Jurassic Park! The best dinosaur movie ever made? Yes it is. So let's talk about it. Here's everything right with Jurassic Park!
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Me who has been waiting for this for God knows how many years: _Hold on to your butts._
Life…uh… finds a way
SAME DUDE!!!
The amount of comments I’ve left do this film haha
@@samclarkson1248 I was so tempted to do that too😂
Yes!! I’ve been waiting, I’m so glad it’s here!!!!
Fun fact about the Raptors being “Deinonychus”: In the late 80s when Michael Crichton was writing the original novel, there was some argument over whether Deinonychus antirrhopus (scientific name) was actually a species of Velociraptor, kind of like African vs Asian elephants today. So he used Velociraptor in his novel to describe ‘Velociraptor antirrhopus’ instead of Velociraptor mongoliensis, which is the tiny one people talk about. This would also explain why Grant was digging up a “raptor” in the badlands of Montana, since Deinonychus is native to that area while Velociraptor mongoliensis is actually from Mongolia in Asia. The naming dispute was eventually settled by the early 90s I’m pretty sure, but Spielberg liked the name raptor so much more that he just kept it. Just a little JP/paleo nerdiness for anyone interested
Exactly! More people need to know about this
Ok wow. I like to think of myself as fairly intelligent but I genuinely feel like a blithering idiot in your presence. *tips hat, goes to work on my nerd-game
A further fun fact, Utahraptor (which is pretty much the same size and a heavier build like the JP raptors) was actually being studied WHILE Jurassic Park was in pre-production. Palaeontologist Bob Bakker, who was a consultant on the movie at the time, tells the story that he got a call from Jim Kirkland, one of the palaeontologists studying what would soon be named Utahraptor, to tell him about the discovery. Bakker recalls excitedly yelling into the phone, "JIM, you just found Spielberg's raptor!" The scientific description of Utahraptor was officially published in June 1993, the same month Jurassic Park premiered!
@@idrawsdinosaurs400 ok, so it WAS kirkland, not horner. i mixed up the two. yeah, i heard about that, too. Kirkland recounted it in a book he co-authored called "Star Trek: First Frontier" (yes, a star trek TOS book about dinosaurs, also, yes, a guy named James Kirkland co-wrote a star trek TOS book. lol). I also remember Bakker recounting the story in his book "Raptor Red".
I somehow missed the name detail. that explains why the raptors in the book weren't as small as people kept claiming velociraptors to be. they were described as being nearly 6 feet tall.
Dennis Nedry is hands down, top 10 movie villains of all time. He was not dumb, every decision he makes, he made to further his own goals, but between being dealt a bad hand and just being pretty unlucky, he fails. Our protagonists don't even stop him, or try to stop him. As a character he's so interesting, he's smart, competent, selfish and bad, all while being pathetic and dumb. He's so well written, so well portrayed. The fact the JP series moved to more actual antagonistic "bad guys" in future movies is a damn shame.
The best part of his character is that EVERYONE knows a Nedry. We all have a coworker or associate who's greedy, selfish, slovenly, takes shortcuts, and (we like to imagine at least) wouldn't hesitate to throw us under the bus for some quick cash. It makes him delightfully cathartic to root against.
I always hated that in most of the sequels, the villains are mindless, military guys that want to turn the dinosaurs into weapons. It's stupid and you'd think they'd learn after a few movies. There's a reason modern militaries don't try to use tigers, bears, or some other wild, apex predator as weapons. They're unpredictable and are just as likely to kill your side as your enemies. The last thing a military would want is something like that on the front lines. The only way a dinosaur would be useful would be to like airdrop them into a country you're not actually in direct conflict with to cause havoc. For Nedry, giving the embryos to a rival company trying to do the same thing as Hammond using them as an attraction at least makes reasonable sense as a motive.
@@gregtalley1601 I do think it's funny that one of the most successful Universal Studios films of all time features a villain who's trying to one-up an incredible theme park.
@@hazelbaumgartner9706 Disney glares from the other side of Orlando. 😆
Nedry is a good villain, but he’s also one of the only problems I have with the movie - and it’s the biggest problem: Hammond constantly repeats “I spared no expense!”, but the whole problem of the movie IS because Hammond did get stingy with an expense by not paying Nedry enough. Granted we don’t know how much Nedry did want that Hammond refused to pay, but still, it is a bit lame that’s the reason for everything getting screwed up. I would’ve liked the plot to have been caused by something more nature based than just cliche human greed. Nedry could’ve still by trying to steal the eggs by being a corporate spy instead of just greedy and vengeful, then the incoming storm could’ve knocked out the power instead.
12:46 Fun Fact: The glass wasn't meant to break when the T-Rex nose punches it. The children weren't expecting it so their screams of terror are actually real. Spielberg loved the honest reaction so much he chose that take. In subsequent shots you can just about see that the glass has miraculously become whole again.
Oh my goooossssh! They would have to get me new pants!
Still not something I believe. Actors would mention it if that was the case. Facebook rumors, more or less.
@@TyrannoWright This film did not come out long after the internet was born.
@@tiffanypersaud3518 And you misread it. Nobody else in any BtS interviews mentions it.
@@TyrannoWright Misread what? You mentioned Facebook. Faccebook wasn't out back then - no social media like today was out back then. So if they wanted to tweet about things, we wouldn't see it then. Now, with BtS, that is also pretty much controlled by the studio unless footage and info is leaked. They were minors on the set and if the studio didn't want problems with CPS, they wouldn't advertise that they potentially endangered children with glass that wasn't supposed to break. A lot of the time, cast members sign contracts and are prepped by executives before interviews about what is limited to say as well.
