Makes 3D Sense

The total domestic gross for Titanic 3D was $57,884,114. I’m guessing that Jurassic Park 3D will be much more of a 3D gut-slam experience, will at least double the gross of James Cameron‘s converted epic. Steven Spielberg‘s 3D dino flick opens on Wednesday, 4.3. IMAX all-media screenings are happening a little more than a week prior.

A little less than 20 years ago or sometime around mid-May 1993, Anne Thompson (now with Indiewire, then with Entertainment Weekly) and I caught an early press screening of Jurassic Park on the Universal lot. We then drove over to the Warner Bros. lot to pay a visit to the set of Demolition Man and to say hello to producer Joel Silver. Sylvester Stallone and a fairly young Sandra Bullock were peforming a car-driving scene on a sound stage. I remember telling Silver that the last act of Jurassic Park was pretty damn scary and that the film was guaranteed to be huge.

The only problem I’m anticipating in seeing Jurassic Park 3D is having to endure several “Spielberg awe-face” or “Spielberg scared-face” close-ups from Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough and those two cute kids.

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  • http://nevermindpopfilm.blogspot.com/ Colin “Fitz” Biggs

    April is still pretty slow, this could do very well.

  • Eloi Wrath

    Jurassic Park is the Star Wars equivalent for guys my age. It came out when I was 9 and I was the first film I ever saw more than once in the theater. Probably ended up seeing more than a hundred times on video. Still one of the greats. Can’t wait to relive it again on the biggest possible screen.

  • http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

    Demolition Man was a surprisingly smart, fun movie for a Sly vehicle.

  • D.Z.

    That’s assuming people aren’t sick of 3D by now. I know that Menace’s piss-poor take-and subsequent cancellation of the rest of the films being converted to 3D-last year speaks more about how people hated it than the potential for future re-releases. And hopefully, Stevie will not cheapen out like George in the area of 3D presentation. But is it still relevant after other CG-fied flicks like Avatar and John Carter?

    Eloi: My Star Wars was either Back to the Future or Indiana Jones.

    Also, when the hell is the original Robocop gonna be converted to 3D, dammit?

    • D.Z.

      So I’m being voted down for requesting Robocop in 3D? :)

      • Raising_Kaned

        Possibly, although I think you’re mostly being voted down for being D.Z (he’s not really going to ask this every single thread, is he???).

        • Eloi Wrath

          I kind of like how the Disqus downvote is rapidly becoming the unspoken “Shut the fuck up, D.Z.”

  • Raising_Kaned

    I’m half-tempted to bring a ladder to my local multiplex after midnight and change the the “O” in Oz: The Great and Powerful to a “D,” take a picture, and use that as my new HE avatar.

    Or maybe he could use it himself since he doesn’t have one (I got five on it that it would have been some photoshopped-hentai with Akira and Totoro tentacle-raping Tarantino and Aronofsky at the almighty altar of Satoshi Kon).

  • disqus_1ubJsI1LAK

    I love the 3D debates. HOBBIT probably generated $500 mil by itself in 3D dollars and still people are grumping about this new-fangled tech that ain’t gonna pay off.

  • MarkVH

    Color me excited for this. I was 13 when the original came out and saw it four times in its first run (mostly at my small-town, single-screen theater). It was adolescent movie geek heaven. I recall watching it on DVD a few years back and remarking about it not holding up all that well – it doesn’t have a real ending, and sort of just stops. Still, should be fun to experience in a theater again.

    • Eloi Wrath

      I think the ending works – while they get the power back on, they can’t put the unstoppable force of nature back in the bottle, so they’re ultimately helpless and end up being saved by the T-Rex. Kinda fits in with the earlier discussion around the lunch table about the impossibility of controlling nature. An ending where they heroically round up the dinos in lassos and put them all back in their cages would have been quite a bit worse.