zazen Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 not depressing at all imo, just intense It would be interesting to see it again. The CGI was grounbreaking at the time, but would be very sparing by todays standards. There are only 15 minutes of dinosaur footage in Jurassic Park: 9 minutes are Stan Winston's animatronics, 6 minutes of it is CGI. CGI was well expensive back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
747Music Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 waiting for the blu-ray release... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gary C Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Jurassic Park is probably still in my top 10 films. I remember going to the cinema with my two younger cousins. Their mum whipped them out of the cinema as the nerdy-lawyer guy was eaten on the toilet. I cackled maniacally and read everything about Dinosaurs for about 3 years. I've never read the Crichton novel. I started The Lost World a couple of times, it's good, but pretty heavy about computer systems or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpentintollwut Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I've never seen Titanic. Dont bother, seriously. I've seen the 2nd half of it, when it starts to go down There are only 15 minutes of dinosaur footage in Jurassic Park: 9 minutes are Stan Winston's animatronics, 6 minutes of it is CGI. CGI was well expensive back then. maybe it was so expensive because they got the best guys available for it - it looks fucking real despite the fact that it's from 1993. I'm not so much talking about the brachiosaurus but the few cgi-parts the t-rex has. It's been two years since I last watched the film, maybe now I'd spot some indicators, but two years ago it still looked real as fuck. Think about all the films that came out way after JP and had much worse looking cgi, nothing has looked as real until like five years ago. Anyway, it's not about the cgi in the end, JP is an awesome film and my childhood is mostly made from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Anyway, it's not about the cgi in the end, JP is an awesome film and my childhood is mostly made from it. yeah it was simply mindblowing to see as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Clever girl. IT'S A UNIX SYSTEM, I KNOW THIS i should note i've gotten into seeking out 90s VHS movies, and "Jurassic Park" has a prime position in my collection, along with "Executive Decision" and "Hellraiser" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest placidburp Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I fell asleep the one time I tried to watch Blade Runner Ha same here, the only film I've ever fallen asleep while watching... This thread is fucking ace btw! More of those piss take pictures plz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Strike Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 You've not seen this until you've watched it on the last night of a Jurassic Park themed Bangface weekend after a 3 nights of ridiculous excess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 There are only 15 minutes of dinosaur footage in Jurassic Park: 9 minutes are Stan Winston's animatronics, 6 minutes of it is CGI. CGI was well expensive back then. maybe it was so expensive because they got the best guys available for it - it looks fucking real despite the fact that it's from 1993. I'm not so much talking about the brachiosaurus but the few cgi-parts the t-rex has. It's been two years since I last watched the film, maybe now I'd spot some indicators, but two years ago it still looked real as fuck. Think about all the films that came out way after JP and had much worse looking cgi, nothing has looked as real until like five years ago. Anyway, it's not about the cgi in the end, JP is an awesome film and my childhood is mostly made from it. I'm not knocking it, its fucking great CGI. I'm pretty sure it was the first use of CGI to try and depict something 'real'. The Abyss and Teminator 2 came before, but they were depicting mirrory water or metal creatures, not quite the same as a massive living donosaur in full colour. (Note: by CGI I'm talking about 3-d computer modelled effects being layered on top of film, rather than just any computer-based effect. I'm pretty sure the chronology is: Abyss (Cameron), Terminator 2 (Cameron), Jurassic Park (Speilberg)) I'm just saying that compared to todays movies that might have CGI in nearly every scene, it was quite sparing in JP. I guess that made it better though, less is more and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 by CGI I'm talking about 3-d computer modelled effects being layered on top of film, rather than just any computer-based effect Tron - 1982 The Last Starfighter - 1984 Labyrinth - 1986 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - 1986 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 i bought the dvd less than a year ago and watched it and i was impressed by the cgi. as it's been said, it looks better than many movies newer than it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 by CGI I'm talking about 3-d computer modelled effects being layered on top of film, rather than just any computer-based effect Tron - 1982 The Last Starfighter - 1984 Labyrinth - 1986 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - 1986 You know what I mean. CGI in the modern sense. True, all those films you cite were groundbreaking. but Jurassic Park represents the moment where Shit Got Real. Photorealistic creatures completely designed and animated and drawn by computer, composited into live footage at extreme expense, taking careful account of lighting and shadow etc. The moment when computers could generate something that really passed for reality, without having to squint or suspend disbelief. Here, check this out: wiki: Timeline_of_computer_animation_in_film_and_television Tron 1982 Extensive use (15 min. fully computer generated) of 3D CGI including the famous Light Cycle sequence.[14] Also includes very early facial animation (for the Master Control Program). The Last Starfighter 1984 Uses CGI for all spaceship shots, replacing traditional models. First use of 'integrated CGI' where the effects are supposed to represent real world objects.[15] Labyrinth 1986 First realistic CGI animal.[19] Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 First use of the Cyberwave 3D scanner, first 3D morphing.[19] Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 First realistic human movements on a CGI character.[21] First use of a personal computer to create major movie 3D effects. Jurassic Park 1993 First photorealistic CG creatures.[21] Shit Got Real [23] Whenever I hear the term CGI, I still think of Jurassic Park. But maybe I'm just a product of that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba69 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I've never seen Avatar. I've never seen a modern movie in 3D at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 im always on the lookout for a future ex mrs feltcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakramer Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 ^ coolest person ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 used to rent this game often when i was a kid. [youtubehd]Igk02yl8b-k[/youtubehd] if you scroll to 2:30, it switches to 3D, wolfenstein style! this was pretty amazing at the time (it was 3 years before Doom would hit the snes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Enter a new display name Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 There's a detail that has always bothered me about Jurassic Park. Why is there no electric fence between the automatic car's trail and the plain where the triceratops got sick? Someone answered me "triceratops are herbivores, they wouldn't attack humans". BOLLOCKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 used to rent this game often when i was a kid. [youtubehd]Igk02yl8b-k[/youtubehd] if you scroll to 2:30, it switches to 3D, wolfenstein style! this was pretty amazing at the time (it was 3 years before Doom would hit the snes). It was amazing, until you played it for 6 hours straight because you couldn't save the fucking thing and this was the ending that you were presented with when you finally did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTao08upXok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 ^ coolest person ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakramer Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 wow major hard on right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlOx9738iyw this movie made me fall eternally under the spell of goldblum's erratic personality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenton Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I watched The Fly the other day. Love Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 used to rent this game often when i was a kid. [youtubehd]Igk02yl8b-k[/youtubehd] if you scroll to 2:30, it switches to 3D, wolfenstein style! this was pretty amazing at the time (it was 3 years before Doom would hit the snes). It was amazing, until you played it for 6 hours straight because you couldn't save the fucking thing and this was the ending that you were presented with when you finally did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTao08upXok Man, the Genesis version was much different. And it gave you passwords, IIRC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj3et7Nkb7c Edit: and the music was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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