Made in 1993, this movie was meant to scare the shit out of little kids. And it did.
Both the director, Steven Spielberg, and writer, Michael Crichton, were well established when they decided to make Crichton's book into a movie. Although, they left parts out, ie. the dinosaur eating a baby's skull...
It is said that in the original screenplay, Dr. Grant operated a marionette version of the giant T-Rex skeleton in the front lobby to crush the raptors, but this was discarded in rewrites...
Girl's raving review...
I loved this movie, and was terrified of this movie, as a child. The opening scene had me cringing into my parents' arms and crying before the first 15 minutes was over. It was the first movie that actually had me doing this. Before I had watched It and Jaws and been scared, but never cried... Until the wee hours of the night when I was worried there was a clown under my bed. Fuck you, Stephen King.
Although some of the animatronics and child acting is hard to handle, this movie stood among the greatest of the true Blockbuster age. It held it's own and then some, until Titanic swatted it out of the sky, but no big deal considering Jurassic Park doesn't have the scorn or distaste attached to it that some people can have for Leo's "King of the World" speech.
Girl's Rating: If you did not see this movie, you lived in a cave. If you did not like this movie, you can go live in a cave.
P.S. I'm so glad that Ariana Richards, the punk who played Lex the Annoying Girl, went on to make such movies as Tremors 3: Back to Perfection.
Guy's review is once again coming, when he gets his cute but lazy butt into gear!
