Jurrasic Park an allegorical irony...

The original Jurrasic Park turns twenty years old this year and to commemorate the occasion it is being released in 3-D later this year. Last night I was invited to an advanced screening, which due to an agreement I signed I cannot actually get to specific about.  That said I think, being that the film is rather popular, I can talk generally about it enough to make my point. 

If you lived under a rock and have never seen the film, nor read the book the basic premise in a nutshell is man with oodles of money- think Richard Branson decides that since he has so much money, he is going to create a theme park with Dinosaurs as the main attraction.  This ends in disaster because even though he had enough money to buy an island, buy the technology, and pay the scientists and staff to make his dream a reality you can't buy success.

This is reiterated several times over by a young Jeff Goldbloom who talks about chaos theory.   In the film, chaos theory manifested in the electric fences failing and a ton of people getting murdered, maimed, & (the luckiest among them) post traumatic stress syndrome.  Park failed but the 1993 film succeeds.

In fact the film is so popular that it lead to this rerelease and the irony that unfolded.  Creator Steven Spielburg is another man with a lot of money who, unfortunately didn't learn the lesson that just because you have the money to bankroll Jurrasic Park doesn't mean you should follow through on it.  The 3-D is a new element to the movie so I don't know that I can go into details on that part (though hopefully they upgrade it before releasing.)  However I will tell you that everything about this movie is dated.  Watch the dvd or blu-ray and you will immediately notice all of the "state of the art" technology spoken about by the characters is laughably outdated now and while this was initially my biggest beef it soon takes a backseat to the outdated technology that was actually used to create the movie itself. 

Sadly, Jurrasic Park is very much a product of it's time and though the monetary benefits that loomed over it's resurrection seemed to be a good idea at the time, much like the dinosaurs in the film- it should have been left in the past.