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"It's a Dinosaur"
So says Jurassic Parks's Dr Alan Grant, demonstrating why he's such a well-renowned paleontologist.
Having rewatched it recently I rather feel Jurassic Park is underrated.
Aside from a brutal death near the start, this is actually a bit of a slow burner at the start. We have a lot of build up buit we're following Alan and Ellie. It's not until quite some way into the movie until they see a dinosaur. And then we see it! It's a Brachiosaurus and, in a cinema, that thing is huge! It fills the screen and it's miles away! The first time seeing this is an experience. Especially in 1993, when we've never seen a dinosaur look so real.
Things calm down after this. We get a whole lot of exposition and we go on a car ride through the zoo. But we don't see any dinos until we meet a sick Triceratops. That's not what we came to see though. We came to see the big guy himself. T-Rex. Even in a regular viewing, this segment is fantastic. The base the speakers can give when the water shakes is something you can only feel in a cinema. But this part might as well have been made for 4DX. We shake! We thump! Every time Rex does something we feel it!
The rest of the film is really good. Speilberg knows his craft. We get plenty of action and drama, and tension, and that iconic "Clever girl" moment. There's the fantastic John Williams score. Now sure, it has its hokiness. "It's a Unix system. I know this!", but those moments really don't detract.
Watching it again on the big screen took me back all that way to when I was a teenager. Seeing those dinosaurs for the fist time.
If you get a chance to watch it at a cinema again, give it a shot.
Having rewatched it recently I rather feel Jurassic Park is underrated.
Sure, it was well reviewed, became the highest grossing movie, revolutionised movie special effects, won 3 Oscars, a Bafta and a slew of other awards, and made Dinosaurs the biggest thing in popular culture for years, but that was then. Since then it's fallen by the wayside. It took until 2018 for the US National Film Registry to add it to its list of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" movie.
Without the big screen treatment, people forget what it was like. Back then it wasn't just a movie. It was an event. We had the opportunity to rewatch it and felt this was an opportunity to try out 4DX.Aside from a brutal death near the start, this is actually a bit of a slow burner at the start. We have a lot of build up buit we're following Alan and Ellie. It's not until quite some way into the movie until they see a dinosaur. And then we see it! It's a Brachiosaurus and, in a cinema, that thing is huge! It fills the screen and it's miles away! The first time seeing this is an experience. Especially in 1993, when we've never seen a dinosaur look so real.
Things calm down after this. We get a whole lot of exposition and we go on a car ride through the zoo. But we don't see any dinos until we meet a sick Triceratops. That's not what we came to see though. We came to see the big guy himself. T-Rex. Even in a regular viewing, this segment is fantastic. The base the speakers can give when the water shakes is something you can only feel in a cinema. But this part might as well have been made for 4DX. We shake! We thump! Every time Rex does something we feel it!
The rest of the film is really good. Speilberg knows his craft. We get plenty of action and drama, and tension, and that iconic "Clever girl" moment. There's the fantastic John Williams score. Now sure, it has its hokiness. "It's a Unix system. I know this!", but those moments really don't detract.
Watching it again on the big screen took me back all that way to when I was a teenager. Seeing those dinosaurs for the fist time.
If you get a chance to watch it at a cinema again, give it a shot.