4:20 - So, one of my many rewatches of this movie happened after I'd taken enough high school English classes to be able to appreciate little things like symbolism and foreshadowing. And I noticed this little scene with the helicopter descending, and everyone going for their seat belts, reveals a lot about all of the characters. - Gennaro, the lawyer, buckles up nervously, and with unsteady hands. This foreshadows how he doesn't respond well to challenges, especially unexpected ones, and he is prone to panic. - Ian Malcolm plays it cool, and easily buckles his seat belt, not distressed at all. His belief in chaos means that the unexpected is the ONLY thing he expects. So he is prepared accordingly. - Ellie Sattler likewise keeps her cool, and buckles up without problem. It foreshadows how she responds well to challenges, and shows how she looks out for Alan. - Alan Grant has bad luck and finds himself in an impossible situation. But he keeps trying, and he adapts in unconventional ways. Tying together the seat belts is far from the last time we will see him demonstrate that. - John Hammond says something important here: "Look, we'll have landed by the time you get it right!" This line reveals his attitude towards safety and thinking things through. He not only got as far as resurrecting dinosaurs, and not only as far as building a tourable park around those dinosaurs, but he got as far as inviting people to the park... and even at this point, he has never tested the park's safety features, or even established all the safety features that should exist. Ian Malcolm calls Hammond out on this in a later scene where they're having lunch, and Hammond refuses to acknowledge that he rushes into things unsafely. (By the way, in the book, this exact attitude is what leads to John Hammond's death. In the movie, at least, he finally recognizes his errors... well, sort of, as you'll see in the movie's sequel.)
i think it was just having blind faith in the technology (and money to throw at safety). I do wish the film had included one of the best scenes of this in the book. the scene about the system counting the animals. that the security system could count all the animals and tell them instantly if one had died or gone missing. yet it never warned them about the animals breeding because they set the population number to what they had released. with no way for the system to tell them of more. so when they raise the total population count, suddenly the system finds another 30+ animals in the park.
@@RaptorNX01 That scene was awesome, I read both books earlier this spring and wish I had read them so much sooner. They're so good!!!
@@julianr8544 yeah, not being familiar with the book till after I had seen the movie, the raptor count going up to 38 was an "oh s***" moment.
@@RaptorNX01 I'm pretty sure I was actually smiling during that cause I knew things were about to pop off and it was done really well just how badly Hammond and his people had messed up.
I love this comment so much
17:02 Fun Fact: They DID have that on the tour, in a way. My grandparents took me to Universal Studios when I was a kid and Jurassic World hadn't come out yet, so I rode the original version of the ride. I'll never forget that at the end of the ride, you're in this darkened tunnel, little to no sound, then suddenly lights flash, a loud roar sounds, and a life size T-Rex model is revealed to be right above you like it's about to take a bite. Then the car suddenly drops down a slide and splashes down back into the starting river. I remember my scream was so high pitched out of fear that I could barely hear it among the other people in the car. Legit one of the best experiences I had as a kid, I still have an "I survived Jurassic Park" hat and a mug with my name on it from that trip.
they don't have that any longer?! I rode it when I was 18 back in 2000, it was deadly awesome
85-foot vertical drop into 1.2 million gallons of water. You never forget something like that.
@@ser132 I forget if it was the one in Orlando or California, but they changed it to fit with the new Jurassic World movie instead of the original
@@zavodila9279 I believe Florida's hasn't converted to World yet.
@@christheleavittman7080 it hasn't I was on it a few years ago and I went last year yes I Will never forget that ride nobody warned me I actually felt like I was free falling my butt came off the seat a little bit I was 13
"This is the moment that really sold me and probably lots of people forever." YES. The actors were able to flawlessly interact with the dinosaur because she was THERE. As great as digital effects have gotten (and they are miraculous) there is simply no substitute for quality physical props and practical effects.
while true, we shouldn't ignore that puppets tend to move unnaturally (this really annoys me when people praise practical effects for looking super realistic, but they actually look more fake then 90% of cgi). what made this movie work is how it switches between the too based on what each technique does best
@@marcopohl4875 This is really the only movie in my eyes to TRULY perfect that combination of practical/CG. What’s even greater is that the special effects were even also practical in a sense, since Phil tippet and the crew basically used early motion capture to add more realism to the dinosaurs movements. Just an astounding feat in filmmaking
@marcopohl4875 I also think high definition media ruins the illusion of practical effects. One example being the somewhat recent Lord of The Rings 4K release. On the old DVDs, everything looked grounded and realistic, but the 4K release really highlights some of the lesser effects and makes the movies look way more dated and cheap. Another example is Jurrasic World, with the injured apatosaurus Owen finds in the grass. It just doesn't look convincing in any shape or form. It basically looks like a huge rubber sock puppet. Even 20 years after the first JP movie. Part of the reason I think is because of the crystal clear quality of the movie. Another thing is that its skin looks too clean and too gloosy. Real animals of that type don't have wax dipped skin, so it automatically looks fake. So I'm all for quality CGI over practical effects for the sake of practical effects.
