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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/24 22:02:51
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:itt: two guys arguing about whos the better troll. Little do they realize, nobody cares.
You cared enough to reply?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/24 22:08:56
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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@ Corpses: Probably. I try my best not to, because I respect my fellow wargamers. Most other websites I go on with forums, no holds barred
@ Samus: I wanted to beat whoever ( iirc Ahtman) who ALWAYS posts ITT's
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/24 22:11:08
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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This is true, samus do you even play warhammer?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/24 22:19:17
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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wait, is this a different person that Samus_aran### ?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/24 22:19:55
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:wait, is this a different person that Samus_aran### ?
Yeah this is a new guy who signed up to troll us, the other one was awesome.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/24 22:21:55
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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corpsesarefun wrote:Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:wait, is this a different person that Samus_aran### ?
Yeah this is a new guy who signed up to troll us, the other one was awesome.
What do you mean was? Was he banned?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/24 22:24:47
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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corpsesarefun wrote:This is true, samus do you even play warhammer?
I played Dawn of War and Rites of War once. I also played Chaos Gate one time. I find the lore very fascinating. But never played it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/24 22:25:06
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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corpsesarefun wrote:Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:wait, is this a different person that Samus_aran### ?
Yeah this is a new guy who signed up to troll us, the other one was awesome.
Still is...Samus_aran115 posted something today.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/24 22:26:48
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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samusaran253 wrote:corpsesarefun wrote:This is true, samus do you even play warhammer?
I played Dawn of War and Rites of War once. I also played Chaos Gate one time. I find the lore very fascinating. But never played it.
Makes more sense.
Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:corpsesarefun wrote:Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:wait, is this a different person that Samus_aran### ?
Yeah this is a new guy who signed up to troll us, the other one was awesome.
What do you mean was? Was he banned?
Lord Scythican wrote:corpsesarefun wrote:Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:wait, is this a different person that Samus_aran### ?
Yeah this is a new guy who signed up to troll us, the other one was awesome.
Still is...Samus_aran115 posted something today.
Oh good  I haven't seen him post much recently.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 00:29:49
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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All of his posts are in Introductions, Video Games, and Off-Topic. He has nothing to do with wargaming.
His first thread was "I come to troll" which contained...
Your evil overlord, NoBaconz4You (Sacred Flea on Bungie.net) invited me to rip this place a new one with raunchy remarks and threads about crossdressing. So brace yourselves.
He is a child that is best ignored until he slips up and gets banned.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 03:05:02
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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In your base, ignoring your logic.
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samusaran253 wrote:corpsesarefun wrote:samusaran253 wrote:corpsesarefun wrote:You stated you were 34, apparently you then edited it to saying you are 18.
You really need to learn what a troll is.
lol 34 was a joke, I even said that because I was trying to make it look like I was nearly a 40 year old pedophile. But it was too obvious, so I decided against trolling.
You should go into comedy.
Oh you have no idea. Son, I'm one of the best trolls, you should see my work at Bungie.net.
You should see me in real life.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 03:35:35
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Karon wrote:All of his posts are in Introductions, Video Games, and Off-Topic. He has nothing to do with wargaming.
His first thread was "I come to troll" which contained...
Your evil overlord, NoBaconz4You (Sacred Flea on Bungie.net) invited me to rip this place a new one with raunchy remarks and threads about crossdressing. So brace yourselves.
He is a child that is best ignored until he slips up and gets banned.
That's not true. I've posted outside of off-topic, gaming, and intros. And "he's a child" are you a fething slowed? If you truly went through all of my posts, you would have known that I posted how old I am. Automatically Appended Next Post: halonachos wrote:samusaran253 wrote:corpsesarefun wrote:samusaran253 wrote:corpsesarefun wrote:You stated you were 34, apparently you then edited it to saying you are 18.
You really need to learn what a troll is.
lol 34 was a joke, I even said that because I was trying to make it look like I was nearly a 40 year old pedophile. But it was too obvious, so I decided against trolling.
You should go into comedy.
Oh you have no idea. Son, I'm one of the best trolls, you should see my work at Bungie.net.
You should see me in real life.
Are you so ugly that to be trolled, one must merely look at you?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 03:43:24
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Lord Commander in a Plush Chair
In your base, ignoring your logic.
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Wait, wait, wait, who the hell is NoBaconz4u?
And he apparantly invited some kid to turn dakka dakka into 4chan? I mean you could try but its like the tg section on 4chan, try harder.
