Keep in mind that at the beginning, as the helicopter is landing and they had to put their seatbelts on, Grant couldn't fasten his because his belt buckle somehow had two female ends. Instead, he tied them together. So, he found a way, alluding to how the female dinosaurs eventually find a way to mate and breed.

John Williams is simply the greatest film score composer of all times. The man gave us the themes from Harry Potter, Home Alone, Superman, Jaws, E.T., and pretty much the entire Star Wars saga.

It will never cease to amaze me that Spielberg made this movie and Schindler's List on the same year.

The idea that Tyrannosaurus Rex could only recognize objects that move was fabricated for this movie. The exaggerated size of the raptors became part of a fortuitous coincidence. After the filming, but before its release the fossil of a large raptor was discovered. "Spielberg's raptor" was proposed as its name but "Utah raptor" was adopted.

I was working in a video rental store when this movie came out for sale/rent. It was the biggest event I'd ever seen and have ever seen since for ONE movie. We sold (not rented, SOLD) THOUSANDS of VHS cassettes in mere months (each 9.99 $ at the time). We had that film playing on the store TVs and speakers for weeks on end. We had giant dinosaur statues brought in from who knows where for display throughout the store. So big in fact, we had a window company remove the store front windows in order to get those statues inside. It was quite a circus.

I'll never forget seeing this in the theater. The shocked gasps at the first dinosaur apperance. The chills the first T-Rex roar sent down my spine, what an unforgettable experience. I was 28.

I was in highschool when this came out and it blew my mind. I was one of those little kids who loved dinosaurs and this helped kind of rekindle that at the time. I went and saw this 6 times in the theater.

It was not until a test screening of the animatronic triceratops that the makers of the movie knew that they were successful in making the dinosaurs look real. Up until the the audience reaction, everyone was just hoping they did a good job.

This movie has one of the few music scores that actually affects me emotionally. This, Gladiator, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy are next level soundtracks.

This film is pure genius. Often imitated, never matched.

I do believe Ian Malcom’s character was designed as the realistic mindset that we all have in reality and the knowledge we have from real excavations of dinosaurs and that we could have never really evolved alongside them

10 year old me seeing that first Brachiosaurus back in '93 was just mind blowing, dare I say almost life changing with how obsessed with dinosaurs I was from that point on. Even now, with the music it makes me a bit misty eyed. The special effects for this movie are still considered pretty good now, but back then? They were the cutting edge of cutting edge. It was essentially 'real' footage. I think I went and saw it 5 or 6 times.

I still find it interesting that Dennis knew that the raptors were too dangerous to be set loose, so that even when he shut the power off, he made sure to keep the raptor paddock's power on

In the sequel, "The Lost World" we learn where the dinosaurs are before they reach the main park, and Hammond has a few lines speaking exactly on this topic. I don't want to give away anything though, so I'll look forward to you reacting to the sequel in the near future 😊

Seeing this in the theaters as a kid was scary and awesome at the same time xD A lot of us as kids had that "Dinosaur" phase and this was just a must see, not knowing it's a scary movie especially for a kid :P

The most overlooked line in this movie is when the lawyer says "Are these characters auto...erotica?" To which Hammond quickly says they're not animatronic lol. Definitely an adult joke I missed as a kid.

that movie came out 30 years ago, and it still looks better than almost everything that has come out in the past 20 years

I was 11 when this came out, saw it opening weekend. Was a Star Wars moment for me. The CGI in this movie is in line with 1991's Terminator 2, where they only used it when something was impossible to make with practical effects. I remember that weekend clearly though. The lobby of the cinema, the smell of the popcorn... the JP music on repeat and the trailers on the screens on repeat as well. My cinema has 20 screens, and every screen that weekend was showing only Jurassic Park in a staggered schedule, and the place was packed from wall to wall. It was me (11), my sister (16), my best friend (11), and my sister's best friend (16) (who were also brother and sister). My dad gave us £20 (around £50 in today's money) and we had the best weekend ever. No idea how my dad got 4 tickets, but, well, he did somehow. No movie has ever matched Jurassic Park since. Along with RoboCop, it's my interchangeable #1 ~ #2 movie of all time.