@@passionoflovers Another part of it is probably that animatronics and full monster practical effects have become a little bit of a lost art. Like, they're still used, and in recent years we've even gotten a few movies specifically setting out to remind people of how awesome they can be, but they aren't the cornerstone of their genres anymore. Full, mostly untouched animatronics are almost more of a gimmick now, and some movies even pride themselves in letting you see some of the rough edges, but back in their heyday, they were never intended to have any noticeable rough edges to begin with. It's kinda like modern pixel art. It's gorgeous, it's very appealing, and it's even pretty close to how old school 8 & 16 bit games look on modern displays, but it's not at all what they looked like at the time, or how they were supposed to look. I'm not saying modern pixel art games should strive to look like that, but it is worth keeping in mind, and the same holds true here. Nowadays, people find some of the sharp jittery motions of Ray Harryhausen's Medusa from Clash of the Titans to be both jarring and also part of the uncanny creepiness of her presentation, but if you'd said that to the man himself at the time, he'd have told you that he specifically did everything in his power to make it look as seamless as possible. We live now in an era where full animatronic monsters aren't common, and half the time we do see them, they're kind of a gimmick. They're fun and nostalgic, but they aren't actually striving for the strengths of the trade. Part of this is probably just a lack of experience. A lot of directors using them don't have as much experience with them, for the simple reason that they aren't so ubiquitous anymore, and a much smaller portion of the industry specialises in them now. They're also just really difficult and expensive to do right without CG cleanup. CG has gotten much easier, much more variable, and much more powerful of a tool to use, but animatronics are still expensive, time consuming, and really risky from a production standpoint. Also, in cases like with The Thing (2011), we have poorly selected test audiences telling executives that they're antiquated and unappealing.
Yeah, well you can't always afford to build sets, puppets and all sorts of practicallity. Sometimes it's a lot cheaper and quicker to use CGI.
One thing that doesn't get mentioned enough is how little screentime the dinosaurs actually have - and how that is in fact a positive for the film. Each and every dinosaur scene is iconic because of how well-crafted the story's tension is.
Yes, something this film has in common with Alien. Heightens the suspense and the action so much.
12:23 I love that slight smirk because it shows Alan's horrified because there's a living T-rex right in front of him. But he's also ecstatic because there's a living T-rex right in front of him. It's exactly how I'd react too.
It’s so much more then that, yeah it’s incredible because “Holy shit it’s a T-Rex” but it’s also more then that, it’s seeing an entire life’s research made manifest, it’s seeing every fact you fought for and against staring you down, it’s everything you’ve dedicated your life to right in front of you, especially back then when the T-Rex was more or less considered the alpha dinosaur
@@silenc3068it is still the apex predator of its time, there wasn’t a single animal on land that could truly rival an adult Tyrannosaurus Rex
At 9:35, I also love how Muldoon's seriousness about everyone being quiet as the guests approach the Tyrannosaur paddock translates into a semblance of respect for the animal. It's mostly out of apprehensive anxiety, but given the fact Muldoon in the Jurassic Park canon spent almost his entire adult life around the apex predators of Africa like Lions, Crocodiles and Cheetahs as a Game Warden from Kenya, I love how he imagines the staff of Jurassic Park should dedicate their undivided attention to the largest terrestrial carnivore to ever exist on Earth.
And they 100% need to give their full undivided attention too lol
If only he had had more time to listen to Grant's theories on raptor hunting techniques. Poor Muldoon, he really didn't deserve it. He was my favourite character of the role of keeper/warden/hunter, he took it 100% seriously.
Small nitpick, but T. rex wasn't actually the largest. Carcharodontosaurus saharicus was a large theropod like Tyrannosaurus that lived in Africa in the late Cretaceous that was discovered sometime around World War II and was by every measure larger than Tyrannosaurus. Between T. rex having already been in movies since movies were invented and "Carcharodontosaurus" being much harder for kids to say, though, T. rex became the go-to monster bad guy dinosaur.
@@hazelbaumgartner9706 trex was heavyer than carcar and weight says the size of the thing
Allosaurus, Spinosaurus, Gigantosaurus, and Carnotarus were all larger than Tyrannosaurus rex (and yes you can argue Spinosaurus was aquatic and ate mostly fish, but the two largest Spinosaurus fossils were found near the Nile River's banks meaning it was still more inland than Ichthythosaur which was strictly aquatic as it couldn't live outside of water like Spinosauruses were capable of doing due to needing to breathe air)
I also really love the fact that when Nedry encounters the Dilophosaurus, he has no idea that it's actually really dangerous. He even speaks to it like it's a dog. I just think it's a cool detail to illustrate that he has little to no idea of what they're doing on that island.
It also shows how he thinks of himself as being above everything as well. You'd think he'd at least learn something about the dinosaurs that inhabits the park, but no. He thinks of himself as smarter than anything and anyone.
@kennashey and even then, he was supposedly smart enough not to shut down the raptor pen.
@@passionoflovers I imagine some of that at least stemmed due to the relevantly recent death of one of the animal handlers at the Raptor Pen that is shown at the start of the film. My thought is that he was playing it safe due to that.
I can't believe you didn't win Ian and Alan's reaction to Ellie's "Woman inherits the earth" line!! 🤣 While Ian looks a little uncertain/ a touch disturbed, Alan just looks on in amusement and fondness, like she has made similar comments a number of times.
Because they were intelligent, worldly, educated enough people.
That ending edit made me ugly cry. Their chemistry was unbeatable and they spent basically their entire lives not noticing how perfect they were to each other.
It's also a pretty amazing blueprint of how to use a romance plot without having to end with a big kiss.
They have a frickin amazing love history, first they're boyfriends but the kids where a problem, until, thanks to the first movie, it's not longer and Grant loves the kids, later we can see how life separates them, being a pretty sad but realistic moment of their lives, we can see in both faces that they still love each other, and finally return being what the always meant to be, probably having kids this time. It's holy breathtaking, I love them.
Well we didn't see more because both actors hated the age difference and thought it was wrong
Well, at least they got there eventually. I don't know how most fans feel about it --- I intentionally avoid looking up these kinds of things --- but that one scene in Jurassic World: Dominion made me happy.
@@LamanKnight If CinemaWins do a EGA Dominion video, that scene needs at least 20 wins
The fact that you can really hear Rexy's intake of breath before her big roar at the kids in the Jeep, is such amazing attention to detail. I love it!
