Not enough people understand the true nature of Jurassic Park methinks. Can it be enjoyed as a dinosaur horror? Absolutely. But I personally think it's much more enjoyable as a biological sci-fi. These aren't dinosaurs, they are biological monsters made in the shape of dinosaurs. They cut corners, they used frog DNA to fill in what they didn't have. John Hammond brought these experts along to see if their reactions would be "Oh my god that's a dinosaur" and then moved along when it was exactly that. But idk, that's just me.

Guys. If you haven't read the original Jurassic Park book, I'm begging you to. Everything good about the movie is even better in the book. Same goes for the sequel, The Lost World. They've both been living in my head rent free ever since I read them a year ago.

I'M NOT TRYING TO PERPETUATE THE "THE BOOK IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE" THING BUT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOREVER TO SAY THIS

So I’m reading Jurassic Park for the first time and … the movie was perfectly casted oh my god. I can’t help but picture them all when I read because when I tell you they captured the energy so well, I mean it.

Also something about Alan and Ellie meeting Ian and “we’re a trio now. Besties forever” the second they meet is iconic. The squad ever actually.

Stranger Things Reverse Big Bang 2023/2024 - Jurassic Disaster by ainsalaco - Part IV - 14.04.2024

Fourth part of the drawings for the Jurassic Park AU done with ainsalaco for the @strangerthingsreversebigbang :3

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Robin, Eddie and Billy after the T-Rex Attack - Jurassic Disaster by ainsalaco - 14.04.2024

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Do you think they ever explored each other’s bodies

One of many, many cool things about the Jurassic Park Novel is the kids’ first impressions scene

I love Tim (and arguably Lex’s) first impressions of the adults when they land on the island. One of the best scenes. It’s so great how the horror of meeting strange adults at an event you didn’t really want to go to is evoked here-brought back some little-kid memories LOL. But the first impressions are brilliant. Grant and Sattler make very good impressions, with their excited and outdoorsy vibe. Nedry makes a bad first impression (as a messy slob) but Tim does take notice of how young he is, too. Ed Regis makes a bad first impression for being so extroverted and forcing the kids to meet the rest of the adults, even after Lex protests multiple times. Gennaro and Malcolm end up in a third/fourth sort of category. Tim instantly notes Gennaro’s name and how he’s very argumentative with Hammond.  How Tim sees this depends on how you interpret his relationship with his grandfather!Malcolm doesn’t shake the kids hands but nods and presumably smiles from afar. Which is kind of funny considering the borderline hyperactive way he introduces himself to the rest of the cast earlier on the plane. I think this is his way of respecting how the kids are off-put by meeting the guests. Either way, this gives Tim the impression of very weird but friendly which is spot on. And really, all of the impressions are spot on. It’s brilliant and I love it. 

Jurassic Park has been my favorite movie since forever and I finally, finally got around to finishing the book. I've been awed, horrified, deeply unnerved, and now I ship Muldoon and Gennaro. All in all, a great experience. 10/10 would read again

finished the jurassic park book, now onto 'the lost world', and i really like the whole secrecy angle and VERY happy that malcolm made it.

now i'm obliged to make memes:

gennaro:

malcolm @ hammond:

the raptors:

hanmond hearing the kids on the speakers:

the t-rex:

the dilo:

the baby raptors in the beginning:

Dude, I fucking love the Jurassic Park book. 100000% better than the movie.

Books Read in 2023:

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

“Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.”

Jurassic Park is honestly one of my favorite books at the moment. It’s so good, I love the characterization of Ian Malcom specifically. Reading the book also makes me think about the casting of the first movie. The actors for the characters fit so well, and you can really see them in your mind saying the things in the book or doing the actions. The movie is what originally got me into dinosaurs, then the museum that’s in my city with a massive paleontology section and loads of exhibits, which I started going to because of the movie! I hold Jurassic Park so dear to my heart, it’s so well written and it holds a lot of nostalgia for me!

Sorry for the rant lol, I love this book so damn much but I don’t know anyone irl to talk about this with ε-(´∀｀; )

I am so tired rn and I need to rant.

