Jurassic Park is 6/10 at best

I do not like Jurassic Park. I have never liked Jurassic Park. It has great special effects and Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, but that does not make it a good movie. I don't care if it made a billion dollars at the box office. I don't care how many awards it won.

The worst part, though, is the memes. They're second only to Prequel Trilogy memes in terms of how much they annoy me. I long ago added "clever girl" and "life uh finds a way" to the list of phrases that braying jackasses won't stop posting on social media that fill me with a near-homocidal rage. I'd block these phrases and move on with my life but these people put them in freaking images, too. I can't get away from it. *continues to froth incoherently*

Edit: As of this writing, I have three downdoots. I'm going to assume that all downdooters agree with this post. Edit #2: Now like 8 of 29 people agree with me! I guess this unpopular opinion isn't quite as unpopular as I believed. ❤️

Edit #3: 15 of 45 people reject that this is an unpopular opinion! Thank you all for your love and support. ✌️

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You blocked the phrases and they came back in memes?

Life uh finds a way.
Have you seen it at a theater? Having a screen that makes the T. Rex actual size and a quality sound system that shakes your seat with every stomp really adds a lot to the experience. This goes for the other dinosaurs too of course.

Obviously some of the moment-to-moment plot is corny and contrived, and the big screen won't fix that. Though for me that just puts it alongside campy adventures like The Goonies (another film I love).

However the larger themes (e.g. cloning extinct creatures, a capitalist shithead developing an attraction that endangers everyone) seem more realistic today than ever.
- Fair point. I've never seen in a movie theater, but I do have a decent home theater setup. I still dozed off halfway through the last time we tried to watch it. 😆
  
  You're 100% right on the film's prescience. This is the dystopian future that sci-fi authors used to write about. How dark things go remains to be seen.
Grudging upvote because how dare you? lol

Also, have you read the novel? I like the movie a lot, but I can respect that you don't. The novel is so much better, though.
- I've heard this. I should give it a shot. I think I read The Andromeda Strain about a million years ago.
  
  The Andromeda Strain is also a solid novel. The movie adaptation from the 70s is okay, but the 2008 miniseries is godawful.
I feel the same way about “updoots” and “downdoots”
- https://media.tenor.com/m-yQtJJxhK0AAAAM/christian-bale-here-you-go.gif
It's a Unix system, I know this
- A scene that is frequently mocked even though it's entirely correct!
  The program shown is fsn (filesystem navigator) running on a Silicon Graphics workstation under their UNIX OS IRIX.
  
  https://preterhuman.net/software/file-system-navigator-fsn-silicon-graphics/
  
  I didn't realize that! Pretty cool.
- It's harder to hate on the kids. They were pretty cute. Do they still act, I wonder?
  
  Edit: Joseph Mozello is still acting but Ariana Richards became an artist. https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/where-the-kids-of-jurassic-park-and-jurassic-world-are-now
You don't actually think this.
- Why would you say that?
  
  Because it's such a great adventure story.
Jurrasic park was very much an impressive and great movie for the same reason the original Avatar was. The plot was decent or okay but the graphics and visuals blew everything at the time out of the water with such a magnitude of difference that the sparkle in your eyes stayed through the movie. Sure, looking back now, now that we have great CGI and 4K OLED screens, it may not be as impressive. But think of Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of time. Also basic and nothing visually amazing...by today's standards point but it was an insane feat for the time.

We now judge Jurassic park by the quality of it's story much more now than we are amazed by impressive dinosaur like we were back then. So of course it's gonna look mid at best

Anyway, that's my take on it at least.
Is it just because people keep quoting it years later?
- YES. Well...while I truly don't think it's a great movie, the constant quoting is the salt in the wound. Same thing with the Prequels. *shudders*
  
  It kind of seems like you just have a strong dislike for overdone quotes/memes in general?
  
  Which is fine tbh.
I feel the same about Dune. Heck, not a fan of Jurassic Park, but I'd rather watch it than Dune.
- which Dune? it has been remade multiple times and it's very different every time.
I’ve never actually seen it. I keep meaning to but meh, maybe I won’t now.
- You're welcome! 😃
I am old enough to remember the Jurassic Park hysteria. The movie itself is not too bad, but IMHO, it did not live up to the hype.
this feels like a copypasta
- Thanks for adding another word from the Internet that I hate. 😆
  
  Howso?
  
  Pretty rich from the guy using the word updood
  
  I’m not sure how to describe it, just carries that kind of energy
This is a movie I totally stayed out of the hype bubble for.

I literally watched it the very last day it was in theaters, I think it had an 8-month run.

3 out of 10 movie.

Oh no dinosaurs!

Oh we're safe...

Oh no more dinosaurs!

Oh we're safe again!

Dinosaurs!!!!!!

... That's the movie.
- Dammit! Use the spoiler tag next time, please.
- Thank you. 🙏🏻
  
  Love Goldbloom, though, and Dern. Also, wasn't Samuel L. Jackson in this?
  
  I have no idea, it was one of the most vapid, least memorable movies I've seen.
  
  Edit: and I completely stayed out of the hype bubble for Avatar as well, completely avoiding all exposure to it unless completely inescapable. I finally watched the movie for the first time 6 months ago, I can honestly say it was among the worst pieces of shit I've seen in 10 years. And the CGI and overall design of the world was weak.

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