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Every film I have ever seen in theatres


Dennis Reynolds

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I was making this list for another site since I want to keep track from now on, and as I've done before I thought I might as well post it here too sia2 This list is constructed just from memory really, so there may be a couple of mistakes, and they are ordered by U.S./Canadian release dates rather than the order that I saw them (which would be pretty much impossible to recall).

 

1996 (birth year):

 

n/a

 

1997:

 

n/a

 

1998:

 

Antz

 

1999:

 

Tarzan
Pokemon: The First Movie
Toy Story 2

 

2000:

 

Dinosaur

 

2001:

 

Pokemon 3
Monsters, Inc.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

 

2002:

 

Spider-Man
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Scooby-Doo
Lilo & Stitch
Men in Black II
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Treasure Planet
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

 

2003:

 

Finding Nemo

 

2004:

 

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Shrek 2
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Spider-Man 2
Shark Tale
The Incredibles
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
A Series of Unfortunate Events
 

2005:

 

Robots
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Fantastic Four
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
King Kong
Hoodwinked!

 

2006:

 

Cars
Over the Hedge
X-Men: The Last Stand
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Deck the Halls
Rocky Balboa

 

2007:

 

TMNT
Spider-Man 3
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Simpsons Movie
Bee Movie
National Treasure: Book of Secrets

 

2008:

 

Iron Man
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Dark Knight
Igor

 

2009:

 

Watchmen
Monsters vs. Aliens
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Avatar

 

2010:

 

Toy Story 3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

 

2011:

 

Cars 2
Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Part 2
Hugo

 

2012:

 

John Carter

 

2013:

 

Oz the Great and Powerful
Pacific Rim

 

2014:

 

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Godzilla
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Guardians of the Galaxy
Gone Girl
Dracula Untold

 

2015:

 

Jupiter Ascending
Mad Max: Fury Road
Ant-Man
The Martian
Crimson Peak
Jem and the Holograms
Spectre
Brooklyn
Krampus
The Hateful Eight
Daddy's Home
Sisters
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

 

2016:

 

Deadpool
The VVitch
Zootopia
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Captain America: Civil War
X-Men: Apocalypse
Independence Day: Resurgence
Ghostbusters
Suicide Squad
Arrival
Bridget Jones's Baby
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Trolls
Doctor Strange
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

 

2017:

 

Split
Logan
Kong: Skull Island
Beauty and the Beast
Power Rangers
The Circle
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Snatched
Alien: Covenant
Wonder Woman
The Mummy
Baby Driver
Spider-Man: Homecoming
War for the Planet of the Apes
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Dunkirk
Atomic Blonde
It
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Blade Runner 2049
Thor: Ragnarok
Murder on the Orient Express
Justice League
The Greatest Showman
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

 

2018

 

Black Panther
Annihilation
The Strangers: Prey at Night
Pacific Rim: Uprising
Ready Player One
A Quiet Place
Rampage
Avengers: Infinity War
Deadpool 2
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Incredibles 2
Tag
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Skyscraper
Mission: Impossible - Fallout 
The Meg
The Happytime Murders
The Predator
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Venom
A Star Is Born
First Man
Bad Times at the El Royale
Halloween
Bohemian Rhapsody
Overlord
The Grinch
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Creed II
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Aquaman
Bumblebee

 

2019

 

Glass
Happy Death Day 2U
Alita: Battle Angel
Captain Marvel
Shazam!
Avengers: Endgame
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Brightburn
Aladdin
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dark Phoenix
Men in Black: International
Toy Story 4
Child's Play
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Crawl
Stuber
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Good Boys
It: Chapter Two
Joker
The Addams Family
Zombieland: Double Tap
Terminator: Dark Fate
Ford v Ferrari
Knives Out
Jumanji: The Next Level
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

 

2020

 

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Sonic the Hedgehog
The Invisible Man
Onward

 

2021

 

