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  1. craft (craft): Avatar → Jurassic Park. Both Avatar and Jurassic Park must front-load complicated sci-fi premises; Jurassic Park is the cited good example.
    “Jurassic Park has them watching a movie about how Jurassic Park works.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Avatar → Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park is the usual example of exposition done right; Cameron just gets Avatar's exposition done bluntly.
    “Jurassic Park is always site as an example of like, they figured out the right way to do it.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:40:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Jurassic Park → Transformers (movies). Jurassic Park is lean where modern spectacles are bloated.
    “It is very much a lean middleweight fighter.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:06:23 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Jurassic Park: Spielberg Wonderface: the shot where Sam Neill turns Laura Dern's head toward a brontosaurus.
    “He captures wonder in a way that no other filmmaker really ever has”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:07:13 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Jurassic Park → Steven Spielberg. Jurassic Park is the midpoint of Spielberg's career, blending spectacle with childhood and humanity.
    “it is kind of the perfect middle ground, the median point of Spielberg's career.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:07:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): Jurassic Park → Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The sequels are a spinoff of Spielberg's imagination though he only executive produces them.
    “even though he's just an executive producer on those movies, it is this interesting spinoff of his imagination.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Raiders of the Lost Ark → Jurassic Park. Both are told perfectly and are tighter than people remember.
    “I think also just it's very similar to Jurassic Park in so far as it's told perfectly.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:09:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  8. industry (industry): Jurassic Park → Jurassic Park. Its popularity on release is likened to a Michael Jackson-level approval rating.
    “But the approval rating of Jurassic Park is hard to overstate.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:25:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): Jurassic Park → Stan Winston. Jurassic Park fuses a new standard of CGI with incredible practical effects.
    “it set a new standard for what computer generated graphics could be in a film, and it also has incredible practical special effects.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:25:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Jurassic Park: See Laura Dern with her head down on the breathing triceratops, and the T. rex footprint pressed in the ground.
    “you can see the tyrannosaurus claw foot pressed down and the footprint.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:25:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. career (career): Jurassic Park → Schindler's List. Spielberg released both in the same year.
    “he released Jurassic Park and Schindler's list in the same year.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:40:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. craft (craft): Jaws → Jurassic Park. Spielberg's pre-Jurassic blockbusters: Jurassic does some of the same things as Jaws -- entertaining, not slow.
    “I think it does some of the same stuff that Jaws does, where it's really entertaining.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:52:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. verdict (pivot / better version): Hook → Jurassic Park. Hook is where Spielberg turns parent, and Jurassic Park is the better telling of the same father story.
    “Jurassic Park is the much better version of what the story that Huck is trying to do.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:24:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (same-year pair): Jurassic Park → Schindler's List. Spielberg released both in 1993 and was finishing Jurassic Park post-production while shooting Schindler's List.
    “He was, you know, doing post-production on Duressque Park while he was shooting through Schindler's list.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:05:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. theme (character reinvention): Jeff Goldblum → Jurassic Park. Goldblum asked to play the scientist as a cool, cocky rock star rather than a nerd, and his performance saved the character from dying as in the book.
    “Can I be the rock star sign?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:18:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  16. lineage (sequel-comparison): The Lost World: Jurassic Park → Jurassic Park. The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original.
    “This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Jurassic Park: The film is PG, a PG that came with an extra warning, ironic since Spielberg's films prompted PG-13.
    “Jurassic Park is ridiculously rated PG.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:04:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  18. verdict (ratings history): Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom → Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park's PG rating is called absurd given Spielberg's role in creating PG-13 after Temple of Doom and Gremlins.
    “Spielberg's the reason that PG-13 was created.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:04:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (misreading): Jurassic Park → Jurassic World. Spielberg's line that the T-Rex is the hero of Jurassic Park was taken too literally by Trevorrow in Jurassic World.
    “Which Colin Trevor took way too literally in making Jurassic World.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:08:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  20. lineage (ripple effect): Jurassic Park → Anaconda. Anaconda is called the final lapping of the Jurassic Park creature-feature wave.
    “that's like the final lapping of the Jurassic Park ripple, sort of washing up on the beach.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. career (career): Michael Crichton → Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park broke Crichton's long writer's block and began his second wave of Hollywood heat.
    “Jurassic Park, like, finally breaks the dam for him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:39:53 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  22. unmapped (adapted): Michael Crichton → Jurassic Park. Named among the Crichton adaptations they could do another time.
    “we would not do Jurassic Park”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. industry (industry): The Nightmare Before Christmas → Jurassic Park. Nightmare's first-ever animated VFX nomination lost to Jurassic Park.
    “It lost to Jurassic Park.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:22:47 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. people (people): Jurassic Park → Dennis Muren. Muren is named as one of the Jurassic Park effects Oscar winners that beat Nightmare.
    “the winners for that Oscar are Dennis Muir and Phil Tippett and Stan Winston.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:22:52 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. people (people): Jurassic Park → Phil Tippett. Tippett is named as one of the Jurassic Park effects Oscar winners that beat Nightmare.
    “the winners for that Oscar are Dennis Muir and Phil Tippett and Stan Winston.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:22:52 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. people (people): Jurassic Park → Stan Winston. Winston is named as one of the Jurassic Park effects Oscar winners that beat Nightmare.
    “the winners for that Oscar are Dennis Muir and Phil Tippett and Stan Winston.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:22:52 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. unmapped (technology showed it was possible): Jurassic Park → A.I. Artificial Intelligence. The speaker says Kubrick, who first asked Spielberg to build a robot, saw Jurassic Park and reconsidered.
    “And then he sees Jurassic Park and he's once again like, well, wait a second.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  28. craft (craft): Old Dogs → Jurassic Park. The zoo break-in sequence gives Jurassic Park vibes.
    “Getting kind of Jurassic Park vibes from this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:43:21 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  29. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection → Jurassic Park. Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs.
    “the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. theme (theme): Jeff Goldblum → Jurassic Park. The Han Solo model of a handsome second lead who never takes full charge also fits Goldblum in Jurassic Park.
    “Yeah, I think that Goldblum and Jurassic Park is like an underrated version of that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  31. what-if (what-if): F1 → Jurassic Park. A Spielberg F1 would be Jurassic Park with cars.
    “This is essentially Jurassic Park, but with cars”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:31:31 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. lineage (lineage): Twister → Jurassic Park. Twister is aesthetically closer to Jurassic Park than to superhero movies, prizing intelligence over strength and wonder over fixing things.
    “I think it's more aesthetically closer to like Jurassic Park.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. craft (craft): Twister → Jurassic Park. The drive-in tornado reveal is ranked alongside the T-Rex in Jurassic Park though not as iconic.
    “I think this one's up there in subways with like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:43:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. theme (theme): Twister → Jurassic Park. Jonas, who is in it for money not science, is the same corporate-greed character type as Jurassic Park.
    “Jurassic Park is the same way.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  35. industry (industry): Twister → Jurassic Park. Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous.
    “coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. contrast (franchise-contrast): Wes Anderson → Jurassic Park. Today's indie directors get drafted into franchises (Jurassic Park, Creed, Black Panther, Eternals); Anderson never would.
    “you get drafted into franchise filmmaking incredibly fast now.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:30:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)