Jurassic Park is 25

[Gawdzilla Sama]

In another 25 years it will be "Geriatric Park".

Heck, you start with 65,000,000+ old dinos, a few decades is chump change. 

[Anomalocaris]

If they found a fully articulated skeleton like the one in the picture in the OP they wouldn't have several grad students laying on it, they'd just move the whole damn block of stone to their lab. Fossils are rarely so neatly laid out.

BTW, did you notice that Grant's trailer was twice as wide on the inside as it is on the outside? (Yeah, I've watched this one too many times.)

If George Lucas can make the inside of the millennium falcon twice as high as the outside, Steven Spielberg can made a trailer twice as wide inside as outside.

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I saw a "Jurassic Park Dinosaur Detector Kit" the other day. Glass of water with a scale behind it.

You’d think those velociraptors at the end would have felt the earthquakes stomping closer.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If they found a fully articulated skeleton like the one in the picture in the OP they wouldn't have several grad students laying on it, they'd just move the whole damn block of stone to their lab. Fossils are rarely so neatly laid out.

BTW, did you notice that Grant's trailer was twice as wide on the inside as it is on the outside? (Yeah, I've watched this one too many times.)

If George Lucas can make the inside of the millennium falcon twice as high as the outside, Steven Spielberg can made a trailer twice as wide inside as outside.

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I saw a "Jurassic Park Dinosaur Detector Kit" the other day. Glass of water with a scale behind it.

You’d think those velociraptors at the end would have felt the earthquakes stomping closer.

I think they use dimensional warps. 

As for the raptors, "target fixation" has been the end of many a fighter pilot.

[Anomalocaris]

OK I'm not obsessed with anniversaries it just coincides with me recently watching JP after many, many years (if not since 90s) and that people are talking about JP again, like James Cameron saying that he wanted to do it but Steve beat him to the rights in matter of hours.

Anyway what I wanted to say that watching it now I find it kind of "cheap".

Like one of the first scenes is that dig site:


I mean WTF!! They're digging dinos like kids in the sand box! If you know anything about paleontology you'll know that dinosaurs bones are actually stuck in the stone.

Or the dinos! I mean T-Rex needed 20 years to grow full size, let alone other even bigger dinos.

Then the security issue. "We didn't spare any expenses." the owner keeps repeating - yeah except there is literally zero security guards, watchtowers, cameras.

Then they go too far on Dr. Grant phobia of technology when he doesn't even know how to tie a seat belt - I mean there are people that are not tech savvy but this is fucking retarded.

Also as I watched it in high quality I get to see the articles those paleontologists have on their fridge and all articles are like "Aliens Stole My Face" - yeah right. What kind of serious scientists would read that hogwash let alone put it on the fridge.

Then Hammond (owner) character is very unbelievable with his stupid background or in one scene Ellie is supposed to go into dangerous situation and Hammond says "Shouldn't I go?" and I thought "OK he's the owner it's his responsibility, considering he didn't hire any staff" but no it turns out that he said it because of "sexist" prejudices: he is a man and therefore braver, stronger whatever and therefore go.

And so on. There are some major flaws but the movie is still somewhat enjoyable. And there is of course the merchandise around this movie which, for me, was an experience on it's own. I mean I remember just seeing JP logo on anything and being mesmerized.

If the first JP was cheap, what would you call all the sequels?

[The Industrial Atheist]

Now you've gone and made me feel old! 😛
I've seen movies in my early teens that are older than Aegon!

I read the book too but I'm sure I don't remember much. I remember thinking Ariana Richards was hot, I think.

[Fake Messiah]

If the first JP was cheap, what would you call all the sequels?

You can only imagine. While nr.2 is very boring I kind of liked nr.3. Nr.3 was just dumb fun action/adventure, it wasn't trying to teach us a "moral" lesson on technology like nr.2. But I don't understand why all JP movies have to devote last part of the movie to raptors? All other dinosaurs are just decoration and then they give personality to the raptors.
Maybe they could once make a JP movie with no raptors at all.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Best part of JP2 was the movie posters in the video store.