Huh. I thought it was '94.
But now that you mention it, I was 16 when I saw it, so it must have been '93, after all.
Lighten up, Francis. 
I am totally missing the JP reference though. I can’t even vaguely recall the scene you’re talking about. I suspect my problem may be too much age, rather than not enough.
Me too… I watched it the first week it came out and have seen it a few times over the years, and the Dodgson reference would have flown right over my head.
After all, it isn’t like it is Caddyshack or some classic like that (like Stripes).
That’s the fact, Jack.
Jurassic Park was smart enough to not draw attention to the many weaknesses of that period of CGI, and it’s also very notable that it used CGI pretty sparingly in general. While it’s seen by many as the movie that ushered in the CGI era (perhaps correctly), the cleverness of JP was that they used practical effects for most of the heavy lifting, and CGI was used to create make some otherwise impossible sequences really pop. Combine the two, and you get movie magic. Overdo the CGI, and you get something that looks like a cheesy videogame. Like half the movies that followed in the next ten years.
Me, too. And a lot of those dinosaurs were real effects, not CGI. I had no idea that the raptors in the kitchen were mainly guys in suits. We thought the whole thing was computers.
You’ll regret it, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
Independence Day was the same way. The White House explosion looked so good because they built a mini White House and actually packed it full of explosives.
*next twenty years. 
(and half is probably generous too, more like 90%) :smack:
Considering 30-40 years includes stuff like Star Wars, I find this less astonishing than I might otherwise.
Put it this way: He was catching more of the references than the high-school-aged assistants were.
Growing up in the '50s, I became aware of many references from the '30s and '40s through Bugs Bunny and other cartoons. Considering that the Simpsons and other cartoons have lots of cultural references, it’s not too surprising.
I had no idea that some of the kitchen-scene velociraptors were Men in Suits…!!!
Also, and apropos of nothing: It’s impossible to read “I won’t darken your doorsteps with my presence ever again” without a mental audio-clip of Groucho Marx saying
Go, and never darken my towels again!!
This made me laugh harder than the “before they kill Guy” reference 
Absolutely. We’re in the uncanny valley - not JP. You can’t tell me the dinsoaurs looked more fake than the beasts on Pandora.
I thought it was Technological Hierarchy for the Repression and Ultimate Subjugation of Humanity.* :dubious:
*No, I haven’t looked on the Web either.
Here’s looking at you, kid.
Having grown up in the '90s, I can say exactly the same thing. Early Cartoon Network was, for a while, old cartoons from the 1930s onwards on a 24/7 loop or close to it. After you see a few chickens gasp “Frankie!” before fainting, you begin to want to figure out who they’re referring to. Add to that getting basic cable with Comedy Central for MST3K and, later, digital satellite TV with TCM, and you can see a lot of where I come from. For people my age and younger, second-run movies have never been in seedy theaters in the bad part of town; they’ve always been right in my home.
And, of course, message boards and Facebook and so on, where they’ll see older kids and young adults discussing the Canon, which includes Pulp Fiction, Ghostbusters, The Shining, and most of the other more-quotable films, via image macros and other in-jokey methods, and Netflix is only a few rooms away for most of them. (The Pirate Bay also has a huge library.)
I find it interesting that a relatively minor character in a movie 20 years ago is still so memorable. At the same time, I agree, he was probably the most interesting character in the movie. I think we’ve all felt overworked, unappreciated, and underpaid at some point.
I’m trying to remember back. Not succeeding. Oh, well. When I saw it, the theater had a new (to me, at least) souped up sound system. I halfway remember it coming out with the movie, but wouldn’t bet money on it after this much time.
I remember seeing the sonic rings in the coffee cup on screen. You know the ones. The ones that were evidence that the T-Rex was walking up. And I swear I looked down and could see similar rings in my coke.
The CGI was great, I don’t deny that. But the sound from that movie reached inside you and rattled your bones.
Well, the most interesting human character, anyway.