10 Most Important And Influential Summer Blockbusters Of All-Time
4. Jurassic Park
Terminator 2: Judgement day may have ushered in the CGI revolution, but Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park stomped in two years later like a furious T-Rex and kicked the doors right off their hinges.
Almost as soon as it destroyed innumerable box office records on the way to becoming the highest-grossing movie ever made, the industry embraced the potential of visual effects, and from then on out the vast majority of studio blockbusters ignored their more modest origins and instead doubled down on scope, scale, spectacle and high-concept pitches.
The technological advancements completely reset the board when it came to Hollywood's business model for their mega-budget endeavors, and for better or worse led to George Lucas developing the Star Wars prequels, and also spurred on Peter Jackson to dive headfirst into developing The Lord of the Rings.
Frequent game-changer James Cameron was so enamored by the possibilities opened up by Jurassic Park that he teamed up with the movie's effects wizard Stan Winston to launch Digital Domain, who have gone on to work on landmark titles like Titanic, Fight Club, X-Men, The Jungle Book, Avengers: Endgame and dozens more.