Anyways, the new Jurassic Park videogame sucks, there's no guns.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 03:48:28
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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samusaran253 wrote:Wolfun wrote:Ah JPL. The number of times I've been banned from their for just speaking my mind...
I'll just buy the game, rather than bothering with them.
The moderators are VERY strict. But the head admin and founder is very lenient and nice. I thought he was going to ban me for making a post about music, but he didn't. It's just his underlings who don't put up with anything, including opinions. There are a lot of banned people who were banned for "having opinions that were wrong"
"Scott Borek" and "dodo kitty" come to mind. The moderators said they were trouble makers. They were members for 3 years and had thousands (well dodo kitty only had 600+) of posts, and then they just got banned.
Heh, that sounds like the Gears of War forums; I was there for 2000+ posts and the three (?) years of the first game, got banned the day after the second game came out because I said "There is no excuse for there to have NOT been a Beta on this...."
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 04:20:36
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Slarg232 wrote:samusaran253 wrote:Wolfun wrote:Ah JPL. The number of times I've been banned from their for just speaking my mind...
I'll just buy the game, rather than bothering with them.
The moderators are VERY strict. But the head admin and founder is very lenient and nice. I thought he was going to ban me for making a post about music, but he didn't. It's just his underlings who don't put up with anything, including opinions. There are a lot of banned people who were banned for "having opinions that were wrong"
"Scott Borek" and "dodo kitty" come to mind. The moderators said they were trouble makers. They were members for 3 years and had thousands (well dodo kitty only had 600+) of posts, and then they just got banned.
Heh, that sounds like the Gears of War forums; I was there for 2000+ posts and the three (?) years of the first game, got banned the day after the second game came out because I said "There is no excuse for there to have NOT been a Beta on this...."
Ouch! That's crazy. I'm a member of the Gears of War forums. Almost NOBODY posts there. Now I see why.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 04:28:34
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Lord Commander in a Plush Chair
In your base, ignoring your logic.
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Because Gears of War is a bad game and those posters whould feel bad?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 04:34:18
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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halonachos wrote:Because Gears of War is a bad game and those posters whould feel bad?
Epic also made other games. Unreal and Bulletstorm.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 05:01:02
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Lord Commander in a Plush Chair
In your base, ignoring your logic.
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samusaran253 wrote:halonachos wrote:Because Gears of War is a bad game and those posters whould feel bad?
Epic also made other games. Unreal and Bulletstorm.
I wonder how many 'epic' threads they had on those forums.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 13:32:29
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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Okay this might be a little long winded and appears as a Wall of Text, but it leads up to my favorite scene and why it was my favorite. I usually don't post stuff this long, but I really wanted to hammer out everything for this contest.
Here is my submission. Take a deep breath, relax and let me share my tale of a family of five and their unyielding perseverance to watch one of the greatest movies ever.
The tale begins with my mother. She had always been a fan of Michael Crichton and read every book Michael had ever written. At 9 years old she fell in love with his writing after reading The Andromeda Strain. However, according to her falling in love with the book and becoming a bookaholic was more like an “event” a mental change in her brain. The “event” felt like something out of a science fiction movie itself. Every time I hear her tell the story, I picture her on the ship the Event Horizon. Maybe it is because of how she says “event” like some sort of dark omen from space.
You see, at that time my mother was suffering from the Hong Kong Flu. It was near the winter school holidays in ‘69. She had been sent home from school at that time, the Hong Kong influenza virus was considered a category 2 flu pandemic and had already killed nearly a million people worldwide in that year and the year before. Fear was running rampant in her community and home. She was confined into her room, because she had family members who were over the age of 65. Her mother would take care of her as a mother should, but most of the family was too scared to come in and see her for fear of catching the virus. She was only to come out to go to the bathroom, but that did not stop her from sneaking out of her room late at night.
You see in 1969 children didn’t have video games, mp3 players, or even TVs in their rooms. If they were bored and confined to their room, it would feel like prison to them. If you were sick, you couldn’t really leave the house and play in the yard. Despite these limitations, my mother “wasn’t about to let some sickness from Hong Kong” completely ruin her Christmas break.
To cure her boredom and to help her take her mind off of being dreadfully sick, she snuck into the living room and became rather curious about a book her mother had read a few months before. She remembered her mother being very interested in the book. The book The Andromeda Strain proved to be one of her favorite books ever, however before she read it she did not consider herself a bookaholic. That didn’t come until after the “event”.
