You blocked the phrases and they came back in memes?
Life uh finds a way.
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Have you seen it at a theater? Having a screen that makes the T. Rex actual size and a quality sound system that shakes your seat with every stomp really adds a lot to the experience. This goes for the other dinosaurs too of course.
Obviously some of the moment-to-moment plot is corny and contrived, and the big screen won't fix that. Though for me that just puts it alongside campy adventures like The Goonies (another film I love).
However the larger themes (e.g. cloning extinct creatures, a capitalist shithead developing an attraction that endangers everyone) seem more realistic today than ever.
Fair point. I've never seen in a movie theater, but I do have a decent home theater setup. I still dozed off halfway through the last time we tried to watch it. 😆
You're 100% right on the film's prescience. This is the dystopian future that sci-fi authors used to write about. How dark things go remains to be seen.
Grudging upvote because how dare you? lol
Also, have you read the novel? I like the movie a lot, but I can respect that you don't. The novel is so much better, though.
I've heard this. I should give it a shot. I think I read The Andromeda Strain about a million years ago.
The Andromeda Strain is also a solid novel. The movie adaptation from the 70s is okay, but the 2008 miniseries is godawful.
Agreed. 💯
I feel the same way about “updoots” and “downdoots”
A scene that is frequently mocked even though it's entirely correct!
The program shown is fsn (filesystem navigator) running on a Silicon Graphics workstation under their UNIX OS IRIX.
https://preterhuman.net/software/file-system-navigator-fsn-silicon-graphics/
I didn't realize that! Pretty cool.
It's harder to hate on the kids. They were pretty cute. Do they still act, I wonder?
Edit: Joseph Mozello is still acting but Ariana Richards became an artist. https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/where-the-kids-of-jurassic-park-and-jurassic-world-are-now
What specifically don't you like about it?
I don't know, really. It's ok up until the midpoint. Then I get bored. Some of the sequences in the back half are pretty silly, too. More Crystal Skull than Raiders, if you get my meaning.
You can't get away from it because well...life uhh..finds a way now doesn't it, clever girl?
Jurrasic park was very much an impressive and great movie for the same reason the original Avatar was. The plot was decent or okay but the graphics and visuals blew everything at the time out of the water with such a magnitude of difference that the sparkle in your eyes stayed through the movie. Sure, looking back now, now that we have great CGI and 4K OLED screens, it may not be as impressive. But think of Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of time. Also basic and nothing visually amazing...by today's standards point but it was an insane feat for the time.
We now judge Jurassic park by the quality of it's story much more now than we are amazed by impressive dinosaur like we were back then. So of course it's gonna look mid at best
Anyway, that's my take on it at least.
Is it just because people keep quoting it years later?
YES. Well...while I truly don't think it's a great movie, the constant quoting is the salt in the wound. Same thing with the Prequels. *shudders*
It kind of seems like you just have a strong dislike for overdone quotes/memes in general?
Which is fine tbh.
You don't actually think this.
Why would you say that?
Because it's such a great adventure story.
I'm glad you were able to appreciate it. It's interesting the way you phrased your objection, though. It's like if I came out as gay or atheist to disapproving parents. It's just a movie. ✌️
Only a gay atheist would dislike such a masterpiece!
Haha! Close to the truth, at least in my case.
I feel the same about Dune. Heck, not a fan of Jurassic Park, but I'd rather watch it than Dune.
which Dune? it has been remade multiple times and it's very different every time.
this feels like a copypasta
Thanks for adding another word from the Internet that I hate. 😆
Howso?
Pretty rich from the guy using the word updood
Not much dood what's up with you
I’m not sure how to describe it, just carries that kind of energy
I assure you that this particular batch of froth was composed by me this morning after seeing a Jurassic Park meme posted elsewhere. I'll add a link if I find it.
Edit: Here is the precipitating post. https://lemmy.world/post/14130099
OK that meme is fucking retarded.
That doesn't make Jurassic park any less amazing
I am old enough to remember the Jurassic Park hysteria. The movie itself is not too bad, but IMHO, it did not live up to the hype.
I’ve never actually seen it. I keep meaning to but meh, maybe I won’t now.
You're welcome! 😃
You have obviously never read the book
This is a movie I totally stayed out of the hype bubble for.
I literally watched it the very last day it was in theaters, I think it had an 8-month run.
3 out of 10 movie.
Oh no dinosaurs!
Oh we're safe...
Oh no more dinosaurs!
Oh we're safe again!
Dinosaurs!!!!!!
... That's the movie.
Dammit! Use the spoiler tag next time, please.
Thank you. 🙏🏻
Love Goldbloom, though, and Dern. Also, wasn't Samuel L. Jackson in this?
I have no idea, it was one of the most vapid, least memorable movies I've seen.
Edit: and I completely stayed out of the hype bubble for Avatar as well, completely avoiding all exposure to it unless completely inescapable. I finally watched the movie for the first time 6 months ago, I can honestly say it was among the worst pieces of shit I've seen in 10 years. And the CGI and overall design of the world was weak.