Number one, I caught Jurassic Park on tv a few days ago and god dammit, that movie has the best special effects ever. Nothing can touch the T-Rex in the rain scene.
I agree. I saw this on tv not too long ago as well, and it has definitely held up over time. I was watching and actually thought to myself, "This is what dinosaurs looked like."
Oh god yes the Nedry figure with the squirtgun backpack was so sweet:
but nobody can deny that Muldoon with his frikken rocket launching rocket launcher and mini-raptor was the most awesome toy ever created in the history of toys:
You know, even as a kid I remember being irked by the fact that the action figures had pretty much nothing in common with the movie.
I had that Nedry toy but had no idea who he was supposed represent from the movie. Didn't his arms fall off to reveal bloody stumps or something?
That battle damage t-rex was a crown jewel which I've always wanted to own but always sold out right quick at the local Walmart. I found it at a flea market a month ago for about $20, but it just didn't look as cool as was hyped as a kid.
Also, she will be having surgery in Austin sometime in February, so after I go hang out with her and the rest of the family I may give you a call, dude.
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I had almost all of the original JP toys. That command center was the tits. The gate had a plastic wooden plank to sit across the back to lock it. The cool part was that it was two pieces and broke away if you hit in the front of the gate with a triceratops or something.
I had the Young T-Rex too but I lost it somehow. Just had the piece of flesh that comes out afterwards.
A side-scrolling game with some poorly-designed levels (eg sewer). "Two games in one" - you could play as Dr. Alan Grant or as a velociraptor. As Grant, your objective is only to survive long enough to get off the island! Luckily, you carry an arsenal of useful weapons.
As the raptor, you're free to kill and digest other dinosaurs and island security forces for health while chasing Grant. Possesses a high jump, a chomp, and a jumping slash.
That Jurassic Park Compound set was my favorite toy as a kid. Had so much fun with that thing, except that mine kinda had a bug where the alarm would go off for the fence when it get broken off the building even when it was on.
On the note of those figures with the giant squirt packs, I have a Ian Malcolm and he looks so smug and ready to kick some dinosaur ass with a supersoaker.
Also Cristoval, fantastic OP my good sir. It certainly has the best comparison of Sarah Silverman and a Dilophosaurus I have ever read.
I believe the script has gone under a lot of massive changes since 2004 and is currently resting back on the drawing board.
That early draft sounds terribly awful though. I mean, I do wish to see dino's rampaging around on the big screen one last time, but really, people should just STOP GOING TO THAT ISLAND.
They should only feel bad if they want to go through with making a terrible movie. If they focus on making it good then can turn it around by saying, "We made this to honor him".
I think I wore out the VHS copy I had when I was a kid. I still vividly remember seeing this movie in the theater for the first time. I was 9 years old, and it was the first movie that truly blew me away.
I don't think I'm alone when I say that this movie holds a very special place in my heart.
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edited January 2009
I was in the grocery store a couple months back, and in the checkout, they had this shit on DVD. Just Jurassic Park, no shitty sequels.
Bought.
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edited January 2009
The first time I saw this movie it was on a school field trip. In middle school we had a class called MWA(Major Work Area) which was for gifted students. Anyway, we got to pick our subjects to study as a class and we chose to do paleontology. It was right at this movie was coming out. We had our standard reports to write, but we also made a gigantic paper mache tricerotops and went to see this movie as a class.
now my German professor knows me as "that kid who wouldn't shut up about Jurassic Park"
I was the same except with my English teacher, and the movie was The Matrix Reloaded. It was so deep at the time!
Damn Raijin, that sounds pretty sweet!
More story time:
Back in about Grade 3 our elementary school held a contest with Crest Toothpaste regarding who could come up with the best poster promoting healthy teeth. It had to be drawn or created through other means of art (Beads, sparkles what have you) and incorporate the tag line "Smile With Style!"
Now a year earlier my eldest brother won 1st place and got to attend a fancy ceremony in the big city, where he was awarded a nice plaque and a grab bag full of Crest products. Wanting the same attention bestowed upon myself I basically copied his design (which was just a kid looking into the mirror and brushing his teeth, drawn how an 8 year old would draw such a thing) and submitted it.
I ended up winning both first and second place. How? I don't know.
Now the thing about this contest is that they really frowned upon plagiarizing, letting you know that if you put "Snoopy" or "Garfield" into your drawing you would be immediately disqualified.
So when the next grade came around the contest was held once more, except this time I had Jurassic Park fresh in my mind. Wanting to win on more honorable grounds I decided to construct the most badass concept my child mind could construct: Raptors brushing their teeth, ON SURFBOARDS!
I ended up getting disqualified.
Why?
Because apparently you can trademark fucking dinosaurs! Yet they did not catch my obvious plagerization from a year before. It's not like we had different last names or anything!
Although they are auto-erotica, I'm certain with the money they throw around on having massive dick length competitions with themselves these dinosaurs are set to like mighty spectacular!
But still, until they have the genuine article these sort of things will be just another expensive cocktease.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
edited January 2009
Do you guys remember the Jurassic Park playstation game? All playing as people sometimes and being pissed because those levels fucking sucked but mostly it was playing as dinosaurs and you were like FUCK YEAH T-REX LEVEL RAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
I think if they ever made a Jurassic Park videogame with Crysis-level graphics, where the entire point of the game was to make it through the island without getting eaten by dinosaurs and you got nothing more than a tranquilizer gun with limited ammo, it would be the best game ever.