12:47 Fun fact: the T-Rex came down a lot further than it was supposed to, due to the rain making the model heavier. It was always meant to break through the glass, but it pushed down on the kids far more than planned.
Yeah i remember seeing a interview or something about them being legit scared because it crushed the car more than intended
@@plummet3860the rain made the Rex malfunction and when it was putting its head through the glass it used alot more force than intended
Win 53 - “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should” - an amazing line.
True story- I used this line in a term paper when comparing Frankenstein to Jurassic Park when I was in college. Yes I’m a nerd.
@@kelli3814 A very apt comparison.
It's my favorite line in the movie. My favorite scene is Lex holding the jello.
I love how it comes back around in JW when Wu is talking about how if he doesn't create them, someone else will! Ties both back to the first book when Malcolm talks about it and I OBSESS every time I watch them. (Which is like every day).
Win 52 actually
As someone who wants to be a storyteller, this movie is a massive inspiration. Encountering a script this tight is like finding a unicorn
16:12 that is actually seriously impressive. In a world where blockbuster movies now must have constant music in the background to tell you exactly how you should feel at every second, the actual legit tension in this segment is mindblowing. Modern blockbuster really can learn from older films. We don't need more and more and more spectacle that has to be bigger and better than the last. You can be grounded without going bonkers AND have mass appeal at the same time.
Amen brother. Knowing when to use music and when not to can make or break a movie.
It’s not actually a silent scene, but when I think of ‘effective use of soundtrack’, I think of a slow-mo explosion scene in the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie, weirdly enough. The explosion sounds are very muted, all you hear is a single violin that almost sounds like it’s wailing in grief- fitting, as it looks like Watson dies. Even knowing they wouldn’t kill off Watson, your stomach drops anyway.
This is one of the rare instances of the movies deviating from the book and still being great.
Honestly, the movie has a childish theme to it. The book on the other hand is brutal tense and truly horrifying. I think the book ruined the movie for me reading it post many years after seeing movie lol
@@plumbherhub1664 I've read the book as well and it the book seemed a little too comic book hero stuff at one point. Genarro and Muldoon trying to kill the T Rex with rocket launchers? lol interesting.
@Ross lol strait up blew one up into pieces lol but when you think about it yea I'd want shape charge rockets too. He'll a elephant you need like a 700 nitro to take down and there's huge dinos so yea outside of shot guns and phosphorus rounds I'd want an rpg lol
@@plumbherhub1664 It makes sense they'd think ahead like that but it made them look like superheroes to me lol
Back when they made movies to entertain and not pandering to a specific audience or milking an established franchise
One thing you missed is that the doctor that helps Ellie with the Triceratops is called Dr. Harding. Apparently, he is canonically the father of Sara Harding who is in the Lost World Jurassic Park. The character got a redesign and was deaged for a Telltale Jurassic Park video game that takes place during and after this movie and he has a young girl daughter name Jessica who is Sara's half sister. Edit: I also forgot to mention that the game is considered non Canon mostly in part due to the plot of the game being centered around the barbasol can that Dennis Nedry lost on the island. In the Extended Cut of Jurassic world Dominion, Lewis Dodson has the can in his office and, not to spoil the game, but there's no way he could have got it with the games events being Canon.
Point about Harding being de-aged in the game is because the guy who played Harding, Gerald R Molan (who is also one of the producers), wouldn't let them use his likeness.
harding is a more important character in the novel. He administered Malcolm morphine after being attacked and fought off a velociraptor with his bare hands. badass good guy!
An absolute classic
That plot about the can came from an unused Jurassic Park 4 script.
That plot about the can came from an unused Jurassic Park 4 script.
In case anyone was having a nice day, the dilophosaurus scene in the book is pretty much beat-for-beat the raptor attack Alan describes at the start of the movie.
only more horrifying. lol
You feel bad for Nedry in the novel, specially for the last line of that chapter. "and then the horror of that realization was follow to a final wish that it will all end soon. "
Yeah, I actually cried from shock when I read it. And I'm not scared of dinosaurs so...yeah. Says something.
One thing that always keeps me coming back is your overwhelming optimism no matter how good or bad the movie may be. You love movies and strive to find the good in all of them.
The first time i saw this movie, I was 4 years old and id finally badgered my mom enough to the point where she let me watch it thinking I would get scared and accept that I should wait till I was older. The moment Rexy monched the lawyer, I jumped off of the floor and shouted "GOT HIM!!!" My mom couldnt stop laughing for almost an hour.
I fully love how not only the script but the score made the og jurassic park movies so much more emotional and dramatic simply from being able to lift your spirits with the characters as well as make you scared shitless and worry for their safety
Also, Pre-emptive The Lost World and JP win, John calling Ian a "rockstar" is the perfect start to Ian's arc. He's starts off as a rockstar, a know it all (who is right ultimately), someone that does and says whatever he wants because he's at the top of the world. Give this de guy a two near death experiences with a T-rex, one the most impressive animals that ever lived, and you start to get someone that's more humbled, quiet, cautious, and one of the few characters in this franchise that really understands the gravity of bringing these animals back.
It's worth noting: while this isn't confirmed, we see Ian drinking from a flask throughout the film, and his simple speech of "hey hey hey"/"get the kids!" as well as lack of reasoning lead many to believe he's slightly drunk when he goes to help Alan, cause otherwise he would've seen Rexy leaving and not done anything.
This movie has aged like fine wine! It's effects are just as impactful today as they were when it came out. I remember seeing it the first time and literally holding my breath during the scene where the Raptors were hunting the kids in the kitchen. The way that the suspense ebbs and flows is enthralling and has a very natural way about it that very few movies can capture.
