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I stumbled on this while cable surfing last night and after a couple of minutes I got (re)hooked so I dug out my CAV laserdisc copy and watched the rest of it that way. Despite the horrible sequel and the soso part three this is the one, the first and the best. The effects. early CGI, still work well and the sound is still wonderfully involving (this was the first film released in the Speilberg-backed DTS sound format). The director's story telling powers have never been stronger, and the narrative flow keeps you on the edge of your seat. The best scene is of course the arrival of the T-rex about 45 minutes into the film.If you haven't watched this in a while I can assure you that it remains a classic and has lost little of its original allure.
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my home theater dealer used to have a great sound system for
demoing home theater. When the T Rex roared, your insides trembled like a
bowl of jelly. Hairs stood up in reflex action. I had deen the scene a dozen times before. For the first time I was terrified. Nothing like a couple really good subs to scare the crap outta you.
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DUI,I'm guessing late means a dinosaur theme park in which 30% of the visitors are killed becuase of inadequate electric fences and flimsy Ford Exploeres would attract a lot of lawsuits!
There should have been signs on the dinosuars' side of the fence- "Please Don't Eat the Customers"
In litigious California, I see that a substantial portion of amusement park thrill ride design is done with attorneys' liability analysis. I did some architectural design for Knott's Berry Farm and through big losses these places have become very, very careful people!
Cheers,
Bam
rico,I last saw this in the cinema when newly released and though I had been quite reluctant to see it as a kind of "Jaws 11: this Time it's prehistoric", I did fall for this one. This was the first movie in which I felt the dinosaurs were given really naturalistic form, colours, sounds, and movements. I'm not knowledgable, but these fellows rang true as I'd not seen it before. The sounds were a wonderful addition. The story of the Disneyland that eats the visitor was goofy as hell and with many contrivances along the lines of those idiots in horror movies that are magnetically drawn to walking into dark basements when they hear moans and blood dripping, but overall the effects carried the show. I did enjoy seeing the fat traitor computer geek get Raptorized.
The sequels were silly and repetitious.
An aside, but Jurrasic Park was topped for me by the excellent Disovery Channel "Walking with Dinosaurs" which is a more complete depiction of the environment and behaviours- and without humans ruining the show. I should like that one on the big screen.
Cheers,
Bambi B
I have the LD version too, and highly recomend it. I still don't get why some think that the LD is inferior to the DVD, they both look fine to me.
I'm one of the few that still prefers laser disc's quality over DVD. Of course it varies from title to title but I find most DVDs to be obnoxiously crappy.
some of the DVD sound mixes are crappy; even with decent surround playback sometimes conversation is muted and unintelligible
Have found LD's to be more consistent in quality soundwise
DVD can have a better picture but there's a few factors there too; not the least of which is the quality of the transfer
Playback in stereo through tubes and Jurassic Park is great as a "demonstrator", but even that is eclipsed by Jumanji (strange Robin Williams film; aren't they all) but fabulous sound
Also a laser discGrins
I built a collection of 900 laserdiscs from 1990 on. When DVDs came out I started that collection and now have about 600. I prefer the DVD presentation. Shown on an ISF calibrated monitor with component connections, a pregressive scanned DVD with 6.1 sound easily bests even othe best LD in terms of picture quality and sound. And the DVD is far less clunky and far more convenient. Plus the transfers of older films (e.g. Criterion) are newer and much better on the DVDs.I still prefer analog vinyl sound to CD but feel that the DVD is closer to film than the laserdisc.
You certainly have more experience than I do with the two media. But, IME the LD mostly look far more like film than my DVDs. Not that either look anything like film. Maybe there are bigger differnces in players than I would have thought but I find DVDs to be pretty anoying. They are typically way to contrasty with no ability to negotiate subtle gradations in hue or value, many of them go to pieces with rapid motion in the image and they seem to all exagerate color saturation. The extras are often nice though.
It very well be your player and/ot connections. You may have a great late model LD player and a soso DVD player. I don't want to knock laserdiscs because I have watched them for almost 15 years and still do as many in my collection have not or might not ever be issued on DVD but it's just that, in a head to head comparison in a properly set up system, the DVD has the edge.
I agree. But most seem to think digital is the end-all.
The DVD has multi-channel sound, something I can only approximate with my pre/pro's DTS Neo 6 codec. And the DVD is of course more convenient than the CAV LD, where the film is spread onto six sides.
I've got a copy of the 3 sided CLV LD with fullrate DTS.While the PQ has been eclipsed by DVD, the DTS sound is still unsurpassed.
Agree and on the few comparisons I have heard, the bigger real estate on the few LD's with DD or DTS shows that the LD is a superior format SOUND wise for those codecs.
Mine is 5 sides :)
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