Jurassic Park is 20 YEARS OLD !!??!!??

[marmar]

......that makes this aging Gen-Xer feel like, well, Jurassic.





As a child, Steven Spielberg was captivated by dinosaurs. He collected cast-iron figurines of them and preferred them in starring roles on the big screen. “I was more interested in the dinosaurs in King Kong than I was in King Kong himself,” remembers the Academy Award-winning director. “I thought the T. rex was one of the most awesome dinosaurs of the fossil record! But I never knew how to parlay all my love for paleontology into a story until Michael Crichton came along and wrote his book.”

That book was Jurassic Park, which Spielberg adapted in 1993 into an exhilarating adventure and one of the highest-grossing movies of all time—not to mention a groundbreaking technological achievement. “It changed special effects forever,” the director says, “and for better or for worse, it really did introduce the digital era.” ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/04/04/jurassic-park-oral-history/

[EvilAL]

1. The movie is,

the book is 23.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. Sorry...no sympathy from this Boomer!

[Paulie]

3. Better to be Mesozoic than Paleozoic.

Perspective comes with age.

[olddots]

4. i forgot how good it was and how the world has sucked since it was made.

Everything is a copy now or just effects with no movie .

[Solly Mack]

5. "That movie is how old?!?!?"

( ...that song, that book, that play etc. is said a lot around my house lately...causing me to feel old)

lol

[marmar]

8. LOL....Always something there to remind you.

nt

[Iggo]

10. Daaaa-da, daaaaa-da.

[hedgehog]

6. And still, no explanation of those tiny, tiny arms!

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Still terrifying, tiny arms or no! I had a T-Rex that would

stand outside my childhood bedroom window. (Well, imaginary one.) But when I saw that scene in JPII, it freaked the crap out of me all over again!!!

[Rhythm]

9. I had the same reaction when a friend reminded me it had been 20 years since Brandon Lee died...

My response was to pause and shake my head, then say, "Oh fucking hell... it HAS been that long, hasn't it?!"