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 Jurassic Park Adventure Pack (Jurassic Park/ The Lost World: Jurassic Park/ Jurassic Park III) :: 0849900123
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Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times primeval, such as the sight of a herd of whatever-they-are scampering through a valley. --Tom Keogh The Lost World - Jurassic Park
In the low tradition of knockoff horror flicks best seen (or not seen) on a drive-in movie screen, Steven Spielberg's sequel to Jurassic Park is a poorly conceived, ill-organized film that lacks story and logic. Screenwriter David Koepp strings along a number of loose ideas while Jeff Goldblum returns as Ian Malcolm, the quirky chaos theoretician who now reluctantly agrees to go to another island where cloned dinosaurs are roaming freely. Along with his girlfriend (Julianne Moore) and daughter, Malcolm has to deal with hunters, environmentalists, and corporate swine who stupidly bring back a big dino to Southern California, where it runs amok, of course. Spielberg doesn't seem to care that the pieces of this project don't add up to a real movie, so he hams it up with big, scary moments (with none of the artfulness of those in Jurassic Park) and smart-aleck visual gags (a yapping dog in a suburb mysteriously disappears when a hungry T-rex stomps by). A complete bust.--Tom Keogh Jurassic Park III
Surpassing expectations to qualify as an above-average sequel, Jurassic Park III is nothing more or less than a satisfying popcorn adventure. A little cheesier than the first two Jurassic blockbusters, it's a big B movie with big B-list stars (including Laura Dern, briefly reprising her Jurassic Park role), and eight years of advancing computer-generated-image technology give it a sharp edge over its predecessors. While adopting the jungle spirit of King Kong, the movie refines Michael Crichton's original premise, and its dinosaurs are even more realistic, their behavior more detailed, and their variety--including flying pteranodons and a new villain, the spinosaurus--more dazzling and threatening than ever. These advancements justify the sequel, and its contrived plot is just clever enough to span 90 minutes without wearing out its welcome. Posing as wealthy tourists, an adventurous couple (William H. Macy, Téa Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protégé (Allesandro Nivola) to act as tour guides on a flyover trip to Isla Sorna, the ill-fated "Site B" where all hell broke loose in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In truth, they're on a search-and-rescue mission to find their missing son (Trevor Morgan), and their plane crash is just the first of several enjoyably suspenseful sequences. Director Joe Johnston (October Sky) embraces the formulaic plot as a series of atmospheric set pieces, placing new and familiar dinosaurs in misty rainforests, fiery lakes, and mysterious valleys, turning JP3 into a thrill ride with impressive highlights (including a T. rex versus spinosaurus smack-down), adequate doses of wry humor (from the cowriters of Election), and an upbeat ending that's corny but appropriate, proving that the symptoms of sequelitis needn't be fatal. --Jeff Shannon Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
The movies are great. My kids love them. They wastch them over and over again.
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Author: Guest
If you're a movie collecter, meaning you have to have the entire set of movies, then this is a great purchase. For only $18.00 you get three movies. Can't beat that deal. Granted they each don't have their own case, but who needs that, it comes with a cool fold out case. I am enjoying this purchase and will continue to do so.
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Author: Guest
Like the others say, a movie is good when you can watch it years later and still feel the thrill and excitement of the first time you watched it. Definitely recommended for anyone who doesn't have all or any of the movies yet.
However, my biggest complaint is the subtitling. I have become accustomed to turning on subtitles for DVD movies and close-captioned for aired TV shows. It's a way I can enjoy the movie without wondering "What? What did he say?" in some scenes.
The subtitling for all 3 movies in this package are all over the place. Instead of using the black space below the film footage, or a small section of the bottom of the picture, the text is in huge letters that are put on the left, right, bottom of the screen whenever there are several people talking together.
Eg, one character says, "Look out for the raptors!" and the text appears on the left side of the screen covering about half of the picture. Another character says at the same time "Let's run!" and now that is on the right side of the screen....all in annoying big letters right in front of the images we're supposed to see.
Great movies, bad subtitling job.
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Author: Guest
Of course the main reason to buy this complete set is that it is a better value than just buying the first Jurassic Park movie by itself. The second and third movies in the series were always also-rans to the original in my opinion, and were made by the studio to capitalize on the brand name of the first. However, the other two are above average action adventure movies, and for the combined cost of the three are worth it.
The main course will always be the first movie. The biggest attraction of this film back in 1993, of course, was the realistic computer graphic animation of the dinosaurs by SGI, and the good use of suspense built around them. 13 years ago nothing like it had ever been done. This is hard to remember when the Discovery Channel now has the whole "Walking with ..." series of documentaries on dinosaurs, early man, and creatures before the dinosaur that use the same techniques that this film did, and thus people have become accustomed to this level of realism in animation. Thus with the "shock value" of the animation removed, even the original Jurassic Park movie doesn't seem quite as "5-star" as it did during its first run. The dialogue, in particular, seems a bit thin now. One aspect of the movie that still impresses me that doesn't get much mention is the outstanding use of sound and sound effects. For example, when the T-Rex first appears in the movie, it is not just the sight of the thing that terrifies, but its tremendous roar. The Jurassic Park movies are still good action adventure viewing for the entire family, and the extras on how the movie was made are very interesting too.
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Author: Guest
I must first start out with how great these movies are. All three of these movies are spectacular with each one holding a diffrent story. This Box set, is nicely put together and holds all three movies in a nice case. The Bonus features do lack on these films though. Below is how I would rate the three movies.
Jurassic Park- 5 stars (I belive the best movie ever made)
Jurassic Park Lost World- 4 stars
Jurassic Park 3- 4.5 stars
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