Thirty Years of Dinosaurs: An Ode To Jurassic Park

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Sarah Stook is a writer based out of the UK who focuses on history and politics. She is a contributor to Elections Daily and The Mallard (UK).

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  1. Michael Cain
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    “It’s a UNIX System! I know this!”

    Shortly after I nearly started a riot on an airplane with Linux on a laptop computer. As I recall it, the man returning from the restroom shouted the length of the plane, “Hey! This guy’s got UNIX on a laptop!”Report

  2. DensityDuck
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    Some things I find amusing:

    * twice in the movie the six-ton T.Rex manages to sneak up on the cast
    * for all that people talk about the innovative use of CGI, the best effects are practical (most of the velociraptors-in-the-kitchen scene is suit actors and sock puppets)
    * this movie was a lot of peoples’ first exposure to the idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs, and to the modern idea of T.Rex being like a Chompy Ostrich rather than a tail-dragging Godzilla. That probably contributed to the impact of the T.Rex introduction, because not only is it impressively shot but it also completely destroyed the old paradigm of “dinosaur”.Report

  3. North
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    I also enjoyed the movie but I must confess I utterly despised the kids. I mean, sure, they’re kids and, sure, it’s a Spielberg movie but waving that flashlight at the T-rex, even if you didn’t know it was drawn by movement, was an absolutely inexplicably idiotic thing to do. I mean, sure, you had to make something happen to put them in peril and get them out of those cars but God(ess?) damn it couldn’t you have picked something plausible?Report

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