How massive was the hype for Jurassic Park in 1993?
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as big as these breasts
Nice piggy. That's an interesting pet too
I was 12 and don't remember any hype before it opened
Pretty big. I went to see it maybe opening night or the first week it was out and the line was literally around the block
It was unreal. Ron Bennington said it best after he watched the movie, "It was crazy, it made you think there were actual fucking dinosaurs somewhere in real life that they were hiding."
huge, i was 7 and pretty much every kid was into dinosaurs because of this movie.
it's one of the first movies i can remember seeing in theaters and it was amazing.
there wasn't really any, it was pretty under the radar because at the time the impression was it was going to be a kids movie (it was about dinosaurs after all). Then when people watched it they all went nuoh my god...
I was too small to remember the premier but I remember watching the VHS until wearing down the tape when I was 5-6. Also became obsessed with dinos to the point I wanted to be an archaeologist and playing with my cousins digging up stuff at the backyard.
Wasn't so much hype running up to it besides a new spielberg movie based on a best selling novel (when that meant something).
It was fucking huge once it opened though. I think I saw it 5 times in the theater that summer.
I was also a kid when I saw it in theaters. Got me into dinosaurs and paleontology for the next several years. Toys, books, movies, if it had dinos, I watched it, as did many kids.
>archaeologist
You mean paleontologist. Archeologists specify in human remains.
Being an 80s kid into dinos was the best because the entire field was in the middle of a revolution thanks to Baker and Horner.
i had no idea JP existed until my parents rented the vhs for me like a year later.
I went to see Jurassic Park in the cinemas and there was a guy sitting behind me who kept on shouting out the "CREDIT CARD? YOU GOT IT" line from Home Alone 2. Like, every thirty seconds or so. Incredibly annoying and irrelevant, it really ruined my enjoyment of the film. As a result, I'm unable to answer your question.
Did you play Dino crisis?
me in the front
There was a huge marketing push for it. Spielberg (and most of the other studios for that matter) knew it was going to be a major cinematic event from the time they were bidding on the rights to Crichtons novel (which wasn’t even published yet). The whole idea of DNA and genetic science was just starting to become a big deal at the time and the fact that dinosaurs could be conceivably brought back to modern times was a fresh idea in the main stream. Furthermore, Dinosaurs were (and still are to some extent) a big deal for kids. There were several entertainment properties featuring dinosaur around that time (the 1991 Dinosaurs sitcom was huge... The Land Before Time series was a smash success... Barney and Friends was taking over... Early 1990s was “Dinosaur mania”...) Dinosaurs were Pokèmon before Pokémon because you had different types that appealed to different kids personalities. The different species became iconic. (My 3 year old knew the different names of dinosaurs before he learned all of the letters).
So yes there was enormous hype around it, first for being the biggest budget dinosaur film ever, second for being a Spielberg monster flick (which had become an anticipated event since Jaws) and third because of the unprecedented CGI quality that was a big part of the prerelease press running up to the opening.
WOW no way. Please tell me that's just a joke? I have not even seen the whole home alone 2 so the joke is lost on me anyway.
I saw the re-release a few years back with my best buddy. He's passed on from malignant tumor caused by chrones (?) disease medication backfiring so he was often to sick to enjoy much besides kino and vidya, and he really liked this. I am and always have been a complete paleontology freak so JP was huge to me. But this movie seems to inspire awe and interest in the fantastic, the imaginative, it really encapsulates what a good, blockbuster movie is and should be.. not this capeshit crap..
>(My 3 year old knew the different names of dinosaurs before he learned all of the letters).
h-how old are you?
Btw the people in here that say there wasn’t any hype we’re too young and base their perspective on current year attention saturation via internet. People weren’t as glued to screens and tv ads as they are today (a person see 1,000s of adverts per day today... orders of magnitude more than early 1990s)but for that time it was as hyped up as you could get. The remarkable thing is that it delivered on that hype in spades.
36. My 3 year old is still 3... I didn’t mean that he was 3 at that time, I was just trying to convey how kids seem to be naturally drawn to dinosaur related shit.
they never showed more than the t. rex's foot in the trailers. it's old hat now but a fucking onscreen t rex was a huge draw in 1993.
It was huge. A lot of it was due to the fact that none of the first set of trailers showed the dinos. Nowadays everything is ruined because of the internet but back then you could keep shit secret. People went in expecting stop motion old school dinos but got still the best looking dinos ever put on film.
