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Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

5 star:		(122)
4 star:		(48)
3 star:		(13)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(12)

 

 

This is undeniably one of the best movies of all time. Every single aspect of this movie rocks!!!(Check out my reviews for the other JP movies.) As soon as/if JP4 comes out, I'm going straight to the theatre! Trust me, buy this movie.
OK, here's my review. The dinosaurs look awesome, the actors rock, and I was simply amazed. As well, there's this one particular part in the movie that made my spine tingle, the part where...<P(...)As far as the DVD goes, it totally rocks. Tons of special features, and the menu is greatly designed. The only disappointment about the menu is that there are only 20 scenes for a two hour movie!!! Some scenes last a long time. Meh. All in all, a great movie, great DVD... Five stars, very well earned!!!

It was just too amazing! This movie might have had it's flaws, but still is a great worth-it purchase! You just gotta love JP! JP rocks!

However, you shouldn't watch a great movie without knowing the flaws. So, I suggest you buy it, watch it, and then study about the dinosaurs featured on the set... and trust me, you WILL find that many of the dinosaurs on the film were over-estimated.

I love this movie a lot. I have loved this movie since I was a kid. I own it on dvd and love it!

This is the best movie ever made, it has good special dinosaur effects and Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough are good movie actors in this movie, and I must say Steven Spielberg did a good job in directing this movie.

I give this movie 2 thumbs up.

This movie is great.

This is without a doubt one of the best movies ever. (I am writing a review for all JP movies. Check those out!) This show was just great! First off, the dinosaurs. They looked SO REAL, you could almost touch them! The Rex was the main dino in this movie, and boy did he make a prescence. It was just amazing, and also didn't over sat his prescence. A+. The Velociraptors sounded AWESOME, looked AWESOME, and made the movie AWESOME. And the rest of the dinosaurs were great!!!!!!!!!!
The acting was also great, on just about evryones part, especially Doc Grant. Loved it.
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a college student now, I was 9 years old when Jurassic Park hit theaters and it couldn't have come at a better time. Watching it again, Jurassic Park holds up as great entertainment, even if the characters and storylines seem a bit flimsy at times. It's probably more worthy of 4 stars than 5, but hey, this is the movie of MY generation and I'm not going to apologize for its rating. Jurassic Park continually reminds its viewers that Steven Spielberg is the greatest entertainer since Walt Disney. Constantly filling the screen with visual treats, keeping the plot moving at a brisk pace (once the obligatory exposition is filled in), and allowing us to enjoy ourselves without stooping too low, nobody does blockbusters like this man. Since he was to direct Schindler's List that same year, this was more or less his kiss-off to the popcorn genre he helped invent (consisting of classics like Jaws, Raiders, and E.T.--some with more dramatic substance than others, but all damn entertaining). Like I said, I was nine when this movie premiered and I still remember watching in the dark theater as the whole show unfolded--perhaps taking it for granted that movies should be so thrilling and fun, and that every filmmaker was capable of such wonders. Wrong on both accounts, but it did spur me on to shoot my first movie on video camera that summer (admittedly, it was highly derivative). Now I'm a film student...thanks Steve
5/6

Jurassic Park is good entertainment, but take most of the "science" it presents with a grain of salt.

All the characters seem to think the idea of cloning dinosaurs is a good idea except chaos theorist Goldblum who wonders if we should do what we apparently can do.

Innovative in its presentation of realistic looking dinosaurs, Jurassic Park is the name of a new dinosaur-based theme park that is sabotaged while a few scientists and kids are on a pre-opening tour. It becomes an adventure to see who will escape alive.

The movie is best when there are dinosaurs on screen.

Mostly good acting by Laura Dern and Sam Neill as dino experts, Jeff Goldblum as the chaos theory mathematician, and Richard Attenborough as the park designer. The kids, played competently by Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello had some of the best lines.

An entertaining adventure, but no big concept. Not quite the same level as Raiders of the Lost Ark, or Jaws.

