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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2015 11:03 pm    Post subject: Jurassic Park (1993) Reply with quote



Steven Spielberg doesn't really like stop motion animation, so Phil Tippet worked out ways to improve stop motion, as well as the process known as "go motion", which you can read all about if you're not familiar with it.



Steven wasn't happy with any of the methods the crack team of experts proposed, but then Dennis Muren of Industrial Light & Magic claimed that "computer-generated imaging" was the best way to create the dinosaurs.

Steven told Dennis to prove it.

Dennis did.



And so, dinosaurs weren't actually resurrected with bits of amber and fragments of DNA and elaborate genetic engineering. The magic behind the miracle was computer chips and binary codes and nerdy little geniuses who make images in their heads turn into images on computer monitors and big movie screens.



When you think about it, that's just as amazing as cloning dinosaurs from the bodily fluids which prehistoric mosquitoes had for lunch 65 million years ago.

It's also more useful.

But I wouldn't mind having the dinosaurs, too . . .

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Another great choice for a feature we could share during on of All Sci-Fi's Friday Live Chats. Here's the trailer to remind you have good it is.


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And here's a copy on Stagevu. It's 1.15 GB, and I was amazed at how sharp it was when I downloaded it!

Custer and I are watching this one together on Sunday, March 27th in the chat room, at 2:00 EST (for me), 7:00pm GMT (for him). Join us if you can. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 2:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jurassic Under PARK, I mean, Jurassic Park. Ah, yes. The movie where everything is done wrong right from the start of the film.

The opening sequence was laughed at by zoo workers everywhere!

Dangerous animals are NOT either transferred or handled in the manner shown.

For me, the movie went down hill from the start.

(It has taken almost 7 minutes to type this. My entire left arm and shoulder is in a cast.)

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was so awestruck by the quality of movement and image integration achieved through CGI as compared with the former stop-motion standard, I never noticed anything else.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robert (Butch) Day wrote:
The opening sequence was laughed at by zoo workers everywhere!

Can't say I agree with any of your statements, Butch, and in view of it's extreme popularity I'd say that not many other people would either.

But then, my views on Star Wars: The Force Recycles Plotlines sound exactly like what you said about Jurassic Park, so people do sometimes love a flawed movie.

But one thing you said seems questionable. Just how did you learn that professional animal handlers disapproved of the method used to transfer the velociraptor from the big cage he was in to the special enclosure where they were kept?

It seemed very efficient to me. And since it was specially designed to move a very different kind of wild animal, I suspect that comparing it to conventional methods would be a bit unfair.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

One of my buddies from high school works at Woodland Park Zoo in the Big Cat exhibits.

Dangerous animals are always drugged before moving. They are then placed into the transfer cage, taken to the new cage and placed into a holding cage where they are allowed to awaken. Only then are they introduced to the new exhibit.

If there is any doubt about the other animals in the exhibit then they are allowed to get acclimated by sight and scent before introduction.

ALL precautions are made to safeguard both the zoo worker and the animal.

What they did in Jurassic Park was stupid.

But then they were private security and workers and the person in charge was a Big Game Hunter.

That almost guarantees a disaster.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Butch is not typing. I am. He's dictating.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud I would guess that you have never wrassled gators and crocks, I have, awake is unsafe. I admit all that armor makes them critters hard to drug. Velociraptors don't have armor, just claws and teeth.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robert (Butch) Day wrote:
Jurassic Under PARK, I mean, Jurassic Park.

Mad magazine had a funnier take on the title.


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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2019 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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This was a true event picture — maybe one of the last ones. They made a big deal of this one on opening night — there was a lot of anticipation and people went in droves. Before Titanic, this was the big one — a mammoth hit, a box office monster, a return for Spielberg to the glory days of Jaws and E.T.

Based on the best seller by Michael Crichton, this details how several key experts (Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum) are invited to check out and critique the new and unusual amusement park on the island of John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), a billionaire with a playful side (sort of the nineties version of Walt Disney).

