I'm old enough to have seen this in the cinemas as a kid ... holy fucking hell that shit was awesome ... and scared the shit out of me. I like horror movies and I'm never really "scared", though I get the horror or whatever. But my child brain was not remotely ready to watch a giant T-Rex eat someone after knocking down the toilet they were hiding in.

I don't think my mum knew what she was doing taking us to see that. I had an even younger sibling in the cinema (he probably should not have been allowed in) ... and at one point he just got up and ran out.

Not for a second did I question how real that shit was.

And even as a kid ... I knew that Williams score was awesome. That crescendo as the field of dinosaurs is revealed ... that's burnt into my brain ... that's in my soul's dictionary definition of "cinema".

For a 90s kid like me, this and the Matrix 6 years later, and then LotR 2 years after that ... they were our "Star Wars" cinema experiences ... and not to start a flame war or anything ... but I'm pretty happy to have grown up in that moment of cinema.

Interestingly, I rewatched JP last year on its 30th anniversary ... and obviously it still holds up, but I found it easy to forget how quietly but clearly "woke" older hollywood would be. The anti-corporate and even "humans are the real predators" messages in JP were pretty clear IMO. EG, the sequence that goes from the velicoraptors being fed to the dinner debate with Dr Malcolm's "should you" and "life finds a way" arguments ... I'm pretty sure the directing clearly draws parallels between the way raptors and humans eat meat/beef/cows.

It was a monumental achievement, and I have seen it more times than I can count. I read the book 3 times.

Unpopular Opinion: It doesn't hold up as well as I would like, and I would be all about a remake that stayed true to the book.

I remember going to this at a drive in theater. It's was the first drive in I saw.

That interview/review was adorable.

Peter Mansbridge!