Fuck yeah, on this day in history Jurassic Park was first screened, on the 9th June 1993, at the Uptown Theatre in Washington DC!
Jurassic Park is considered one of the greatest films of all time, and for very good reason. It's a story as old as time - a crazy rich guy who saw a flea circus is inspired and compelled to play God and spit in the face of nature, by enlisting morally ambiguous scientists to recreate dinosaurs, stitching their recovered DNA with frogs. He also gives them what is essentially diabetes to keep them in line, and what a lot of good that does.
After somebody gets eaten he decides to bring in some experts to test the safety of the park - two people who only know about dead dinosaurs, one of which specialises mostly in plants, and Jeff Goldblum. He also decides to invite his grand kids. Fuck it, why not, kids love dinosaurs.
But then Wayne Knight fucks everyone over by stealing some dinosaur embryos and hiding them in some shaving cream and dying. The dinosaurs escape and pose an immediate danger to the group still trapped on the island, of which only one person knows how to use a gun. He dies, but at least he outlived the lawyer and the computer nerd Samuel L Jackson.
Luckily though everybody mostly make it out okay, and the whole series of events are incredibly entertaining.
Yeah, it's pretty rad, my dudes.
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