The Jurassic park movies are absolute bullshit. Sure, their great movies, but looking at it as an adaptation, the suck. They make the Percy Jackson movies seem like blockbuster cinema and those made me want to kill myself. If you ever need to torture information out of me, put me through a Jurassic Park marathon. Actually, no, that wouldn't work because I'd kill myself before the first movie ended. What's wrong with them you ask? Well I'll tell ya. Jurassic Park. The classic. Sattler and Grant, the romance of all time. Except that it never happens it the book and Sattler was like 20 years younger than Grant, his former student, and she was fucking engaged. But no, have them kiss or whatever. At least they didn't merge two fundamentally different characters togeth- what. They merged Gennaro, a lawyer who wants to shut down the park, and Regis, head of PR for the park? And killed this guy off where Regis died and therefore destroying any relationships Gennaro might have made and made the ending of the book irrelevant? So your saying that Muldoon and Gennaro never become friends and explode a raptor together? Cool. It's fine. At least the next move can't fuck it up that bad, right? (Little did they know that their faith in movie adaptations will be ruined forever.) Jurassic Park: Lost world. In all honesty I haven't watched this movie in years. However, reading one overview told me all I need to know. First thing, THEY GOT RID OF ONE OF THE MAN CHARACTERS?!? WHAT THE FUCK?!?! I understand changing some things to make the movie interesting, but what the fuck?! This guy, Levine, is the only reason Malcom goes to the island in the first place. Not Harding, who joined late. Speaking of Harding, what is with movie producers and forcing a romance when there isn't one? Malcom and Harding were NOT together in the books. There were some allusions to a past relationship, but nothing happened. Also, why the fuck was Kelly Malcom's kid?!? They don't fucking know each other in the book. Them on the island is the first time the two of them fucking meet. Kelly was a student who studied under Levine, the guy who doesn't exist, and snuck into the travel trailer with Arby, a black kid who I don't think was in the movie. Hmmm. Anyways, at least they stayed true the the plot a little bit- WHAT THE FUCK?! WHY ARE THEY IN SAN FRANSISCO(?) The book ended when the left the island. Dogson (was he in the movie?) got torn apart by a bunch of baby t-rex's. How tf did he get off the island?! You can't call this and adaptation if you change everything about the source material!!!! " Oh, Maybe they did it because trying to survive on an island is boring and hard the translate onto the big screen " EXPLAIN JURASSIC PARK THREE TO ME THEN.

TL:DR the jurassic park movies are shit adaptations and I'm very tired

I think ellie is by far my favorite character

Somthing about female characters thriving in high tense situations always does it for me

She's just so cool

I wanna dress up as her at the next convention I'm going to

“Right now, as we stand here, almost no one in the world has ever seen an actual dinosaur. Nobody knows what they’re really like.” 

“Yes …” 

“The dinosaurs we have now are real,” Wu said, pointing to the screens around the room, “but in certain ways they are unsatisfactory. Unconvincing. I could make them better.” 

“Better in what way?” 

“For one thing, they move too fast,” Henry Wu said. “People aren’t accustomed to seeing large animals that are so quick. I’m afraid visitors will think the dinosaurs look speeded up, like film running too fast.” 

“But, Henry, these are real dinosaurs. You said so yourself.” 

“I know,” Wu said. “But we could easily breed slower, more domesticated dinosaurs.” 

“Domesticated dinosaurs?” Hammond snorted. “Nobody wants domesticated dinosaurs, Henry. They want the real thing.” 

“But that’s my point,” Wu said. “I don’t think they do. They want to see their expectation, which is quite different.”

-  Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Stranger Things Reverse Big Bang 2023/2024 - Jurassic Disaster by ainsalaco - Part I - 08.04.2024

It was a blast to work with ainsalaco on this Jurassic Park AU for the @strangerthingsreversebigbang and to exchange ideas and to hype each other up 😊❤️

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Banner - Jurassic Disaster by ainsalaco - 08.04.2024

Done using ink pens, gel pens, alcohol markers, acrylic paint pens and Photoshop for the title and credits 

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Banner as is - Tyrannosaurus rex, velociraptor, dilophosaurus and compsognathus's skeletons with foliage - Jurassic Disaster by ainsalaco - 08.04.2024

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Header - Velociraptor's claw with foliage - Jurassic Disaster by ainsalaco - 08.04.2024

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Ian Malcom: I hate details. The only thing that matters is the big picture.

Richard Levine: I hate the big picture. The only thing that matters are details.

Sarah Harding: You two should breed and ask your child what they think.