I couldn’t wait to watch Jurassic Park. I simply couldn’t wait. Everyone I knew had seen it before—I just had to watch it. And so I did. And I’ve watched it many times since then. And I think it’s a pretty darn good movie, at least as a piece of pure entertainment, though definitely not as good as I had previously thought.
It’s based off of the best-selling book by Michael Crichton, and the movie is directed by Steven Spielberg, one of my favorite of movie directors.
A billionaire, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), discovers a way to create clones of previous dinosaurs by taking their DNA from mosquitoes trapped in prehistoric amber. He makes a park containing these dinosaurs on an island off of Costa Rica, but before he plans to open it to the public, he invites a paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferraro) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). They are all fascinated by the dinosaurs at first, but things go quite a bit haywire when a storm shuts down the electric forces keeping the dinosaurs encaged, and a spy from a rival company, Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight). The result is pure terror entertainment, as man is pitted against dinosaur in an effort to make it off the island—alive.
Jurassic Park really is quite an innovative film. The special and sound effects are all amazing. The film went on to influence several other movie directors to make their own projects: Stanley Kubrick and Spielberg teamed up to make A.I Artificial Intelligence, George Lucas started working on the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Peter Jackson knew it was nearly time for him to start working on his two dream projects: the Lord of the Rings and King Kong, and James Cameron began work on Avatar.
So essentially, Jurassic Park is a groundbreaking stepping stone in the history of cinema, though only technologically. The acting is good, though not great, to be put simply. Spielberg manages to pull off having human characters and development amidst the raging dinosaur action.
This became one of Spielberg’s highest grossing films, surpassing E.T the extra-terrestrial, but only to be beaten a few years later by Titanic and later by Avatar.
When I was a bit younger, I was simply fascinated and captivated by this film. I don’t know how many times I have watched it. Since then, I have gotten over my ‘Jurassic Park phase’, but I am still very entertained by it. You won’t forget the dinosaurs; the filmmakers succeed in making them look so formidable, daunting and real.
If I ever were to make a list of ‘Must See Movies’, then there is no doubt that you will find Jurassic Park on there. That’s because, quite frankly, it’s wonderful entertainment.
****/5
I LOVE this movie! The third one was disappointing though.
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