Only Hammond has chosen to be playful with real dinosaurs — new cloning technology has enabled Hammond and his scientists to recreate the creatures from the DNA blood stored in prehistoric mosquitoes which have been frozen in amber.

Goldblum's Ian Malcolm, a mathematician into chaos theory, is the first to voice concerns even before any troubles begin.

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Unfortunately for all involved, Ian's worst fears are realized — and it doesn't help that one of Hammond's employees (Wayne Knight) is unscrupulous, secretly working for a competitor. He sabotages the park's security system during a storm and exposes all the guests and workers still there, including Hammond's grandchildren (Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello), to the danger of the predatory beasts, notably the raptors and a T-Rex.

It's up to dino expert Alan Grant (Neill) to guide the two kids to safety. Other characters on the island are not so lucky (includes a lawyer (Martin Ferrero), a game warden (Bob Peck) and Samuel L. Jackson as a computer tech guy just before he became a big star in Pulp Fiction '94). The standout performance is from Goldblum; his timing is great and he has several very amusing lines. Neill and Dern are on the flat, boring side of things.


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The most intriguing portion of all this is the discovery by Grant that the dinosaurs have managed to reproduce, even though part of the cloning process was meant to prevent that — it suggests that things would have gone awry eventually even without a saboteur.

Spielberg had lost some of his edge by this time (it happened during the eighties) and the first half of this film is a bit too easygoing and slow. Spielberg also peppers the story with those moments meant to inspire awe, but he overdoes it — the primary example is when Grant sees his first live dinosaur.

The audience is meant to share in this awe, but Spielberg batters the audience over the head with it, drawing it out until it's too saccharine. Some scenes are plain dull (Dern & Attenborough sitting eating ice cream). But this is offset by the truly thrilling moments, especially effective in a movie theater.

The first appearance of the T-Rex (the FX are so good that it looked to me like Spielberg had managed to find a real dinosaur for the role). Also noteworthy is the scene of the impact tremors and the monster's reappearance and chase of the jeep, along with all the scenes with the raptors, which are the ultimate predators.

BoG's Score: 8 out of 10



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My favorite thing about this movie was the photo of Steven Spielberg posing with the sick dinosaur prop. Some people lost their nut screaming that he killed an animal. Unfortunately, these kooks weren' kidding, which made it even funnier. If it had been me, I would have posed with the prop dinosaur holding a Super Bazooka.

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IMDB has 512 trivia items for this movie. Here’s a few of the ones I found the most interesting (and amusing), in the blue text. Very Happy
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The film and the book generated so much interest in dinosaurs, that the study of paleontology has had a record increase in students.

Note from me: Ah-HA! THIS is why I've always said it was important to get the science right in science fiction movies! It inspires an interest in the science concepts the stories present! Very Happy

The T. Rex occasionally malfunctioned, due to the rain. Producer Kathleen Kennedy recalls, "The T. Rex went into the heebie-jeebies sometimes. Scared the crap out of us. We'd be, like, eating lunch, and all of a sudden a T. Rex would come alive. At first we didn't know what was happening, and then we realized it was the rain. You'd hear people start screaming."

Note from me: Ah-HA! THIS is why Jeff Goldblum warned against resurrecting dinosaurs! Life finds a way — even when it's just a mechanical version that wants to eat the slave-driving film crew while they having lunch! Very Happy

The Tyranosaur's roars were a combination of dog, penguin, tiger, alligator and elephant sounds.

Note from me: What? No hoot owl? I swear to God I heard a hoot owl in there — right next to the dolphin, the whippoorwill, the laughing hyena, and the mating call of the Canadian moose! Shocked

The glass of water sitting on the dash of the Ford Explorer was made to ripple using a guitar string that was attached to the underside of the dash beneath the glass.

