![]() Schindler's List, the other Spielberg hit of '93, acknowledged that children in terror are actually no fun at all perhaps that's why that one's shown as homework and this one's given a multiplex reissue. ![]() Now converted to more-impressive-than-usual-3-D, the original Jurassic Park is again set to herd in an audience, this time of parents already appreciative of its uneasy mix of Spielbergian wonder and Spielbergian terror, and of kids ready to discover the perverse pleasure of watching actors in their own demo scream and weep at the gnashing of T. If you want to feel better about how Steven Spielberg can cue stirrings of fear or awe in your brain, it helps to think of him not as an artist but as an MC: Dude moves the crowd. (Our failure to turn out for director Joe Johnston's part three suggests that we prefer to be corralled by a master.) All money-making films are exercises in mass manipulation, of course, but only the most alarmist of critics still have it in them to be shaken by that. ![]() ![]() ![]() "They do move in herds," Sam Neill marvels, purportedly gazing at his director's miracle dinosaurs but in reality directing his wonderment right into the camera - and right out at us, the viewers whose herdability made such smash successes of Jurassic Parks one and two. ![]()
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