Do you guys remember the Jurassic Park playstation game? All playing as people sometimes and being pissed because those levels fucking sucked but mostly it was playing as dinosaurs and you were like FUCK YEAH T-REX LEVEL RAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
I just punched in the codes to skip the retarded people section. 4/5s of that game was ridiculously hard.
I enjoyed playing as the T-Rex and the raptor was fuckawesome, but the first T-rex level has you precision jumping over fire pits while trying to outrun raptors and fight trikes. Fuck that. Thank god it was redeemed by the level following that allowed you to stomp around the human camp tearing shit up. I loved that there was a button that did nothing but triggered the roar. Just charging through the forest bellowing shit out.
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I agree. I saw this on tv not too long ago as well, and it has definitely held up over time. I was watching and actually thought to myself, "This is what dinosaurs looked like."
Also the SNES game was rad:
Screw that taser crap, give me the bola gun!
Also I had this:
BATTLE DAMAGE!!
And this:
And a bunch of action figures and they were all cool as crap because everything either had a net or a rocket or something that would shoot.
Ahhh good times.
but nobody can deny that Muldoon with his frikken rocket launching rocket launcher and mini-raptor was the most awesome toy ever created in the history of toys:
You know, even as a kid I remember being irked by the fact that the action figures had pretty much nothing in common with the movie.
That battle damage t-rex was a crown jewel which I've always wanted to own but always sold out right quick at the local Walmart. I found it at a flea market a month ago for about $20, but it just didn't look as cool as was hyped as a kid.
My grandma then made me a stuffed T-Rex using her amazing thread and needle skills.
I had the Young T-Rex too but I lost it somehow. Just had the piece of flesh that comes out afterwards.
Jurassic Park:Sega Genesis
A side-scrolling game with some poorly-designed levels (eg sewer). "Two games in one" - you could play as Dr. Alan Grant or as a velociraptor. As Grant, your objective is only to survive long enough to get off the island! Luckily, you carry an arsenal of useful weapons.
As the raptor, you're free to kill and digest other dinosaurs and island security forces for health while chasing Grant. Possesses a high jump, a chomp, and a jumping slash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_l8OC7RUPc
also here is the script review for the fourth movie
I love that a huge selling point for that game was YOU CAN BE THE RAPTOR
Fuck these puny humans you want to go EAT SOME SHIT
On the note of those figures with the giant squirt packs, I have a Ian Malcolm and he looks so smug and ready to kick some dinosaur ass with a supersoaker.
Also Cristoval, fantastic OP my good sir. It certainly has the best comparison of Sarah Silverman and a Dilophosaurus I have ever read.
JPIV is pretty much shut down, as some people have said, since Universal feels bad about doing it with Crichton dead
That early draft sounds terribly awful though. I mean, I do wish to see dino's rampaging around on the big screen one last time, but really, people should just STOP GOING TO THAT ISLAND.
They should only feel bad if they want to go through with making a terrible movie. If they focus on making it good then can turn it around by saying, "We made this to honor him".
I think I wore out the VHS copy I had when I was a kid. I still vividly remember seeing this movie in the theater for the first time. I was 9 years old, and it was the first movie that truly blew me away.
I don't think I'm alone when I say that this movie holds a very special place in my heart.
I put it off and put it off and put it off
the day comes, and I'm like, oh shit, shit, uh, well what do I like?
Jurassic Park
now my German professor knows me as "that kid who wouldn't shut up about Jurassic Park"
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I was the same except with my English teacher, and the movie was The Matrix Reloaded. It was so deep at the time!
Damn Raijin, that sounds pretty sweet!
More story time:
Back in about Grade 3 our elementary school held a contest with Crest Toothpaste regarding who could come up with the best poster promoting healthy teeth. It had to be drawn or created through other means of art (Beads, sparkles what have you) and incorporate the tag line "Smile With Style!"
Now a year earlier my eldest brother won 1st place and got to attend a fancy ceremony in the big city, where he was awarded a nice plaque and a grab bag full of Crest products. Wanting the same attention bestowed upon myself I basically copied his design (which was just a kid looking into the mirror and brushing his teeth, drawn how an 8 year old would draw such a thing) and submitted it.
I ended up winning both first and second place. How? I don't know.
Now the thing about this contest is that they really frowned upon plagiarizing, letting you know that if you put "Snoopy" or "Garfield" into your drawing you would be immediately disqualified.
So when the next grade came around the contest was held once more, except this time I had Jurassic Park fresh in my mind. Wanting to win on more honorable grounds I decided to construct the most badass concept my child mind could construct: Raptors brushing their teeth, ON SURFBOARDS!
I ended up getting disqualified.
Why?
Because apparently you can trademark fucking dinosaurs! Yet they did not catch my obvious plagerization from a year before. It's not like we had different last names or anything!
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There should also be mention of the Restless Planet dinosaur park in Dubai.
Although they are auto-erotica, I'm certain with the money they throw around on having massive dick length competitions with themselves these dinosaurs are set to like mighty spectacular!
But still, until they have the genuine article these sort of things will be just another expensive cocktease.
Now I'm disappointed it'll never happen.
I just punched in the codes to skip the retarded people section. 4/5s of that game was ridiculously hard.
I enjoyed playing as the T-Rex and the raptor was fuckawesome, but the first T-rex level has you precision jumping over fire pits while trying to outrun raptors and fight trikes. Fuck that. Thank god it was redeemed by the level following that allowed you to stomp around the human camp tearing shit up. I loved that there was a button that did nothing but triggered the roar. Just charging through the forest bellowing shit out.
And hey, why isn't this out on BluRay yet?