Throwback Thursday - Jurassic Park (1993)
Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, next month is officially February, which means that next month is Throwback Month. That's right, all month long, there will be a great number of Throwback reviews, and each year will have a different Throwback theme to it. Since it's the first year, I decided to do 90's Throwback Month. So, starting next Tuesday, you'll be seeing reviews of an assortment of 90's movies. But that's next month. Today, for Throwback Thursday, I thought I'd take a look at a 90's classic that I didn't think to put on the list for next month (oops.), and that is Jurassic Park.
Released in 1993, this sci-fi classic was based on the novel of the same name by author Micheal Crichton, and the film was directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg, as I mentioned in my Mask of Zorro review, was a producer on a number of iconic films in the 90's through his company Amblin Entertainment. This was one of the ones that he was director of, and it's still hailed as a classic to this day. The movies opens in the island of Isla Nublar, located 120 miles west of Costa Rica and home of a new theme park known as Jurassic Park. On the island, a number of staff are bringing in their latest asset, a Velociraptor. However, while attempting to get the animal into her pen, she devours a park employee when he opens the gate to the Raptor pen. The other workers attempt to stop her, but are unsuccessful. Several days later, at an Amber Mine in the Dominican Republic, lawyer Donald Gennaro speaks with the mine foreman, who works for InGEN CEO John Hammond, who is not present, regarding the incident, and how the insurance company, as well as the park's investors, are worried about the safety of the park, du to the recent incident, the insurance people want tow experts to sign off on the island so that the park can open to the public within a year as planned. It is here that we cut to a dinosaur fossil dig site in Montana, where Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler are working on digging up Raptor skeletons. After demonstrating a new form of looking for dinosaur bones, the dig is interrupted by an arriving helicopter. It is here that we finally meet John Hammond, who wants both Grant and Sattler to join him at the park for the weekend, and look into the park's star attractions, even offering to fund their dig site for a further three years if they accept.
In Costa Rica, park employee Dennis Nedry is met by a man named Dodgson, who gives him a case containing $750,000, with the promise of much more if Nedry gets a selection of dinosaur embryos off the island so that Dodgson's company, BioSys (a rival to InGEN), can use them for their own research. On board the InGEN helicopter, Grant and Sattler meet both Gennaro and Dr. Ian Malcolm. Malcolm is a mathematician whose expertise is in chaos theory. Upon landing on the island, the party transfers to two Jeeps, where they are driven to a large grassy field, upon which they all lay eyes on a massive Brachiosaurus. Upon seeing other dinosaurs nearby, the patty then heads to the park's Visitor's Center, where they learn how they were able to clone 65 million year old dinosaur DNA. After learning more info about the dinosaurs in the park from geneticist Dr. Henry Wu, the party then heads to the raptor pen, where they see the park feeders bringing in a large bull to feed the raptors. Grant and Malcolm learn more about the raptors from raptor expert Robert Muldoon, while Hammond tells Sattler about the pen's viewing area. After chatting about safety concerns regarding the animals in the park, and how the park can make a lot of money with them (oh wait, just the lawyer was talking about economics). The others a joined by Lex and Tim, Hammond's grandchildren, who will be joining Grant, Sattler, Malcolm, and Gennaro on the tour of the park. And, I think I'll stop there. If you haven't seen the movie yet: (A) what's wrong with you, and (B) go watch the movie already, it's worth it.
Jurassic Park was a favorite of mine as a kid. Yeah, I watched this one as a kid quite a lot. The visual effects back then were unbelievable, they seemed that real. The effects continue to hold up even to this day. Seeing everything from the Brachiosaurs, Velociraptors, and even the Triceratops was just jaw-dropping. Heck it's still jaw-dropping today how good the effects were. And don't get me started of the Tyrannosaurus attack, which is easily the highlight of the movie for many fans, myself and the Nostalgia Critic. The visual effects are that good. Cast wise, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum are all fantastic, and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing them return for the next chapter in 2021. Richard Attenborough was great here as well, and other actors like Wayne Knight, Bob Peck, BD Wong, Martin Ferrero, and Samuel L. Jackson were absolutely fantastic. Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello were both great as Hammond's grandchildren, and are definitely among the better performances by child actors in the 90's. All in all, Jurassic Park, considered at the time of release to be one of the greatest films of all time, is still a classic today. The effects still hold up, even by today's standards, and kids today can still enjoy it. I give Jurassic Park a rating of 5/5. This is Chuck signing off. See you guys next time when we begin 90's Throwback Month.
