On a remote island, a wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening the attraction to the public, he invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park -- and help calm anxious investors. However, their park visit is anything but tranquil as the park's security system breaks down, the prehistoric creatures break out, and the excitement builds to surprising results.Perhaps one of the greatest science fiction stories ever made. What makes it so good is that it's not a science fiction story that's set hundreds of years in the future...it takes place in the present day. When it came out in '93, it was my absolute favourite movie...I had all the toys, all the clothes, and all the cheap shit that had the Jurassic Park label attached to it. However, taking genetics classes has kind of spoiled it for me because it now seems far fetched that they'd be able to clone dinosaurs when a lot of cloning techniques and technology were pretty much brand new (heck, I don't see how they could have sequenced the genomes of 15 different dinosaur species to see the gene sequence gaps using 80's/early 90's computer technology.) Stupid learning...
Jurassic Park was nominated for three Oscars and won all three, including Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects. Make no mistake, the special effects are still impressive to this day. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was one of the first movies to use CGI.
For some extra reading check out The Flubs of Jurassic Park. Especially check this picture out if you love crew/equipment visible as much as I do.
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