My FIRST TIME Watching Jurassic Park & I can't Believe it Took Me This Long! 

31 years later and I still get emotional when the Brachiosaurus is first seen. Everything John Williams writes is classic.

12:05 It's John Williams. He does that. "Without John Williams: Bikes don't really fly. Nor do brooms in quidditch matches. Nor do men in red capes. There is no Force. Dinosaurs do not walk the earth. We do not wonder. We do not weep. We do not believe." -Steven Spielberg (at John Williams' AFI Life Achievement Award Ceremony in 2016)

Honestly, the relationship between Lex and Timmy is one of the most, if not THE most realistic sibling relationship I have seen in TV and cinema, the banter, the insults, even in a serious and extremely scary sutuation, but when it really comes down to it they would do anything to protect eachother, instead of just being lovey-dovey all the time. And, in the end, you can really tell how much they love and care for eachother, and how much they mean to eachother.

"Mooing in fear" That cow is a professional actor. Spielberg personally worked with that cow to get the moo of fear just right.

lol that Spinosaurus messed homegirl up for life

John Williams is everyone’s childhood, it’s crazy. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jaws, Jurassic Park, the Olympics theme, Indiana Jones, etc. Legend

As a math teacher, I love that Ian Malcom is presented as a "cool" mathematician. The character was an early influence on my love of mathematics.

To hell with watching this in theaters. Try being an 8 year old and seeing it at the drive-in. The T-Rex footsteps were shaking the entire lot. The roars were deafening. Little kids freaking out while their parents were mesmerized. A truly magical time. ...We'll never have that experience again.

"Clever Girl..." - Still one of my favorite movie lines of all time. The pure emotion and realization conveyed in those two words, and the pause... :D

I'll never forget seeing this in the theater. There was a disabled person a few rows up from us who had a service dog. During the quiet part of a particularly tense scene, that dog got up and shook off. Half the theater jumped 3 feet in the air. That movie was an experience, to say the least.

It is amazing that this movie still impresses people today and makes them cry when the dinosaurs are shown the first time. Now imagine it is 1993, there were no life-like CGI-animals in movies ever seen before. And you are a 12 year old boy who was a fan of dinosaurs, sitting in the theater, was not spoiled by thousands of trailers, reviews,... (there was not internet), and watch that. Oh, it was such a great time!

The amount of Rizz displayed by The Goldblum in this film, is legendary.

A friend of mine said that the "seatbelt tying" scene was the dumbest scene ever. But when I told him it was the greatest foreshadowing ever because he made two females work together, he was shocked!

I remember this movie coming out when I was 12. My dad was a car salesman at the time. And he told us (my mom and I) if he sold a car, we would all go out and watch Jurassic Park as a treat. And sure enough, he sold a car. And we all went out for dinner and a movie on a Friday night. I miss those days. I also miss my dad. 😢

The "Welcome to Jurassic Park" sequence is the epitome of movie magic. The camera framing, the lighting, the acting, and ESPECIALLY the music. There's nothing quite like watching it for the first time.

30:35 - "The dinosaur looks so real though." That's because it _IS_ real. Most of that sequence relied upon full-scale animatronics, not CGI. If part of any dinosaur in this movie is off-camera, it's animatronics. Rexy is a full-scale hydraulic robot puppet with a leg and everything from the chest up. And the rain played havoc with the technology.

They did Grant dirty in the movie version of this. In the book, Grant loved kids. And for good reason: Kids were the only people he'd met who were as enthusiastic about dinosaurs as he was.

i love how this movie makes viewers feel the absolute astonishment and amazement as alan and ellie and the others for example the brachiosaurus scene

You got it right! Actor and Oscar winning director Lord Richard Attenborough was the older brother of natural historian and all round national treasure Sir David Attenborough 😊

A movie from 1993 about dinosaurs is still making people emotional and awestruck today. I remember being 13 in the theater. Just completely and totally amazed. It was like magic was real. It's hard to explain. But I remember crying in the theaters 13 year old boy getting emotional seeing things we have never seen in a movie before. Even now I can't get the right words out. Greatest movie of all time.