There was a lot of controversy also over the violence and whether it was too violent for kids.
>Please tell me that's just a joke?
It's a meme pasta that someone has been pushing, I've seen it in several threads so far.
Dinosaurs were a big thing in general in the early-90s. Power Rangers, Dinosaurs sitcom on ABC, Super Mario Bros. movie, etc. Jurassic Park was massive success on the level of Jaws.
nope but I played the shit out of Turok and that SNES Jurassic Park game
Spielberg was still a superstar, and it was the blockbuster of the summer. I remember lots of news segments hyping it up as genetics and cloning were hot back then (member Dolly the sheep?).
They knew how to cut trailers back then. They hyped it up without showing the goods. I remember going to a showing with my parents. My dad was always unimpressed with anything. I remember I had to nag him for a few weeks to get him to take me and my mom to see it. After we walked out of the theater, he looked discombobulated. It really blew his mind... one of the first times I had a really excited conversation with him where he matched my level of excitement.
Dolly wasn't until five years later
Dolly was 1996.
Massive. The first time most people had really seen CGI. Especially this well done.
Terminator 2 also had equally massive hype.
Two of the most hyped moments I've lived through thus far was the advancement of CGI in film and 3D in video games. So happy I got to experience it. I think VR will probably be the next big thing until we get Joi holograms.
Godzilla 1998 had really good trailers too
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I got a Jurassic park tent the night before christmas parents ordered pizza and I hung out in it while watching the mario brothers movie.
I want to go back.
I'd love to fuck Kelly Brook, imagine how comfy it'd be.
>couldn't see it the first weekend
>all my friends saw it
>pretended like I didn't care
>"oh a dinosaur movie? that's for kids."
>People didn't obsess over movies as much back then.
i see you never experienced titanic in theaters
I was also 12. The film came out on my birthday.
The hype was absurd. There was JP merchandise everywhere months before the movie came out.
>it's old hat now but a fucking onscreen t rex was a huge draw in 1993.
Nowadays we have Godzilla movies bombing left and right.
>one of the first times I had a really excited conversation with him where he matched my level of excitement.
Kino of the highest order. How do we make movies like this.
Idk I was only a year old. But watching this in the mid-late 90s in the midst of childhood is biblical. I almost feel sorry for the faggots who haven’t experienced it in this context
Yeah, movie of my childhood. Other kids at preschool didn't appreciate it as much and preferred Denver. And I think the second movie was out by that time as well but first I read the comic book version which I still have before eventually watching the movie on VHS though not without its rather creepy problem.
I remember watching the trailer for JPIII in the theatre but I felt no hype and I was right.
parents took all my friends the first weekend The Lost World came out and even bought me Jurassic Park 3 on vhs. I was obsessed with this shit
I was 12 also. I remember the hype. The way I remember it was the first really modern cgi movie. I remember people losing their shit over how incredible the dinosaurs looked.
not a pet, it looks like Bahamas where some beaches have wild pigs that use to swim
What seems weird now and I only know of this from old interviews from the preserved 90s websites, there was one criticism and that was that the movie lacked scope. It's a weird complaint considering it's such a perfectly paced movie but maybe people compared it to the book which had more dinosaur scenes. Well that's what the sequels were for the original was perfect as it was in its constrant.
>drive-in movie theater an hour away from me will be reopening on May 1st
>first thing they’re gonna play is Jurassic Park
I’m fucking hyped my dudes
i saw the 3D release a couple of years ago
didn't care about the 3D but hearing that main theme swell up again while watching it in theaters, instant goose bumps
I still remember the TV spots
>theatre reopening on May 1st
user, I...
it's drive-in my dude
this is a fucking lie
the movie was hyped all over TV, Extra even did a special about the special effects, and in no way was it marketed as a kid's movie
Speilberg was hot shit back then, why are you zoomers talking shit?
oh shit you're right
enjoy the kino then
but are gonna make it alive tho??
LIAR
hell yea ron and fez noon to 3
Same man, hearing that T-Rex roar in IMAX was a fucking blast.
this. i remember an article in the newspaper that said that making dinosaurs would be near.. it scared me as a kid
Reminder Michael Crichton is the only person to have the number 1 movie, book and television series (ER) all at the same time.
Crystal Pepsi came out that summer
Best blockbuster ever made