While reading the book, she felt strange. The fever made her head hurt something fierce. However the book helped with the pain. She became enthralled with the book and all worries seemed to have left her mind while she was reading. When recounting the story she claimed that reading the book while having the fever changed her brain. She felt like this was the reason why she had became a bookaholic.
To hear her describe the event, you would think aliens had implanted some sort of mental probe in the pages of Crichton’s novel to access her brain and rewire it. To me I feel like the book was a mental comfort to her, sort of the opposite of eating food right before getting sick. You know that the food didn’t make you sick, but you get a mental block and feel sick years later at the thought of the food you ate right before you got sick. To her the book alleviated her sickness and pain. It took her mind away from her current condition and made her mind focus on Dr. Hall and his attempts to stop the threat of the atomic detonation of a bomb to destroy the microbe Andromeda.
To this day, to hear my mother recount her ordeal is like reading something out of a science fiction novel. She honestly believes the book changed mind worked. I don’t try to disprove her, since it is nice to hear her tell the story, as crazy as it may sound.
Afterwards, she became a bookaholic and a science fiction fanatic. She read everything she could get her hands and after reading many of Crichton’s novels, she just knew they were going to be made into movies. In the 80’s I was always told that his books were really good and would one day be adapted into films and be successful in their own right. Other children my age were introduced to books like The Lord of the Rings, but not me. My mother shaped me into a science fiction fanatic from an early age.
She started me with Lost in Dinosaur World in 1988. Man that book was awesome. It had a audio tape to play while you read it. It was about some kid named Timothy McDunn getting lost in a Dinosaur park and being chased by a T-rex. I loved it at the time, but my mother wanted to me to move up and read bigger books. I made the jump from Lost in Dinosaur World to Sphere in 1988 when I was eight years old. There were a lot of big words in the book that I didn’t know, but she would tell me the meaning of anything I didn’t know if I asked. If I said it was too hard, she was set me straight with her “event” story. She said if she could read The Andromeda Strain at nine, surely I could read Sphere at eight.
So I forced myself to read the book. Honestly I really liked the book, but I really didn’t comprehend everything till a few years later. I guess the “event” didn’t happen to me, at least not the way it happened to my mother. I fell in love with science fiction books but I don’t think my brain was rewired by a fever.
Now fast forward two years and my mother had just finished reading Crichton’s newest novel. She claims it is better than Congo, Eaters of the Dead, and Sphere put together. She made me read the novel even though I had since become a science fiction movie nut. I was a Nintendo kid.
Everything was about the visuals to me. I liked to read, but I could watch 50 movies in the time that it would take to read one book. That didn’t stop me from reading though. I didn’t have a TV in my room and the internet wasn’t around at the time. Hey you had to do something when it was time to go to bed. Reading a book with a flashlight was about the only thing.
So after reading Jurassic Park, I honestly can say it was better than Total Recall, Robocop 2, and Predator 2 combined. I honestly thought it would be a way better movie than any of those. I couldn’t wait for someone with money to get a hold of Crichton’s book and feel the need to bring it to the big screen.
Fast forward three more years and we are finally to the day when my family and I were going to see Jurassic Park at our local drive-in theatre.
The “man” Steven Spielberg had finally done it. He had made Crichton’s novel into a movie. Somewhere that day, Michael Crichton was probably sitting at home neglecting his work in progress The Lost World because he was as happy as he was in 1969 when The Andromeda Strain hit The New York Times bestseller list. As happy as my mother was the same year, when she read the same book that helped her shoulder through the Hong Kong Flu. Jurassic Park was going to be one of the most thrilling movies ever and make millions.
Overjoyed, we prepared to go to the drive-in. We found ourselves sitting anxiously in our 1984 Chevy Cavalier over a mile away from the Drive-In theatre. My mother was arguing with my father and debating whether we should stay or leave. The line was backed up for the drive-in. It looked like everyone in town wanted to see this movie. We had stopped at Little Caesar’s for the “Pizza Pizza” deal, which were two large pepperoni pizzas for $10.00. My mother had a huge plastic bag filled with popcorn popped in a large kettle at the house before we left and several cans of TaB. My older brother had his Mountain Dew and Reese’s Cups. My younger sister had her Skittles and several cans of Sprite. The movie after Jurassic Park was Fire in the Sky. My parents always gave my sister caffeine free drinks so she wouldn’t be awake for the second movie which was scarier than the first. Father had a can of Café Vienna and a thermos of hot water. Myself? I had Mr. Pibb and few Hershey’s bars.
