What Jurassic Park means to you?
I thought I'd start this little thread, so we can all share our fond memories of the first time we saw the movies and what made us a fan.
Since I stared this thread, I'll start out.
I first heard of Jurassic Park, when I was about 8 years old, I forgot what movie I was going to see, but I remember seeing the yellow poster in the front window of the theatre and asked my dad what movie that was...well he didn't quite know, so we took a trip to the book store, and she expained it was about dinosaurs and that's all I needed to hear.
June 11th 1993 is when I first saw the movie and have been inspired by it ever since.
Since I stared this thread, I'll start out.
I first heard of Jurassic Park, when I was about 8 years old, I forgot what movie I was going to see, but I remember seeing the yellow poster in the front window of the theatre and asked my dad what movie that was...well he didn't quite know, so we took a trip to the book store, and she expained it was about dinosaurs and that's all I needed to hear.
June 11th 1993 is when I first saw the movie and have been inspired by it ever since.
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However, whenever I hear the name of JP or see the logo, I remember those awesometastic Jurassic Park themed Cheetos (shaped like dinosaurs) I was LOVING when I was little. I always smell corn and spice whenever I see the logo, seriously.
The things I loved most was the set design, the vehicles, and Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm. It was the movie that first got me interested in dinosaurs and I remember many a Sunday morning getting up to watch Bonehead: Detectives of the Paleo World along with Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures.
I got dino toys from garage sales. We went to museums and exhibits to see dino bones and that was fun...
Science center, etc etc...
My brother really loved(s) JP.
I grow up with the movies, saw them in theaters...
I do not consider myself a fan boy. We watch JP one often, but not religiously.
So, there was a period of my childhood where I obsessed over getting all of the toys (I loved my Jurassic Park jeep) but by the time the sequel rolled around and I was long since back in the UK, my interest had waned. By far the most memorable experience for me was having watched the film in New York, some two days later I spotted Steven Spielberg walking through Chinatown (wearing his Jurassic Park cap no less). That was awesome, though I now wish that I'd asked for an autograph.
I remember being totally scared and excited when seeing the T-Rex outbreak or the kitchen scene, it was like an adventure every time seeing the movie, this really shows how much of an experience a movie (or a game) can be.
The Lost world was then the first JP-film I was excited over from the first time it was announced (I remember seeing a poster in a cinema and how thrilled I was) till I finally saw it, although even as a kid despite really liking it, I knew that it wasnt nearly as good as the first film. By the time the third came out, I wasnt that thrilled anymore (thankfully). But still the first film is one of my very most important childhood memories!!!
I would have been 12 or 13 we went to this really really ancient theater the kind that had a balcony and a little lounge area for when movies used to have intermissions. The sound in the theater literally shook the walls and the seats it was an amazing experienced, its something that even to this day with modern digital equipment has not been duplicated.
The movie itself had me at the edge of my seat a term thrown around way too often, but certainly applies with this film, one of a very short list I feel applies, maybe it was the new at the time special effects but I will always remember the T-rex attack as one of the most intense moments in cinema.
Growing up I wanted to be a paleontologist, but I more wanted to be Alan Grant. This was a main part of my childhood and still a huge part of who I am.