Besides she gets points for surpassing her novel counterpart who really makes you wish for children dying in horror flicks. Tim is somewhat bearable (when he does not talk, but then again, kids are obnoxious when they are excited.) BUT Lex.Okay she gets a pass even though she did one of the stupidest things in all movies.
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Kids are practically immortal here and I swear it can be problematic when they do the dumbest things.
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And with the exception of Grant, Malcolm or Muldoon, the other characters are as caricatural as possible : Hammond was so jolly he could have been in a carebears movie (a businessman THIS cuddly ? Now this is pure fiction.), Ellie is okayish (though the novel did depict her as yummier ! What ?). It had all the ingredients to be one the best horror movies of all time but it is deliberately designed to be a blockbuster that is as marketable as possible. See how I avoid using the word dark around ? Because it is the movie's major flaw: The cloyingness ! I did not mind so much as a kid, but as an adult, I fell that its flaws would make for a great Looney Tunes or Tiny Toons Parody ! The score by John Williams is simply fantastic, whether for the majestuous scenes or the "darker" ones. Smooth,medium-sized, vicious and expressive they just are some of the best effects ever made. In the book, Grant describes the velociraptor species as “antirrhopus,” which is actually the species of deinonychus.) They are the revelations of this flick. To me they are much closer to resurrected Deinonychus Antirrhopus in size and design. The Dilophosaurus surprised EVERYONE the first time around.Īnd The Deinonychus? (too big to be Velociraptors.too small to be Utahraptors. The Tyrannosaurus Rex first appearance on-screen was simply beautiful both in sound and imagery.(though she is less fearsome than the novel rex.) And even then, the introduction to the carnivors is well done (the bovine feast to the "Velociraptors" ? A delight along the description by the excellent Robert Muldoon, played by an unfortunately underused Bob Peck (R.I.P).) The Brachiosaurs and the sick Triceratops were the mere appetisers before hell truly breaks loose.
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The suspense of course works to the film's advantage.
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The photography is great and it definitely knew how to show us the dinos as realistic as possible. The theme park turns out to be a dinosaur zoo ! HOWEVER Park computer specialist Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) sabotages the security in order to smuggle dino embryos to the competition. Naysayers take a hike to hell, he plays his part perfectly but more on that later.) by billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to give a fresh perspective on his new theme park and appease his anxious investors. Also a worthy candidate to play Mr Sinister but that is another story.) is a dinosaur expert who is called to a remote Pacific island with his colleague Ellie Sattler and Chaos theorist Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum. God knows why, I personally do not understand either.Īlan Grant (played by the very good Sam Neill. Well he added dinosaurs to butcher people so you pipe down kids ! But I will tell you why I love it despite having discovered it only 2 years ago.), this is the hugest phenomenon back in 1993 before being dethroned bby Titanic. And while I am neutral when it comes to the whole technology VS nature debate or even Crichton's use of his novels as vehicles to his own opinions (I never paid attention to that ), I will admit that the novel was much better. Īdapted from Michael Crichton's novel (which is freaking excellent despite its emphasis on technophobia. Most of the resurrected dinosaurs are from the cretaceous anyway.) Let us start then.
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But is that true for our misnamed trilogy here ? (And yes, I do mean misnamed. Well I said that I loved the whole Alien Quadrilogy (YES ! Even Resurrection is a lot of fun due to how different it was from its predecessors !). So you bet that I know of Jurassic Park ! I guess I'll have to give my 2 cents about each one of them. Since I was a kid, I was fascinated by dinosaurs, snakes etc.