Monday, July 15, 2013

Movie Review: Jurassic Park (1993) Part 1:


Warning: Naughty language, kids.
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Mother. Fucking. Dinosaurs.

Okay, first of all, let me just say that the music is fucking fantastic in this movie. It sets the mood immediately and you know something ominous is going down. And it’s true, all sorts of ominous shit is happening. It’s nighttime, the bushes are swaying while people in hardhats watch with apprehension. At least I think it’s apprehension, it could be boredom, or arousal. I don’t empathize well with strangers. Guys with guns are watching a forklift with a huge cage going towards a bigger cage. Isla Nublar appears on the bottom of the screen. Now we have a setting. In the crate something is watching them. I wonder what it is. Big surprise, as they are transferring the mysterious creature a dude gets eaten. What could have done this?

Next we see some dude in the jungle, on a raft, dressed in a suit like an asshole. Big surprise, he’s a lawyer. He shall be called Lawyer from here on out. Lawyer is visiting a mine of some sort.  He’s talking about the incident that happened and insurance and other words I tuned out because Lawyer is very annoying and dull. They end the scene with a shot of a mosquito encased in amber; which I took sick pleasure from. That’s what you deserve you mosquito fuck head.

Now we find ourselves in the middle of an excavation. People are unearthing a velociraptor fossil. What I liked about this scene was the constant sound of brushing, it was oddly relaxing. It was like listening to ocean waves rush up onto the sand. Swish, swish. Here is where we meet Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler. They’re an item, but they are very low key about it. But they aren’t together in Jurassic Park 3. I’m still bitter about it.

The archaeologists are using radar to see the fossil underground and when Dr. Grant compares raptors to birds a little asshole child is like: “It doesn’t look like a bird, more like an overgrown turkey, I’m a kid an I know everything, I’m unsupervised, my shirt is stupid.” There may or may not have been some slight exaggeration. But Dr. Grant is having none of his bullshit, so he tells the kid in great detail on how velociraptors would eat him alive. Dr. Grant doesn’t like kids. I feel you, man.

Then a fucking Helicopter comes and almost ruins their dig site. Fucking CEOs think they can do whatever. We then meet John Hammond, owner of the park. He needs a second opinion about his park to make the lawyers happy so he bribes Grant and Sattler into agree to visit the park as consultants. But he is vague about what kind of park it is. I would be like: “Dude, tell me where I’m going or you can just leave now.” But money, but sketchy. Ahh, confliction.

In the next little scene is set in Costa Rica. A man in a hat, who is bad at being discreet, talks to fat man named Dennis about stealing embryos from the park; for money of course. Dennis is bad. In fact he’s the worst character in the movie.

More helicopter. Hammond, Grant, Sattler, and Lawyer are the passengers. Along with new character, Dr. Ian Malcolm; the weird guy from the sequel. They land on Isla Nublar and get to ride in the cool jeeps with the logo. I noticed that Lawyer was wearing a short suit. As in, a suit with shorts, what a tool; maybe Lawyer is the worst character. I just really didn’t like the character. He annoyed me so much; I tuned him out a lot. What happened next? Oh yeah…DINOSAURS. The first one they see is a brontosaurus, or is it a brachiosaurus. Don’t blame me for not knowing. Dammit readers, I’m a blogger, not an archaeologist. Anyway, Dr. Grant is freaking out a little, he almost fainted but I would feel faint too, maybe cry. So yeah, they have a little freak out and ask questions and when Hammond said T-Rex, I remember being like…oh shit.

One question is: how? Solid question, it’d be nice to know how the hell you made dinosaurs. The answer lies within the walls of the visitors’ center. The J-crew arrives and they get on a ride to find out about how they did it. It was all very scientific, I felt smarter after watching the educational video. The little DNA guy was my favorite dude when I was a kid. The answer to how is cloning and it turns out that mosquitoes are only good in movies; which is still shitty because they’re only fake good. The J-crew sees the lab of wonder and leaves the ride to learn more. It’s not allowed but you know, yolo right? They get there just in time to see a velociraptor hatch, it was an ugly motherfucker.

