{4.5\/5} “We spared no expense.”<\/p>\n
Alan, Ellie, and Ian are three scientists who are invited to give their expert opinions on a new theme park that’s getting ready to open. To their surprise, the theme park has real live dinosaurs in it — made from dinosaur DNA found in amber mixed with modern amphibian DNA. Unfortunately, while they’re on the tour things go horribly wrong. Dinosaurs break free, and people start dying.<\/p>\n
Jurassic Park<\/strong> was released in 1993. I saw it, probably for the third or fourth time, in the theatre in 3D.<\/p>\n As usual with 3D movies I felt that I would have enjoyed it equally if I’d seen it in 2D. There was nothing wrong with the 3D — it just doesn’t add anything significant to a movie (unless that movie is Avatar<\/strong>).<\/p>\n I’m a fan of dinosaurs, and I do like seeing them on the big screen. The special effects, a combination of animatronics and computer graphics, hold up very well.<\/p>\n At first it’s about science and technology and then it turns into a monster movie. There are a lot of close calls — both with adults and kids.<\/p>\n When the power is out, who will emerge on top — humans or velociraptors?<\/p>\n I like the movie a lot — there’s a bit of humour, and there are exciting sequences where the humans are in grave danger.<\/p>\n I love the majestic music when you see the dinosaurs for the first time. The soundtrack is one of my favourites from John Williams (Star Wars<\/strong>, Superman<\/strong>).<\/p>\n Sam Neill (The Dish<\/strong>) plays Alan Grant, Laura Dern (October Sky<\/strong>) plays Ellie Sattler, and Jeff Goldblum (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou<\/strong>) plays Ian Malcolm. Richard Attenborough (The Great Escape<\/strong>) plays John Hammond. Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers<\/strong><\/a>), BD Wong (the TV show Law & Order: SVU<\/strong>), and Wayne Knight (the TV show Seinfeld<\/strong>) are also along for the ride.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg (Jaws<\/strong>, Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/strong>).<\/p>\n The fourth movie in the series is coming out next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “We spared no expense.” Alan, Ellie, and Ian are three scientists who are invited to give their expert opinions on a new theme park that’s getting ready to open. To their surprise, the theme park has real live dinosaurs in it — made from dinosaur DNA found in amber mixed with modern amphibian DNA. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}