10 Great Movies That Inadvertently Ruined Cinema

7. Jurassic Park Pretty Much Put An End To The Usage Of Practical Effects & Animatronics

Jurassic Park is a movie so beloved by everyone on Earth that even mentioning it here is probably enough to inspire large groups of people to go out and collectively buy pitchforks - great as the movie is, though, it's also the motion picture that pretty much brought the use of animatronics to an end. And oh how we loved and cherished those animatronics, didn't we?

So whereas Jurassic Park itself utilised a brilliant combination between animatronics and CGI, once filmmakers saw the photorealistic dinosaurs, they didn't want to bother with the "real" stuff anymore. Stan Winston and Phil Tippet, animatronic experts who worked on Jurassic Park, actually saw their jobs disappearing in front of them as Spielberg looked to CGI to create his lost world.

"I've just become extinct," a famous line from the movie, was actually uttered by Tippet in real life when he realised that his profession was soon to become obsolete in Hollywood. Thanks to Jurassic Park, then, rendering creatures, monsters and large animals in CGI has become standard practice. But it's hard to connect emotionally to CGI; never a problem with animatronics.