My FIRST TIME Watching Jurassic Park & I can't Believe it Took Me This Long!

31 years later and I still get emotional when the Brachiosaurus is first seen. Everything John Williams writes is classic.

12:05 It's John Williams. He does that. "Without John Williams: Bikes don't really fly. Nor do brooms in quidditch matches. Nor do men in red capes. There is no Force. Dinosaurs do not walk the earth. We do not wonder. We do not weep. We do not believe." -Steven Spielberg (at John Williams' AFI Life Achievement Award Ceremony in 2016)

30:35 - "The dinosaur looks so real though." That's because it IS real. Most of that sequence relied upon full-scale animatronics, not CGI. If part of any dinosaur in this movie is off-camera, it's animatronics. Rexy is a full-scale hydraulic robot puppet with a leg and everything from the chest up. And the rain played havoc with the technology.

Honestly, the relationship between Lex and Timmy is one of the most, if not THE most realistic sibling relationship I have seen in TV and cinema, the banter, the insults, even in a serious and extremely scary sutuation, but when it really comes down to it they would do anything to protect eachother, instead of just being lovey-dovey all the time. And, in the end, you can really tell how much they love and care for eachother, and how much they mean to eachother.

"Mooing in fear" That cow is a professional actor. Spielberg personally worked with that cow to get the moo of fear just right.

I'll never forget seeing this in the theater. There was a disabled person a few rows up from us who had a service dog. During the quiet part of a particularly tense scene, that dog got up and shook off. Half the theater jumped 3 feet in the air. That movie was an experience, to say the least.

A movie from 1993 about dinosaurs is still making people emotional and awestruck today. I remember being 13 in the theater. Just completely and totally amazed. It was like magic was real. It's hard to explain. But I remember crying in the theaters 13 year old boy getting emotional seeing things we have never seen in a movie before. Even now I can't get the right words out. Greatest movie of all time.

I believe they could rerelease this film in theaters every 10-20 years, and it would still kill at the box office. Watching this in the theater on release day was absolutely amazing. Special shout out to the scene with the first Brachiosaurus. Everyone in the theater gasped.

I remember this movie coming out when I was 12. My dad was a car salesman at the time. And he told us (my mom and I) if he sold a car, we would all go out and watch Jurassic Park as a treat. And sure enough, he sold a car. And we all went out for dinner and a movie on a Friday night. I miss those days. I also miss my dad. 😢

To hell with watching this in theaters. Try being an 8 year old and seeing it at the drive-in. The T-Rex footsteps were shaking the entire lot. The roars were deafening. Little kids freaking out while their parents were mesmerized. A truly magical time. ...We'll never have that experience again.

Fun fact: that storm immediately after the sick triceratops was real. It was a hurricane that they had to hunker down through until it was over. But they caught the beginning on camera, which is the shot of the ocean crashing against the land. They had to rebuild a LOT of their sets to continue filming.

Feeling emotional is the correct response to that first proper view of the dinosaurs. Even 30 years later, I still tear up with that music and scene.

As a math teacher, I love that Ian Malcom is presented as a "cool" mathematician. The character was an early influence on my love of mathematics.

lol that Spinosaurus messed homegirl up for life

The amount of Rizz displayed by The Goldblum in this film, is legendary.

There’s actually a theory going around the JP community recently saying that Muldoon (the hunter guy) may have actually survived his run in with the raptors, the evidence is VERY much speculation. What we know is that Muldoon is similar to that of Chris Pratt’s character in Jurassic world, Owen Grady, and that they both share the same job as Raptor wrangler. Both characters raised the raptors from hatchlings to full grown, and the belief is that it jumped on him playfully and that he just got back up and walked off somewhere. As unlikely as this theory sounds (and trust me, this sound like absolute bull when I first read it), the new Jurassic park horror game “Jurassic Park: Survival” leads us to believe that a female character is left behind on the island is the last one on the island, but finds help from someone, and the speculation is Muldoon, because who else could help someone survive Jurassic Park. AGAIN, THIS IS A THEORY AND PURE SPECULATION, just thought I’d share and get those cogs in your head turning. That is all. - Some Idiot with too much time

It is amazing that this movie still impresses people today and makes them cry when the dinosaurs are shown the first time. Now imagine it is 1993, there were no life-like CGI-animals in movies ever seen before. And you are a 12 year old boy who was a fan of dinosaurs, sitting in the theater, was not spoiled by thousands of trailers, reviews,... (there was not internet), and watch that. Oh, it was such a great time!

Back in 93 there really wasn't something of this quality around. Something that still looks damn amazing today.

T rex actually had the largest eyes of any terrestrial land animal on the Earth. Basically it wouldn't give a shit if you stayed still.

I saw this in theaters when I was 10 years old. I’m sure my parents were not prepared for how many subsequent times we’d watch it that summer, nor how many dinosaur toys they’d end up buying me and my brother 😅 31 years later and it still gets me