Did anybody go see the re-released JURASSIC PARK this weekend?

Two things I noticed in rewatching that summer blockbuster classic.

(1) The movie back in the day was heralded was a technological watershed for CGI, but honestly there wasn't THAT much CGI in the movie if you count up the minutes it's used. Instead Spielberg and his crew seamlessly combined it with animatronics and puppetry. Some of the CGI now do scream 1993 (like the stampede) but otherwise the FX have aged incredibly well, with the puppets and animatronics aging the best.

Of course JURASSIC PARK was produced at a time when there was still quote on quote "magic" in Movie FX, when audiences truely wondered how this scene and those sequences were pulled off. Contrast that with today's movies with everything overstuff with CGI, there is no Magic. You know its produced behind a laptop by a schlub who probably resembles Wayne Knight.

(2) How clear and coherent the action filmmaking is. Yes kids, there was a time in Hollywood when people spent fortunes and time/effort to put up elaborate action/thrilling sequences, then put cameras not on Earthquake faults so they could clealry capture what the hell is going on. The editing isn't done by a monkey with ADHD either.

That's one thing I miss more than anything else at the movies. Why does Hollywood insist upon "shakey cam"-shot action sequences where nothing makes sense?