I remember having been to the cinema for the first Jurassic Park movie. I remember how it rained and due to the dolby surround it really "rained" above us, and there were dinosaur noises behind us ;) Way cool. I seriously don't remember if I actually ever watched the other two on TV or not. Possibly at the time I thought it's all the same anyway. I should check when they air again.
I even took part in a competition where you could win one of those jeeps. I don't even drive... I won something indeed, a black t-shirt with the Jurassic Park logo. I still have it. I wore it to work once and my co-worker asked, if it was a park I had been to... *tumbleweeds*
I liked "Jurassic World"! I thought it was great fun. Obviously, it's not supposed to be taken serious. I liked especially the first half, when it was really an entertainment park, like Disneyland. Some great ideas there. And it looked all very real and believeable.
Have you seen this, btw.? Obviously, I had to join in ;)
http://dieastra.livejournal.com/144477.html
I guess Robinson Crusoe appealed to me for the same reason I liked MacGyver. Someone making something out of nothing with his own hands. I never was much interested in history in school, but I liked hearing about prehistoric men. How they would make their own tools from scratch. Since I like to build so many things from scratch. It's all about the idea and how to achieve what you want with the things you have available.
Of course, I had many favorite books, and I read and re-read them again and again. You would not know most of them though as they are German.
But yeah, there is something about survival stories. I like those movies as well. A group of people in peril, and how they work together, and often it's the most quiet guy who suddenly becomes a leader or has a good idea. I like that.
Chiwetel Eijofor is the main character in the movie - the guy that has been kidnapped and kept as a slave. So yeah, with him it all stands and falls. He got an Oscar nomination for it.
I don't do e-books, but thanks for the offer! I have no e-book reader. While I like to read, the kind of books I buy, I want to have in real. Mostly fandom books recently - the "Hollow Earth" series written by John Barrowman, Torchwood novels, and now Star Trek novels, actor biographies... that sort of thing. As with those I know I will read them more than once. I get the rest from the library.
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I seriously don't remember if I actually ever watched the other two on TV or not. Possibly at the time I thought it's all the same anyway. I should check when they air again.
I even took part in a competition where you could win one of those jeeps. I don't even drive... I won something indeed, a black t-shirt with the Jurassic Park logo. I still have it. I wore it to work once and my co-worker asked, if it was a park I had been to... *tumbleweeds*
I liked "Jurassic World"! I thought it was great fun. Obviously, it's not supposed to be taken serious. I liked especially the first half, when it was really an entertainment park, like Disneyland. Some great ideas there. And it looked all very real and believeable.
Have you seen this, btw.? Obviously, I had to join in ;)
http://dieastra.livejournal.com/144477.html
I guess Robinson Crusoe appealed to me for the same reason I liked MacGyver. Someone making something out of nothing with his own hands. I never was much interested in history in school, but I liked hearing about prehistoric men. How they would make their own tools from scratch. Since I like to build so many things from scratch. It's all about the idea and how to achieve what you want with the things you have available.
Of course, I had many favorite books, and I read and re-read them again and again. You would not know most of them though as they are German.
But yeah, there is something about survival stories. I like those movies as well. A group of people in peril, and how they work together, and often it's the most quiet guy who suddenly becomes a leader or has a good idea. I like that.
Chiwetel Eijofor is the main character in the movie - the guy that has been kidnapped and kept as a slave. So yeah, with him it all stands and falls. He got an Oscar nomination for it.
I don't do e-books, but thanks for the offer! I have no e-book reader. While I like to read, the kind of books I buy, I want to have in real. Mostly fandom books recently - the "Hollow Earth" series written by John Barrowman, Torchwood novels, and now Star Trek novels, actor biographies... that sort of thing. As with those I know I will read them more than once. I get the rest from the library.