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I saw this movie in theaters, when I was four years old. My dad must have been insane, but I remember it being the most badass thing I'd ever seen in my life. It actually holds up pretty well thirty years on
my grandpa is a Vietnam vet and refuses to watch Jurassic park ever again, he says it's the only movie that has ever scared him...not sure if it's the actual dinosaurs or the humans playing God part that scares him the most
I watched it when I was 10. It was awesome and scary. It was recently re-released in theaters, so I took my 11 year old daughter...it was just as good.
Spielberg learned the value of not showing the monster too much during Jaws. When Bruce kept malfunctioning Spielberg had to find way to show the shark without really showing the shark. This turned out to turn the film into the first summer blockbuster.
None of us were prepared for how real the dinos looked when we crowded into the cinema; we'd grown up with stop-motion and fake-looking practical effects. And then we were faced with these incredible effects that tricked our minds into perceiving them as reality and stoking our feelings of terror. I think a lot of JP's lasting appeal is down to the nostalgia of how shocked we were that first time.
I had nightmares for YEARS of a T. rex stalking outside my house at night. One of my all time favorites, in part because it was so realistic that my subconscious was like “oh shit we gotta be worried about this at all times”
I saw it at the theatre in 1993 the first week it came out and didn’t find it terrifying at all, I loved dinosaurs so I loved every minute of it. What blew me away was that the dinosaurs actually looked like real animals, and they also behaved like real animals too. It was like seeing real dinosaurs running around on screen with human actors for the first time.
Already knowing everything about the making of this film, having studied it extensively, I have to commend your summary. One small correction though: Phil Tippett was planning to use 'go-motion' to realise the shots that were eventually realised with CGI. Go-motion was a variation of 'stop-motion' in that it included motion blur - invented for the tauntauns in The Empire Strikes Back. You'll notice also, in the credits to Jurassic Park, they refer to 'full-motion dinosaurs'. 'Full-motion' was a term used briefly for computer animated creatures. 'Stop-motion' then 'go-motion' then 'full-motion' you see, to make it all part of the same continuity, which it actually is. I think a lot of films suffer from hiring kids who have no idea about weight and lack the motivation to make anything look more real because they've grown up in a world where things generally don't, and it's just accepted. Effects weren't invented by computers, the techniques for effects were developed over a period of 100 years before computers took over the mantle. If you don't refer back to what we learned during our use of older methods, then your CGI will look sh*t - that's the problem in a nutshell.
THANK YOU. I wish Hollywood would catch up with the rest of society (which matters the most, considering it's us peasants that ultimately make the movies money) and realize that something is CLEARLY WRONG with the movie-making method if SFX from 30 (or more) years ago look much more authentic than the soulless, computer-generated trash they rely on exclusively these days
Saw that shit in the theaters at age 12. Blew my fucking mind. My 70 something year old grandmother who took us couldn't process what she had just seen.
The practical T-Rex also lost a tooth during the scene where it was chewing on the truck, so they decided not to fix it, and removed that tooth from the CGI model in later scenes.
My favorite film, & not just because I'm a dinosaur nerd. The score, the effects, the underlying message, the iconic moments, the general vibe of the whole movie...simple perfection.
They trained them to attack people on command?? I want to report a murder (Show Jurassic Park). We need to hold these dinosaurs accountable for the murder of Gennaro, Muldoon, Arnold and Nedry.
I was a kid when the original Jurassic Park was released and I still remember the audience, myself included, audibly gasping when we saw that shot of the long necked brachiosaurus in broad daylight. Ironically the part that didn't look real after repeat VHS viewings was the way the model was matted behind Sam Neil and Laura Dern, but the "animal" itself heaved and huffed like it was a real living breathing creature. I remember a few years later the animals in Jumanji looked completely fake, maybe it's because we had seen these animals in real life and had a point of comparison. But I think the first Jurassic Park and it's underrated sequel the Lost World still hold up to this day.
@@EricDKaufman nothing will ever top it as a movie going experience for me, I don’t think! Lightning in a bottle movie…they’ve tried so many times to recapture it, but it’s impossible
It's funny the way people react to the animatronic dinosaurs in the tests. They are watching a raptor that they know isn't real, but they step back and move away from it almost like it is. I've experienced this myself. It's a strange feeling, I guess brought on by instinctual self-preservation. One part of your brain knows it's a fake dinosaur and it won't hurt you. But another, deeper part says, that thing is going to kill me! It's unnerving, like being in a room with a crocodile.
