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. ✌️

  • Deconceptualist
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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.