if it was "just" two people (and it wasn't) doing their multi-millionaire job, chances are they will still get it right over one random smartass whose research consists in looking up a picture of a velociraptor on Google Images and noticing that it's tiny. 🙄 It's just safer to assume that the people who are paid a lot of money to do something know it better than any random arrogant, self-conceited ass that has a random thought on the subject or reads half an article. 😁
On a realistic note with getting zapped by high voltage (electric fences and electrocution in general), your muscles can convulse at full strength, and depending on the muscle groups, can launch a person. I was able to verify that particular detail with a 277 volt circuit going to ground. Dry skin made the amp draw through my body rather low, but still caused all my arm muscles to pull, which really hurt my elbows more than anything. Electric fences usually operate with very low amperage but high voltage to "startle" anything not meant to get around it.
When George asked if Spielberg had killed a kid when Timmy went over the edge in the car, I wanted to say Spielberg did that in “Jaws” (killed a kid), so I was not surprised to see Timmy go over the edge in the car. When it turns out that Timmy survives, I thought Spielberg got soft in his older age…😂
Yep. Gennaro was a good guy who, obviously cared about his investment, but he was a good guy who did what was right. Hammond, on the other hand, was all about the money. He had a whole speel about not wanting to lower prices so that everyone could see it. He wanted it to be a luxury for people with money. Henry Wu was also a better character with more lines in the book. The book is so different to the movie but I'm still somewhat happy that both versions exist. Having two fantastic versions of an already good premise is a win-win.
I think the "it can only see us if we move" is more like about the dinosaur reacting differently to very apparent movement (like the thrown glow stick) than if you sort of "blend in" with your surroundings almost like a camouflage... if it is already focused on you, and you stop moving, it will still recognize you. Might not be accurate, but I think it makes sense for a big animal with a small brain, etc.
Jurassic Park Amazing movie 🤩 remember that Awsome restroom scene where the really mean old greedy lawyer guy selfishly abbonond those poor kids he's trying to hide! But Whoops LOL Rexy 🦖 She found him and Bites him up shaking him around like a fun Dogy chew toy before Eating him up its actually kinda funny looking wouldn't you agree?
One fun fact that I haven't seen commented on yet, is when the rex breaks through the roof of the car, it wasn't actually supposed to do that! It was an accident. So the kids are ACTUALLY screaming from terror.
If you are into old school computers.... those systems are real. The stack of white boxes on the desk are I think Sun 4 workstations... the OS she uses and says this is a UNIX system is a SGI graphics workstation running IRIX(based of System V UNIX and with bits of BSD thrown in)... and the flashing red light box in the background is a Thinking Machine Connect super computer. All of that equipment back then was probably worth half the budget of that movie.
