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Summary: A movie with bite.
Review: Written by Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park is one of the big budget special effect jobs that the critics love to bag. So what! It's awe inspiring. The cinematography is nothing short of perfect. The effects are seamless and the action is heart stopping. On the less than brilliant side, the characters were mainly two dimensional. Specifically, the lawyer was a joke, (intentional but unnecessary). I just wish that the game warden's character had been explored a little more.
The plot is straightforward. We have a scientific breakthrough that brings the dinosaurs back to life after a much touted 65 million year absence. Strangely, instead of scientific motivation, it has been created for financial reasons. (-: A game park to be precise. But before it opens, the backers want a run through with some experts, (and a couple of cute kids), in order to check for safety. It may well have been safe, except that the one man programming company that set up the systems, (who by the way should get the programming god of the century award), is selling out to the baddies who want some dino-embryos.
The next thing you know, T-rex has escaped and is snacking on lawyers and the rest of the good guys are battling it out against a pack of vicious Velociraptors. Lots of tension and suspense here. But don't worry it is a Hollywood movie and therefore gets a happy ending. Look out for the sequel, which if Crichton's novel is any guide, will be a "me too" version of the first movie. Never mind, the first one was good enough for two.
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Summary: Too many special effects, too little plot...
Review: I will admit, Jurassic Park is a great video to watch with the sound system way up, the lights off, and a big screen TV at the ready. The dinosaurs are quite stunning, and seem almost alive. However, it pales in comparison to the book. The movie focuses mainly on the plot of the dinosaurs escaping and generally creating chaos. The science is downplayed in favor of killer dinos chasing people. How lovely. The book, on the other hand, seems much more...well, realistic. It could almost happen, if you were to pretend that cloning was more reliable than it is now and that nearly complete dinosaur DNA was found. It does go into a lot of detail in the scientific areas, but not in a boring way. The dinosaurs are much more lifelike-the raptors are not out to kill humans, merely on the run and very hungry, with nothing to eat and a bunch of humans wandering around. All in all, if you want a story full of awesome special effects and not much else, watch the movie. It's at least worth a rental or two. If you want to read a suspenseful and well written story that combines thrill with science (and learn a bit about the chaos theroy at the same time), read the book.
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Summary: Entertaining; book's better
Review: the character develpoment is a problem , yet the overall experiance is quite entertaining. the focus of the book is almost negelgeted in the move. As with all Critian books, this book greatly focused on a complicated field in math, the chaos therory. the book focused on the chaos in micro situations, yet the movie faild to do this. yet it was better than the second movie, which was suposed to deal with interspeice relations. the movie was still good, unlike the second which had a little girl kill a V.raptor with gymnastics. whats that? that just made the movie stink, along with the trex in the city; which was not in the book because it had nothing to do with interspecie relations! if the book was followed, it would be better; and more complicated:)
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Summary: Typical SPielberg garbage...
Review: This is a typical Spielberg garbage: empty characters, a cast of bad actors, the full emphasis on special effects and not the history. Blergh!
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Summary: spectacular effects
Review: Pros:*Amazing Effects. *Good direction. *Creepy! *Bright and simple. *The T-Rex is awesome. Cons: *Jeff Goldblum Bottom line:Entertaining.
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Summary: Its A Dinosaur Mommie!
Review: I don't like dinosaurs. Never have. zzzzzzzzz
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Summary: Interestingly spun from the novel.
Review: The novel Jurassic Park gives us a glimpse of what could happen if the human were to tamper with the DNA of extinct animals. The movie brings that glimpse to life, using state-of-the-art special effects to create the mammoth creatures and a talented cast to carry out the story. Sam Neill and Laura Dern star as Allen and Ellie Grant, two archeological diggers who are called upon by John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to inspect and give their OK for his newest park, a park that breeds dinosaurs through advanced genetic technology. While being taken on a tour of the park, a tropical storm strikes the island, and that, combined with the shenanigans of a conniving park worker (Wayne Knight) on the take for embryos, begin to shut down the park's security systems and electrical fencing. When the monsters begin to break free of their restraints, what was supposed to be a fun tour through the park becomes a nightmarish race against death and time for Allen Grant and Hammond's two grandchildren. Special effects in this film, while they were only made in 1993, are seamless and utterly believable. The acting leaves nothing to be desired, with compelling performances from the supporting cast as well as the leads. An interesting twist on the not-so-unthinkable, this film is one of Speilberg's best. One question: where is the DVD version?
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Summary: Jurassic Park (another fabulous hit from Spielberg)
Review: On the small remote island of Isla Nublar, seventy-five miles off the west coast of Costa Rica, man brought nature's most extraordinary creatures back from the past using a special technique of recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA. Now dinosaurs extinct for sixty-five million years roam "Jurassic Park", an amusement park on the island created by Scottish professor John Hammond (Richard Attenborough, Lord of England) and his genetic engineering company, InGen (International Genetic Technologies, Inc.). But when something goes wrong, and security systems fail all over the park, including the fences that keep the animals in their paddocks, paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobontonist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum, star of this film's sequel) and more make a desperate attempt to escape the island gone haywire... in one piece. With appearances by Bob Peck as raptor expert Robert Muldoon, B.D. Wong as Jurassic Park genetic scientist Henry Wu, Samuel L. Jackson as control room computer operator John Arnold, Martin Ferrero as John Hammond's lawyer, Donald Gennaro, Wayne Knight as the fat slob Dennis Nedry, and Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards as the young brother and sister Tim (othy) and Lex (Alexis) Murphy (last name is only mentioned in the novel). A marvelous full-length adventure vividly entertaining and suspenseful from maybe the most successful director, Steven Spielberg ("Jaws", "E.T.") and author Michael Crichton (writer of "Congo" and many more successful novels). A must-see movie!
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Summary: Pandering to Special Effects
Review: Steven Spielberg masterfully conveyed primeval terror in his 1993 mega-hit, Jurassic Park. Fortunetly, I read the Michael Crichton's novel in anticipation of seeing the movie. If Steven Spielberg's rendition is also among his weakest stories, it is because he did not remain true to the Michael Crichton novel -- a masterfully told story of mankind's *real* terror: human greed.
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Summary: GRAPHICS
Review: WOW IS ALL I CAN SAY CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT ALL OF THE DINOS LOOKED REAL. WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY OHHHHHHH......ABOUT 4-5 YEARS I SAW IT AND DID THINK IT WAS REAL. I WENT TO BED AND STARTED SEEING RAPTERS. I JUST LOVED IT AND THE HUMOR WAS A GOOD ADD-ON. YOU DID IT AGAIN STEVE.
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