Jurassic Park
June 11, 1993 in theaters
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
DID YOU KNOW?
Jurassic Park was the first film to use digital sound in theaters -- previously all theatrical sound was analog.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
One of Spielberg's most purely satisfying films and a genuine landmark in the use of digital effects -- not merely because the technology is impressive, but because it serves the illusion rather than calling attention to itself. The dinosaurs feel real because the film treats them as animals rather than monsters, and the tension is built from biological logic rather than horror convention. Jeff Goldblum's Ian Malcolm remains one of cinema's great scene-stealers. A film that has held its ground across three decades.
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