But Spielberg's ability to combine these older techniques with the pioneering digital work created something truly amazing-and utterly believable.Īs the series continued-with The Lost World (1997), Jurassic Park III (2001), and Jurassic World (2015)-the visual effects have gotten more sophisticated, but the draw of the movies remain the same: incredible dinosaurs, usually hunting down humans-some big, some small, some friendly, and others terrifying. By modern standards there were in fact relatively few digital shots in the movie, and many of the dinosaur effects were performed using physical on-set animatronics.

Never before had any big movie monster been represented so brilliantly on-screen. But the dinosaurs were the big draw, and immediately set a new standard for visual effects. Sure, Spielberg was mining the same brand of monster movie tension he did with Jaws 20 years earlier, while Michael Crichton's source novel was essentially his '70s movie Westworld reworked with dinosaurs instead of mad robot cowboys. When Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park hit theaters back in 1993, no one had seen anything like it.

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