Jurassic Park came out in 1993. I was about five years old. I don't remember what age I was when I saw it but I'm sure it was very soon after it came out. My dad was always letting me watch "adult" movies. I don't mean the dirty kind! I mean, PG13 and R. I remember being scared out of my wits when I first watched The Ghost and the Darkness. I remember having nightmares about the two lions.
Jurassic Park was one of those movies where I understood the action scenes, but not much else. The action scenes were easy to understand. Dinosaurs chasing and eating people . . . what's not to understand?! But all of the other stuff, the grownups talking about DNA and making dinosaurs, I didn't understand a word of it! But I had learned not to ask questions during a movie so after several hundred viewings over several years, long after I had the entire dialogue memorized, I finally started to understand what was going on.
Because I don't have very many childhood memories, it's hard for me to imagine what it's like to be a kid. I have a hard time seeing the world through a child's eyes. So watching Jurassic Park with four kids was interesting. The entire time I wondered, do they understand all of the dialogue or is it all gibberish? All kids like dinosaur movies, even the scary ones. But it will probably be a few years before they say, so that's what all the fuss was about!
