Jurassic Park Collection [DVD]

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Absolutely … but its new object-based strengths, presented here in stunning DTS-X heftiness, might not appear in ways one might imagine.

Naturally, the big boost here comes in high-definition clarity, bringing out elements in close-ups, in the digital textures of the dinosaurs' skin and the dense foliage of their surroundings.Director Steven Spielberg's Jurassic masterpiece is back in this Collector's Edition containing interviews and special behind-the-scenes footage. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There was a time when the DTS version of the Collector's Edition was a sought-after commodity, and I can attest to the potency of that audio track, as the T-Rex paddock sequence was frequently used as demo material for whatever stage that my early evolving home-theater was in at a given time. When I say "brand-new" dinosaur, I mean it: to accommodate for waning interest in regular-ole dinosaurs (a little bit of a meta wink there), the bioengineers have cooked up a bigger, scarier modified breed to attract new visitors … and investors.

Celebrate one of the biggest movie franchises of all time with the Jurassic Park Trilogy Collection!Dialogue never has any audibility issues, whether frightened tourists or equally frightened dinosaurs are swarming around or not, and the music rides carefully alongside the action-movie bluster powering the rest of the film, spliced together into a balanced yet vigorous track that stays true to the Jurassic Park brand. With Joe Johnson guiding the story into the territory of "let's not take this setting so damn seriously", Jurassic Park III becomes content with being this straight-up, dinosaur-fueled horror show, with a new type of genus to the series -- the Spinosaurus, a hearty competitor to the T-Rex in size and viciousness -- serving as its bloodthirsty killer. The Lost World attempts to one-up the original in both dinosaur action and themes, but struggles while away from the main island.

While it isn`t a masterpiece (we`ll leave that for some of my other favs, like American Beauty and Memento) it IS highly entertaining, gobsmacking fun, even when, like me, you have simply lost count of how many times you`ve seen it (although I think its somewhere in the 70`s! To coincide with the release of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Universal have bundled together the old, black-topped Blu-ray discs from the Ultimate Trilogy -- the non-3D discs -- with a series of new 4K UltraHD discs to form this 25th Anniversary Collection. The film was a phenomenal box office success and a landmark in the development of computer-generated special effects. There are stages of the visuals leading up to the more visually appealing elements in the cinematography: the opening nighttime scene transferring a dinosaur showcases the disc's contrast capabilities, while the next shot of a jungle excavation site wrangles with tricky tan and terra-cotta hues.Contrast levels are impeccable, with the series' signature nighttime scenes preserving a splendid degree of detail in the surrounding trees/bushes and animals lurking within. Cut to shifting undergrowth, and all channels fill with a foreboding rustle and crackle of breaking branches. The image quality is not so massive a leap as The Lost World's 4k release, but many scenes do benefit from the HDR, with closeups of the actors in particular looking great. The rasping breath of the dinosaur is accompanied by a throaty growl of the subwoofer: it's not an "in your face" moment but the LFE channel does a remarkable job of reinforcing the power of this huge creature. But for a modern release, this is simply not up to standard, and when there are better examples of the same movie out there.