The only nit-picks include wondering why Jeff Goldblum wears black leather to the tropics, and why a pre-teen girl can save the day on a complex computer (again - see S1m0ne) with her knowledge of UNIX.

DVD has wide-screen movie, a behind the scenes documentary, and a few other minimal goodies.

Jurassic Park was more than just a movie. More than an event. It was a full blown phenomenon! Steven Spielberg is the unrivalled king of such films. Every few years he puts out another spectacular that sweeps the world and sets a new standard (like Jaws, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, E.T., Raiders Of The Lost Ark, etc.). This time out, we've got resurrected dinosaurs running amok! The basic plot has stranded people on dino-island trying to keep from becoming dino-chow. You've got your scientists (Sam Neil, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum), your crazy zillionaire (Richard Attenborough), a greedy, lecherous computer geek (Wayne Knight), a sleazy lawyer, and two cute kids to round out the cast. You even get Samuel L. Jackson as a chain-smoking computer tech guy! Throw in an approaching hurricane, and you've got the perfect monster movie! It's usually not the "deep" storyline (except in the cases of Spielberg epics like Schindler's List, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, The Color Purple, etc.) that causes the phenomenon. It's his way of thrilling us and breaking new cinematic ground that we love. I knew when I first saw JP that I was in for a blast. At the same time, I also knew that I wasn't going to see Hamlet or Macbeth! Jurassic Park blew my mind with it's realistic T-rex, Raptors, Triceratops, and the rest. We saw dinosaurs that were not rubber, clay, or robots (well, at least not robots that looked like robots)! We got CGI that put flesh on 65 million year old bones! The team that made this movie are legendary, and have pushed special effects to stratospheric heights. JP is a true milestone that stands the test of time. Belongs in every DVD collection...

There are several ways to critique this movie, each of which would lead you to a different conclusion. It can be critiqued as a story, which is a bit weak. It can be critiqued on development of the characters, which is even weaker. Or it can be critiqued on the basis of being a special effects thrill ride, which is exactly what it is.

This movie was based on the Michael Crichton book, which has a much better story and character development than the movie. However, the book is also much longer and while better in the story development, it is unable to compete with the adrenaline rush you get by seeing what appears to be a full-sized tyrannosaurus rex chasing after a jeep, giant jaws and sharp teeth gnashing inches from a passenger. The special effects in this movie make it the equivalent of a ride at Universal Studios.

The plot device is that John Hammond has been collecting the blood from mosquitoes entombed in amber, and using the DNA from that blood to create dinosaurs. His goal is to put those dinosaurs into an animal park where people can visit for goodly sums of money. Of course, just because you can do something, should you, a question asked by character Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). As it turns out, greed on the part of one of the characters helps in the escape of the critters, including the highly intelligent, carnivorous and agile raptors. While the raptors are somewhat larger than raptors as we know them from paleontology, they are fearsome and scary and designed to give anyone nightmares.

What ensues is a non-stop chase as the perpetually hungry dinosaurs attempt to make a meal of the humans, and the humans do their best to avoid becoming a meal and trying to get off the island. While the plot has a few weaknesses in spots, ignore them. This movie is about the special effects and the chase. Avoid analyzing the events and allow the dinosaurs to be scary. Plug this DVD into your home theater system and crank up the bass to get the full effect of a running dinosaurs.

This movie is great entertainment. It is a thrill ride and you do not examine thrill rides too deeply; you just experience them. Five stars for special effects that were phenomenal when this movie was first released.

When I originally saw this movie, it was at a movie theater with an excellent sound system. Needless to say, I was somewhat disappointed when it came out on VHS a few years back.
I have since bought this version of the DVD, and boy - what a difference!
The DTS sound track will pick you up - toss you in the air then slam you down on the ground - and then youll ask for more.
Clearly the way the move was mean to be seen / heard and FELT.
If you have at least a decent home theater system, with good low frequency capabilities, then this movie is a must buy. Why hear the T-Rex when you can feel it?
As far as the picture quality - its as good as it gets for DVD. No artifactts, discolorations or distortions at any point during the film.