
The film employs a masterful blend of CGI and practical effects in order to create its iconic dinos, but what is most impressive is that the film actually only utilizes a shockingly sparse 6 minutes of CGI work in its entirety. It has been nearly 3 decades since its release, and it is still not hard to see why Jurassic Park was such a visually groundbreaking film. The result? Dinosaurs fuck shit up, and it couldn't be more fun to watch. Jurassic Park is another timeless cautionary tale of man interfering with nature, or in other words, another clueless man plays god and is shocked when it doesn't work out how he envisioned it. It turns out, I was wrong, and I should have listened to my gut: never judge a franchise based on its unnecessary sequels.īased on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park follows three experts, paleontologists Alan Grant ( Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler ( Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm ( Jeff Goldblum), who have been chosen to tour and sign off on a theme park in Central America populated with genetically re-created dinosaurs. As someone who took their dinosaur-loving kid to the movies and struggled not to sleep through all of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World: Dominion, I figured perhaps dinosaurs were just not my thing. 29 years later, and it's not hard to see why this colossal summer blockbuster has become so entrenched in pop culture and cinematic history.

When Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park came out in 1993, it was considered ahead of its time.