Note from me: This is ridiculous! Even if a T-Rex could FIT under the dash of a Ford Explorer, how the hell could he pluck a guitar string with those tiny little arms! Rolling Eyes

Steven Spielberg wanted the velociraptors to be about ten feet tall, which was taller than they were known to be. During filming, paleontologists uncovered ten-foot-tall specimens of raptors called Utahraptors.

Note from me: Wow, this is impressive. I'll bet if Spielberg had wanted the T-Rex to have arms long enough to pluck guitar strings, paleontologists would have unearthed a Tyrannosaurus holding a Fender Stratocaster! Cool

Universal paid Michael Crichton two million dollars for the rights to his novel before it was even published.

Note from me: How damn, THIS is the deal I want for my next novel! "Pay me two million dollars I won't even FINISH the book! I'm not bluffin', guys! Two million bucks, or I'll just put the whole thing on All Sci-Fi for free, with illustrations I'll do myself!" Mad

All of the cast were given a Raptor model, signed by Steven Spielberg as a gift. It looked very frightening, and Ariana Richards has it in her house to shock anyone coming in, like a guard at the gate. Jeff Goldblum's model has a prime spot in his house and is a cherished object. Laura Dern put her Raptor model in her son's room near his crib. When he was older and saw it he screamed like never before. She had to put it in storage, but hopes one day, the two will be friends.

Note from me: I'm confused. Were these "models" the size of Godzilla and towered over the recipients? I mean, come ON . . . how scary could a model be?

Ian (Jeff Goldblum) says the line "must go faster" while being chased by a dinosaur. In Independence Day (1996), co-Executive Producer, co-Writer and Director Roland Emmerich liked it so much, he had Goldblum say it when he and Will Smith were escaping the mothership.

Note from me: I wonder if Jeff Goldblum has nightmares about being chase by terrifying T-Rex aliens in speedy spaceships. Sort of like my own nightmares about being chased by eerie English teachers who insisted on alliteration all the time!

The sound of the T. Rex's footsteps were created by cut sequoias crashing to the ground.

Note from me: Raise your hand if you believe that the producers of this movie went out and cut down centuries-old sequoias just to get recordings of them crashing to the ground for the T-Rex's footsteps. Rolling Eyes

Harrison Ford was offered and turned down the role of Dr. Alan Grant, as he felt that the part just wasn't right for him. After seeing the film, he says that he had made the right decision.

Note from me: Well, thank goodness for that! Who would have believed Harrison Ford as a dedicated scientist who risked his life in the pursuit of scientific knowledge? Wow, we really dodged THAT bullet, eh?

During the scenes with the T. Rex, Steven Spielberg would roar like one through the megaphone. The cast cracked up whenever he did that

Note from me: I'll bet the crew wouldn't have laughed if Steven had a hoot owl on his shoulder to help him out a little!

When the Utahraptor was discovered right before the film's release, which had a similar height to the Raptors depicted in the film, Stan Winston joked, "We made it, then they discovered it."

Note from me: Sounds a bit like Jeff Goldblum's and Laura Dern's lines in the movie!

Dr. Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.

Dr. Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs . . . eat man. Woman inherits the earth.

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I swear Bud, YOUR comments are worth more than the price of admission!

This movie was greatly appreciated by my whole family. I first saw it with my wife and two sons at the local multi-plex. I soon purchased a cassette of the soundtrack. A week later we were going on a vacation, driving from home in NYS to Virginia. I saved playing it until we were driving through a lush, almost priordial section of forest. Suddenly the John Williams main theme began to play from the dashboard. I told the boys to look out for the dinosaurs....And I swear they were glued to the cars' windows looking in the brush for a velociraptor or T-Rex to crash through the dark forbidden depths of the forest. My youngest son (About 6 at the time,) said "Drive faster Daddy!".

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Bud Brewster wrote:
Note from me: This is ridiculous! Even if a T-Rex could FIT under the dash of a Ford Explorer, how the hell could he pluck a guitar string with those tiny little arms! Rolling Eyes

Pft! Shows how much you know Laughing

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