However by the time we pulled into the theatre to purchase out tickets, we discovered that the theatre was packed…packed to its maximum occupancy. We were right there! We could see over half the screen, but there was nowhere for us to park. The ticket booth closed down and the old lady told us we would have to try the next weekend. They said that because it sold out, there were going to run the same movies at least two weekends, which was something they rarely did. All the cars behind us turned around and drove back into town which was about ten miles away. We sat there on the verge of tears, especially my mother and I, the science nuts of the family as my father put it.
However, my father wasn’t about the leave without at least seeing if the movie was going to be worth a second trip the following weekend. He turned the car around and positioned it far from the fence that blocked the road that led into the theatre and the parking for the theatre itself. We could almost see the whole screen even at the odd angle. Every car had its own speaker next to it, so with all of them combined, we could hear the previews. We stayed for a little while and watched the opening scene with the Velociraptor.
I remember the bulldozer shoving the crate across the jungle floor towards the fenced area. Everyone was tense. The guards were trained on the crate and everything looked like a scene from a movie with a state prison. The prison was for something and if you watched the previews you knew what it was. “What is in the crate?” my younger sister asked. I knew what it was. I knew it was hungry and I knew soon, a worker was going to be dragged off into the jungle to be eaten. I kept it to myself. I didn’t want to ruin the movie for my family members that hadn’t read the book.
The door slide open and nobody moved. The grim faced man who was obviously in charge told people to push it in. However, when they started to prod the creature it growled and snapped at them. People moved back and looked scared. The man told them to not let it know they were afraid.
Soon the worker climbed on top of the crate, and stun rifles were put into it to make the creature get out. I remember clearly the roar the creature made and how it boomed through every speaker at the drive in. With the speakers rumbling you could almost feel the car shake. The man fell off and landed on the ground hard, alarms were going off, and a claw flashed out and slashed into the worker's leg. He was dragged into the crate screaming at the top of his lungs. Guns are fired and the grim-faced man tried to rescue the man. Seconds later the worker and the creature are gone…
With that scene complete, my father decided we were going to leave and come back with more candy and popcorn the next weekend. I was sad that we were leaving but I knew we would come back. We pulled away while hearing the boom of the movie through all the speakers. Down the road we found a nice state park to eat our pizza and candy. We went home afterwards and watched Stand by Me at our house. The look on my father’s face was one of determination The look in his eyes told me we would be first in line the next weekend and I was right.
So there you have it. My favorite moment during Jurassic Park was the first scene. It was very memorable for me because of everything that led up to it. While watching it I was filled with joy even when seeing only 3/4ths of the first scene and an odd angle. I knew right then and there the movie was going to be great. I knew it was worth the wait and I was glad my mother had made me read Sphere.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 15:47:00
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Lord Scythican wrote:Okay this might be a little long winded and appears as a Wall of Text, but it leads up to my favorite scene and why it was my favorite. I usually don't post stuff this long, but I really wanted to hammer out everything for this contest.
Here is my submission. Take a deep breath, relax and let me share my tale of a family of five and their unyielding perseverance to watch one of the greatest movies ever.
The tale begins with my mother. She had always been a fan of Michael Crichton and read every book Michael had ever written. At 9 years old she fell in love with his writing after reading The Andromeda Strain. However, according to her falling in love with the book and becoming a bookaholic was more like an “event” a mental change in her brain. The “event” felt like something out of a science fiction movie itself. Every time I hear her tell the story, I picture her on the ship the Event Horizon. Maybe it is because of how she says “event” like some sort of dark omen from space.
You see, at that time my mother was suffering from the Hong Kong Flu. It was near the winter school holidays in ‘69. She had been sent home from school at that time, the Hong Kong influenza virus was considered a category 2 flu pandemic and had already killed nearly a million people worldwide in that year and the year before. Fear was running rampant in her community and home. She was confined into her room, because she had family members who were over the age of 65. Her mother would take care of her as a mother should, but most of the family was too scared to come in and see her for fear of catching the virus. She was only to come out to go to the bathroom, but that did not stop her from sneaking out of her room late at night.
You see in 1969 children didn’t have video games, mp3 players, or even TVs in their rooms. If they were bored and confined to their room, it would feel like prison to them. If you were sick, you couldn’t really leave the house and play in the yard. Despite these limitations, my mother “wasn’t about to let some sickness from Hong Kong” completely ruin her Christmas break.