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows That's absolutely true. There is actually danger in standing to close to something like that. Your reply made me curious, so I looked up people who have lost their lives due to robot malfunctions. There are a lot more than I would have guessed.
I remembered they did something similar to Terminator Salvation, where the T-RIP ProtoTerminator also had shadows, even though the CGI was still good. JP even today and in a few years from now, will still hold up.
The real question is how come there isn't a conspiracy theory that some billionaire/company really did bring back dinosaurs 30+ years ago, and that they only made the movie in the first place to cover up the fact that they had real dinosaurs.
Great video about a great movie. I would recommend anyone who rewatches it, pay attention to DR. Grant's first scene. He explains why the raptor is more than a 6 foot turkey, all while modern day raptors are circling and making cries in the background. It's incredible film making
Sorry Simon the T-Rex stepping on the jeep was the animatronic with the leg being an additional piece to obscure the gimbal mount that held up Stan Winston's creation.
@7:18 This is an absolutely perfect example of just how amazing CGI is when used right. Whoever wrote this script obviously did alot of research, but even upon investigating it and talking about a CGI T-rex and a real jeep in contrast, noone (including those watching it) realized that in the scene where the T-rex stomps on the jeep and stars ripping off its tire, THE ENTIRE JEEP WAS CGI
Speaking of color grading, a lot of people think the scenes of the shire in the lotr movies were made richer and greener in editing. It was actually the opposite, the real world location was too rich and green and actually looked a bit faked on film.
An equally pressing question (future video?): why do the special effects in "2001: A Space Odyssey," released in the late 1960s and 25 years prior to "Jurassic Park," still hold up to this day?
As a huge dino and JP nerd, I always wished they showed Stegosaurus and Metriacanthosaurus on screen (both species were to be transported from Site B onto Nublar), but obviously due to various factors, that wasnt possible
When I was a little kid, I live in Las Vegas and they had a show called walking with dinosaurs, and I thought that was the greatest show I ever watched the same people who did that show probably did this movie because it was all practical effects
The dinosaurs in Jurassic World looked unnaturally smooth, and their movements were very rubbery, which is why I only watched the first one because it disappointed me to where the sequels weren't worth watching. I was almost 8 when this came out, and I had to beg my parents to let me see it in theaters because they thought that it'd be too scary.
Lord of the Rings also used a LOT of practical effects in combination with the CGI. Those movies look way better than The Hobbit, despite the same effects company.
Creators can adjust the gain on their microphone in pre & post. Worse is all the Brit channels who have the gain turned down too low, forcing me to have to turn it up.
The 90s were an amazing decade for movies. Just go look up releases in 1993 to see what else was in theaters that year. But as for color grading, the green tint in The Matrix served a purpose.
The color grading was purposely done, especially when they were in The Matrix. It was meant to look like looking into a computer screen, giving it the artifice that's inherent in having something else control what you see, feel and experience.
It's great how they sold the CGI weight through camera shudder etc. A scene they could have improved was where the Brachiosaurus is first seen and pounds through ground - the sound is really effective, as is the swell in the score, but the characters and trees don't respond realistically. I always remembered them moving as well (saw in cinema when 11), but everything else was so effective that I probably filled that bit in in my mind!
Take a look at Bram Stoker's dracula 1992 with the "Bat scene." They have nothing that come close to this till these days. We have truly gone backward in Cinema.
Let me correct you, good sir. The first dinosaur gene sequence was for collogen, and maybe Lysosome as well, gene(s) from a T-Rex fermur , published 2008. by Dr. Mary Schweitzer of NC State University, my undergraduate (2004) and masters (2008) alma mater. While the sequencing most likely done on one of NC State's Cray computer systems at that time, they would not have been the same computer at all. Nor did the sequencing come before the movie. Furthermore, Dr. Mary Schweitzer is a crazy religious freak and denies evolution is a thing. She was room mates with my Ph.D. advisor's wife, and a committee member on my thesis, at Montana State back in the 1980s. A very nice woman but completely out of her mind when the bible.
I was like 16 when this movie came out and have always thought (like so many other people) that there was WAY more CGI and it was just Un-explainably good for the time.
