(As previously stated on blog before, I dedicated these past weekends to watching these films!)
Jurassic Park (1993)
I never saw this film from start to finish, only in bits and pieces, but I finally saw it all from beginning to end and it was quite fascinating! The thing that amazes me would be the close portrayal of dinosaurs phisical wise. I found it quite hysterical though, to see a dinosaur be capable of opening a door without being trained! It begins with a older man with hopes to open a park on an island dedicated to real life dinosaurs. He managed to put together a team and have this team of scientists recreate dinosaurs using dna. While I was wathcing the movie I thought it would be quite cool to recreate a dinosaur (or not.) I theme I continuously saw throughout the movie was people being put into situations where they can only pretect themselves with what is around them. Also team effort of course. For its time, this movie was done well in the sense that they used models of dinosaurs making them look like the real thing and having the actors react more genuinely when coming across a dinosaur which I thought was pretty cool.
Nightmare before Christmas (1993)
I have always loved this movie and decided to use this movie for my viewing blog. I wasn't completely sure on whether or not this falls under science fictions but it does! This movie was created by using dolls out of clay and having a frame by frame type of filming. I marvel at how people on set where able to be so patient to movie the clay dolls little by little just to get the character wave. People on set had to move one doll 24 times just to create one second of the movie! This movie consists of Jack, the main character who lives in a town dedicated all year round to Halloween. He loves his town, but he begins to wonder if that is all there is for him; Halloween year after year. One can relate to Jack simply because he begins to analyze his life asking himself "is this it? will this be it for the rest of my life?" We can all at one point or another relate to his thinking but in the end he realizes that it is himself that determines what his life will consist of, not life by itself.
Monsters Inc. (2001)
I again was a little stunned to see this movie that I had seen TOO many times when I was young, to be part of science fiction (fantasy of course.) Monsters Inc. is about a fictional world full of monsters who need the screams of children to be able to power for electricity. Sounds a little creepy actually! The main characters, Mike and Sully are monters who work for a power company. Mike is Sulley's friend who makes sure the door he is about to walk into is in top shape. While Sulley is the one who goes through the door and scares the children for power. The monsters have been taught over many years that if a monster comes into contact with a child, they will die because "a single touch could kill you." Monsters have been lead to believe that children are poisonous but guess who comes on contact with one;Sulley. One night a little girl escapes from her world and goes into the world of monsters. She is holding onto Sulleys back while he walks around the power facility. Once he notices he jumps and is worried he may have been poisened. He puts her in a big duffel bag, not knowing what to do with her so he panics and takes her to his house where Mike also lives. The two debate on how they will put her back into her world without their government seeing them carry a human child around. I think the thing being taught her is that you shouldn't fear everything you are told too. Not everything people tell you is dangerous actually is. Mike and Sulley grew attatched to the little girl but sadly by law, had to put her back into her room in her world.
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