When Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park debuted in 1993, it not only reinvented the summer blockbuster, but paired science and big-budget movie-making with a subject that fascinated audiences both young and old: dinosaurs. Thanks to its compelling source material from novelist Michael Crichton, the science was quasi-believable, adding to the allure and possibility that one day…
When Jurassic Park hit theaters in June of 1993, I had just finished the third grade. Watching Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum run from the perils of genetically created dinosaurs was quite possibly the biggest thing I’d ever seen on screen – both in terms of filmmaking and T-Rex stomps. The ripples…
Please excuse me as I write this blog in the voice of an excited 30-year-old 3rd grader. JK, Jay. JK. This trailer for Jurassic World was supposed to come out during some boring sportsing game on Thanksgiving Day, but the Internet Gods have saved me the trouble of DVRing said game and fast-forwarding to the…