I think the biggest win for JP is that the effects still hold up after like 30 years...there’s just nothing in it that takes you out of it while you’re watching. It’s just a masterpiece all around!
Cap. The brachiosauruses look bad.
@@buster3041 The disrespect.
@@buster3041 Same for all the cg dinos tbh. It's normal standards have changed since then and CG has come so far that even at least part of the trex scene look a bit uncanny to me. What can't ever be taken away is that it looks better than a lot of movies to come and even some to this day without a doubt.
The cgi doesn't hold up at all What holds up is how masterfully they hid the really bad parts of the cg And the amazing writing Obviously
@@Ayoul those brachs always looked bad lol. That was not a case of time changing perception.
This is still my favorite movie of all time, the scene with the first dinosaur I still feel a kid again every time I see it. Also, my favorite movie trivia comes from this film. That scene where Ariana Richards screams at Rexy while Tim is stuck under the Ford. So part of her audition was to scream because Spielberg wanted to see how well she expressed fear, but because of his busy schedule he couldn't watch the audition tapes until he was home. Her scream was so loud and authentic that it woke his wife up and she came barreling down stairs because she thought something happened to their kids.
I hate how often she's overlooked for title of "classic horror film scream queens."
@@hazelbaumgartner9706 Yeah for real.
Watching this I noticed something I never noticed before in all the times I watched this movie. In the kitchen scene Lex taps the ladle to draw the raptors attention to her and away from Tim. However, though both raptor’s hear her. The one barks at the other before continuing to move toward Tim, essentially telling the other raptor “you get that one, I’ll get the other one”. Clever girl indeed.
11:00 - Just want to point out the skin on this triceratops. The leg with complete skin that they found in Tanis just a few years ago shows just how crazily accurate this movie was, especially for it's time. God I love dinosaurs
All Al the inaccuracies can be blamed on the dna gaps
Malcolm is honestly like one of the only reasonable people in some of the movie. Worrying at times you should worry, and questioning the questionable. Still always happy he survived.
And when he’s worrying, it’s not frantic. You can practically see his brain working, and he phrases his thoughts in a way that lets the words sink In before the inevitable danger moment draws in
Fun fact during the T-Rex scene, the kids were told that the animatronic wouldnt break the plastic roof, and when it did those reactions are even more genuine because they were not expecting it! One of my favorite details!
Unfortunately, that's not actually true -- the roof was intended to break, the kids are just good actors! What did happen is that Rexy pushed too far in one take and lost a tooth because of it.
@@squalusvinco3086 Yeah, if you watch the scene in slo-mo you can actually see the tooth go flying, and when she roars at Alan, you can see that gap in between the teeh.
That also sounds like a horrifying and dangerous thing to do to the actors. Animatronics can be dangerous if they're particularly heavy, and child actors have a hard enough time as it is in the movie industry.
@Squalus Vinco yeah the lost tooth. I think in the later movies where she appears, you can see a gap in her top row of teeth where she is missing a tooth.
@Squalus Vinco I call that fortunate actually. Because people like to laugh it off when we hear about directors surprising actors like that however i always saw it as being in poor taste, especially if actors are children. Just think if that were real he would have terrified two children for the sake of a good shot
One of the incredible things about this film is that the iconic t-rex roar - which is the point at which really any action in the film starts - is (almost exactly) the literal midpoint of the film's runtime. Like, it *really* takes its time to get to the 'dinosaur horror' parts of the film in a way that makes the characters be, well, characters - which I think is something the modern JP films (and a lot of other films) really miss. If you want me to care about your characters in peril, I have to feel like I know them.
I'm surprised you didn't include the warning on the side mirror about objects being closer than they appear, my dad loved pointing that out with the t-rex looking like it's RIGHT THERE yet that little note reminding you it's actually even closer
Your dad is a guy after my heart. I'm obsessed with how neat that detail is, yet noone ever mentions it
I believe if I remember correctly the park designs/movie blueprints prove the continuity of the moat. There actually is a little hill where the goat stands for the park goers to get a better view of the Rex. The area around that hill is a moat. And it’s shown in the movie blueprints. Also have you seen the show Prehistoric Park with Nigel Marvin? I highly recommend it was pretty good and interesting
I saw these blueprints on another youtubers channel and yes it give a lot more clarity to the moat being there. It helps make the t-rex's exit make more sense.
Oh my god Prehistoric Park and Nigel Marvin were my childhood, even more than this movie.
This movie’s dialogue is so realistic I don’t think it’s ever been recreated again.
Doesn’t need to be recreated, other stories have their own realism, we don’t need comparisons for quality to exist in fiction
yeah, he missed the detail that grant actually says "one of those" when hammond mentions a park for kids. but Ellie mishears him as "what are those", then sarcastically corrects him. its a fun little human touch you almost never seen in films.
Fun fact: The scene where Laura Dern runs from the raptor at the shed was actually a hilarious moment, because in one of the takes while she was running, she was pulling Arnold's body parts with her and Spielberg and the crew were laughing their ass off.
What's fun about that?
Probably because it wasn’t suppose to happen
4:47 This is THE SCENE that sold this movie to me as a kid and STILL sells it. The utter incredulity of seeing a living dinosaur! I don’t know what Sam Neill did to make this so authentic, but it set him in my pantheon of best actors.
16:53. No “win” for the t-rex reflected in the rear-view mirror with “objects in mirror are closer than they appear” gag?
Jeff Goldbloom’s acting and I love his work to his day. Including his show. His characters, the way he portrays his characters, it’s all gave me an inspiration that his charismatic maybe me more comfortable with myself. I love the show on Disney +. And I squealed when he came back for five and six of the Jurassic World movies.
