I still do not understand all of the hype

Rating: 3/10 (20 May 2013)

The first thing that I didn't like about this film was all of the hype. I remember when it was first released in the cinema and everybody on the media just raved about the special effects. Then I read in the Los Angeles Times an add saying "If you have seen it once, it is not enough, see it again." This was simply a blatant way of saying, "give us more money" and at that point I decided that I would not see this movie until it either came on television or somebody else paid for it. When I first saw it, somebody else paid for it and my opinion was that I expected more. When I saw it a second time on television my second opinion was that it was boring.
The movie is based on a book by Michael Crichton. As is standard the book is much better and dives into the ethics of creating dinosaurs for profit. The movie touches on the ethics but it is more of a special effects fest with little else. The movie did not hold me the second time around and as such I have decided that this movie is simply not worth seeing again.
The ethics of creating dinosaurs is the theme that is explored in the movie. A mosquito with dinosaur blood is found and from the blood the DNA sequence is recreated and thus dinosaurs are able to be cloned. A scientist thus does this and buys an island to place them on. He uses frog DNA to fill in the gaps, which causes a problem. He purposely creates females so that he can control their growth, but frogs have been known to change sex in a single sex environment.
The professor is trying to play God by creating the dinosaurs. Not only that but he is trying to control them and even make money from them. The movie goes on to have the system keeping the dinosaurs under control breaking down and allowing them to escape. As such it shows us that no matter how powerful we are, we are never in complete control. Humans can betray us, computers can break down, and unthinking creatures can not be anticipated.
The other thing that irked me about the movie was the Veloceraptor. I thought that it was simply too intelligent. These creatures are dinosaurs yet they were opening doors. They opened the movie by saying that the Veloceraptors were intelligent but I my disbelief came into full swing when their intelligence was equated with that of humans, that is they were able to open doors. Cats have been known to do that but that is after years of watching humans do it. The veloceraptor was in a cage and within half an hour of escaping, was able to open doors.
Jurassic Park is not a great movie. In fact it is quite dull. When I first saw it, girls were screaming but I didn't find it scary. The second time I fell asleep, constantly. Watch it once and then don't bother.