The one that started it all for me

Rating: 8/10 (14 August 2000)

I am a 17 year old who wants to be a film maker. How did I decide that is the job I wanted? It all started back in June of 1993 with Jurassic Park. When it came out, I knew it was going to be awesome. I had been looking forward to it for a long time. I mean a movie about dinosaurs coming to life! I couldn't wait. In fact, since then I have never anticipated a movie as much as I anticipated this one. When the day finally came for me to see the film (I was going to see it opening day, but then I was invited to see it for my friend's birthday party on the second day, so I had to wait 24 hours) we got to the theater a full hour and a half before the movie started. We waited at the front of what became a very long line, at 10 in the morining, outside the theater. We finally got into the huge theater and I sat in th middle seat of the middle row. When the movie started I was enthralled from start to finish. I was thrilled by the first appearence of the dinosaurs, having the same feeling that the characters had. I was on the edge of my seat for the scenes with the T-Rex and the Velociraptors. I loved every character in that movie. When it ended, and the rousing John Williams score played again, the theater broke into thunderous applause, and I was clapping the hardest. I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up. I wanted to make films that will thrill audiences like Jurassic Park thrilled me. Now I look back on Jurassic Park very fondly. It is no longer my favorite film. I have moved onto more, more adults films like Fight Club and American Beauty. But I will always love Jurassic Park, and will never understand any of the critics who did not like the script or thought the characters were thin. I will always love it, because I will always look at it the way I first did- through the eyes of a 10 year old who is experience at the movies has changed him forever.