The Green Knight
The Suicide Squad
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
No Time to Die
Dune
Last Night in Soho
Eternals
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Licorice Pizza
West Side Story
Nightmare Alley
Spider-Man: No Way Home

 

2022

 

Scream
The Batman
The Northman
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Top Gun: Maverick
Jurassic World Dominion
Lightyear
Elvis
Thor: Love and Thunder
Nope
Clerks III
Barbarian
Women Talking
Black Adam
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Fabelmans
Avatar: The Way of Water

 

2023

 

M3GAN
Infinity Pool
Knock at the Cabin
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Cocaine Bear
Creed III
65
Scream VI
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
John Wick: Chapter 4
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Renfield
Evil Dead Rise
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Boogeyman
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
The Flash
The Blackening
Asteroid City
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Barbie 
Oppenheimer
Talk to Me
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Blue Beetle
Strays
Bottoms
It Lives Inside
The Creator
The Exorcist: Believer
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
Killers of the Flower Moon
Priscilla
The Holdovers
The Marvels
May December
Thanksgiving
Saltburn
Wish
Godzilla Minus One
The Boy and the Heron
Wonka
Poor Things
American Fiction
The Zone of Interest
The Iron Claw
Anyone But You
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Ferrari
The Color Purple

 

2024

 

Mean Girls
I.S.S.
Fitting In
Lisa Frankenstein
Madame Web
Drive-Away Dolls
Dune: Part Two
Love Lies Bleeding
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire


Revival screenings

 

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Halloween (1978)
Labyrinth (1986)
Scrooged (1988)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
True Romance (1993)
Avatar (2009)

 

 

 

 

 


 


 

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8 minutes ago, Saiga said:

I guess 2012 wasn't your theatres year moo1 

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened there rip2 I think I was probably just trying to catch up on films in general that year so brand-new ones weren't as much of a priority. At least I gave my money to a gargantuan flop that desperately needed it moo1 

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Just now, Dennis Reynolds said:

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened there rip2 I think I was probably just trying to catch up on films in general that year no brand-new ones weren't as much of a priority. At least I gave my money to a gargantuan flop that desperately needed it moo1 

You should've seen the Hunger Games. moo1 It's not anything goundbreaking but it's nice to watch. I remember I didn't see it that year because in the cover said "From the director of Jigsaw" and I was like "bye at that shitfest of series" jj1 

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13 minutes ago, Saiga said:

You should've seen the Hunger Games. moo1 It's not anything goundbreaking but it's nice to watch. I remember I didn't see it that year because in the cover said "From the director of Jigsaw" and I was like "bye at that shitfest of series" jj1 

I did see the first one later when it came out on DVD/Blu-ray, I thought it was OK, even if it didn't really get started until like an hour in as I recall. I haven't seen any of the sequels though.

15 minutes ago, Saiga said:

btw is rogue one worth watching? I don't really know much about Star Wars..

I thought it was pretty good, although I'd say it has the weakest set of main characters in any Star Wars movie. Have you seen any of them? One of the things about it that wasn't too much of a problem but still kinda bugged me about it was that these little fanservice scenes - it was like "Hey, here's a character you all recognize!", and it'd just stop the movie for like 20 seconds. I loved how they handled Darth Vader though.

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1 hour ago, Dennis Reynolds said:

I did see the first one later when it came out on DVD/Blu-ray, I thought it was OK, even if it didn't really get started until like an hour in as I recall. I haven't seen any of the sequels though.

1 hour ago, Saiga said:

Catching Fire is pretty good and honestly better than the first one, but it has a loooow path. Mockingjay is bullshit turned into a movie.

 

1 hour ago, Dennis Reynolds said:

I thought it was pretty good, although I'd say it has the weakest set of main characters in any Star Wars movie. Have you seen any of them? One of the things about it that wasn't too much of a problem but still kinda bugged me about it was that these little fanservice scenes - it was like "Hey, here's a character you all recognize!", and it'd just stop the movie for like 20 seconds. I loved how they handled Darth Vader though.

