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It's always hilarious to me how adult this movie is. Not like, sexy, but just mature. Like, how was I supposed to engage with the first hour of this movie as a four year-old?

Most of it is conversations about ethics, chaos theory, biology and corporate malfeasance.

I still think of this as a family friendly monster movie - brought to us by the incredible imagination of Spielberg, the most sentimental and populist filmmaker of all-time, helming a rip-roaring adventure with dinosaurs!

And yeah it's that, for a bit, but half it's runtime is dedicated to grown-ups just being grumpy, or untrusting, or horny.

My mom still brings it up, but apparently when I was a kid the only thing I wanted for Christmas was the Jurassic Park play set, all I did was talk about it, made a big deal out of it when I saw the commercials- totally bowled over by the marketing campaign. When I got the toy set, all I really wanted to play with was the dinosaurs. I mean, what kid is like "Awesome I got the Laura Dern and Sam Neill figures - and the computer lab!" They were just dorks in khakis, I could have a velociraptor fight Wolverine, and they didn't have to be in a visitor center to do it.

I saw this in 93 in theaters (or so I'm told) and I saw it again in theaters in 2013 when they released it in 3D, and honestly, I hope they release it again in 2023, maybe in smell-o-vision, who knows, could be fun.

I was unprepared for how spectacular this film was going to be, and I would recommend everyone approach this film with as little knowledge as possible.

I don't have the capacity post-watch to describe what this film has done to me in the immediate sense, but I do know that one of the underlying emotions that I feel is anger.

Anger that this was dropped on Showtime in March.

Anger that this probably will be vastly under seen and under appreciated.

I can't predict the future, but it would take a miracle for many films released in the next calendar year to top this film (if that's the case than we've entered a new Golden Age, and hallelujah.)

I'm at a loss. Every frame is a portrait of an emotion. Every line of dialogue is a dagger to the heart. Every reveal is an ambush on the emotional life you carry inside.

This is a perfect film. It's in the pantheon. The canon has been rearranged and reconsidered.

This is a masterpiece of the 2020's and of the medium.

Spread the word. There's something incredible to behold - if you have a Showtime subscription.

One good thing about dystopian sci-fi films that center on class warfare is that they never lose their relevancy.

Carpenter, like Verhoven with Robocop, does a really great job of satirizing and exposing the shallowness of the Regan 80's through the use television. Both films have just uproarious talking-heads and commercials that everyone watches passively. I'm not saying times have changed, but at certain point the "are we so different today" point just becomes depressing.

It's kind of amazing that until the very end, there really doesn't seem to be any sets, and along with using actors that, outside of Keith David, are relying on their rawness instead of skill, it gives the film a visceral vérité quality that captures more than just the text of the film.

Great movie. Carpenter railing against the establishment is always something you love to see.