*JURASSIC PARK* is STILL HORRIFYING!! | First Time Watching | (reaction/commentary/review) 

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.

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.

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

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.

‘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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

“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

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.

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

"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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

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.😆

Your enthusiasm is contagious. I really enjoy your reactions.

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

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

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 😅

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.

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

The acting of those kids was amaaaaazing

21:45. Believe it or not, the "water in the glass" effect was one of the harder effects for Spielberg to get just right. He just couldn't get the "rippling water" to look right. They finally came up with a solution. A thin, guitar wire was attached to the bottom of the cup and the wire was gently plucked, finally achieving the effect Spielberg wanted. 🏃🦖🦕

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

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! 😂

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

At the time the movie was released, the guy who played Needry was easily recognized at a character in both Seinfeld (where he played a guy with the same Needry personality) and Third Rock From The Sun. Seinfeld used to greet this guy by saying "NEWMAN" through clenched teeth and people in the audience of the movie used to speak out loud a rendition of this greeting.

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 😉

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Actual Velociraptors were about the size of a turkey 😅

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.

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

Here Hammond comes across like an excited child, to 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 grand kids for the park failing, simply because they were there. If you like the movie, don't read the book.

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

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!!

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.

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.

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

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

"I want to see more of this other character (Ian Malcolm), he really got shoved out of the limelight." Don't worry, you'll see in the next movie :)

The fences had to go off so he could drive through the park without anyone knowing he had or which route. He didn’t want to lose his job, he just also wanted money & to not get sued for corporate espionage.

Although the set up and pay off of Muldune's death is pretty expertly done, can we all take a minute and acknowledge how ridiculous it is that the archaeologist knows more about the behavior of animals he's only studied the bones of than the game warden who has spent what is probably *years* dealing with the creatures themselves?

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

You have no idea how crazy was to watch this movie at the cinema in 1993. It was insane! I will never forget that day, i was in shock! It was unimaginable at that time!

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. 🦖🖤💛❤️

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!

I'm amused by the 'anything that can go wrong, will go wrong,' quote, because that more or less encapsulates everything Malcom was saying about how chaos theory was going to mess up the park's design and plans...

Out of all the 65 million Jurassic Park reactions on RU-vid, 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! 😁

I wish I could share how 11 yr old me saw this movie for the first time. This CGI in its infancy and how it legit changed filmmaking forever. I saw it 5 times in theaters and people were shook.

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

So funny...I wonder who did the music for this sounds like Star Wars...hummm. Yep, John Williams, such a legend.

The scary thing is it's possible to clone a dinosaur. There's currently a project focusing on mammoths and trying to cline one. Noone succeeded, but is possible

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.

I wish I didn’t know the reason why the kid who plays Lex got the part. It’s so tragic and it undermines all her accomplishments with this movie because that shadow is always gonna be hanging over her. The painful yet unavoidable reality is that the only reason why she got the part is because Speilberg’s first (and would-have-been-only) pick was MURDERED--and by her own father no less! Why couldn’t the guy be proud of his kid? Whoever said ignorance is bliss wasn’t kidding!

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

I'm enjoying your channel. You're a good kid. (And I can't believe I'm old enough to say that non-ironically.) Two things about the science: It has since been discovered that actual tissue of some of the larger dinosaurs has been preserved, some a for 100 million years, inside the dentin of their teeth, because the tooth structure was so hard. The tissue is red and pulpy, and fully corrupted by cellular decay, bacteria, virus and fungi, so no genetic material is present. Only structural proteins survive, as well as some of the tooth structure surrounding the dentin. But I find that fascinating. And secondly, *Pleistocene Park* is a real thing. Aside from a science amusement park about the project, there is a real effort to bring back late Pleistocene or early Holocene ecosystems to the tundra and Arctic across Eurasia and N America. This includes bringing back the Woolly Mammoth, with plans to gestate the first babies in contemporary elephants. Several species of saber tooths could be reintroduced via contemporary big cats. And breeding programs plan to increase bison, musk ox, bear, wolf, deer, moose, elk, caribou, and other associated large animals. The hope is that to bring back the Arctic ecosystem, adding back the largest animals would cause a cascade effect allowing smaller animals and plants to naturally adapt and fill in the rest of the ecosystem. The sheer megatonnage of biomass this would produce is predicted to well more than offset any atmospheric carbon which industrialization has produced. And this allows the planet a natural way to adjust rather than just becoming increasingly chaotic and unstable.

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

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.

The lesson of Jurassic Park: Zoos are all just ticking time bombs before the animals will all escape and eat us.

Fun fact: When this movie was shown in theaters, whenever the T-rex roared, the floor trembled! It was awesome!