52 Reasons Why Jurassic Park Might Just Be the Greatest Film of all Time

41. E.Tyranosaur

Just look at him... No idea who made this, but isn't just the best and most horrifying thing you've ever seen? And this isn't bad either:

42. "Thank God for Site B."

I love The Lost World... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCuDqrpYQQE It's not as good as the original but you've gotta love the first sequel, made in 1997 and directed by Spielberg: more dinosaurs (amazing safari sequence), Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn, Pete Postlethwaite (as another awesome hunter), Peter Stormare and "Don't go into the long grass!" Some great John Williams music too, including a new theme that is the Jurassic Park equivalent of The Imperial March. I don't even mind when t-rex hits San Diego, though I can't quite work out how he killed every single person on that transport ship AND ended up back in the cargo hold. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb6Xk5p9MpQ Shame about the third one, which has no redeeming quality.

43. "I know my way around the kitchen!"

Attenborough's shifting accent... When we are first introduced to Attenborough's John Hammond - the man who went from capitalist to naturalist in five years (Ian Malcolm, 1997) - he is rummaging through Dr. Grant's mobile home opening his champagne. "Hey, we were saving that" fumes the palaeontologist. "For today, I guarantee it" comes the self-assured reply of the Santa-like Scottish entrepreneur. He just about manages to remember he's Scottish every other line, with Attenborough changing between his own clipped English and the accent from sentence to sentence, making for one of the film's funniest scenes.

44. "The building blocks of life!"

Who doesn't like LEGO? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx1lA1FNPJg I want a Jurassic Park 4 if only to encourage a LEGO Jurassic Park video game and an official range of LEGO merchandise.

45. "They remember."

Simple stories are the best... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGz7vz_zzVU As with all classic stories, Jurassic Park can be summarised fairly quickly as the above video demonstrates.
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