He plays no characters, he plays Jeff Goldbloom in everything.....EVERYTHING.
@@michaelgallagher3640 go watch raines. Maybe that changes your opinion 😊
The "tree for my bed" scene will always be my favourite scene. I will never forget watching this movie with my grandfather, over and over again. Since then, no matter in which movie I've seen him in, Sam Neill is who I'll always connect my grandfather with.
Man, there is SO much to say about this movie. First, this movie is considered perfection despite having some of the most EPIC flubs in movie history. (For instance, when the kids' Explorer gets flipped, in the shot you can see a potted plant, a stage light, and *the wire that keeps the Explorer from flipping any further than necessary as it snaps up out of the mud*). And that's because it EARNED that distinction by being so damn good in all the right ways. Second, yes, the raptor at the beginning does die. It was supposed to be a fourth raptor added to the paddock but was killed in the futile attempt to save the worker. I think the book elaborates more on this; Hammond is PISSED at Muldoon because the dinosaurs are incredibly expensive to breed and raise. Third, book Gennaro and book Muldoon are the best buddy cop pair. It's actually an employee of the park that abandons the kids. Gennaro is a lot more reasonable, and he ends up helping Muldoon several times as they go out into the park to accomplish goals. Speaking of which, in the book not only does Muldoon survive, he gets a fucking rocket launcher. It's established that the raptors' physiology makes them difficult to kill with gunshots, so explosives are the best way to kill them. However, his death scene in the movie is iconic and underlines the theme that even a hunter as experienced as Muldoon still has no capability to deal with dinosaurs effectively, since they are completely unknown to this world. Speaking of themes, one of them is the irony of Hammond saying "we spared no expense." It's both true and a total lie. He spared no expense in the areas where he has experience; the showmanship, the theater, the customer experience. However, he completely skimped out on security and employee pay, the latter of which to a dangerous degree. This comment is already long enough so I'll leave it here, but man, what a movie. Thank you for doing a video on it!
It’s been more than 30 years, and I still haven’t forgotten the absolute astonishment I felt in the theater when Ellie and Grant (and us!) first see the dinosaurs. And then Sam Neill totally nails it when he says, “They’re moving in herds. They *do* move in herds.” Just astounding.
Finally got to see this movie in theatres during Covid, and I can only imagine how stressful this would have been to see it on the big screen without having seen it before. The raining T-Rex scene is still absolutely terrifying.
I was 9 when this came out. I nearly broke my mums hand when we saw it at the cinema. And I refused to go into the toilets after the film too (didn't want to get eaten by a t rex 🤣). It's an amazing film!!
It really is different in the theater.
I brought my copy of the JP novel to boy scout camp when I was a kid. One of the scary stories around the campfire was just reading out the scene from the book where Nedry dies.
17:47 Actually it’s Pretty Clear that Even if Nedry hadn’t Pulled this Scheme, the Park was Doomed Regardless. The Dinosaurs Had Already Jumped the Reproduction Barrier and No One Even Knew about it.
It never occurred to me at the time how Grant went from hating kids to handling them when the situation required him to do the right thing. That hits home a LOT harder now than it did when I saw this in theaters as a kid.
in moments of being in the worst year of my life. I just rewatched this movie after watching this video... I cried tears of joy. as a man in his twenties. I cried remembering how good this movie was. How good those times were to me. thanks man. this video and every video of your content is always a win for me
Hey, keep up the good work! Things may look impossible, but life, uh, finds a way.
I truly hope that 2023 and beyond are much better years for you.
Hang in there dude. You've got this. All of your EGA buddies are rooting for you.
One of, if not the best movie ever made. It's amazing that it still holds up 30 years later. Story and especially special effects.
2:08 Fun Science Fact: It is now believed Velociraptor used their signature sickle claw to hold prey down as they delivered the killing blow with their jaws, much like modern raptors (birds of prey.)
6:38 aww the captions say "mooing in fear"😂😂 "I Bet"💀💀💀🫣 Lol savage
Rexy suddenly coming out of nowhere and attacking the raptors as the theme music blares triumphantly in the background never fails to put a smile on my face.
Fun fact: the Dinosaurs were supposed to be animated with stop motion. But after doing a test run with CGI, the main animators (forgot his name) response was “I’m out of a job.” Spielberg’s response? “Don’t you mean extinct?” They would end up using that line in the movie.
The kitchen scene is my personal favourite scene in the first movie. Like you said "Nothing can compare to this moment." And all the action is so good, I've always loved the freaky scenes.
I'm so glad you incorporated Spielberg's subtle nod to The Goonies into this.
18:28 Amusingly Jeff Goldblum recreated that pose in 2020 and you can get a funko pop of this pose.
Ok, I've got to sin the win on standing up straight when getting out of a helicopter. Helicopters usually angle the main rotor forward so in the front they're lower to the ground and some models are well within range of our heads (I personally that the H-60 variants can). Always listen to the crew on helicopter safety.
Always smart to listen to the professionals !
This is my all time favorite movie and has been sense I first saw it in theaters. I've watched it easily over a hundred times and never got tired of it.
Also a thing that people don’t appreciate is Rexy’s introduction has her behaving like. Well, an animal. Because she is an animal. When she Nudged the car it seemed like it was mostly out of curiosity. If lex and tim hadn’t shined a light in her eye and slammed the door. She probably wouldnt have realized there’s something IN the car and caused the kids to panic. All the motion sending her predatory instincts into overdrive. It’s like watching a cat try and get a treat out of an enrichment ball.
