Franchise · Primary · since 1993
Jurassic Park
Practical effects that still hold up after thirty years. The six films, the animals in them, and the four steps of the science the whole thing hangs on: including the one that fails.
Welcome… to Jurassic Park.John Hammond · 1993
A mosquito in amber, a hundred million years old, with a belly full of dinosaur blood. Everything in six films comes out of one drop of it, and out of the gaps in that genome, which they fill with frog DNA because it was the nearest thing to hand. Nobody in the room stops to ask what else frogs can do.
Fourteen minutes of dinosaur across two hours, most of it a nine-thousand-pound hydraulic machine being rained on, and it has never once been bettered. Life, uh, finds a way.