Jurassic Park

 

Jurassic Park 1993

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Seen by this director: Ready Player One, BFG, War of the Worlds, Catch Me If You Can, AI, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Schindler’s List, Hook, The Colour Purple, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sugarland Express, The Duel
• Based on the book by Michael Crichton
• Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Ariana Richards, Samuel L Jackson, Wayne Knight
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Sam Neill – Blackbird, A Long Way Down, Skin, Little Fish, The Piano
• Laura Dern – Big Little Lies, Star Wars the Last Jedi, Wild, The Fault in Our Stars, I Am Sam, October Sky, Citizen Ruth, A Perfect World, Wild at Heart
• Jeff Goldblum – Mortdecai, Igby Goes Down, Independence Day, The Fly, Silverado
• Richard Attenborough – Elizabeth, Hamlet
• Bob Peck – Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Surviving Picasso, Macbeth
• Ariana Richards - Tremors
• Samuel L Jackson – Glass, The Hateful Eight, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, 51^st State, Django Unchained, Jumper, 1408, Star Wars, Kill Bill, Changing Lanes, The Red Violin, Jackie Brown, The Long Kiss Goodnight, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Jungle Fever, Mo’ Better Blues, Sea of Love, Do the Right Thing
• Wayne Knight – Hail Caesar, Third Rock from the Sun, JFK, Dead Again, Born on the Fourth of July, Dirty Dancing
• Why? A classic
• Seen: Once before. Now 8 September 2022      

       It will be interesting to see if this dinosaur film is as good as the more recent British series Primeval which I liked very much. I’m quite sure I’ve seen Jurassic Park, but I don’t remember it at all, which doesn’t really bode well, does it?

       You probably know the story. If not, Google it. A park with live cloned dinosaurs is owned and run by an eccentric zillionaire (Attenborough), who invites sceptical scientists (Dern, Neill and Goldblum) to visit and endorse it. There are kids and murderous dinosaurs and cute dinosaurs and a human villain.

       My question is why in the world does almost every review on IMDb give it 10* or at least 7*? The characters are uber-annoying. Even Samuel L Jackson is lacklustre in a nothing role. It’s not even exciting. Most of the time I was surfing on my mobile.

       My advice: see Primeval instead. I like Sam Neill, though, Richards is good as the girl and the dinosaurs are well done, so instead of 1* it gets     

 2* of 5