There’s actually a theory going around the JP community recently saying that Muldoon (the hunter guy) may have actually survived his run in with the raptors, the evidence is VERY much speculation. What we know is that Muldoon is similar to that of Chris Pratt’s character in Jurassic world, Owen Grady, and that they both share the same job as Raptor wrangler. Both characters raised the raptors from hatchlings to full grown, and the belief is that it jumped on him playfully and that he just got back up and walked off somewhere. As unlikely as this theory sounds (and trust me, this sound like absolute bull when I first read it), the new Jurassic park horror game “Jurassic Park: Survival” leads us to believe that a female character is left behind on the island is the last one on the island, but finds help from someone, and the speculation is Muldoon, because who else could help someone survive Jurassic Park. AGAIN, THIS IS A THEORY AND PURE SPECULATION, just thought I’d share and get those cogs in your head turning. That is all. - Some Idiot with too much time

Back in 93 there really wasn't something of this quality around. Something that still looks damn amazing today.

As a geologist, whose undergrad specialized in paleontology, I've never heard nope chicken. stealing that.

I saw this in theaters when I was 10 years old. I’m sure my parents were not prepared for how many subsequent times we’d watch it that summer, nor how many dinosaur toys they’d end up buying me and my brother 😅 31 years later and it still gets me

"is this sabatoge why?" it's sabatoge so he can commit corporate espionage. he turned off the power to the fences so he could get through them undetected. it's why he doesn't mess with the raptor fences, they're irrelevant to his goals of stealing embryos and driving to the dock and back. had the storm not happened it probably would have gone fine.

I believe they could rerelease this film in theaters every 10-20 years, and it would still kill at the box office. Watching this in the theater on release day was absolutely amazing. Special shout out to the scene with the first Brachiosaurus. Everyone in the theater gasped.

You are such a Sunshine. I love your reactions: the laughter and the terror. I've been watching your reaction videos for a long time and even though I have seen the movies you react to a million times, it is like I'm seeing them for the first time. Also, you notice little things I have missed in those million times. Keep it up, Angel-face.

Fun fact: that storm immediately after the sick triceratops was real. It was a hurricane that they had to hunker down through until it was over. But they caught the beginning on camera, which is the shot of the ocean crashing against the land. They had to rebuild a LOT of their sets to continue filming.

Remember that this was shown in movie theaters in 1993! The quality of SFX in this movie was second to none for many many years forward. The whole movie has approximately 5 minutes worth of CGI graphics in total and everything else is puppets and animatronics.

As someone who had to finally give up on getting my teeth fixed and had to get implants; your dental health and smile compliments your laugh in a wonderful way. RIP my O.G's from military service. But, I'm not shy to say your smile is a blessing.

The scene where we see the Brachiosaurus for the first time is such a cinematically significant moment. I saw it when it came out at the cinema- when the characters and the audience are in perfect sync- both seeing something incredible for the first time. Also the choice of aspect ratio allowed us to have the sense of scale and height, bravo Mr Spielberg.

Richard Attenborough (RIP) was David Attenborough's brother. David celebrated his 98th birthday last week.

"It's the music" Welcome to John Williams and the power of an Orchestra.

Feeling emotional is the correct response to that first proper view of the dinosaurs. Even 30 years later, I still tear up with that music and scene.

This was an event movie back in the day. I have no idea how many times I've watched it over the last 30 years, but it never gets old.

the scene where Tim comments on being back in the car again was intentionally put in to give the audience a chance to release the tension. I saw this in theatres on release and it was just as awesome as you imagined.

When I saw this in the theater when it first came out, that T-Rex roar literally shook the theater. It was so awesome. Those little ones you talked about are compsognathus ("compies"), and while present in the book, they don't show up until the second movie.

I used to work at a big cat reserve. One weekend the keepers were busy with a sick Lion, and we had a 4-month-old Tiger cub that still needed constant care. So, I volunteered to watch it while they were busy with the Lion. Our Basset wasn't happy about it but quickly adjusted. We were chillin when Jurassic Park came on TBS. Everything was ok, until the T-Rex roared. The Tiger cub jumped up on the couch and hid between me and the back of the couch. There was something that they sampled for the T-Rex roar that scared the Tiger cub.😅

Despite the crazy inaccuracies with most of the Dino’s (especially Dilophosaurus & the raptors), this film single handedly put these species in the public eye

Spielberg made jurassic park and Schindlers list in the same year, so amazing, probably the greatest director who ever lived

Miranda’s being emotional over this movie has me being emotional over this movie all over again. I remember going to the theater to see this movie in 1993 and just being blown away. Love it!

'I'd give up the internet, dead serious' you sholud definitely watch JW Camp Cretacious after the other movies! It fits that idea really well 🤪

Great gag that a lot people miss when the T-Rex is chasing the jeep and you see his reflection filling up the side mirror, and the mirror has written on it "OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR"

“Nope Chickens” 🤣🤣 never change, Miranda

I love how music helps invoke so much emotion when well executed in the process of filmmaking.

