Jurassic Park coming to Blu-ray

Jurassic Park is coming to Blu-ray, which is obviously ABSO-RUDDY-BRILLIANT news. That's about it, really. I'm just excited.

Universal have confirmed that the entire Jurassic Park trilogy will be released on Blu-ray later this year. Incidentally, I found this news out about ten minutes after ordering my Lord Of The Rings: Extended Edition Blu-ray box set. What I'm trying to say is, I'm basically going to need to get divorced to have time to watch all stuff I've bought. At least I'll get the TV.

Jurassic Park in high-def is obviously the best news ever. I'm not even exaggerating when I say the first movie is my favourite movie of all time; I'm slightly exaggerating when I say The Lost World is one of the most disappointing sequels of all time; I'm possibly stretching the truth when I say Jurassic Park III is one of the most underrated threequels of all time.

The original has so many scenes I just can't wait to see in full, eye-boggling detail. The first shot of the Brachiosaurus. The raptors in the kitchen. The motherfucking T-Rex jeep attack. And there's no way that HD will show up the 18 year-old CG, because it's still among the best ever made - coded back in 1993, before effects boffins had pre-sets and macros that did all the hard work for them.

In the meantime, Steven Spielberg's been the driving force behind Terra Nova, an extremely expensive-looking TV series in which over-populated citizens of the future travel back in time to the prehistoric era, only (*record scratch*) they forgot about the dinosaurs! Derp!

It's quite telling really that no one worth their salt in Hollywood has even tried to better Jurassic Park in the last decade - I can't remember one single other dinosaur movie apart from that awful Disney one that flopped and that Ray Bradbury one starring Ed Burns and zzzz. Seriously, why would you bother? It'd only get smooshed into the ground by Jurassic Park's giant T-Rex-esque footprint.

Release date is still TBC, I'll shout it from the highest rooftop when it's finally announced. Hooray for high-def dinosaurs!