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Summary: Dinosaur rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Who dosen't like dinosaur? This movie was awsome! Sam Neil is at his best!
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Summary: The Dinos look like claymation (Just Kidding)
Review: The effects are astounding, so astounding that the effects over shadow even the Ian Malcolm character, which is the central character in the book. I wanted more of Ian Malcolm because I studied Mathematics in College, and the book is brilliant. Laura Dern is effective screaming and so are the kids. The human character that has the spotlight is Alan Grant who is too taciturn for for this roller coaster ride. If Goldblum wouldve given a performance as the book suggests and the Lost World, it would have been Academy Award material ( Non Technically) As a movie, it is excellent though but not 5 stars
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Summary: Jurassic Park
Review: I purchased the 'Widescreen Collector's edition' and it is not wide screen. There is no option on the menu or bonus materials. Buyer beware!!!!!
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Summary: The dinos are worth the trip
Review: Yea, yea, the actors are awful. But the dinosaurs totally outdo all of that, and you forget that the people are fakey. The plot is fine. Everything makes sense. And the T-rex is great, as are the raptors. This is where the big dinosaur adventure begins. If you're interested in it, watch it. If not, don't.
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Summary: Full of vision and raw terror; Speilberg works his magic!
Review: "Jurassic Park" is a special effects extravaganza, a marvel of the modern age of moviemaking in which anything is possible. Through Steven Speilberg's vision and scope, the dream of dinosaurs comes to life amidst a story full of action and suspense. Director Steven Speilberg guides a powerhouse cast through a balance of jaw-dropping amazement and moments of sheer terror as a world unlike anything we've ever seen onscreen goes from peaceful to nightmarish. While having a troubled time finding funds for their archeological digs, Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Satler (Laura Dern) are payed a visit by billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), who offers to give them their money in return for their opinions on a new theme park he is opening on a secluded island off the west coast of South America. Eager to do what they can, the two agree, and away they go, joining Dr. Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum) and Don Gennaro (Martin Ferrero), who are along to investigate the park's safety. The cast for the picture brings out the best in each character. Neill and Dern are a nice couple with an off-beat chemistry, and they bring out the eagerness in each of their characters. Attenborough is wonderfully eccentric as his role requires him to be, while Goldblum provides subtle comical relief as Malcom. Once they arrive, they discover that the park is not a mere theme park, but a place where real dinosaurs, from those as tall as trees to those smaller that a car, roam the lush, green terrain. Their creation stems from DNA authoring, in which the DNA strands from a dinosaur are taken and mixed with that of a frog in order to complete the sequence needed for birth. Some cynics will sneer at this fictitious plot device, but really, this is Speilberg's territory, and it fits in well with the rest of the story. Any inhibitions of your own will be squandered once the second act begins. A tropical storm makes its way to the island, right in the middle of a tour of the park, but not before adding two more visitors, Hammond's grandchildren, to the equation. After a greedy park worker steals embryos from the park's refrigeration chamber, he must shut down all the electrical gates in order to make it to his destined drop-off point. With those fences off, our little group is stuck in the middle of the park without any way of getting back except on foot, and the predators are free to roam the entire island, wreaking havoc everywhere. Speilberg's ability to overload us with super-charged scenes of suspense and action is still in its finest form. The darkness of night and storm add to the immense terror of not knowing what is on the other side of those fences, but once the tyrannosaurus rex emerges, all hell breaks loose in a stunning ten-minute sequence that leaves us on the edge of our seat. One of the first things a child learns about in his years of elementary school are prehistoric creatures, which is what makes this movie so special. All those childhood fantasies come to life in Speilberg's visionary film, and while special effects have become far more advanced since the making of this movie, there is no denying that this is one of the most spectacular effects films ever made. The wizardry of creating the dinosaurs gives us a unique vision of their enormous scope and scale, while also keeping the fear at a maximum. There may never be a movie that captures our imaginations so vividly as "Jurassic Park," a movie that captures the attention of adults as well as children for many years after its initial release. It's a pure piece of fantasy, but one that is kept at the maximum with special effects and a high suspense factor. It may not be the most enthralling movie ever made, but it certainly packs a whallop.
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Summary: Lame story
Review: This movie is totally lame. It is an established fact that dinosaurs died thousands of years ago and there are no dinos alive today. The story here is that somehow some of the dinos managed to hide in a little island unknown to man and survived, only to be discovered by the characters in the movie. It is so unbelievable that even my 8 year old kid brother was laughing at the absurd story.
