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The book was written by [[Michael Crichton]], while the 1993 movie was directed by [[Steven Spielberg]]. Both were insanely popular then and are considered modern classics now. The film is labeled as having one of the most revolutionary breakthroughs in visual effects that changed movie-making. Despite going to great lengths to create extremely convincing animatronic dinosaurs, this was balanced with groundbreakingly realistic CGI ones. The CGI involved essentially killed the use of [[Muppet|muppets]] and stop motion in modern film. Besides the requisite Hollywood mistakes, many paleontologists and dinosaur fanatics also loved it. [http://www.hulu.com/watch/31366/jurassic-park-welcome-to-jurassic-park The moment] in the film where the characters first come across a dinosaur in full view and are just blown away, "...it's a dinosaur!" could be the new generation's equivalent to the Star Destroyer overhead from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
Two sequels were made to the original film. While the second film shared the name of the second book ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park,'' (1997) it had a wildly different storyline, mostly due to characters that originally died in the first book coming back. ''Jurassic Park III'' (2001) came out several years later. While neither rose to the 'classic' status of the first film, both were fairly well recieved. The same basic story exists in all of the films, only separated by what characters are involved and certain action scenes. There are also a number of computer-game tie-ins, among the most notable being ''[[Trespasser]]'' (for being [[Obvious Beta|one of the most obvious of betas ever released for retail]]), ''[[Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis|Operation Genesis]]'' (like ''[[Rollercoaster Tycoon]]'' with dinosaurs) and [[Jurassic Park: The Game|an episodic series]] by [[Telltale Games]] (like ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' with dinosaurs).
A fourth cinematic installment has been in [[Development Hell]] for nine years and counting - it was even considered that it would not come through after [[Author Existence Failure|Michael Crichton's death]] in 2008. But then Spielberg announced in 2011 that JP4 would come out - with Universal preferring a 2013 release.
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'''Dr. Grant''': I have ''never been'' on this island.
'''Udesky''': You mean there's two islands with dinosaurs on them? }}
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: Dilophosaurus was actually about as tall as a man and around 20 feet long. The individual in the film was made a juvenile so it didn't take away from the raptors or the ''T. rex''. The venom the Dilophosaurus had in the film as well as the frill are completely fictional. ''Velociraptor'' were only a few feet tall, had feathers, and held their hands like wings; enlarged, plucked, and gangly-armed in the movie for the [[Rule of Scary]] combined with [[Science Marches On]] for the feathers.
** Though awesomely enough, shortly after the film's release a new genus called Utahraptor was discovered, which is somewhat close to the film's Raptors (twice as big). It was originally going to be named ''Utahraptor Spielbergi'', but it ended up being called "Utahraptor ostrommaysorum".
** The [[Expanded Universe]], specifically the [[Telltale Games]], implies that these inconsistencies are likely caused by Dr. Wu's "quick and cheap" use of frog DNA, although given that the comments come from a rival scientist who wanted to sequence all the samples and fill in the gaps with DNA from other the dinosaur genomes where they could, but was shot down because it would be much more time consuming and expensive, it can't be proven either way. The book itself also heavily implies this.
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