Jurassic Park

[WingedSerpent]

All these years later, and its still one of my favorite films of all time.  Probably my #1 film. 

Most of the special effects done by the late Stan Winston still hold up to this day.  I'll admit there's one or two scenes where the CGI hasn't aged well, but there's still plenty of good scenes.  Plus they smartly used a mix of animatronic and puppet work, and mostly left the computers work to scenes that couldn't be pulled off otherwise.

At 126 minutes run time.  There's only about 10-15 minutes of actual dinosaur scenes.  But they work.

This movie is also what brings a lot of people up to more modern ideas of dinosaurs.  Yes, its out of date by now.  It did sort of kill off old ideas in the public's eye like dinosaurs being slow, cold blooded, living in swamps or water to support their weight...  It portrayed them a lot like real animals.

It introduced a lot of people to the dromeosaur order of dinosaurs.  The family that contains the Raptors.  One of the movies most iconic creatures, and I feel one of the new iconic dinosaurs in general.  Also not scientifically accurate,  as real velocirpators were only about three feet high.  But during the production of this movie, a much larger species of Raptor was found.  Later named the UtahRaptor, one of the paleontologist joked that "They found Speilburg's raptor".

The 6th movie in the series is due out either later this year or in a few years time.  I plan on seeing it.  I actually like the sequels myself, but I know they tend to get S#!+  upon.

I'll make a thread about those another time.

[bob]

this movie holds up extraordinarily well from when it was made

[Trevor]

I actually cried at the end of this film, I blubbered into my Slush Puppie like a fool.    Those final moments, Sam Neill and Laura Dern seeing the birds flying away and then the helicopter flying towards the setting sun.... wow.

Wonderful film and the FX still hold up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOE7rosXN8A

[Gabriel Knight]

Don't forget the amazing music by John Williams. That man always nails it.

[Trevor]

Don't forget the amazing music by John Williams. That man always nails it.

I think that was the other reason I cried: the music is wonderful.

[Ted C]

Don't forget the amazing music by John Williams. That man always nails it.

A perfect example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg
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[Allhallowsday]

I encouraged a friend to see this in the theater with me.  I loved it, I think it scared him.  He was annoyed with me.     Talk about a snowflake. 

[ER]

When I saw Jurassic Park in the summer of 1993 I emerged telling everybody it was the greatest movie ever made, and I still watch it whenever I see it on TV. A great movie that, like has been said here, has aged well and in some parts only seems to get scarier.

[WingedSerpent]

During the scene where they witness they the raptor being born, the actors hadn't seen the prop yet.  So some of their reactions were real.  The baby raptor was inspired by watching videos of crocodiles being born.  To have that sort of innocence but still deadly.

There was apparently an animated series, that never made it past concept art.

[A_Dubya]

The greatest lesson learned from Jurassic Park: pay your disgruntled employees!

[FatFreddysCat]

The original "JP" was one of the most fun movie-going experiences I've ever had. The theater was packed and it was rockin'! Everybody was screaming and having a great time. It was like being on a theme park ride.