My Top 10 Michael Critchon Books

Today is Michael Crichton's birthday. He would have been 73 years old. He brought a lot to not only books the the entire entertainment industry from movies to television.

 The man was a thriller genius and a mastermind at that too.
He created my all time favorite television medical drama, ER.

The show changed the face of television on how characters and stories are told and not to mention how to keep the medicine real. Helping shows from House to Royal Pains are shows that have that realistic touch that Crichton help brought. And he did became a doctor before becoming a best selling author.


Along with television, I do have a ton of favorite books that Crichton wrote. Here's my top 10:

1. Jurassic Park
2. Prey
3. The Andromeda Strain
4. The Lost World
5. Congo
6. Disclosure
7. A Case in Need
8. Next
9. Mirco
10. Airframe

I do recommend you to check out one of these books and red them. Once you start reading one of them, you won't want to put the book down. Hell, I still read them whenever I have a chance.

Happy Birthday Mr. Crichton. We still miss you!

Jurassic World: I'm a Kid Again!

It's been 14 years of waiting and it's well worth the freakin wait. I saw "Jurassic World" Friday afternoon along with my brothers. And I will just say this now that after the film ended I told my brother that I felt like a kid again.

This movie was everything that I was hoping for and than some. I never image so many Easter eggs from the first movie. It was totally mind blowing and at some points took my breathe away. But let me talk about the film first.

This film was literally perfect in my book. I was drawn in, I was on the edge of my seat, I was very much into it and also I got emotional too.

Chris Pratt once again hits another home run film. His character and Bryce Dallas Howard's character were totally a match that I was very much intrigued. The kids I have no problem with, because it's a theme park and the one thing that attracts theme parks are the kids. It's the one formula that makes films scary and fun.

When I first saw the introduction to the theme park and listening to the original score from John Williams, I was literally near in tears and my breath was taken away. That 22 years since the first film came out that this dream and vision has finally come true.

And not to mention they gave some nice credit or tribute to the author/creator of "Jurassic Park," the Michael Crichton. Watching someone reading a novel with his picture on the back and worker having the same book on his desk was the best thing that a movie has done. Since Crichton had passed away back in 2008. I would think that he would have loved this film.

There were some heart stopping moments like watching some of the dinosaurs dying was not something I enjoying watching. It just sad to see the Indominus Rex attacking and killing for sport.

As I said before there were a lot of Easter eggs in the movie that paid a lot from the first film. I literally made me think of when I watched "Jurassic Park" on VHS and than seeing "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" in theaters that I was totally mind blowing by it just like this film here.

I don't think there was another that I didn't like. I was very much overwhelm by how it all came out.    

Give credit to the writers who wrote the film, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow, who also directed the film and was amazing at it too.

If there is a sequel in the future (likely that will happen) I'm ready for what they have in store. The one thing that I hope they do is take the freakin time and write a great script like this one.  Spielberg did justice on finding the right people to work this film and I hope that for the next one he continues to do so.

"Jurassic World" is now playing everywhere in theaters.
I do recommend it!!

Jurassic World: Thoughts Before Seeing The Film

We're just a week away til the release of the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise: Jurassic World. Let me just say that Jurassic Park is literally my favorite movie and book of all time and with the new movie coming out I thought I write a bit of a my retrospective of the franchise.

Of course, Jurassic Park was release back in 1990 when author Michael Crichton had an idea of bring back dinosaurs with DNA.

The idea was mind-blowing and when Steven Spielberg heard of the idea from Crichton when they were writing the first draft of a film that they were going to do called ER (soon turned into a hit and legendary TV series). Spielberg stopped ER and moved towards Dinosaurs and DNA concept.

Soon in 1993, Jurassic Park was made and it became the highest grossing movie of all time until Titanic came and then Avatar came and bump it down to third. The film literally changed the game of film making with the  computer animation of the dinosaurs that looked so real. I assuming that when folks saw it that they wet their pants of something like that when they saw the T-Rex come out of it's play pin.

I never saw the film in theaters. I was a bit too young to see it. But it was later when my grandfather rented the movie and had me and my grandmother watch, I was like mind blown and addicted to it. And by the way, I didn't put two and two together until later that Michael Crichton was the guy who created ER and Jurassic Park.

I was interested in dinosaurs after that, but of course a teacher I had in grade school, who happens to dress up like Miss. Frizzle, had told us that those dinosaurs didn't live in the Jurassic era. I didn't care, it was still the greatest movie and story I've ever seen.

Later after Jurassic Park, the fans demanded a sequel. Boy, sequels were a thing and even still to this day I believe. Even Spielberg wanted to do a sequel too and Crichton wrote the book sequel called The Lost World: Jurassic Park.


The book was amazing. It's just like The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle's version. And in 1997, the sequel to the film was released and it was a big success.

There might be some that didn't like it or thought it took a bit away. But hell, I thought it was great and it was the first Jurassic Park film that I got to see instead of waiting for it on VHS. Yes, VHS was a thing back then and in my opinion it still is. I still have a VHS player to this day.

Now of course, fans want more and so does Universal Pictures too. I don't blame them that this is the biggest film franchise until Furious series came about. But soon Jurassic Park III came and it was okay. I didn't see it when it came out.

 I did see it years ago when it was on television. I liked it, it had my favorite character Dr. Alan Grant in it. But I think that a search and rescue was a bit out there.

But now here we are 14 years after Jurassic Park III, the park is finally open in Jurassic World. I think that from the trailer it looks freakin amazing! And I'm a bit glad that Spielberg had taken sometime to figure out what to do with this story. I really hope that he had Crichton in his thoughts because it's his creation and I really don't want anything bad to happen with anything he created. Hell, Crichton helped changed the game of medical dramas.

The story concept looks great from what I've read. The park is finally open and when things go well enough. Of course, business wants to do more to bring people back, so they make a hybrid dinosaurs and well, as Ian Malcolm would say chaos rules all.

I literally can't wait to see it next week (June 12th). I'm still debating if I should go see it in just IMAX or IMAX 3D. I saw the trailer in 3D IMAX when seeing The Avengers Age of Ultron and as I told my brother with a shocked look on my face, "Holy F**k! We have to see this in 3D."

Jurassic Park is literally my all time favorite movie. It has adventures, great characters, a great story and just enough scariness to scare me and plus dinosaurs. And I can't forget to mention but it's also got the greatest soundtrack and theme song in movie history.

John Williams is a music iconic genius. The theme has made me cry but also got me on the edge of my seat in certain scenes. He knows what to do in a movie and he's been part of Spielberg's film career for a long time but in this new version, he isn't but they are honoring the themes.

Jurassic World premieres in theaters everywhere on June 12th.