I see moo1 I've just seen the first movie with more attention but that's it! I guess I'll see it with my dad one day. rip4 

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9 minutes ago, Saiga said:

Catching Fire is pretty good and honestly better than the first one, but it has a loooow path. Mockingjay is bullshit turned into a movie.

 

I see moo1 I've just seen the first movie with more attention but that's it! I guess I'll see it with my dad one day. rip4 

Yeah if you've seen the first one (as in the 1977 movie), you should get Rogue One just fine. It takes place just days before the events of that movie so it works well enough as a companion piece. 

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Honestly I can't remember every movie I've seen in theatres. I used to watch them often because of a $5 movie day, but now I don't have the time or patience. I'd rather just wait a few months. My school would also play new releases a month after they're released. I starred those.

Off the top of my head, there's more but I honestly can't keep track.

 

Amityville Horror

Django Unchained

Star Trek 

Star Trek : Into The Darkness

Star Trek : Beyond

Spiderman 2

Harry Potter 7 Part II (Can't remember if I watched the others, they play so often on TV, I honestly don't remember where I watched the others)

Avengers 1 & 2

Captain America : Civil War

*Moonlight

I Am Not Your Negro

*Star Wars

The Incredible Hulk (2008)  ($5 movie)

The Simpsons Movie

Guardians of The Galaxy 1 & 2

The Conjuring

Hellboy 2   ($5 movie)

Over The Hedge ($5 movie)

* Gone Girl

* Wanted

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shock1 Prolific (except for 2003 and 2012 eve1)

You've probably seen more films in the last few years than I have in my lifetime rip1 

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On 4/7/2018 at 9:12 PM, Music Meister said:

How do u even remember watching Antz at 2 yrs old? lol

I cant remember anything I seen prior to like 15 ish

I remember lots of movies I watched at 5-6 yrs old. I guess depends on the person. aretha1

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On 10/8/2017 at 6:18 PM, Not Dennis Reynolds said:

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened there rip2 I think I was probably just trying to catch up on films in general that year so brand-new ones weren't as much of a priority. At least I gave my money to a gargantuan flop that desperately needed it moo1 

Was John Carter good? I have the books but haven’t read them yet. Once I do that, I’ll probably watch the film

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19 minutes ago, Hylia said:

Was John Carter good? I have the books but haven’t read them yet. Once I do that, I’ll probably watch the film

It's pretty good, yea. It's not the best paced movie you're ever gonna see, but there's some fun stuff.

 

The books are very important to sci-fi adventure fiction and have some appeal, but it's also hard to overlook the racism rip2 Carter himself is written to have once been a Confederate soldier, for one thing, and in the first book there's one line about how Carter was so well liked that "even the slaves fairly worshipped the ground on which he trod" or something like that dead2 

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1 minute ago, Not Dennis Reynolds said:

It's pretty good, yea. It's not the best paced movie you're ever gonna see, but there's some fun stuff.

 

The books are very important to sci-fi adventure fiction and have some appeal, but it's also hard to overlook the racism rip2 Carter himself is written to have once been a Confederate soldier, for one thing, and in the first book there's one line about how Carter was so well liked that "even the slaves fairly worshipped the ground on which he trod" or something like that dead2 

Oh wow rip3 though considering the time period they came out in, I guess I can’t be too shocked by that. I’ve narrowed it down to reading either those next, or American Gods. 

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15 minutes ago, Hylia said:

Oh wow rip3 though considering the time period they came out in, I guess I can’t be too shocked by that. I’ve narrowed it down to reading either those next, or American Gods. 

A friend of mine likes the show American Gods, but I've neither seen it nor read the books.

 

You might be interested to know of the book Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, which came out before A Princess of Mars and is very, very similar, with a military man magically traveling to Mars and meeting a Martian princess. And of course, it's also pretty racist rip2 

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1 hour ago, Not Dennis Reynolds said:

A friend of mine likes the show American Gods, but I've neither seen it nor read the books.