Also the Rexy trying to eat the tire but unable to. This is similar to how cats/dogs behave to things that they never encountered before. This is also works to contrasting the Raptors incredible intelligence. While T-Rex act as simply an animal with massive force of destruction, the Raptors act as a cunning demon. The contrasting personality make the movie has a rich flavour of dangers.
A work friend and I took our kids to this movie. Kids were aged 7-11, and while the other mom and I sat a reasonable distance from the screen, all the kids sat in the first row. During the scene where Tim is stuck on the fence while Ellie is turning all the power back on, the tension is just ratcheting up and up, when we hear this 7-year-old voice yelling from the front of the theater, “ Jump, Timmy, jump!!” To this day, I can’t watch that scene without yelling “Jump, Timmy, jump!!” 😂❤️😂❤️
Fun fact about the scene where the T. Rex puts its head in the car, the screams from the kids were genuine terror because the T. rex animatronic head went way too far down into the car. The scene where Ellie gets surprised by the raptor is also genuine
I remember seeing this in the theater with my parents when I was 13. I recall hearing a lot of little kids talking about Barney. A lot of parents ended up taking their crying kids out of the theater. The theater was packed when the lights went down and about half full when the credits rolled.
Words cannot describe how happy I am that you were finally able to get to this film!!! I'm also surprised to find out that you've seen other dinosaur-related media (& read the Jurassic Novels as well); not just the other Jurassic Films & the Land Before Time series but Camp Cretaceous, Disney's Dinosaur, Walking with Dinosaurs 3D, Dino King, Dinosaur Train & Gigantosaurus. I look forward to next week's EGA video in which you discuss EVERYTHING great about Jurassic World: Dominion (Hoping you're doing the Extended Edition?)!!! Here's a list of (Dinosaur/Prehistoric-Themed) Suggestions to consider for (Next Year's) EGA videos: -The Lost World: Jurassic Park -The Land Before Time -Disney's Dinosaur -We're Back: A Dinosaurs' Story -Walking with Dinosaurs 3D (Either the Cretaceous Cut or Cumberbatch Narration) -Ice Age -King Kong (2005 Film) -Jurassic Park III -Godzilla (1998) -Land of the Lost (2009)
Seconding Ice Age (2002)! I've been asking for an EGA Ice Age 1 for _years_ and would *love* to see it done on this channel!
Tim and Lex were really great, memorable kids. Child actors can be hit and miss, but these two were enjoyable to watch, and rarely annoying.
Yes! I usually want kids to get eaten, but not them. Or Newt. Lol
Not for me… imo they’re the most annoying kid characters on the franchise.
@@killert_7759 More than Masey? I doubt it pretty, pretty much.
@@adamtomascaicedogomez4048 maisie isn’t that annoying in jwd and is only slightly annoying in jwfk. Lex wasn’t too bad but Tim was hella annoying.
@@killert_7759 They are a great improvement over how they are in the book. Let me tell you I every time I've read the book, I wanted to reach in through the pages to yell at Lex. They switched their ages in the movie and SIGNIFICANTLY turned down how annoying they were.
The moat being there isn't technically a continuity error. It is mentioned very briefly earlier, about an hour 47 minutes 20 seconds, Donald and Hammond are talking about the safety precautions, Donald asked about the perimeter fence and Hammond continues saying-"and the concrete moat and the motion-tracking systems" president tell him to relax. It's honestly a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but is there.
12:46 Fun fact about this scene if i remember correctly; the trex malfunctioned in the rain. In this moment it was supposed to be looking into the car, not break the roof. The panic in the scene wasn't scripted because the robot wasn't supposed to do that
No, it was always supposed to break the glass, but there was still a malfunction where the big plane of glass was split into two pieces.
Jurassic Park is my favorite movie of all time, I can rewatch it and it never gets old. It's a true masterpiece. The narrative is so tight, minus a few minor continuity errors that are easily over looked. Each character gets a small arc, and the dinosaurs still hold up. I love it.
15:56 Grant: "Whatever you do, never ever ever ever look down" Grant: *look down Grant: *Eyes instantly visibly widen of fear/surprise I never realized that small detail until today!!
I love how ive seen this film so many times and still didn't notice the flat ground to cliff scene till you mentioned it
12:07 Hilarious considering that was how I ate my food at times. JP was such a huge influence on my childhood.
Jurassic Park has to be on my top ten favorite movies of all time. The influence and impact it had on movies in general, it’s beautiful!
Dude, more classic films please. The nostalgia makes me feel better, having them remembered like this.
13:30 i never noticed that he was "riding" the t rex nose until now, and i have seen this movie plenty of times
I saw this several times when it came out. But I also went to see other movies during its run, and even in other theaters you could still hear and feel the thud of Rexy's footsteps during the water glass scene. You *felt* that scene, it was just so perfect for the building tension. I wish I could go see this movie in theaters again. Such an experience! My friends and I were all obsessed.
I watched the original in theaters and it has been years since I have seen it. Thanks for doing it. You hit all the reasons I loved this movie. I had forgotten how genuinely funny it was. It’s due for a rewatch
Well, not all. To hit all of them this would have been a 127 minute long video.
Absolute classic, I wanted to be a palaeontologist at 5 because of this movie
Same here. Still want to be tbh
YUP, but I wasn't Born yet and when I saw JP3 I was TERRIFIED as F**K
I wanted to be a velociraptor because of this movie... I was a weird kid.
Same! I was 5 and it made me want to get into biology 😅
@@joshcreek9531 Nice :)
22:51 I really thought he was gonna say "That's why they don't let you touch the displays..." 😆
For a long time, other than Jurassic Park, I only knew of B.D. Wong from one other movie and it was an insane departure from Henry Wu. He played Howard Weinstein in Father of the Bride two years prior. Those roles and the voice acting for Mulan's Shang have been the majority of my experience with the actor, but it shows what a versatile actor he can be.
