Want to bring back a (at least) temporary reinstatement of the KIA2 movie club on https://cytu.be/r/KIA2MovieClub
Will do the top 2 recommendations, remember that uniqueness brings the most viewers as well as quality. Will be doing the two time viewership as well with the top two time votes under EST translations. 9 pm est worked well for most people before, but am willing to go by the “democratic” vote.
My personal votes are for either the top gun and top gun maverick, or Jaws and Independence Day because fuck you.
Jurassic Park came out 30 years ago, almost to the day (6/11/93).
That’s definitely a great selection, the animatronics still feel so lifelike
Yeah it aged better than any of the newer movies.
Still remember I had a "making of jurassic park" documentary I recorded off the TV I used to watch as a kid. Probably watched that thing more than the movie itself, I was so fascinated by it.
I played a lot of the SNES Jurassic Park port, which involved a lot of Wolfenstein-style shooting sections firing missiles at raptors with Muzak playing in the elevator between floors.
That was a great game I remember renting when I was a kid. Had the outdoor RPG-ish elements and the indoor FPS elements. Hard as shit IIRC since there weren't any game saves.
I would have guessed Jurassic Park was even earlier, based on how young I remember being.
I recall my father taking me three separate times to the theater to watch it, because the first two times it sold out (RIP Dad).
It was also a time when our town had 3 distinct cinemas before every movie theater became a corporate cookie-cutter megaplex.
I wasn't allowed to watch it until I read the book, because my mom thought it might be too violent/mature.
Which to this day is logic I don't understand, because the book is way more violent/mature than the movie, and she read the book before I did and must have known this was the case.
I guess it's the same logic that Playboy was a taboo cardinal sin, but romance novels were sold at every grocery store and airport newstand and totally kosher to read in public.
The book is literally horror. The movie is (at least partly) classed as “Adventure”, I believe…
So yes. Very much yes!
Good choice. And for the 2nd movie I vote something more obscure and underrated: Frailty (2001)