 

You might be interested to know of the book Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, which came out before A Princess of Mars and is very, very similar, with a military man magically traveling to Mars and meeting a Martian princess. And of course, it's also pretty racist rip2 

I haven’t seen the show either, but I own the first season so I wanna get into it. Plus, it’s Neil Gaiman, and I love Coraline, so I have high expectations. Not to mention his friendship with Tori Amos and the way they reference each other in their works so much.

 

I’ll have to check into that. It’s amazing how such a colorful genre has had so many authors who have been so close minded. But I suppose they were a product of their time. sia3

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24 minutes ago, Hylia said:

I haven’t seen the show either, but I own the first season so I wanna get into it. Plus, it’s Neil Gaiman, and I love Coraline, so I have high expectations. Not to mention his friendship with Tori Amos and the way they reference each other in their works so much.

 

I’ll have to check into that. It’s amazing how such a colorful genre has had so many authors who have been so close minded. But I suppose they were a product of their time. sia3

I like Neil Gaiman, particularly the film Coraline, Sandman is good too. I didn't know they were friends.

 

Yeah, in LGJ there's basically two races, the Thither people and the Hither people, one being a race of quivering light-skinned wimps and the other a violent dark-skinned race. 

 

H.P. Lovecraft was also extremely racist as I recall, although unlike many authors that didn't tend to be apparent in his main works too much (although he definitely wrote some awful letters and poems that demonstrated these views), at least to my recollection. But then again he tended to write about totally inhuman alien gods and monsters, so there wasn't much opportunity to make a fantasy race an obvious allegory for black people or anything like that...

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21 minutes ago, Not Dennis Reynolds said:

I like Neil Gaiman, particularly the film Coraline, Sandman is good too. I didn't know they were friends.

 

Yeah, in LGJ there's basically two races, the Thither people and the Hither people, one being a race of quivering light-skinned wimps and the other a violent dark-skinned race. 

 

H.P. Lovecraft was also extremely racist as I recall, although unlike many authors that didn't tend to be apparent in his main works too much (although he definitely wrote some awful letters and poems that demonstrated these views), at least to my recollection. But then again he tended to write about totally inhuman alien gods and monsters, so there wasn't much opportunity to make a fantasy race an obvious allegory for black people or anything like that...

It was thought the character Delirium was based on Tori, though her creation actually pre-dates the two of them first meeting. They do bare a similar appearance though.

 

That does sound pretty… shady. It also somewhat reminds me of the two races of humans in The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, but I have yet to read it so it’s possible the similarities end there. 

 

It’s a shame some of these visionaries had these views. Especially because Cthulhu is such a sci-fi staple. That reminds me of how the author of Ender’s Game received backlash for his homophobic views to the point where the cast of the movie adaption had to say themselves that they don’t support said views.

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24 minutes ago, Hylia said:

It was thought the character Delirium was based on Tori, though her creation actually pre-dates the two of them first meeting. They do bare a similar appearance though.

 

That does sound pretty… shady. It also somewhat reminds me of the two races of humans in The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, but I have yet to read it so it’s possible the similarities end there. 

 

It’s a shame some of these visionaries had these views. Especially because Cthulhu is such a sci-fi staple. That reminds me of how the author of Ender’s Game received backlash for his homophobic views to the point where the cast of the movie adaption had to say themselves that they don’t support said views.

Superficially, yeah, there is a similarity between the two races in both of those books, with one being very lazy and the other being savage, but I think with Wells it wasn't so much a race thing as it was a class thing. The Eloi are basically the elite, who don't have to do or work for anything, and the Morlocks are the underground race who do all the work for the Eloi, but they also devour them. I don't quite exactly recall Wells' physical descriptions of both races, but I don't think it was as egregious as Gullivar Jones. I think they're both sort of light-skinned, flaxen-haired beings, with the Morlocks being more outright albino and uglier.

