Oct 20, 2026 · 2 hr 9 min · 17 segments
Reel Reads hosts Luke and Caleb welcome good friend Mitchell to discuss Steven Spielberg’s generation-defining film, Jurassic Park. Released in 1993, the film is adapted from the 1990 novel by Michael…
This movie starts off going hard.
I, this is the first time I remember that universal logo coming around, like up over the screen, then back into the screen around the planet.
Yeah.
Uh, earth.
And that it's just got those cricket noises.
They get a little bit louder and then they drop that base and it's just so good.
It gives it.
Well, I
think that this just did such a really good job of leading into it.
And it's, All gas, no brakes from scene one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, it really starts off with a bang.
Of course the, the guy gets killed and you know, this, that stirs up a shit storm with this engine dressing part.
Spoiler alert for all the people
who have never seen this movie.
Sorry for this 50 year old
movie.
I'm going to say
maybe the 25 years old.
We start off with, it's kind of like the scene that, it's one of those scenes that opens a movie and you're like, I know we're not going to stay in this setting for very long and it'll be a while before we come back.
For sure.
But I know it's important.
It's the scene where they're delivering this raptor to the park fence from wherever they are cloning these animals from.
They're taking it basically from facility to facility and one of the workers gets snatched.
This movie starts off going hard.
I, this is the first time I remember that universal logo coming around, like up over the screen, then back into the screen around the planet.
Yeah.
Uh, earth.
And that it's just got those cricket noises.
They get a little bit louder and then they drop that base and it's just so good.
It gives it.
Well, I
think that this just did such a really good job of leading into it.
And it's, All gas, no brakes from scene one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, it really starts off with a bang.
Of course the, the guy gets killed and you know, this, that stirs up a shit storm with this engine dressing part.
Spoiler alert for all the people
who have never seen this movie.
Sorry for this 50 year old
movie.
I'm going to say
maybe the 25 years old.
We start off with, it's kind of like the scene that, it's one of those scenes that opens a movie and you're like, I know we're not going to stay in this setting for very long and it'll be a while before we come back.
For sure.
But I know it's important.
It's the scene where they're delivering this raptor to the park fence from wherever they are cloning these animals from.
They're taking it basically from facility to facility and one of the workers gets snatched.
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