Jurassic Park changed the special FX landscape for movies

This video here makes an excellent case for why the special FX in Jurassic Park, a movie released in 1993, still hold up to modern special FX today. Yes, Jurassic Park used some very state of the art effects for its time, but the reason why it doesn't look dated compared to other movies of the same period that also used CGI is because Jurassic Park made limited use of special FX combined with practical animatronics. Together, this choice made viewers incapable of telling apart the CGI and the practical effects which then helped people's brains mold them into one and the same. I like that.

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