I do not like Jurassic Park. I have never liked Jurassic Park. It has great special effects and Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, but that does not make it a good movie. I don’t care if it made a billion dollars at the box office. I don’t care how many awards it won.
The worst part, though, is the memes. They’re second only to Prequel Trilogy memes in terms of how much they annoy me. I long ago added “clever girl” and “life uh finds a way” to the list of phrases that braying jackasses won’t stop posting on social media that fill me with a near-homocidal rage. I’d block these phrases and move on with my life but these people put them in freaking images, too. I can’t get away from it. *continues to froth incoherently*
Edit: As of this writing, I have three downdoots. I’m going to assume that all downdooters agree with this post. Edit #2: Now like 8 of 29 people agree with me! I guess this unpopular opinion isn’t quite as unpopular as I believed. ❤️
Edit #3: 15 of 45 people reject that this is an unpopular opinion! Thank you all for your love and support. ✌️
You blocked the phrases and they came back in memes?
Life uh finds a way.
Have you seen it at a theater? Having a screen that makes the T. Rex actual size and a quality sound system that shakes your seat with every stomp really adds a lot to the experience. This goes for the other dinosaurs too of course.
Obviously some of the moment-to-moment plot is corny and contrived, and the big screen won’t fix that. Though for me that just puts it alongside campy adventures like The Goonies (another film I love).
However the larger themes (e.g. cloning extinct creatures, a capitalist shithead developing an attraction that endangers everyone) seem more realistic today than ever.
Fair point. I’ve never seen in a movie theater, but I do have a decent home theater setup. I still dozed off halfway through the last time we tried to watch it. 😆
You’re 100% right on the film’s prescience. This is the dystopian future that sci-fi authors used to write about. How dark things go remains to be seen.
Grudging upvote because how dare you? lol
Also, have you read the novel? I like the movie a lot, but I can respect that you don’t. The novel is so much better, though.
I’ve heard this. I should give it a shot. I think I read The Andromeda Strain about a million years ago.
The Andromeda Strain is also a solid novel. The movie adaptation from the 70s is okay, but the 2008 miniseries is godawful.
I feel the same way about “updoots” and “downdoots”
A scene that is frequently mocked even though it’s entirely correct!
The program shown is fsn (filesystem navigator) running on a Silicon Graphics workstation under their UNIX OS IRIX.
https://preterhuman.net/software/file-system-navigator-fsn-silicon-graphics/
It’s harder to hate on the kids. They were pretty cute. Do they still act, I wonder?
Edit: Joseph Mozello is still acting but Ariana Richards became an artist. https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/where-the-kids-of-jurassic-park-and-jurassic-world-are-now
