‘Jurassic Park’ Review

 

There was a time when dinosaurs were perceived as nothing more than large scaly lizards, on both the silver screen and in the real world. It wasn’t until Steven Spielberg’s earth-shattering Jurassic Park that this perception began to alter drastically. That’s not to suggest the film changed the landscape of science, of course, but rather the viewpoint of the average person and cinemagoer alike. In fact, in the decades since, the film has been scrutinised by palaeontologists for some its scientific inaccuracies. In its defence, though, some were deliberate (who actually wants to see a feathered T-Rex?), while other representations were simply drawn from the research that existed at the time.

Why You Need to Experience Jurassic Park: The Ride Before it’s Extinct

If you’ve ever been to Universal Studios Hollywood, you’ve probably already enjoyed sinking your teeth into the nail-biting log flume experience Jurassic Park: The Ride  that celebrates the original Jurassic Park, which director Steven Spielberg himself couldn’t even finish at the opening in 1996 (although there was no “running and screaming” reported).

Clever Girl: The Truth Behind 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's' Indoraptor

SPOILER WARNING!

Now that you’ve seen Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom you’ll know it’s the first film in the franchise to end with a pretty major cliffhanger. In fact, it’s the first Jurassic to do a lot of things, like have a secret ending, a human clone, and… probably a dinosaur-human hybrid. Confused? Okay, such a thing is never talked about in the film, but it’s all about the devil in the detail – or in this case, the Indoraptor. When it comes to that awful script about dino-human hybrids from way, way back, “something has survived”. So let’s look at all the clues that suggest Fallen Kingdom’s socially-inept hybrid may not only be part-human, but part-Maisie….

'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' Review: The Latest 'Jurassic' Sequel Brings Down The Franchise’s Fences Once And For All

Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Isabella Sermon, B.D. Wong, Rafe Spall, Toby Jones, Daniella Pineda, Jeff Goldblum, Justice Smith, James Cromwell, Ted Levine

WARNING: Major spoilers ahead!

There was a time when audiences thought they’d never see a Jurassic film grace the silver screen ever again. The franchise’s 14-year hiatus followed 2001’s dismal Jurassic Park III, and the first few years of that absence saw fans scouring the internet for any indication of a fourth film. Of course, there was that script – yes, the one involving dinosaur-human hybrids – that, thankfully, fossilised before it ever saw the light of a filmmaker’s laboratory. However, 2015’s monstrously-successful, nostalgia-powered juggernaut Jurassic World proved to be worth the long wait.

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Cinema – 25 Years of Jurassic Park

As the dinosaur blockbuster celebrates its 25^th birthday, we look back at the impression it made on its release in 1993, and the impossible benchmark it raised for future filmmaking.

A Curious Wookie At Disneyland And Universal Studios

If you know us personally (that’s me and Sian), then you’ll have no doubt attended our wedding earlier this year. That means you know we’re a right pair of Disney buffs - and film buffs too. So naturally, during our visit to LA we visited both Disneyland and Universal Studios.

Kauai Part II: The Not-So-Lost Jurassic World

Following on from my post on our Jurassic Falls experience, during our stay on Kauai we stayed in Kapaa, located on the east coast of the island. And let me first mention that it was the best accommodation we've ever stayed in. The campus, composed of accommodation blocks, was surrounded by tall palm trees, and beyond them gorgeous green mountains. 

The Real Isla Nublar

I remember one of my very first blog posts where I joked about King Kong’s Skull Island being on Google Maps. It is on there as a bit of a joke, but of course it doesn’t actually exist in any shape or form, although scenes from the latest Kong movie were shot on location in Vietnam as well as Kualoa Ranch in Hawai'i. However, there is a fictional island that pretty much does exist: Jurassic Park’s Isla Nublar...

Welcome To Jurassic Park...

At Kualoa Ranch, the gates to Jurassic Park are always open

Since landing in Honolulu, Hawai'i a few days ago, we haven't just been lucky enough to visit the city zoo where scenes from Jurassic World were filmed (see the elephant pictures below, whose enclosure doubled as the film's Gentle Giants petting zoo), but just yesterday morning we were even luckier to visit the real thing. Yes, we spent the day in Oahu's Kualoa Ranch, where the box-office monsters Jurassic Park and Jurassic World were filmed, in 1992 and 2014, respectively. 

A Jam-Packed Week Deserves A Jam-Packed Post

Another reason to do a whistle-stop blog post is that I’m currently on my last night in New Zealand with access to some decent Wi-Fi. Tomorrow we head to Fiji where I expect we’ll experience similar issues to most of New Zealand, and I don’t want to end up with such a backblog of posts again.