It’s only now having read the book many times that the reaction Malcolm has when seeing the Brachiosaur for the first time makes sense. When he say’s “you crazy son of a B!tch you did it” it’s pointing out that he was against the park from the very start and he now can’t believe Hammond went ahead and actually created the Park even though Malcolm warned him against it due to his chaos theory mathematics.
My absolute favorite film of all time since 3 years old it’s just perfect in my eyes and I love that nearly 30 years later it still is beloved by many
Born June 10th 1993. A day before this movie was released. Even tho I didn't know that at the time. It has always been my favorite movie. Icing on top. The newer movies always come out around my birthday. And the fam knows already. Take me to see the movie as a bday gift 💯 im with ya homie
The Dilophosaurus scene, you can hear Nedry say "I thought you were one of your big brothers" could elude to the fact that this is actually a younger adolescent dino of its pack, so its puny size doesn't necessarily mean ALL Dilophosaurus' in JP are that small. But I think the idea of Nedry being so smart in computer science, yet naïve to the biological understanding of the animals in the park, does present itself because he states "brothers" not sisters. So he was probably referring to "big brothers" as the bigger, chonkier species throughout the exhibits. Could go either way. I'm sure the paddocks had multiple sized dinos in various sizes and ages.
Thank you for this!!! I was 3 when I first saw it and I’ve been in love with dinosaurs since!
This might just be my favorite movie of all time. The characters, the special effects, the messaging, the plot, the music, all of it is perfect.
This is without a doubt my all time favorite movie. It came out a year before I was born, and I've been obsessed ever since.
4:30 Fun Fact - helicopter blades are flexible and don't hold their position well when spinning up or slowing down. The head ducking maybe instinctual, but it has a purpose.
I was on the refueling team for the helo on board my last ship (Coast Guard). We always ducked real low for that reason. We only stood up when directly next to the helo itself.
I can't put into words how much joy this video gave me. I adored this film before watching this video, and it's at a whole other order of magnitude now!
I hope that you one day do Sahara. One of the biggest box office bombs of all time, but it holds a place as one of my favorite popcorn movies of all time. Steve Zahn and McConaughey have some awesome chemistry, Rainn Wilson makes an appearance. It deserves a look from a positive pov.
I went down the aisle to the Jurassic Park theme song, so yes, I wholeheartedly agree that this is a masterpiece. I envy everybody who had the chance to see this in theatres when it came out. I was only six, so my parents didn't let me, so I saw it on the big screen during the 3D reruns era. Worth it, even though I already owned it on VHS and DVD at that point. Fun fact: the comic book adaptation actually had Grant and Sattler share a kiss (when they meet after Ellie turns on the power).
I saw this three times in the cinema and every damn time, the raptor bursting through the pipe got me. Still does to this day, even knowing for 30 years it's going to happen :P Also I remember the comic adaptation and it's sequel, shame that never was cannon, having raptors breeding and hunting in the rainforests of south america would have been a cool thing to mention in future entries in the franchise..... And yes, Nedry;s death scene in the book is just urgh.... And Hammond's poetic justice death too.
This was my first exposure to your channel and loved the video. This is my favorite movie of all time to the point I have the logo tattood on my arm. Hoping one day you'll cover my other favorite Titanic
This is one of those movies where i actually care about the human characters. People go to see these movies for the dinosaurs but also have very well written human characters that I actually felt and adore. The debate table was one of the best scenes in the movie. As a kid, I used to find that scene boring but as an adult now, I found to be absolutely fascinating. The human characters in this felt more like actual human beings rather than disposable annoying robots. This movie shows how to balance the human and animal storyline in the right way
Totally agree. The thing about this movie tho is the suspense it's perfect , that moment he says "we can't make it, because we're being hunted...run"
another reason the deinonychus was called velociraptor is that the species used to be called Velociraptor antirrhopus, it then changed to deinonychus antirrhopus but they stuck with velociraptor for the book and movie (although i think they do mention it is an antirrhopus and not a mongoliensis which is the proper velociraptor from asia)
14:00 I'm pretty sure that that exhibit lowers when there's a storm just in case power goes out and there is a backup generator to move it
Good theory, but I like his answer more
This was such a treat to see on a big screen as a kid. I only truly appreciated it years and years later, but man what a film. Would love to see it again in a movie theater.
This movie, and Disney's Dinosaur were my two favorite while I was growing up. I even have an iguanadon named Aladar.
God this was such a nice video to see after work. I watched this Movie so many times as a kid that I wore out the tape in the video cassette. That music would be in my dreams and I would hum it until it drove my parents crazy. When JP III came out in theaters, I told my parents they didn't have to get me a birthday present if they took me to see the movie. It brings back so many memories TvTb ALSO!!! A win you might have missed, when Nedry gets eaten, and the shaving cream can with the DNA samples of the dinos rolls away, it gets covered in river silt - which is the best way for remains (like dinos and DNA) to become fossilized and preserved. It's basically a "circle completed" kind of thing which I didn't completely understand until I was older.
I watched this movie for the first time when I was 2 and a 1/2 and I saw it in theaters for the 30th anniversary and it was beautiful, I didn’t even grow up in this time and it was an instant classic for me and it’s literally what shaped my entire childhood and personality
I’m a 2001 baby and this has been my favorite movie since I was a kid. You were 100% spot on that a lot of these moments would have had more impact in a theater. I saw it in theaters this last summer for the 30th anniversary and cried. It is a completely different experience in theaters.
12:54 this is the best shot in the movie, nobody can change my mind.