10 Most Anticipated Movie Scenes Of All Time

6. The T-Rex Makes Its Debut - Jurassic Park

T Rex Jurassic Park
Universal

If you weren't there for the lead up to Jurassic Park's release, know that the anticipation for Steven Spielberg's mesmerising dinosaur sci-fi action extravaganza was off the damn charts. 

The trailers did a fantastic job of showing off the astonishing practical and VFX-driven wizardry, yet without giving away most of the money shots ahead of time. Audiences saw just enough of the T-Rex in the marketing that they absolutely, positively had to buy a ticket and see it for themselves, especially with a filmmaker as reliably brilliant as Spielberg at the helm.

And do we even really need to say that the T-rex's first appearance in Jurassic Park blew past even the most out of control hype? It's a mesmerisingly tense sequence that remains one of cinema's greatest examples of using cutting-edge technology to enhance existing filmmaking techniques.

The best part of all? It's aged like a fine wine, having lost basically none of its wow factor over 30 years later.

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