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MLMay 2025

002. Park - Owen Grady/Zach Mitchell, Jurassic Park (Jurassic World) (1000 words)

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MLMay 2025

045. Slosh - Alan Grant/Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (100 words)

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MLMay 2024: 100 Slash Drabbles

010. Valley - Owen Grady/Zach Mitchell (Jurassic World Trilogy)

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My Favorite Movies Are Beautiful

2/∞: Jurassic Park (1993)

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A Documentary A Week in 2016 → WEEK 6 || PBS NOVA: Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond

PRODUCER: PBS YEAR: 1998 WATCH: PBS | Vimeo

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION: “Cinema and science collide when it comes to special effects. Originally aired in 1998, this NOVA episode examines the research and technology that goes into creating cinematic special effects that are both realistic and mind-blowing. The episode pays particular attention to James Cameron's blockbuster hit and his ability to bring the RMS Titanic back to life.” - TV Guide

MY TAKE: So, this is last week’s documentary rec because I was GOING to do another upsetting forensic BBC one, but I have been having a week where I’m just like, “I really don’t want to write about, and also gif, a dead kid?” so instead I am sharing another one of my Comfort Recs.

This is a nearly-20-year-old documentary about special effects.

Absolutely everything about it is out of date. Like, the computers that you see the animators working on are... enormously bulbous. It’s amazing.

But here’s the thing: it’s about Jurassic Park and Titanic (and Flubber, but no one cares about Flubber) and those are 2/3 of the like, six movies that I enjoy in this world, so OBVIOUSLY I LOVE THIS DOCUMENTARY.

But more than about special effects, it’s about the science of perception and visual interpretation of information and the communication between the eye and the brain. As a neurodivergent individual whose optical nerves don’t actually transmit light information correctly for processing, this is a super interesting documentary for me. It always makes me wonder things about my own perception versus “normal” visual perception -- it makes me wonder if, say, the reason I didn’t understand that Muppets weren’t real creatures until I was in my early teens wasn’t just because I’m sweetly gullible and like believing in things, but because I literally don’t see some kind of difference that other people do. I like this doc because it makes me think, even though I’ve seen it like, twenty times, and because it is about my A+ Fave Movies, Jurassic Park and Titanic and kind of the Wizard of Oz and some others. But mostly Titanic and Jurassic Park. BE STILL MY HEART, MID-90′s LEO DICAPRIO AND ALSO VELOCIRAPTORS.

REC?: Yes, but with caveats:

1) It IS almost 20 years old. It is out of date. If you are actually a designer or do animation, you will learn nothing outside of the physiology stuff and even that may be out of date.

2) DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU ARE PRONE TO DISASSOCIATION OR SUGGESTIVE DISASSOCIATION. The main focus of it is perception, filtered through using the movies/special effects, but the perception stuff even fucks me up a little bit and I DON’T disassociate. I don’t know enough about disassociation to say whether this is *triggering* but I also feel like I’d rather you be safe than sorry yk yk?

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Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park/World: Alignments

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