I must have heard the JP theme a thousand times...yet every single time I see that first dinosaur showing and 'welcome, to Jurassic Park', I still always get a massive grin on my face.

that movie is a roller coaster for stress levels 😅

The is one of my top 3 movies of all time! Such an amazing watch and the Vfx hold up so good!

Amazing Reaction! Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movies of all time, and its great to see that the VFX still hold up to this day!

I was 13 in 1993 and saw this opening week in an IMAX theater. State-of-the-art surround sound system in the venue. It was so incredibly loud when the T-Rex roared, it shook the room!!! Watching it on a screen that's nearly 8 times the size of an average theater screen (and with incredible definition) was mind-blowing at the time.

I was around 7 when this came out and my whole family went to see it. Sitting next to me was some stranger teenage girl. At the end of the big T-Rex escape scene, that girl was curled into a ball, and I heard her say, "That's so intense!" As we walked out of the theater, the first thing I said to my parents was, "What does 'intense' mean?" Jurassic Park introduced me to the word "intense."

What I love about this movie is the impending storm that starts to change the atmosphere when they run into the triceratops. The storm foreshadows what is to come but it kind of envelops the viewer in a way I can't really describe most movies do.

Fun fact about Jurassic Park: The book it was based on, written by Michael Crichton, was originally supposed to be from the perspective of a child. He wanted to do a story focusing on the awe a child would feel in a park like Jurassic Park. But his publisher thought no one would read it, so he rewrote it as one of the greatest sci-fi horror stories ever.

"Those damn dinosaurs!" I was dying!!! LOLLLLLLLLL

The movie that made me love movies. It's a rewatchable classic but seeing it in theaters as a youngin is peek entertainment. I was mortified, curious, laughing, and crying all at the same time. As always I absolutely adore your reactions. Jah bless ☺️ Have a great week.

Awesome reaction! This movie is up there with"Jaws", "E. T.", and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as one of the quintessential Spielberg popcorn flicks. It also defined CGI. The CGI and special effects in this movie still holdup today and are even better than most movies today tbh. It's an essential movie, one that all movie fans ought to watch at some point.

How could anyone NOT notice that T-Rex sneak into that main hall at the end... lol

One of the details that most people miss is when we first see the T. rex the girl shines the flashlight into the eye of the T. rex the pupil constricts in response. It may not seem like much but for me it adds a little realism to the situation. Just further proof that Mr. Spielberg is a master at making movies.

One of my favorite pieces of cinematic foreshadowing is during the initial approach to the island. Alan only had two female buckles, which obviously don’t work together, but he “found a way.”

the scene when they first see the long neck dino, still to this day gets me teary eyed. It is such a nostalgic scene for me, remembering as a kid seeing this film and believing that dinosaurs had actually been alive in our world. Such a wonderful scene. Will always have a place in my heart and memories.

“Life, uhh..finds a way.” - Dr. Ian Malcolm

The people who designed the dinosaurs' vocalizations were geniuses. I can't imagine them sounding any other way.

Funny story: I was in college when this came out. My girlfriend at the time, she and I took her little brother (10-ish years old) to go see this movie. During the T-rex scene where it was going after the kids in the vehicle, she and I looked at each other and said "are you scared...? You want to leave...?" I looked at her little brother and asked him, "Are you OK? You want to leave?" He was like "No this is great!" LOL Little kid loved it and we adults were terrified. But maybe in my defense, growing up I had recurring nightmares where a T-rex was coming after me. This was long before Jurassic Park and this movie introduced the term "T-rex". Before this they were just called Tyranosaurs. It was just a strange nightmare I would often have. So for me this was literally a nightmare come to life. Also, Ian Malcolm wasn't a dick, he was just confident and sometimes obnoxious about it. Dennis (aka Newman) was a dick.