 

Yeah, I love a lot of the Cthulhu stuff, but Lovecraft was awfully racist even by the standards of his time, especially towards black and Jewish people. And yeah, Orson Scott Card is also astoundingly homophobic. Have you read Ender's Game? What's particularly weird about Card's views on gay people is that Ender is portrayed as a "Third" (in a society where only two children are allowed) and is bullied for it a lot, and we're obviously supposed to empathize with him, and it's not a huge stretch to draw a connection between Ender's experiences and that of a young LGBT person. 

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2 minutes ago, Not Dennis Reynolds said:

Superficially, yeah, there is a similarity between the two races in both of those books, with one being very lazy and the other being savage, but I think with Wells it wasn't so much a race thing as it was a class thing. The Eloi are basically the elite, who don't have to do or work for anything, and the Morlocks are the underground race who do all the work for the Eloi, but they also devour them. I don't quite exactly recall Wells' physical descriptions of both races, but I don't think it was as egregious as Gullivar Jones. I think they're both sort of light-skinned, flaxen-haired beings, with the Morlocks being more outright albino and uglier.

 

Yeah, I love a lot of the Cthulhu stuff, but Lovecraft was awfully racist even by the standards of his time, especially towards black and Jewish people. And yeah, Orson Scott Card is also astoundingly homophobic. Have you read Ender's Game? What's particularly weird about Card's views on gay people is that Ender is portrayed as a "Third" (in a society where only two children are allowed) and is bullied for it a lot, and we're obviously supposed to empathize with him, and it's not a huge stretch to draw a connection between Ender's experiences and that of a young LGBT person. 

I recently purchased The Time Machine, so I’ll read it eventually. I have a bad habit of buying books and forgetting to read them, and I’m wanting to stop doing that and get caught back up.

 

I haven’t read it, but that’s pretty strange. Surely he had to realize people would recognize the connection? Unless he was just that blindsided by his own views. It’s like when I watched Tyra interview one of the leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church and her daughters, and they said they enjoyed watching America’s Next Top Model. I just can’t fathom how these people think. orangu1 

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6 minutes ago, Hylia said:

I recently purchased The Time Machine, so I’ll read it eventually. I have a bad habit of buying books and forgetting to read them, and I’m wanting to stop doing that and get caught back up.

 

I haven’t read it, but that’s pretty strange. Surely he had to realize people would recognize the connection? Unless he was just that blindsided by his own views. It’s like when I watched Tyra interview one of the leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church and her daughters, and they said they enjoyed watching America’s Next Top Model. I just can’t fathom how these people think. orangu1 

It's a good book. From Wells I also really like The Sleeper Awakes, about a man who falls into a coma for about two hundred years and wakes up to find that due to compound interest, he's the wealthiest man on Earth and much of his money has been used to transform the world into a dystopia.

 

I don't own that many books, mostly because my mom was a librarian for about a decade and I could just order whatever I wanted through the province's system, but with the books I have bought I'm sometimes the same way. I was reading The Fountainhead earlier this year and kinda fell off of it, not that I didn't like it (although Rand definitely has some glaring weaknesses as a writer), and I bought Jurassic Park a couple months ago but still haven't read it. Supposedly it's pretty different from the movie.

 

Yeah, I don't get it either. Selective empathy, I suppose. Odd to demonstrate such thoughtfulness in that book and yet be hateful to many people who would identify with what he wrote for legitimate reasons.

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20 minutes ago, Not Dennis Reynolds said:

It's a good book. From Wells I also really like The Sleeper Awakes, about a man who falls into a coma for about two hundred years and wakes up to find that due to compound interest, he's the wealthiest man on Earth and much of his money has been used to transform the world into a dystopia.

