A Certain Time...
There comes a certain time in your life when you just have to sit back and say....
Jurassic Park.
What a movie!
I mean, seriously.
No, I haven't watched it again. It just came up in conversation. And wow. Just wow. Anybody remember what it was like to see that film for the first time? Actually see dinosaurs. Like, wow, real dinosaurs! So, sure, they weren't real, but in 1993 when you were six years old, they sure as hell looked it.
Real dinosaurs. A proper adventure, where everything felt oddly real (no stupid over the top stunts, trying to survive, quiet moments as well as fast ones), scary monsters, T-Rexs, those raptors, that suddenly became the coolest thing in existance when you were that age. It was just the best thing in the world, watching that at six.
That's what film making is about! Wouldn't it be awesome to one day make something like that for people? Stupid film course makes you think about films as an art and stuff. But that's not what it's about really.
It's all about Jurassic Park.
And there comes a time in everybody's life when they realise that, yes, Jurassic Park truly was awesome.
Unless you haven't seen it, at which point you suck.
I'd also like to point out that yes, I was very tempted to just finish this blog after "What a movie!" and see what people made of it. It would be funny, at least.
Jurassic Park.
What a movie!
I mean, seriously.
No, I haven't watched it again. It just came up in conversation. And wow. Just wow. Anybody remember what it was like to see that film for the first time? Actually see dinosaurs. Like, wow, real dinosaurs! So, sure, they weren't real, but in 1993 when you were six years old, they sure as hell looked it.
Real dinosaurs. A proper adventure, where everything felt oddly real (no stupid over the top stunts, trying to survive, quiet moments as well as fast ones), scary monsters, T-Rexs, those raptors, that suddenly became the coolest thing in existance when you were that age. It was just the best thing in the world, watching that at six.
That's what film making is about! Wouldn't it be awesome to one day make something like that for people? Stupid film course makes you think about films as an art and stuff. But that's not what it's about really.
It's all about Jurassic Park.
And there comes a time in everybody's life when they realise that, yes, Jurassic Park truly was awesome.
Unless you haven't seen it, at which point you suck.
I'd also like to point out that yes, I was very tempted to just finish this blog after "What a movie!" and see what people made of it. It would be funny, at least.
posted by Li at 12:18 AM
66 Comments:
THAT'S WHAT I KEEP SAYING!
But you just make fun of me. Dammit!
But yeah, Jurassic Park kicks ass. I mean, seriously. Repeating what you said now, but WOW; dinosaurs! I remember when I wacthed ages ago, for the first time... BEST movie ever for a girl who always used to play with her plastic dinosaur toys in kindergarden and...and...(Anyone reminded of Wash? "Aaah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
Yeah. Now you really got me going. Think I'll have to force Marie to watch it with me tonight. Woo!
Yeah, well, I used to play with plastic dinosaurs too. Wish I still had 'em. I'd put 'em around my computer, Wash style.
And play with them.
Urr, maybe not that second part.
Plus crazy girl, it was always BOYS who played with dinosaurs =P
I still have mine! Mum bought me loads from London when she was there when I was five or something. Anwyay, my brother's taken them all. Meh...
Not ALWAYS boys! So okay, most my friends in kindergarden were boys and it's maybe not THAT normal for a girl to run around with dinosaurs and occasionally pretend like she's Batman or a Super Mutant Ninja Turtle but....but...
I don't have an excuse. Dammit :p
Super Mutant??? It's TEENAGE Mutant Hero Turtle. Or Ninja...if you live anywhere but England for some reason.
Yeah, girl pretending she's Batman IS worrying. There was a Batgirl for a reason.
My dinosaurs are probably lost somewhere up my loft, I doubt we ever gave 'em away...
Oh sorry, right. Teenage. I'm awfully sorry. I was according to mum a great A-Team fan too, but I can't remember that.
I didn't know that! For God's sake, I was only 5ish! And they didn't show Batgirl on TV!
A-Team rule. Whatcha mean you can't remember them? Disappointing! So many pop culture references, lost...
So obviously you weren't the creative kid who'd make up a plot? Happier to be Batman =P.
That's so being your new nickname.
Batman? Or not-happy-creative-kid? =P
No, I wasn't creative. Still not creative. Got any problems with that, huuuh?!
Urhm. Are A-Teams the ones with weird outfits (one pink one) and aliens coming down from the sky? If so, I remember SOMETHING.
Indeed.Raptors in the kitchen. That used to petrify me.
And the lawyer getting eaten on the toilet was mind numbingly hilarious to me aged 6 for some reason.
Also: Lala. "Were the A-Team the ones with wierd costumes and aliens?". I've never been so disappointed in you than finding out you have no idea who the A-team are.
i agree except watch it again and watch the bit with the car going over the cliff and tell me it isn't an over the top stunt. I mean it. Hurry up!