Its amazing so beautifully done during the t rex break out that youre so engaged in whats happening that no one ever questions where the huge cliff came from when uou basically watched the t rex step out. 😂

the sound tracks to this movie are 10/10 iconic

They weren't entirely depending upon Nedry to operate the park just most of the staff left because of the storm. He just thought himself most important and deserving of more money hence why he was selling the embryo's to a competing research company. In that moment because of his meddling with the systems he would have been the only one to correct it ... I think anyway lol

I love this movie. It is very well made on every level. The acting, script, visual effects, direction, it all comes together quite perfectly. I can't say the same thing for any of the sequels. The second is more horror, but utterly predictable. The third is a little more adventure, but the script and direction aren't there. The World movies don't interest me and I haven't seen any of them from beginning to end.

Saw this in the theater the weekend it was released. Took a friend with me who freaked out during the T-rex opening scene.

"Dodgeson, you're too nice." Oh sweet summer child.

KZfaq knows me well. It shows me someone watching Jurassic Park for the first time, I click it.

Loved this. Much respect for the giant Kirby in the back!

Loved your reaction to the movie! This franchise has always had a dear place in my heart from childhood and I love that you enjoyed the characters so much! I hope you watch the rest of the movies! They really hold up to time.

The parents will be mad? The kid was being a brat 😂😂 Love the reaction video. Watched the movie in theaters in 1993. I love Jurassic Park 😁😍🙌

In the scene where she says “Run” she was motivating herself to run because her leg was injured.

The kid who plays Timmy later went on to portray Queen's bass guitarist John Deacon in the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody".

June 11, 1993 was when Jurassic Park was released. 30 YEARS AGO!!!!

That was a fun reaction! Another "monster" flick I'd like to suggest is "TREMORS", it'll be fun to watch your reaction to another great movie also! Thanks, and I'll looking forward to more of your reactions! 🎥🍿

I show this movie in science class with a quiz. Bonus question is: What is the last dinosaur you see in the movie? Kids get so mad the answer is Pelican.

Wonderful reaction. The suspense sequences, the acting (especially by the child actors), the dialogue, the animatronics and the score by the legendary John Williams is like an icing on a phenomenal coconut sugar cake. This film/blockbuster was ahead of it's time and the scene where the Brachiosaurus is revealed is one of the greatest cinematic experiences of all time. The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a fairly worthy sequel but everything else beyond that is completely up to the eye of the beholder. Love your tattoos too. The traditional skull with the sunflowers.

Real raptors were the size of turkeys and had feathers but they based of a different dinosaur that is not named very easy for crowds to remember. There were ostrich and larger dinosaurs like deinonychus that use to be around but the Jurassic period is much different that what is popularly know. Its sort of a catch word for everything people understand as creatures of the old worlds. The reason I think this first movie is so good is that the author of the book is involved and Spielberg made this a PG horror roller-coaster ride compared to the rated R horror flick that James Cameron was going to pitch to Michael Crichton. He gave up the pitch because he was busy and heard Spielberg was involved. Cameron admits now that his version probably would not be as popular because Spielberg reaches more age ranges.

The movie that Spielberg did it again, created a masterpiece in every single way possible that for people is 1 of their precious cinema memories for all time and would always cherish watching this for all the emotions it still brings.

When i see first-time reactions to this movie i always do a mental countdown when Ellie turns the power back on - 33:10 With a slowly growing smile.

