Jurassic Park
Cast
Sam Neill .... Dr. Alan Grant
Laura Dern .... Dr. Ellie Sattler
Jeff Goldblum .... Dr. Ian Malcolm
Richard Attenborough .... John Hammond
Bob Peck .... Robert Muldoon
Martin Ferrero .... Donald Gennaro
B.D. Wong .... Henry Wu
Joseph Mazzello .... Tim Murphy
Ariana Richards .... Lex Murphy
Samuel L. Jackson .... Ray Arnold
Wayne Knight .... Dennis Nedry
Directed by
Steven Spielberg
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Rater #1
8/10. Scientists develop a means of bringing dinosaurs to life using DNA taken from dino' blood, which has been preserved inside insects encased in amber. Whilst Hammond is showing off his dinosaur 'theme park' to a selected audience [a lawyer (Gerrano), mathematician (Malcolm), dino' expert (Grant), palaeobotanist (Sattler) and his grandchildren (Tim & Lex)], Nedry (computer expert) disables the security system so that he can make his escape with some stolen embryos. This enables all the dinosaurs to escape their enclosures... Look out the dinosaurs are coming !
Since I had read Jurassic Park the book only about a week earlier, I thought the movie would be a pretty good. I was actually sort of wrong in a way. The movie version is almost completely different from the book version. Anything about it is different. The beginning scene doesn't exist in the book, Dr. Hammond is supposed to die, Grant is supposed to like kids, more dinosaurs, etc. They even took out a character, and combined the one taken out with the lawyer, Gennaro. Gennaro gets chomped in the movie but not in the book. I just couldn't believe that Speilberg, my all-time favorite director, would stray so far from a book.
The graphics of this movie must have been astounding in 1993, but in today's world, 10 years later, they weren't all that great. I almost think that the George Lucas' Star Wars in the 70's had better graphics, but then again they weren't really computer generated. Though I noticed something. The dinosaurs seemed to get more realistic as the movie rolls along. In the beginning, it was poor blending techniques, but towards the end, ie: the kitchen, the dinosaurs were realistic. So, maybe they just screwed up or something in the beginning.
Usually, there are 5 characters on a movie website here at movieereviews, but I felt that I needed more. You couldn't get through the movie without them. Sam Neill as Dr. Grant, in my mind, was perfect for the role. He did an astouding job, but his character should have been fixed more towards the book version. Laurn Dern as Dr. Sattler was ok for me. Her character took the place of some of the other characters that seemingly died in the movie or never truly existed in the first place. Jeff Goldblum was fine as Ian Malcolm. I didn't exactly envision him the way he was portrayed but what the heck. Richard Attenborough was exactly as I envisioned him, but he should have croaked at the end of the movie. B.D. Wong as Henry Wu was in one scene and then I guess he got killed by a dinosaur or the crew shot him or something. He needed to be in there more. The children's characters were completely backward from the book and that bothered me. Even so, they both seemed like nice children, and the such, but Tim need to be the older one not Lex. Wayne Knight as Dennis Nedry was great. He was funny, but he got chomped after being poisoned.
I just can't really understand why they completely changed the way things were from the book to the movie. There was no little ride, they actually walked through the lab. They completely gave away why the dinosaurs could breed on that ride thingie. Dr. Grant figured it out, and then Dr. Wu understood it after he went back to the DNA code. Anyway, I could go on and on about the faults of the movie compared to the book.
If it sounds like I hated the movie, I didn't. I just happened to read the book, and saw too many things that weren't close to the book. So, go out and see the movie, then read the book.
Rater #2
Has Not Seen Movie
Rater #3
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rater #4
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rated PG-13.
Running time: 127 minutes
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