Life….finds a way.
A movie that was a million years in the making (that was the tagline…) debuted in theaters 27 years ago today, and that was the original Jurassic Park.
Every generation seemingly has that blockbuster defining film, something that redefines film making, inspires many, and is a cherished story they will keep with them forever. While I can’t say what that movie is today? I can say the ‘generation defining’ movie for me was Jurassic Park, and I saw it 5 times in theaters….thanks Mom and Dad.
Jurassic Park is one of those movies you can’t love. It’s a crazy movie about a man with too much money that built a theme park with real live dinosaurs that want’s the opinion of professionals. Of course, crap goes crazy and dinosaurs run wild in the park! But you gotta think back to 1993 when this movie came out…at the time, digital animation was VERY much in its infancy. Stop animation, drawn pictures, and claymation were still the standard….it was fake looking, but we all just kinda accepted it.
Until Jurassic Park came along and redefined how movies were made with the groundbreaking technology of bringing what looked like real dinosaurs to life thanks to computer graphics and animation. For a kid and anyone who saw this movie back in 1993? It was mind blowing…you REALLY thought they brought back dinosaurs back from the dead and filmed them on screen. Even today, in 2020…the animation of these dinosaurs STILL holds up and looks extremely real. Even this scene below still gives me chills….the music, the presentation, the flow of the scene is nearly perfect.
As a kid, I fell for Jurassic Park…HARD. I had to have the toys, which thanks to being a fortunate kid, I had a lot of great Jurassic Park toys…still do somewhere in my parents basement.
I can still watch this movie today and have fun. The characters, the realistic dinos, the flow of action, horror, and thrill? It’s all there, it’s pure Stephen Spielberg. Not so much the sequels, but man that original was gold.
