Never Lose Your Dinosaur

[ericadawn16]

Never lose your dinosaur.

Usually, I totally forget how close in age I am to Tom Hiddleston. After all, he's starred in films made by Oscar winners and I have to occasionally worry about the bills.

Then, he does something like this and it totally hits me. I was ten when Jurassic Park came out and was always good about not drinking too much but everything else is the same.
It was utterly, utterly AMAZING! You have to realize there was nothing like it before at all. It was like you were watching REAL dinosaurs that moved and breathed and didn't have zipppes or claymation parts. They were REAL DINOSAURS!

Sometimes, I think the younger kids are spoiled. They won't ever have that moment of something being real like that because they are constantly surrounded by computer generated images all the time. For example, when someone disses Toy Story without allowing the context of IT WAS FIRST! No one thought a full length CGI film was even possible.

Plus, the females in Jurassic Park were awesome. Heck, all the dinosaurs that were killing everybody and the T-Rex coming in to save them? All female. They even had Lex be a nerd AND save the day. I never got to see females be awesome on the big screen; that was something reserved for the television.

It was my most favorite movie ever for over eight years; the yardstick to which all other movies were measured.

Oh gosh, the raptor bit...so dead on, too.

I also forgot to mention how we went to the Disney Store yesterday. I got my Lotso Cutesation, YAY! They had some Avengers glasses on sale but they only had the main four. The cashier was very empathetic as I explained this. Then, she mentioned how awesome she felt the movie was and how her favorite part was when Hulk hit the guy. She made a motion to demonstrate how she meant Thor but before she did, my mom was agreeing.

Actually, no, the beauty of it was that she was acting out which scene she thought the cashier meant. With her arms and hands, she was acting like she was Hulk slamming Loki repeatedly and she was doing this in the middle of the Disney Store.

It was glorious.

Until I said she meant Thor and then my mom agreed that that was funny, too.

"Basically, if you're an Asgardian, it's not good to be anywhere near the Hulk."

Also, they had Nick Fury, the Hulk and Thor on the magic trees! It was awesome.

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[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Oh, Jurassic Park. I was much too young to see it when it came out in theaters (four or five at the most), so I saw it at age six with a babysitter, and at first it was awesome, but then I was scarred forever when Laura Dern grabbed that severed arm. I didn't cry; I just stared at the screen, trying to make sense of what the hell just happened. The velociraptor-pursuit scene is pretty epic though. Then again, I mostly associate that scene with my cousin Louis's snarking ("The raptors want ask the children if they'd like to play charades. The children say, 'No. We want to play Trivial Pursuit.").

Sometimes, I think the younger kids are spoiled. They won't ever have that moment of something being real like that because they are constantly surrounded by computer generated images all the time. For example, when someone disses Toy Story without allowing the context of IT WAS FIRST! No one thought a full length CGI film was even possible.

THIS SO MUCH. The Toy Story animation got a lot smoother in the sequels, but I remember watching and rewatching a TV special about it that my parents had taped when it had just come out, and it emphasized what a breakthrough the film was again and again. The sequels wouldn't exist without that first one, with the choppier human designs and such. Hell, stuff like Shrek wouldn't exist without it, either.

I felt this way when I recently re-watched the 1978 Superman film: it's slow and cheesy and the plot isn't very cohesive, but it's also the first large-scale superhero ever. A superhero had never flown convincingly before. These didn't come out every summer yet. Just about every franchise since then has followed that one's formula, beginning with the origin story, etc., because you really can't improve on that. And it's still a ton of fun, anyway.

Wait, what's a Lotso Cutesation? Does this have to do with Lotso-Huggin'-Bear? Because I have a lot of confusing feels about him.

LOL. That's awesome. I love picturing how she acted it out.

"Basically, if you're an Asgardian, it's not good to be anywhere near the Hulk."

TOO TRUE.

I went to the Disney Store on May 4, and I felt really self-conscious about looking at the Avengers merchandise because this saleswoman kept hovering near me, so I ended up inquiring about Thor helmets and she pointed out that they were behind the Iron Man masks and Captain America helmet, and I told her I had a nephew who was really into Thor, even though I have no nephews or niece to speak of yet.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

that severed arm.
The severed arm of NICK FURY!
*gasp*
No, seriously, Jurassic Park was where I first learned the name of Samuel L. Jackson.

