Jurassic Park – Collector's Edition (DTS)

Cast View all

	Sam Neill	Grant
	Laura Dern	Ellie
	Jeff Goldblum	Malcolm
	Richard Attenborough	Hammond
	Bob Peck	Muldoon
	Martin Ferrero	Gennaro
	B.D. Wong	Wu
	Joseph Mazzello	Tim
	Ariana Richards	Lex
	Samuel L. Jackson	Arnold
	Wayne Knight	Nedry
	Gerald R. Molen	Harding
	Miguel Sandoval	Rostagno
	Cameron Thor	Dodgson
	Christopher John Fields	Volunteer #1
	Whitby Hertford	Volunteer Boy
	Dean Cundey	Mate
	Jophery C. Brown	Worker in Raptor Pen
	Tom Mishler	Helicopter Pilot
	Greg Burson	Mr. D.N.A.
	Adrian Escober	Worker at Amber Mine
	Richard Kiley	Jurassic Park Tour Voice
	James Berlau	Bald Man
	Brad M. Bucklin	Lab Technician
	Laura Burnett	Archeologist

Crew View all

Director	Steven Spielberg
Writer	Michael Crichton, David Koepp
Producer	Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen, Lata Ryan, Steven Spielberg, Colin Wilson
Musician	John Williams
Photography	Dean Cundey

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Notes

Special Notes:
Also available in a Dolby Digital version: Catalog Number 20032.

Story Synopsis:
Based on the bestseller by Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park tells the story, both thrilling and terrifying, about genetically cloned dinosaurs that populate an island amusement park-and escape from their pens. The full-motion dinosaurs were created by Dennis Muren, ASC and the live-action ones by the talented Stan Winston with the special effects for the creatures by Michael Lantieri.

DVD Picture:
The anamorphically enhanced 1.85:1 DVD picture exhibits excellent quality, with sharp and detailed images, and nicely rendered fine background clarity and definition. Colors are well balanced, with accurate fleshtones, rich hues and deep, pure blacks. Occasional scenes are wanting in clarity, exhibiting minor color smearing. Contrast and shadow delineation are superb, with excellent visual information in the darker scenes. Edge enhancement is apparent, but is more noticeable in the earlier scenes, and some minor pixelization is apparent. These distractions mentioned do not make up a majority of the image quality, but their appearance-especially the edge enhancement-can be bothersome. Compared to the previously reviewed LaserDiscs (which still exhibit excellent quality for LaserDiscs-reviewed in Issues 11, 23, and 30), the picture exhibits improvements in sharpness and resolution. Though rated lower than the LaserDisc, it should be known that the DVD is preferred, visually. There are no noticeable differences between the two versions on DVD.


Soundtrack:
The Dolby® Digital 5.1-channel discrete soundtrack is the same as the previously issued Dolby Digital LaserDisc, except for a bit of attenuation in the low-end that could be due to having reconformed the DVD 5.1 audio for mixdown. The DTS audio has some differences compared to the corresponding LaserDisc version, in that the surrounds are slightly lower in level than on the LaserDisc (for which the necessary 3dB attenuation to each surround channel from the original theatrical levels for home theatre playback was not applied). Additionally, the low-end for the DTS on the DVD is considerably attenuated by comparison. As a result, the initial differences reported for the DTS and Dolby Digital LaserDiscs have narrowed considerably for the new DVDs, but upon close A/B comparative listening the DTS still gets the slight edge for refinements in low frequency resolution and spatial detail. The soundtracks are equally astonishing in dimensional acoustic reality, and in the delineation of sounds and their localization within the soundfield. You had better have subwoofers that can stand the dynamic pulses of extremely deep subharmonic and powerful bass, or you will be forced to turn the level way down below standard reference.


This Disc Contains The Following WSR-Rated Superb Qualities:
Collector Edition
Reference Quality
Superb Special Visual Effects Quality

DVD-ROM Enhancements Rating:
Disappointing

DVD-ROM Review:
Well, the only good part about this title is the DVD-ROM main menu. After installing and running the PCFriendly compatible components, you get to see this animated picture, which looks right out of the movie. Once here, there is only one link available: DVD Bonus Materials.
How disappointing. Once going to the DVD Bonus Materials section, you see that everything that is included is just links to the DVD Video material. Wondering if there was something I missed, I read the back cover to see there should be links for live Web events. Maybe the links for these events are Easter Eggs, because I certainly can not find them anywhere.
I guess I can tell you a little bit about what you can find here. The sections I enjoyed are The Making of Jurassic Park, the Early Pre-Production Meetings, and the Dinosaur Encyclopedia. Everything else I was really too upset to even think of going into, but I am sure everything is good in its own way. Ha.
Playing the movie from the PCFriendly software gives all Universal's normal advertising, and then goes to the opening credits.
All I can say is, hopefully The Lost World will not be as bad as this title is. (Danny Richelieu)

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