Hold Onto Your Butts

Does Jurassic Park stand the test of time? Also, some thoughts on Taylor Swift's NEXT thing.

Welcome back to a semi-regular feature here at Drinks With Broads called Does It Hold Up? wherein Heather and I put on our hardhats and investigate abandoned buildings to assure ourselves of their structural integrity — wait, I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. We revisit beloved pop culture artifacts to see how they’ve aged. Previously: Moonlighting. Today, please hold onto your butts, because we’re heading back to Jurassic Park. 

Jurassic Park is the 1993 Steven Spielberg-helmed adaptation of the Michael Crichton bestseller about, essentially, what a bad idea it is to mess with nature and how you definitely should not clone dinosaurs and then try to control them, whether for your own intellectual curiosity or for money. It’s also very much about the act of wearing khaki. (An interesting bit of trivia: Spielberg had to supervise post-production on Jurassic Park while he was in Poland filming Schindler’s List. I cannot imagine the tonal whiplash of this workload, although perhaps spending a f…