Man this makes me wanna go home and watch this movie again! Unfortunately I probably won’t be able to cus my girlfriend will have to watch some reality show on the TV. While I watch football on my iPad…. (Someone save me)
This was way back when. (I was ten) When artists were dedicated to their art and not completely depending on CGI as they do today. Not that it isn't art in its own sense but, this was the perfect blend. I believed that dinosaur and felt it's presence. Not just imagined. Feeling the T-Rex's footsteps in theaters in OUR cups was one of the most epic cinematic experiences in history. Brilliant. Now that's chaos.
I remember watching a behind the scenes documentary about the making of Jurassic Park back in the early 2000s and they mention that there were something like 50 cgi shots and I honestly couldn’t believe it. I had been watching the Lord of the Rings movies a little bit earlier and they were looking at 10 times that for just the first movie! Spielberg knew what he was doing and remembered what he learned from Jaws.
“The quality of the film”?? I was about 10 when it came out and went to the theatres to have the ever loving shit scared out of me over and over. I wanted Dinosaurs to be real again so bad it hurt. One of the best films of all time.
I was 10 when I saw this movie. My non religious, very scientific minded dad bought it for my 12 year old brother who was too scared to watch it so me and my 7 year old brother got it instead! We loved it and our super religious mother was not happy!🤣🤣
I wish some films would use practical effects a little bit more. Don’t get me wrong, CGI is an incredible tool that’s been well improved over the decades. But some films seem to rely on it a little too much. A blend of CGI and practical can look way better than using one to the exclusion of the other
Not many film makers could have pulled a lot of the scenes in JP off and ended up looking so good. These guys have been doing special effects without CGI for years, and it shows. CGI still has lots of limitations and an over reliance on them tends to leave fils looking a bit shit, so there's still use for the old art of anemitronics and will be for a long time.
10:39 I find this kind of ironic. because Spielberg, who you previously call in the video a master director because of how he combines CGI and practical effects in Jurassic Park, is featured in the Episode 1 “making of” documentary. In it he’s walking the backlot at Leavesdon talking to George Lucas about the proposed effects for The Phantom Menace and how they’re doing most of it in the computers…..the droids, the pod racers and even JarJar (although a lot of practical stuff from models to full size props were still used). And Spielberg just stands there going “yeah that’s great” nodding along. 🤔🤷🤣
Ok well I don't even need to watch to say that a massive part of JP is the practical effects and use of animatronics.....edit: yup 🤔 with Simons demographic I would honestly hope that most of you should already know this fact...
The first scene with the Trex is actually pretty close to how it was in the book. You live the scene through a bunch of scared people and don’t really dwell too much on the two rexs. You don’t even see the second Rex until later in the book other than it being mentioned as a blur crossing the highway. Most of what we get about the big one is just how imposing of a creature it is and how fast it moves compared to the world around it. It’s mostly seen through flashes of lightning and the night vision goggles before it “fights the car”
They look better than a lot of new movies with creatures. Those movie makers need to realize that if you want to watch a good Sci fi or creature movie, you really want to see some amazing creatures! They are shortcutting on the main stars of the movie, n what everyone wants to see.
Something not mentioned in the video was Phil Tippet's team were largely responsible for animating the CG dinos in the film. A special stop motion type rig was specially made so that instead of animating the movements with a combination of our mouse and keyboard, the artists would animate the dinos by manipulating the rigs like they would an actual stop motion miniature. This almost certainly added an extra layer of realism because the dinos were being animated by some of the best in the business using methods they were already familiar with.
"Use CGI as little as possible" Well yeah, who would've thought that when stuff is actually there and actually happening, it looks more real... novel thought
The worst part of the movie for the CGI was the horde of dinosaurs running past the kid during the day. It looked okay back then but even then you can tell. I never understood the fascination with dinosaurs, but this movie... The pinnacle of the point for people that...come for the dinosaurs so to speak.
In short, the CGI in Jurassic Park isn't better. Rather it is better hidden with other effects. It also helped the film that it was directed by the same guy who made Jaws, which is a study in how to scare people without showing the monster.
“Regardless of your feelings about the overall quality of the film itself” Um, what? Jurassic Park is widely considered one of the greatest movies ever made and was a massive box office success. I’ve never felt even 1% of the excitement I felt going to see Jurassic Park at the theatre for the first time in 1993 for any other movie since.
