Jurassic Park Collection [DVD]

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The lackluster reception to The Lost World didn't hit the brakes on the dino-franchise's momentum, but it did keep Spielberg -- and, for the most part, Crichton -- at arm's length from the third installment, Jurassic Park III.

Upon the arrival of yet another Goldblum one-liner after a pint-sized gymnast defeats a prehistoric predator, The Lost World loses its remaining clutch on integrity … and that's before Spielberg unabashedly lets a T-Rex loose on the populated mainland, resulting in a dopey cinematic mess of epic proportions.Easily my least favorite 4K transfer of the bunch, but the improvements in sharpness and film presence do outweigh the negatives. Jurassic Park is Steven Spielberg's 1993 adaptation of the 1990 Michael Crichton novel of the same name, in which a routine visit to a dinosaur park goes terribly wrong. Complimented by natural one-liner humor that eases tension, kid characters that aren't obnoxious, and a perspective on dinosaurs that never loses curiosity and amazement, Jurassic Park's concept is brought to life with the pinnacles of what Spielberg has to offer.

While holding onto a solid veil on film grain, the harshness of clarity -- often appearing boosted in the original Blu-ray, sporting garbled pixels and some edge halos -- has been corrected and enriched throughout, allowing the textures previously visible to have softer, more innate clarity and for a few underlying details, mostly in stone wall textures and dirt debris on clothing, to show off a bit that was previously concealed by the sharpness amplification. The film was a phenomenal box office success and a landmark in the development of computer-generated special effects. Even with a little bit of fading mainstream interest, that's why Jurassic Park ceases to become extinct, getting revived by Jurassic World a few years back after being on hiatus for about a decade and a half.

I was a Triceratops kid who binged "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs" until the VHS tape fell apart and endlessly played with Dino-Riders toys. Even though none of the films that followed have been able to match the awe generated by the original, each one attempts something innovative while trying to find a way to keep the franchise alive, to … uh, mixed successes and failures.