Watching *JURASSIC PARK* for the FIRST TIME 

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“Hold onto your butts” Alex: “That’s a weird thing to say.” Also Alex: Constantly talking about slapping gooches

Fun fact: the glass on top of the car wasn't supposed to collapse on the kids when the T Rex put its mouth against it, so the kids' screams at that moment were 100% genuine.

The thing I absolutely love about the first dinosaur on screen is that Grant is a Paleontologist; my man has a freakin *doctorate* degree in the science of understanding Dinosaurs. He knows *exactly* what a brachiosaurus is, he knows what they should look like, but he’s so slack jawed by the fact that a live animal is right in front of him that he loses all sense of professionalism; he has fully reverted to the 6 year old kid that first learned what a dinosaur was. Sheer perfection👌

As an animator myself, I can't stress enough that the guys who made this movie had a greater concept of photorealism and animating than we have today, and they had to write their own software. There was no Maya or Unreal to help out. So many movies stopped short of this quality, and it was made in the 80s. I know it was RELEASED in 1993, but I saw footage on PBS in the 80s. The t-rex tiring and slowing from a flat-out run was a perfect transition that many animators today would cover with cuts.

So as a general rule for this movie, whenever they show only part of a Dinosaur, like the close ups of the head, the upper torso, etc. That's a practical effect. Whenever they show the entire dinosaur, that's CGI. Also, fun fact. The mechanical dinosaurs didn't handle the rain very well, and when they got wet they would sometimes just turn on and move around on their own. Scared the shit out of the cast and crew a number of times.

*”raptors? You bred raptors?”* Grant wasn’t impressed by the Raptors being bred, he was terrified.

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"Show a terrifying clip of an ostrich"....Dude, I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard!! The editing is SAVAGE!! Love it!!

34:49 “you stare at him, and he just stares right back. That’s when the attack happens, not from the front but from the side from the other two raptors you didn’t even know were there” Some of my favorite foreshadowing in cinema

During the scene when the helicopter is landing Alan is trying to put on his seatbelt but realizes he has two "female" ends and ties them together. HUGE foreshadowing.

The book this was based on was written by Michael Crichton, a prolific writer of "fiction as fact" stories like this (having received his MD, though deciding to write over practicing medicine). His seminal work was the 1969 novel "The Andromeda Strain", which has all of the tense sci-fi elements of Jurassic Park, but none of the Spielbergian humor. The movie is presented almost like a documentary, and is one of my favorite sci-fi movies. I highly recommend a watch of that, though make sure it's the original 1971 version, not the later CGI-heavy remake. Look up Crichton, and you might recognize a great many books, movies and TV series. His book "Eaters of the Dead" was adapted to the movie "The 13th Warrior", which is another of my favorites.

Octopus are incredibly smart survivalists. Not only can they change color to match their surroundings, they can change texture too, and will also mimic the movement of what they're copying. For example, if they need to cross an exposed area of sea bed, they can take on the look of tumbling seaweed, and 'act' their way across the expanse, like seaweed being pushed along by the current. They're literally Academy Award winners of the sea.

The genre of this film? Sci-fi horror. No question. When the little girl realizes velociraptors have made it to the cafeteria, I think her silent shaking and wide-eyed stare counts as one of the greatest depictions of sheer terror I've ever seen in any film.

Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park: "Must go faster..." 🦖 Jeff Goldblum Independence Day: "MUST go FASTER! 👽

I took my two daughters to the movie, where we ran into a friend of mine with her two kids. The kids, ages ranging from maybe 11 to 7, all sat down in the first row while we moms sat much further away. During the intense scene where Tim is stuck on the fence while Ellie is turning the power back on bit by bit, we hear this little voice from the front row yell, “Jump, Timmy, jump!”. Seven-year-old was VERY worried, lol!

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I love how Alex slowly starts to recognize the brilliance and majesty that is Ian Malcolm lol

Jurassic Park wasn't a cult classic. It was a pop culture phenomenon in the '90's.

36:24 ironically, the barking sounds that the velociraptors make were designed using recordings of mating turtles 💀

Your editor is savage! And I love it! Fun fact about this movie: when the girl falls through the paneled ceiling at the end, and looks up at the camera for a split second before the others pull her back up through the hole, that was a stunt woman who actually did that fall. She wasn’t supposed to look up at the camera, but it just happened. And that was the first time they digitally replaced someone’s face with someone else’s. #CinematicHistory.