Star Wars desperately needs someone smacking George Lucas on the nose going, "No, George! No!" That really is where the best Star Wars comes from. That's how Episodes 4 and 5 were made, as well as most of Episode 6. None of the other entries in the series have been well received, and the parts of Return of the Jedi made after Lucas fired that guy, are obvious if you think it over.
As if I was 6 when this film was made... Back when you could go to a movie get food and not have to take out a second lone on your house lol even thow I have prob seen it about 100 times I still jump and hide every time I do
There's one scene that always bothered me, that was really missing an actual dinosaur: the sick and dying triceratops. The protagonists were just standing around looking up at something that just wasn't there. Maybe because it wasn't moving as much as other dinos. I hadn't thought of this movie in years but, yeah. Amazing film but that scene wasn't good.
Well that was easy, actual scene, on TH-cam. Indeed a giant, superb looking triceratops there. No idea what I think I'm remembering but it's surely not that! :D
Must admit do dislike these TH-camrs who mock old school CGI when there wasn't the technology there and that's why films like Transformers ...which I like... don't stand up
Not trying to be mean, but you've said it twice now. Um, the jeeps in jurassic park were for the employees as a way to get to and from places around the island the tour vehicles were ford explorers.
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Simon - PLEASE take full control of the channel again and stop Daven from posting his nonsense
I saw this movie in theaters, when I was four years old. My dad must have been insane, but I remember it being the most badass thing I'd ever seen in my life. It actually holds up pretty well thirty years on
The 3D conversion is incredible 👌🏻
my grandpa is a Vietnam vet and refuses to watch Jurassic park ever again, he says it's the only movie that has ever scared him...not sure if it's the actual dinosaurs or the humans playing God part that scares him the most
I watched it when I was 10. It was awesome and scary. It was recently re-released in theaters, so I took my 11 year old daughter...it was just as good.
There's a saying that goes something like everyone is an expert on Dinosaurs when they are 4 years old and when they have a 4 year old.
@commandingsteel maybe the T-Rex walking and ground shaking reminds him of War?
Spielberg learned the value of not showing the monster too much during Jaws. When Bruce kept malfunctioning Spielberg had to find way to show the shark without really showing the shark. This turned out to turn the film into the first summer blockbuster.
This and Independence Day, the best two movies to see at a drive-in back in the day. That CGI was superb.
I miss drive in movies. The last one near me closed a couple of years ago and the next one is something like 700 kms away.
None of us were prepared for how real the dinos looked when we crowded into the cinema; we'd grown up with stop-motion and fake-looking practical effects. And then we were faced with these incredible effects that tricked our minds into perceiving them as reality and stoking our feelings of terror.
I think a lot of JP's lasting appeal is down to the nostalgia of how shocked we were that first time.
I had nightmares for YEARS of a T. rex stalking outside my house at night. One of my all time favorites, in part because it was so realistic that my subconscious was like “oh shit we gotta be worried about this at all times”
@@scottmeredith3359 someone actually made animated found footage of the San Diego incident... it's terrifying 😂
I saw it at the theatre in 1993 the first week it came out and didn’t find it terrifying at all, I loved dinosaurs so I loved every minute of it.
What blew me away was that the dinosaurs actually looked like real animals, and they also behaved like real animals too. It was like seeing real dinosaurs running around on screen with human actors for the first time.
The answer to the video's title is just 3 letters: ILM. Hire those guys and magic happens. It's even in their name: Industrial Light & Magic
Such a fucking great name for a specific effects company
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Already knowing everything about the making of this film, having studied it extensively, I have to commend your summary. One small correction though: Phil Tippett was planning to use 'go-motion' to realise the shots that were eventually realised with CGI. Go-motion was a variation of 'stop-motion' in that it included motion blur - invented for the tauntauns in The Empire Strikes Back.
You'll notice also, in the credits to Jurassic Park, they refer to 'full-motion dinosaurs'. 'Full-motion' was a term used briefly for computer animated creatures. 'Stop-motion' then 'go-motion' then 'full-motion' you see, to make it all part of the same continuity, which it actually is.
I think a lot of films suffer from hiring kids who have no idea about weight and lack the motivation to make anything look more real because they've grown up in a world where things generally don't, and it's just accepted. Effects weren't invented by computers, the techniques for effects were developed over a period of 100 years before computers took over the mantle. If you don't refer back to what we learned during our use of older methods, then your CGI will look sh*t - that's the problem in a nutshell.