Wait, what's a Lotso Cutesation? Does this have to do with Lotso-Huggin'-Bear? Because I have a lot of confusing feels about him.

Definitely Lotso-Huggin' Bear...

Umm, here's just a few of my Lotso posts...
http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/135807.html
http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/159603.html
http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/159898.html
http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/174909.html

I actually managed to hug him FOUR times over the course of 2010 and 2011. He was an awesome hugger and by the end, he DID smell like strawberries. This really has a lot to do with it. I mean I thought Lotso looked cool from the first time I saw him. He was based off the Care Bears! However, when I went to meet him at Hollywood Studios, he was just so cuddly and cute and then...he'd already won my mom over by watching him interacting with everyone especially one little baby in particular who was crying and crying until Lotso came over to him. Then, he lit up and smiled and only started crying again when Lotso had to go away. I kept hoping for some sort of redemption. It didn't happen but I still couldn't hate him and I still hoped that he would get off that garbage truck and find his redemption and a new life.

Oh, so I should probably also put this more recent post:
http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/479077.html

[cruel-fortuna.livejournal.com]

I still remember Jurassic Park although I don't think I saw it in theaters. I was maybe a bit too young or it just didn't appeal to me at the time. Yeah I was only four when that movie came out, I didn't see it for a few more years.

...I wish my mall still had a Disney store.
Just like I wish Suncoast still existed.
Oh well.

Lol, my mom has still yet to see the Avengers but she loved the character of Thor, so I think she'll like it pretty well when I take her to see it in IMAX this weekend. I'll be doing my best not to smile when I know certain points are coming up.

In fact, we just finished watching season 2 of Sherlock ( or my parents did, I've seen it a few times by now, thanks Tumblr. ) but she cried when she thought Sherlock was dead, so I was pleased. ...up until my dad said that the person the paramedics were tending to were Moriarty because his face was bashed in. Made me wanna slap him because ... that's just ... he pulled an Anderson. But this is off-topic.

// Sorry, I go off topic a lot.
& also hello - thanks for adding me to your f-list.
c ;

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

...I wish my mall still had a Disney store.,/b> Well, there are perks to being in Tampa Bay...
We have three Disney Stores in a 70 mile radius, plus Downtown Disney and a Disney Store at the outlet mall.

Just like I wish Suncoast still existed.
Oh, I loved Suncoast. My main Suncoast had this crazy guy with a beard and a ponytail and he'd just talk for HOURS. I remember one time he warned us how we should go to a convention on the first day to see Kevin Smith or he might just take off for the bar and not return...not sure how true that actually was but we followed his advice.

Oh, I'd love to see it on Imax...actually, we have a dome Imax that shows Hollywood films sometimes, but not Avengers yet...
:(

Ooh, Moriarty, interesting idea. I liked that we had a real cliffhanger like the book unlike the RDJ film but it worked with the RDJ film.

[cruel-fortuna.livejournal.com]

One of these days man, one of these days.
I'll move to either CA or FL to be near Disney.
Then again, I also wanna move/live in London, NYC or Athens. ...when in reality I just want out of Arkansas. Ha!
I have fond memories of Disney World ... I should go back there for my 25th birthday. c :

Lol, sounds like a righteous guy.
I think it was a requirement that if you worked at Suncoast you had to be a little bit crazy. Heh. They were the hipsters before anyone even knew what Hipsters were, man.

Our drive-in is playing it & it's gotten to the point where I've talked about the film so much that my mom finally said, "Shut UP! Just SHUT UP about the Avengers." ... & that lasted for maybe one day. I think she's just annoyed because I'm bothering her about seeing it & have been for the last 3 weeks. But dammit, I'm determined that she see it in theaters!

Yeah with the RDJ movie it worked & I loved the end scene in that movie, I was crying & then look at the wall & I just started laugh-crying.

