Rare and Scary

Rating: Null/10 (10 June 2003)

it's not often we get to see dinosaurs that aren't illustrated in books or animated. This and its sequels are the most brilliant. Dr. John hammond (Richard Attenborough) is a billionare, who's discovered how to bring dinosaurs back to life by using the blood from prehistoric mosquitos preserved in amber., and wants paleantologists Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neil), and his fiancee, Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and Mathematician, Dr. ian malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) to invest Jurassic Park, off the coast of Costa Rica. After seeing an enormous Brachiasouras 40-feet high, and about 70-feet long, which seems like it was impossible for Mr. Spielberg to create, showing them the park, the embryos and a slide-show, The four, meet up with their target audience, Hammond's grandchildren Tim (Joseph Mazzello) and Lex, and take a tour of the park in a JP car. There actually is a bad guy in the movie, Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) a nerd who's trying to steal the dinosaurs and sell them. nedry turns the power off...which causes all the extreme danger to brake lose.
Let me just say that it was so scary when nedry gets killed by a dilophosaurus, it even made me afraid to get in the car by myself. But let me shed some light on this, Jeff Goldblum gives all the humor with all his dry, facetious, and sometimes cynical humor. I can't get enough of some of the things he says, with so little respect, like when he says, "Now how can you be sure all the dinosaurs are female, does someone pull up the dinosaurs skirt?" Dr. hammond, says that the reason for all the danger is that all major theme parks have their delays, he mentions about when the first opened Disneyland in 1956, and Dr. malcolm says, "yeah, John but when Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down the pirates don't EAT the tourists." It would of been even funnier if he said, "it's a Small World, has irked the entire world, but when the dolls sing in that ever annoying, repetative way, they don't turn into Chucky Dolls and KILL the Tourists. The T-Rex is terryfying just loking at it. Velociraptors are so intellegent that if you saw one, you'd me more terrified than if you saw any creature that ever lived. they can totally manipulat, and you know that you're dead right when you see one. They've given me nightmares. i'd have to say there was more than moderate violence, there's a severed human arm, something you only see in a horror movie. This was Joseph Mazzello's claim to fame, his turning point.
he had a great role as a genius, who was so tough and had such incredible endurance, it even seemed totally fake the amount he had. like the scence where the T-Rex ambushes the car, and he gets left in and the car gets smashed, twisted, and falls about 40-feet into a tree., and later gets electricutted by 10, 000 volts., and he doesn't scream or cry, and he's ok, althoug he has to see a doctor, and has blood all over his ears and other places. For a movie that's a claim to fame of such an expressive actor, who always cries in hi major roles, the character he played seemed like it wasn't hard at all. The Raptors kill at least 8-people, and the crew from the beggining are the only for sure survivors. Just seeing advertisements, pictures,the poster, merchandise etc. scared me, and back, then bid jungles like that gave me the creeps. i survived watching it the first time when I was 8, but I was nervous to see the sequel in theaters.