I can't. My copy is in my loft at home somewhere.
But I remember the car going over the edge as just it being a realistic thing. Nothing over the top. Just a car that got knocked over.
Sure, maybe it ISN'T, but that's how my child-brain remembers it =P
Yeah, and Leigh's child brain hasn't developed or anything =P
Urhm sorry Li! But I told you, they probably didn't have the A-Team in Norway, and that made it kinda hard for me to watch it!
EVERYWHERE had the A-Team =P
You just must have missed it. Then missed all the pop culture references. And ever having heard of it. And knowing who Mr T is. Urr...
Somehow.
The Lost World was okay until it all went a bit Godzilla at the end randomly.
Jurrasic Park III suffered from the concept something called a "Spineosaurus" would be as scary as a T-Rex.
It was not.
I liked the second one loads! Just as much as the first one. Marie and I would watch them over and over again.
Liked nr. III too. Hey, they've got dinosaurs in them!
Oooh, and they did NOT have the A-team here. Didn't I tell you people think Norway is the capital of Sweden? We're not that important!
NRIII?
Also: The Lost World was not as good as the original, but okay.
Jurassic Park III sucked.
King Kong was good for dinosaurs. But it still felt more of that Hollywood exagerrated action than Jurassic Park felt.
I dread you bringing these kidna this up cause it means I have to disagree with you. Again! Ok not disagreeing out right.
Jurassic Park was a good fun movie, especially for a child, (though after watching it 5 chirstmas's in a row some of the childhood magic has escaped me) though "wow" and "amazing" aren't words I'd use to discribe it. Duno just never got excited over it. However I DID have the plastic dinosaurs. I even had a big Jurrasic Park T-Rex with rubbery skin a big chunk you could take off and see it's bone and muscle underneath. It was a cool toy! I think I actually liked the toys more than the film >_<.
I was never troubled by the T-Rex or velociraptors. That spitting one scared me more. I think it was the suddenness of the spitting that made me jump.
2nd was shit and by the time 3rd came around I couldn't even be assed to go see it. I don't feel I missed anything of importance.
I used to play Teenage mutant hero turtles as a kid not Batman. I mean Mutant turtles that were taugh to be ninja's by a giant rat! How cool was that?
I totally had that T-Rex too. It ruled.
I also had a toy of the jeep.
But the movie ruled. The point is that it ruled WHEN you were a kid. Sure, you watch it now, it probably looks really fake and rubbish. But at the time, it was the more real looking dinosaurs ever, and you could actually believe in them. That's why it ruled.
And yeah, Turtles ruled over Batman for playground games. There were four turtles, but only one Batman.
as comment 24 (surely a record) for once i to have nothing to moan about, although jurassic park one was the best, and the tv series of teenage mutant hero turtles was better than batman, although the batman films were better... wasn't to hard :p
I don't know. Have you SEEN Batman & Robin!? Surely the worse film ever. Ever. Ever ever.
But indeed, the Turtle films were poor.
Jurassic Park still rules.
Oh, and no, 24 is not a record. One point we had over 30.
nr III as in number III. Jurrasic Park III. God, I'm lazy =P
Just use #. One button instead of 2 ;).
Mission to Mars/Corpse Bride/Brokeback Mountain (I don't want to think abotu them long enough to have an actual worse film) is/are the/a worse/t film/s I've seen that don't make me go into an epileptic fit thinking about them. If I did I wouldn't have been able to type them down. Though there is a film or 2 that is fit inducing which I shall not mention nor think about.
Yeah, Broken Blossoms is worse than those.
But modern movies, I'll allow that.
And JPIII (JP is just as much as nr too, and makes more sense....you're lazy and not smart =P) was awful. No climax. A stupid mostly made up dinosaur (okay, so Spinosaurus existed, but it was tiny), and a lazy excuse for a plot.
But the first film. Still rules.
But Star Wars is more commonly appreciated than Jurassic Park.
And WAY more nerdish =P
could this be the record then? this is number 31 lol! star wars is far better than jurassic park, but what would have been good is if one somehow met the other... although big weird creatures were in star wars anyways...meh. lol. aren't my inputs crap :p
Well obviously Star Wars is better, but a post saying "Star Wars is awesome" is nothing new. Jurassic Park has been a bit forgotten.
And this is MY record yes, but I gotta beat 50 to beat Azar.
That's not gonna happen, Li. Muahahaha!
And I am smart, dammit! 'Cause I.... I...urr.....did something smart, and that was smart and I'm smart =P
I dunno why, and it's kinda "Breaking my heart!", but I'm appreciating Star Wars less after having seen Firefly and Serenity many times. But shush Azar!
Shame on me, I did not say that. One does not appreciate Star Wars less. It's the God of sci-fi.