Even the cool people pretend to be velociraptors

[cassiopaya.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to cast Tom in Jurassic Park 4.

Re: Even the cool people pretend to be velociraptors

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Hmm...

I still have mixed feelings about a fourth since Michael Crichton is dead and the third one...oh, it disappointed me greatly. If it was an awesome script, then it would be awesome for him to be in it.

However, what I'd really, really like is for him to be in the next Muppets movie and to host Saturday Night Live...seriously, a movie makes a BILLION dollars, the cast includes people have have hosted before and even been a cast member and you don't have any of them host???

*fingers crossed for the fall*

[sumeragiskank.livejournal.com]

Tom is all of a month older than me, so it amuses me that he was the same age as I was when Jurassic Park and Ace Ventura came out and he still carries the same love of them. Although, the strongest memory of Jurassic Park for me was the fact that I had raging double ear infections when we went and saw it opening night, and I was right next to a theatre speaker and the dinosaur noises were so loud they actually helped break up some of the infection inside my head. Hurt like a total bitch, but effective.

My mother was old enough that she remembered when color was added to movies and how we took that for granted, along with running water and electricity and television, so I imagine in 50 years, teenagers will look back on our special effects and think the same thing.

[captaintish]

Heh. I remember when Jurassic Park came out, but I was TERRIFIED of dinosaurs (even at age 11) and didn't go see it in the theater. I wish they would re-release it.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I wish they would re-release it.

Actually, that is happening next summer for the 20th anniversary in 3D.

[captaintish]

YAY!

But.... 3D? Blech.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Well, with the Star Wars re-release earlier this year, they had both 3D and 2D showings.

[jackdavfan692.livejournal.com]

It's still one of my most favorite movies of all time 8). *Nods* I have a bunch of movies in my "favorites" list, but there are only a select few that, if I were flipping through channels and noticed one of them was on, I'd put the remote down and watch it again. Jurassic Park is one of those :]. One of the scenes that still sticks in my mind is the one in which Dr. Grant & Dr. Sattler see the dinosaurs for the first time. For me, their reactions to seeing those herds of dinosaurs perfectly sums up what most of the audience (including me) felt when seeing the movie for the first time— pure, unadulterated, dare I say child-like, awe :3.

Oh gosh, the raptor bit

Do you mean the sequence of the pack chasing Tim & Lex through the visitor center? If so, I agree— one of the best sequences of the movie 8)! *Nods* Scary as can be, but awesome, especially the bit of one of them turning the doorknob B]. The portrayal, if you will, of the Raptors did another pretty notable thing, at least for me personally, at that time. I loved playing with dinosaurs when I was little (and I'm still very interested in them), and my favorite one, like probably a lot of kids, was the T-Rex. After Jurassic Park, though? Mr. "Tyrant Lizard King" (that's what "Tyrannosaurus Rex" means) was knocked off his pedestal by the Raptors :].

Plus, the females in Jurassic Park were awesome. Heck, all the dinosaurs that were killing everybody and the T-Rex coming in to save them? All female. They even had Lex be a nerd AND save the day.

That had never occurred to me (the fact that the characters, both human and dinosaur, who really kicked butt were all girls) but yes, you're right— very cool =)!

Sometimes, I think the younger kids are spoiled. They won't ever have that moment of something being real like that because they are constantly surrounded by computer generated images all the time.

They are spoiled, aren't they? I'd also venture to add that they missed out on some amazing stuff, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park being just one example :]. I wonder what they'd think of the "old-style", hand-drawn animation that Disney and other companies once used? The art style of movies like Beauty and The Beast, The Lion King, etc., and what the animators managed to do with it (e.g. the ballroom scene in the former, the wildebeest stampede in the latter) was revolutionary at the time, but is almost completely obsolete now. It's rather sad, really :(.

[i-llbedammned.livejournal.com]

That video made me smile. It's hard to imagine that he is so close in age to me. When I see his skill it always seems like he has to have been acting for a lot longer than he has been.

I loved the raptors. They were always my favorite.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I see his skill it always seems like he has to have been acting for a lot longer than he has been.

I KNOW, right?

Triceratops actually for me...