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'Jurassic Park', 'Terminator 2', the 'Matrix' in Wilson Abbey Film Series

By Adeshina Emmanuel | August 19, 2014 8:32am
 Wilson Abbey is holding free screenings of '90s blockbusters and cult favorites, including "Jurassic Park."
Wilson Abbey is holding free screenings of '90s blockbusters and cult favorites, including "Jurassic Park."
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UPTOWN — A film screening series in Uptown takes viewers back to the 1990s, when increasingly sophisticated special effects and booming film budgets spawned sci-fi gems that (for better or for worse) influenced cinema into the next decade and beyond.

There are four films left on Wilson Abbey's "Summer of 90s Sci-Fi" event calendar.

Next up at 6 p.m. Tuesday is Steven Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster "Jurassic Park," a film where cloned dinosaurs wreak havoc at a tycoon's wildlife park that is quite unfortunately located on an island.

On Aug. 26, sci-fi meets film noir when "Dark City" comes to Wilson Abbey, bringing director Alex Proyas' 1998 tale of an amnesiac with mysterious powers looking for answers in a sunless, macabre world terrorized by telekinetic overlords.

On Sept. 2, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger will be shown.

Released in 1991 and considered one of the best sci-fi movies ever, it set the bar high for CGI technology with the shape shifting, killer cyborg that casual fans often refer to as "The Liquid Terminator," while real diehards use the proper name — the "T-1000," duh.

Wilson Abbey plans to end its Summer of 90s Sci-Fi on Sept. 9 with "The Matrix," released in 1999.

The thriller stars Keanu Reaves as a hacker who learns from a mysterious group of leather-clad rebels that he and the rest of the human race are imprisoned in a dream world by sentient machines that use human bodies as big fleshy batteries.

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