Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park

Here we are at the end of our Modern Day Masterpiece series, and have looked back over some terrific film, such as Fight Club, City of God and Driver.

This week we are going out with a bang as we look back at one of the biggest blockbusters of the nineties... of course, I am talking about Jurassic Park.

It was back in 1993 when Jurassic Park hit the big screen for the first time - yes, the film really did celebrate its 20th anniversary last year.

Jurassic Park may be over twenty years old, but it is still a bloody good film, and as exciting and visually fantastic today as it was when we were watching it for the first time.

Steven Spielberg has a knack of making terrific blockbuster films, and this was another gem from the Oscar winning filmmaking, as he brought Michael Crichton's book to the big screen.

I was seven years old when Jurassic Park, it was one of those films that my brother and I just revelled in as kids - there is nothing cooler that dinosaurs!!!

Jurassic Park boasted a terrific cast with Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough, but it was the special effects that really stole the show.

The dinosaurs were created by using life-sized animatronics as well as state of the art computer generated imagery - Jurassic Park really was a game changer when it came to special effects.

And this is a movie that hasn't aged over time; the dinosaurs look just as fantastic now as when we saw them for the first time.

From start to finish, Jurassic Park is a heart-pumping, edge of your seat action thriller: it really is the ultimate monster movie.

Jurassic Park is one of those blockbuster masterpieces that not only make you sit up and say 'wow' but change the way that movies in this genre are made forever: movies that have such an impact don't come along very often.

By the end of its original theatrical run, Jurassic Park had grossed over $900 million and become the highest grossing film of all time. The movie has now taken over $1 billion at the box office thanks to re-releases.

Two more film followed, but they were unable to live up to the bar set by the film. A fourth film is set to be released next year, fourteen years after the release of Jurassic Park III.

Jurassic Park not only remains one of Spielberg's greatest films, but one of the best blockbusters of all time.


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