I can confirm that seeing this movie in a theater IS a different experience than seeing it on a small screen &/or without full surround sound. The scene were you first see the Brachiosaurus & the first roar of T Rex were particularly powerful moments.

i still love the closeup on the T-rex eye reacting to the light. it's so real and gives credit to the sheer amount of elbow grease put into the film.

It’s impossible to explain to anyone who didn’t experience it the sense of wonder and amazement when the first dinosaur scene happened on a huge theater screen. At the time, the effects were simply unreal and just stunning.

You were right about the great music, very few movie scores can compare with Jurassic Park. Thank you John Williams.

NO ONE had seen anything close to looking like a realistic dinosaur before this movie.

I saw this film in the theater twice. It was a great and unforgettable experience. Great reaction! 👍🏿

Hammond's biggest problem honestly was just ignoring basic park safety features that already exist in zoos and parks today. Sure, some of the dinos probably shouldn't have been bred (particularly so early before learning more about dinos and processes) but still. Park design was terrible. This is ofc well trodden on the interwebs and the movie just doesn't work if they did. Also, its not really the lesson we're supposed to take from the story lol

John Williams is a genius. Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Superman, Harry Potter and Schindler's List just to name a few.

Richard Attenborough was David Attenborough's older brother. He had a long career as an actor, producer, and director, receiving many awards, including two Academy awards as producer and director of his epic film "Gandi," which won Best Picture in 1982, and won a total of 8 Academy Awards out of 11 nominations. His resume outside of acting and directing was extensive, too, including serving ten years as chancellor of the University of Sussex, many years as a director of the Chelsea Football club, and thirty-three years as President of the Muscular Dystrophy campaign. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1967 (making him Sir Richard), a Knight Bachelor in 1976, and in 1993, he was created a life peer as Baron Attenborough. If you pay attention, it's quite easy to hear the similarity in Richard and David's voices. As for having another of Michael Crichton's books... He wrote twenty-six novels, which sold more than 200 million copies, and thirteen of which were made into films (plus five more based on his Jurassic Park work). He also directed a handful of films, and created the long running TV series, "ER." through which George Clooney became famous. He introduced computer graphics to film, writing and directing Westworld (1973), and it was Crichton who encouraged Spielberg to use computer graphics here in Jurassic Park. This movie changed the way average people envisioned dinosaurs.

"Could you imagine bringing those back tho?" Miranda....the ENTIRE FRANCHISE is showing exactly why that's a BAD idea, LMAO!

Yes, David Attenborough is the man who narrates all the nature documentaries. Richard Attenborough was an actor, director and producer, also he was David's elder brother. Sadly we lost him in 2014.

THANK GOD FINALLY someone gets emotional with these movies at the right time and place. I LOVE YOU MAN

T rex actually had the largest eyes of any terrestrial land animal on the Earth. Basically it wouldn't give a shit if you stayed still.

To this day, the T-rex breaking out of the paddock is one of my favourite moments I experienced as a kid in theatres. I was just 7 years old. Blew my mind.

You don't need to apologize for being emotional. You are human and you have feelings and there is nothing wrong with expressing them.

"All ladies on one island. What can go wrong?" I lost it. LOL

I distinctly remember my dad coming home from work and telling me we were going to the drive-in to see this. It was 1993, I was 11. Good times. RIP Dad.

This is making me so happy. Your pure, locked-in enthusiasm for even the small stuff, all the emotions, is taking me back to when I first saw it as a wide-eyed little boy. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. :)

The scene you were frightened by is in JP3, an underrated gem.

12:00 “😭 It’s the music.” John Williams is the man!

I remember watching Jurassic Park for the first time in the theater and was completely blown away with it. Decades later, I’ve recently watched it with my kids again. I was incredibly surprised by how well the special effects have held up compared to modern movies. And yes, I am aware that not all of the visual effects was cg in the first movie.

Jurassic Park has such a huge nostalgia hit for me. The music is perhaps the greatest movie music of all time. There is NOTHING more memorable except MAYBE the Star Wars intro music. Dude is a legend.

