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Summary: "it's a good book----uh, movie!"
Review: The book was good. The movie is good also. Steven Spielberg's box office hit "Jurassic Park" is good enough to rival "Jaws" (well, maybe not). The story is a very original one, even thought Michael Crichton thought it up. Richard Attenborough owns and finances a huge island amusement park. Why is it so special? Because it's populated with cloned dinosaurs!
Sam Neill is perfect in the role of Dr. Grant, the dinosaur-loving scientist who, along with his assistant/girlfriend, is invited to review the Park. Jeff Goldblum provides comic relief as a mathematician who is invited also for reasons unknown.
And what's a plot without a problem? After losing electrical power, several vicious dinosaurs escape and wreak havoc on our characters (but where did all the hundreds of Park employees go? Spielberg never got around to that). And the computer-animated special effects are AWESOME!
"Jurassic Park" boats several very frightening scens, particularly where a pair of deadly raptors stalk Attenborough's grandchildren in a kitchen. And then there's the infamous part involving a jeep and the T-rex.
Spielberg has done it again! He has created a modern classic! Kudos go to Goldblum, who really makes this film memorable.
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Summary: A Classic!
Review: Jurassic Park is a movie you will never forget. Steven Speilberg has done it again. Although not as good as Jaws, it's a movie that stands on it's own. Sam Neil, proabably the best preformance in his career, is a Dinosoaur reseraching, along with his girlfriend. They are both invited to Jurassic Park. Very good scenes makes this movie a classic. Soundtrack is amazing. A movie you can't rent, you just have to buy!
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Summary: 5/5 one of my favorite movies
Review: OH MY GOD. I just recently saw this movie for about the 100th time and realized that this movie was mad in 1993?!?
Yes you read it right 1993 if I have caused anyone a heart attack I appoligise but i find it amazing that special effects as good as these were produced in 1993! Besides that these have got to be the most loveable characters ever in a movie.
Ian Malcolm...you gotta love that guy, John Hammond...I dont think ive ever seen a cooler old guy, and Nedry is by far one of the coolest, funniest, stupidest villans ever. Not to mentin satler, grant, lex, tim, Mr. Arnold, or Genero who are all also very good. Put those those things togeather plus spielberg and a great story you got a killer movie, which was what was made.
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Summary: 5/5 one of my favorite movies
Review: OH MY GOD. I just recently saw this movie for about the 100th time and realized that this movie was mad in 1993?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Yes you read it right 1993 if I have caused anyone a heart attack I appoligise but i find it amazing that special effects as good as these were produced in 1993!!!!! Besides that these have got to be the most loveable characters ever in a movie.
Ian Malcolm...you gotta love that guy, John Hammond...I dont think ive ever seen a cooler old guy, and Nedry is by far one of the coolest, funniest, stupidest villans ever. Not to mentin satler, grant, lex, tim, Mr. Arnold, or Genero who are all also very good. Put those those things togeather plus spielberg and a great story you got a killer movie, which was what was made.
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Summary: JURASSIC PARK
Review: JURASSIC PARK is a film about a millionare who builds a large theme park on a Costa Rica island, and populates it with genetically-created dinosaurs. The millionare invites a paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician, and his two grandchildren to experience the park. Soon, a storm sweeps over the island and all the electric power in the park shuts off, and the dinosaurs are able to break out of their cages and terrorize the visitors.
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Summary: Great DVD, trade off with Dolby Digital version
Review: All in all, a great DVD. The first scene with the TRex is phenomenal in the surround sound environment. Is there much difference detween DD and DTS? Not that I could tell. I do love DTS in general, but not sure the difference is too appreciable here. Question is.. are the extras on the DD version more valuable to you than the slight improvement DTS provides on this disc?
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Summary: One of the best movies I ever saw!
Review: Jurasic park was very well made. The dinosaurus looked real.This is a great film and is very exsiting. I liked the part when the t-rex stuck her head into the car top window and the glass covered the kids and it kepted them safe.So come to your video store and bye Jurasic park.Great job Steaven Speilberg!
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Summary: Jurassic Park is no longer just a movie, it's a phenomenon!
Review: What can I say about this movie that hasn't already been said in thousands of reviews previously. I love this movie. I love dinosaurs. Ever since 1st grade(I'm almost 34 now)I've loved these beasties. The whole Jurassic Park Trilogy (and how long will it simply remain a trilogy?!?)are simply great, sit-down, grab a bucket of popcorn, eye-candy movies. Plot? They have some, but if you want plot, watch Shindler's List, or Gone with the Wind. This is dinosaurs running wild, and what's wrong with that? Oh, the Tyrannosaur scene is still the best "movie monster" scene ever!
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Summary: You Can't Beat Those Dinos!!
Review: I loved Jurassic Park!! Unsurpassed special effects! A less-than-stellar plot is MORE than made up for by the dinosaurs themselves. A super thrill-ride of a movie!Jeff Goldblum, as usual, is excellent! He adds the humor to this film. He's given all the good lines to say ........ Goldblum (after narrowly escaping a rather large predator in a high-speed chase): "Think they'll have THAT on the tour?!" Goldblum (reacting to a disappointing dinosaur-less tour of the park): "Now, John, you will eventually be having DINOSAURS on your dinosaur tour, right? Right?" :)
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Summary: Read the book instead
Review: If I had to say one good thing about this film its that the effects on the dinosaurs are very good and the overall feel (including the soundtrack) is very professional. But that's where it ends. Because Dinosaurs capture the hearts of many children Speilberg probably thought that his remade models of these creatures would carry the film by themselves. WRONG. This isn't even worth the comparison with the book. The first 120 odd pages are left out, not to mention about 80 pages taken from other places in the book. That's HALF THE BOOK. Really cool parts are just left out. And what's worse is that CHARACTERS are left out. Leaving out the technical stuff is all fair and good (it's great in a book but would be out of place in a film), but surely characters and whole scenes should stay in the film? There were relatively important characters in the book that appeared once or twice (if at all) in the film. Perhaps they were too adult to put in a film designed for the family, but its not a childrens story! If he wanted to do a spiritual sequal to ET then he shouldn't have chosen this film to do it! Many other things are wrong as well - in the film Alan Grant hates kids, in the book he loves them. In the film, Grant and Sattler are implied to be some sort of item - in the book there's a 20 year age difference and she's his student. People die who survive in the book and vice versa. (...) The overall feel of the film, whilst being professional like I said earlier, is just too much like Hollywood. There's too much effort to make it a simple plot (there are other themes that run through in the book) and the overall intention is to make this seem like a money-making blockbuster. It also misses out the important social commentry concerning science that the book makes (I'll leave that for you to find out). The book makes you believe that one day, maybe, just maybe, we'll be able to create dinosaurs. Of course you know it's not gonna happen, but for a short time, you feel like it just might be able to happen. The film on the other hand just seems like the fantasy that it is. Speilberg was great with Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, and he proved that he could make gritty, powerful and realistic films. Here, I wasn't so impressed. Next time Steve, don't waste such great technology and such a fantastic story on such a one-dimensional family film.
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