How well has Jurassic park not aged !

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I'm watching the Jurassic park films and I have to say the first one holds up amazingly well!

The original is brilliant, I agree. I’m not keen on the later ones or the reboot.

I had to watch Jurassic park a million times during the pandemic with my son. No regrets. Jurassic Park 3, less so.

Yes!! I've said this many times. The animatronics are top class, they're impossible to age. I always chuckle when the little girl says "Is that a CD-ROM?!" though.

What I hate are movies that use such bad CGI despite having healthy budgets and top animators at their disposal. The Hobbit (not sure which one) springs to mind. Beautiful film, incredible attention to detail, every moment carefully constructed - and then Legolas gallops across the screen on the fakest mcfakerson CGI horse I've ever seen. How did Peter Jackson not see that in the cutting room and immediately refilm that scene with a real horse? It bothers me to this day. 😂

I think it's because they used animatronics over CGI? Totally agree it's not aged and is still fantastic, amazing really considering!

Yes - the effects were considered amazing at the time.

I remember going to see this at the cinema in July 1993 when it first came to the UK.

Everyone gasped when the first dinosaur appeared. It was amazing for its time.

I actually think it's amazing for now. No one seems to use puppets anymore (I imagine CGI is a lot cheaper and faster to produce), but really well done puppetry/animatronics will look good forever.

What happened to all the animatronics used? Did they keep them somewhere?

I saw it at the cinema as an adult and I admit the first TRex attack scared me silly.

We watched the first one recently what struck me was the old DOS tech, no mobiles and the slimness of everyone and Wayne Knight looked really large the first time I saw it when it first came out but there are plenty of men that size and bigger now in my area it's totally normal which is probably a sign of the times.

I loved the brachiosauruses (?) coming out of the lake.

They've used the original T Rex in all the films, I believe.

I agree.

Everything about it has aged well, not least Sam Neill.

My favourite effect in Jurassic Park was the one Dr Malcolm had on my teenage hormones...
But yes, it has aged well!

Thr jurassic park ride in Universal is amazing, a massive trex appears in front of you, opens its mouth right jn front of your 'boat'/face, everyone screams, followed by a near vertical drop into water.

Just rewatched Scream for the first time in 20 years and Courtney Cox's journalist character keeps making fun of her camera man for being 50 lbs overweight. When I first saw it as a teenager I remember thinking, yes, he's quite large, but when I rewatched it recently I kept thinking, is he? Is he overweight?? He just looked so normal.

Mortified to say that I had to leave the film during the raptors in the kitchen scene and hide in the toilets for a few minutes. My friends have not let me forget ...

I saw it again a few months ago. It's still brilliant. The kitchen scene with the raptors!

I do think that old school puppetry and animatronics sometimes has the edge over CGI. I think it’s fantastic that it has aged so well.

The T rex in the rain still looks amazing. It's one of my all time favourite films. I still haven't forgiven my mum for not allowing me to watch it in the cinema. My dad and my brothers went to see it, me and my mum had to go watch Bambi as I was 7 or 8, and my mum thought Jurassic Park would be too scary. I had to wait several years to see it on video. Bambi was much more traumatic, and I absolutely loved dinosaurs as a child.

The difference between trying to do as much as possible in real life and/or with animatronics vs just using CGI for everything, is huge and we're really seeing that more clearly as films get older.

It's LOTR vs The Hobbit. LOTR stands the test of time because so much was done in the real. The Hobbit lacks heart because so much just used CGI instead.

JP has hardly aged at all - except all the computer bits. And I believe Sam Neill's face when he first sees a dinosaur is about as perfect a bit of acting as I have ever seen.