THANK YOU. I wish Hollywood would catch up with the rest of society (which matters the most, considering it's us peasants that ultimately make the movies money) and realize that something is CLEARLY WRONG with the movie-making method if SFX from 30 (or more) years ago look much more authentic than the soulless, computer-generated trash they rely on exclusively these days
Nearly three decades? It’s been more than three decades! Man…time really flies
Saw that shit in the theaters at age 12. Blew my fucking mind. My 70 something year old grandmother who took us couldn't process what she had just seen.
Probably recorded a while ago tbh
Yeah man, 1993. In my head the 90s are still 10 years ago, but yeah, just over 30 years. Wild.
Saw it at the theater. Seems like yesterday.
Loved that the big spongie T-Rex kept absorbing all the fake rain!😂
The practical T-Rex also lost a tooth during the scene where it was chewing on the truck, so they decided not to fix it, and removed that tooth from the CGI model in later scenes.
I love Jurassic Park!! Especially Alan and Ellie!!
My favorite film, & not just because I'm a dinosaur nerd. The score, the effects, the underlying message, the iconic moments, the general vibe of the whole movie...simple perfection.
Malcolm's dry, bored, pessimistic yet witty quips throughout the film will always be iconic 😂
They used trained dinosaurs. Wake up, sheeple.
They trained them to attack people on command?? I want to report a murder (Show Jurassic Park). We need to hold these dinosaurs accountable for the murder of Gennaro, Muldoon, Arnold and Nedry.
You're a trained dinosaur. 🦕
This is MAGA mentality I can get behind
This was really good analysis. Thank you! Great job!
I was a kid when the original Jurassic Park was released and I still remember the audience, myself included, audibly gasping when we saw that shot of the long necked brachiosaurus in broad daylight. Ironically the part that didn't look real after repeat VHS viewings was the way the model was matted behind Sam Neil and Laura Dern, but the "animal" itself heaved and huffed like it was a real living breathing creature. I remember a few years later the animals in Jumanji looked completely fake, maybe it's because we had seen these animals in real life and had a point of comparison. But I think the first Jurassic Park and it's underrated sequel the Lost World still hold up to this day.
I've seen several videos about the making of this film, but this one covered several topics that I had not heard before. Well done.
I nearly fell out of my seat at the "..the UNIX user and her brother." comment. That was GOLD!!!!
Scrolled down, making sure this comment was made.
Malcolm's dry, bored, pessimistic yet witty quips throughout the film will always be iconic 😂
I went to see this movie at the cinema when I was 11 years old. It’s safe to say this movie will always hold a special place in my heart!
Age 12 for me. My 70 something year old grandmother couldn't process what she had seen. She was shook. Jurassic Park is a masterpiece in film.
@@EricDKaufman nothing will ever top it as a movie going experience for me, I don’t think! Lightning in a bottle movie…they’ve tried so many times to recapture it, but it’s impossible
Star Trek 2 in 1982 was actually the first use of CGI in a major motion picture, for the animation of the “Genesis” effect.
It's funny the way people react to the animatronic dinosaurs in the tests. They are watching a raptor that they know isn't real, but they step back and move away from it almost like it is. I've experienced this myself. It's a strange feeling, I guess brought on by instinctual self-preservation. One part of your brain knows it's a fake dinosaur and it won't hurt you. But another, deeper part says, that thing is going to kill me! It's unnerving, like being in a room with a crocodile.
Tbf, animatronics have a history of malfunctioning and they are heavy/powerful
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows That's absolutely true. There is actually danger in standing to close to something like that. Your reply made me curious, so I looked up people who have lost their lives due to robot malfunctions. There are a lot more than I would have guessed.
I remembered they did something similar to Terminator Salvation, where the T-RIP ProtoTerminator also had shadows, even though the CGI was still good. JP even today and in a few years from now, will still hold up.
The real question is how come there isn't a conspiracy theory that some billionaire/company really did bring back dinosaurs 30+ years ago, and that they only made the movie in the first place to cover up the fact that they had real dinosaurs.
Ooh! That's a good one! Let's give it some traction and get it going! 😂
the cup scene is such an intense moment.
