I read the books years ago after watching part of the movie by mistake. As a kid I used to LOVE dinosaurs, I had so many dinosaur toys. Anyway, just last year I managed to obtain copies of all three movies and I have rewatched them several times and still love them! It really helped shape me in wanting to become a 3D animator. In fact, now that I mention it, one of my projects this year is to model, texture and animate a raptor. Of course it is very cartoony in keeping with the the other characters in our short film, but it is still so much fun and I get so jealous of the animators who got to work on the JP set. The compositing was off the charts for its time, and the actual puppets were brilliant, would have loved to help make one! I'm so glad there are many others like me who love it so! Haha I'm a chicken though, I don't like to watch high tension movies alone, so I'd say I am going to watch it when I get home, but it'll probably be with the sound off so as not to scare myself (regardless of the fact I have watched them all at least four times each)
Goldeneye might have been it for me. I don't think I ever saw (or at least cared) about Bond before that. That movie was the shit. Jurassic Park was the shit though. I remember it mostly because I was so pumped to see it, and when I was in the movie theater, the power went out just as the raptors opened the door
Jurassic Park is still one of my all time favorite movies. I can watch it any day and be entertained as hell. Nowadays, it's a fun viewing experience. Back then, it was a visual masterpiece, and a godsend to a dino freak like I was. I still hum the music some times because John Williams is completely awesome.
On November 08 2011 02:03 Southlight wrote: You reminded me of http://xkcd.com/891/ I feel old. But man, the nostalgia lol.
Holy shit Finding Nemo was 8 years ago!?! T.T
I remembered when I first watched Jurassic Park as a kid, the scene with the lamb landing on the car was really gross/scary/terrifying (at least when I was a kid). It was airing on the movie channel a few weeks ago, and I saw the scene again. All I could say about that was, "wtf they just dropped a leg of lamb from the butchers shop on top of the car, doesn't look scary at all".
Independence Day and MIB were soooooo awesome as well.
edit: and some of you may or may not agree, but Mission Impossible (the first one) was pretty cool as well.....until The Bourne Identity came out Which IMO was the awesomest "agent" movie (series) of all time.
Oh man, I LOVED Jurassic Park. I pretty much went though two dinosaur phases: once in early elementary school and once in middle school. Jurassic Park was a pretty big part in igniting those two dinosaur phases.
I remember how I would set up my own Jurassic Park on my game room table with a bunch of little legos, miscellaneous toys, and Jurassic Park toys. I would then pop the Jurassic Park cassette into the VCR and then reenact all of Jurassic Park with my toys while I "watched" the movie.
Damn, I'm being engrossed with nostalgia. I want my childhood back ;_;
JP/dinosaur nut here as well. I had so many of those toys too, those things were so badass, with all the moving parts/sounds they made. Man let me see if I could name the ones I had (probably are still sitting in some box tucked away).
The Velociraptor that would slash its claw, always the coolest dino-villain. The T-Rex that you could pull chunks of flesh out of when it sparred with some poor herbivore that it inevitably killed in the end. The Triceratops that was more often than not the prey for that T-Rex, you could pull its hind leg and it would like buck its head and make a noise. I had the Pteradactyl toy but it was such a bitch to play with b/c its wings would constantly come unhinged, anyways it was also cool cause you could press a button on its back that would flap its wings. What else ... the Dilophasaurus that would spit water ... the Pachysaurus or whatever that was would lower its head so you could ram stuff ... good times.
Then years later I read the books and loved those too. Jurassic Park is the shit.
I went the first week they showed it in Belgium, when it was still watchable for all ages, a week later they restricted it to 12y+. My mom tried to cover my eyes when Ellie went down that basement to turn on the power :D. Had the Panini sticker book, already had loads of dino toys to wreck my Lego armies and got some encyclopedia's which I read like 10+ times. When a teacher would've asked me what I would be like I'd yell "ARCHEOLOGIST" and go ranting about how awesome dino's were :p.
On November 08 2011 00:45 Hawk wrote: Goldeneye might have been it for me. I don't think I ever saw (or at least cared) about Bond before that. That movie was the shit. Jurassic Park was the shit though. I remember it mostly because I was so pumped to see it, and when I was in the movie theater, the power went out just as the raptors opened the door
I feel dumb that my first introduction to Bond was with TWINE(which was good in its own right)
But like the OP it all started with JP, and everytime its on TV or i feel like watching i stop to watch it because its a piece of my childhood
On November 08 2011 00:50 Aylear wrote: Jurassic Park is still one of my all time favorite movies. I can watch it any day and be entertained as hell. Nowadays, it's a fun viewing experience. Back then, it was a visual masterpiece, and a godsend to a dino freak like I was. I still hum the music some times because John Williams is completely awesome.
Great blog!
Thanks
I was actually surprised that during this last viewing and despite already seen JP several times (and knowing how everything goes down) I was like "Come on, Tim! Let go the f***ing fence! F**king brat!! Jump down!! You want to die?!? ARGHGHG!! He didn't jump in time...!!! Why doesn't he jump??" LOL There aren't many movies that do that to me.
"John Williams is completely awesome" - I endorse this message.
Jurassic Park is truly great! I love how the effects still look great today...In fact, they probably look better than today because today all the dinosaurs would be CGI. Great thread, this makes me want to watch the movie again...and the book was bad ass too,as a kid
On November 07 2011 07:29 Xeofreestyler wrote: Aww man sweet. I remember playing jurassic park with buddies on the playground when I was 8 years old. Good times!
A movie that I loved when I was little and still enjoy to this day is definitely The Fifth Element.
.... Omg I loved watching The Fifth Element as a kid. milla jovovich naked O.O
Bander the last time I watched Jurassic Park was with a bottle of gin and my friend
I love the first jurassic park. The whole series was an integral part of my childhood and not until recently did I realize it wasn't just a fun movie as kid, its actually a great movie as an adult too.
It has to be the most subtly hilarious scenes of all time when the lawyer is running from the T-rex and he runs into the bathroom. Then he shuts the stall star behind him, like its actually gonna make a difference hahaha. I just love the detail there.
Some of my favorite lines: "When you gotta go, you gotta go." "Ah ah ah, you didn't say the magic worrd. Please God damn it! I'm tired of this hacker crap." "That is one big pile of shit"
EPT
(regardless of the fact I have watched them all at least four times each)
I feel old. But man, the nostalgia lol.