Great reaction! 😊 "Welcome to Jurassic Park" Was looking forward to the start of your "Star Wars" reactions, but instead I get surprised with another one of my top 3 favorite movie franchises. LOVE IT!!! This first movie is my absolute favorite in the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World series. A great cast with Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. The great use of CGI effects and real animatronics. And of course, the fantastic musical score by John Williams. Fun Facts: Jeff Goldblum's character Ian Malcolm was very close to dying from his injuries in the book that this movie was based on. Also, Dennis' death in the book was more violent. 37:46 I agree! The shot with the banner coming down as the T-Rex roars is one of my favorite shots of the movie. I hope that you continue on with the remaining Jurassic Park/Jurassic World series. Two more movies remaining in the "Jurassic Park" half and 3 movies in the "Jurassic World" half. Looking forward to your next reaction. 😊

Lol at "very high stress levels". Try watching this in the cinema at 8 years old when it was first released. Now THAT is stress 😆

I love your point in your outro about how you love movies where everybody is using their brain. Me too. Any 12-year-old can write a story where a bumbling hero beats even more bumbling villains. But it takes some skill to write a movie where competent heroes beat competent villains. And it takes masterful skill to write a movie where amazing heroes defeat brilliant villains. There weren't really any villains to defeat here, which is also very well done. It's one of the best thing about Jurassic Park: it lets the dinosaurs be the danger rather than manufacturing a villain we don't need. Yeah, sure, Dennis Nedry got greedy and caused nearly all of the problems. But nobody had to defeat him; he defeated himself. So while he's awful, he was never a villain the heroes had to defeat. The dinosaurs spoke for themselves. And the writers let them. And the brilliant protagonists found a way to survive, with a little help at the end from a surprisingly stealthy T-Rex.

Feeling the T-Rex's footsteps beneath your seat while seeing the water was one of the most intense cinematic experiences ever. Funny, they just used a guitar string underneath the dashboard...Clever girl

I've always said if Jurassic Park existed irl I'd work there for room and board and access to the attractions lol

Nice reaction to my favorite movie of all time. I was surprise u didn't get very scared in Ellie and the Raptor scene. 🤣

John Williams is one of the greatest film composers of all time. He’s done most of Spielberg’s films, plus Harry Potter, Home Alone, Superman…

22:47 - There’s no other staff at the park to help because everyone else was evacuated on ships like the one we saw on the security camera earlier (the last one being the boat Nedry was trying to catch). They all left because of the storm. The tour was supposed to be finished before dark, but technical errors & Nedry’s sabotage meant the cars were stuck in place. All a bunch of variables that came together to make chaos. 🦖

I can totally understand their excitement for the T Rex at the beginning, because for paleontologists it would be like a dream come true to be able to study a living Tyrannosaurus since we still know very little about it. Sure, it is unfit as a tourist attraction but for the science it would be so amazing to have a living Rex around as long as it is properly contained.

As a human it is terrifying to think of being back in the food chain

Amazing reaction Kaylyptic this is one of my favorite Spielberg movies I remember that Jurassic Park ride too when I was kid and had lots of fun going on it as well I have Jurassic Park the game for Xbox 360 from Tell Tale also when you saw the kitchen scene did you see a hand on the Velociraptor it was a gag reel I thought it was cool they kept it in I hope you enjoy watching and reacting to the other Jurassic Park movies👍

27:00 when you say the Rex is going to hunt them...that's exactly what it does in the book. The Rex stalks and hunts Grant, Lex & Tim. The Rex follows them in a raft down the river and is actually waiting for them at the bottom of a waterfall. Great book snd suspenseful scene!

I love how they used modern animal sounds and everyday objects to make the dinosaur's sounds. Adult raptors: Tortoise mating call, walrus chest roar, angry goose hiss and dolphin scream recorded underwater Baby raptors: Owlets (baby owls), kits (baby foxes) Gallimimus: Female horse in heat (when it was getting shaken to death by the Tyrannosaur) Brachiosaurus: Slowed down donkey brays, the sneeze was a whale breathing through its blowhole(s) mixed with a fire hydrant. Dilophosaurus: Hawk, swan, rattlesnake and howler monkey sounds Tyrannosaurus rex: Dog playing with a rope toy, elephant calf squeal, an alligator's gurgling vocalizations, a tiger's snarl, metal sheets grinding against each other Triceratops: Cow, human breathing through a tube Bonus content: In an ironic twist, the Tyrannosaurus rex has been my favorite dinosaur since I was a child, even though this movie scared the crap out of me then, and that Raptor popping up behind Ellie Sattler in the maintenance shed is always a BIGTIME jumpscare. Also, if you think the deaths in the movie are bad, the deaths are a lot more horrific in the novel.

