jurassic park

gross

i've already gotten ian malcolm, but they say that's not enough. they want alan grant.

grant? you'll never get him out of montana.

why not? ... why not?

because grant's like me. he's a digger. que lindo eres.

you mean 'amazing'

when i was a kid i thought he said the n-word instead of digger

yeah this might be spielberg's best film. kind of want to watch this right now.

anybody else hear that? that's, uh, that's an impact tremor, is what that is. i'm, uh, i'm fairly alarmed here.

sam neill in this reminds me of james mason as dashing expository scientists in jules verne movies, laura dern spends most of the movie laughing, jeff goldblum's character is an authorial mouthpiece so goldblum just fills it up with hilarious tics, the dinosaurs might show up early but the raptors are held off and built up even longer and bigger than jaws was, and there's a major sense of scientific wonder that's both little-kid and grown-up, as when grant splays himself across the triceratops and the cynical malcolm looks on and grins, or when sattler is so absorbed in a plant that amazes her she has to be physically turned to see something more amazing, or when -- and this is kinda sappy but it's spielberg -- grant tosses the raptor claw down from the tree because "we're out of a job" but also because having now seen actual dinosaurs he's achieved the ambition that put him in the job in the first place, which he had previously, heartbreakingly, had to accept was impossible. also the flea circus speech (if malcolm is crichton's puppet this scene is spielberg's) and the way the two kids grin at each other over their desserts just before the raptor scene.

also "well here we are... back... in the car again" obv.

man the opening scene where they lose the worker to the raptor and it's raining and the man's arm slowly slips out of the guy's grasp

when they lower the cow into the raptor pen and 5 seconds later tattered shreds come back up

"clever girl"

a cryogenics container cleverly made up to look like a can of barbasol shaving cream

conspiracy discussed over tapas in a small latin american town?

SHOOT HER dissolving into peaceful tropical river

henry, henry, why didn't you tell me? i insist on being here when they're born.

i think this was gennaro.

...i think this was too.

Never thought this would turn into the new JFK thread.

the raptors are really great in this. perfect movie monster villains.

i watched this stoned a couple of months ago. got seriously emotional during the first scene with the brachiosaurs.

Couple of years and they'll be planning a remake or prequel or something!

also watched the Lost World on cable recently...man, that movie blows. i mean it still has dinosaurs in it and any movie with dinosaurs in it can't *completely* suck, but still.

got seriously emotional during the first scene with the brachiosaurs.

have definitely cried @ "they're moving in herds... they do move in herds"

also watched the Lost World on cable recently...man, that movie blows. i mean it still has dinosaurs in it and any movie with dinosaurs in it can't *completely* suck, but still.

― cave duel (latebloomer), Saturday, July 16, 2011 12:08 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

if rumors are to be believed, koepp directed big chunks of that while spielberg was focused on amistad.

You guys who think this is the best Spielberg are crazypants. Most ruthlessly efficient, perhaps. Most Spielbregian of the latter Spielberg, maybe. But best is crazypants.

What is also crazypants is that he did this and "Schindler's List" at the same time. That's some A+ virtuoso compartmentalization.

It's not his best movie by any means. But even Jaws, a superior movie of the same type, doesn't have a living, breathing triceratops.

True. How Spielberg raised and trained such a beast we'll never know ...

he had a second island like john hammond in JP2

Site B-movie

i'd love to spent like a week w/ spielberg just to see how he gets all this fucking shit DONE. i mean the guy producers like 100 movies a year, directs 2, raises 85 children, does charity work, what the fuck.

i dunno man, jaws is jaws of course, and raiders is great, and i even think munich is kind of great except for the sex scene, but c'mon.

I really don't know why this is funny but it just is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjZuzC7IQfY

yeah this might be spielberg's best film

This is madness when there are three good Indiana Jones films to choose from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0-554bEUL0&feature=related

http://i.imgur.com/ccqpa.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng

^^^ my computer startup noise

"that's the worst thing i can confess."

So I'm totally unsure whether I should take my 8-year old daughter to see this, and yet oddly compelled to do that. What do you think?

take her

i was her age when i first saw it, now i post to ilx, u make the judgment

it came out when i was 8 and it was the most amazing thing in the universe. take her, take herrrr (muldoon voice)

on the way home u can look at her and say "clever girl" and pretend that she is ripping u to pieces

no joke though, the opening scene where they cant save the dude in costa rica, that sucked

anybody else hear that? that's, uh, that's an impact tremor, is what that is. i'm, uh, i'm fairly alarmed here.

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:59 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

somehow i feel like kids can handle 'dinosaur' violence more than other types of movie violence. like i would've been traumatized by 'jaws' as an 8-year-old but i think i'd've been fine with this movie (which didn't come out till i was 12 and jaded haha).

Part of me thinks she'll have a blast, but part of me wants to shelter her a bit longer from a film that will actually grown-up scare her.

Also, the T. Rex attack takes place an hour in, which is 30 minutes past the money-back guarantee point of my local kid-friendly theatre.

Man, when I was little I saw movies like Jaws, and Raiders and Poltergeist and all sorts of scary or intense as shit PG-rated stuff. Did anyone consider at the time whether these movies, or any movies, were appropriate for kids? I have no idea. I can't tell if we've become more sensitive to this stuff because it's a young science or if just screwing up kids and giving them nightmares for life was considered just another part of growing up.

you need to scare her as much as you can now, before she's jaded

xpost I've sort of rationalized it as, well, how can you be scared of dinosaurs? There are no real dinosaurs. But of course, I'm the one she'd be waking up in the middle of the night when she has (equally not real) dinosaur nightmares.

Haha, that's actually crossed my mind, in a weird sort of way!