Jurassic Park (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]
by Steven Spielberg
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Actor: Bob Peck, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough, Sam NeillDirector: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Gerald R. Molen
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
Producer: Colin Wilson
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
Producer: Lata Ryan
Writer: David Koepp
Writer: Michael Crichton
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Running Time: 127 minutes
Release Date: 1997-09-09
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios
VHS Movie Reviews of Jurassic Park (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]
Movie Review: Chilean sea bass, I believe
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1993 immortal offering from Steven Schpielboig is No. 2 on my Deeply Personal Series of film reviews. You'll have to hunt for the others. Like a disappointing Easter egg.
JURASSIC PARK was a kind of comeback for Spielberg, who ruined himself with revolting THE COLOR PURPLE. Not just that: JURASSIC PARK yanked Hollybrood out of the late 1980s, which was badly needed. The CGI...well! Those velociraptors!! My mother jumped and ran from the living room when she saw those. She asked me if they were real animals. She was born in 1917, give her a break. She was nearly 25 before she knew of the existence of alligators.
This movie defines smart, elegant, cool, action, adventure and education without breaking a sweat. Spielberg's heart was still in his work--that would evaporate rapidly after this film--and in JURASSIC PARK, it shows all of Spielberg's heart. Like a latter-day E.T. The idea that a devious billionaire (Hammond, played by the long-lived and legendary Sir Richard Attenborough) could manipulate dino-mtDNA and create living dinosaurs was so incredible. This film gave the idea to the public, because the genuine research that inspired the film was just too boring, kinda like this review.
Hammond's InGen Industries was scary as hell, even though the film did not go into it like Dr. Crichton's original novel. It is worth watching because of that alone: the corporation as angel-of-death, the billionaire-owner-as-God, the mathematician-as-warning-prophet-of-doom, and the innocents (Alan and Ellie) who just want to keep doing science and experience the wonder. Later they accuse Hammond of destroying the natural order and its wonder.
Einstein made that same charge against scientists in 1944. And no, that is not a communist idea. It is what is on the screen and it is the truth as Spielberg wanted to express it. He was only following Einstein's lead in this line of thought.
The crown jewel of JURASSIC PARK is the CGI. There was nothing like it at the time, and the CGI being used here and there in a few frames of other films was as bad as cel animation. Here, the dinosaurs, though not 100% CGI (it was impossible back then) leap off the screen in a way no one thought possible. They looked like real animals, and it can be said JURASSIC PARK introduced CGI to the world. It's a major landmark in film...
...so much so that Lucas tried to CGI Yoda 100% in STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE. He couldn't even get a few seconds of Yoda, because CGI was in its infancy and while a herd of dinosaurs isn't easy, it is a far-away cry from doing a film character 100%, and doing it successfully. That is why PHANTOM MENACE nearly didn't make its deadline and has a crummy Yoda muppet.
JURASSIC PARK changed lives, as did all my Deeply Personal film choices (such as BUCKAROO BANZAI). Lots of people I know are paleontologists today because of this movie (and in spite of Dr. Alan Grant's urine-hued 'Indiana Jones' hat). It gave us a dynamic Sam Niell, a new and glossy Jeff Goldblum, a sexy Laura Dern, an impossibly grumpy Samuel L. Jackson (who was nearly unknown back then)--wow, I could go on forever.
One last thing is the soaring, riveting score by John Williams. What the hell are we going to do when we lose him?
Get this sweet dinosaur classic--there aren't many, you know--because it is the grand-daddy of much.
Summary of Jurassic Park (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]
Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times primeval, such as the sight of a herd of whatever-they-are scampering through a valley. --Tom KeoghAction & Adventure VHS Video
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