Jurassic Park

Astonishing this film was released in the same year as Schindler's List, but Speilberg makes Jurassic Park a quality piece of entertainment. The interesting tidbit is that a movie like this would be rare today. When this was made in 1993 it featured standard editing techniques and a approach simple enough to allow the wonder of the dinosaurs take over the screen. Today a major Hollywood blockbuster like this would feature twice as many cuts and edits in the name of current trends but would lose the sense of awe and wonder that is found in Jurassic Park. Speilberg does intensify the editing as the story picks up speed and introduces chase sequences, but a simple scene like Sam Neil's character seeing a dinosaur for the first time would not be so simple if made today. The fact that Jurassic Park knows when to allow the editing to slow down and pick up goes back to Speilberg's professionalism but it also goes back to the time period. 1993 was before the techniques of the 90s style phenonomen found themselves inundated in Hollywood. Most times that style has become a distraction instead of a help. Films like Jurassic Park would not be helped with an over zealous and unnessary filmmaking. The use of CGI is also notable. 1993 was a beginning year for it and Speilberg concentrated the use of it for the dinosaurs. The story of CGI and other computer effects is that as it has developed greater sophistication more films have used it for things other than just the creation of large creatures. Recreations of worlds and places are also done by CGI so the saturation level of a computer effects in a typical film is much more obvious. Speilberg filmed Jurassic Park on a real locale with real destruction around the dinosaurs. It may be considered a small deal, but the loss of true locale shooting in everything that it encompasses is becoming sorta lost in Hollywood. Jurassic Park is the perfect mixture of good CGI effects mixed real action and setting. I've looked to other early 1990s action films for believable effects mixed with the best elements of realism. The Fugitive also comes to mind. It's a time I surprisingly miss.