Great video about a great movie. I would recommend anyone who rewatches it, pay attention to DR. Grant's first scene. He explains why the raptor is more than a 6 foot turkey, all while modern day raptors are circling and making cries in the background. It's incredible film making
Sorry Simon the T-Rex stepping on the jeep was the animatronic with the leg being an additional piece to obscure the gimbal mount that held up Stan Winston's creation.
The 3D conversion is incredible 👌🏻
@7:18 This is an absolutely perfect example of just how amazing CGI is when used right. Whoever wrote this script obviously did alot of research, but even upon investigating it and talking about a CGI T-rex and a real jeep in contrast, noone (including those watching it) realized that in the scene where the T-rex stomps on the jeep and stars ripping off its tire, THE ENTIRE JEEP WAS CGI
I saw this movie as a kid in the theatre. Man what a movie for a 12 year old kid! I was blown away. Thanks for sharing.
Ok, calling the stop motion guy who didn’t get to do any stop motion “dinosaur supervisor” was _very_ funny.
Speaking of color grading, a lot of people think the scenes of the shire in the lotr movies were made richer and greener in editing. It was actually the opposite, the real world location was too rich and green and actually looked a bit faked on film.
An equally pressing question (future video?): why do the special effects in "2001: A Space Odyssey," released in the late 1960s and 25 years prior to "Jurassic Park," still hold up to this day?
Not the same but I've always wondered how "the man who fell to earth" is so beautiful and high quality given its release date (70s?)
As a huge dino and JP nerd, I always wished they showed Stegosaurus and Metriacanthosaurus on screen (both species were to be transported from Site B onto Nublar), but obviously due to various factors, that wasnt possible
Those are genera, not species.
Those"Veloceraptor" costumes would be great for Halloween.
When I was a little kid, I live in Las Vegas and they had a show called walking with dinosaurs, and I thought that was the greatest show I ever watched the same people who did that show probably did this movie because it was all practical effects
The dinosaurs in Jurassic World looked unnaturally smooth, and their movements were very rubbery, which is why I only watched the first one because it disappointed me to where the sequels weren't worth watching. I was almost 8 when this came out, and I had to beg my parents to let me see it in theaters because they thought that it'd be too scary.
Fact that many depicted slecies looked more outdated than in the first movie didn´t help at all
Lord of the Rings also used a LOT of practical effects in combination with the CGI. Those movies look way better than The Hobbit, despite the same effects company.
Bread trim or re-upload?
Ahaha the unix user and her brother. Gold
I came to the comments specifically to see if someone mentions that 😂
Like it's a superpower or something
I just had to watch this film again and it is still pretty incredible.
How are Simon's videos SO LOUD?! It's like it completely bypasses my volume setting.
idk but same here
Creators can adjust the gain on their microphone in pre & post. Worse is all the Brit channels who have the gain turned down too low, forcing me to have to turn it up.
LOTR CGI episode next please, 20 yrs later and it still holds up.
The 90s were an amazing decade for movies. Just go look up releases in 1993 to see what else was in theaters that year.
But as for color grading, the green tint in The Matrix served a purpose.
After 30+ years, Jurassic Park is still the gold standard of SFX.
Phil Tippett is AMAZING at his Creativity, I am HIGHLY influenced & inspired by him Greatly. O.G.B.B.
The color grading was purposely done, especially when they were in The Matrix. It was meant to look like looking into a computer screen, giving it the artifice that's inherent in having something else control what you see, feel and experience.
It's great how they sold the CGI weight through camera shudder etc. A scene they could have improved was where the Brachiosaurus is first seen and pounds through ground - the sound is really effective, as is the swell in the score, but the characters and trees don't respond realistically. I always remembered them moving as well (saw in cinema when 11), but everything else was so effective that I probably filled that bit in in my mind!
I saw it in one if the oldest theaters with a center projector. It was awesome. Ill never forget it
Take a look at Bram Stoker's dracula 1992 with the "Bat scene." They have nothing that come close to this till these days. We have truly gone backward in Cinema.
