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Jurassic Park

What’s Aged the Best?

Jurassic Park The Rewatchables

The effects, dinosaur design, blend of practical and digital work, and the film as a whole have aged exceptionally well.

In the discussion (4)
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  • The ILM CGI and the Stan Winston and Phil Tippett creature work are praised as a fortunate historical convergence of mature practical craft and emerging digital effects.
  • Phil Tippett’s stop-motion animators being retrained as computer animators is treated as an encouraging bridge between techniques.
  • John Hammond’s wealthy technological dreamer, blind to downside and eager to build a theme park, is read as newly resonant with contemporary technology leaders.
  • The broad conclusion is that the movie still works and its credible dinosaurs overwhelm narrower performance comparisons.