JURASSIC PARK ATTACHE CASE WITH HOLOGRAM WATCH AND PAL VHS TAPE

It's Jurassic Park, what more can you say, Jeff Goldblum being himself and Dinosaurs!

After the changes made for the 3D version of Jurassic Park, I was very wary of what would be in store for me when getting the 4K UHD version. Thankfully, this looks nothing like that.The 2012 re-release made a bunch of digital alterations, removing various mistakes (things like visible wires, lighting equipment and somebody's hand) and changed the colour timing significantly to be overly warm, almost like it was tinted brown in places. While it'd be nice to have some of those digital fixes in, I'm much happier having the sky actually look blue! Flesh tones are natural, there's no colour wash across the entire frame, unlike what seemed to have been done with Jurassic Park 3D. High Dynamic Range brings a wonderful vibrancy to the jungles, colours do take on a slightly warmer feeling in places, but only where appropriate. The labs feel cold and clinical, faithfully representing the original filmed lighting.Make no mistake, this doesn't look like a film shot yesterday. And that's a good thing. Modern movies are awash in digital colour grading that makes everything look drab and the same. There was a legit concern that applying HDR to classic movies might result in that same feeling. Thankfully not! The colours are true to life and there's been only a light scrubbing away of grain.It's interesting revisiting films that used CGI back in the 90s, since it really does show how far the medium has come. Whilst the dinosaurs are still largely convincing (the main road attack is awe-inspiring), there's in-built limitations to that technology that show up more and more the better your display is.Computers back then couldn't represent the full range of colour, HDR was decades away. So, moments like the T. Rex jeep chase which deal with a lot of dark, shallow focus shots.. they tend to have a lot of colour banding if your eyes drift to where they shouldn't. The shadows look grey instead of properly dark, the background looks like the cutout filter in Photoshop. It'd all blur together so as to be unnoticeable on lower res releases, but in 4K, if you're sitting close, the colour contrast issues can sometimes be distracting. That said, there's probably less than 4 minutes of CGI in the whole film, and the shots go by so fast that you won't really notice unless you're actively looking for faults. The scenes are still full of suspense and the animations are great, it's just a pity that we've now passed the limit of how good Jurassic Park could possibly look without them actually going back and re-doing the shots.The soundtrack is practically flawless. Presented in thundering DTS:X, Jurassic Park has never sounded better than this remix. The roars are earth shaking, but even the minor details like the rain chattering on different surfaces or the breaths of the raptors stalking around are crystal clear and realistically positioned in around you. I have to ding it for not being 100% accurate though, I'm not a huge fan of studios dubbing in new sounds to old movies (with race exceptions). There's some distracting wheezy snarls in the kitchen scene that weren't there originally, and which feel like they should be further in the background instead of sounding so close. It's the one rough spot in an otherwise fantastic audio presentation.I'd say that die hard fans of the film should definitely pick this up, it's a marked improvement on the original blu ray, with quite pleasing picture and sound. The image quality is not so massive a leap as The Lost World's 4k release, but many scenes do benefit from the HDR, with closeups of the actors in particular looking great. I would honestly still recommend the old blu ray to most people though, the lower resolution "noisier" image actually seemed to camouflage some of the CGI seams and the special features are identical to what's included here (and they were all on one disc before).

Classic Jurassic. I only buy these to watch 3D effects. Movie good too.

For just shy of eight pounds, this is a truly brilliant release. Like many fans of the original Jurassic Park film, I've never been taken in too much with two sequels and so I held off purchasing the original 'Trilogy' pack, hoping that an individual release would arrive. This isn't to say that the latter films are unwatchable by any means, but I just wasn't prepared to pay more money for extra discs and 'Digital Copies' that don't really appeal to me.Alas, Universal have answered and right on cue too! As part of their 100th Anniversary celebration, they've just released a smattering of some classic films in a 'Augmented Reality' edition. Don't know what that means? You're not missing out on too much here - the snazzy title just refers to an iPhone/iPad app that enables the customer to see 3D models on their device by aiming the camera towards the Blu-ray slipcover. Utterly pointless after about 10-seconds, but never the less, it's nice to Universal making some kind of original effort.The product arrives with just one disc, which is the same one you'll find in the 'Trilogy' product for the first film. In demonstrating what good value this release is, I was really pleased to see that Universal had not only shot some brand new HD documentaries, but also, ported over a selection of the bonus features from the previous DVD releases. Excellent! And now you can ditch those copies without losing anything.How does this Blu-ray stand up to the DVD's? I went to see Jurassic Park at the cinema a couple of years ago when the restoration was completed, and I was blown away by its cleanliness. The Blu-ray uses that same master, and what you get is a picture that completely outperforms the original DVD's. Before I bought the Blu-ray, I was skeptical at how the film would be downsized for home release after reading many reviews, but in all honesty, I have no idea where some of the criticism has come from. Detail is exceptional. You can make out individual pores on the actors skin, individual grains of sand and see all the textures of the stunning sets in a way you've never seen before (even as far as to notice details that were otherwise missed). Yes the image is grainy - that is because grain is a natural product of photography, and Jurassic Park features a heck of a lot of computer compositing. As the saying goes, you can please some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time.And the sound? Wow. Once you watch the documentaries and see how the dinosaur calls were composed of many different animals, you won't listen to this film in the same way again. From the boom of the T-Rex's stomping to John William's beautiful score, you'll really feel like you're at the Park itself.Universal have done a fantastic job with this release and it perfectly celebrates not just the legacy of the film, but also that of the studio itself. Spielberg has had some truly groundbreaking visions, and Jurassic Park more than any other demonstrates what could be achieved when the actors, producers, 'ILM' and special effects team at Stan Winston's workshop (to which, great credit is due) pulled together to create the future style of a Hollywood blockbuster.