When I saw that the Jurassic series was being revived this year, 7-year-old me came jumping and screaming back to life like a hysterical teenaged girl front row at a One Direction concert. That film was the very first I ever saw in theaters, and after hearing that the latest installment devoured the box office charts with a record-breaking opening weekend by hauling in $511.8 million, I can say that Jurassic World will without a doubt be the next movie I see in theaters.

Rewind back to 7-year-old me, and you will see a boy who took the typical adolescent fondness of dinosaurs to a new level. It's easy for me to exaggerate this, but I assure you that I am not. I was the kid at the museum that would shout the name of the fossil hunter that discovered the first partial skeleton of the T-Rex in 1900, interrupting the tour guide half way through his rehearsed monologue. His name was Barnum Brown, by the way. My mom would lean down and say to me, "Look at the T-Rex, Dillon. Have you ever seen something so big and scary?" To which I would respond, "Actually, Mom, it's name is Tyrannosaurus Rex, derived from the Greek words tyrannos, meaning 'tyrant' and sauros, meaning 'lizard.' And it's been extinct for over 65 million years. So no, it's not that scary."

I was a real charmer. But I tell this story because when people tell me that all 7-year-old boys loved dinosaurs, I take offense. No one, and I really do mean no one loved dinosaurs as much as I did. I had put serious thought into a career path as a paleontologist before I was in double digits. The name Jack Horner probably doesn't ring any bells for you, but he is one of the foremost experts in digging up dinosaur bones and he was a rock star in the eyes of 7-year-old me. He's also a partial inspiration for Sam Neill's role as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. All the dino-crazed kids knew who Dr. Grant was, with his awesomely 90s denim shirt and red bandana tied ever so loosely around his neck. But did they know the paleontologist he was modeled after? The answer is "No."

After reading about Jurassic World's historic weekend, 7-year-old me has given 22-year-old me a 24 hour deadline to see it in theaters, so I'll keep you updated. I'll probably see it alone, and I will definitely enjoy it more than anyone in the theater, if not the entire Eastern time zone. I'm not even worried about getting my hopes up. Steven Spielberg, who directed the original Jurassic Park, is an executive producer and I am positive that he wouldn't let a true fan like me down. Also, Chris Pratt can do no wrong so I know I have nothing to worry about.

The only thing this film could possibly be missing is the illustrious, bad-boy expert on Chaos theory Dr. Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum, dropping atomic-sized foreshadowing bombs on the park scientists when he says, "Life, uh, finds a way."