 

I don't own that many books, mostly because my mom was a librarian for about a decade and I could just order whatever I wanted through the province's system, but with the books I have bought I'm sometimes the same way. I was reading The Fountainhead earlier this year and kinda fell off of it, not that I didn't like it (although Rand definitely has some glaring weaknesses as a writer), and I bought Jurassic Park a couple months ago but still haven't read it. Supposedly it's pretty different from the movie.

 

Yeah, I don't get it either. Selective empathy, I suppose. Odd to demonstrate such thoughtfulness in that book and yet be hateful to many people who would identify with what he wrote for legitimate reasons.

That sounds like a good one, I’ll have to look into it.

 

Game of Thrones is what really spearheaded my getting back into reading. I haven’t read Jurassic Park, but I’ve read Michael Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead and seen the film based on it, The 13th Warrior. I also just recently finished the first season of Westworld, based on his film from the 80s, and really enjoyed it. I’m eager to watch season 2, but I don’t have HBO so I have to wait until December for the DVD release.

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13 minutes ago, Hylia said:

That sounds like a good one, I’ll have to look into it.

 

Game of Thrones is what really spearheaded my getting back into reading. I haven’t read Jurassic Park, but I’ve read Michael Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead and seen the film based on it, The 13th Warrior. I also just recently finished the first season of Westworld, based on his film from the 80s, and really enjoyed it. I’m eager to watch season 2, but I don’t have HBO so I have to wait until December for the DVD release.

I haven't read any of Crichton's novels, actually (although I also own Prey), although I have seen many films he was involved with, meaning based directly on one of his novels or his original screenplay, so not counting some Jurassic sequels or Futureworld:

 

The Andromeda Strain 

Westworld

Runaway

Jurassic Park

Congo

Twister

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Sphere

Timeline

 

I'd also be interested in reading the novels Congo and Sphere, of which the film adaptations were sort of maligned but I still like them. What did you think of The 13th Warrior?

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2 minutes ago, Not Dennis Reynolds said:

I haven't read any of Crichton's novels, actually (although I also own Prey), although I have seen many films he was involved with, meaning based directly on one of his novels or his original screenplay, so not counting some Jurassic sequels or Futureworld:

 

The Andromeda Strain 

Westworld

Runaway

Jurassic Park

Congo

Twister

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Sphere

Timeline

 

I'd also be interested in reading the novels Congo and Sphere, of which the film adaptations were sort of maligned but I still like them. What did you think of The 13th Warrior?

I want to watch the original Westworld film. Although the two aren’t related, your mention of The Lost World: Jurassic Park reminds me of a show I watched when I was little called The Lost World.

 

I like The 13th Warrior a lot. We read and watched it during my junior year, and it was one of my favorites film and books we covered in high school. I found it pretty neat how it was a re-written version of the classic Beowulf. I enjoy when an older story is taken and new elements are added in to give a different perspective, Wicked being another example that I think was well done.

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8 hours ago, Hylia said:

I want to watch the original Westworld film. Although the two aren’t related, your mention of The Lost World: Jurassic Park reminds me of a show I watched when I was little called The Lost World.

 

I like The 13th Warrior a lot. We read and watched it during my junior year, and it was one of my favorites film and books we covered in high school. I found it pretty neat how it was a re-written version of the classic Beowulf. I enjoy when an older story is taken and new elements are added in to give a different perspective, Wicked being another example that I think was well done.

I haven't seen the show and I like the movie, but I'm sure they're very different.

 

This is the show?: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World_(TV_series) I hadn't heard of it, but apparently it's based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel of the same name, which was definitely a big influence on Crichton when writing JP and was the namesake of his second novel, so they actually are sort of related.

 

Yeah, me too. Like I said earlier, I love Coraline, and that's a bit of a twist on Alice in Wonderland. I actually found that movie pretty scary, and I was 13 when I saw it! I actually think it would be pretty terrifying to a younger kid - few things would be scarier than a slightly inverted version of your parent with evil intentions. And it's just vague enough about the Other Mother's origins to have that inherent mysterious creepiness.

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