Have You Seen: Jurassic Park (1993)

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Jurassic Park, a 1993 science fiction movie directed by Steven Spielberg and Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Neill, in which wealthy businessman John Hammond and a team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs.

We talk about how Jurassic Park spawned one of Hollywood's most iconic franchises of all time, how the movie uses dinosaurs to represent child like wonder and fear at the same time, how the movie's effects and storytelling hold up more than 30 years later, and debate whether the story leans on the scales too much to make its point and whether Jurassic Park is just a zoo or something more.

Check out the video version:
https://youtu.be/cfxffzb7WuY