![]() ![]() ![]() The effects may have lost some of their novelty, but the movie itself has gained some surprising profundity in the intervening years. But don’t worry: Jurassic Park hasn’t suddenly become tacky. The almost imperceptible electric edge between the effects and live-action footage suddenly feels more pronounced. Now it feels like it’s about to join their ranks.Īctually, part of the reason why those dinosaurs now feel slightly off might actually be the 3-D itself: The retrofitting sometimes separates the monsters into their own spatial plane. You’d think that might be a hindrance, but not here: The same way that Raiders of the Lost Ark was partly an homage to the action serials of an earlier age, so too was Jurassic Park an homage to the creature features and monster movies of Spielberg’s youth. The movie hasn’t lost any of its charm in the twenty years since its release if anything, it’s gained some, because those slick, seemingly perfect CGI dinosaurs now seem slightly more fake than they used to. A movie about a theme park that is, in many ways, its own theme-park ride, Steven Spielberg’s 1993 dinosaur adventure always had plenty of in-your-face moments that one associates with 3-D gimmickry - from a pack of gallimimus charging toward the camera, to a jeep falling off a tree and straight at us, or even to an ominous dolly into a prehistoric mosquito caught in amber. At times, you could swear Jurassic Park was meant to be in 3-D all along. ![]()
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