Released in 1993, this sci-fi classic was based on the novel of the same name by author Micheal Crichton, and the film was directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg, as I mentioned in my Mask of Zorro review, was a producer on a number of iconic films in the 90's through his company Amblin Entertainment. This was one of the ones that he was director of, and it's still hailed as a classic to this day. The movies opens in the island of Isla Nublar, located 120 miles west of Costa Rica and home of a new theme park known as Jurassic Park. On the island, a number of staff are bringing in their latest asset, a Velociraptor. However, while attempting to get the animal into her pen, she devours a park employee when he opens the gate to the Raptor pen. The other workers attempt to stop her, but are unsuccessful. Several days later, at an Amber Mine in the Dominican Republic, lawyer Donald Gennaro speaks with the mine foreman, who works for InGEN CEO John Hammond, who is not present, regarding the incident, and how the insurance company, as well as the park's investors, are worried about the safety of the park, du to the recent incident, the insurance people want tow experts to sign off on the island so that the park can open to the public within a year as planned. It is here that we cut to a dinosaur fossil dig site in Montana, where Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler are working on digging up Raptor skeletons. After demonstrating a new form of looking for dinosaur bones, the dig is interrupted by an arriving helicopter. It is here that we finally meet John Hammond, who wants both Grant and Sattler to join him at the park for the weekend, and look into the park's star attractions, even offering to fund their dig site for a further three years if they accept.
In Costa Rica, park employee Dennis Nedry is met by a man named Dodgson, who gives him a case containing $750,000, with the promise of much more if Nedry gets a selection of dinosaur embryos off the island so that Dodgson's company, BioSys (a rival to InGEN), can use them for their own research. On board the InGEN helicopter, Grant and Sattler meet both Gennaro and Dr. Ian Malcolm. Malcolm is a mathematician whose expertise is in chaos theory. Upon landing on the island, the party transfers to two Jeeps, where they are driven to a large grassy field, upon which they all lay eyes on a massive Brachiosaurus. Upon seeing other dinosaurs nearby, the patty then heads to the park's Visitor's Center, where they learn how they were able to clone 65 million year old dinosaur DNA. After learning more info about the dinosaurs in the park from geneticist Dr. Henry Wu, the party then heads to the raptor pen, where they see the park feeders bringing in a large bull to feed the raptors. Grant and Malcolm learn more about the raptors from raptor expert Robert Muldoon, while Hammond tells Sattler about the pen's viewing area. After chatting about safety concerns regarding the animals in the park, and how the park can make a lot of money with them (oh wait, just the lawyer was talking about economics). The others a joined by Lex and Tim, Hammond's grandchildren, who will be joining Grant, Sattler, Malcolm, and Gennaro on the tour of the park. And, I think I'll stop there. If you haven't seen the movie yet: (A) what's wrong with you, and (B) go watch the movie already, it's worth it.
Jurassic Park was a favorite of mine as a kid. Yeah, I watched this one as a kid quite a lot. The visual effects back then were unbelievable, they seemed that real. The effects continue to hold up even to this day. Seeing everything from the Brachiosaurs, Velociraptors, and even the Triceratops was just jaw-dropping. Heck it's still jaw-dropping today how good the effects were. And don't get me started of the Tyrannosaurus attack, which is easily the highlight of the movie for many fans, myself and the Nostalgia Critic. The visual effects are that good. Cast wise, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum are all fantastic, and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing them return for the next chapter in 2021. Richard Attenborough was great here as well, and other actors like Wayne Knight, Bob Peck, BD Wong, Martin Ferrero, and Samuel L. Jackson were absolutely fantastic. Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello were both great as Hammond's grandchildren, and are definitely among the better performances by child actors in the 90's. All in all, Jurassic Park, considered at the time of release to be one of the greatest films of all time, is still a classic today. The effects still hold up, even by today's standards, and kids today can still enjoy it. I give Jurassic Park a rating of 5/5. This is Chuck signing off. See you guys next time when we begin 90's Throwback Month.
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