14:28 "What do they got in there? King Kong?" FUN FACT: Jeff Goldblum's character asks that because the entrance gateway is literally the same design taken from the Kong Kong movie. King Kong (1933) was pioneering for stop motion animation special effects. Sixty years later, Jurassic Park (1993) was pioneering for CGI special effects.

The old man who plays John Hammond is Richard Attenborough. You might recognize the last name. He was the brother of David Attenborough. The guy who narrates all those animal documentaries.

Fun fact: Dr. Ian Malcolm was almost played by Jim Carrey instead of Jeff Goldblum. The casting director auditioned Carrey several times for the role before Spielberg decided he wanted Goldblum's take on the character. This gave Carrey the opportunity to make two of his most iconic movies: Dumb&Dumber and The Mask. Also the kid that mouthed off to Dr. Grant the beginning was Matilda's older brother. Yep, that's Wayne Knight and he was infact Al from Al's Toy Barn among many other roles.

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Imagine seeing this in the theater, with surround sound, and nobody had seen special effects like this before. It was like we were THERE.

Back when they made this, $2000 a day sounded like an outrageous prices. Then Disney actually charged $4800 for two nights at their Star Wars resort...

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Fun fact: what made the triceratops sick was the west Indian lilac, but not because she ate it. It was either the flower petals or seeds that fell in the water near her habitat, thus contaminating the water, and her drinking it. It was explained in the book, but they decided to not have it in the movie, obviously. I never saw tjis in theatres, I saw it at the drive-in. The first ovie was the Flintstones, and this masterpiece afterwards.

THE FACT THAT JOHN WILLIAMS AND SPIELBERG DID THIS AND Schindler’s LIST THE SAME YEAR IS MY ROMAN EMPIRE

“We’re gonna see how it holds up” Haha this movie is INCREDIBLE. The CG that they used literally holds up 30 years later. This is a classic for a reason. It’s just firing on ALL cylinders

Re: How they filmed the dinosaurs, there's a GREAT episode about this on the Netflix show "The Movies that Made Us"! Essentially its a LOT of practical effects, mixed with some computer animation, it's incredible that it still holds up so well 30+ years later!! And on the more technology side, there's an episode on the Disney+ show "LIght and Magic" about it. You might love that entire show honestly because the first half or so of the 6 episodes are about how they made the original Star Wars!

So glad you got the channel back man

The fact that this was made in 93 just makes the fact that the CGI STILL holds up completely insane and impressive beyond words

Hammond "spared no expense" but doesnt have backup generators to keep the power on.

"Why is he more impressed by raptors?" Alex, my dude. He was studying raptors 5 mins earlier. They're his thing.

Welcome back! What happened to you happened to a mate of mine. Glad you got your channel back :)

Fun Fact: Jeff Goldbloom didn't even know there was a shoot going on. He just sort of wandered onto the set one day and the crew just rolled with it

Fun facts: there was an actual hurricane during shooting, the water got into some of the electronics and theres several stories from rexy moving on her own, also with Dennis, the dilophosaur doesnt attack him at first because his hood makes him look like a dinosaur, its only after his hood comes off that he gets attacked

When Jeff Goldblum's character (Ian Malcolm) made the 'King Kong' statement, it was in reference to the gates in just about *EVERY* 'King Kong' movie.

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My favorite film fact about Jurassic Park is that Spielberg purposefully flipped the ages of Tim and Lex because he wanted to cast Joe Mazzello in Hook but he was too young so he just straight up promised him he'd find a part for him in another movie.

This movie pushed cinema forward and has remained a masterpiece. It could be released every summer and STILL draw major box office numbers. It's that classic.

Glad to see you got your channel back dude!

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Dang I didn’t think there was anyone left on earth that hadn’t seen this movie

An old friend, Mike Trcic, who did a lot of the sculpting on the t-rex head, passed away recently. He was very proud of his work on the film. He did a bronze of a leaping raptor that's just insane.

Fun fact: Spielberg didnt like the actual size of the raptors, so he made them larger than any known species. Opening week of this movie a giant raptor fossil was found, the same size as in the movies. The Utahraptor

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*"Did you just, like, purr at me?"* has to be one of if not THE best lines to introduce a Jeff Goldblum character in the short history of RU-vid reaction videos..🤣🤣☠☠ *I totally spit my drink out, bro..😂😂*

“The only one I’ve got on my side is the blood sucking layer.” “Thank you.” I can’t 🤣🤣🤣

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2 fun facts #1: Jurassic Park movie is based on a novel of the same title. #2: the sci-fi explanation for how dinosaurs were brought back was the best idea that scientists could come up with around the time of the movie's production as to how that could potentially work. In the years following this first movie, scientists would figure out that nothing about this explanation would work.

