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.
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Date: 2012-05-23 04:29 am (UTC)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.