I like how these creatures one second is smart enough to realize how to open door and the next they think mirror image is a real image.

I watched this film in the Albert Hall with the Prague national Orchestra playing the music alongside the film, it was AWESOME.

This was the first movie I can remember the theatrical experience of, I was 5 or so and we saw it at a drive-in the week it came out!

Part of the reason the film is so smart, especially at the beginning, is that it's based on a book by Michael Crichton. Crichton got his MD from Harvard in 1969, but decided to become a full-time author instead of practicing medicine. He was very good at doing scientific research and weaving cutting-edge science into novels. He also wrote and directed several films and created the long-running medical drama ER (1994-2009). Love your commentary! Anyone can react, but a smart reactor with things to say is more interesting.

6:52 Grant can’t buckle his seatbelt because he has two “female” halves of the seatbelt. Which foreshadows life finding a way because he makes things work by tying them together

LMAO that ride at universal TRAUMATISED me when i went on holiday to orlando when i was like 7 or 8. the jaws and earthquake one were also up there as max level character building exercises 🤣

22:45 "I'm surprised they have no staff going out there to make sure that everyone outside is OK." Everybody got on the boat. There's a tropical storm so the island was mostly evacuated. Right now the only people not leaving the island are Hammond, Ray, Dennis, Alan, Ellie, Ian, Tim, Lex, Muldoon, and Donald the lawyer. And maybe that doctor working on the sick triceratops. There's nobody else.

1:21 "I will say props to everybody willing to work at a theme park that has living dinosaurs in it." I'm 55 years old. I've loved, LOVED dinosaurs for at least 50 of those years. I've seen every Jurassic movie and no spoilers, but obviously, things go very wrong in every movie. Despite that, I would drop everything in my life and move halfway around the world to work in a live dinosaur theme park if I could, even though my days of physical labor are behind me. If something went wrong, I'd probably be the first person to be eaten. No problem Being there, seeing them, touching them, taking care of them, would be a dream come true. Being eaten at the end of that dream is a small price to pay.

My childhood movie it has a special place in my heart

The seatbelt scene shows what happens later in the movie. A seatbelt has two ends, the male end inserts into the female end, Dr. Grant had two female ends, him tying the two ends together is a reference to life finding a way, the theme of the movie/book. All the dinos on the island are female, but the DNA was incomplete and full of holes, they filled in these gaps on some of the dinos genomes with DNA from a specific type of frog that is known to change it's gender from female to male when in an all-female environment so that they can continue to reproduce. This trait passed on to the dino clones allowing some of them to change from female to male and thus reproduce. The book went into more detail about this filling in the gaps, like how the Dilops weren't supposed to spit venom but the DNA they used to fill in the gaps caused the cloned dilops to develop venom glands. The move touches on this somewhat and seems like it's going to go somewhere with it but they never really did, the last time we hear it is when Dr. Grant finds a freshly hatched dino egg and comments that they are breeding, but in the book that the movie was based on, this was a major plot point. In the book, dinos where escaping the island and they didn't know because the dinos where breeding and the system that was supposed to track the numbers of each dino species on the island was only programed to alert them if the number of a specific species of dino had dropped below the expected number count for that species thus indicating an escape, it wasn't programmed to alert if the number was higher than expected, so for example, if there was supposed to be 20 Gallimimus but they had been breeding and had 30 and 5 escaped the island leaving 25 behind, the system would stop counting them at 20 and report all where accounted for. Honestly, the movie is great but the book is way better. The movie just feels... rushed.

