Jonathan Last

Jurassic Park 3D
November 8th, 2012

Will I spend $15 to see a re-mastered Jurassic Park in 3D? No.

I’ll spend $45 to see it three times.

Nedward November 8, 2012 at 5:43 pm

I bet Crichton has another bestseller due out soon. He’s like Hendrix

Galley Friend J.E. November 9, 2012 at 8:25 pm

I don’t know about that, but I did just read some quotes that Jonah Lehrer apparently got from Crichton re how 3-d film making stimulates the novelist’s imagination posthumously.

Nedward November 9, 2012 at 9:43 pm

Actually I’m expecting that the Steve Jobs-style doomsday cache of optioned Crichton tome-to-movie properties will outlast the American film industry, in line with prevailing business standards around the world

Jason O. November 10, 2012 at 4:00 am

Will Orca be remastered in 3d, you think?

Peter November 11, 2012 at 12:58 am

Will they upgrade the computer animation itself, as well as convert it into 3-D? I hope so. I saw it recently with a niece and nephew, and some of the CGI dinosaurs looked a little too weightless and blurry by 2012 standards.

Nedward November 11, 2012 at 3:15 am

When I saw it a couple years back I was impressed at how much better Stan Winston’s plastic/latex animatronic dinos looked than ones in the faraway grazing CGI shots. But when I’d seen it in the theaters I somehow failed to pick up on that flaw

Galley Friend J.E. November 11, 2012 at 5:25 pm

Might have something to do with the scanning. In Gladiator, when the tigers come out it looks believable on film. On DVD, you can see spot the separation.

James O'Gara November 11, 2012 at 10:01 am

I heard the Dennis Nedry character will be fatter and the fat rolls will be smoother and better defined.

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