Hold on to your butts, Jurassic Park returns to theaters.

Zonugal

Universal Pictures will release Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking classic JURASSIC PARK in 3D on April 5, 2013. With his remastering of the epic into a state-of-the-art 3D format, Spielberg introduces the three-time Academy Award®-winning blockbuster to a new generation of moviegoers and allows longtime fans to experience the world he envisioned in a way that was unimaginable during the film’s original release.

Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Attenborough, the film based on the novel by Michael Crichton is produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen.

Alright, so this comes out this upcoming Friday. It is the first film I remember seeing, the film I have seen most in my life and is my favorite film of all time. It has reportedly pulled in 914,691,118 dollars. I say we bring it in some more.

Lets talk about how fucking amazing this film is, how it revolutionized the entire film industry and film as an art form, and how god damn good it still is to this very day. Lets quote the fuck out of this film. Lets talk about how the second film is okay in parts and how the third film is terrible. Lets speculate about the 4th Jurassic Park film and if it will be tremendous/okay/horrible.

Lets honor, revere and praise this piece of cinema.

Zonugal

Let's get this thread started off the right way.

Etchwarts

I sure hope his nature finds my way

8->

Whyther

I don't care how bad Jurassic Park 3 is I watched it a million times as a kid and I love it.

Also blech 3D movies call me when the fourth one comes out.

Didgeridoo

The Rifftrax for this movie is fantastic, just FYI

Sterica

Thanks, but I think the dilophosaurus scene scared me enough in 2D.

Zonugal

I have hard the first third of it, so I concur!

Ashcroft

Are they finally making 'Jurassic Park 4: Raptor Assassin Squad'?

wandering

Didgeridoo wrote: »

The Rifftrax for this movie is fantastic, just FYI

I suppose it'd be annoying to everyone else if I listened to it on headphones in the theater

"Welcome to Jurassic Park."
"Haha"
"They do move in herds."
"Hahaha"

QuestionMarkMan

Houk

this was the premiere film of my childhood. i saw it in the theater at least seven times, and once it left theaters i spent every day waiting impatiently for it to come out on VHS. like literally every sunday i would look at the ads in the newspaper hoping to see it there.

once i got the vhs i probably watched it another 30 times or so.

3D movies tend to make me queasy/headache-y but i will fucking deal with it for this

DrIanMalcolm

It's almost time you guys

Raijin Quickfoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clU0Sh9ngmY

Zonugal

YESSSSS

smof

I love this movie so fucking much. I had it on VHS, now I have it on DVD, and I still watch it every single time it's shown on TV. It is the perfect movie, there are at least two dozen scenes that give me goosebumps and make me grin like an idiot. I wish I could marry this film.

Mr Fuzzbutt

the movie will be updated to match spielberg's original vision with technology that was not available at the time

it will have feathered dinosaurs

Lord Dave

I think I preferred Cellphoneasaurus movie to Raptors Defeated By Gymnastics movie.

smof

I just read that in the original script the ending had the two raptors being shot and crushed by falling fossils, and the t-rex was only featured after a re-write. Maaan that would have been tragic if Spielberg hadn't re-written it. The t-rex roaring while the "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" banner falls in front of it is fucking dino-adventure-movie-ending perfection.

DaMoonRulz

I never made it past the lawyer getting eaten and I still have bad dreams to this day.

Should've gone to Coneheads instead.

Raijin Quickfoot

We pass a Paddock Rd. everyday and every time I say to my wife and kids, "Quiet all of you... They're approaching the tyrannosaur paddock."

Micro

I am so utterly annoyed at the retrofitted 3D phenomenon going on at the moment.

Rerelease Jurassic Park? Brilliant! I'll go to see it seventeen times.

Make me watch it in 3D? Just FOAD.

smof

Yeah I'm not a 3D fan. I might be tempted for this, but I'd rather see it in 2D IMAX.

Poorochondriac

I desperately wanted to see this when it was theatres, but my mom wouldn't let me, because it was PG-13 and I was in second grade. So I read the book instead, and became obsessed with it and the works of Michael Chrichton (that he wrote on a level to spark obsession in a second grader is fairly telling, I think, but that's neither here nor there).

When I got older, I eventually got around to seeing it, but that was long after that initial magic had passed. I still loved it, obviously, but I always regretted missing it on the big screen. Pretty excited for this.

