Jurassic Park

How do you judge your favourite film? If it's purely in terms of re-watchability, visual enjoyment and fun, then nothing beats Jurassic Park for me. It's not the cleverest of films (although it does have some important things to say about how far man should go in repairing the damage he has done to the planet) and its main aim is to thrill and entertain, rather than provoke deep philosphical conversations, and the dialogue isn't Shakespeare and there are joyful continuity errors, but in terms of adventure and spectable I think there aren't many films which beat it.

And, to be fair, when you watch Jurassic Park III which has more action and more dinosaurs, and you realise that the third film isn't anything like as good as the first, you soon realise that the original does have far more going for it than pure visual specticle. Steven Speilberg isn't one of the most influential men in Hollywood for nothing. His ability to hook the audience and throw them into the world of jeapardy that the characters are going through is second-to-none. There are many imitators but when I think back to how I felt the first time I saw the jeep attack in Jurassic Park, only another Speilberg film such as Jaws or even Dual can come close.