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Summary: The First and BEST
Review: When young Steven Spielberg was first offered the screenplay for "Jaws," he said he would direct the movie on one condition: That he didn't have to show the shark for the first hour. By slowly building the audience's apprehension, he felt, the shark would be much more impressive when it finally arrived. He was right. I wish he had remembered that lesson when he was preparing "Jurassic Park," his new thriller set in a remote island theme park where real dinosaurs have been grown from long-dormant DNA molecules. The movie delivers all too well on its promise to show us dinosaurs. We see them early and often, and they are indeed a triumph of special effects artistry, but the movie is lacking other qualities that it needs even more, such as a sense of awe and wonderment, and strong human story values. It's clear, seeing this long-awaited project, that Spielberg devoted most of his effort to creating the dinosaurs. The human characters are a ragtag bunch of half-realized, sketched-in personalities, who exist primarily to scream, utter dire warnings, and outwit the monsters. Richard Attenborough, as the millionaire who builds the park, is given a few small dimensions - he loves his grandchildren, he's basically a good soul, he realizes the error of tampering with nature. But there was an opportunity here to make his character grand and original, colorful and oversize, and instead he comes across as unfocused and benign. As the film opens, two dinosaur experts (Sam Neill and Laura Dern) arrive at the park, along with a mathematician played by Jeff Goldblum whose function in the story is to lounge about uttering vague philosophical imprecations. Also along are Attenborough's grandchildren, and a lawyer, who is the first to be eaten by a dinosaur. Attenborough wants the visitors to have a preview of his new park, where actual living prehistoric animals live in enclosures behind tall steel fences, helpfully labeled "10,000 volts." The visitors set off on a tour in remote-controlled utility vehicles, which stall when an unscrupulous employee (Wayne Knight) shuts down the park's computer program so he can smuggle out some dinosaur embryos. Meanwhile, a tropical storm hits the island, the beasts knock over the fences, and Neill is left to shepherd the kids back to safety while they're hunted by towering meat-eaters. The plot to steal the embryos is handled on the level of a TV sitcom. The Knight character, an overwritten and overplayed blubbering fool, drives his Jeep madly through the storm and thrashes about in the forest. If this subplot had been handled cleverly - with skill and subtlety, as in a caper movie - it might have added to the film's effect. Instead, it's as if one of the Three Stooges wandered into the story. The subsequent events - after the creatures get loose - follow an absolutely standard outline, similar in bits and pieces to all the earlier films in this genre, from "The Lost World" and "King Kong" right up to the upcoming "Carnosaur." True, because the director is Spielberg, there is a high technical level to the execution of the cliches. Two set-pieces are especially effective: A scene where a beast mauls a car with screaming kids inside, and another where the kids play hide and seek with two creatures in the park's kitchen. But consider what could have been. There is a scene very early in the film where Neill and Dern, who have studied dinosaurs all of their lives, see living ones for the first time. The creatures they see are tall, majestic leaf-eaters, grazing placidly in the treetops. There is a sense of grandeur to them. And that is the sense lacking in the rest of the film, which quickly turns into a standard monster movie, with screaming victims fleeing from roaring dinosaurs. Think back to another ambitious special effects picture from Spielberg, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977). That was a movie about the "idea" of visitors from outer space. It inspired us to think what an awesome thing it would be, if earth were visited by living alien beings. You left that movie shaken and a little transformed. It was a movie that had faith in the intelligence and curiosity of its audience. In the 16 years since it was made, however, big-budget Hollywood seems to have lost its confidence that audiences can share big dreams. "Jurassic Park" throws a lot of dinosaurs at us, and because they look terrific (and indeed they do), we're supposed to be grateful. I have the uneasy feeling that if Spielberg had made "Close Encounters" today, we would have seen the aliens in the first 10 minutes, and by the halfway mark they'd be attacking Manhattan with death rays. Because the movie delivers on the bottom line, I'm giving it four stars. You want great dinosaurs, you got great dinosaurs. Spielberg enlivens the action with lots of nice little touches; I especially liked a sequence where a smaller creature leaps suicidally on a larger one, and they battle to the death. On the monster movie level, the movie works and is entertaining. But with its profligate resources, it could have been so much more.
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Summary: What else is to be said?
Review: I have no clue what else to say about this movie that hasn't been said. It's groundbreaking, entertaining, funny, scary, like Jaws genetically engineered. Jurassic Park is one of the finest pieces of Sci-Fi ever filmed. I remember seeing it opening day. I was....7 or 8 years old. And I was mesmerized by these hulking giants of 65 million years ago suddenly in the real world. The Tyrannosaurus Rex is the definite star of this film. She has the most kills, the most screen time of all the dinosaurs, and is just fun to watch, especially the classic scene where she saves the humans from the raptors. This movie probably IS owned by eveyrone in America right now, and the DVD edition will make it able for future generations to experience what we all did eight years ago. An adventure 65 million years in the making, Jurassic Park.
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Summary: One of the best thrillers!!!
Review: Why is it that according to critics, movies and music for that matter always has to be arty and have a lot of depth? Sure, Jurassic Park might have a weak story, but who cares really? It's interesting nonetheless, and damn if it isn't exciting and amazing. I still remember the first time I watched Jurassic Park. It was in the theatre, and my goodness, I was totally blown away. The special effects in this movie are amazing, even today, and the scenes with the T-Rex and Raptors are absolutely thrilling, especially the raptor scenes. I love the scene where the two raptors are in the kitchen with the two kids. Definately my favorite scene in the movie. I can appreciate a good, critically acclaimed movie when I want to, but sometimes you just need to sit back and let yourself be thrilled, and endulge yourself in great special effects without having to worry about the symbolic meaning of this, or the meaning of that. Critics need to learn to enjoy movies like this for what they are, thrillers. You pay your 6 or 7 dollars, and for roughly two (in this case 3) hours you're brought on an exciting roller coaster ride of a movie. And really, the Jurassic Park series so far is one of the best in that category.
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Summary: A Great Movie! A Better DVD!
Review: When I originally bought this movie on video, I bought it in widescreen so I have something to compare the picture to. It's perfect. This is one of my favorite films so I was overly excited about its DVD release. Special features include: "The Making Of Jurassic Park", Theatrical trailors for "Jurassic Park", "The Lost World", and "Jurassic Park 3", Dinosaur Encyclopedia, Production Notes, Cast & Filmmakers, a Direct Hotlink to the Set of "Jurassic Park 3", and for DVD-Rom, a screensaver and access to Live Web Events! Palientologists Alan Grant and his lover are invited to an island inhabited by dinosaurs fenced in cages. But when the dinosaurs escape, all they want is to survive. This film has great special effects and excellent storytelling and acting. Spielberg is a genius!
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