To cure her boredom and to help her take her mind off of being dreadfully sick, she snuck into the living room and became rather curious about a book her mother had read a few months before. She remembered her mother being very interested in the book. The book The Andromeda Strain proved to be one of her favorite books ever, however before she read it she did not consider herself a bookaholic. That didn’t come until after the “event”.
While reading the book, she felt strange. The fever made her head hurt something fierce. However the book helped with the pain. She became enthralled with the book and all worries seemed to have left her mind while she was reading. When recounting the story she claimed that reading the book while having the fever changed her brain. She felt like this was the reason why she had became a bookaholic.
To hear her describe the event, you would think aliens had implanted some sort of mental probe in the pages of Crichton’s novel to access her brain and rewire it. To me I feel like the book was a mental comfort to her, sort of the opposite of eating food right before getting sick. You know that the food didn’t make you sick, but you get a mental block and feel sick years later at the thought of the food you ate right before you got sick. To her the book alleviated her sickness and pain. It took her mind away from her current condition and made her mind focus on Dr. Hall and his attempts to stop the threat of the atomic detonation of a bomb to destroy the microbe Andromeda.
To this day, to hear my mother recount her ordeal is like reading something out of a science fiction novel. She honestly believes the book changed mind worked. I don’t try to disprove her, since it is nice to hear her tell the story, as crazy as it may sound.
Afterwards, she became a bookaholic and a science fiction fanatic. She read everything she could get her hands and after reading many of Crichton’s novels, she just knew they were going to be made into movies. In the 80’s I was always told that his books were really good and would one day be adapted into films and be successful in their own right. Other children my age were introduced to books like The Lord of the Rings, but not me. My mother shaped me into a science fiction fanatic from an early age.
She started me with Lost in Dinosaur World in 1988. Man that book was awesome. It had a audio tape to play while you read it. It was about some kid named Timothy McDunn getting lost in a Dinosaur park and being chased by a T-rex. I loved it at the time, but my mother wanted to me to move up and read bigger books. I made the jump from Lost in Dinosaur World to Sphere in 1988 when I was eight years old. There were a lot of big words in the book that I didn’t know, but she would tell me the meaning of anything I didn’t know if I asked. If I said it was too hard, she was set me straight with her “event” story. She said if she could read The Andromeda Strain at nine, surely I could read Sphere at eight.
So I forced myself to read the book. Honestly I really liked the book, but I really didn’t comprehend everything till a few years later. I guess the “event” didn’t happen to me, at least not the way it happened to my mother. I fell in love with science fiction books but I don’t think my brain was rewired by a fever.
Now fast forward two years and my mother had just finished reading Crichton’s newest novel. She claims it is better than Congo, Eaters of the Dead, and Sphere put together. She made me read the novel even though I had since become a science fiction movie nut. I was a Nintendo kid.
Everything was about the visuals to me. I liked to read, but I could watch 50 movies in the time that it would take to read one book. That didn’t stop me from reading though. I didn’t have a TV in my room and the internet wasn’t around at the time. Hey you had to do something when it was time to go to bed. Reading a book with a flashlight was about the only thing.
So after reading Jurassic Park, I honestly can say it was better than Total Recall, Robocop 2, and Predator 2 combined. I honestly thought it would be a way better movie than any of those. I couldn’t wait for someone with money to get a hold of Crichton’s book and feel the need to bring it to the big screen.
Fast forward three more years and we are finally to the day when my family and I were going to see Jurassic Park at our local drive-in theatre.
The “man” Steven Spielberg had finally done it. He had made Crichton’s novel into a movie. Somewhere that day, Michael Crichton was probably sitting at home neglecting his work in progress The Lost World because he was as happy as he was in 1969 when The Andromeda Strain hit The New York Times bestseller list. As happy as my mother was the same year, when she read the same book that helped her shoulder through the Hong Kong Flu. Jurassic Park was going to be one of the most thrilling movies ever and make millions.
Overjoyed, we prepared to go to the drive-in. We found ourselves sitting anxiously in our 1984 Chevy Cavalier over a mile away from the Drive-In theatre. My mother was arguing with my father and debating whether we should stay or leave. The line was backed up for the drive-in. It looked like everyone in town wanted to see this movie. We had stopped at Little Caesar’s for the “Pizza Pizza” deal, which were two large pepperoni pizzas for $10.00. My mother had a huge plastic bag filled with popcorn popped in a large kettle at the house before we left and several cans of TaB. My older brother had his Mountain Dew and Reese’s Cups. My younger sister had her Skittles and several cans of Sprite. The movie after Jurassic Park was Fire in the Sky. My parents always gave my sister caffeine free drinks so she wouldn’t be awake for the second movie which was scarier than the first. Father had a can of Café Vienna and a thermos of hot water. Myself? I had Mr. Pibb and few Hershey’s bars.
