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My wife and I just recently sat down to a `Jurassic Park' marathon and watched all three films in succession (it was a rainy and day and we were board as all get out) so I felt compelled to write my feelings on the films.
I was reading a blog the other day that asked the question, "How can you not like this movie?", and to me that is a very good question. Sure the film isn't perfect, the dialog is cheesy at times, the plot is silly in moments and the acting in areas is less than desirable but overall this is one of those iconic pieces of filmmaking. Coming out the same year as Spielberg's masterpiecemore… `Schindler's List' it was set as Spielberg's Blockbuster of the year. He tends to do that, do one film for himself and one film for the public (ala War of the Worlds & Munich ext.) but little did he know that his Blockbuster would end up being just as brilliant as his personal film. In fact I'm tempted to say that `Jurassic Park' tops my list of films that should have been nominated for Best Picture that never really had the chance. It breaks my top five for the year, that's for sure.
If you've read the novel you'll understand that there was so much more that could have been included in this film, but then again the film would have been a few days long and no one has that much time. In fact, I'm a firm believer in the fact that they should have split up the orgasmic novel and come out more like `Star Wars' giving us a more detailed and expansive version of this first installment instead of proceeding with the much less impressive `Lost World' and the abomination known as `Jurassic Park III'. Regardless, this is still a landmark film to say the least. The computer animation was mind blowing at the time of its release, and even though the effects have `supposedly' gotten better, are they really. Nowadays everything looks like a video game. Here everything looked real, or pretty close. I'm not saying today's graphics aren't in some ways superior, but I not saying they would have enhanced this film either.
The plot centers around a multimillionaire who has done the impossible. Of the coast of Costa Rica lies an Island inhabited by dinosaurs, dinosaurs cloned from the DNA found in mosquitoes fossilized in tree sap. These dinosaurs are of course behind steel bars and are the main attraction for a new theme park. Before this park is opened to the public the founder John Hammond decides to fly out some specialists to take a gander, make sure that things are safe enough for the rest of the world. These specialists include paleontologist's Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler and Mathematician (or Chaos Theorist) Ian Malcolm. With a product this amazing there is sure to be plenty of opposition that such opposition causes a greedy computer expert Dennis Nedry to do something thoughtless that causes some major problems for everyone on the island.
`Jurassic Park' is directed brilliantly by Steven Spielberg, so much so that not a frame goes by we don't remember. The scenes of violence, while never graphic (this is PG-13) are always filled to the brim with tension and suspension. The kitchen scene alone with Hammonds two grandchildren is one iconic scene of modern (or not so modern) cinema. The acting is decent among all here with Sam Neil and Laura Dern as standouts. Wayne Knight is effectively disgusting as Nedry and Richard Attenborough makes a fine Hammond (although if you've read the book you'll know that his character is changed DRASTICALLY for the film). Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello are effective as the grandchildren, Lex and Tim. They play children and I like that, they don't mature up the part at all. They play normal everyday children who obsess and bicker and swoon and panic like all normal children do. Samuel L. Jackson continues with his long line of thankless roles in any and everything he can get his hands on. It's funny, he's such a cocky man yet he really has little to back up his swagger. Tell me, aside from his `Pulp Fiction' and `A Time to Kill' stints (both brilliant I will admit) what has he given us but filler performances. Okay, I'll deviate from that to gripe about another actor I don't quite get...Jeff Goldblum. He's not terrible, but he's not that great either, kind of annoying. In fact he's much better in the sequel despite this film itself being much better than `The Lost World'.
Those two very MINOR faults (it's not that Jackson is BAD, it's just not a performance to be cocky about) still can etch a single star off my review. I mean come on, this film is iconic, legendary...filmmaking at it's very finest. Sure the times have changed but `Jurassic Park' will live on in infamy forever, or at least until the world ends and all is lost and or forgotten. Ha, well, over-dramatized but you get my drift.
| Sam Neill |
| Laura Dern |
| Jeff Goldblum |
| Richard Attenborough |
| Bob Peck |
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- Category:
- Movies > Films
- Case Type:
- DVD
- Release Type:
- Retail
- Language:
- English
- Region:
- R4
- Format:
- Widescreen
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- Jurassic Park (1993) WS R4 Retail DVD
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- Front
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