Jurassic Park (1993) Feat. Dinosaurs Will Always Be Awesome

This is perhaps one of the toughest movie reviews we have ever done: Jurassic Park, a legendary film that has been dissected frame by frame for nearly 30 years, since it came out in 1993.

No pressure in reviewing arguably Steven Spielberg's best creature feature, right? No one could ever fathom a scenario wherein they could yell at the hosts through their stereo for leaving out trivia, but also for including too much trivia, right?

How do your hosts think this film compares to Jaws? Were there similar technical complications?

The screenplay was adapted by David Koepp (Spider-Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Mummy) from Michael Crichton's novel. We address the similarities with Crichton's other theme park fiasco film, Westworld, and the rebooting of that franchise.

We talk the performances of all the actors. Sam Neil (Event Horizon, In the Mouth of Madness, hunt for the Wilderpeople) stars as Dr. Alan Grant, a paleontologist and unwilling nanny. Jeff Goldblum (The Fly, Independence Day, Thor: Ragnarok) is the chaotic Ian Malcolm. Laura Dern (Wild, Marriage Story, Blue Velvet) is the amazingly rare female action star, counter to Neil's Grant.

Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) stepped out of acting retirement to play Hammond. B.D. Wong (Mr. Robot, Mulan), who has finally gotten some attention in the sequels, still is memorable in his expository scene about how the dino-sausage is made. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, and basically every Marvel film), embodies every sane person who has ever worked alongside a nitwit and for a capitalist.

Finally, Wayne Knight (Seinfeld) is the most loathsome character on film, and we love him for it.

We delve into all of the multifaceted special effects and their creators: Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, Dennis Muren, and Michael Lantieri.

We also talk about the paleontological experts on set, Robert T. Bakker and Jack Horner, one of whom served as inspiration from Dr. Grant (Neil). Through them we talk about the accuracies, inaccuracies, and dinosaurs onscreen: velociraptor (deinonychus), dilophosaurus, brachiosaurus, gallimimus, parasaurolophus, triceratops, and finally Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Luckily, we balance out the review with a discussion with our dear paleontology pals, Dinosaurs Will Always Be Awesome. They can be found at https://dwaba.org/

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