Duke 2.0

The 3D is to show off their fancy new feather tech they stapled onto the dinosaurs to make them more realistic

QuirkyLittleTyrant

This was the movie that raised me. When it came out, I begged my parents about it endlessly until I saw it in theatres, despite being like six.

Once it came out on VHS, I would watch it during every single visit to my grandparents house. They had this amazing BOSE like prototype surround sound thing and I would listen to those dinosaur noises at roughly 800 dB every time.

My grandfather has still never seen it, but he is intimately familiar with the soundtrack. The house would shake a little with every tyrannosaur step.

also this movie has some of the best sound design ever

Highlight of course being the banana peel slip noise when Nedry falls down.

Butler

QuestionMarkMan wrote: »

"It's a living. :[ "

RT800

Yep. Saw this 6 or 7 times when it first came out. Bought the VHS. Bought all the toys. Read the book twice.

So nostalgic. What kid doesn't love dinosaurs?

Except modern kids.

With your iPads and your Justin Beibers.

Get off my lawn!

Snowbear

Like other people have said, this movie defined my childhood. Endless repeats. I even wanted to become a paleontologist until I was about 16 when I decided I wanted to be a vet (now I'm a history major) My gf was the one to tell me about the IMAX release and I almost squealed

mageormike

I never made it past the lawyer getting eaten and I still have bad dreams to this day.

Should've gone to Coneheads instead.

This was me when it first came out. My parents had to take me out of the theater during the original release ^_^;;
My childhood dream of being a paleontologist died that day.

edit: I do not know how to quote properly it would seem

Enc

What do they got in there

King


Kong?

Marathon

I also loved this movie to no end as a child. It was the first movie I ever saw more than once in the theater. This came out at the perfect time for me too, since at the time my goal was to grow up to be an archeologist.

It's a bummer that my oldest son is only 6 and probably too young to really enjoy seeing it.

GoldenSeducer

smof wrote: »

I just read that in the original script the ending had the two raptors being shot and crushed by falling fossils, and the t-rex was only featured after a re-write. Maaan that would have been tragic if Spielberg hadn't re-written it. The t-rex roaring while the "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" banner falls in front of it is fucking dino-adventure-movie-ending perfection.

Suddenly, the end of the Grant campaign on the Genesis game makes A LOT more sense.

Metzger Meister

Butler wrote: »

QuestionMarkMan wrote: »

"It's a living. :[ "

Love this post so much

JayKaos

There's a frame or two missing from that gif that makes it like a billion times more creepy.

smof

I went on holiday to Florida when I was about 14, and I remember walking through the Jurassic Park gates at Islands of Adventure was one of the most exciting things ever.

Also right now at the zoo where I volunteer we have 12 animatronic dinosaurs. There is a lifesize t-rex by the restaurant which moves its head and tail and roars. It is pretty awesome and turns me into a little kid every time I walk past.

FAQ

This was the unimpeachable favourite movie of mine for years after it came out when I was a kid, I suspect like loads of folks of my age.

Had to convince the group I was with not to see super mario brothers but this instead.

But to be honest, would rather watch it at home on my tv than watch it in 3D

Decomposey

My memories of this movie include watching it with my friends in the theator sipping on soda spiked with vodka, and then going back to see it a second time later. On the second showing I and a friend who had seen it snuck through the seats to where people we knew were sitting and when Raptors jumped out on screen, grabbing the people we knew by the shoulders and roaring at them. We made one our schools linebackers jump out of his chair screaming, it was great.

Yes, I was in highschool when it came out. Goddamn kids, the lot of you.

GreasyKidsStuff

I watched this movie outside on a projector as one of my university's back to school events last fall. It was a lot of fun watching it again with older eyes and with a big crowd. I will probably take my girlfriend again since she went with me last time.

Goldblum's perfect physique in glorious 3D, yes please

FAQ

thing is, I saw this movie, so many goddamn times, over and over, that I have little desire to see it right now, even though it's been years. Maybe over a decade.

Found the same thing happened when I was watching the last crusade a while back. Even though it had been an age I turned it off because I just still knew it so damn well.

Raijin Quickfoot

I got to see this movie in the theater on a sort of field trip. When I was in middle school I was in the MWA program for gifted kids. One of the criteria to that class is we set our own subjects to study so we decided to do paleontology. We made a HUGE papier mache stegosaurus and then on a half day we all went to see Jurassic Park in the theater.

Raijin Quickfoot

Then my Dad bought the VHS when it came out and I watched it every single day over a summer vacation.