Funny I'm watching Jurassic Park III right now on sundance tv. I like all three movies so if Jurassic World is better than 2 and 3 I will walk out a happy dude.
I remember seeing the first one in theaters when I was five. I saw them all in theaters when I was little but the image of seeing the T-Rex chasing the jeep and run through the big tree branch on the big screen is still in cased into my brain. Also seeing it it IMAX two years ago for the 20th anniversary was pretty emotional for me.
For the lost world after seeing it I stared at my wall all night, because I wondered if the T-Rex was going to crash its head through it. As a kid that T-Rex rampaging through san diego scene was life.
It's one thing I can't wait to do when I finally have kids is to share films like Jurassic Park with them and to tell them what it meant to me when I saw little. Heck there was a moment where I wanted to be a paleontologist because of Jurassic Park (until I realized that it was really filmmaking that I loved more than anything and wanted to do that) Nothing I've seen has swayed me from my excitement. I love the fact that the park is finally up and running in the films, I love the fact that these nutty scientists still haven't learned from their mistakes and have now made a monstrous hybrid abomination, and I love the fact that I get to see old friends in the T-rex and the raptors. Let's just say the five your old in me is still alive. And on a more selfish route, the fact that there's a Jurassic Park 4 makes me have much faith that I could get to direct one myself one day