Well done Karl and Daven. Very well done indeed. Cheers from Tennessee
At this stage we're all used to Simon mispronouncing words... (deliberately no doubt...) but On-Trepp-on-ers had me in stitches 🤣
They used the same Cray Supercomputers that did the dino gene sequencing to then do the CGI
No they used an apple mac
Let me correct you, good sir. The first dinosaur gene sequence was for collogen, and maybe Lysosome as well, gene(s) from a T-Rex fermur , published 2008. by Dr. Mary Schweitzer of NC State University, my undergraduate (2004) and masters (2008) alma mater. While the sequencing most likely done on one of NC State's Cray computer systems at that time, they would not have been the same computer at all. Nor did the sequencing come before the movie.
Furthermore, Dr. Mary Schweitzer is a crazy religious freak and denies evolution is a thing. She was room mates with my Ph.D. advisor's wife, and a committee member on my thesis, at Montana State back in the 1980s. A very nice woman but completely out of her mind when the bible.
@@alexneff No, they used Windows PCs running SoftImage.
I was like 16 when this movie came out and have always thought (like so many other people) that there was WAY more CGI and it was just Un-explainably good for the time.
Man this makes me wanna go home and watch this movie again! Unfortunately I probably won’t be able to cus my girlfriend will have to watch some reality show on the TV. While I watch football on my
iPad…. (Someone save me)
This was way back when. (I was ten) When artists were dedicated to their art and not completely depending on CGI as they do today. Not that it isn't art in its own sense but, this was the perfect blend. I believed that dinosaur and felt it's presence. Not just imagined. Feeling the T-Rex's footsteps in theaters in OUR cups was one of the most epic cinematic experiences in history. Brilliant. Now that's chaos.
Pretty much my favorite movie of all time 😊
Jaws was similar. The music score and no shark were the best moments of the movie!
I remember watching a behind the scenes documentary about the making of Jurassic Park back in the early 2000s and they mention that there were something like 50 cgi shots and I honestly couldn’t believe it. I had been watching the Lord of the Rings movies a little bit earlier and they were looking at 10 times that for just the first movie! Spielberg knew what he was doing and remembered what he learned from Jaws.
Looks great today, even better than today cgi absolutely!
Never thought I'd see a Simon doing a video on my favourite film. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
The phrase you're looking for here is "shot design". That's why it looks so good.
What few CGI scenes there are in the movie... at least they're well lit! Unlike modern blank screen movies
The power went out while I was watching Evil Dead Rise. I realized the audio had stopped after a couple minutes.
I'm always impressed how movie editors manage to help me understand the experience of the blind.
In other words they used the CGI correctly and sparingly.
The CGI was amazing, that Sam Neill looked almost life like!
“The quality of the film”?? I was about 10 when it came out and went to the theatres to have the ever loving shit scared out of me over and over. I wanted Dinosaurs to be real again so bad it hurt.
One of the best films of all time.
Hell yes, starfishes love you guys!!!
That jumper/T-shirt looks like Simons wife bought it at a garden centre, because she knew Simon would love it. Simon loves it.
Jurassic Park still holds up to this day with what they accomplished.
It's because back then people were hired based on merit and skill instead of identity politics.
I was 10 when I saw this movie. My non religious, very scientific minded dad bought it for my 12 year old brother who was too scared to watch it so me and my 7 year old brother got it instead! We loved it and our super religious mother was not happy!🤣🤣
I wish some films would use practical effects a little bit more. Don’t get me wrong, CGI is an incredible tool that’s been well improved over the decades. But some films seem to rely on it a little too much. A blend of CGI and practical can look way better than using one to the exclusion of the other
I told my friends I that they actually found an island of dinosaurs, and the movie was just a way to gently prepare the world for the discovery.
Nothing beats practical effects! T2 is always going to be the best movie ever because they really flew a damn helicopter through a tunnel!
Not many film makers could have pulled a lot of the scenes in JP off and ended up looking so good. These guys have been doing special effects without CGI for years, and it shows. CGI still has lots of limitations and an over reliance on them tends to leave fils looking a bit shit, so there's still use for the old art of anemitronics and will be for a long time.
10:39 I find this kind of ironic. because Spielberg, who you previously call in the video a master director because of how he combines CGI and practical effects in Jurassic Park, is featured in the Episode 1 “making of” documentary. In it he’s walking the backlot at Leavesdon talking to George Lucas about the proposed effects for The Phantom Menace and how they’re doing most of it in the computers…..the droids, the pod racers and even JarJar (although a lot of practical stuff from models to full size props were still used). And Spielberg just stands there going “yeah that’s great” nodding along. 🤔🤷🤣
Ok well I don't even need to watch to say that a massive part of JP is the practical effects and use of animatronics.....edit: yup 🤔 with Simons demographic I would honestly hope that most of you should already know this fact...