This is great and all, but what the hell. Wouldn’t the dinosaurs just breed and take over the island? The movie has an answer for that; a scientist person says they control the population by making all of the dinosaurs female but Malcolm was like: “life finds a way.” Spoiler: he’s right.

On the way to lunch, the J-crew walks past a velociraptor enclosure in time to see a cow being fed to the raptors. Poor cow, it was pretty brutal.  It was funny because John was like: “we have lunch waiting.” But everyone else was like: “bitch I want to see this.” Here we officially meet the game warden, Robert Muldoon. I shall call him Dick Muld. He talks about how smart the raptors are and about how one of them is really big and smart. /whispers/ foreshadowing.

At lunch, they are served some weird looking crap that is even less appetizing after the cow evisceration. I don’t really care for this scene because it’s legal and financial talk with a heaping serving of arguing about ethics and respecting life. I’m not saying respecting nature is bad, do that. Water a plant, pet a panda, we just won’t be in a position to argue about the cloning of dinosaurs. That’s why this scene lost my attention. I went onto Tumblr. Malcolm, Lawyer and Hammond were the biggest culprits in the debate. I don’t want to spend too much time on this scene but basically, /gasp/ Malcolm is right again.

After lunch, it’s tour time. This is where we meet John’s grandkids. The boy, Tim, has an obsession with dinosaurs, and Dr. Grant. The girl, Lex, ends up liking him too; much to his displeasure and Sattler’s amusement. For the tour, they get even cooler jeeps. John is in the control room and he says to start the tour and whoa, Nick Fury what are doing here? Except he’s not Nick Fury here, he’s Ray Arnold, but here he’s Not-Nick. He’s a computer guy, who smokes, bad Not-Nick.

I bet that’s how he lost his eye. When he goes to turn on the generators later in the movie, he realized he was out of cigarettes. This was bad because everyone knows that velociraptors are health conscious and don’t eat prey that smells like cancer smoke. But since Not-Nick was out of cigarettes, the protective aroma wore off. So he had to run to his locker, which was stuffed with body part props that he acquired from his days of moonlighting as a Scare Tactics set decorator. He found a fake arm, similar to his real arm and threw it to the raptors as a diversion. With the raptors distracted, he got to a helicopter and flew off the island to go to the nearest convenience store. When he landed, he caused quite a ruckus, and in the commotion of the landing he tripped and fell onto a cat that was having a bad day. The cat then proceeded to claw the shit out of his eye. Hurt, cigarette-less, and embarrassed, he went to the hospital and when they patched up his eye, he vowed to never go back and face his shame. Thus, Nick Fury was born.

What?

Back to the tour, the J-crew passes through the gates of doom. But just like any other fucking animal attraction, they have no luck seeing the dinosaurs. A goat is used to try and lure the T-rex out but Rex was like: “Fuck your goat.” As they continue through the tour Grant just gets out of the moving jeep. Everyone else follows and Dick Muld was like: “I told you we should lock the doors, idiots.” The J-crew sees their first dinosaurs of the tour, a sick triceratops. After some debate and shitting around, everyone has to go because of a storm that’s approaching the island, but Sattler stays behind to help the triceratops more. Bitch, doesn’t realize how lucky her decision is.

It’s storming now and John is sad that the tour went badly. But Not-Nick was like: “At least they didn’t get eaten.” Fair point. But things only get worse when Dennis the asshole strikes. He’s been dicking around throughout the movie, but he is too annoying and not worth mentioning much. He shuts down the security systems and steals some dinosaur embryos. This causes the electric fences, ones that are keeping deadly animals away from the squishy humans, to fail all over the park; the jeeps even shut down.

 But good news, while Dennis the asshole is trying to drive to the docks he fucks up and gets eaten by an escaped dinosaur. Meanwhile, Not-Nick has to try a fix the system. Everything is fucked up: the phones are broken, people are stranded, dinosaurs are escaping, and the goat is stuck out in the storm. And of course the jeeps break down in front of the T-rex enclosure; very important to mention that.

/Boom/. Water ripple. /Boom/. Water ripple. /Boom/. Water ripple.

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