The initial appearance of the T-Rex in the first Jurassic Park is still, in my opinion, one of the best pieces of cinematography, suspense, and special effects I’ve seen. Any other scenes have this effect on you?
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You should watch the JP episode of The Movies That Made Us on netflix. Really great section on the T Rex itself.
The sand scene in Spider-Man
Boy do I hate being right all the time
The tracking shot from “Wings” (1927).
I think it’s safe to say Jurassic Parks CGI and practical effects will always look good
reign of fire dragons.they are peak post jurrasic park CGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEtoQGqbyDc
That roar it gives when Grant sparks the flair looks as good and mostly better than anything I’ve seen since.
For me it would be the wormhole scene in Interstellar.
To have seen it in person in theaters when it first came out was something really special. There was nothing like it since probably King Kong. Now, maybe, only LOTR (Helm’s Deep) and Mad Max: Fury Road comes close.
The T-1000 reforming after being frozen and shot. Amazing scene in T2!
Those jeeps will always be the Christmas Wishlist Toy That Got Away.
Rewatching the T-Rex sequence highlights another aspect that the later sequels, and Dominion failed to do…and that was to create suspense.
In this sequence, you actually felt like Tim or Lex could die (Spielberg demonstrated in Jaws, that even young characters weren’t exempt from being taken out).
The glass of water, the disappearing goat, the rain, flashlight in the eye..the crash the the glass roof, the vehicle being turned over as Tim sinks in the mud (before it went flying over the edge)…
It was all done so well, and a great example of a suspenseful sequence. That’s a huge element that is missing from the new trilogy.
When Luke first confronts Vader on Bespin in ESB.
Wow what a unique and mind expanding opinion
IMO that excellent first appearance of the T Rex is topped only by its final appearance where it kills the velociraptors, saving the people, and lets out that magnificent howl with the banner streaming across it reading “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth”!
Still terrifying. Love that there’s no music. Just the rain and the road of the T-Rex.
The endoskeleton rises up through the wreckage in The Terminator.
Definitely the Rex sequence and I’ll argue that the raptors in the kitchen sequence was even more tense and suspenseful
It’s been a while since I watched JP, but was their any explanation as to why the girl turned on the flashlight in the first place?
That 6 minutes was better cinema than all of the other Jurassic movies that came after put together,
IMO the greatest movie scene of all time.
This is missing that critical element that Jurassic World brought to the table. And that element is puberty. This needs so much more puberty. *Right*?
*Guys*?