Fun Dinosaur facts! The Dinosaurs seen in this move, by order of appearance are: Brachiosaurus (Jurassic, Macronarian Sauropod from North America). Parasaurolophus (Seen but not mentioned, crested Hadrosaur from Cretaceous North America, this is the only dinosaur which we know what it sounded like). Triceratops (a Ceretopsian dinosaur from late Cretaceous North America). Tyrannosaurus rex (The largest Theropod Dinosaur by body mass, needs no introduction) Dilophosaurus (an early Jurassic Therepod, the real life animal did not have a frill and was MUCH larger, reaching 20 feet in length and being as tall as the average person) Gallimimus (an ornitomomid from late Cretaceous Mongolia. This dinosaur, a herbivore is more closely related to Velociraptor than to other herbivores seen in the move) Velociraptor (a Dromaeosaur Theropod from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. The dinosaur show in the movie is actually probaby nor Velociraptor, which were only about 3 feet tall at the largest. Rather it is probaby Deinonychus, a larger Dromeaosaur from North America). Second, you are, fortunatly wrong. Dinosaurs still very much exist in our world today. You can even keep them as pets. Birds are Maniraptoran Thereopods in the Paraves Family, and are a Sister Taxon to Dromaeosaurs. Since you cannot evolve out of a clade, Birds never stopped being Dinosaurs. Velociraptors are more closely related to a street Pigeon than to any of the other Dinosaurs in this move. If this is hard to believe I urge you to look into Cassowaries. With the exception of the Dilophosaurus and Velociraptor, the depictions of the dinosaurs in this movie are very, very good, even today. The few issues are mostly with the Tyrannosaurus and the Paralophosaurus. Tyrannosaurus would have been bulkier than depicted, and would hold its hands inwards, not downwards. Parasaurolophus would have probaby walked primarily on 4 legs, running on 2 legs. These are minor issues however. Richard Attenborough was David Attenborough's brother. Not a Dinosaur fact, but definitly relevent. David Attenborough narrates an utterly fantastic documentary series about late Cretaceous Dinosaurs called Prehistoric Planet. Would be a bit of a change of pace, but would also be a great reaction. You should definitly watch the other 5 movies in the series. I don't think they every really capture the magic of the first one but its hard to make something about Dinosaurs not entertaining. Frontier Entertainment makes a Jurassic Park park builder game called Jurassic World Evolution 2. You dont need to play the first game, but its definitly worth checking out.

Saw this in theaters when I was 3. Instantly became my favorite movie still to this day. Special effects at that time was ground breaking

"You're gonna need a bigger goat." 😂😂😂

27:20 "Find Nedry. Check the vending machine. Remember that time he got himself stuck in there?"

I can’t stress this enough. In 1993, that first Dinosaur reveal was MAGIC. People’s reactions were just like Dr. Grant and Dr. Sadler’s. It loses its luster because of how impressive CGI is today, but in 93… it was mind blowing.

I saw this back in 1993 when I was 5 years old in a drive in theater. I was both amazed and terrified lol. That T-Rex scene will forever be burned in my memory.

I was eight when I saw this movie and it blew my f*cking mind. I thought....This is IT. Like, the pinnacle of human achievement was this movie about dinosaurs.

Her calling a spinosaurus a T. rex hurts my soul

I saw this movie in the theater when I was a kid. I can still remember the shock and awe it gave me.

I remember my parents taking me to see this in the theater and I had that same expression on my face when I first saw the Brachiosaurus. The raptors scared me so bad that I had to peek into the theater restroom before going in because I thought one was waiting for me! I will never forget the feeling of the theater seats shaking when the T-rex was stomping around outside her paddock. Absolutely incredible memory.

"The Inflection of the Moo" Favourite Miranda line so far 😍😜

I love how people go, "I don't know what I would do" to immediate criticizing 12 year olds- left alone- being terrorized by a dinosaur. always fun.

The T-Rex scenes were split between animatronic and CGI. I believe Stan Winstons team made a 12000lbs life size hydraulic T-Rex. I believe there are videos on RU-vid that show behind the scenes of it. As the T-Rex was the star of the first movie and has a lot of love from the fans of the movie

54:27 Yep, 1993. My little 13-year-old self was totally blown away witnessing this miracle of film sitting below a towering big-screen accompanied by thundering surround-sound. Absolutely *_bitchin'!!!_* It was the first time humans had seen Computer Generated Imagery that actually looked _real!!_ and what a subject to bring to life!! A watershed moment in time. Yes, you missed out ; )

Real "nope chickens" were tiny! They were smaller than turkeys! The raptors portrayed in the film were based on much larger relatives, the Utahraptor. Even Michael Chricton (the book's author) wanted the raptors to be the size of another relative, the Deinonychus. Back then, the name Velociraptor was used interchangeably with Deinonychus as it was thought they were the same species spread between the US (where big raptors like Deinonychus lived) and Mongolia (where Velociraptor lived). It was only about thirty years ago that they were declared entirely different.

17:45 Thats one of my favourite philosophical quotes from this movie "Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." Kudos for picking up on that early on.