I saw this movie when it first released in theatres and that opening scene had nothing for my dad to have to cover my eyes over and yet it was horrifying. Even so, I loved the movie, was so into dinosaurs at the time, so the film came out at the perfect time for me. The practical effects mixed with CGI was perfect. Also, to answer your question, insects were generally much larger back in the dinosaur era, because there was a higher oxygen content in the air.

This was such a good movie and I really like it a lot. To this day I still love this movie.

you gotta remember, Hammond keeps saying "Spared no expense" and yet he hired Nedry for super cheap an never gave him a raise, which led to him wanting to sellout to a rival company. also there was no staff on the island because they all evacutaed due to the storm, thats why they canceled the tour early and why Nedry was trying to hurry and ask for more time, if the boat left he wouldnt be able to get off the island with no one figuring out what he did.

The fact that something as rudimentary as seatbelts were done wrong is proof that they did in fact spare some expenses.

Jurassic Park is my absolute favorite of the entire saga! I still have memories when I went a local movie theater, and it had famous scenes from movies framed on the wall. They had a framed shot of the scene of the T-Rex roaring as the Jurassic Park banner falls. 🦕🦖🖤💛❤️

This Movie was my childhood watch very frequency for years .

Notice how no dinosaur was killed by a human. 😮 cool reaction. A Simple Plan with Billy Bob Thornton is a great reaction. Hardly ever see folks react to that one. One of my favorites👏👏🥰

Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park: "Must go faster...." 🦖 Jeff Goldblum Independence Day: "MUST GO FASTER!!" 👽 I'm sorry that's still hilarious to me, I loved dinosaurs long before this came out and it went next level. Back when they weren't COMPLETELY dependent on CG and used practical effects. Lost arts. I saw this 6 times in theaters as a kid, that's how huge it was.

Fun story, when I was little I loved Dinosaurs and my mom recorded this for me off the TV but stopped the film at all the parts where someone dies, It wasn't years later till I rewatched the tape and realized it made no sense and jumped around a lot, and characters just stopped showing up in the film for some reason.

20:32 That right there, is the moneyshot of the whole movie.

The scene where Grant can’t get his seatbelt fastened is actually subtle foreshadowing for the dinosaurs laying eggs despite being all female. The two ends of the seatbelt Grant has are the same but he manages to, _uh, find a way._

Great you love the music. I think it’s one of the best soundtracks ever

As someone whos read both books, hearing you call dodgson nice was hilarious

Fun fact, the helicopter scene where Grant can't buckle his seatbelt because he has two female ends and "finds a way" to make them work by tying them was clever foreshadowing about the female dinosaurs being able to procreate, LIFE FINDS A WAY. Another fun fact is that John Hammond is played by Richard Attenborough, he was an amazing actor and brother to David Attenborough, The the narrator voice you hear on all the nature documentaries. If I recall correctly he's also the voice of dinosaur documentary "Prehistoric Planet"

You should teach a class on making thumbnails. Your faces are so good! 😂

Imagine seeing it in theaters when it came out in 1993. A fantastic experience!

*unrelated* that skull tattoo is so dope

This is such a good movie. I am so glad to see you react to this movie. And I really enjoy your reaction to this movie. When I watch this movie with you. It is like I am watching Jurassic Park together. And the very first time that I saw this movie was when it came into theaters back in June 20, 1993. And I was only 16 years old at the time that I saw this movie Jurassic Park at the movie.

There's little to no staff at the park because 1) it's not open yet so it's not fully staffed and 2), more importantly, the film mentions that Hammond basically cheaped out on the support staff. That's why Nedry was stealing the embryos for money and why he had essentially sole admin rights to the entire park system, which he himself built. It's why Nedry even had access to the embryos, which would never happen if the park and its systems were built and created 'correctly'. It's the hubris and naivete of Hammond that causes the park's downfall.

"Dodgson, you're too nice" is something I've never heard before.

This was a fun reaction. It's cool too see younger folks react to this film.

There is no such thing as a bad Jurassic movie, so I highly recommend watching the entire series! (Including the short film “Battle at Big Rock”!