The 15th Anniversary of Jurassic Park
June 12, 2008 // Films

Last weekend I was having Thai food with a friend and we started talking about how awesome Jurassic Park was. Thinking about all the awesome scenes like the T. Rex smashing the Explorer into the mud while the kids are in and even the little things like the Jell-O jiggling on Lex’s spoon as she sees the shadow of the Raptor. With all of this fun reminiscing, we decided that we’d have a little Jurassic Park watching party, just for the fun of it. Cut to last night, where we decided to make Mexican food (the movie is set in Costa Rica, so that’s as close as we could get) and we had some mud pie that was very dino-related as well. Watching the movie it actually seemed so dated, but it was still a ton of fun and I laughed so hard at all of Jeff Goldblum’s lines.

I came into work this morning and my co-worker Jamie asked me about last night, but then she told me how she was on Wikipedia last night and Jurassic Park was on the front page, which we both thought was weird. So I looked up the movie on IMDB, and oddly enough, THE MOVIE WAS RELEASED 15 YEARS AGO TO THE DAY. How weird is that?!?! We watched the movie on it’s exact 15 year anniversary. We had no idea at all, which makes the whole thing even more cool. That’s really all this blog post is about, I just thought I’d share my funny story, haha…

Bobby

  1. That’s so weird and awesome at the same time! More awesome than weird though, haha.

    I actually watched the film last week, it was on Belgian television (probably also for its birthday, they’re playing The Lost World this Saturday), and decided to watch it since it had been years. I was probably 12 when I last saw it, and I was really enjoying it.
    I didn’t know Samuel L. Jackson was in this film, that was a big (and nice) surprise for me.

    I absolutely love the moment where Sam Neil and the kids are up in the tree, and the brachiosaur sneezes all over Lex!

    Comment by Thomas — June 12, 2008 #

  2. Whoa! Sammy J. cameo!

    Oh, I see someone else caught that as well.

    Comment by Piers — June 12, 2008 #

  3. I LOVE Sam Jackson’s cameo! The fact that he has a cigarette in his mouth the whole time, smoke creeping around his face… the most bad-ass programmer EVER.

    Comment by Bobby — June 12, 2008 #

  4. I watched the film recently as well, and I was amazed at how it’s held up over the years. The dinosaurs don’t look half as bad as I thought they’d look.

    Anyway, it’s a great movie. :)

    Comment by Doobybrain — June 12, 2008 #

  5. WTF it was just on tv for me too and i was just reliving its awesomeness. it’s a worldwide conspiracy because my friend in sweden just watched it as well!

    Comment by Maggie — June 12, 2008 #