"It's the music..." Yes. Makes us all emotional. So incredibly amazing.

I always loved that they make such a big deal pointing out that Lex is a vegetarian, and yet in that scene when the raptor shows up, she's shown shaking with a big spoon of green Jell-O 😂

This movie is actually one of the most frequently rereleased to theaters. I guarantee if you keep an eye out to whatever your semi-local area is, you'll be able to see it in theaters within the year. I go pretty much every time it comes near me. Also just went last year to a screening of it with a full orchestra accompaniment in a concert hall. Greatest movie of all time. (Possibly a shared title with Field of Dreams and the 10th Kingdom)

I always get emotional too when Alan and Ellie see their first brachiosaurus in action and John Hammond says "Welcome to Jurassic Park" while one of the most iconic soundtracks of all time is playing.

Jurassic Park did what Jurassic World has failed to do: showcase just how majestic and terrifying dinosaurs can be.

25:25 "She gets right in there" In the "Lego Jurassic World" game, the animation for characters who can analyze dino droppings, is literally them jumping full body in the pile, and rummaging through it. 😅

Your comment about theme parks made me remember walking through Jurassic Park at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. It was dark and almost nobody was around (this was a winter school day, so attendance was very light). With the theme music playing, the experience of walking through that area was ominous and something I'll never forget.

Welcome to Jurrasic Park! One of the best lines ever, due to the significance of what it all meant. The concept of how could they bring dinosaurs back to life and could we see them, was so amazing at the time. I love this movie for we finally got to see dinosaurs roaming in the world again. Remember, this was the first one. The practical effects is what made this film! Welcome aboard!

That scene that disturbed you was from Jurassic Park 3. It's not a T-Rex. It's a Spinosaurus.. they attempted to replace the T-Rex with the Spino, thinking it would be cooler, but it didn't work 😂

Jurassic Park and ARK are some of the best things to ever have happened to me. I'll always tear up when the brachio first appears and the music kicks in, the same way I will always tear up when the overseer cinematic starts. I feel you so much on this.

It's always funny hearing Hammond say "I know my way around a kitchen" when they're having the conversation in the trailer, while completely missing the fact that there's stem glasses on top of the microwave and pouring the champagne into tumblers.

Did you like the scene when Lex fell through the (literal) drop ceiling? An adult stunt woman was used for the swinging and climbing up part!...

In the summer of '93 I had just finished reading Jurassic Park and had been incredibly impressed with the book. I was convinced that it would make a great movie if someone was ambitious enough and if movie technology ever got that advanced. Then, a couple of weeks later, I was reading a newspaper (in the visitor's center at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon of all places) and an article said that a Jurassic Park movie would be opening the next weekend. I might have been thirty, but I felt like a kid at Christmas! One of the friends I was vacationing with was also captivated by the idea of the movie, so we went to see it on its opening weekend. Our Reviewer is right about what it must have been to see it in a theater. Completely horrifying and captivating at the same time. We were both blown away. I've probably seen Jurassic Park a dozen times since, and it never gets old!

Lord Richard Attenborough (yes, Lord Richard was made a Baron the same year he was in this film) and Sir David Attenborough were brothers. David went into nature TV and films while Richard became an actor and director. Richard is often overlooked, but he starred in, produced and directed some big films. He was in The Great Escape (1963) and The Sand Pebbles (1966) with Steve McQueen, and in Doctor Dolittle (1966) with Rex Harrison. Another good performance of his is "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965) co-starring with James Stewart. He'd taken a long break from acting throughout the 80's and early 90's until this film, then starred in a remake of "Miracle on 34th Street" as Santa. For directing he preferred to make biographical films. Two of his biggest films that he directed were "Shadowlands" (1993) starring Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis, and "Chaplin" (1992) starring Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin. He won an Academy Award for Best Director and for Best Picture (as producer) for "Gandhi" (1982). And besides all that, he also served on several film and TV boards and organizations, including as President of BAFTA.

1) The movie you saw a scene of as a kid was Jurassic park 3 2) Your explanation of Ark is valid 😂

50:20 I first watched this movie when it came out, as a kid, and I've been rewatching it for decades and never quite picked up on that before! Thank you! Spielberg, Crichton, Koepp and Williams are/were absolute geniuses!

FYI: When this film first came out, many parents were furious with Steven Spielberg. Their complaint was that he featured children in mortal danger. These people obviously never saw Jaws. I did. When I was 4. At the drive-in. Needless to say my siblings were grounded. For a month. And I still can't swim to this day. Or go into a natural body of water. Thanks, Steven.