Practical effects will always be better than CGI. 👏
The first scene with the Trex is actually pretty close to how it was in the book. You live the scene through a bunch of scared people and don’t really dwell too much on the two rexs. You don’t even see the second Rex until later in the book other than it being mentioned as a blur crossing the highway. Most of what we get about the big one is just how imposing of a creature it is and how fast it moves compared to the world around it. It’s mostly seen through flashes of lightning and the night vision goggles before it “fights the car”
They look better than a lot of new movies with creatures. Those movie makers need to realize that if you want to watch a good Sci fi or creature movie, you really want to see some amazing creatures! They are shortcutting on the main stars of the movie, n what everyone wants to see.
Something not mentioned in the video was Phil Tippet's team were largely responsible for animating the CG dinos in the film. A special stop motion type rig was specially made so that instead of animating the movements with a combination of our mouse and keyboard, the artists would animate the dinos by manipulating the rigs like they would an actual stop motion miniature. This almost certainly added an extra layer of realism because the dinos were being animated by some of the best in the business using methods they were already familiar with.
The cg looks so good because the puppets look so good
With The Lawnmower Man coming out the year before, how trippy would Jurassic Park be with *that* level of CGI?
Thank you for the Star Wars special edition comments. Much of the added stuff was silly.
"Use CGI as little as possible" Well yeah, who would've thought that when stuff is actually there and actually happening, it looks more real... novel thought
The worst part of the movie for the CGI was the horde of dinosaurs running past the kid during the day. It looked okay back then but even then you can tell. I never understood the fascination with dinosaurs, but this movie... The pinnacle of the point for people that...come for the dinosaurs so to speak.
The special effects in the 80s and 90s were better than the CGI we see today.
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In short, the CGI in Jurassic Park isn't better. Rather it is better hidden with other effects.
It also helped the film that it was directed by the same guy who made Jaws, which is a study in how to scare people without showing the monster.
“Regardless of your feelings about the overall quality of the film itself”
Um, what?
Jurassic Park is widely considered one of the greatest movies ever made and was a massive box office success.
I’ve never felt even 1% of the excitement I felt going to see Jurassic Park at the theatre for the first time in 1993 for any other movie since.
It never explained how they grew over about 30 years with no news leaking out, though
Star Wars desperately needs someone smacking George Lucas on the nose going, "No, George! No!"
That really is where the best Star Wars comes from. That's how Episodes 4 and 5 were made, as well as most of Episode 6. None of the other entries in the series have been well received, and the parts of Return of the Jedi made after Lucas fired that guy, are obvious if you think it over.
Someone needs to go all good cop, bad cop on spielberg, and see if we can figure out how we got access to a time machine in the early 1990s.
As if I was 6 when this film was made... Back when you could go to a movie get food and not have to take out a second lone on your house lol even thow I have prob seen it about 100 times I still jump and hide every time I do
Didn't you already do a vid on this?
Yeah, as soon as it cut to the transformers scene I felt like I’ve definitely seen this exact comparison before
There's one scene that always bothered me, that was really missing an actual dinosaur: the sick and dying triceratops. The protagonists were just standing around looking up at something that just wasn't there. Maybe because it wasn't moving as much as other dinos. I hadn't thought of this movie in years but, yeah. Amazing film but that scene wasn't good.
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Silly troll. They laid down on the darn thing. It was a full scale model. Now the triceratop's poop, that was a cgi masterpiece.
@@jonathanhill6064 They did? In my mind there was nothing there..... Super odd! Maybe I'll rewatch the movie one day.
Well that was easy, actual scene, on TH-cam. Indeed a giant, superb looking triceratops there. No idea what I think I'm remembering but it's surely not that! :D
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so funny story there is a band in listen to where one of the members looks just like this guy
Must admit do dislike these TH-camrs who mock old school CGI when there wasn't the technology there and that's why films like Transformers ...which I like... don't stand up
Things about Jurassic Park are more important than politics right now
We need another film made this way again. I'm so tired of cgi
Not trying to be mean, but you've said it twice now. Um, the jeeps in jurassic park were for the employees as a way to get to and from places around the island the tour vehicles were ford explorers.