Made Believers Out of All of Us

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2018)

I saw Jurassic Park in the drive-in back in 1993.
** For those of you not familiar with this nearly dead form of movie viewing, it is an outdoor theater where you watch the movie in your car. There are a few of these relics in existence but most are flea markets now.
Jurassic Park, much like Star Wars and Terminator 2 before it, was groundbreaking stuff. We had never seen something like it before on screen. It ushered in the concept of DNA to a wide audience in the most effective and believable way... and then there were the dinosaurs. Oooooh weee how about them dinosaurs. I'd never seen something so real on screen. This movie made believers out of everybody. Little did I know then that this movie would be so revolutionary as to spawn a trilogy and another couple of movies in the same vein over 20 years later. Jurassic Park is iconic and forever etched in cinema history.