The editor using your Dino impression for the ostrich actually made me laugh pretty hard

Lawyer:"is expensive, put it back" Tim: "my grandpa owns this whole park so STFU 😊"

Welcome back everyone! Welcome back Alex! 🎉

I'm so glad you were able to get the channel and videos back!

Nedry, in the book, *does* have a motivation other than money. He was hired, from MIT, to design and program Jurassic Park's automated computer systems. He did so, was paid, and went home. He was then contacted by Hammond's company and told that he had to come back to debug the systems. He said that would cost more money, since his contract hadn't included that service. They told Nedry that he would come and debug the systems or they would destroy his reputation, cost him his job and career and turn all of his colleagues against him.

At this point I'm just convinced that Alex never watched any film before this channel started

Am I the only one that saw this man’s channel get hacked or something

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The dinosaurs were a mix of early 90's CGI and practical props. The effects looked so good because they understood the limits of CGI, and only used it when appropriate. Unlike today where they just use CGI for everything regardless of the consequences.

A good director places humor into an intense movie to give the audience some relief from being overwhelmed with drama to keep them from walking out on it.

30 years later, the scene first showing the distance shot with all the different dinosaurs... still gave me chills.

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Hammond constantly reminding everyone he 'Spared no expense' is quite ironic, too. He undercut a lot of areas in the park. He was reminded by Muldoon that the Raptors are looking for weaknesses in the electrified cage, yet did nothing. He didn't have emergency protocols for hurricanes and storms, and he also underpaid the one man who ran the whole IT system that kept Jurassic Park running. And when said technician confronts him and asks for a raise, Hammond merely scoffs at the idea, which led to the hell the cast found themselves in. On top of all that, whilst his grand kids are lost in a park full of live, dangerous dinosaurs, he's sat in his cafe having cake, deliberating over the fact that his park has most likely failed. Hammond spared every expense he could. Probably why he hated lawyers so much. Also, Hammond in the Jurassic Park book was a monster of a villain. At least the one in the movie was a little more humanised.

Welcome to JURASSIC PARK. What a classic line . Goosebumps everytime.

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Thanks god you're back, was scared as shit. Hope this wouldn't happening again

The composer for this film is the legendary John Williams who also has done the music for: Star Wars Jaws Superman ET Indiana Jones Harry Potter The Olympics Theme

Fun fact: during the filming of this movie, the producers thoguht of using stop-motion to create the dinosaurs, but they end up doing the by then new technique of CGI, which caused that the stop-motion animator and the producer to have a chat in which one said to the other "I guess the stop-motion is now dead" and the other responded "don't you mean extinct?" He like this response so much that he asked to made it into the final script of Jurassick Park

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I saw this opening night when I was 12 to a sold out show. By this time in my life I had scene just about every horror and thriller film but nothing could prepare me for what came. No one in the history of the world had ever scene a dinasaur breathe and believe it, up until that very night. When the power went off and the rain started to fall, a slow stillness began to overcome the audience. Everyone in the theater no matter what age, was transfixed and paralyzed with fear. We all knew the danger that was looming and we all prepared in our own way for yet another, Speilberg rollercoaster. When the rumbling started we all felt it in our chairs and no one made a sound. Just the sound of the rain and our internal heartbeats. As Rex swallows the goat and then tears down the fence, I felt for the first time what adrenaline was. As Rex let out that horrific roar, I thought I was going to die right there. My heart was thumping out of my chest and I couldn't turn it off. The relief that came after was short lived as I again thought I was going to die when the TRex bagan to chase the jeep. IT LOOKED SO REAL! And then, just as my adolescent nerves were about settled again, the raptors in the kitchen scene just about aged me 10 years. I had never known fear like that. But what a thrill:)

Alex calling Jeff Goldblum.."This Guy" is driving me crazy! 😂😂😂

Did we defeated the scammy hacker? Hope you can catch a breath now. I see several other channels being affected by the same group/bots.

So glad you got your channel back

So, fun fact time. Stegosaurus were around I believe 150 million years ago. T Rex were 65 million. So t Rex and man were closer than than T-Rex and stegosaurus.

