#Michael crichton

[martins-canned-peaches]

[emilybeemartin]

Dr. Ellie Sattler my beloved

[cinemagal]

Trivia for Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg

[in-love-with-movies]

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

[tsibeyantiger]

You know what I love about Jurassic World? That it makes the "We won't make the same mistakes again- No, this time you're making totally new ones" quote entirely come true. Jurassic Park failed because they put dangerous animals they hardly knew anything about in a theme park setting and thought they could control them- and then, surprised pikachu face, it turned out they couldn't. But the point is, they actually learned from it. In Jurassic World, they knew more about the animals, their wants and needs, their natural behaviour, and designed the park around it. They didn't try to control the animals in situations where they couldn't, and focused on avoiding these situations and keeping everything in a setting where they actually COULD keep them under control. And it worked AMAZINGLY WELL. While Jurassic Park already failed when it was still under construction, Jurassic World opened its gates for the public. Hell, they were able to allow people to go canoeing next to sauropodes without having a single accident. The park was open for a long time and was incredibly successful. And then, they decided to create a new spectacular dinosaur just out of pure spite. They didn't know what kind of animal they were creating, and neither they cared. And then, shocker!, said animal destroyed Jurassic World because no one could predict how it would behave.

Jurassic Park is not a series about the dangers of bioengineering. It is a series about how capitalist greed turns bioengineering into a catastrophe.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Though the 1973 "Westworld" movie and later HBO series dealt with many dark issues, Crichton's original novel was far more disturbing in that there was no robot rebellion. Instead, after a full story of everyone simply living it up in the old west, shooting and killing and screwing and robbing each other, it ended with the owner's arrest as there had never been any robots at all. Just human guests.

[ophilosoraptoro]

[i-is-v-tired]

Jurassic Park

Watching the movie:

Reading the book:

To anyone who hasn’t read the book, it is  genuinely horrifying. It’s great.

[weirdlookindog]

Geneviève Bujold in Coma (1978)

[vizual-demon]

Jurassic Park art by Vector That Fox

for Folio Society’s illustrated edition of Michael Crichton’s novel

[ivys-garden]

That Archesuchus dinosaur horror thread just reinforces my view that a true adaptation of the Jurassic Park books with acurate dinosaurs would be Bloody terrifying.

[80smovies]

[theactioneer]

Runaway (Michael Crichton, 1984)

[georgeromeros]

Westworld (1973) dir. Michael Crichton

[90smovies]

[tenmillionthfirefly]

Guys. If you haven't read the original Jurassic Park book, I'm begging you to. Everything good about the movie is even better in the book. Same goes for the sequel, The Lost World. They've both been living in my head rent free ever since I read them a year ago.

I'M NOT TRYING TO PERPETUATE THE "THE BOOK IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE" THING BUT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOREVER TO SAY THIS