Originals girl, you need to watch the originals again. Those prequels can pale in comparision to Firefly and Serenity a bit.
But even Joss Whedon admits he thought of Firefly while something made him think of the Millenium Falcon ('because most things do').
I just watched the originals, girl. I just did! Still!
But NOTHING beats Han and Leia style bickerin'.
Heeell yeah.
See? It's the best.
And how can you rival "No Luke, I am your father"?
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With "No Luke, I am your mother."?
Okay, that was silly. Beyooond silly. Someone didn't get enough sleep tonight. Yawn.
I was referring to actual quotes.
And I didn't get much sleep last night either.
Bloody bastards setting the fire alarm off at two o clock in the morning!
Referring to ACTUAL quotes? Noo, you must be kidding me. :'| (<-- you know that smiley!)
Pfft, stop complaining. I bet you weren't even in bed at 2 o clock.
Wrong! I went to bed at about 12:45. Just couldn't sleep. Got to sleep about 1:30. Alarm went off at 1:45.
I was very pissed off.
Nu uh! Donatello was way cooler! He was the one I always was =P
Also I haven't checked that link. Is that smart or not?
That link Hols....SICK SICK SICK! =p
Now I know Leigh will check what it is.
You underestimate me. I never checked it =P
Ohh. Maybe I'm learning from my course.
That's a scary thought.
Yeah, let's make a horror movie. :'|
Wait...that was one stupid comment. Voìla!
B horror movie. About giant flappy bairds flapping the city. post #50 baby! I laugh at all you ppl who aren't the 5oth post. Haha. Hahaha I say!
I can see why you were Donatello. Very fitting. And I think I do remember playing Turtles. I blame the turtles for my love of Ninja's.
I'm pulled between banning Holly from posting links ever again and making her give me every link she's ever been on!
I was thinking more about a Z horror movie about the scariness of Leigh actually learning stuff.
But okay, let's go with your idea then.
And from now on, NO NEW COMMENTS! 'Cause we'll pass my comment record, and Leigh will gloat like for EVER, besides it takes ages to scroll down to the last comment.
well how many more do we need cos this is a damn sight entertaining, and no offence intended, bt i still don't knw who you are lala, please tell me lol!
Hey, I have plenty of ideas for horror movies.
One involves mosquitoes and is in fact a psychology experiment.
And Lala is Azar, a girl from Norway.
Urr, not sure what else we can say.
Except her protesting against people posting commetns is stupid.
No it's not.
"Urr, not sure what else we can say."
Woow, I'm interesting!
Well, how else do you want me to introduce you?
"Hello, this is Azar, the girl I now I have a higher comment count than"? =P
:'|
"Hey, this is Azar - she's HOT!"
Yes, that's a joke =P
And let the gloating begin.... SHUT UP, LEIGH!
hey laa laa, have u heard of the band 'kent' ?
Yeah, that's a Swedish band, right?
Anyway, why?
Bit of a random question. But hey, she has. That's impressive.
Or she followed the link to your blog.
No, it's not impressive.
I've heard quite many of their songs too, so there Leigh =P
I'm impressive!
You just said it isn't impressive though :P
well you've managed to break the 60 barrier lol, and for some reason every now and then i am denied access to your blog... any1 just get that or is it my stupid computer being its amusing old self again?
No, I'm denied it too. And I made the bloody thing.
Also, go +60!
um cas they're great. My friend, joe got me into them
Haven't gotten into a new band in a very logn time coming to think of it ... though I'm doubting I should start up with some random swedish band.
As for info on Lala how about how you 2 love birds met? Where you went on your first date? Or maybe just hair colour. Something to give us a mental image. So far I have a mental image of Norway watching movies and listening to swedish rock bands.
Er... Black/brown hair. I really don't know what else to say.
I'd think of a humorous first date story, but I'm drawing a blank.
I was thinking more like:
Date? I don't date girls!
But that is just too mean, and we all know I'm nice 'n' all that.
I'd think of a witty comeback, but I'm drawing a blank!
Is Leigh auditioning to be the next host of blankity blank or something?
But yeah post 70 and I think we should stop posting now or Leigh'll never post a new blog. shhhhhhhhhhhhh everyone be quiet.
My bloggage is entirely unrelated to post count. I just need to think of something to post.
And you can hardly talk, Nobloggy McNoBlog!
I still have my dashing MASCULINE pirate locks, yes :P
And I am not whiny!
And not all girls are whiny anyway!
And I can't think of anything else to protest against with dramatic exclamation marks!
The p's are supposed to be repeated.
yeah, you better come and comment!
Ha! How can we trust the opinion of someone who confuses her Ps with her Ss?
As such, NOT A GIRL!
=P
....
O.O
Yeah right!
I'd think you'd of noticed were I girl =P
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