However by the time we pulled into the theatre to purchase out tickets, we discovered that the theatre was packed…packed to its maximum occupancy. We were right there! We could see over half the screen, but there was nowhere for us to park. The ticket booth closed down and the old lady told us we would have to try the next weekend. They said that because it sold out, there were going to run the same movies at least two weekends, which was something they rarely did. All the cars behind us turned around and drove back into town which was about ten miles away. We sat there on the verge of tears, especially my mother and I, the science nuts of the family as my father put it.
However, my father wasn’t about the leave without at least seeing if the movie was going to be worth a second trip the following weekend. He turned the car around and positioned it far from the fence that blocked the road that led into the theatre and the parking for the theatre itself. We could almost see the whole screen even at the odd angle. Every car had its own speaker next to it, so with all of them combined, we could hear the previews. We stayed for a little while and watched the opening scene with the Velociraptor.
I remember the bulldozer shoving the crate across the jungle floor towards the fenced area. Everyone was tense. The guards were trained on the crate and everything looked like a scene from a movie with a state prison. The prison was for something and if you watched the previews you knew what it was. “What is in the crate?” my younger sister asked. I knew what it was. I knew it was hungry and I knew soon, a worker was going to be dragged off into the jungle to be eaten. I kept it to myself. I didn’t want to ruin the movie for my family members that hadn’t read the book.
The door slide open and nobody moved. The grim faced man who was obviously in charge told people to push it in. However, when they started to prod the creature it growled and snapped at them. People moved back and looked scared. The man told them to not let it know they were afraid.
Soon the worker climbed on top of the crate, and stun rifles were put into it to make the creature get out. I remember clearly the roar the creature made and how it boomed through every speaker at the drive in. With the speakers rumbling you could almost feel the car shake. The man fell off and landed on the ground hard, alarms were going off, and a claw flashed out and slashed into the worker's leg. He was dragged into the crate screaming at the top of his lungs. Guns are fired and the grim-faced man tried to rescue the man. Seconds later the worker and the creature are gone…
With that scene complete, my father decided we were going to leave and come back with more candy and popcorn the next weekend. I was sad that we were leaving but I knew we would come back. We pulled away while hearing the boom of the movie through all the speakers. Down the road we found a nice state park to eat our pizza and candy. We went home afterwards and watched Stand by Me at our house. The look on my father’s face was one of determination The look in his eyes told me we would be first in line the next weekend and I was right.
So there you have it. My favorite moment during Jurassic Park was the first scene. It was very memorable for me because of everything that led up to it. While watching it I was filled with joy even when seeing only 3/4ths of the first scene and an odd angle. I knew right then and there the movie was going to be great. I knew it was worth the wait and I was glad my mother had made me read Sphere.
You'll win by the sheer fact that the contest judge won't want to read all of that.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 15:52:09
Subject: Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Veteran ORC
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halonachos wrote:samusaran253 wrote:halonachos wrote:Because Gears of War is a bad game and those posters whould feel bad?
Epic also made other games. Unreal and Bulletstorm.
I wonder how many 'epic' threads they had on those forums.
A fair few, actually.
And those of us who were there Before GoW2 was announced were pretty cool. We would get fluff talks going about what the Locust are, where they originally came from, all that jazz, not to mention the fact that we had discussions with MLG players who weren't full of themselves.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 15:53:41
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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I let my mom and dad read it last night. They are getting up there in their ages. It brought a few tears out for the fact that I was bringing up happy memories.
I hope the judge does read it though...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 16:36:11
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Cackling Chaos Conscript
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haha this post made me look thro my old sega games and i found Jurassic park mahahaha time to kick some dino butt
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/03/25 16:50:02
Subject: Re:Win a free copy of Jurassic Park: The Game
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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necrondude89 wrote:haha this post made me look thro my old sega games and i found Jurassic park mahahaha time to kick some dino butt
I loved that game! One of my friends had surround sound in his living room when it came out. What was cool about that game, was that is one one of the first to utilize all the speakers. When you were walking around in the game, you could hear where the raptors were by listening to the speakers!
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