Ok in the book, Dennis Nedry’s death scene is much darker. It describes in detail how he feels his intestines fall out. Then how he feels the dinosaurs separate his head from his body and then he dies. Also now you watched one, you have to watch all 6

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The shot of the water in the glass vibrating sympathetically with the ground has since become iconic. I’ve seen it parodied on just about every comedic TV programme imaginable-, the Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, etc., ad infinitum.

I saw this 6 times in theaters as a kid with different people almost every time. That's how epic it was. When CGI was brand new and blended beautifully with practical effects. Not completely depended on as it is now. I will never forget feeling the steps of the T-Rex as the water ripples...now that's chaos. One of the greatest cinematic experiences ever.

Fun fact - When the 'model' T-Rex burst through the roof of the car with the kids in it, a tooth broke. In the later movies the T-Rex still has the same broken tooth!

I’m so happy you got your channel back. Hackers are some of the worst people on earth.

Glad you recovered your channel after what happened the other day. Broke my heart to see it had been hijacked.

That King Kong line was genius. If you’d seen King Kong, you would’ve gotten it.

I like how throughout this many of the questions you’re asking are almost immediately answered within the movie. It goes to show how smart the movie actually is. The velociraptors being as dangerous as they are is a personal favorite in your reaction.

31:14 Fun fact: for this scene, the animators built a 3D projection of where each actor was looking at each moment, so that, whenever they reacted to a "dinosaur" passing near them, there would actually be a dinosaur in their sight line for them to react to.

I think the scene where Alan first sees the dinosaurs is one of the best scenes in movie history. Everything about it was perfect, including the score. Like no matter how many times I watch it, I still get deep chills. Also, can we talk about the T-Rex roar? Name a more iconic sound. I'll wait...

Tim saved the day, really. While the girl was turning all the systems on and Grant and Ellie were holding the raptor from getting in, Timmy was patting the computer chair, giving Lex the ability to hack Jurassic Park

At 3 points during the film Nedry is dressed as one of the characters from “The Goonies”. Hawaiian shirt like Chunk, Members Only jacket like Mouth, and the yellow rain jacket like Mikey.

The sound of the T-Rex bellow is probably my favourite single piece of sound design in any movie I've ever seen. The way it sort of "rings" and resonates, it fills the whole scene, and FEELS like it's being made by something massive. I loved that sound (and this film) the first time I heard it in the theatre when I was 11 years old, and I love it now. I always enjoy watching someone new discover this movie, it's remarkable how well it holds up. The choice to stick with practical creature effects for most of the close shots (with a handful of short exceptions) means it feels exactly as "real" as it did when it was filmed, because there basically WERE dinosaurs on set with the actors. Nobody was interacting with a tennis ball on a stick and pretending it was a T-Rex, they got to look directly into its cold yellow eye. I always considered the genre of these films to be almost an intersection of horror/Sci-Fi/Disaster movie, the later ones perhaps have more of the "disaster movie" feel than this first one, but there's always at least some element of "environment vs characters" in the mix along with the obvious sci-fi/horror. I love the whole ridiculous franchise, even when it gets a bit silly.

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Fun fact: Steven Spielberg hadn't finished Jurassic Park before he started on Schindler's List. He had on of his assistants put on the finishing touches, and called in a favor for the sound effects. He called his buddy, George Lucas!

"Can't see us if we don't move." This works with cats and it's hilarious. Walk into a cat's field of view (at least ten feet away) and then go completely still - you disappear, and it freaks the cat out.

Glad to see that The Goochmaster General has been restored to his full glory. Cheers Mate. 🥃

Glad to see you got the channel up and working again. I can’t imagine all the damage those hackers did

38:13 the DNA code in the shadows there has always been probably my favorite detail in this movie

Fun fact: The actor who plays John Hammond (Colonel Sanders looking dude..lol) is Richard Attenborough, the older brother of famous documentary narrator Sir David Attenborough. Richard Attenborough is also the director of the 1982 film 'Gandhi' which won 8 academy awards including Best Picture, Best Director for himself and Best Actor for Sir Ben Kingsley.

Alex, it’s good to see you’re back! I’ve got Covid again and I’ve had to isolate, which is rather lonely. Seeing your channel(s) restored has lifted my spirits a bit.Thank you for the entertainment and for indirectly keeping me company during a difficult time.

the fact you got hacked twice back to back has me thinking you didnt realize how it happened in the first place and what steps you had to take to secure your account. hopefully someone helped you out with that this time around.